jacob rascon in manchester and ashley parker is a political reporter with "the new york times." mike pence on "morning joe" a short time this morning pushing this idea of a rigged election. take a listen. >> in our lifetime, there have been many instanlces of voter fraud and some jurisdiction. when donald trump talks about a rigged election, talking as much about the documented bias in the national media that seems to be doing half of hillary clinton's work for her. >> but he said specifically polling places. >> voter irregularities but the answer to that is citizen participation. >> reporter: so mike pence means signing up as a poll watcher. he talked about that. he knows how these are run, at a local and state level and that you can sign up as a poll watcher and be part of the process. when donald trump talks about it, it's less clear. he hasn't been specific. it sounds like when he's talking about watch, be careful, make

we begin our coverage with nbc's jacob rascon. >> reporter: tonight donald trump is campaigning in ohio. earlier today he spoke in gettysburg, pennsylvania. he laid out his vision of a future of trump presidency. not before re-litigating old it began with donald trump casting doubt on election results and arguing that hillary clinton should have been barred for running for president. >> the system is totally rigged and broken. first, the issue of voter fraud. >> reporter: then a promise of women who have publicly accused trump of sexual misconduct. >> every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. total fabrication. [ applause ] the events never happened. never. all of these liars will be sued after the election is over. >> reporter: the 11th woman, adult film actress jessica drake represented by gloria allred coming forward he asked me to return to his suite and have dinner with him. he also invited me to a party. i declined. donald then asked me "what do you want? how much?" >> reporter: all of this overshadowing what was trump's most policy-heavy speech of the election.

jacob rascon in wisconsin, thank you so much. as you guys would imagine, we have team coverage on this story. joining us now, the moderator of "meet the press" and nbc news flil director, chuck todd. nbc news's hallie jackson, fellow road warrior, outside of trump tower. and cnbc's chief washington correspondent, john harwood. chuck, i want to start with you. we're seeing a snowballing effect, more and more republican leaders, republican voices coming out and saying that they cannot support donald trump. some even saying that he should step aside. where do we go from here? >> that's unclear. we're obviously in uncharted territory. and yes, more is coming. i've talked to, i know to expect more congressional republicans, both on the senate and house level, particularly in races where they were already feeling as if trump was a problem, a bit of a drag. you will see a bunch more take some form of the condemned, can't vote, condemned, unendorse, things like that. there are also a couple of u.s. senators, particularly those that have

we begin our coverage with nbc's jacob rascon. >> reporter: tonight donald trump is campaigning in ohio. earlier today he spoke in gettysburg, pennsylvania. presidency. not before re-litigating old grievances and promising retribution. it began with donald trump casting doubt on election results and arguing that hillary clinton should have been barred for running for president. >> the system is totally rigged and broken. first, the issue of voter fraud. >> reporter: then a promise of retribution for the 11 trump of sexual misconduct. >> every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. total fabrication. [ applause ] the events never happened. never. all of these liars will be sued after the election is over. >> reporter: the 11th woman, adult film actress jessica drake allred coming forward tonight. >> then donald called. he asked me to return to his suite and have dinner with him. he also invited me to a party. i declined. donald then asked me "what do you want? how much?" >> reporter: all of this overshadowing what was trump's most policy-heavy speech of the election. 28 p

>> jacob rascon, thank you very much. another release from wikileaks of stolen documents from the clinton campaign tonight, including transcripts of some of the speeches she gave to wall street executives. the clinton campaign responded again by blaming russia and faulted donald trump for cheering on the russian attempt to influence our election, quote, through a crime reminiscent of watergate but on a more massive scale. nbc's casey hunt with more. >> reporter: the latest twist in a saga offering a behind the scenes glimpse of how the campaign really works. the transcripts bernie sanders kept demanding of the speeches hillary clinton gave to goldman sachs, and she refused. >> you've got to release the transcripts! let everybody see them! >> reporter: now apparently out in the open, stolen by wikileaks. >> the kremlin, meaning putin and the russian government, are directing the attacks, the hacking on american accounts to influence our election. >> reporter: the clinton complain won't confirm or deny the authenticity of t

lets go to you are colleague, jacob rascon, he's in north carolina. this is where trump will be appearing any moment now. what are you hearing about the evidence that they have promised so far. they are probably learning more about this story of kristen anderson. they have said they would have evidence against the women who would come out before in the earlier reports we have heard since the 2005 hot mic moment from "access hollywood." >> they promised it last night. >> reporter: nbc news has not confirmed what this report is. the report comes from the wall street journal about what evidence they're fwoigoing to g. they're saying this mexican billionaire carlos slim who was a new york times shareholder and clinton's foundation donor, they're going to pit it on him. he's trying to influence all of this by being behind this attack. his spokesperson denied it as well. i have with me, a trump's supporter, this is nancy, nancy is a retired english teacher and a strong trump's supporter. we are hearing a lot of a conspiracy that making sure that donald trum

and jacob rascon in cleveland. ali, there is nobody else at nbc news who knows this campaign better than you do. he started off this speech in gettysburg vowing to sue the women accusing him of unwanted sexual advances. let's get past that for a moment. i want to ask you, what was the new policy we heard there today? was supposed to be a big 100 days in office policy speech. >> so we did hear what his 100 days in office would sound like if he did get there in november. the notable pieces of that we hadn't heard before is often rhetoric on his immigration plan. he said today mexico reimbursed for the wall which is softer than mexico will pay for the wall. he asked for a minimum mandatory sentencing for deported immigrants who come into the country and come back again after being deported. that looks like it would be two years the first time they come back and five years as a minimum for the second time they come back. that's what trump says will prevent people from repeatedly coming back into this country. that's a

jacob rascon in cleveland where trump will be with mike pence later tonight. the trump campaign billing this speech as a positive policy speech. when we hear this vow he made, and it appeared to be on script. it appeared to be looking at his teleprompter when he mentioned this, that he will take legal action against the women accusing him, seems to overshadow perhaps what he was trying to accomplish. >> and that's what many gop operatives will tell you. why does he keep bringing up these controversies when he needs to focus on policy? it's what supporters will tell you. they want to hear donald trump talk about his ideas, how he's going to change the country. and less about him smacking back when he feels like he has been hit. but that is exactly what we saw in gettysburg. his 100 days address began with him saying he is going to sue all these women. it will be 11 women today after another woman comes forward which we are expecting to hear from her in a few hours with gloria allred. think about these lawsuits. donald trump would need to be deposed in each one

>> jacob rascon, thank you very much. another release from wikileaks for the clinton campaign tonigh tonight. the clinton campaign responded again by blaming russia and faulted donald trump for cheering on the russian attempt quote, through a crime reminiscent of water gait but on a more massive scale. nbc's casey hunt with more. >> reporter: the latest twist in a saga offering a behind the scenes glimpse of how the campaign really works. the transcripts bernie sanders kept demanding of the speeches hillary clinton gave to goldman sachs, and she refused. >> you've got to release the transcripts! let everybody see them! >> reporter: now apparently out in the open, stolen by and the russian government, are directing the attacks, the hacking on american accounts to influence our election. >> reporter: the clinton complain won't confirm or deny the authenticity of the documents. wikileaks says they're taken from clinton campaign chairman, john podesta's e-mail account. they show clinton rubbing elbows with top executives, war

now as we await donald trump in virginia, going to nbc's jacob rascon, in cleveland, ohio. polls we know are so tight here, jacob. trump trying to barnstorm several battleground states. ohio a big one there and you've been talking to voters and what they want to hear from him? >> reporter: this is the state he was ahead in throughout it all. he was going down in all of the swin states but in ohio remains steady. now polks show it is a tied race, a dead heat here. you can look and see the crowd. a lot of people here. still hours ahead of the rally. come over here and talk to a couple that i just met. i don't know much about you, as i said, we just met, but are you longtime trump supporters? did you just hop on? >> trump supporters from the very beginning. from the inaccepting of the preliminary elections we had to bring mr. trump to our candidate, we've been following him. >> and how is the state of the race now for you guys? from a lot of those in the media's perspective, polls have shoe shown him way up, but right now way down. >> we know it's totally rigged. we know the ma

we have jacob rascon and msnbc's katie hunt in coconut creek, florida, joining us in a little bit at the hillary clinton rally. jacob, talk us through what we are seeing as the biggest headlines today. we have trump, new tapes that have come out. what's standing out to you? >> what trump seems to want to focus on is the question you talked about, the first time it seemed he had taken a question like that. he responded to that question about a rigged election saying ask obama from 2008. there is a video that surfaced from senator barack obama in 2008 in which he's asked about what he can do to reassure voters that the election won't be rigged or stolen. he talks about how democrats and republicans sometimes amo s mon around with the election. i would watch for donald trump to hit it in his speeches. we have talked about obamacare more than usual. seven tweets in the last two hours. i don't know that i have seen him tweet about any one topic so much as obamacare. this is one issue where he's in line with paul ryan, the rnc and republicans trying to hit it all at once. where you have eve

. >> jacob rascon is where the trump rally will happen later this hour. these are committed, loyal, donald trump voters. >> reporter: the mood in the room is interesting. in the last couple of weeks, because almost always throughout the primaries and early on in the general, donald trump was invincible. there was almost nothing he could do. he was always going to win. increasingly i'm talking to his supporters who say and come up to me and say, please tell this to trump. they want to give him advice. i spoke to a man and a woman who talked about how much they love trump when he talks about the issues but they acknowledge he has to reach out to undecided voters. what he's doing now isn't that. an increasing number of those who come early to places like north carolina are acknowledging that trump has to do differently if he wants to win. that's a hard thing for a lot of them to admit. they want me to pass advice along to trump. i tell them i can't. but his own supporters say he has to do differently. >> jacob rascon, katy tur and kristen welker, thanks. chu

. >> i want to go to jacob rascon as well. thank you for that, mark, jacob rascon, who's in wisconsin, where donald trump was supposed to appear as well as pence. and we know, the headline is here, jacob, they're not going to be there. this as those who are attending this rally were so hoping to see them. and then you had to, i know, explain to them, no, they will not be there. and instead, it's not going to be the headliners. >> yeah, that's because we just learned that morning pence was not coming. a lot of people were coming to see trump, but then learned that trump would not be here, had to learn through us that he would not be here. of course, they were disappointed. in fact, many said they were disappointed specifically in paul ryan and other republican leaders who were distancing themselves from trump's comments, saying that they should stick together, just like, in their words, the democrats do. i would say that many of them did say they wanted to stay specifically to heckle some of the republicans that are on stage. r

and in the average of polls, he's now again down by 9 points, almost double digits yet again. >> jacob rascon in colorado springs, colorado, for us. jacob, thank you. kelly o'donnell is here with me in new york. always good to see you in the flesh. >> great to see you. >> thank you for stopping by >> not just republicans on the ballot who have a problem with this election rigging talk but apparently some of donald trump's closest advisors as well. >> well, i was able to talk to governor chris christie who was the first establishment figure to endorse donald trump, currently the chairman of his transition, and we had a conversation here on the street in new york before he was attending an event and i asked him about trump talking about a rigged election. he said it has much more to do with the media landscape, but here's how governor christie responded when i asked if donald trump is undermining public confidence. is there a point if he persists saying it's a rigged process that it undermines the voters' confidence in this election? >> no, what will undermine the voters' confidence is evidence

nbc's jacob rascon is in maine with the latest. good morning, jacob. >> reporter: the candidate finds himself instead defending accusation after accusation that he kissed and groped women without their consent. the candidate and supporters defied as ever. vast left wing conspiracy. >> the whole system is rigged. >> reporter: his campaign on the ropes. his teleprompters broken. >> i like my speech better without teleprompters. >> reporter: donald trump lashing out in north carolina. >> false smears for personal fame. who knows? maybe financial. >> reporter: implying his accusers are unattractive. >> she would not be my first choice. that i can tell you. >> reporter: trump is >> the political establishment is trying to stop us because they know we are a threat to their corrupt control. >> reporter: after denying groping and kissing women without sent. >> no i have not. >> reporter: eight women came forward to say yes. mar-a-lago in 2003. then summer zervos. >> i pushed his chest. i said come on. get real. he repeated my words back to

our mark murray and jacob rascon and katy tur. katy, lets begin with you, lets talk about the mix of personal business of politics means today and the fact that we have many surrogates that are defending this blend of business for donald trump. >> reporter: well, this morning was the 32nd time that donald trump has brought reporters to events at his own properties since he announced his candidacy for president. this was a ribbon cutting at his hotel. the campaign says this was a corporate event, business event but it sure did not look that way. he was standing besides newt gingrich and kellyanne conway as well. he talked about how he got the hotel in under budget and ahead of schedule and how he will do the same for the american economy and proving that if it looks like a trump's tstump and sounds like it, it is a trump stump. he's mixing too much of personal size and business side, advertising his business going into the final 13 days of this election and trying to get more attention out of it then he would normally. his campaign

lets turn to our other colleague, jacob rascon, where donald trump is just wrapping up that event. he's still on stage behind you. i want to ask you about the public and the folks behind you, i know you have been talking to them all day. this gloria allred press conference following the report and there is been new developments today, what are voters saying to you. they are saying this is bigger for donald trump. all of them, they would not change their support for donald trump because this is abou abouabout about -- beating corruption and talking about the supreme court. going out and talking about them as liars. he talking about his white c conspira conspiracy. >> these are lies that's put on the campaign trying to keep their grip on the country. they are all false and fiction. they're 100% totally and completely fabricated. i never met them. i don't know who they are. think of what's happening in our country. i look on television, i think it is a disgusting thing and it is being pushed. they have no witnesses and there is nobody around. they come out and some are doing it for a

trump as you saw is speaking and jacob rascon is on the ground at the rally. we were hearing a few minutes of donald trump. he was talking about health care and what is the message for him right now. >> and right now he went back to it. he spends the first ten minutes talking about obamacare. he is talking about the media and now he is back talking about obamacare. even as the rallies began, he tweeted out seven times about obamacare and about stories. just now it's one of the single most important issues of why he must win. the campaign must believe this is really the issue that can perhaps unite republicans who have been hesitant to do so. there are many issues that are seized upon in the last few weeks. you know where republicans are not in agreement. it's the best idea to seize upon those. this is one of those where they are in agreement. more thing i bring up that is going back, they are talking about obamacare and voter fraud. what he called voter suppression by the calls. many reference this video that he had rrchsed. it's a 2008 video about senator oba

nbc's jacob rascon is in maine.legations and says they have evidence to refute the claims, but so far produced a british man refuting the story from 30 years ago and a cousin of another accuser. since the trump denial that he kissed or groped women without consent. eight women have come forward separately to different publications and news outlets talking about accusations that span a number of years and locations from a hotel room to an airplane to one of his clubs to a nightclub as well. and trump is calling all of these people horrible, horrible liars and horrible people and implies some of them are not attractive. just this morning, he is still on defense tweeting out. 100% fabricated made up by the media and clinton campaign may poison the minds of the american voter. then this election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges and outright lies in order to elect crooked hillary clinton. hillary clinton on defense over thousands of hacked e-mails released by wikileaks. her inner cir

nbc's jacob rascon is there. jacob, what do we expect to hear from him today? >> reporter: you know, i haven't seen, sheinelle, his supporters as excited as this in a long time. a lot of the trump supporters don't believe the polls, but you could tell in talking to them, many were beginning to doubt whether he could win. whether they blamed the media, whatever they blame. but everybody is all smiles, and they are just excited about this news. and one interesting thing i found in talking to many of his supporters here was that many of them tell me their faith in the member may be restored a little bit. many tell me after the conclusion of the fbi earlier this summer, there was no criminal wrongdoing. that they lost faith in the fbi, really truly believing that there was criminal wrongdoing. believe me, we have a quick bit of sound to play of my interaction of one of these supporters. you had lost faith in the fbi. >> yes. most of these three-letter -- basically, go in and clean up the crime scene. even with 9/11, they went in and hide the evidence, won't let peo

our correspondent jacob rascon spoke to a group of trump supporters at his rallies today, colorado springs, jacob is now in denver for us. jacob, it's been proven that if you want to record the trump phenomenon, you best stay out of new york, washington, and los angeles, you will miss the story entirely, boy did you find the story where you were today. >> and to be clear, brian, we talked to dozens of supporters, nearly every swing state in nearly every stop that donald trump goes, and they don't all agree on what should be done if he loses, but what's clear is that they're becoming increasingly frustrated as they notice, even if they say they don't believe the polls, they notice that he's going down and down and down, and we're getting so close to the election that when donald trump says we either win the election or we lose our country, it's become very clear that his supporters largely buy that argument. take a listen. >> on november 8th, what if he loses? >> america's not going to sit down. >> there will be a civil unrest, and i believe there should be. i don't think that hillary will

jacob rascon is there. trump just wrapped up another rally in new hampshire. let's talk about what he is saying today. >> reporter: he's doing a lot of the same. what he did yesterday. which is going after his accusers and talking about a rigged election. these are two big themes that we're seeing a lot of, and he is doubling and tripling down on them. you heard him there calling his accusers, one of them, at least, crazy. calling another horrible. calling all of them liars and phony, and saying behind all of it is a conspiracy. the press is involved, he said, with the clintons. it's even global. and i'll tell you, when we talked to his voters, and i don't mean all kinds of voters. i mean from the educated or not college educated or not. women, male, whoever they are. most of them will agree with trump. they believe that if trump loses this election, that it will be because it is somehow rigged. whether they believe that that's just heavy bias or actual rigging with people who are dead or undocumented voting. i mean, this is not something that trump and his vo

>> jacob rascon live for us in cleveland, ohio. joining me now is the political reporter for real clear politics and jonathan swan a. national politics reporter for the hill. let me begin with you, if i may. what can you tell us about the speech in gettysburg today, and are we expected to hear anything different than what we heard in the past from trump? >> right, he's going to be campaigning in a place that has lots and lots of symbolism, particularly for the republican party and in terms of unity which is interesting, because that is running counter right now to his strategy in terms of going after the republican party particularly house speaker paul ryan. which is a really interesting facet of this. he is supposed to be outlining his first 100 days in office, but this, of course, comes against the back drop of donald trump really behind in critical battleground states, of course, and also with the six-point lead for hillary clinton natalie, and as casey mentioned, clinton right now is focusing on expanding her map and donald tru

jacob rascon is in colorado and katie hunt is in toledo. how important ohio is, some folks are saying she does not need ohio potentially? >> reporter: hey, thomas, she devoted a significant chunk of her speech here in toledo, ohio from the weekend and the new york times about donald trump's taxes. well, you must have to be a genius to lose a billion dollars in the casino industry and she tied it into the idea that her campaign had been pushing that he plays by different set of rules by people. now, this is the something that the clinton campaign has been focused on for the entire campaign. every time there was a transparency issue that was raised, there were grumbling from her aids saying why are you talking more about his tax returns and we are starting to get an idea why. they are very, very ready to take advantage of this news, this is part of a broader across the board push from the clinton campaign. it involves this from the tv ad. take a look. >> when he had to turn them over, shae shthey showed he didy any federal income tax. >> it m

jacob rascon is joining us now in loveland, in colorado. what's the reaction of that crowd?at trump had a bad week? >> reporter: that's a startling trump. that was hillary clinton leading back to most of the summer, up until the debate, he reraerasedt lead. his hard core supporters are in line waiting hours and hours agreed he had a bad week. i never seen trump so out of touch with his most hard core supporters. most of them tell me they don't think it is good for him to go after alicia machado or bill clinton from the '90s. they want him to get back to messages they care about like national security and benghazi and immigrants. they recognize it seems that he's at he's best when he's focused on those and very disciplined. i have yet to meet somebody who says because of something that trump did, they'll not vote for him, those that waited in line. more than ever before, i am seeing hard core supporters disagreed strongly of the direction and they really want him to change. >> jacob rascon in colorado, waiting for him to come. right back after a quick break, you are watching

let's go now to my colleague, jacob rascon in bangor, maine, donald trump's second stop of the day. jacob, what do we expect from trump today? >> reporter: so we've heard from trump today, up early tweeting, talking about these allegations calling them 100% fabricated and going on to talk about how the election, he says, is rigged, blaming the media, blaming hillary clinton. we're outside of where the rally is going to be today. the line of people has gone in. but we caught one of them. this is sandy. thank you for stopping with us. a former democrat, you were telling me. your first pick with jeb bush. now you have come over to be with trump. so for you, when trump talks about -- this is a rigged election. what do you think as a voter? >> i see it. i see what he's trying to say. i also see that he's a new yorker who talks very bruskly. and in downtown iowa or l.a., that might be considered pretty rude. but he's being himself. i like that. i think the ground game has been turned against him and i would look at nbc right in the camera there and say you guys have been one of the leading

national security and such, but there is no distance between them and trump on these issues. >> jacob rascon on the campaign trail with the donald trump campaign. thank you so much, jacob. >>> for more i bring in kristen tate, and crystal ball and national reporter for bloomberg politics. start with you, kristin. a trump supporter. as you look at donald trump, the way he's reacting to this, for instance, ninth allegation that came out today, how can he do this better? he seems to be going after the accusers in physical ways. actually describing the way they look. >> as a woman i find his comments about women offensive. as to the accusations we don't know if they're true. bill clinton dealt as a sex scandalal when he was president, not to justify trump but explain how to deal with it. the clintons did a very good job bill's sex life has nothing to do with public policy. so bill focused on policy and that's how he got through it, but trump is unfortunately jumping into the gutter. focusing on these accusations and eastern slandering some of the women making accusations. he should have politely

. >> jacob rascon is covering the campaign from manheim, pennsylvania. trump is threatening to go after the clinton marriage what can we expect tonight? >> tonight i don't know we'll hear it because we haven't heard at a rally any talk of bill and hillary clinton from the '90s. we also haven't heard any talk of alicea machado. it's only been on tweets or interviews or with surrogates. trump threatens, i can be nastier if i want to, but he hasn't gone there yet. where we are in pennsylvania, this is a state the trump campaign really wants to win. arguably before the debate he had a good several weeks where he went up in the polls. he had a double-digit deficit in pennsylvania. he's now up to a two point or so deficit in pennsylvania. the campaign believes this state is in play for them. we have a long line as we might expect, we are going to have thousands of people coming. we had somebody scheduled to talk to us, but the line was moving. do you mind answering a question quick? this week was arguably not a good week for trump because we didn't focus on is