that's it. >> the home state of governor jeb bush is going to be a much happier thanksgiving for the sh family. >> abc news is now going to project that florida goes to mr. bush. just stop and absorb that for a second. >> we've got the tv on. all of a sudden whichever network we were watching, you know, i think it was cnn, and it was bernard shaw i think, broke in and said -- >> george bush, governor of texas, will become the 43rd president of the united states. >> i actually get a chill when i say it right now. i said i've got to go to see al. >> what lieberman didn't know was that gore had already decided to concede. he placed the call. >> just said, governor, you know, i put up a fight or whatever he said, i forget the exact rights, conceded, it was a very short call. i think governor bush just thanked him. there was no love lost between either one of these guys. they didn't like each other, period, so it was probably a ten second call at most, and that was it. >> at the time he conceded, jeb bush was still over there on his computer and he's like i don't know what they're seeing.

>> he hasn't taken a swing at jeb bush that i have seen in the last 24 hours. >> again, he said jeb bush, low energy. what's the point? >> i think he made the comparison to hillary clinton and jeb bush and said hillary clinton is low energy. that's the point he was trying to make. >> why continue to blast his accusers? >> again, i'm not going to get into those things. i'm here to talk about facebook live and what we're doing in communicating donald trump's message to the voters through that medium. >> your a communications guy. these are donald trump words. i wanted to get a better understanding. what time, 6:30 at night? >> 30 minutes before or after his speeches every day. that's what we do. >> there you go. facebook live. you pull it up, called trump tower live? >> trump tower live. >> on facebook. you know where to find him. cliff, thank you so much. >>> roll tide. >> roll tide. >> coming up, the line is already long. michelle obama and hillary clinton unite on the campaign trail today. i'm going to take you behind the scenes. (announcer vo) when ys there's a moment of truth. and now

here's what he had to say. >> honestly, she has less energy than jeb bush. [ applause ] i mean it. and the reason i bring him up, he didn't sign the pledge, so he's open game. >> reporter: you could hear the crowd cheering. it never ceases to amaze even at this stage of the campaign to hear a republican crowd cheer as donald trump slams jeb bush. it's happened time and again during the course of this campaign, wolf. >> jeb bush did sign the pledge, but he's not living up to the pledge to support the republican nominee. and that's why donald trump obviously is willing to go after the fellow republican at this late stage in florida where jeb bush at one point was a pretty popular governor down there. jim acosta, thank you very much for that. i want to bring our viewers now, more of cnn's new interview with donald trump, our chief political correspondent dana bash spoke with him today at the ribbon cutting ceremony, at the new hotel. dana, you pressed donald trump on his personal financial commitment to really help his campaign in these final days. >> that's right, especially now as w

followed by late night coverage with our post debate team. >>> former republican presidential candidate jeb bushays voters who don't like the choice between hillary clinton and donald trump have another option. don't vote at all. listen to what bush said thursday at harvard kennedy school where he is a guest lecturer. >> i'm not derelict in my civic duties. i'm going to vote. i'm not comfortable supporting either party. >> what happens if the average voter tax that stand? >> if everybody didn't vote that, would be a pretty powerful political statement, wouldn't it? >> not often you hear that. bush said he thought it was inappropriate private comments made by his father george h.w. bush were made public. the former president reportedly said he plans to vote for hillary clinton. jeb bush called his father a frail 92-year-old man. >>> next, a major bank opens millions of accounts without customer approval. the ceo is urged by members of congress to resign. does that punishment go far enough? >>> richard lui is coming up at the top of the hour to take a look into what's being called a secret campaig

we have to go to jeb bush.ted as the grandfather of two precious girls i fine no apology can excuse away donald trump's represehensible comment degrading women. we have to point out jeb bush was never going to be supporting donald trump. it was his cousin, billy bush that was in that video with donald trump. he had to release a statement saying look obviously i'm embarrassed, and ashamed there is no excuse, i was 11 years ago, i was young and immature and acted foolishly playing alon along. s that collateral damage to the republican party. john, you are there, in los angeles, apparently "access hold" just decided to go look at some old video. and this was following up on an "associated press" story where they said that people on the apprentice said he did speak this way, both on camera and off. >> the irony is multiplefold in the fact that it was also a bush that had a link to dropping this tape. look, everybody knows that jeb bush is not a fan of donald trump. jeb does represent the establishment. he wanted to

jeb bush. [cheering] ? ? >> merissa, i didn't see that one coming. who thinks that was a weird pick? yeah. that's what i thought. especially after somebody hacked his twitter page and posted this unflattering picture. it look as if he may have been smoking something. if you look at the game footage and compare it to his brother he looks pretty good! every child can learn. >> childrens do learn. >> that'll fear up the crowd. let's see how jeb brings this home. >> please clap. >>>coming up. we'll convert the in this wild year in politics to a childrens book. >> he built a ka cocoon and honey nut cheerios get their delicious taste from honest ingredients. and real oats. ok that's still honey. ahhh, there we go. were back to honey again. who's directing this? that guy, figures. election, isn't it? >>>trump could win in th and you say he's a c nomination. it could be a catastrophe for the republican party. >> donald trump is not going to be the nominee of this party. >> he's not going to be the nominee. >> donald trump is not going to be the republican no

the pundits in washington are amazed because what was going on here, jeb bush was enthusiastically supporting foreign workers, and mark mark sponsored two bills to support foreign trump said we should not be replacing americans with foreign workers, and donald trump ends up winning and the washington pundits can't figure this out. >> i also wonder why big business is allowed to run rough shod on this issue, especially when you realize the price that americans are paying for job losses in the long run. >> it's about the money. think about it. in the end, ultimately, these universities, and they see the foreign students as people with free tuition, and they're injecting money into the political system. it needs money, and doesn't care about the welfare of the upper class and the middle. there are only two arguments for the h1v program. one is people bring in emerging skills, and you absolutely can't find, can't trin an american worker to have, and that's why you few of those, and then you argue that they're going to start a business because it's entrepreneurial. that's not the point of the h1v

on the far left is jeb bush and his wife. you all know that jeb ran for president this go around, so it's kind of interesting to see all of that, be a part of that. this is vice president bush at the vice president's house with a couple of his grandkids. my job was to document everything the president did in public and in private. we would do all these official events and travel around the world, but i was also with the family and did a lot of personal family things. that was fun, especially this moment here. vice president bush was on vacation in kennebunkport, maine, and life magazine wanted to send a photographer up to photograph candidate vice president bush, who was going to be running for president. he said, no, i'm on vacation. there was some back-and-forth, and finally it was decided that i would take the photos for life magazine, so i shot this photo. the photo editor loved the photo. she wound up running it two full pages in "life" magazine. over the years, this has been in the best of "life," classic "life." life m

and jeb, and one of the women who worked for the bushes was hispanic, and she had made this big pot of tamales. it was george w., jeb, and i. we started taking the tamales out of this big pot and eating them over the stove. barbara bush comes in and says, stop, i don't feed animals in my house. i'm a staff guide, and i'm like, i need to get out of here. but no, it was never really a thing for me. thank you for asking. >> i was wondering if you could speak more about your travels and if there was a favorite place you ever traveled to. david: we went all over the place. i remember the first time going to russia, i was nervous. i was not quite sure, and actually, the very first time we went was for a funeral. we go in to meet the new russian president, and we were to go in protocol order. the united states, u, is kind of at the bottom of the protocol list. it was 10:00 or 11:00 when it was our turn. we go in, we get to the office, , andin, i take the photos they escort me out the other door. i go out, i am sitting there and i am like, ok, it is late at night, i got all my cameras, i am in

. >> reporter: billy's cousin, none other than jeb bush -- jeb bush tweeting no apology can excuse away donald trump's reprehensible comments degrading women. the bomb shell tape the buzzing on air and online. fox news host sean hannity a defend him friday night. >> you can't defend. it is wrong. it is inappropriate. >> reporter: trump's support from the gop's top brass has survived previous controversy over his comments about women. >> she had a problem during the mid really she gained weight. >> i don't think so. >> party leaders calling trump's statements in that decade old tape indefensible, unacceptable, inappropriate, one of congress' top republican representatives says he can no longer support donald trump. >> i cannot offer an endorsement for whatever hat means of donald trump. >>> the other big story we're following. hurricane matthew. it's been downgraded now to a category 1 storm. but it's still packing a punch. the storm surge and possibly 15 inches of rain, if you can imagine that. forecasters say this could lead to we have a look at matthew by the numbers. winds are around

. >> reporter: his cousin, jeb bush and former presidential rival. jeb bush tweeting, no apology can excuse the way donald trump's reprehensible comments degrading women. the bombshell tapes buzzing on prominent trump supporter refusing to defend him friday night. >> you can't defend it is wrong, it is inappropriate. >> reporter: trump's support from the gop's top brass has survived previous controversial over his comments about women. >> she had a little problem during the middle where she gained a lot of weight. >> i don't think so. >> reporter: this morning prominent leaders calling his statements indefensible. inappropriate. vulgar, offensive and vile. one of congress' top republicans jason chaffetz says he can no longer support him. >> i cannot offer an endorsement for whatever that means of donald trump. >> so far the vast majority of republicans are stopping short of calling for trump to withdraw from the race and he does have his supporters. washington state republican chairwoman susan hutchison said channeling bill clinton at the time. she a

joining on the phone is former advisor to florida governor jeb bush. in the past florida needed tremendous assistance from the federal government. the government lobbied for the state of emergency declaration from the president. ultimately this will probably make its way into the conversation sunday, certainly when people make the choice for president in november. >> that's appropriate. when you have a natural disaster like a hurricane or earthquake, at that point it's appropriate for state resources first, then beyond that if necessary, national government and federal government to assist. that's why we have a country and we are all in this together. florida is one of those states that's an important political state. i won't be surprised fit comes up sunday. jeb bush has cautioned people to be sensitive to the needs of floridaians. charles: hillary clinton planned to run ads on the weather channel of all things during the storm. this is where president obama who probably goes down there next leak say i told you so. let's not forget what happened in th

jeb bush or hillary clinton? . >> i saw her and she can barely make it to the car. this is not what we want to negotiate with china, to beat isis, to work against putin, had is not what we want. >> first day is let's see why. we're doing well. >> she's okay. she's okay. >> look. there is something going on. and i don't know what's happening. this is a, she goes away and doesn't leave the house, then, she comes back. the interesting thing is that i had eight stops over the last day. yesterday, she said we opened a great hotel on pennsylvania avenue. i went to cut a ribbon. she said donald trump is off the path. off the path? okay. give me a break. it's probably the first time i've done something outside of this in probably a month. we built a great hotel. and under budget, ahead of schedule. that is one of the reasons i wanted to be there. this country does not do that. >> all right. >> we appreciate and know how busy you are. i hope you come back next week, the last week and talk to us again. >> good. >> thank you very much. >> i will. thank you, bill, thank you. >>

it's their only front runner jeb bush by a mile. he ran out of energy. there g george romneys boy mitt rolls out a formula to try to stop the trump machine. >> a business genius he is not. >> meanwhile, hoover is booed off the convention stage as h he urges delegates to vote their con science. >> and cost his ballot in the way his judgment and own conscious shall dictate. >> as panic sets in, a young orson wells admits it's a hoax.

by mid july, he passed jeb bush in the polls. he was finding his audience. >> i like this guy. he's saying what we're saying in the pool hall. he's saying what we're saying around the coffee table in the morning, so he's tapped into something. >> i think it's both a bit of populism, a bit of racism. it is also real. >> on july 11th, 5,000 people showed up for a trump rally in arizona, a state at the epicenter of the nation's battle over immigration reform. >> these are people that shouldn't have been in this country. they flow -- they flow in like water. >> he's playing on our aspirations to be rich, which most americans have, and he's playing on our disgust with politics as usual, and that's a pretty potent combination for him. >> trump led in the polls by a wide margin heading into the first republican debate hosted by fox news on august 6th. >> you've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. your twitter account -- >> only rosie o'donnell. >> when he gave the line about rosie o'donnell and megyn was surprised the audience didn't boo, they ch

ratio of coverage devoted to wikileaks, wikileaks knows what it feels like to be marco rubio or jeb bushng the primaries, that's what the ratio was. clearly, to your point, the media wants hillary to win. there's no doubt about that. even after devoting billions of dollars of free media to trump. do you feel you were set up? you were. you were set up. the media, including -- the only thing i'm happy about. hillary and obama, they knew elevating donald trump, giving him an air of respectability in the press as well, turned him into the republican nominee. then out came the knives. >> only they could -- they knew they could take -- crush his chances of the presidency and the news organizations that held information to only dump it for maximum throttle impact. >> we saw it coming. we were suckers. >> we didn't have it. >> what do you mean? >> we didn't have the tape. >> i'm talking about -- >> you know what? the media -- >> we have some of that. >> marco rubio or jeb bush -- one thing we did learn from wikileaks is the clinton campaign was more concerned about marco rubio, kasich and others

. >> jeb bush, who is the governor of state of florida, we're told just a few moments ago that jeb bush his dad, george h.w. bush, that we won't know about florida until at least midnight, between midnight and 1:00 a.m. >> just as sort of devastating was the call of florida for gore originally, their retraction was like a shot of adrenaline. the hope was alive and we all got energized again. >> we've got a stunning piece of news for you in missouri. nbc news is projecting that mel carnahan who was killed in a plane crash has been elected over john ashcroft, the republican incumbent. that means jean carnahan will go to the united states senate. there will be a special election in two years. >> they were calling the race in missouri for mel carnahan, and of course there were not the usual cheers that you hear. there were only tears. >> missourians clearly realized that if they voted for mel carnahan, they knew that jean carnahan was going to replace him in washington, d.c. >> that is a pick up for the democrats, so there remains the possibility that the democrats before this night is out

. >> jeb bush, who is the governor of state of florida, we're told just a few moments ago that jeb bush told his dad, george h.w. bush, that we won't know about florida until at least midnight, between midnight and 1:00 a.m. >> just as sort of devastating was the call of florida for gore originally, their retraction was like a shot of adrenaline. the hope was alive and we all got energized again. >> we've got a stunning piece of news for you in missouri. nbc news is projecting that mel carnahan who was killed in a plane crash has been elected over john ashcroft, the republican incumbent. that means jean carnahan will go to the united states senate. there will be a special election in two years. >> they were calling the race in missouri for mel carnahan, and of course there were not the usual cheers that you hear. there were only tears. >> missourians clearly realized that if they voted for mel carnahan, they knew that jean carnahan was going to replace him in washington, d.c. >> that is a pick up for the democrats, so there remains the possibility that the democrats before this night is

. >> i cannot go there i am still trying to figure out how jeb bush did not get the nomination. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] donald trump's window is closing as we're following this story one. >> q have been talking to republican operatives to basie a path for donald trump at 270 greg. >> most of them do not most of the warning since he was nominated it would be the uphill battle. land at this point there are very few republican operatives that will say publicly that they feel confident that he has power. >> early voting is a place over half the country so what did those trends indicate for democrats republicans quick. >> they're encouraging for democrats in florida where republicans have consists of me out to perform for the early voting that narrow advantage has narrowed further questions as they tend to outperform and in north carolina the republican sen 2012 totally dominated that margin has shrunk considerably in both places republicans need those margins to be competitive. in nevada, we saw very, very well organiz

it's their only front runner jeb bush by a mile. he ran out of energy. there goes trump. george romneys boy mitt rolls out a formula to try to stop the trump machine. >> a business genius he is not. >> meanwhile, hoover is booed off the convention stage as h he urges delegates to vote their con science. >> and cost his ballot in the way conscious shall dictate. >> as panic sets in, a young orson wells admits it's a hoax. >> deeply shocked and deeply regretful about the results. >> now it's over but the singing. [singing] >> merissa, there f it. hundred. >> me either. but why are we in black and white? >> because it's being nostalgic. it's our hundred hundredth anniversary special. >> this is not the one hundredth episode. >> what do we do? you're taking it back to color. wait a minute. go with me on this. >> this is the 99th episode. >> but we had the pilot. turn it back. thank you. just a moment. we have the pilot and when you add -- you have the pilot and you add no that to the 99 episodes that would be hundred hundred. >> this is still the 99th episode. not the 100th.

jeb bush, told his dad president h.w.ush that we wouldn't have a call before midnight or 1:00 a.m. >> the retraction was like a shot of adrenaline, hope was alive, and we all got energized again. >> we have got a stunning piece of news for you. in missouri, nbc news is projecting that mel carnahan who was killed in a plane crash has been elected over john ashcroft, the republican incumbent, that means that jean carnahan will go to the united states senate. there will be a special election in two years. >> they were calling the race in missouri for mel carnahan and of course there was not the usual cheers that you would hear. there were only tears. >> jean carnahan was the first female u.s. senator from the state of missouri. missourians clearly realized that if they voted for mel carnahan, they knew that jean carnahan was going to replace him in washington, d.c. >> that is a pickup for the democrats, so there remains the possibility that the democrats before this night is out could get close to if not take control by one

. >> he passed the great establishment hope jeb bush in the polls. he finding his audience. >> hey, i like this guy. he's saying what we're saying in the pool hall or around the coffee table in the morning. so he's tapped into something. >> i think it's both a bit of populism, a bit of racism. it is also real. >> on july 11th, 5,000 people showed up for a trump rally in arizona, a state at the epicenter of the nation's battle over immigration reform. >> these are people that shouldn't have been in this country. they flow -- they flow in like water. >> he's playing on our aspirations to be rich, which most americans have, and he's playing on our disgust with politics as usual and that's a pretty potent combination for him in certain parts of the republican party. >> trump led in the polls about awide margin heading into the first republican debate hosted by fox news on 6th. >> you've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. your twitter account -- >> only rosie o'donnell. >> when he gave the line about rosie o'donnell

fight with jeb bush if you want. i'm going to do the law and substance later, but the politics of obamacare plus fbi investigation headline plus oh, yeah, that guy anthony wiener, right, who they argue was in the clinton inner circle. >> been talking about it for a year. >> if you're going to be feuding these would seem good mill feuds. >> they are the fights one would think he would want to be picking that the point. as a candidate who tries to capitalize on the news and political headlines of the day, this is something the trump campaign was frankly i think a little gleeful about it or at least felt very positive as far as how this would help their campaign moving forward. >> nbc's hallie jackson except and gadi schwartz on the trails for us. we have senior officials tell who tell nbc news the doj opposed the entire idea. the decision has now up corked a storm of criticism from many legal experts in both parties. matt miller, former spokesman for then democratic attorney general rick holder told "the washington pos

he was anti-jeb bush. that what you build after that, what you build is the alternative to trump is still not clear to me if the answer is just tax cut for the top, at the top marginal rate, foreign interventions and military deployments in the middle east, et cetera. >> but this is why i think mcmullin's play is utah is so interesting. because utah is a weird red state. it's a very communitarian state. i don't think they've really thought through. they are really talking about building a third party after this election, the new conservative party. i don't think they fully thought through what that stands for, but they'll have to grapple with more than just donald trump as the foil. they'll have figure outside what they stand for beyond that. >> jennifer, to me, you talked about not putting the genie back in the bottle. it does seem to me that all of these deep structural fissures in the party will be spackled over by anti-clinton hatred. the thing that unites everyone. the one thing that unites everyone s

it's their only front runner jeb bush by a mile. ooh. he ran out of energy. there goes trump. romneys by mitt trying to stop the trump machine. >> a business genius he is not. >> hoover is booed after the convention stage as he urges delegates to vote their conscious con science. >> cast his ballot the way his own conscientious shall dictate. >> a young orson wells admits it have a hoax. >> deeply regretful about the results.

first supported jeb bush. >> yes, i'm a republican. i supported jeb bush and when he dropped out, i caucused for rubio and then governor kasich and a lot of good republicans who did not run this time. mitt romney would have been fabulous. rob portman of ohio. i can go down the list. we ended up with a candidate who's unacceptable for a whole lot of reasons that i think were clear in the debates. and i'm going to have to support hillary clinton. she's the only viable major party candidate in the race and we're going to hope to do better next time in the republican party. >> all right. let's discuss these latest developments because you say the fbi director james comey may have violated the hatch act. i had a guest at the top of the show, stanley pottinger who said his assertion is just politics and he reiterated what we heard from trey gowdy. isn't he essentially violating the hatch act? what is your response to that line of argument? >> it's ridiculous. the hatch act does not apply to the president, the vice president, or the members o

a few weeks later -- we caught up with jeb bush in dubuque -- who was also critical of the planned parenthood debate. somewhat related -- bush famously terri shiavo case in the early 2000's -- stepping in to reinsert a feeding tube when she had already been declared mostly brain dead -- and her husband elected to remove it. bush had sided with shiavo's parents -- who cited religious reasons to keep her alive.but in dubuque -- we asked him if the religiously-charged rhetoric around the planned parenthood debate might have contributed to a gunman attacking a the colorado springs clinic. "no i don't blame the candidates. i think people decency on this. planned parenthood was caught selling the bodyparts of babies. if you talk about decency, that's a pretty horrible thing." it ?is? worth remembering that multiple investigations ultimately determined that planned parenthood did nothing wrong. after the break...we sit down with planned parenthood's president to talk about what's it's not uncommon for autistic kids to flap their hands. and so when i saw that, that was completely disqualifying. an, b

she has less energy than jeb bush. >> reporter: and getting upset when cnn's dana bash asked him about the hotel step. >> for you to ask me that question is actually very insulting because hillary does one stop and then goes home and sleeps and yet you'll ask me that question. i think it's a very rude question to be hoppenest with y >> reporter: bringing up clinton attending an adele concert in miami. >> attended an adele concert and i did eight stops yesterday, three rallies. >> reporter: helped ring in her 69th birthday. ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: stevie wonder cereinated clinton on her radio show. now to give you a sense of how important ohio is to the trump campaign, justteric take a look the numbers. he visited this battleground more than any other state. 12 visits, 21 events and that continues here today. goes on to springfield and toledo and then in geneva. not the only person campaigning here in ohio. tim kaine will also be in the state. meanwhile his running mate, hillary clinton, going to the other swing state of north carolina with michelle obama. alisyn. >> thank

jeb bush tweeting as a grandfather of two girls i find that no apology can excuse his comments. mitt romney said hitting on married women, condoling assault, demean our wives wives and daughters. >> the tape is not the only leak tonight. wikileaks released hillary clinton's paid speeches to wall street execs. they are contained in e-mail correspondence. from this man. campaign chair. hillary clinton told bankers that wall street insiders are best suited to help make financial reforms and candidates must have money from new york. the clinton campaign is not confirming or denying the e- mails. >>> the debate should be interesting. what do you think? yeah. probably. catch it live starting at 6:00 p.m. right here on kpix 5. >>> breaking news. several people hospitalized after a fire on clayton road. they are treated for smoke inhalation. the fire investigator is on the scene right now. the fire started on a balany and spread -- balcony and spread inside. it appears half a dozen apartments were gutted. >>> hurricane matthew is pounding south carolina as it moves up the coast. the sto

all of those things, which jeb bush would have done or john kasich would have done or marco rubio would have done or ted cruz would have done likely resulting in a republican victory too little too late. the summer was squandered. the fall was a disaster and now the bill is coming due. mitch mcconnell said at the beginning of the summer not one republican senator was going to lose their seat because of donald trump, and i'm here to tell you, republicans will lose control of the senate and they will lose control of the senate because of the cratering effect of trump's candidacy as the walls come in now. >> but, steve, i've got to remind you while ted cruz, jeb bush, and marco rubio may have done this and were more qualified, they didn't get the nomination, donald did. >> they did not. they did not. and elections have consequences. and you know, in a democracy, you know, voters get the government they deserve, and that holds true for primary electorates as well. the republican party made a decision and they got the candidate it deserves and now the party's going to have to look in the mir

in another exchange from august of 2015, a hillary clinton supporter blasted jeb bush's performance inte writing, and i quote, i'm glad hillary is obsessed with the one candidate who would be easiest to beat, smily face, besides trump, of course. clinton staffers have not disputed any of these e-mails but say the hackers who got ahold of them could also have doctored them. of course, they could release them and then we would know, wouldn't we? catherine herridge has more on this. it's a drip, drip thing. what else are we learning today? >> first of all, shep, wikileaks does not have a practice of releasing doctored e-mails. brian fallon, a senior person with the clinton campaign, was working with colleagues on the e-mails and an upcoming hearing in federal court on when the e-mails would be released and this reads in part, quote, doj folks inform me there's a status hearing in this case this morning so we could have a window into the judge's thinking about this proposed production schedule as quickly as today. fallon wrote the campaign team on may 19th, 2015, trump's campaign has calle

jeb bush tweeting, "no apology can excuse the way donald trump's reprehensible comments degrade women." the bombshell tapes buzzing on fox news host sean hannity, a prominent trump supporter, refusing to defend him friday night. >> you can't defend, it is wrong, it is inappropriate. >> reporter: trump's support from the gop's top brass has survived previous ntroversy over his comments about women. >> she had a little problem during the middle where she gained a little weight. >> i don't think so. >> reporter: but this morning party leads from mitch mcconnell to mitt romney calling his statements indefensible, unacceptable, inappropriate, vulgar, offensive an one of congress' top republicans representative jason chaffetz says he can no longer support donald trump. >> i cannot offer an endorsement for whatever that means of donald trump. >> reporter: so far the vast majority of republicans are stopping short of calling for trump to withdraw from the race and he does have his supporters. washington state republican chairwoman susan hutchinson comments in 2005, and this is a quote, channe

. >> honestly, she has less energy than jeb bush. >> when he goes low, we go high! boy, has he gone low. right? >>> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >>> hillary clinton and donald trump making gains in a fleuuo of new polls. teric moving florida and nevada from leaning democratic back to being toss-ups. >> despite that, trump predicts a tremendous victory on election day. this as new revelations from those hacked e-mails about bill clinton's lucrative speeches and concerns within the family about the family foundation. so much at stake here. just 12 days until the election. we have it all covered for you. let's begin with chris frates live in springfield, ohio. good morning, chris. >> good morning, alisyn. donald trump returns to battleground ohio where the last couple polls show him tied with hillary clinton. between dayton and cluolumbus. a town hard hit and median household income dropped by more than 25%. the biggest drop in the nation and only 15% of all adults here are college educated. this should be trump country and he hopes his messa