. >> patti solis doyle was the first person to join hillary clinton's staff during the '92 campaign.enever there was a strategy meeting, she was at the table. she was the only woman at that table. >> did she hold her own at the table? >> oh, my god, she ran the table. she ran the table, with her husband. >> my husband, bill clinton. >> ladies and gentlemen, you just heard a stunning illustration of my real campaign slogan, buy one get one free. >> she was the first spouse of a candidate to play an active issue role. people weren't ready for that. she was controversial. >> i suppose i could have stayed home and baked cookies and had tea. but what i decided to do was fulfill my profession, which i entered before my husband was in public life. >> when you heard her say that, what were you thinking? were you saying we might have a problem here? >> that's what i was thinking, uh-oh. >> but tea and cookies was a walk in the park compared to the bombshell allegation a month earlier that had rocked bill clinton's campaign and his marriage. >> yes, i was bill clinton's lover for 12 years. >>

let's discuss with cnn political commentator patty solis doyle, trump supporter paris denard and mattuse you work for the boston globe, we will start with you. we haven't really heard except for now a couple interviews, much from melania trump since she delivered part of michelle obama's convention speech at the republican national convention. if she in fact does go out on the campaign trail and it's not 100% sure based on her reaction there, what do you think the effect will be? >> i think there's a fascination with melania. dating back to that speech and sort of the controversial aftermath of her lifting passages from michelle obama's speech. i think there will be a lot of interest in hearing from her. her appearances so far have not exactly knocked it out of the park. i think there's a lot of risk involved for the trump campaign but at this stage, maybe it's a risk they are willing to take. >> paris, would you have liked to have seen melania out on the stump campaigning for donald trump more? we are less than two weeks out. is it too little, too late at this point? what do you make

a lot to discuss with the panel, cnn political commentator and clinton supporter, patti solis doyle,a borger, and republican strategist, kevin madness. gloria, as john pointed out, a 19-point difference in the gender gap in favor of hillary clinton. the increasing number of allegations likely just lead to that. >> sure. and think back to 2012. mitt romney lost the election and he had a gender gap of eight points. so now here you have donald trump with a gender gap of 19 points. and as john points out, it's all kinds of women. it's republican women, it's suburban women, it's college-educated white women. i don't know that there is much he can do at this point to sort of make up that gender gap, particularly in the way he's handling this kind of avalanche of allegations against him, because what he seems to be doing in dealing with this problem is making it worse, by saying, oh, by the way, look at these women, insinuating that they weren't pretty enough for him to sexually assault. that is not the way to win back women voters. i will tell you that. >> kevin, just in the last week, tru

. >> patti solis doyle was the first person to join hillary clinton's staff during the '92 campaign.whenever there was a strategy meeting, she was at the table. she was the only woman at that table. >> did she hold her own at the table? >> oh, my god, she ran the table. she ran the table, with her husband. >> my husband, bill clinton. >> ladies and gentlemen, you just heard a stunning illustration of my real campaign slogan, buy one get one free. >> she was the first spouse of a candidate to play an active issue role. people weren't ready for that. she was controversial. >> i suppose i could have stayed home and baked cookies and had tea. but what i decided to do was fulfill my profession, which i entered before my husband was in public life. >> when you heard her say that, what was your reaction? were you thinking, we might have a problem here? >> that's what i was thinking, uh-oh. >> but tea and cookies was a walk in the park compared to the bombshell allegation a month earlier that had rocked bill clinton's campaign and his marriage. >> yes, i was bill clinton's lover for 12 years

hillary clinton's presidential campaign was run by patty solis-doyle. >> you make calls to campaign supportersmake robocalls. >> they eventies advertise in the sky. >> ready for the message, then n mittromney.com/ticket. >> the football stadium seats about 80,000 people. only problem, romney had 8,000 in the crowd. >> it's ritter's job to make that doesn't happen. >> six really talented advance people on the ground for five days. >> we're painting part of the backdrop that you see from the riser. finish that late in the night. >> campaigns obsess about every sign, every camera angle. >> you have to see the campaigns through the lens of a camera. if you can't do that, it gets left on field. >> we'll take cameras in there, set them up on our risers that we set for the press, look at it, make sure the angles are right. >> behind that group of people is romney/ryan. >> signs are always in the perfect position for the television cameras or still photographers to pick them up. >> because of how cameras work, we have something here like 40, 50-foot banners cover buildings and get in a tight shot. >>

patti solis-doyle, hillary clinton's 2008 presidential campaign manager and s.e. cupp, political commentator. good morning. >> happy whatever, carol. >> we are over monday. don't make me go back there. s.e., i want to start with you. i don't know, do you consider yourself an establishment republican? >> in today's parlance, i guess i would be for not supporting trump because he's not conservative or really all that republican. but i just think it's the height, the height of arrogance or maybe ignorance for trump's supporters to tell people like me who warned for months that trump was totally unelectable and radioactive for the party to show our party loyalty, where is our party loyalty and why aren't we supporting the nominee when the nominee has shown very little party loyalty. i mean, his feuding with ryan is not new. he was feuding with him months ago, calling him out, calling out reince priebus, insisting he doesn't need any of them to win. when that became untrue and paul ryan actually did take his support away, donald trump said well, if i lose it will be be

patty solis doyle. 19 point difference in favor of hillary clinton.likely just lead to that. >> sure. think back to 2012. mitt romney lost the election and he had a gender gap of eight points. so now you have donald trump with a gender gap of 19 points and it is all kinds of women, republican women, suburban women, college-educated white women. i don't know there's much he can do at this point to make up that gender gap, particularly in the way he's handling this avalanche of allegations against him. what he seems to be doing in dealing with this problem is making it worse by saying, oh, by the way, look at these women w. insinuating they weren't pretty enough somehow for him to sexually assault. that's not the way to win back women voters. i will tell you that. >> kevin, in the last week, donald trump lost ten points with suburban women. can he come back this late in the game? >> i think the fundamentals of this election are set and there's not much he can do to change it. everybody points to about what will happen at the next debate. it's rare you s

cnn's partisan political commentators, the former hillary clinton presidential campaign manager, patty solis doyleagan white house political director, jeffrey lord and lonnie chan a former policy director for mitt romney. jeffrey, donald trump is running for president of the united states. how was you rate his handling of the crisis so far? >> so far so good. i think the video -- good of him to get out there. >> how can you say good so far? look at the reaction of the fellow republicans. >> i genuinely think what we have got the clip with mayor giuliani saying insiders versus outsiders. that's going on all yearlong and the interesting fact the more this happens with elites across the board, the more that is going to be push his base and whip up the enthusiasm out there. >> not enough to get him elected president. >> well, i think it can extend well beyond that. we've talked about the bill clinton situation. one of the things that happened in that episode was that his numbers went up. there's a cnn poll in the day -- >> take a look at these republicans, your fellow republicans. put the pictures up