say the fbi has been conducting a preliminary inquiry of donald trump's former campaign manager paul manafort, and his business ties overseas. >>> voice of a killer. for the first time, we hear chilling 911 calls made by the orlando gunman, during the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. >>> and fatal distraction. miles an hour minutes before slamming into a minivan, killing a mother and her children. is the app causing kids to drive dangerously? "nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. the october surprise that rocked the race for president on friday may not have rocked it enough to move the needle with voters, at least not news/survey monkey poll shows hillary clinton ahead of donald trump by six points in a four-way match-up. notably, there is no change between the monday through friday numbers and those from over the weekend after the news broke that the fbi was looking into newly discovered e-mails related to hillary clinton's time as secretary of state. fbi director ja

one the director up to claims of bias if he doesn't discuss other potential investigations. >> paul manafort tells us tonight none of it's true. there's no investigations going on with the fbi that i'm aware of. as for donald trump, his spokesperson told us, mr. trump severed his ties with mr. manafort many months ago. mr. trump has no knowledge of any of his past or present activities. lester? >> cynthia mcfadden, thank you. >>> this evening, we're hearing th largest mass shooting in modern u.s. history. police in orlando have released the audio recordings from the pulse nightclub massacre between the gunman, omar mateen, and a crisis negotiator. nbc's gabe gutierrez has late details. >> reporter: the chilling 911 call came in at 2:35 a.m. >> i want to let you know, i'm in orlando, and i did the shooting. >> reporter: by then, hundreds of people were scrambling to escape the pulse nightclub in orlando on june 12th. >> i pledge my allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi on behalf of the islamic state. >> reporter: the killer at first speaking with an emergency dispatcher, then a police crisis neg

trump, severed ties with paul manafort months ago, these are question for mr. manafort in did the ties have anything to do with party? we have no -- knowledge of any of these -- of this investigation or mr. manafort's activities. acti. >> let's talk about polls then. since friday, major revision in the numbers, georgia, nevada, north carolina. florida. i mean these numbers have tightened. when is your sense from your internal polling, is it figure to get tighter. >> they are showing the same thing, hillary clinton is wiening and donald trump is on the rise, hillary clinton on defense playing safe in her safe area. donald trump as you said, we're going to win florida, north carolina. ohio, and iowa. that our pact to victory, as made, donald trump is campaigning in traditionaly blue state, state that republican have very rarely have competed it. it is extraordinary to see mr. trump, this is really -- >> donald trump is bringing his message of hope, growth and opportunity, jobs, job issue his number one issue is bring jobses to american people, that is where blue

joining me now, let's talk about this, and talk about breaking news on paul manafort.all understand he is long not been associated with this campaign, but you can imagine mainstream media spin on this tomorrow. >> absolutely, i think that donald trump should say, sun light and sunshine, donald trump again, about having openness, and integrity in government. calling for the fbi to come forward with this, and hillary clinton everything else as soon as possible. charles: come on. ford, on friday, i was sitting, i was talking with neil cavuto, saying, you know there will be something anti-trump, a new video something will surface monday. sure enough. i don't know that the sort of a not a political type, may see this in a newspaper tomorrow, think it a big deal. >> you know, here is the question, who is paul manafort. that is what voters are going to wonder. there you certain democratic media outlets who will keep pushing it, saying we told you trump had a ridiculous tie to russia, that we don't connection the dots, here is really the problem. trump has momentum. democrats

i don't know what crime or potential crime the fbi is investigating in terms of paul manafort and his connection to russia. it sounds like this might go on after the election. >> manafort does not know of any investigation. he has not been contacted according to nbc. it seems -- we don't have a full scale investigation confirmed. what they are calling it is a preliminary inquiry. >> the bottom line, i think this will certainly turn off voters who haven't yet made up their minds and who find the choices pretty disheartening and unappetizing on both sides. that's generally what these kinds of things do. >> one thing is clear, that this has turned -- what was praise for the fbi director -- here is some of that from democrats before. >> i am grateful for the professionalism of the fbi and the department of justice. and i repeat that i made a mistake using personal e-mail and i regret that very much. >> there was an extensive investigation by the fbi under the direction of a wonderful and tough career public servant, jim comey. >> i don't know whether your family is watching this. but i ho

>> i think it's paul manafort's ties, isn't it? >> this isn't about manafort.ut the question whether the russians have been hacking into the political system. he doesn't want to talk about it. >> i got that. two pieces to this. thank you. arch the eyebrow one more time. anyway, when we return, my election diary for this halloween. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. what's it like to be in good hands? like finding new ways to be taken care of. home, car, life insurance obviously, ohhh... but with added touches you can't get everywhere else, like claim free rewards... or safe driving bonus checks. even a claim satisfaction guaranteeeeeeeeeee! in means protection plus unique extras only from an expert allstate agent. it's good to be in, good hands. so dad slayed the problemt with puffs plus lotion, instead. with lotion to soothe and softness to please. a nose in need deserves puffs, indeed. well this here's a load-bearing wall. we'll go ahead and rip that out. it's going to cause a lot of problems. totally unnecessary and it triples the budget. wo

got the ax. >> look. >> >> that's paul manafort's? >> if i clean -- >> that's amazing. this is how hard you've been working? >> if i clean, it's at home. >> let's talk about women in the context of the "access hollywood" tapes. he dismissed the taped remarks as locker room banter. if your son said those words would that be okay? >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> if he said those words at 11 i would wash his mouth out with soap and figure out where he heard them. let's not look over what else mr. trump said. he said he was embarrassed. and he apologized. and he did it several times now. >> these four very courageous women have asked to be here -- >> reporter: conway said she agreed with the decision to bring bill clinton's accusers together publicly before sunday's debate. >> were you in favor? >> yes, i was, i was in favor of that. >> a lot of people say, i'm not voting for bill clinton, i'm voting for hillary. >> it's about the way she treated them. >> reporter: today the trump campaign touting newly leaked clinton e-mails as evidenc

. >> you don't think paul manafort's ties to russia, mike flynn being tied to russian tv, that's not? >> paul manafort has nothing to do with our campaign. >> he did. >> he's gone now. >> doug band is not part of hillary clinton's campaign. what do you want to pick? >> no, but he is very much a part of the clinton machine. >> as was paul manafort -- he was very much part of the trump machine. so which one do you want to go with? >> i'm not here to answer for manafort, but doug band has told us in writing now, we know this, and by the way, the clinton people want to say, oh, these were hacked e-mails. we shouldn't talk about them. they were perfectly happy to talk about the illegally stolen tax returns from donald trump. >> i'm going to leave it there. those tax returns, before that report came out from the "new york times," were verified by the accountant who signed them. we have to leave it there, steve. i have to take a break. i know you need to get ready for halloween in chicago as well as the cubs. >> thank you. >> all right, steve cortes. >>> coming up, donald trump has spoken a

he was referred by paul manafort in july. also, helping stage the republican national convention so news network chief is actively involved in the running of a president. >> why did he leave? >> this really did not focus on debate prep. the trump people say -- it is now kind of out of the game and he was not adding much and really was not a mutual parting of the ways. >> you also talk about khan, the gold star father, you write that donald trump did not know what a gold star family was? >> so this was a moment when he started attacking the khan family after the democratic national convention. what trump said and they are ta tactattack you know they're a gold star family and he said, what's that. that's a flip reaction. e mhe d not step back and say should i be attacking the family of american veteran. he just thought these are people that coming after me and i am going to fight back. that's what his advisers trying to ring in. >> i want to ask you about something that came out again today. this is about donna brazil, you hear

nbc news us has been conducting a preliminary inquiry of donald trump's former campaign manager paul manafort, and his business ties overseas. >>> voice of a killer. for the first time, we hear chilling 911 calls made by the orlando gunman, during the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. >>> and fatal distraction. snapchat video from inside a car going 115 miles an hour minutes before slamming into a minivan, killing a

say the fbi has been conducting a preliminary inquiry of donald trump's former campaign manager paul manafort, and his business ties overseas. >>> voice of a killer. for the first time, we hear chilling 911 calls made by the orlando gunman, during the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. >>> and fatal distraction. snapchat video from inside a car going 115

say the fbi has been conducting a preliminary inquiry of donald trump's former campaign manager paul manafort, and his business ties overseas. >>> voice of a killer. for the first time, we hear chilling 911 calls made by the orlando gunman, during the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. >>> and fatal distraction.

enforcement sources say the fbi has been conducting a donald trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, and his business ties overseas. >>> voice of a killer. for the first time, we hear chilling 911 calls made by the orlando gunman, during the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. >>> and fatal distraction. snapchat video from inside a car going 115 miles an hour minutes before slamming into a minivan, killing a mother and her children. is the app causing

say the fbi has been conducting a preliminary inquiry of donald trump's former campaign manager paul manafort, and his business ties overseas. >>> voice of a killer. for the first time, we hear chilling 911 calls made by the orlando gunman, during the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. >>> and fatal distraction. snapchat video from inside a car going 115 miles an hour minutes before slamming into a

say the fbi has been conducting a preliminary inquiry of donald trump's former campaign manager paul manafort, and his business ties overseas. >>> voice of a killer. for the first time, we hear chilling 911 calls made by the orlando gunman, during the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. >>> and fatal distraction. snapchat video from inside a car going 115 miles an hour minutes before slamming into a minivan, kli

mark: those like paul manafort pence over for chris christie or newt gingrich -- can you imagine whatwould have been like? kelly: it would have been a completely different campaign. voters would not have appreciated the sense of calm he could have brought to the ticket. kasie: can i say i was so surprised to hear mike pence swear in public? >> they think you might have been tripping over words, not intentionally. kasie: very out of character. john: very clear, it is the s-word we are referring to. sugar. sweetness. it is very clear what a victory for mike pence would be. making voters more comfortable about donald trump. what is the clear victory for tim kaine? kasie: making mike pence answer for some of these things donald trump has said. and honestly the depth in handling questions on hillary clinton's record. if he makes a mistake, we will see that on repeat for a while. kasie hunt and kelly o'donnell, you both are sugar. you will be back -- we will be back with more from our long would university debate. ♪ >> franklin roosevelt said in 1932 that the only thing we have to fear is f

. ( laughter ) plus-- plus, last week, trump's campaign chairman, and joe pesci corpse double, paul manafort, resigned after ukraine's anti- corruption bureau revealed that he may have received $12 million in undisclosed payments from ukraine's previous pro-putin government. i don't know why this was undisclosed. if someone gave me $12 million, i'd be at the bar saying, "hey, guess who just got paid $12 million? oh, and by the way, you want to know why i didn't win gold in the po vault so, with manafort out, trump was forced to bring in a new trump- wrangler: breitbart news chief and lesbian haircut model steve bannon. now, if you haven't heard of breitbart news, that means you do not have a racist uncle on facebook. ( laughter ) bannon is ow political brawler. according to one former spokesperson for breitbart: "he is someone who is prone to profanity-laced tirades at all hours of the night." which is a refreshing change of pace from donald trump, who likes to go to bed early. and bannon has a bold new direction for the mpaign, because "bannon has convinced trump that the rest of the campai

say the fbi has been conducting a preliminary inquiry of donald trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, and his business ties overseas. >>> voice of a killer. for the first time, we hear chilling 911 calls made by the orlando gunman, during the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. >>> and fatal distraction. snapchat video from inside a car going 115 miles an hour minutes before slamming into a minivan, killing a mother and her children. is the app causing

secretive and m man -- >> whether it is the russians that have invest veed in trump' business and paul manafort or whether it is donald trump himself inviting the russians to be able to hack in or him praising vladimir putin a better leader than barack obama. there is evidence after evidence that this man is a danger to our country with this close b bro-mance of putin. this story came out this morning, i don't know, it is just -- as a mom, i was just so infuriated by it. we hear this weekend that donald trump, there is a released tape that donald trump on howard stern talked about when he owned these pageants that he would go into the women's dressing room to inspect when they were changing. it was reported in "times magazine" that not omnivonly he go in the dressing room to inspect the women but he will also go to miss teens u.s. a when they were undressing. these girls are freaking out when a man walking in when they were naked. that to me is utterly creepy. that >> we have asked do you support a man who would go in a dressing room of teenage 15-year-olds beauty contestants as they are changi

russia has been the center of h is campaign for so long and we have paul manafort who has ties with the president. and one of the subjects on the platform that trump campaign got involved in were regarding ukraine and not arming them against russia. russia. trump refused to reputiate putin. and he joked about how putin killed journalists at one point and did not take it seriously. it is interesting to see his warmth towards russia and in comparison to everybody else and centerly t certainly the gop. >> yes, we'll talk about donald trump's interview where he says yes, if he wins, he will go to meet putin. i thank all of katy tur and kristen welker and halie jackson, everybody, thank you, thank you. >> kristen welker is making sure no one has their smoke. >> we'll be there for the rally in ohio. still, donald trump was in north carolina and this was a state where early voting is under way. lgbt rights -- right in the tarheel state and 15 electoral votes are up for grabs. fights over transgender bathroom rights. is this mobilizing and folks coming out votinger. 18 days until election days.

. >> reporter: conway is trump's third campaign manager, brought in two months ago after paul manafort got the ax. >> look, that's -- >> that's paul's? >> that's amazing. >> this is how hard you worked. >> if i clean, it's at home. >> reporter: talk about women in the context of the "access hollywood" tapes. he dismissed the tapes as a locker room banter. if your son said those words, is that okay? >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> he said those words at 11, i'd wash his mouth out from soap and see where he heard them. let's not look over what else he said. he said he was embarrassed. he hated seeing it and he apologized and he did it several times thou. >> when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> whatever you want. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. do anything. >> i was extremely disturbed by the tapes. by calling it locker room talk just per peppates this idea that somehow what he said was not important and somehow words don't mean anything and words don't have power because words do have power. >> reporter: she travels the country speaking to football teams about

we do know paul manafort, trump's former campaign manager, is being investigated by the fbi, grows outsome of the ledgers found in ukraine for payments. so i wouldn't be so sure that you wouldn't see a clinton justice department going after people in the trump camp post election because of some of these associations. >> i hope that doesn't happen. i think criminalizing policy differences, whether by the democrats or the republicans, is a serious mistake. i think once the election is over you can have investigations as to whether the russians were involved, but i think it is a terrible mistake to -- for the winner to go after the loser through the justice department in a criminal way. >> at least in recent history we have seen republicans wanting to prosecute democrats, especially if they get into the office they promised -- you remember donald trump said, he criticized hillary clinton for not wanting to prosecute or go after the former president for iraq. why is it always republicans wanting to prosecute democrats? >> oh, believe me, there are democrats who want to prosecute republican

paul manafort helped scoop up the delegates. a tape came out. lewd, crude awful things left.t is driving the thank? winning. melissa: i disagree with you guys totally on this one. in this last moment it is actually effective to have somebody like jason chaffetz stand up say, look, what a lot of people are thinking, both these candidates are not ideal. i have really big problems for them. but at the end. day i need to vote for donald trump. you're a single issue voter on supreme court, i'm a single issue voter on the economy. think we're in dire straits what is happening with obamacare! we talk about the premiums and we'll talk about the battleground states and how that shapes up. with economy, business, market, regulation, donald trump is so far ahead of hillary clinton in terms of what he does for tax policy, how he gets the country moving again. regardless how you feel about him, because i hate comments on women. meghan: you don't think it looks like political expediency? melissa: yes in the sense i care about the country -- meghan: if you don't think he doesn't want to be

somebody tweeted, i can't remember who did it, pointed out that paul manafort's former clients in ukrainecy when an election was lost. jailing the opposition and using sort of the tactic of saying that the election they didn't win was rigged. so it is -- >> i'm seeing some counterevidence of high s.a.t. scores out here. people jumping around out here, trying ing ting to demonstrates of intelligence. go to bed. you start acting like that, go to bed. it's time. >> can i just point out that donald trump said he wanted -- if he won, he wanted to have a special prosecutor look into the hillary clinton thing. but he's home run said she should be in jail. so he would appoint a prosecutor and put her in jail, which is also very ukraine-like. >> any way, it is a little crazy. joy, robert, thank you. they're all sticking with us. this is a special late night edition of "hardball," live from washington university in st. louis. >> $960 million loss -- >> of course i do. and so do all of her donors or most of her donors. number one, i pay tremendous numbers of taxes. i absolutely used it. so did warre

in donald's case, i think his campaign manager, paul manafort, the old one, said a long time becoming chairman of the united states and he's going to have pence be the quarterback and run the ceo kind of role. chairman of the united states, i didn't know you could run for that. so i was looking at pence to see, okay, if this guy is calling some shots, what's he like. he was definitely under control. i think kaine, my impression was, there's so many things that donald has said that he wants to call him out on and i get it. he was like -- he was so hard to keep in. we've all been in that situation where it's like -- yeah, that. but you know what's interesting, katy tur, our campaign embed who's with donald trump, now says because of the insiders that donald trump is now bothered by the fact that governor pence is getting high praise. that's what katy tur is reporting now. so it's like you're darned if you do, darned if you don't. so according to the late-night polls he did better, like 48-46 or something, pence won the debate. with that. can't make it up. >> i think it's -- i would expe

. >> if you look back at the convention, paul manafort went into the rnc convention basically sayingthe goal for donald trump was that he would convince americans that he could be president. he could emerge from that looking like a credible commander in chief. it didn't happen. you had months and months to try to do that. you went into the first debate hoping he could do that. he hasn't really done that. people look at donald trump, they see him and they hear him. they don't see a president. they look at donald trump and they see donald trump. he hasn't yet been able to make that closing argument that he could be president. >> my perspective, these -- these leaks are damaging, but i don't think donald trump is capable of making it devastating in a debate like this. >> do you think another candidate could? >> chris christie could because he is a prosecutor. donald trump doesn't argue in sequences. he jumps from one point to the next with references that people don't know and he makes it very confusing and these are confusing fact situations. his situation, by contrast, the sex scandal

and not only that, roger stone, who was an adviser to donald trump, paul manafort was on the books withe ukrainian party that was controlled by putin. you have general allen who is in negotiations with rttv, a television agency that is funded by the russian government. all of these people are advising donald trump, have advised donald trump, are currently advising donald trump. and not only that, donald trump says this was just done by hackers? how do we know it wasn't some 400-pound guy in his basement? well, because of a national security briefing, that's how we know. he was informed. >> when putin says it doesn't matter who leaked, what does it matter? just look at the content! you're welcome is what he's trying to say. it's kind of a tell. >> yeah, the clinton campaign would love to make this about russia because it takes the pressure off what the content of the e-mails is. the fact of the matter is wikileaks has dropped bombs on republicans and on democrats and they'll continue to drop this, but hillary clinton wants to take pressure off what's in the e-mails, the fact that they're