think oar thinking about what kind of image is the republican party going to have. probably thinking about their own political fortunes, as well, wolf and factors come to play. there's disagreement and not cover over that fact. there is. >> enormous disagreement. from the democrats perspective, supporter of hillary clinton, patty, how do you see the handling of this crisis by donald trump? >> i think it's been abysmal, frankly. i think his apologies made the situation worse. his first apology, the written statement, basically likened this behavior to locker room banter. which to me as a woman, as a mother of a son, that's the sentiment of boys will be boys and that's just unacceptable. and then the videotaped apology, i mean, frankly, he looked like he was being helped captive. forced to apologize. there was no remorse there. there was no contrition. i just think it's been handled thus far very badly. >> jeffrey, i've spoken to some republicans who point out that