Think it will be true after 2016. So i think youre going to have a minuscule thirdparty vote. Its going to be up or down. Charlie cook, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thanks. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight, john bolton is out after a rocky tenure as National Security adviser. Its either a firing or resignation depending on which story you believe. Now the white house looking to hire its fourth National Security adviser in just three years. This comes amid a conversation already spun up over the president s changing the weather forecast, denying a business arrangement in plain sight, which may help to explain some big, bad, new Polling Numbers just out. Plus, a former counterintel chief of the fbi is here with us for an update on that russian asset who alerted america to putins meddling in our 2016 election. And Steve Kornacki at the big board with the North Carolina special election
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Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Nice to see you. Im john berman. It is tuesday, october 18th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. This morning, Melania Trump with the first statements of accusing her husband of groping and sexual assault. In an interview with Anderson Cooper, she rejects the claims stating they are an orchestrated conspiracy. She was asked about the comments on the 2005 access Hollywood Tape where he bragged about grabbing womens genitals because he was famous. She dismissed that as boy talk and he was egged on by billy bush. This is some of the interview. It was ten days ago. What did you think when you first saw it . I i said to my husband, you know, the language is inappropriate. It is not acceptable. And, i was, surprised because that is not the man that i know. And as you can see from the tape, the cameras were not on. It was only a mic. I wonder if they even knew that the mic was on because it was kind of boy talk. He was egged on like egged on fro
Spot. With 21 days until the leak, Hillary Clinton is going after trumps turf. Her campaign is expanding into states the democrats havent won in decades. Breaking news, russian and Syrian Forces have halted air strikes in aleppo, syria, at least temporarily. This move comes ahead a pause this thursday when the Russian Defense Ministry Announced yesterday. That pause is meant to allow Syrian Rebels as well as wounded and sick civilians to leave the city safely. Russias defense minister says the extra time is intended to prepare safe corridors and to plan for the evacuation. The humanitarian pause was announced less than a day after the syrian observatory for human rights says air strikes killed at least 50 civilians in aleppo, including 18 children. Donald Trumps Campaign is calling for a Top State Department official to resign immediately. As revelations from the fbis investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server creates new headaches for her campaign. Nbcs chief Foreign Aff
59 people are dead and well over 500 have been injured. The story as we understand it starts with a 64yearold man, apparently a veteran gambler in las vegas who days ago checked into a hotel room with several suitcases of weapons. A hotel room situated 32 stories above an event field that last night hosted 22,000 people for a Country Music festival. Before people knew what was happening to them or what that noise was or where it was coming from, some were already dead and wounded. The firing lasted minutes at a time seemingly indiscriminate pausing apparently only to reload. First responders were heroic and so were so many civilians, many of whom helped each other while in great danger themselves. The gunman and otherwise unremarkable 64yearold named Stephen Paddock apparently killed himself right before the swat team entered the room and put an end to him. His own brother said he was quote just a guy and now of course, hes a mass murderer. We dont know a motive as one of our journalis
Two republican senators say he definitely did not. But just a couple of days earlier, both men claim they couldnt recall what the president had actually said. Cnns Caitlin Collins is in west palm beach, florida. The president cant escape these comments. Reporter no, he cant. And just yesterday he was denying that hes a racist, denying hes made that remark. And for his denial, he cited those two senators who said the president didnt make that remark. Senators cotton and perdue both at the meeting at the white house. Initially they said they didnt recall if the president had used that specific term when speaking about countries in africa. Now theyre insisting the president did not say that. However, they have not insisted that the president didnt express that sentiment about countries in africa, about haitians coming to the United States. And about how the United States should take more people from countries like norway. So it is important to keep that in mind as the president cites thei