they feel. when they say, why are you talking so much about the e-mails, i know how they feel. it is completely ideological. trump insists though there is evidence exonerating him on all of these accusations we have heard. do you think the evidence actually exists? mike pence was on cbs this morning show saying it is going to come out now. that was this morning. it is almost mid night eastern time and nothing has happened. where is it, david? i don t know, and i don t think it matters. reminds me of last friday night sitting here waiting for the tape to come out. go on. again, if he winds up charged with something in the legal system, then, yes, you really have to look at evidence, due process, et cetera. in terms of what is going on in voters minds, look, take this all the way back, right, last week we were talking about the access hollywood tape. we talked briefly about what megan kelly brought up in the
attractive women is both the strangest argument i have ever heard and also the most donald trump argument i ve ever heard. yes. but implicit in what he is saying is, you know, look at these people, i only assault, you know, tens or however he put it. you re almost at a loss for words and i ve never seen you at a loss for words, ryan. i find myself at a loss for words almost daily in the final weeks of this campaign, you know, watching this stuff play out. you know, you asked david to sort of explain why he said that and, you know, i m glad you didn t ask me to do it because it doesn t at this point it takes it defies logic. a psychiatrist to understand how he could get up there and talk about the looks of his accusers rather than, you know, if he s innocent layout some facts and explain in a careful way why he s the victim of an
allow his campaign to do research on him? i find that flaber gassing, but i have to ask you, i have to ask the rest of the panel the same question. do you think he can recover from this, david, between now and november 8th? no, i don t, don. i agree with mary katherine, with three 1/2 weeks to go it is not enough time to change the narrative. he has been accused bisexual assau he s been accused of sexual assault. if he is charged with a crime he is due presumption of innocence and due process, but we re not in a courtroom right now and in the court of public opinion and the narrative is hardening around him because of the access hollywood tape where he was heard saying a bunch of things. it doesn t prove he did them but it entitles voters to make up their minds about him in a particular way, and i don t think he can do anything or he
at the federalist, and ryan lizza is with us also. here is trump defending himself against allegations of sexual assault. take a look. you take a look. look at her. oh, i was in donald trump in 1980. i was sitting with him on an airplane, and he went after me on the plain. yeah, i m going to go after. believe me, she would not be my first choice, that i can tell you. man. you don t know, that would not be my first choice. so, david, you know, mocking the victims. we ve seen him mock other people before. it seems like a strange tactic to take when one is defending one s self. why do you think he is doing this? yeah, it is a strange tactic to take. donald trump does not like to back down, does not like to apologize, does not like to admit any kind of wrong. i heard congressman kingston in your last segment say that
one swoop is pennsylvania where he trails by nine. is that impossible? a lot of republicans think so. a lot of republicans actually think the presidential race is over. those that don t think it is over think that is an incredibly steep hill to climb. you will turn one, two, three and hold that state, complicated states, cost a lot of money, only 25 days left. not impossible, don, but incredibly hard, especially when you are trying to do it in the middle of all of these controversy. absolutely. john king, thank you. back with me now, david, i ll say to you what a friend texted me today. said, man, he was 45 days from living in the white house and do you agree with that? because this looks like an incredibly steep uphill climb that is likely impossible. yeah, i don t know if he was that close to the white house, but certainly there was a moment just a few weeks ago where donald trump was ascending in the polls, kellyanne conway had sort of taken the campaign by the reins, gotten don