election day. how about the scuttle but, the possible reporting that the rnc is pulling funding from trump going forward and focusing on down ballot races. do we know this to be true? there is some reporting that some of the victory fund information, the republican the rnc pushed back on this. but, stephanie, the down ballot is where this is. you end up looking the our brand-new polls that end up coming out today, hillary clinton up 12 points in pennsylvania, up three points in florida. this was before friday s news. donald trump is in a really tough position to be able to win this presidential contest. now it is all about saving the senate. it is about saving even the house of representatives. so i wouldn t be surprised if the republicans, including rnc chairman reince priebus says our top focus is saving down ballot republicans because the presidential race might already be over. mark, thanks so much. our own mark murray, so much to cover. all leading to tonight, the showdown
for me. they re not. tonight is the debate and the last 36 hours have arguably been the most challenging for donald trump s campaign. and when trump s lewd words surfaced friday, there were reports that the republican national committee was looking at options for how they could dump trump. we have been hearing dump trump for months and it hasn t stuck. could it actually now. joining me is mark murray. we have been hearing dump trump for ages and it didn t stick. why do we suddenly think this is the moment. there is an obscure rule that if there is some type of vacancy, say donald trump says i want to actually quit this race, that there is an that the republican national committee can actually fill it and they said this is in their bylaws they could be able to do so. and we re here in missouri, there is one little priss dent th that happened. people voted for him and his wife ended up going to the
if he stays focused as i did on the podesta e-mails, on egypt, libya, the russian reset button, syria, the supreme court, he could have a good debate. if he goes after bill clinton, i think most of america will turn him off completely. that is older than his tape. that is asked, answered and relitigated. he s not on the ticket. it doesn t work. it doesn t test. it is wrong. i don t like bill clinton. what he did was horrible. i thought he should have been impeached and removed from office, but that s insane debate tactics being fed to him by people who do not know what they re talking about. hugh hewitt is right, if tonight is going to be a spectacular disaster, you re going to want to tune in. special coverage of the seconds president ideal debate begins with meet the press at 5:00 p.m. eastern and don t miss our live telecast of the debate at 9:00 p.m. eastern, followed by late night coverage with our post debate team. we ll take a quick break. i m going to hop out with this crow
he s a political rookie. trump tower remarks on mex cans entering into the country without meer missipermission wae convolu convoluted. the ice formed over the river and now i m speaking politically and pragmatically, secretary clinton would be a terrible president, would make terrible decisions. today we should be talking about the podesta tapes, the goldman sachs speeches, additional slams on global markets, we re not. instead, republicans are dealing with the media and i think what is important is that mr. trump could contribute and history would credit him for and his family would had thank him for because of the damage being done to the trump brand would be to say i can t win. and therefore i ll step aside. rnc would nominate pence, i think. do you believe mike pence could win? absolutely. you look at the podesta tapes,
i m stephanie rule. you know where i am, washington university in st. louis, missouri. where we re hours away from the second presidential debate. it is going to be a big one. and this just in. sources telling nbc news trump campaign manager kellyanne conway is considering quitting. this after rnc chair reince priebus met for 90 minutes having a very frank conversation with the republican presidential nominee. joining me now, buzzfeed ed political reporter rosy gray and joe mccormick, a staff writer for a conservative publication not backing mr. trump. more than 40 elected officials, senior ranking gop members are no longer endorsing donald trump, pulling. is this unprecedented? it is. especially at this late stage in the game, there is a month to go before the election and to see the institutional republican party really abandon their nominee like this, we re really in unchartered waters now. team trump is saying this is the washington elite, the establishment.