the petrifying fear among republican members of congress is there are still six, seven, eight more shoes left to drop. corey, do you think i mean, do you think we re painting too dire a picture of what s going on in the rnc, do you think donald trump did what he had to do last night? donald trump was very good last night. he talked about his difference of opinion on open borders versus pro amnesty. i think donald trump was painting the visipicture for wh his vision of america is. i want to touch on the rnc for just a second. you know, reince priebus is accountable to a 168-person committee. he s an elected official but is wle elected from within the 168-person committee. those 168 people are thereby elected in their own states. there s a national committeeman, national committeewoman and usually chairman of the party. the rank and file where those people have to run have predominantly been with donald trump. it s not a big surprise the rnc is standing behind donald trump.
election. we ve all said things that we re ashamed of. all of us. none of us are perfect. reporter: definitely not perfect, but presidential, that remains to be seen. randi kaye, cnn, ambridge, pennsylvania. my first question to donald trump last night was about the tape released on friday. remember, this was after he released a statement and a video to apologize. in both apologies he brushed off his vulgar remarks as, quote, locker room banter, he was bragging about sexual assault, grabbing women by their genitals, forcibly kissing them. last night he doubled down on that strategy saying, quote, it s locker room talk and it s one of those things. to some women, though, his words and tone sounded dismissive. joining me, cnn political commentators ana thnavarro, scottie nell hughes. many trump supporters seem to give him a pass on this tape, many people found this tape so offensive because it was trump describing what is by definition sexual assault. i did press him on that point
why do you guys lie to us? why are you working for clinton? you are. reporter: okay. you guys are liars. you are biased. and we re not dealing with it no longer. reporter: those who did talk with us about the tape said they were offended, but don t expect that to change their vote. i didn t like it but it s not enough to discount him in the election. we ve all said things that we re ashamed of. all of us. none of us are perfect. reporter: definitely not perfect, but presidential, that remains to be seen. randi kaye, cnn, ambridge, pennsylvania. my first question to donald trump last night was about the tape released on friday. remember, this was after he released a statement and a video to apologize. in both apologies he brushed off his vulgar remarks as, quote, locker room banter, he was bragging about sexual assault, grabbing women by their genitals, forcibly kissing them. last night he doubled down on that strategy saying, quote, it s locker room talk and it s
that. he also praised hillary clinton back in the day. he s using those women. you don t think do you think on their own volition. decide the to engage the media. do you think it s a working strategy and can do lasting damage to hillary clinton? look, there s a couple of things to remember, right, if you ask the american people is the country on the right track or wrong track? the wrong track is plus 35. it s 30-65, the country s going the wrong direction. you know what that is? that s a failed washington, d.c. that s everything that has gone wrong in washington for the last 30 years and people want change. that s what donald trump represents. as it relates to these women, they volunteered to come and address the media. they weren t part of a pawn scheme where we ll raise this at the end of the debate and alicia machado that s not what happened. these people wabnted to come forward. you know what, this woman was a rape victim and wanted to tell her story. we got to le
tonight as you saw new nbc news/ wall street journal polling, hillary clinton with an 1 11-point lead over donald trump. the poll was done after friday s release of the tape of donald trump talking about women in vulgar and degrading terms, bragging about forces himself on women, grabbing them by the genital and getting away with it because he s famous. unprecedented backdrop certainly for a presidential debate but anyone who was expecting a contrite donald trump to show up last night, they got the exact opposite. yes, i m very embarrassed by it. i hate it, but it s locker room talk. if you look at bill clinton, far worse. mine are words and his was action. honest abe never lied. that s the big difference between abraham lincoln and you. if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there s never been so many lies.