about it. that s the difference. amanda, i assure you, if ted cruz were the nominee at this moment, there would be something they would be going after. i have never heard him say anything remotely like that. but the difference is here, this is not the media blowing it out of proportion, this is members of his own party fleeing. that s how bad it is. this has never happened in the history of the republican party. not so. it happened with barry goldwater. not nearly as many senators. you have to go back to teddy roosevelt. let him stand alone tonight. if he wants a campaign about the party, go ahead and do it, donald trump. see where it takes you. pause. hold on. we have more to talk about on this subject after the break. more on that. plus, that is that is trump force one. that is donald trump s plane landing in st. louis as we speak. donald trump s plane. that s what we re being told in our ears. donald trump s plane landing in st. louis, we continue to watch it
certainly also there are a number of those within the gop who say, look, what we re looking for here is someone who shows up tonight who is well versed on the issues, conciliatory when it comes to issuing some sort of apology. and as he s heading out here to st. louis, with him by his side, his campaign manager, kelly anne conway, rudy giuliani as well as reince priebus with him. the question is, which trump is going to show up tonight? he does have the rnc party chair with him right now. so at least symbolically the support, the official support still of the republican party. all right, jason, thank you so much. just moments ago we showed you pictures from moments ago. hillary clinton has arrived here in st. louis in advance of this debate. we have supporters from both campaigns with us at washington university. there she is when she arrived. our m.j. lee was on the plane for the trip out here.
we are live in st. louis at washington university. we are now hours away from tonight s big presidential debate here in st. louis. let s bring back the political panel now. joining us also, we should stay david gergenstein, former presidential advisor to ford, reagan and nixon. let s talk about wikileaks and the latest document dump. private conversations of hillary clinton. hillary clinton, the documents allegedly show, her taking on the different tone in private and public, with big issues like free trade, big issues like wall street. here s the quote sticking out to everyone, my dream is a them hemispheric moment. how does he have to explain this now?
candidate. a lot of times there are hurt feelings, the candidate goes out to mend fences, but in this case donald trump is doing the opposite of that. maybe he feels like it is his last effort. that is the trump plane arriving here in st. louis. the earlier plane we told you was mr. trump. that was just a teaser. this is trump s plane filled with his advisors and the rnc chair reince priebus. steve, you were about to say i think it is much more than a ploy. everything about the campaign is unconventional. in terms of how he s positioned himself with other republicans, i think this is important. thisas not s mh a candidacy as it is a movement. it s not so much democrat against republican. i think in terms of trump, it is largely america against washington. so i m not shocked that washington insiders, including republicans, are the first to
i don t need you guys. does mike pence need to go against the republican party? no, he needs a walk a careful line, which is what he s doing. he s on a tight rope. because if he was after donald trump too heavily, all the donald trump supporters will turn against him and it will harm him in the house and harm in his future career badly. but if he wraps himself around donald trump, he s got the opposite problem. so if he were to become the nominee, that is still not out of the question. if donald trump has a bad debate tonight and it is really clearly over, there s going to be more pressure on him to step down. let s use that as a tease. is it possible that donald trump will not be the republican nominee in 30 days? we ll discuss that and much, much more. stick around. a lot more going on here live at washington university in st. louis. don t go anywhere. what if there was a paint.