you saw that 90-minute battle on stage last night in st. louis, but behind the scenes, there was a bit of a struggle between donald trump and the presidential debate commission. you saw trump invited these women who have accused bill clinton of sexual assault. he held his press conference earlier in the day with four of them, and here is what one of them shared with the press. we did recently, and mr. trump retweeted it, that actions speak louder than words. mr. trump may have said some bad words, but bill clinton raped me and hillary clinton threatened me. i don t think there s any comparison. the women were in the first row directly behind his family, but trump actually wanted them closer. jeff zelany was in st. louis last night. he joins me live with a little
almost irrelevant at this point. i want to be clear about one thing, just from here. donald trump spent a lot of this speech just now attacking free trade and attacking entitlement reform. you wonder why paul ryan doesn t want to have any part of donald trump on the question of ideas, mark. that s part of the reason. they don t agree about much of anything at this point. and i think he recognized that trump is almost certain to lose now, as donny suggested. a number of trump s attack lines last night at the debate came from hacked clinton campaign e-mails, that were published by wikileaks. the site posted another document dump today. it didn t contain any mortal threats to clinton, as far as we know at this point, but it did include campaign discussions about how to attack bernie sanders during the democratic nomination contest as well as e-mails from longtime clinton aide, doug band, saying some unflattering things about chelsea clinton. more than anything, the documents portend tha
debate watchers named clinton the clear victor last night in st. louis. trump took his own trumpian version of a victory lap, continuing his line of attack on bill clinton s history with women and hillary clinton s alleged complicity in it. bill clinton was the worst abuser of women ever to sit in the oval office. he was a predator. hillary clinton systemically attacked and discredited the victims of bill clinton s sexual harassment and assault. these things aren t written by the media, but they re true. written by many books. these victims include names like kathleen willy, juanita broderick, connie hamsly, eileen wellstone, sandra allen james, and christie zirtya and there are many, many more. reporter: here in north carolina, mike pence, after a weekend of wavering, or at least a wait-and-see attitude, he made
governor of wisconsin, will be in alabama tonight speaking. . let s talk more about trump with cnn political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view, josh rogen. good to have you on the show. thank you. what we heard from donald trump last night included some approach to foreign policy, although we have any seen the full rollout of his foreign policy priorities, but listen to what he said in particular about japan and we will talk about that. we have an agreement with japan where if somebody attacks japan, we have to come to their rescue. but if we get attacked, japan doesn t have to help us. do you think that s a good deal? that is sort of like sergeant bergdahl. has anybody heard of him? the traitor. i called president obama five for one president continuing that line of criticizing the u.s. government s negotiating tactics, what does this comment
telling cnn they estimated the crowd at about 30,000, which will make it the largest event trump has held to this point and the largest of any republican candidate for president. you know, they initially said some 40,000 people had rsvp d and they heard trump give his pretty traditional speech on the stump. issues like immigration, obamacare, the military and the billionaire s signature issue right now, jobs. you look at baltimore, you look at ferguson, you look at st. louis last night over the last week. you look at all of the things that are happening, we are sitting on powder kegs. there s no spirit. there s no jobs. there s no anything. we are going to take this country.