stoynoff told them about the incident after it occurred. her former journalism professor called him in tears the very night of the encounter, but he cautioned her to remain quiet in fear of how trump may retaliate. another published article, she tells the magazine, i didn t tell my story for politics, i told it for women. her claim of sexual misconduct by donald trump has not been verified by nbc news and the candidate has denied the accusations. a new poll out just this morning shows in the three and a half weeks of general election debates, hillary clinton has begun pulling away from donald trump. the bloomberg politics poll gives clinton a nine-point lead, 47% to trump s 38%, up six points before the first debate with trump dropping five points to 38%. this is a new fox news poll, gives clinton a six-point advantage nationally, with donald trump gaining one point since last week. and with the polls closing in
from the nine women who have come forward and made these sexual allegations. people magazine today published accounts from six people who say they can corroborate the former writer natasha stoynoff s story of being attacked she said by donald trump back in 2005 at mar-a-lago in palm beach in response to trump saying these were all lies. let me quote from this woman, the former people magazine writer. we cannot be silent anymore. i didn t tell my story for politics. i told it for the women. your reaction now that six people say almost contemporaneously she spoke of what she called this attack. those are all statements that she has made to other people. i don t believe that any of these people were there with them at mar-a-lago. what i can tell you is that the accuser and i would never want to turn around and tell an accuser that, you know, the story that you re relaying is a lie.
the story had been simmering away, if you will, it will h taken a backward comparison to other news hillary clinton s emails about the wikileaks releases, et cetera, why not put her out there when this was hot and heavy if you will, the day that melania trump issued that public apology in a statement not on camera. you know why. it s strategy, sure. the second best time is tomorrow morning. it s getting tense out there. i get what you re saying and this is astory that melania trump is, what s the word, sort of clinging to her husband s line on this. embracing what her husband is saying. of course, if this is a media conspiracy against him and they are presenting a united front as i think the campaign would want
they d sympathize with that and this is how men talk in private. that s what a lot of people told us in our nbc news/ wall street journal polling. that s probably something that there are probably a lot of women in america who can relate to the feeling. some of this stuff is beyond locker room. one of the trump s accusers, former people writer natasha stoynoff says women are talking about this and they need to. we cannot be silent anymore. i didn t tell my story for politics. i told it for women. people reports six colleagues of hers and close friends can corroborate the story of her being attacked by trump. confiding to the friends and co-workers about the attack shortly after it occurred. nbc news has not verified the accounts and donald trump vehemently denied this and all other allegations of sexual misconduct. howie that s a way to judge if something happened, a person who experiences something the victim of it, if you will, shared that information at the time it
prosecute the case or not on the emails and the fbi and the way this was all investigated. is he ready for that or is he going to be distracted? i think also trump has to stop this from being all about him. he has to turn the focus on to hillary clinton. you say he s going to be aggressive. but we re not sure how narrow that aggression will be. at depression has to have a focus if it s going to land and be the story come out of the debate. can t talk about bill clinton, bounces back to him. you look at the three deba debates, the first one was all trump on the defensive completely, and pumpling himself. the second debate trump was more aggressive overall but as robert says not really focussed and one reason he didn t win the debate but his followers think he did is that he showed that style. i think robert s right. if he has to go in specifically on something, this could be it. chris wallace will be good.