i don t even wait. on october 7th, 2016 just weeks before election day, the trump campaign in crisis mode. a recording of the candidate on access hollywood 11 years ago was released. on it donald trump is heard bragging about not only kissing women but grabbing women s genitals, all without consent. and when you re a star they ll let you do it. you can do anything you want. grab them by the you can do anything. this was a campaign full of bombshells and full of moments where everyone s head was spinning and the internet was falling off its axis. this was a moment where truly the world stopped and everyone said, it is over, the campaign is over. the world waited and wondered just how melania trump would respond. she issued a short statement the next day calling her husband s words unacceptable and offensive, but also said he has
including from u.s. political organizations. they went on to say this could only have been done by russia s senior-most officials giving authorization to do so. so they did issue that statement. they did issue the statement and i am glad they did. i think the statement should have been issued much earlier, and i don t think the statement should have been the last word either. i wanted to see and urged at the time the administration to engage in very open discussions with our european allies who have also been the subject of russian meddling, to impose sanctions on the russians. that would have also have said something about the seriousness with which we need to take this kind of meddling. the administration, again, did go to the step you said. they did take some steps, but i fear they are not enough going forward to deter the russians. by the way, that statement, october 7th, 2016, was issued on the same day that that access hollywood video which was so embarrassing to donald tru
advice of aides. brianna keilar, mark preston, thank you both. donald trump and hillary clinton as we mentioned facing off in the second debate co-moderated by our anderson cooper. begins right here at 9:00 eastern on cnn. you might be looking at this thinking october 7th, 2016, yesterday, could that be the pivotal day that things turned around in the trump campaign. but which way they turn is the question. yeah, the fallout from that shocking tape is just beginning. next where this bombshell tape came from, how it dropped. we ll look into that. also, we want to let you know the latest on hurricane matthew. take a look at the pictures we re getting in. the eye of that storm lashing right now. myrtle beach, charleston, south carolina. it has already drenched florida and georgia. blamed for four deaths in florida. where is it go, how powerful is it? we ll answer those questions in a moment.
worse. you and you crew hunker down and take good care of yourself. thank you. that same storm is cutting a destructive path across haiti. the latest number from reuters, nearly 900 dead after matthew store tore across that area. washed out bridges and poor infrastructure. the hurricane hit as haiti was start to go recover from that devastating earthquake six years ago. which killed about 200,000 people. october 7th, 2016, yesterday, that could be a data changes the way trump will campaign from this point out. followout from that first shocking tape. it is just beginning as we were in the early stages of this. but while you were sleeping, he made an apology. we ll talk about that and where
those e-mails were leaked on the internet half an hour after. it is a mystery whether that was a coincidence or coordinated. let me put the time line and walk us through. this is the time line, october 7th, 2016, a month before the election at 3:30 p.m. the united states blames russia for the dnc leaks and the joints statement from jeh johnson, and james clapper, the director of national intelligence put out a joint statement blaming russia. at 4:03 p.m. access hollywood video is released and then 4:30 p.m. wikileaks releases the first of the john podesta e-mails. co incident or not and is this something the fbi agents and the prosecutors and the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york are looking at? i think they potentially are