is the gop still confused on how to deal with donald trump? i think absolutely. i think that we, you know, we had a whole bunch of people move away from him after the awful access hollywood video was released and now some people have gone back to him. the pendulum has been swinging. speaker ryan kept his distance, but hasn t rescinded his endorsement. so think there is a profound confusion and what has been happening, what happened in the last week, you did see even before the e-mail situation came out, you did see a few republicans ticking back to him. that s what i want to actually you saw earlier last week some ticking back a little at itty-bitty as one would say as a kid. do you think now with the e-mails you ll see some that may be even unendorse him, reendorse him now? what are we going to see? there has been no limit on the unfettered opportunism and
talking about your old boss, john mccain, right. he is saying you can t have it both ace, guys, what he is trying to do is affect the down ballot and trying to say to republicans, huh-uh, if you were for donald trump, you can just turn around, which as john mccain did unendorse, which is a new verb in our political vocabulary. unendorse. or reendorse. i have got to run. quickly, if you can tell me, is there anything he can do to stop the bleeding. they are doing exactly what they want to do. burn boats. that test strategy and that s the plan. mark, gloria, great kmpgs. see you soon. just ahead in her own words one of the women accusing donald trump of touching her inappropriately speaking out tonight to cnn s anderson cooper. we ll hear with a she is saying next.
assignment editors across the country saying, okay. and we have a million tom fiedlers, who caught gary hart back in the 80s, all of them saying, this is a guy who said all these things on tape for years and years, this has been his known m.o, and he wants to deny it on the debate stage. so a lot of people are going to come forward, who have been silent for years, or they have had michael cohen force an ndaa down their throats on behalf of donald trump, in whatever circumstances they find themselves after interacting with trump. and these are people that have reached a breaking point partly because donald trump has broken our political system so badly. he s got the entire political caucus endorsing and not endorsing. endorse, unendorse, reendorse car-sell ride, but after today s
endorse, unendorse, reendorse car-sell ride, but after today s revelations, maybe the wheel just keeps spinning and we end up back at unendorsed. coming up, donald trump backed into a political corner, comes out swinging once again, day two of trump against the world.
bullies like donald trump. nbc news senior political editor and one of the authors of our letter, for so many republicans, it s only deepening now as more accusations come out against donald trump right now. what do republicans do in this quandary? they actually hope the story kind of goes away or they don t get asked these kinds of questions. it does put them in a tough spot. on the one hand, power is a tough source. if you re a good republican in good republican standing, you have to be for donald trump and against hillary clinton. the problem is if you are in a swing state, and one of the people that kind of comes to mind is new hampshire senator kelly ayotte, all of a sudden you say i can no longer support someone like you. peter, the fact we re even having this discussion, we re seeing some republicans distance themselves, some reendorse donald trump has never happened since i ve been covering politics. every single republican, 99.9%