does timing matter? we re in the middle of a very you know, rocky, political race. every candidate deserves to be heard, regardless when they speak. i m welling to listen to every woman and not discounting them because of any timing issue and scottie i m sure you re not either. look, the reality is, if donald trump, as a candidate, had done any of the basic things that candidates do, right, basic research on himself, their campaign wouldn t be caught so flat-footed at this given moment, but the issue now, scottie, isn t about the candidate at the top of the ticket. it s not about the republican nominee, it s not about a republican presidency. the bottom is falling-out for candidates who are down ballot. for senators, members of the house of representatives who are republicans, who are suffering now because your guy at the top
as to what i know happened and what he says himself and then go from there in your decision and have a full y educated decision. not an easy thing to do. that s for sure. now she is in the crosshairs of election scrutiny. let s bring in cnn contributor, democratic strategist, clinton supporter maria cardona and political editor for rightsalerts.com and scottie nel-hughes. what does the campaign do? the clinton campaign. they say they want to talk about the issues. they don t want tao relitigate the past. but dayou ignore the allegations from women? is that disrespectful to them? you have a statement that the communications director jennifer palmieri put out that said clearly that the words that donald trump said were just words and the awfulness that we
use the word to do what? to make it like evangalism. they are very different faiths within the body of christianity. but the idea that clinton doesn t like catholics, doesn t like latinos, and you see that in the e-mails, how do you rebut that? i rebut that by saying you need to look at her policies and what she has done throughout her whole life and what the campaign has done. as you have pointed out podesta and palmierry are faithful catholics, you re a catholic, i m a catholic. even corey is a catholic. we understand that that s not what was going on. they were having a private conversation about catholicism. but let s look at her record and let s talk about the catholic vote. actually the person who s in trouble when it comes to the catholic vote is donald trump. and the catholic vote has been one that has normally been split. right now they are geerg towards hillary clinton. the same as women. so, those are the issues. maria, scottie, i appreciate the conversation. i m tight o
pretty much a boy scout, personally. they did everything to demonize him. they talked about him withholding drug from cancer payments and this is the same song, different verse and the democrats always play and especially very important this year because hillary clinton is having a problem with women. she was hoping she d have this overwhelming 99% of all women should support her and she s not seeing those numbers. we are going to see every day 20 some odd days out until the election, we re going to see these types of accusations and they are just accusations to come out and go against mr. trump. scottie, let s leave to the side the fact that you don t give something just accusations as a defense to hillary clinton in the same area of things. but in terms of the timing, donald trump started this discussion about let s look at the past. let s look at this. he did that in the last phase of this campaign. supporters of his have been begging wikileaks to create an
unfortunately, it has come out in this lewd manner, but i think it points to the fact and this is a big case that the clinton campaign is making and i think it s the right one. that leads to issues that this man is not fit to be president of the united states. all right, scottie, you have this task of defending the campaign on this defending donald trump. you tweeted not too long ago asking whether or not this was a conspiracy by the new york times by doing a character assassination against donald trump. that s what you think this is? the same song, different verse. i agree with maria, women should not be used. we have seen starting back to 2008 with john mccain putting out that he was having an affair with a lobbyist a few weeks before the election. and that stole all the headlines. here we have a presidential candidate, let s move forward to 2012. mitt romney who, while i don t necessarily agree with the actions he had this time, he is