interview chris christie said he still backs trump but doesn t believe going after bill clinton s accusers was the best strategy. he should have been much more direct and much more focused on saying, just saying i am sorry and only i m sorry. reporter: and, as he faces an increasingly narrow path to victory, the billionaire businessman is insisting he ll fight till the end. i may be limping across that finish line but we re going to get across that finish line. that is sara murray filing the report from us from florida. we want to get more on the trump campaign with cnn senior white house correspondent jim acosta. so this is the new plan. he says he is going to be unshackled. what does that mean? reporter: you got me. at this point we feel like we ve seen the unshackled donald trump. the official talking point from the campaign is that this is now about outsiders versus insiders. i talked to a trump advisor who is scratching his head saying
pennsylvania where he was goading on a crowd to criticize and be, you know, vocal against cnn, which was covering the event. here is the problem with donald trump. gloria is right. he is at 35%, 36% right now. that won t win the white house. he is eroding away from his base. the baseline is eroding. in many ways it seems like donald trump is pouring gasoline on himself, lighting himself on fire and trying to douse everyone else around him with gasoline. a lot of people in the republican party predicted this would happen but there was hope donald trump could be the true outsider. he is certainly the true outside sider but it s coming at a cost for the gop. i wonder where this is coming from, nia. he has some people around him. i think of steve bannan, one of his top aides. he is known as being divisive. is this just donald trump pursuing his instincts, or is he also being counseled by someone
the former producer on trump s nbc show the apprentice tweeted as a producer on seasons one and two of the apprentice, i assure you when it comes to the trump tapes. there are far worse. he said he wouldn t comment further. and an associated press reporter said he repeatedly used sexist language according to two dozen cast and crew members. talking openbly which female contestants he wanted to have sex with. part of this was during the time he was married to his wife melania. also describing a camera operator who he took a fancy to. talking about her body. as well as ranking female contestants by the size of their breasts. the trump campaign responded by calling those claims, unsubstantiated. totally false. ohio s gop chairman tells cnn, his privately reassured people that no other embarrassing times
trump. sources with knowledge of the ongoing negotiations tell cnn that bush s departure will be announced in the coming days. we re hearing that maybe even more explosive reportings of donald trump. brian todd has been looking into all of these rum. coming out with inappropriate behavior. and some are hinting that the access hollywood tape could be just the first rumbling of an avalanche. we caution viewers again, some remarks contain crude language. the access hollywood tape is a bombshell many. has imperilled donald trump s policy. you can do anything. grab them. you can do anything. trump has tried downplay the moment. i m very embarrassed by it. i hate it. it is locker room talk and it is one of those things. it may not be the only thing.
clinton staffers expose the inner workings of her campaign. wikileaks releasing thousands of documents including communications between a top campaign official and the justice department, which the trump campaign is calling collusion. what else did the e-mails reveal about clinton s campaign? proportional response. the white house says it s looking at a range of possible responses to russian cyber attacks on u.s. political systems, but it s also saying it s not likely that response will be announced ahead of time and it may never be made public at all. is the u.s. on the brink of a full-scale cyber war with russia? wolf blitzer is off today. i am brianna keilar, and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we are following breaking political news. donald trump going nuclear in a barrage of twitter attacks on republicans that he calls disloyal. the gop nominee lashed out at house speaker paul ryan who says he will no longer defend trump