Impressed. On the trail the obamas take the lead for team clinton. We have seen this candidate bragging sexually assaulting women. You said youre the party of family values. What you werent aprpalled earlier when he said degrading things about women. Three weeks left. Inside politics, the biggest stories soursd by tced by the b reporters now. Welcome to inside politics, im john king. Thanks for sharing your sunday morning. 23 days before election day and three before the third and final debate. Three questions driving the race. One, who do you believe . Next thing i know this a hand up my skirt. Oh, thats donald trump. Oh, yeah thats donald trump. Deactually kiss you. Yeah. Yeah. On the face or on the lips . Wherever he could find a landing spot. I am being viciously attacked with lies and smears. Question two, how dangerous is this . Donald trump not only says all those women are lying he says its part of a bigger global conspiracy. False stories, all made up. Lies. Lies. No witnesses. No nothing. Allbig lies. Its a rigged system and they take these lies and they put them on front pages. This is a rigged system, folks. Question three, question a lot of republicans are asking how much damage is trump doing the long term image of the gop . You cant have it both ways here. You cant repeatedly denounce what is said by someone and then say but im still going to endorse him to be the most powerful person on the planet. With us this sunday to share their reporting and insights, julie pace, jonathan martin, Jennifer Jacobs and Mary Catherine hamm. The election is in three weeks. Final debate in three days. Donald trump is losing. If you look at the National Polls theres a bit of a discrepancy but if you go state by state hes losing big league. He says he knows why. First all those women are lying and trump says they are in cahoots with mexican billionaires to defeat him. Hillary clinton scored the winner of the first two debates. Trump said shes obviously cheating. We should take a drug test prior because i dont know whats going on with her. But at the beginning of her last debate she was all pumped up at the beginning and at the end there was like oh, take me down. She could barely reach her car. So i think we should take a drug test. Anyway im willing to do it. That was a new one. It was. Lets have a if youre going to be in a president ial debate you have to take a drug test. Interestingly said in New Hampshire, a state with a major problem with drugs, a very serious problem. What youre seeing with trump is he watches the polls like the best of them and knows hes losing right now and he is choosing not to take any responsibility for that. Hes choosing to point his finger at the media, at clinton, at women who are coming out accusing him. Paul ryan other republicans. Theres not a lot of selfreflection happening right now and for him thats dangerous because he has a loyal base much supporters. He cannot win the president ial election with those support erosion alone. He needs to expand that base. Youre seeing very few signs of him reaching out trying to do anything in these last three weeks to bring new people into the fold. He just doesnt deny the allegations, as he denies them he says number one were all part of this, part of a media conspiracy to bring these women forward to say these things. These women have said their names to attach to this. And then he said look at them. If i were going to do this, these tarnt women i would do it too. Because they are unattractive. Ladies, i see that and i think if youre looking to expand your tent thats not the way to do it. He tweeted this morning. Knees that something is up. He tweeted that polls show large numbers of women are leaving him for something he didnt know. But 44 of women have experienced unwanted sexual contact at some point in their lives so this strikes home for a lot of women. Hes not losing gop women in droves. They are sticking with him for partisan reasons. The polls show hes losing women. Shes not hot enough defense i dont think is a good one and his problem as it always si dont think hes ever been in selfreflex or expanding the ten its about the audience hes talking at the moment. His goal has never been these things. Moving forward can he get off of this story . No, i dont think key because hes not a person who changes his strategy in a nimble way. The reason people are leaving and reason people believe these accusations, party idea being accused is not my metric for whether i believe these stories or not which unfortunately in this town is often the metric but i dont know if he can move off of this because theres a tape of him saying dethese things. Thats the bottom line. Thats one of the issues. I dont like replay this gratuitously. This is part of the problem. Donald trump says this never happened. Said he would never do it. Then he aedes they are not attractive enough. One of his issues is that the women are coming forward and essentially saying that donald trump did this. Again, he said in the debate that he was just talking, he doesnt do those things but these women are saying is when they heard him in the debate deny it thats when they decided to come forward. He has a 30 year track record of boasting about his sexual exploits. This is not something we just heard about after that video came out. It was in his own book talking about how he behaves. So this is nothing new. Republican party knew what they were getting. They went in with their eyes wideopen. Theres a bigger story here than this campaign. He is up ending long standing norms of american politics, not only in terms of his conduct when it comes to speaking about women or minorities but the very nature of american democracy in a way we havent seen in this country, and i think for the Republican Party to sort of stand there and watch him do that paul ryan spoke yesterday about it. But ive been very surprised that more people in the party have not spoken out about his comments regarding the very fabric of not spoken out against it. He was introduced yesterday by Jeff Sessions which i criticized sessions last week hes a former attorney general, hes a law and order guy and he said what trump describes in his view is not sexual assault. Sorry, senator it is. Senator sessions said the rigged argument. This is a man who among conservatives has standings on law and order. A lot of conservatives says is donald trump on us. Jeff sessions said on immigration, on the Supreme Court hes a guy that a lot of conservatives look up to. The democrats are watching this too. Listen to tim kaine. Hes saying dont think this is over. Dont stay home. The margins matter. We got to make sure that the margin that he loses by is so big, and so clear, and so powerful, and so unmistakable that when he stands up and says poor me it was rigged against me nobody will believe him. Well find the advance guy about that mural behind senator kaine. We laugh about these and if you read the accounts, youve been to the trump rally, heres a guy who spent so much time delegitimizing president obama, hes not from this country, now in advance trying to delegitimize a clinton victory if thats what it comes to. Let me say this. I dont think its not crazy for him to point out and his supporters to be miffed theres a roll out of these stories about women. You had several stories coming down the pike from cosmopolitan. And look at the media you guys havent been friendly to us for a long time and this seems like youre working together. I dont think thats a crazy thing to say. When you take at any time extra step and say the entire system is rigged thats problem. Hes done that with the Republican Party knowing what they are getting. Hes done that every step of the way. I think its important, though, that people sometimes in these elections you get caught up in the daytoday and the race were in. Step back and think about this. We had election after election in this country where the result is accepted as fair, it was a free election, and the loser steps aside and accepts the results. I dont think you can say for certain that donald trump will take that position after this election. That is incredibly dangerous not just because youre going to have his supporters out there thinking that Hillary Clinton is not legitimate but it could freeze our democracy for her entire four years. Republicans would have to choose whether they want to work with her. Were talking about something much bigger than just Donald Trumps talk and rhetoric on the campaign trail. I cant believe you have to say this out loud on tv but the essence of democracy is the peaceful transfer of party between parties every four years. And that does seem to be now the question. Real fast to the point about nature of women coming out. Two things. First of all, a lot of them said they heard it in the second debate say he had done these things and said hell no, he actually did it to me and ill speak to that. Second of all in the boston globe and made my paper New York Times head story about other women. That was not some part of coordinated idea. If it is all coordinated by the Clinton Campaign heres what i would say. If i rob a bank and my worst enemy catches me rob fwank and provides the tape to the police i can scream at my worst enemy all i want, but i still robbed the bank. If youre a trump supporter theres encouraging news. Youve been listening, nbc wall street journal poll had him down to 11, came back to 8. Fox news had him down to eight. Margin is now four. Clinton 47, trump 43. If youre a trump supporter youre saying some damage not horrendous. This is one poll. On this day in 2012, 23 days out president obama was plus one. The debates were later in that campaign and on the date of the third debate, romney was plus one. So as we look at these margins yes thats a closer race than some of the other polls show. If its four points nationally on election day do we have any doubts that thats a clinton win . No. Battleground states, Trump Campaign is targeting 11 battleground states and shes winning in ten of them. The only one hes winning the iowa. Hes up by three points. Ohio, nevada, florida, ohio they are within three points. But for the most part shes ahead in ten battleground states. Well go seat by state next. Republican party worried. First a donald trump tweet this morning calls it a hit job by a boring and unfunny show. Heres saturday night lives take on the many awkward moments in the second president ial debate. Cant deny you coverage. Number two, no lifetime limits which is a big deal if you have Serious Health problems. And number three sorry. 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Are we seeing the end of Republican Party as we know it. Republicans are worried about loses to senate but what was unthinkable a week or two. Positive losing their House Majority as well. But its bigger than that. The Republican Party has giant problems attracting africanamericans and latinos. Democrats sense an opportunity to take Donald Trumps words and his alleged conduct and make the gop pay a lasting price for them. Im glad that some of them now said wow this is really bad. I guess we need to we need to walk away. But if youre doing it just for political expedincy thats not enough. Its difficult choices when youre a republican. Depends on what state youre in. In some places within states depends on what Congressional District youre in. Before it was what was trumps numbers in the polls. A lot of republicans are having to listen to what trump said on that access Hollywood Tape to the researchers going back and finding all the degrading things he said about women. And they are looking, i dont mean forget all that but set aside they are looking at their own survival and making choice. I dont envy these republicans because they are in a real bind right now. Trump supporters are coming from within the Republican Party for the most part and if youre a senator in a competitive race right now you have to make a calculation. If you step away from donald trump will those voters just not vote for you . Will they vote for a thirdparty candidate . Its a realtime choice for them. More broadly republicans do have to decide what kind of party do they want to be going forward. Their loss with africanamericans and hispanics are built on years of rhetoric that has and policy positions that have turned off those voters. If they lose africanamericans, hispanics and consistently lose a majority of women, very difficult to see how youre a National Party at that point. As an ageing white guy, let me just say there are not enough of us. Thank you. I dont mean this to be flip in the sense that go census. Gov dont believe it if youre a conservative. Walk around any neighborhood in america. You cant put this geni back in the bottle. The Republican Party doesnt have a donald trump challenge theyve voter challenge and thats to say he isnt there its his voter and his supporters and you see that with the contortions. Thats their issue after the election how do you construct a National Majority consolidation when a portion of your base, the trump base, is seen as frankly deplorable to borrow a phrase by much of the country for their views on issues like race. Its a very tough issue. People like rob portman and roy blount and rubio, mainstream, they cant win statewide elections if they dont have the trump supporters. I dont think you can exaggerate how much Republican Leaders are irritated with him. He diminished our party and our candidates and doesnt believe in anything most republicans believe. He needs to go down the rotting ship he built. Where do those voters go and what do they do on january 21st. What happens to the Republican Party if they lose a third consecutive election. There are two hopes in the immediate future for the gop. One that people consider donald trump such an anomaly they dont think of him as the gop. President obama has done the gop a favor by referring to him in that way as a separate phenomenon. Hes changed his tune with good reason because he wants the gop to stick with donald trump and some of it deserves to. The other hope is one party doesnt like oneparty rule. And in 2016 you may see historic ticket splitting weve never seen before. But the future in earning these votes of many americans, what was an uphill battle is now mt. Everest. The autopsy after 2012 we needed to get voters especially latinos nonwhite voters to vote for us. Three weeks is a lot of time. To this points paul ryan is the speaker of the house. Highest elected republican in the land. Hes endorsed donald trump but wont appear with him. Paul ryan went home to wisconsin did a big meeting with college republicans, gave a speech, took some questions not once did he mention the name donald trump. The Republican Partys president ial nominee. Heres a little bit of what he said. Theres a place where the government twists the law and the constitution itself to suit its purposes. Its a place where liberty is always under assault. Were passion, the very stuff of life is extinguished. Thats the american Hillary Clinton wants. And if given control of washington, if given control of congress, it is the kind of america she will stop at nothing to have. So hes not making a case for trump hes making a case keep the congress in rehands. I want to get this in before we have to get to a break. Rub, hes running statewide in florida. Most people think hes in a good election. Watch the end of this ad where marco rubio tries to lead the the needle without dising trump. Our economy is hurting. Terror threats are rising. America faces a very uncertain future. Patrick murphy just too risky for florida. Patrick murphy is his opponent. But he shows both clinton and trump and says america faces an uncertain future. As a voter who is riskier trump or clinton. Hes leaving the choice open to you. Paul ryans comments are so fascinating. His staff pushes back anthony but paul ryan is all but conceding that Hillary Clinton will be president. Talking openly to make sure the congress doesnt go fully to the democrats. Thats extraordinary that at this point in a race in a relatively competitive race that the Top Republicans are all conceding his candidate will lose. That speech in many ways was a lament on Donald Trumps candidacy. Paul ryan dauks about a dark dismal election. People talk about Hillary Clinton. They talk about the candidate who is out there saying this will be a rigged election and talking about federal judges who are mexican. To that point speaker ryan put out a statement saying hes fully confident that the states will administer the election in a competent way. Disagreeing with trump. Everybody sit night before the first debate the map was the tilting Donald Trumps way. But it looks very different in advance of the third and final debate. Take our inside politics quiz. Can you be