For example, unless trump could marginalize a vulgar tape exposure in tonights debate, he will likely lose the election. Mr. Trump must somehow redeem himself in 90 minutes, a tough challenge to say the lead because he is essentially alone. If any public person defends trump, they will be branded as female haters by the media. That is why you are seeing so many republicans bailing on mr. Trump. As for the candidate himself, pointing out past dubious behavior on the part of the clintons will not be enough. He must persuade the voters that he is worthy of the top job. Not that his opponent is not worthy. The president ial campaign has been horrendous. Both Political Parties have enormous problems and those are reflected by the candidates. Think back to jfk, reagan and truman and bush the older, these are men who engenders respect. It is true that the ideological press and the presence of social media make it almost impossible for candidates these days to maintain positive images or to survive big mistakes. The constant pounding they receive has diminished both of them in front of the folks. Every misstep and character flaw becomes a times square billboard. In my lifetime ive never seen political hatred like this. The result, few americans feel good about the president ial election. Talking points now believes that Many Americans will sit the vote out. The experience crushed by the nastiness of it all. As for tonight, it is trumps last chance to stop the bleeding if he does not secretary clinton will win and that is the memo. Now joining us from st. Louis, the site of tonights day, from the boston globe and from washington, bob cusick, editor of the hill magazine. And right this moment, mr. Trump is holding a press conference with some of the women who alleged that bill clinton abused them, rape them, whatever it may be. It is clear, as carl cameron just reported, that there trump is not going out quietly. He will turn accusations against him into accusations that Hillary Clinton aided and abetted horrendous conduct. In your opinion, is that going to be effective this evening . No, bill, i dont think so. I agree with your talking point. I think people are tired of the negativity. They want to be uplifted. Trump has a lot of areas to talk about. Policy, talk about the fbi, email scandal, he could talk about isis, i think bringing up these women, especially in this format, that is not going to get him more votes, bill. But mr. Cusick, lets be fair, he is going to get pounded by the moderators and by Hillary Clinton so how would he defend himself other than throwing himself on the mercy of the court, which i assume hell do and issue another apology. But if he continues, doesnt he have to have this as a defense to fall back on . I dont think so. I think his actions had nothing to do with bill clinton and he needs to say i apologize and be very contrite. We havent seen that yet. Because he apologized but has a but. But bill clinton did this and that. Have a blanket apology and then lets say lets talk about the issues people care about, x, y and z. Miss lynnski how dough see it. Agree with your talking point that this will cause people to want to stay home. Particularly the female republicans who trump so desperately needs if he wanted to add to the numbers of people supporting him and voting for him on election day. And like you said, it was a watching that video was just abhorrent. And sort of a nonapology added to it early on saturday morning. And to have this press conference i mean, lets remember Hillary Clinton was never more popular than when those the Monica Lewinsky allegations were being made. This is the type of thing that humanizes her and makes the country feel sorry for her. So trumps play here is sort of it is not making a lot of strategic political sense. And it is not doing what he needs to do to get female voters on his side. All right. Now do you believe, mr. Cusak, that the American Public we are not talking about the people who will vote for Hillary Clinton or despite trump, we are not talk about the media, they will hate trump no matter what, but the undecided people, the ones that are arent really in either camp, they dont like either of them, do you think they would forgive donald trump for this . I think it depends on her performance tonight, bill. I think it is late in the game. He has to hit a home run. If he doesnt hit a home run tonight, there is more republicans who abandon him band wagon. They are really concerned, the ones i talked to, about the control of the senate and even control of the house, though it is likely republicans will control the house. Sure. You are looking at something that if the republican candidate gets thumped, and loses 40 out of 50 states, it is inevitable that the parties will suffer. He needs a grand slam, i would say. More than a home run. I would say home run, grand slam and all of that. But it is the people watching that are going to make that decision. Not the pinheads well not you two, but me. I could say it is a home run or whatever, but that doesnt matter. It is the people at home, are they going to forgive donald trump or not. And the other qstion is mostly sunny lynnski, is the loathing for Hillary Clinton and lets face it, it is there it is there, oh, yeah. A Popular Democratic candidate, and it wouldnt be a race right now. It wouldnt be a race. Sure. Sure. Absolutely right. So the loathing for her, is that going to override the tape . I mean, i dont think so in this particular case, that tape for a woman to watch that tape, it hits so viscerally. Particularly when you see him talking about that woman and then going out and showing a completely different face to her. And i think that doesnt it doesnt engender any love for Hillary Clinton. And i think what you said in the beginning is right. And it makes women just want to stay home and that is what you have to worry about. There is no doubt in my mind this is a low turnout. Particularly west of the mississippi. I think if things dont change radically they could call this election within the hour. So 9 00 eastern time, it will be over. But but there is that factor, mr. Cusick, of the republicans saying, look, im not going to vote for Hillary Clinton, i wont vote for anybody. There is a lot of people walking in there, i wont vote for president , ill vote for senator or congress but im not voting for president. People will write in votes. Now can trump do this . Yes, he could still do this. But it really is the biggest night of his political life. Hes never faced this. And republican in the republican and in the republican primary he led wire to wire and he is down in the big controversy. Well see what the polling says. And you say can he do this. And hes doing this now on the attack. He wouldnt have these women in a press conference if he wasnt going to use this tonight. He is going to use this. Last word . Absolutely. I think what he would need to show though make that grand slam is some sort of contrition that weve never seen before from trump. And that press conference he just held does not send any sort of signal that element of contrition is there. So well well sees than an hour whether he throws himself on the mercy of the court. I appreciate you coming on on sunday. Next, Charles Krauthammer has some thoughts. And were back right after this. Our eyes they have a 200degree range of sight which is good for me hey and bad for the barkley twins. Take care of all your most important parts with centrum. Upgraded to our most d3 ever. Whether its connecting one of or bringing wifi to 65,000 fans. Campuses. Businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink. Lets just get a sandwich or something. Or something . You dont just graduate from medical school, or something. And we dont just pull smoked chicken, bake fresh foccacia and handslice avocado. Theres nothing or something about it. During this predebate issue of the factor. And joining us Charles Krauthammer. And you said that you believe that donald trump is going to go scorched earth in the debate and im sure you didnt know this, about 45 minutes after you said that, trump has a press conference with four women who allege that bill clinton abused them and Hillary Clinton enabled the abuse. So you are an oracle. So now will he carry that over to the debate and make that the central part of his presentation . Of course he will. In this press conference hes doing is the setup for it and the reason hes going there is that trump has no option. Normal politicians would have two options. One is sincere contrition and avoid the subject, deflect, go on to things where you are strong and exploit hillarys revelations about her twofacedness that comes out of the ref lightnivelations about friday. But trump is not a normal politician. Two reasons. Number one, he cannot fake contrition well enough for it to be believable. It would have to be an act and hes incapable of it. If you saw his televised apologies since the tape release, they look like a hostage tape until the part where he attacks the clintons and then you could see the fire in his eyes. Let me stop you there. As a psychiatrist, are you saying that trump is incapable of contrition . Bill, ive told you this 50 times. I am a psychiatrist, but i do not play one on television. As a layman, watching him, you watch the tape where he says i apologize and you know hes reading it. So that is number one. Incapable of. And he never has been contrite for a year and a half. Hes not going to start now. But the second reason is even stronger. And it has to do with this particular offense. He feels hes being wronged. He feels hes being singled out. He feels that there is a double standard. He feels that this is what guys always do and as he said himself, bill clinton has done worse on the golf course. So why am i being crucified . His attack today was on who . It was on republicans for being hypocrites. He is not going to apologize with any sincerity for an offense that he doesnt believe is an offense. But you do expect him to at least mouth the words yes. Okay. And then he lo move on very quickly to attack. And as i said in the first segment, it is the American People who will decide whether trump is destroyed or not after watching this evening. But there is something and i brought this up on friday when this story first broke. Bill clinton and all of the polls, hes a very popular politician to this day. Hes in the 60s in some of the polls favorablity, all right. So it looks like the American Public has forgiven him for his toddry behavior based on his performance in office. Would that be a correct assessment . Absolutely. He routed the gop in 98 and he was right in the middle of it. So the American Public at this juncture is willing to overlook these bad things, personal bad things that politicians do for a greater political goal . So are we still there . Are we still in that category . Do you believe the American Public is going to forgive trump . Look, bill clinton is in a class by himself. Hes one of the great political charmers of alltime. So he had two things going for him. Number one, he had this charming personality, almost like the loveable rogue. That was his image. And he played it very well. The second thing is he had a successful presidency. The country was experiencing prosperous but peace, this was after the cold war and prosperity. There was a tranquillity in the world and at home unlike any since the end of the Second World War and it was on his watch, you could attribute it to him or not. That doesnt matter. But that explains why he was given a pass. These were unique circumstances for any other politicians, a tape like this, that is doomsday. Okay. So basically what you are saying then is that trump is doomed, because he is going to attack, all right, in your opinion he is not going to be contrite enough to have americans say oh, we really believe him or whatever, so hes not going to be able to come out of this tonight with any momentum. Unless hes able to lure hillary the way she lured him in the first debate by making her lose her cool. Is that possible . Very unlikely. Shes experienced, shes done dozens of debates. She doesnt lose her cool in public. And that is not her style. But if he can if he gets her into the mud, that is his only hope, is to do this scourged earth, the Nuclear Option and he is at deaf com three right now and if they could engage in a mud fight and in a sense he wins because at least he evens the playing field. I dont think that is likely but if there is a strategy behind that is it. And he feels angry right now, that is the strategy. 30 seconds, have you ever seen a president ial race this revolting . No. And i hope i never see another one. And im with you right away. Charles krauthammer. Directly ahead, dr. Austin on whether Hillary Clinton has vulnerabilities tonight. And bob word ward has the inside story on the trump audio tape reporting from the Washington Post. Moments away. Youre not a cook, if you dont cook. Youre not a firefighter, if you dont fight fires. Or a coach, if you dont coach. And you cant be our leader, if you dont lead. 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Just another day at norfolk southern. 2016 segment tonight with the debate about 45 minutes away, lets bring in the doctor, the former member of the Obama Administration from chicago. Okay, so it is all about trump, everybody is locked in on trump. Any kind of audio sexting is going to override anything else. I mean that is just the way of the world. However, i want your opinion on vulnerabilities from Hillary Clintons side and im just going to throw out one. The wikileaks leak quoted from her speeches to fat cat wall street people and she says at one point, you know i favor open trade and open borders. Now a lot of people suspected that that is what she did, even though she said the opposite. Is Something Like that going to hurt her. I dont think so. Certainly not in this debate. Because she just needs to she doesnt even need to get a hit. She just needs to not be beaned by the pitch and everything is fine for her because i think trump is going to be throwing i would say the kitchen sink. He will try to flush everything he can down the toilet and then throw the toilet at her and then in a context like that, i think, a. , the fact that the government is safing this is coming from the russians so it is cherry picked and you dont know what the context was, and b. , it is going to be Hillary Clinton helps rapist, Hillary Clinton is a criminal, i wouldnt be surprised if he brings up vince foster. If he is yelling and unhunged, i dont think anything will stick because he will try to throw it all. Now, if you were advising secretary clinton tonight, and you tell her, look, expect trump to bring up your husbands infidelities and the press conference where four women accused him of whatever, expect that. Do you say to Hillary Clinton, what . How does she answer that . Look, i dont totally know but what i would say is when these scandals came up in the government, i think there are a lot of people who are very sympathetic to Hillary Clinton having to go through be the suffering spouse as you are going through a kind of a scandal of that nature, and i just do not see how trump and that was some years ago. I mean, clearly the social mores have changes since then and i just dont see well what if this could be as bad as me. This could absolutely happen. One of the folks because questions are going to come from the folks. Yes. One of the folks says, hey, you know, you said some bad things about paula jones and juanita broad drick and kathryn woolly and Monica Lewinsky and you used some terrible phrases to describe them. Do you regret that now and how could you attack trump if you did these things to other women . It that question could absolutely be asked and how could she answer that. I agree with that. But i think you have not really seen Hillary Clinton attacking trump. No, but im talking about the the Republican Party attack. The question that i just posed from some woman you know who is there and so how does she answer that. I think she would say some combination of, as you know, the Republican Party was attacking my husband. In some of the cases and i think she probably would express some regret. I have no doubt they will have a distilled line that she says and it would be smart and acceptable. If she said, look, i was emotionally and i was wrong to do it and im sorry i did it and Something Like that. But that question but just remember, bill, a lot several of the women when they made the accusations, they were being sponsored, their legal cases were being paid for by the president s family. That is why we dont do that. I mean, we dont do it. We dont get into the swap. We dont get into any of this, on either side. On friday, when t