fred? thank you so much, jim. we have so much more straight ahead in the next hour of the news room, which begins right now. hello again. thank you for joining us. i m fredricka whitfield. donald trump continues his full on attack of the eight women now accusing him of sexual misconduct and the journalist reporting the stories. trump is speaking right now at a rally in portsmouth, new hampshire. take a listen to what he said a few minutes ago. these allegations have been, many of them already proven so false. and, in fact, the other one with people magazine. the butler said it was a total lie. remember the butler? the butler said it was a total lie. we can t let them get away with this, folks. we kncan t. total lies you have been seeing. total lies. we are going to stop it. we are not going to back down. and remember this, it s a rigged election because you have phony people coming up with phony allegations with no witnesses, whatsoever from 20 years ago, 30 years ago
trump went after paul ryan on the o reilly factor. i wouldn t want to be in a fox hole with a lot of these people. that i can tell you. but mccain is a brave man. including ryan. trump is about to take the stage for the second time today in the state of florida, this is what he said earlier today. wouldn t you think paul ryan would call and say good going in front of just about the largest audience for a second-night debate in the history of the country. so you d think they d say great going, don, let s go, let s beat this crook, she s a crook. let s beat her. we have to stop him. no, he doesn t do that. there s a whole deal going on there. you know, there s a whole deal going on, we ll figure it out. i always figure things out. but there s a whole sinister deal going on. let s go to manu raju our political reporter. manu, before we get to the threats to speaker ryan s job i want to talk about this source who has told you there was a private call between pro
distance themselves from the nominee. i have been openly very critical of policy positions that donald trump has taken. reporter: as others are sticking by his side and celebrating his intraparty attacks. we need a donald trump to show some authoritarian power in our country and bring back the rule of law. reporter: the clinton campaign moving swiftly to capitalize on the republican revolt. rolling out the democratic party s biggest names to turn out the vote. you can t repeatedly denounce what is said by someone. and then say, but i m still going to endorse them to be the most powerful person on the planet. your vote really, really, really counts. you can consider me as an exhibit a of that truth. reporter: as trump s team pivots to a new strategy aimed at driving down clinton s favorability numbers. in hopes of keeping democratic voters home. now, in a private fund-raise er yesterday in san antonio trump blaming republicans for not helping his campaign. report
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