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A dangerous impact. back to politics now and hillary clinton and donald trump likely needing to rewrite attack lines for tomorrow nights presidential debate right now. the hot mike audio which surfaced yesterday of donald trump making remarks about women in 2005 may become a major vocal point. presidential historian and author of presidential debates "risky business on the campaign trail," alan, wukelcome to you. how significant do you think this hot mike audio will affect tomorrow nights deba...

Sort of threw him under the bus. im sure the trump campaign is not happy with that debate. >> still nearly everyone says mike pence won the vp debate and tim kaine lost. unless kaines goal was not a blue ribbon. as "the washington post" put it this morning kaines mission was to goad pence in compelling sound bites that the clinton camp would, quote, weaponize. so lets talk about that. with me now patricia murphy a columnist for the daily beast and roll call and greg bluestein for the atlanta jou...

You never know whats going to happen in this election. you have clinton and trump testing the waters for different attack lines that they may use in this next big debate on sunday, right? well, donald trump just got a gift from the clinton campaign. they have a new great surrogate, as theyre calling him. you know who it is? former president bill clinton. why? were going to tell you. good to have you both here. lets play what former president bill clinton said about obama care out. >> hes got thi...

Dynamic were seeing occurring there. but i think faith is going to come down to a piece of this. and then sort of just their general demeanors. theyre very different in how they work with the crowd, in terms of how they speak about issues. so i think that thats going to be sort of what comes down in terms of voters minds and how they make their decision. >> staying on trump for a moment. hes not backing down on attacking former president bill clinton for his past indiscretions. how many are thes...

Utterly defeat isis. >> that was ted cruz trading his attack lines on hillary clinton and hes not alone. >> no, hes not. still ahead, were going to hear from governors christie and jeb bush and the presidential contenders are going to be attacking some of the biggest issues facing the day. >> from surveillance to a tax code that all need work, those conversations are straight ahead. the future belongs to the fast. and to help you accelerate, weve created a new company... one totally focused on w...

>> it gives her the ability to say youre a sexist for saying it. she says it and she is good at it. she has the best attack lines. >> shes good at it and not just because shes a woman. >> she will not be on the ticket because she comes from california. >> not even as a vp? >> no. >> and the fact that were not winning california. >> pat, do you disagree? >> let me say, i think she could be for this reason. in recent years, its been who can help me the most, not just in the states. that doesnt see...

Background and not taken those swings we had expected him to. we should note he and cruz are going for the same voters. there is a risk of alienating the people who like ted cruz by coming out swinging too hard. he is homing in on a few attack lines. one is the evangelical faith saying not many evangelicals come out of cuba. we saw him do that successfully with ben carson, questioning his evangelical roots. not clear how successful he might be with ted cruz. homing in on his senate record and th...

Some of these issues, for example, carpet bomb isis. but the only budget hes ever voted for in his time in the senate is a budget that cut defend spending more than barack obama proposes we cut it. when he has to choose of defense and the isolationist tendencies he seems to side with the tendencies. it is not personal. >> that was rubio talking about cruz on "meet the press." what do you anticipate for tomorrow night? >> reporter: i think you are going to see this cruz versus rubio and potential...

And i like him. hes been so nice to me. i could say anything, and he said, i agree, i agree. but i think the time will come to an end pretty soon. >> trump got some good news today. a brand-new national poll shows him with his largest lead of the campaign to date, registering 41% support in a monmouth university survey. for the latest im joined by katy tur, kasie hunt, outside the venetian hotel in las vegas. beautiful backdrop for the debate tomorrow night. katy, ill start with you, what is the...

Cruz has trumped the donald. cruz leads donald trump by ten points. trump said this morning hes ready for a fight. >> i expect to get it on because im leading by a lot. >> nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker is joining us with more on this. another good day to you. we see cruz leading in iowa now. how much is he gaining nationally? >> nationally he is catching up to donald trump as well. another headline today. according to our latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, just out t...