Fighting Mud With News Today

Supporters in new hampshire at a speech meant to highlight the states drug problem. >> i think shes actually getting pumped up, you want to know -- shes getting pumped, you understand. we should take a drug test prior, because i dont know whats going on with her. at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning. and at the end it was, like, oh, take me down. she could barely reach her car. >> nbcs hallie jackson is following the trump campaign from washington, d.c. goo...

Hope for a voter suppressed turnout. right? independents -- has the campaign given up trying to sway independents? >> reporter: it depends who you talk to. i have one source who tells me that the campaign is looking at the undecided voter, the swing voter, realizing the writing is on the wall here. that said, the strategy is to deploy mud. its fighting mud with mud is the stated motto within the campaign. this idea that trump will continue to go after not just hillary clinton but bill clinton as...

Joining me now is one of the biographers, michael dantonio. michael, with a big welcome to you. lets look at what you and the other biographers have suggested. that is that trump will be dangerous during the final stretch of the election. why? what makes you think that? >> he comes from a long line of flame throwers. this is a person who will reach for any clot of mud available to him and fling it if he feels threatened or like a loss is on the horizon. the idea of losing is so horrifying for do...

He said -- im paraphrasing here, im taking hits for you. hes sort of showing himself to be in some ways a martyr. listen to this sound bite. >> they knew they would throw every lie they could at me and my family and my loved ones. they knew they would stop at nothing to try to stop me. but i never knew as bad as it would be, i never knew it would be this vile, that it would be this bad, that it would be this vicious. nevertheless, i take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you. >> reporter...