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I would have thought shed be better prepared for this debate. ail heard all week, wolf, is that the town hall format is really great for her. whereas we know its our sweet spot because donald trump is out there every single day engaging with voters. he loves that. hes at the rallies. hes at the smaller forum round tables. hes at his own town halls. he clearly won the debate tonight why? because if you watched anybodys shows this whole weekend weve just been left for dead, its all over, why even ...

What youre saying. youre very loyal to donald trump. but take a look. were going to put up on the screen a whole list of members of -- all republicans, members of congress, senators, governors, who in the past 24 hours as a result of this leaked videotape have abandoned the republican nominee. its a much bigger list than were even showing right now, but they are really quickly, almost every few minutes, another member of congress, another senator, they come out and say they can no longer support...

>> wait. >> jeffly lord, we are just learning that senator rob portman of ohio withdrawn endorsement, support of donald trump. thats a big loss in a key battleground state like ohio. we say it all time. no republican has ever won the white house without ohio. >> well, yeah. the question you have to ask yourself is will the trump supporters in ohio take it out on rob portman? this cuts both ways here for the members of congress and governors who are running for election. if they abandon the nomin...

Im told by our sources, is considering how to handle the future of their relationship with trump for the next month. trump relies on the rnc not only for his ground game in states but hes relying on them financially. right now, we know the rnc and the trump campaign have a legal agreement for joint fund-raising. those victory funds we keep hearing about in different states around the country. but my gop sources have told me today that theres now an option under consideration to change that relat...

Plank in your platform? >> no. not at all. im running as myself and not on every -- in the libertarian platform and ran as a republican i never supported the partys movement conservative positions on abortion and gay rights. you may recall i was an outlier as a liberal on abortion and gay rights and gay marriage for many years in the republican party. and, you know, gary and i have had this conversation many times. well take the good in the republican party platform -- im sorry. the libertarian ...

Think oar thinking about what kind of image is the republican party going to have. probably thinking about their own political fortunes, as well, wolf and factors come to play. theres disagreement and not cover over that fact. there is. >> enormous disagreement. from the democrats perspective, supporter of hillary clinton, patty, how do you see the handling of this crisis by donald trump? >> i think its been abysmal, frankly. i think his apologies made the situation worse. his first apology, the...

Conservative circles that this happens to every republican nominee, we reach a certain point and a crisis that, you know, paints them as terrible people. for mitt romney, that steelworkers wife and suppo supposedly pulled the insurance on. dog on the roof. this kind of thing. thats a belief that any republican nominee faces something like this, this is the donald trump version of it. >> remember the republicans some of them did to the democratic nominee in 2008 and 2012. that would have been bar...

Democrats right now, wolf, clinton campaign official tells me right now that they have not shifted any of their resources into different states right now given the situation. theyre assessing the situation right now but theyre keeping the game plan in place and continuing to monitor it and told me that they sold the surrogates, quietly today, you can talk about this if you want. you can react if you want. do not go overboard. allow the republican party and allow republicans right now to try to t...

The last thing ill say to you, wolf, we talked about whether or not paul ryan is going to be on the stage still with donald trump tomorrow. its a unity event, lots of wisconsin republicans are going to be there. and i just got a text back from somebody said its still up this the air. >> up the air, not a strong vote of confidence, at least not yet. well see what happens in wisconsin tomorrow. everyone, stand by. well continue our breaking news coverage on this political bombshell. and the hurric...