this after that devastating video surfaced in the nastiest general election debate we've ever seen. let's begin the hour with my colleague, man raju, who's still in st. louis for us. manu raju, nice to see you. you tell me, what exactly did speaker ryan tell republican members today. >> reporter: the one thing he said he's going to be worried about for the next 29 days is saving the republican majorities in the house and the senate. not the white house. he made very clear that donald trump will have to defend himself. you know, he said he would not campaign with donald trump, which is not a huge surprise. he has not campaigned with donald trump at all this cycle. but he said more significant thing is that he's no longer going to defend donald trump. and paul ryan has defended donald trump time and again, especially in recent weeks. he was asked about the fact that donald trump may not have paid taxes for 18 years. he said that's not that big of a deal. i asked him a couple weeks ago