to follow him everywhere he goes. doing all he can to hit the delete button on the damaging hot mike moment, donald trump is hammering hillary clinton's e-mail scandal every chance he gets. >> the election of hillary clinton would lead, in my opinion, to the almost total destruction of our country as we know it. >> reporter: with a nod to his current free-fall in the polls he pointed to new disclosures of clinton e-mails stolen by wikileaks and called on close to investigate his rival even if he goes down in defeat. >> whether i win, lose or draw, i am ashamed of what's happened to our country, and so are you. >> reporter: trump complains he is at a disadvantage after resent defections of top republicans like paul ryan and john mccain who bolted after tape-gate. >> especially when you have the leaders not putting their weight behind the people. wouldn't you think that paul ryan would call and say, good going?