Should be ashamed of yourself. Okay, donald. I know youre in to big diversion tonight. Anything to avoid talking about your campaign and the way its exploding, and the way republicans are leaving you. These morning the House Speaker paul ryan holding a Conference Call with fellow House Republicans. The topic, the bombshell taps of trumps lewd and sexually aggressive comments just as multiple sources tell us ryan is sticking with the partys nominee at least for now. One thing we do know, mike pence, he says hes going to stay on the ticket with trump. Today he will campaign in North Carolina as trump focuses on pennsylvania. A crucial swing state. The democrats are hitting michigan, ohio, and colorado. Oh, we have a lot to cover this morning. Including new information about the Republican HouseConference Call just two hours away now. Cnns senior political reporter manu raju live in st. Louis with all of that. Good morning. Good morning, carol. Republicans are assessing the strength of Donald Trumps debate performance. Just in a couple of hours republicans will hold that private Conference Call and determine whether or not more republicans will jump ship like we saw a number do over the weekend. One person in particular, House Speaker paul ryan. I am told by a ryan official ryans position at this time. N meaning that he is still supporting donald trump at this moment. Of course all this comes after that very, very contentious bitter debate performance, and when donald trump right now trying to make sure that it was enough to salvage his campaign. Donald trump entered last nights debate with one major goal. To end the crisis engulfing his campaign. After a tape of his vulgar remarks about groping women from 2005 was uncovered. This was locker room talk. Im not proud of it. I apologized to my family. I apologized to the American People. Reporter Cnns Anderson Cooper pressing trump over his crude comments about forcing himself on women. Trump denying he ever actually did that. I have Great Respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than i do. So for the record youre saying you never did that. Frankly, you hear these things. Theyre said. And i was embarrassed by it, but i have tremendous respect for women. And women have respect for me. Have you ever done those things . And i will tell you, no i have not. Reporter Hillary Clinton linking the tape to his past controversial rhetoric. I said starting back in june that he was not fit to be president and commander in chief. This is who donald trump is. But its not only women and its not only this video that raises questions about his fitness to be our president. Because he has also targeted immigrants, africanamericans, latinos, people with disabilities, p. O. W. S, muslims and so many others. Reporter as he long threatened, trump rehashed old clinton controversies. Bringing to the debate three women who accused bill clinton of Sexual Misconduct in the 1990s. If you look at bill clinton, far worse. Mine are words, his were action. I am reminded of what my friend, michelle obama, reminded us all. When they go low, you go high. Reporter trump in an extraordinary remark threatening to jail clinton if he becomes president over her handling of classified material on her private email server as secretary of state. If i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Its just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. Because youd be in jail. Reporter trump frequently interrupting clinton throughout the heated exchange. Its just not true. And, so, please, go to you didnt delete them. Allow her to respond, please. Personal email. Not official. 33,000 . Well we turned over 35,000. Oh, yeah. What about the over 15,000 . Please allow her to respond. She didnt talk while you talked. Reporter clinton becoming visibly frustrated. Okay, donald. I know youre into big diversion tonight, anything to avoid talking about your campaign, and the way its exploding, and the way republicans are leaving you. Reporter trump, at times, seemingly uncomfortable. Pacing around the stage and hovering over clinton. The billionaire admitting that he wrote off nearly 1 billion in losses. And didnt pay federal income taxes in some years. Did you use that 916 million loss to avoid paying personal federal income taxes . Of course i dont. Of course i dont. Reporter trump making a stunning admission when pressed about governor mike pence. Flatly contradicting his running mates call to use military force in syria. He and i havent spoken and i disagree. I disagree. You disagree with your running mate. To knock out isis. Reporter clinton found herself on the defensive, as well. Over leaked transcripts of her speeches to banks. Including one where she talked about having different positions publicly and privately. As i recall, that was something i said about Abraham Lincoln. President lincoln was trying to convince some people he used some arguments. Convincing other people he used other arguments. She lied. Now shes blaming the lie on the late, great, Abraham Lincoln. Thats one that i havent reporter the ugly tone of this debate which started with the candidates re2350using to shake hands. Ended by both sharing what they respect about each other. His children are incredibly able and devoted and i think that says a lot about donald. She doesnt quit. She doesnt give up. I respect that. I tell it like it is. Shes a fighter. Now in the aftermath of the release of that access Hollywood Video in which donald trump is boasting about groping women, there was a lot of speculation about what his running mate mike pence would do. Of course mike pence canceled an appearing event on saturday in wisconsin because of the controversy of Donald Trumps remarks. But speaking just a few moments ago to our colleague Alisyn Camerota on new day mike pence made it clear that he never considered dropping off the ticket. Its absolutely false. To suggest that at any point in time we considered dropping off this ticket. Its the greatest honor of my life to have been nominated by my party to be the next Vice President of the United States of america. Look, politics is a very tough business. I get that. This is my first time, alisyn, at the national level. And the fact is that, you know, i as i said on saturday, you know, i couldnt condone, i couldnt defend those raremarksi encouraged donald trump on friday to apologize for them. He did. Now in a lot of ways, carol, that really is a signal to the rest of the republican party, mike pence wanting to get the Party Back Together again, after such a damaging weekend. And also send a signal to his former House Republican colleagues that maybe its not time to jump ship. Give donald trump another chance and he can right the ship going forward, and that may be one reason why, too, that paul ryan also at this moment still supporting donald trump. Carol . All right. Manu raju reporting live from st. Louis. Thanks so much. Lets talk about all of this with me now lynn sweet Washington Bureau chief of the chicago sun times, Ron Brownstein a cnn senior political analyst and Senior Editor for the atlantic, cnns politics executive editor mark preston, and era lewis, a senior political commentator. Welcome to all of you. Whew. Okay. So errol, the Republican Leadership will hold this conference on trump in just about two hours, and apparently trump needed to stop the bleeding. Did he do that last night . I think he did. And as far as being in freefall, remember there was a lot of commentary right up until the debate yesterday about whether or not they would take extraordinary means to try and pressure him out of the race. Whether or not there would be more defections, people withdrawing their endorsement. Whether or not he could, in fact, continue at all effectively with the campaign. This discussion now, i think, is going to have a different tone because of his performance last night. On the other hand, its a little too early to start popping champagne at trump tower because youve got some real questions about how much in the way of resources theyre really going to commit to the president ial side of the Fall Campaign as opposed to all of the down ballot races that theyre so concerned about. Heres the thing, mark. So republicans were very upset that donald trump was going to bring these three Clinton Accusers to the debate. The original plan, by the way, according to Rudy Giuliani this morning was to put those Clinton Accusers in the vip box so they would have to shake hands with bill clinton. So what does trump do . He does this live facebook thing with these three accusers, right, and then he invites them to the debate, and you know, the, i guess the Debate Commission didnt want them in the vip box so they sat where they sat. Right. How did he stop the bleeding in that sense . Well, errols right in the fact that were not having gushing blood coming out right now. I mean the fact is, dont expect paul ryan to come out the bleeding to a trickle . Listen, im of the mindset that donald trump has bled out so much right now that its almost impossible for him to win the election. If you look at the electoral map right now what he needs to do, and quite frankly what Hillary Clinton needs to do over the next 30 or so days, is to reach out to the middle, specifically. I know we talk a lot about that. What is the middle . The middle is the suburbs and exburbs of philadelphia. Its women voters who are on the fence. White male voters that theyve been going back and forth on the College Educated white male voters. Were also seeing that in major cities in florida as well. Look, donald trump just put it simply, he wins ohio, wins North Carolina, wins needs to win florida. On top of that he will even need to win pennsylvania or virginia to win the election. Okay. Thats hard. So just on the topic of women in those states because he needs women right lynn sweet so, Anderson Cooper very pointedly asked donald trump about those comments that he made on the bus. And he said no i didnt grope anyone. It was locker room talk, he apologized again. And Hillary Clinton made quick work of that, right . Because she put out a campaign ad on this very thing this morning. Lets listen and then well talk. Describe kissing women without consent. No, i didnt say that at all. I dont think you understood what was sent. Start kissing them. Its like a magnet. This was locker room talk. Grabbing their genitals. Grab them by the [ bleep ] locker room talk. And when youre a star they let you do it. You can do anything. I didnt say that at all. I dont think you understood what was said. This was locker room talk. So, lynn, this web ad, and what trump said last night about those comments on the bus, did he stop the bleeding with female voters in suburban philadelphia, who are not sure about him at all . And dislikes the way he talks about women . My guess is, carol, theres nothing he said last night that would change a womans mind who was offended by this, and otherwise would have wanted to have been with trump, except that he didnt really seem to own up to it. Because heres the point, he was at work. He wasnt in a locker room. He was in a workplace. He was getting ready he was miked up, and the reason we have the tape is because he was going to do a show. He was experienced in television. Carol, we where hot miks all the time. You know that you need judgment for what you do. Thats another part of this. So, people i think on this one you dont need to be an expert in Foreign Policy or s. T. E. M. Education or intricacies of medicare and medicaid to understand that he was just trying to put a label on it, minimize it, and therefore try to dismiss it, and people see through that. Specifically i think the very woman whose votes he needs to win. So, so, ron, i mean, there was a republican exodus after these comments over the weekend. Right . So were all of those republicans now jump back on board because of what trump said at the debate last night . No. No. That was building. And just to put this in perspective. Were now talking about nearly onethird of republican senators and almost onethird of republican governors, saying they will not vote for their partys nominee. That is unprecedented. There has never been anything like that i believe in the history of the party. Not in 1964 with barry goldwater. Not even in 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt bolted the party after the renomination of William Howard taft. The dissension and the fracture was not as wide. Now will that cause mass defection among hardcore republican partisan voters . No, probably not. What it does do is contributes to the problem weve been talking about in the suburbs as weve talked about before, donald trump is the first republican ever at risk of losing College Educated white voters. It never happened in the history of polling going back to 1952 and if you look at pennsylvania which youve been talking about and the poll that came out yesterday the maris poll he is trailing not only by 34 points among College Educated white women which is an extraordinary number but perhaps even more extraordinary hes trailing by 15 points in pennsylvania among College Educated white men who usually vote very heavily republican, and i think those are the sort of voters who are getting the signal from all of this defection voters are usually lean republican that its okay in this in this instance not to go with the partiaries nominee because so many Leaders Within the party are doing so as well. Okay. Something else that trump said last night that that appeals greatly to his base in fact they were probably thrilled when he said it. He said he would open an investigation if he became president into Hillary Clintons email controversy, and he would send her to jail. Lets listen. If i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception, there has never been anything like it. Its just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. Because youd be in jail. Secretary clinton okay. So errol he said, so youd be in jail. Number one a president doesnt have the power to do that. Thats what the courts are for in the United States of america. Right . Right. But still, trumps core supporters would probably say yeah, go we heard some of that. Is that what independent voters want to do . Of course not. Presidency is open up this hearing . No, of course. In fact when you played that i was glad you got a little bit of the howl from the crowd because it reflects the howl we heard at the Republican National convention. It is an applause line. Purely emotional. Has nothing to do with the laws, the facts, nothing to do with anything really or anything thats likely to happen. It for people who are really worried about the election kind of and our politics going completely off the rails, it has a little echo of authoritarian rule. I dont know if thats a real wide concern right now. But, its, its showing what i think donald trump was doing most of last night which was trying to shore up his base, give them the red meat, give them their plauz line, whether or not its rational factual or anything else. I really unpleasant moment frankly. Okay you guys stick around. Im going to have to get a break in but i want to continue our conversation after the break because still to come, yeah there were accusations, ugly rhetoric. But it wasnt completely doom and gloom. Yes the candidates actually said nice things about each other. Well talk about that next. When i was a little kid, i made a deal with myself that i would never grow up. 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