Track. Look at the clock there. It is now less than 25 days until americans head to the polls so both campaigns today blitzing the swing states. Trump is in north carolina. Pence hits florida. Bill clinton hits ohio and Chelsea Clinton is in pennsylvania. Hillary clinton is notably absent. We will discuss why in a moment. Lets begin with trumps response to the allegations. Cnn senior political reporter manu raju joins me live. Trumps camp vehementley denies the accusations but his running mate, mike pence, is the one out doing Network Interviews saying we have hard evidence and you will see that in a matter of hours. Thats what he said on the today show. Reporter yeah. Well see what it has to say. Its clearly an effort by donald trump to paint himself as the victim of an un rrelenting political and media establishment, the campaign trying to show themselves as the outsiders battling the insiders, also completely attacking these allegations saying they are completely false and vicious. Heres a little bit of what he had to say yesterday when he fired up supporters in a very fiery speech yesterday afternoon. These vicious claims about me of Inappropriate Conduct with women are totally and absolutely false. We already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time, very soon. Reporter so we will see what he has to say when he brings out this evidence, but i can tell you that republicans dont really know how to respond down ticket. They believe this race is spiraling out of control and they are trying to survive and control their own seats. Later today, paul ryan expected to address college republicans, the first time he will answer questions today. Well see if he addresses donald trump and these allegations. Manu raju from madison, wisconsin, thank you. We appreciate it. Multiple women have come forward, you have heard them. They detailed what they call Sexual Misconduct and unwanted advances at the hands of donald trump. One of them is a former miss usa contestant. She shared her story with don lemon last night. Listen. They lined us all up and trump went down the line, and he shook your hand and you know, looked you over, looked you up and down, head to toe. It was just checking everybody out. And you thought, you felt . I felt very dirty. It was very creepy. Its kind of like when youre at a bar and a creepy guy is checking you out. That was the experience for me. Donald trump and his campaign have staunchly denied all of the allegations brought against him, calling them quote, vicious reports, pure fiction and outright lies. For more on the allegations against donald trump, im joined by deb feyerick. These allegations span many years, many decades. One that has gotten the most attention, she did an interview with anderson last night, is from the 70s. Absolutely. Shes one of six women who cnn has confirmed were essentially the targets of unwanted attention by mr. Trump. The womans name is jessica leeds. She was 38 years old at the time. Donald trump would have been about 35. They were sit ting on an airlin together in first class. They began to talk. Then all of a sudden mr. Trump raised the arm rest and began to move towards her. This is her story. He was grabbing my breasts and trying to turn me towards him, and kissing me and then after a bit, thats when his hands started going i was wearing a skirt and his hands started going towards my knee and up my skirt, and thats when i said i dont need this and i got up is that literally what you said . I dont know if i said it out loud or but thats what you were thinking . I do remember thinking the guy in the other seat, why doesnt he say something. Do you know how long that went on for . Not real long. No. No. I would say just about, what, 15 minutes. Thats long enough. Thats a long time. Yeah. Now this woman, jessica leeds, had a second encounter with mr. Trump a couple years later, and she remembers it very, very vividly, as do many of the women who have made these allegations against him. Mr. Trump has no recollection of it but heres what miss leeds said happened at that time. I hand him the ticket for his table and he looks at me and he says i remember you. Youre the woman from the airplane. Now, he used another word. What did he say . Its obscene. Its obscene. I just i dont want to go there. You know, one of the reasons these women are now coming forward is because they watched the debate on sunday in which anderson asked mr. Trump whether in fact he this was just talk, whether any of this had ever materialized. And he said no, no, it was just talk. A lot of women stood up and they said huhuh, and the reaction has really been very immediate and very visceral as well. Trump has said he will sue the New York Times who First Published miss leeds story. The times said basically bring it on. Absolutely. Its not just the New York Times. Its the palm beach post. Its interesting because the New York Times general counsel wrote a letter basically saying the essence of a libel claim is the protection of ones reputation. Mr. Trump has bragged about his nonconsensual touching of women. No suit has been filed but threats have been made. Thank you. We appreciate it. We will talk about all of this. With me now to discuss it, democratic strategist and Hillary Clinton supporter Robert Zimmerman. Cnn political analyst, rebecca berg, National Political reporter for real clear politics. And david cantonese from u. S. News and world report and Scottie Nell Hughes who supports donald trump. Thank you for being here. Good morning. Yesterday, trump said he has evidence to disprove these allegations. Today on the morning shows, his running mate mike pence doubled down. Listen to what he told matt lauer on today. If theres a time to come up with that evidence and show us that evidence, this is the time. Has he shown you that evidence . Well, matt, i think its coming. Its coming in frankly probably in a matter of hours. I know melania trump, through her attorneys, has already reached out to one of the publications, people magazine, to call for a retraction. Thats different than showing us evidence. Well, just, you know, stay tuned. Theres more information coming forward. But donald trump has made it very clear that hes categorically denied these allegations. He cant be more definitive than that. Scottie nell, let me begin with you as a trump supporter. Categorical denials, yes. Evidence, no. We havent seen any evidence refuting these claims. We hear that that will come in a matter of hours. What kind of evidence do you think that could be, because as deb just reported, there are six different claims here. Well, unlike us talking about accusations, i as well like to have substance, i like to have facts. I think thats why were waiting on this evidence. You can google, you can start doing your research and you will see theres definitely some loopholes and some issues with some of these womens stories that we need to talk about. Lets talk through some of them. Well, like i said, its not my place to say because i have not seen what the trump team is actually reviewing. I have my own personal experience what are the loopholes . There are. What are they . What are they . This is my own personal experience. Miss usa even admitted when we were talking about miss arizona, even t beauty pageant winner admitted there were chaperones in the room. Isnt that the whole job of a chaperone what . Chaperones in the room. There were contestants and chaperones when mr. Trump entered the room. That is the sole job of a chaperone is to make sure inappropriate activities do not exist. You have to look at the timing of this. Are you saying because there were chaperones it didnt happen . Are you saying theyre lying . If a chaperone was in the room, she should have first of all, stopped it from happening. That is their sole job. More importantly it should have been made prominent, should have been made public. Something other than 20 something odd days before an election. Thats just one of them. Thats my own personal observation. Theres other evidence out there. Lets wait, lets actually deal in facts now, not pure accusations. We are in america. We are innocent until proven guilty. We are waiting for that evidence to come out. As soon as it does, i can guarantee it will be on cnn. Lets listen to what was said this morning, just a few hours ago, on morning joe. Ben carson, a big obviously primary competitor with mr. Trump, now a supporter of mr. Trump, was asked about these accusations. Lets listen. Are you saying that these women are lying . Thats your characterization because you need to characterize it that way to try to make me the bad guy. No, no, no, no. You just said its a question. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop, stop, stop, hey, can you turn her microphone off, please . No. Turn her microphone off so i can talk . No. No. Its a simple question. Yes or no, do you believe these women are lying or not . Nobodys trying to paint you as a bad guy. We just want an answer. Straight talk. It doesnt matter whether theyre lying or not. Of course it matters. Listen, it doesnt matter whether theyre lying or not. What matters is that the train is going off the cliff. We are taking our eye off of that. We are getting involved in other [ speaking simultaneously ] rebecca, your thoughts . Its Pretty Amazing to me that ben carson would get on television and say that it doesnt matter whether these women are being truthful because of course, if they are being truthful and theres no evidence so far to dispute their accounts, this is a very bad piece of news for donald trump. It really lends itself to this larger narrative that he does demean women, that he dont treat them with respect. This is a very serious problem for the Trump Campaign. I think donald trump himself realizes that and recognizes that based on the public statements he has been making and the pushback he has been making. But its really crucial that we have not yet seen this evidence that donald trump keeps talking about to potentially dispute these womens accounts. It really shows me at least that this campaign was not prepared for some of the attacks that might face them, and donald trump notably is one of the few president ial candidates in my recent memory who hasnt submitted to extensive vetting within his own organization so that they could be prepared for some of these attacks. Its interesting, Anderson Cooper asked Cory Lewandowski last night, trumps former campaign manager, about the reporting thats been out there that apparently lewandowski wanted to do Opposition Research on his own candidate and trump denied that request. Anderson asked if that was true and lewandowski said he wasnt getting into that. You say you believe they werent prepared for some of what was to come. At the same time, look at the numbers. Lets pull up this fox news poll. Brand new fox news poll not only shows clinton ahead nationally by seven points. What it shows is a 19point gap among female voters, republican and democratic voters, women. He is behind by 19 points. What does he need to say, to do, to narrow that divide . Look, theres not going to be evidence to disprove this happened. How are you going to provide evidence to show that he didnt put his hand up a womans skirt some 20, 30 years ago, that he didnt force himself on a woman in a pageant 10, 15 years ago . Theres not going to be irrefutable evidence. This is a case of now six women coming out against his word and it looks worse and worse by the day. Now, if youre a republican, you are probably pretty suspect about the timing of this, that all these women came out at once, decided to come out at once. I think thats a legitimate question of why they came out now. But look, donald trump was already losing this campaign, already in a terrible position with women, before all of this happened. We know just to jump in there, robert, what trumps response is and his surrogates response often is, but look at how bill clinton treated women when he was in the white house, then when you say well, hes not running for president , they point out Hillary Clinton and they say look at how she treated those women or things she said in public and private about those women. Do you think it would behoove Hillary Clinton to speak more publicly about that time, to speak more publicly about those women . Absolutely not. Because those situations are not germane to her canned ddidacy o her. Tom foreman and Jeffrey Toobin made it very clear Hillary Clinton had very little to do with those situations why not . Those women do feel, if you are talking about believing everyone, right, those women do feel like Hillary Clinton shamed them or pressured them not into saying anything. I absolutely understand the facts and that they are very important and tom foreman laid them out on cnn. You can go to cnn. Com. But my question is, why would it not behoove her to speak more openly about them and address what they are saying this president ial candidate, how she made them feel . Thats my question. Because heres the point. Hillary clinton didnt in fact target these individuals despite all the right wing spin about that. She obviously defended her marriage and her husband, but the more important point is, shes focusing on running for president , focusing on her vision for the future for this country, and lets also remember it was donald trump who didnt believe those women that attacked that attacked bill clinton, he called them vile names and in fact, the chief prosecutor in fact persecutor against bill clinton in fact also didnt investigate many of those individuals as well, because he didnt believe them as well. So its very important for Hillary Clinton to keep focused on her message, on her future and the country and not fall into the trap of engaging in the right wing spin or the right wing debate. At the end of the day, donald trump has to hold himself accountable because the issues at stake are issues he bragged about doing. Hes the validator. Have to leave it there. Thank you all very much. Coming up, Michelle Obamas trump takedown. You have heard it by now. She didnt even have to say his name. It made waves. Everything your family touches sticks with them. Make sure the germs they bring home dont stick around. Use clorox disinfecting products. Because no one kills germs better than clorox. Inside everyone is an incredible cook, someone who can cook an amazing meal any night of the week. Farm fresh ingredients, stepbystep recipes, delivered to your door for less than 9 a meal. Get 30 off your first delivery blueapron. Com cook. And still haveealthy, gum disease. Use gum® brand for healthy gums. Softpicks®. Proxabrush® cleaners. Flossers and dental floss. Gum® brand. Hillary clinton has harnessed the star power of the white house enlisting the president , Vice President and first relady to campaign for he. But their speeches, anything but typical stump speeches. They confronted the Sexual Assault allegations against donald trump head on and the first lady, michelle obama, gave weight to why some call her the closer. Because i can tell you that the men in my life do not talk about women like this and i know that my family is not unusual, and to dismiss this as everyday locker room talk is an insult to decent men everywhere. The men that you and i know dont treat women this way. They are loving fathers who are sickened by the thought of their daughters being exposed to this kind of vicious language about women. Lets bring in cnn senior Political Correspondent breamna keilar. Michelle obama is getting the most attention from what she said yesterday, this at the same time Hillary Clinton is not out campaigning today. Shes raising money. Why that strategy . I think shes trying to keep her powder dry. Right now the Clinton Campaign believes that donald trump is in freefall and they dont want to do anything that will cushion his landing in any way. You can see that when you see how they respond to the leaks of John Podestas hacked emails, the wikileaks emails and the things in there they just dont want to discuss. They are even saying they are basically raising the question of whether they are real or not. If they were fake, they would certainly say some of the individual emails are fake. You can see they are trying to kind of pivot away from her doing anything in a forum that is going to make news. They want the news to be donald trump and what are really bad headlines for him. At the same time theres a concern, this is something Hillary Clinton outlined in a very safe forum on the ellen show and that is that some voters may think that shes actually doing well enough that they will stay home and not go to the polls. Heres what she said. Theres a lot that is coming out which is distressing on many levels, but i dont want anybody to think this elections over, because its been so unpredictable up until now that im not taking anything for granted. We have got to work really hard for the next three and a half weeks because who knows, who knows what can happen. The big concern is the enthusiasm factor. There are some voters out there who really would like to not vote for either one of these candidates but some of them i think, they think in a pinch, would maybe vote for Hillary Clinton because they dont like donald trump but if they feel shes doing well in the polls they will say you know what, im not going to go out to the polls. I think thats a concern the Clinton Campaign is having right now. Absolutely. I have heard it from so many people not excited at all about going to the polls for either candidate. Thank you very much for that from washington. Lets bring in Robert Zimmerman and Scottie Nell Hughes. Lets talk about the Enthusiasm Gap quickly f