How the Trump Campaign and donald himself are pushing back. Then why third party talk wont go away in spite of dire republican predictions. It a Suicide Mission for our country. New questions about Democratic Party unity at the state Convention Turns ugly in nevada. And the most novel defense net of Donald Trumps publicist, john miller. James addison, john addison, alexander hamilton, they all ruled under pseudonyms. Ever since the start of his feud with megyn kelly, donald trump has been widely criticized about the way he talks about women in public. Thanks to big frontpage report on saturday in the New York Times, trumps private treatment of women is in the spotlight. It says it conducted more than 50 interviews with women, 11 of whom were quoted by name. The result is a somewhat contradictory portrait of some women, seemed to treat them as sex objects. Trump once asked miss usa to evaluate each other telling them, i dont care if shes sweet, is she hot. And you like your candy, it was him reminding me i was overweight. Trumps fixation with physical appearance also extended to his own party. Lee says ivanka trump was on stage cohosting the miss teen usa pageant when trump turned to her to ask dont you think my daughters hot, right . Ivanka, who is his daughter, was 16 at the time. In another incident, a woman was working with her then boyfriend in a beauty pageant when she said the real estate mogul made unwanted physical advances. In a 1996 deposition, he described trump asking are you sleeping with her . And being dismissive of the relationship. Basically he name dropped throughout the dinner when he wasnt groping me under the table. Let me just say this was a very traumatic thing working for him. Trump has been tweeting up a storm. The failing New York Times wrote yet another hit piece on me. All are impressed with how nicely i treated women. They found nothing. Today one of the women named in the story is disputing the papers account of her interaction with trope. Trump. He suddenly took me around the hand and showed me around the mansion. He asked me if i had a swimsuit with me. I said, no, i hadnt intended to swim. He took me in a room, opened drawers and asked me to put on a swim suit. The two would go on to date for several months. In an interview this morning, brewerlane didnt dispute the papers version of the events, just the conclusions they drew from those events. They did take quotes from what i said and they put a negative connotation on it, they spun it to where it appeared negative. I did not have a negative experience with donald trump. He never made me feel like i was being demeaned in any way, he never offended me in any way. He was very gracious. Trump called the control rooms to make sure producers had seen brewerlanes interview. Brewerlane then went on to appear on this network and cnn to tell her story. But according to one woman, barbara rez, was head of trumps construction in the 90s and she credits trump with giving her a chance. In a live chad today she said her former boss is not fit to be president. He thinks hes great for women but he says terrible things about women. When you are a person in a president ial position, you are not howard stearn. You cant just say the first thing that comes to your mind, even if it does come to your mind. You cant rate women, you cant talk about their bodies. You cant say youre not a 10 if you dont have a certain breast size. So, no, it has nothing to do with whether or not he should be president , it has to do with the character that hes presenting. And thats not, in my opinion, fit for the presidency. Barbara plans to vote for Hillary Clinton. Joining me now the former Deputy Campaign manager for carly fiorina. Even before the times article, the theres the whole archive with the donald trump interview. What do you say to people who have looked at all of this and concluded that basically donald trump is a pig, that hes a sexist . I think that theyre making an incorrect conclusion. Hes a total champ women. Otherwise i wouldnt be working for him. I mean, the true sexist in this race is Hillary Clinton. Okay. Do you not see anything problematic with, say, groping an employee underneath the able during a meal . These are accusations made by people who interact or know mr. Trump, who are trying to gain notoriety. That is from a deposition years ago. If you read the New York Times article, she retracts that. She doesnt retract it. She does and she said he didnt mistreat her. There was a moment when trump said look at that face, how would you want to vote for that . I think all women understood that comment. Its not that the New York Times is spot on in every example of sexism, its that donald trump has shon himself to be an authoritarian, a tyrant and a bully. In the case of donald trump, its not just this New York Times story. Its a history over decades of his character being shown over time and under pressure where he sexualizes women, bullies everyone and belittles people who dont agree with him. Do you think maybe the best way to respond he is to talk about Donald Trumps policies on snaerts. Matters . Lets talk about his hiring practices. If anything, as i said previously, he empowers women and they have a seat at the table and he respects their decision in business and on his president ial campaign. I think the thrust here, ill read from this 1997 new yorker story, a doctor, i asked trump where she had done her training. Im not sure, he said, bay watch medical school . Ill tell you the truth, once i saw her photograph, i didnt need to look at her resume. But the time she spent 15 years at mt. Sinai, we dont want to look at her. Yes, he hired her but the thrust is every way he evaluates women tends to be based on their looks. The guy ran a beauty pageant. Mr. Trump has garnered support, that includes women, stayathome moms, you name it and theyre excited to vote for him. Lets talk about Hillary Clinton and the way her husband has treated women. Her husband isnt running for president. They are married and it reflects on her and shes threatened the women hes had extra Marital Affairs with. Sara, do you think theres lasting damage on the Republican Party how they see the party through the personage of donald trump . Hes certainly not a conservative. Wait a second, hes got the nomination to the Republican Party. Be that as it may, he couldnt talk about policy because he doesnt have any. Any time he talks about policy, hes retracting it or reversing it or saying that was just a suggestion. There are no policies in the Trump Campaign aside from his twitter account. What do you think about that . Im sorry that your candidate is not still currently in the race. We are engaging in policies and rolling those out as we proceed to run for the presidency and the general election. He just you rolled out a tax plan and took it back. What policy should we believe him on, even if he does say theyre his policies. Minimum wage, he reversed on that. Hes prolife and then hes not and now he wants to punish women. Mr. Trump is the nominee. Well let that speak for itself. You talk about rolling out policy. Are there areas we can expect to see pronouncements in terms of him supporting a statuary way of addressing the pay gap between men and women . Its premature to talk specifics but we will continue to campaign hard and be out boots on the ground approach where mr. Trump is having conversation with american vote thats theyre having behind their closed doors and hes winning their votes based on merit. Sarah. I think what she means is theyre going to continue to tweet hard and then when it comes to policies, its anyones guess. Can i ask you about the abortion issue . I talked to omarosa earlier today. He is antiabortion and will nominate a justice to the Supreme Court that believes roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. Is that correct . He clarified his position two weeks ago. He sent out a statement regarding that so im going to refer you to that statement. All right, thank you both. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Im joined by joy reid, hoist of msnbcs a. M. Joy, it is a great show, it is great to have you. Thank you. Well that was interesting. Part of the issue here is that heres a guy whos got this profile theres a certain kind of persona that he projected and i think thats what it is how he thinks about women and thats been pretty consistent. Theres not a lot of inconsistency about how donald trump talks about or views women either. One of the things that donald trump has going for him is the lack of element of surprise. Because weve known who he is for a long time, its not shocking, his view of women. Its important to note something here, this is not partisan on this end. I know democrats. I know people who are sexist pigs. There are men in this world of every ideology and stripe who have terrible attitudes. The question becomes a party facing kind of gender gap it is, what does it do to at that . And hes not even aligned with the conservative movement. The people who dislike him the most, so hes not aligned with them. I think its the fact that the party is now accepting the idea that it can be led by somebody with this known history. The more we know about it, it just adds to the pressure. The reason that that matters is because the gender gap that republicans enjoy is very specific, right . Democrats typically overwhelmingly women 76 of latino women, 66 of asianamerican women, thats in the wash. We can presume he does worse with women of color than mitt romney in 2012. It was an 11point gender gap in their favor to george w. Bush that went down with sarah palin was back on the ballot. Republicans need to have as many white women as possible. The gender gap didnt help mitt romney win. I hear just getting nasty with hillary wont work. Theres whom books to be written about bill clinton, which have been written. Thats not some big secret. And hes not running for president , as you are pointed out, hes off ballot. But that is also known information. But the problem is anything particularly unmarried and married white women to cross over to Hillary Clinton, you end up what happened with sarah palin. It closed the gender gap to 7 points. What they want to do is maximize that gender gap in their favor and trump doesnt do that. I think there is a degree to which all this stuff does help him with a certain segment of men. Sure. And were seeing a huge gender divide open up. He has much higher net favorables among republican men than republican women. The problem is white voters overall are going to be 69 of the electorate. An 11point gender gap with white women in mitt romneys favor still netted him a 5 million vote deficit with barack obama. They do not want anything that tempts more particularly unmarried white women to cross the aisle. Still to come, the incessant rumors about a third party candidate. Chaos at the Nevada Convention as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters clash. Hmmmmmm. [ dreams by beck ] hmmmmm. Hmmmmm. The turbocharged dream machine. The Volkswagen Golf gti. Part of the awardwinning golf family. And i cant wait to startlanta telling people how switching to geico could save them hundreds of dollars on car insurance. But first, my luggage. Ahh, there it is. Uh, excuse me, sir . I think youve got the wrong bag. Sorry, they all look alike, you know . No worries. Well, cars here, i cant save people money chatting at the baggage claim all day. Geico®. 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Sanders supporters demanded a recount of delegates and booed Barbara Boxer while she was spoking to the convention. When you boo me, youre booing Bernie Sanders, go ahead. At what point a brawl, about what were not sure, broke out on the floor of the convention. Sanders supporters came into the convention with a delegate edge from the county conventions it had already met, that despite having lost the original caucus tally of votes in february. Perhaps summing up the feeling of many sanders supporters, some wrote cheating is not winning on the headquarters. Democratic unity that seems to be just around the corner is no where to be found. Joining me now, charlie pierce. Writer at large from esquire. The state chair has reported to the New York Times shes got all sorts of threats, her number was published. I wanted your historical perspective, charlie, in terms of this being in the range of par for the course of a contested primary or this being in some different register. Well, i think that, you know, as with everything, Technology Accelerates every part of the process, including the emotions. Certainly its nowhere near as bad as the Chicago Convention in 1968. Im not even entirely sure its as bad as the stop Mcgovern Movement at the Democratic Convention in 1972 was. That being said, everything thats bad that happened were all going to see because everyones a movie director now. I think theres lots to be said for looking at the nevada process and doing something simpler. You give everybody an opportunity to feel cheated. But i do think that Bernie Sanders is running hard and a very necessary campaign and that it should not end in a temper tantrum. One of the things i keep my eyes are on the Favorability Ratings among the parties. For all the dishing on the republican side, ill talk to a republican consultant who is toying with the idea of backing some kind of third party runner. The comparative favorable and unfavorables, theyre not that far apart among their own parties. What that means to me is ultimately theyre going to get to trump is going to get to the standard of what you would expect for any nominee of the Republican Party. The question is whether over the next two months we see this increasing fissure in the Republican Coalition and whether that comes back together. I dont know if youre im sorry, democratic coalition. Yeah, i honestly as awful as those scenes were out of nevada, i dont think the split is that great by and large. I think there will be the possibility that youll have trouble maybe in philadelphia. If the democrats are very lucky, theyll have nothing more than what ron paul did in tampa in 2012, which is to have a lot of people yelling at one point and then everybody comes together. I never underestimate the capability of the Democratic Party to fall apart completely, however. Yeah, i cant get a handle on what it means for this party right now at this point when this the person who had been running ahead had been the presumptive candidate all along, sanders continued to get big crowds and at some point suck it up and vote for Hillary Clinton. Whats the second day story going into california . Is it still delegate count . Probably. Its hard to get people to care about delegate count. Kentucky is where clinton has been putting some resources into, spent some time campaigning there, shes been there with the former democratic governor, with her husband. They seem to really want to win kentucky in the way theyve skipped West Virginia just a week ago. Right. Youll have to also remember on the down side, they went all in for lundgren grimes. Thats a great question. Charlie pierce, thanks for joining us. If youve had trouble keeping track of the story lines coming out of the Trump Campaign, we have the solution for you that we will debut in just 80 seconds. 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