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With sleep number. leland: imagine this. donald trump escalating his attacks against bill and hillary clinton. he is letting loose after firing several shots across the bow in a battle over sexism, calling the former president, one of the great quote, abusers of the world, and fallout from that begins on this new year's eve. welcome to brand new hour of "america's newsroom." nice to be with you. nice to be with you as well. abby: nice to be with you, leland. i am abby huntsman. martha and bill are off today. donald trump punching back, dredging up reports of extramarital activities by the form...

Nose, ears, eyes. those are the only places i'm talking about. >> so charming. right? joining me now margaret hoover and i'm also joined by mike shields, former chief of staff for the rnc. he is now president of the congressional leadership fund. good morning. let's not pretend. this is the match up everyone will be watching. fiorina versus trump. margaret, will will this be a deafeni defining moment for fiorina. >> yes. she's a shrewd debater and shrewd campaigner and my guess is look, she's the one person who hasn't let trump define her without punching back in a way that doesn't just punch ...

News cycle, by the way. >> he blamed it on the media. i was sort of reminded -- and i know krystal probably feels the same way -- of the akon song "dangerous." noticing you noticing me from across the room. it's like, hey, bro, of course we're noticing your sexting. it's the biggest thing about you. if we talked about what you did in congress, it's nothing. so, yeah, we're going to notice you for what remains the weirdest digitized sex scandal to date. if that surprises you, if you don't get why we're noticing you on that, then what is going on? >> the weariness that you point out, i recognize...

we begin with both presidential campaigns getting down and dirty on the low road as the candidates themselves try to stick to the high road. the latest examples, killer tv ad that the obama campaign is using to welcome so-called welcome mitt romney to pennsylvania. and a top romney's surrogates complaint that the president should "learn how to be an american." let's go to our white house correspondent, dan lothian, watching all of this unfold. we've been saying it's getting ugly. >> reporter: certainly right. the fireworks today. the president was in texas attending a total of fundra...

Or expect the democrats to sit down and work with republicans on these issues? words matter, what the president says matters. he ought to knock that off. >> shame, shame, shame. >> reporter: democrats are punching back, booing administration officials as they dine out in washington. one restaurant in virginia refused to serve press secretary sarah sanders, drawing praise from democratic lawmaker maxine waters. >> if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gas station, you get out and you create a crowd. you push back on them. you tell them they're not wel...