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Nation" and we brought ari melber, chief legal correspondent. all right, guys, i wanted to call this tape gate because this now feels like the beginning of a scandal because you've got the president, making an outrageous claim like he did with the wiretap claim on twitter. you've got democrats responding the way you would respond to a normal politician who makes an outrageous claim that may or may not involve a crime and you have the white house now with a non -- not even a nondenial denial. just a denial. >> we should not in any way ignore the graph tas of the under lying issue. the underlyin...

But ryan is staying above the fray. spokesman for the house speaker saying in a statement paul ryan is focusing in the next month on defeating democrats and all republicans running for office should probably do the same. for now trump is holding his core group of advisors. new jersey governor chris christy who skipped the debate, finally meerjed after the the fire storm ignited by trump's tape gate. >> automatically attracted to beautiful -- i just start kissing them. like a magnet. >> to concede mistakes were made. >> i would have done it much differently. but i do think he's sorry and embarr...

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...

This year. >> the president starts off with 28, 29, he starts off with a huge number. these are people who pay no income tax. 47% of americans pay nowhere income tax. so our message of low taxes doesn't connect. so he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. >> and now tape gate, sending the presidential campaign into a frenzy. >> when i saw this, the first thing i thought of, all right, we have a golden opportunity. i don't care how this is being cast by the media. that's predictable. >> the policies of this president have hurt the 47%. mitt romney is merely talking about the poli...

Sky, exploding into a fireball. now the fbi is involved after a survivor says this was no accident. welcome to "the lead" i'm jim sciutto in for jake tapper. welcome to day two of the unshackled donald trump. the republican nominee doubling down with more attacks on his own party's leaders as republican hopefuls up and down the ballot look anxiously ahead to november 8th. and democrats openly discuss their hopes of victories not just for the white house but also on capitol hill. cnn's senior white house correspondent jim acosta is live in lakeland, florida. that's where donald trump just spo...