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You hear these things. they're said. and i was embarrassed by it but i have tremendous respect for women. >> have you ever done those things? >> women have respect for me. i will tell you no, i have not. >> all right. so trump even seemed to say i'll see your leaked tape and raise you bill clinton's past, bringing women who have accused the former president of sexual misconduct into the debate hall. let's talk about all of this with cnn political commentator and trump supporter john phillips, political commentator tara setmeyer and jennifer granholm, who is supporting hillary clinton. welcome ...

>> i think for trump this was almost the inverse of the last debate. the last debate i thought his strongest moments were the first 30 minutes when he was talking about trade, when he was talking about the economy. then it kind of all went downhill from there. in this debate, i thought his weakest moments were the first 20 minutes. i thought the apology left something to be desired. i thought having the women there didn't really score the points i thought he assumed outside of getting in her head which i think it did. his strongest moments were the final 60 minutes of the debate when he was pi...

>> tara, we're getting this statement from melania trump, from mike pence as well. through the campaign the principals are condemning the words of donald trump. >> of his own vice president condemns him. this is unprecedented. jeffrey knows, we go back and forth about this all the time, that i feel that trying to compare ronald regan and donald trump is a disgrace to ronald regan's legacy. ronald ragan was a class act, convicted conservative. he actually was -- believed in the -- that the presidency was bigger than himself. donald trump is a narcissist and egomaniac and apparently a sexual per...

Donald trump said i don't have to wait, i jump on her like a -- i'm not going to use because of the hour. that is essentially sexual assault. tara, from your perspective? >> yeah. i think the dismissing of the -- of what donald trump said is just oh, these are just words. i think that is really missing the point here. no, they're not words. if you listen to how he's talking about women in this one clip, we've heard several others but this one speaks as though he's already done it. he says, oh, they'll let you do anything, like grab them in the blank and all the things that -- oh, yeah, i tried...

It's about his ego trip and not the actual future of the country. for us to sit here and say that it's just elites and people that are condemning donald trump, that's not necessarily true. people who -- people from his own -- even in his own circle cannot defend this because they see that what donald trump is doing is not only is he destroying the party but this is bringing such disrespect to the office of the presidency that it's untenable and we need to protect our republicans down ballot and rebuild moving forward because otherwise the republican party's not going to survive. >> tara, jeffr...