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Aired October 08, 2016 - 02:00 ET
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[02:01:46] PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, I'm Paula Newton in Atlanta. We want a warm welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. We start with our Breaking News.
A new bombshell in the Race for the White House. Donald Trump is saying sorry for the first time in his political career. He apologized for lewd comments about sexual advances on women which were caught on video in 2005. Now, the footage surfaced on Friday triggering as you can imagine immediate and dismal (ph) backlash. Here is Trump's statement in response.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I've never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not. I've said and done things I regret and the words released today on this more than a decade old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong and I apologize.
I traveled our country talking about change for America but my travels have also changed me. I spent time with grieving mothers who've lost their children, laid off workers whose jobs have gone to other countries. And people from all walks of life who just want a better future.
I have gotten to know the great people of our country and I've been humbled by the faith they placed in me. I pledged to be a better man tomorrow and will never ever let you down. Let's be honest, we're living in the real world. This is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we're facing today. We are losing our jobs, we're less safe than we were eight years ago and Washington is totally broken. Hillary Clinton and her kind have brought our country into the ground.
I've said some foolish things but there's a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed, and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday.
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NEWTON: So you heard it there from Trump basically game on before he said that though he did say that his travels had change him, and that "I was wrong and I apologize".
Now the Washington Post obtained video from 2005 long before Trump became the Republican nominee for president. In it, he speaks off camera about trying to have sex with a married woman. Now, we're going to run the whole video but we have to warn our viewers the content is graphic.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But she's still very great.
TRUMP: I moved on her actually. You know, she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and (inaudible) her. She was married.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's huge news.
TRUMP: No, no, Nancy. No, this was ...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.
TRUMP: And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. As she wanted to get some furniture, I said, "I'll show you where they have some nice furniture." I took her out furniture. I moved on her like a bitch but I couldn't get there and she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her. She's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look.
BILLY BUSH, "ACCEES HOLLYWOOD" HOST: Sheesh, your girl's hot (inaudible) in the purple.
TRUMP: Whoa!.
BUSH: Yes.
TRUMP: Whoa.
BUSH: Yes. The Donald has scored. Whoa, my man.
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[02:05:00] TRUMP: Look at you. You are a (inaudible). Maybe it's a different one.
BUSH: It better not be the publicist. No, it's her. It's ...
TRUMP: Yeah, that's her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful. I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
BUSH: Whatever you want.
TRUMP: Grab them by the (inaudible). You can do anything.
BUSH: Yeah, those legs, all I can see is the legs.
TRUMP: Oh, it looks good.
BUSH: Come on, shorty.
TRUMP: Oh, nice legs huh?
BUSH: Oaf, get out of the way, honey. Oh, that's good legs. Go ahead.
TRUMP: It's always good if you don't fall out of the bus. Like Ford, Gerald Ford, remember?
BUSH: Down below. Pull the handle.
TRUMP: Hello. How are you? Hi.
ARIANNE ZUCKER, ACTRESS: Hi, Mr. Trump. How are you?
TRUMP: Nice seeing you. Terrific, terrific. You know Billy Bush?
ZUCKER: How are you?
BUSH: Hello, nice to see you. How are you doing, Arianne?
ZUCKER: I'm doing very well. Thank you. Are you ready to be a soap star?
TRUMP: We're ready. Let's go. Make me a soap star.
BUSH: How about a little hug for the Donald? He just got off the bus.
ZUCKER: Would you like a little hug darling?
TRUMP: OK, absolutely. Melania said this was OK.
BUSH: How about a little hug for the Bushy? I just got off the bus. Here we go. Excellent. Well, you've got a nice co-star here.
ZUCKER: Yes. Absolutely.
TRUMP: Good. After you. Come on, Billy, don't be shy.
BUSH: As soon as a beautiful woman shows up, he just -- he takes off. This always happens.
ZUCKER: I'm sorry. Come here.
BUSH: Let the little guy in here, come on.
ZUCKER: Yeah, let the little guy in. How you feel now? Better?
BUSH: It's hard to walk next to a guy like this. Yeah, you got in the middle. There we go.
TRUMP: Good. That's better.
ZUCKER: This is much better.
TRUMP: That's better.
BUSH: Now, if you had to choose honestly between one of us. Me or the Donald?
TRUMP: No, no, no, that's a tough competition.
BUSH: Seriously, if you had to take one of us as a date.
ZUCKER: I have to take the Fifth on that one.
BUSH: Really?
ZUCKER: Yep, I'll take both.
TRUMP: Which way?
ZUCKER: Make a right. Here we go. We're on the den.
BUSH: Here he goes. I'm going to leave you here. Give me my microphone.
TRUMP: OK. Oh, you're finished?
BUSH: You're my man, Yeah.
TRUMP: Oh, good.
BUSH: I'm going to do our show.
ZUCKER: Oh you want to reset? OK.
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NEWTON: As you can imagine, Trump's opponent Democrat Hillary Clinton is condemning his behavior. Her campaign says it will press Republicans to say if they still think Trump should be president despite those comment. Now, shortly after the footage surfaced, Clinton tweeted, "This is horrific. We could not allow this man to become president." Later, she also tweeted, "Women have the power to stop Trump."
Now, two high ranking Republicans from Utah are among the first to withdraw their support for Trump following the release of that controversial video.
Utah Governor Gary Herbert said in a tweet. "Donald Trump's statements are beyond offensive and despicable. While I cannot vote for Hillary Clinton, I will not vote for Trump."
And Congressman Jason Chaffetz says, "I'm out. I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president. It is some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine."
So, joining me to discuss all these. Republican Consultant John Thomas and Political Strategist Mac Zilber. There is not a reset button large enough on the entire planet to really have the Trump campaign come back from this and anyway to completely disavow that video. I think we heard from Donald Trump that he doesn't -- that he basically is saying game on and doubling down on Bill Clinton's past in discretion.
I mean, John, where do you see him as a man, as a candidate? I mean, he's a very well-known person to many, many people. Where do you see him taking because it's clear, it goes where Donald Trump wanted to go?
JOHN THOMAS, REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT: Sure. But I think we saw a two huge things from him tonight. First of all, one thing we saw was he apologized and the other was that he was wrong. Two things most Americans thought we never see. So that was a big admission from him. I think what we're going to see is as he goes into the debate, he's going to try as basically say to Hillary Clinton is, you those who live in glass houses, be careful, your hands are dirty on this issue as well. I admit I was wrong, I've grown from it and let's get back to the issues at hand that matter to America.
NEWTON: And -- but to be clear on the collateral damage that happened here, RNC Chair Reince Priebus says, no woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner ever. And not to be outdone, Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, who canceled an event with Trump in his home state of Wisconsin for today said, "I am sickened by what I heard today. Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified. I hope Mr. Trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women that this clip suggests. In the meantime, he is no longer attending tomorrow's event in Wisconsin."
I mean, Mac, he's disavowing the comments and yet he's not saying, look, I'm withdrawing my support. Do you think it would help the campaign, the Republican campaign down ballot that he actually do that?
[02:10:05] MAC ZILBER, PARTNER, JACOBSON & ZILBER STRATEGIST: The reason that Paul Ryan is walking back his support and we'll see whether he comes out and takes away his endorse wholeheartedly is that, Paul Ryan's number one priority is to get Republican members of Congress to be elected. And up until now he thought that meant trying to getting a Republican president elected. His statements today and him and Scott Walker disinviting Donald Trump from their event today suggest that they now think that the best way to get Republicans elected down ballot is to run away from their nominee as fast as they can. And I think that he'll continue to run further in the coming days as they see polling that this guy is going to take down their members.
NEWTON: So, I really have to point out, the both of you being in Los Angeles right now, the irony that it was actually the entertainment establishment that ended up causing this trouble for Donald Trump really in the establishment that's been his friend.
Let's just -- we want to rewind for a little bit and give you the providence of this video. So, to do this we first have to go to Jeb Bush. Now, he tweeted, "As the grandfather of two precious girls, I find that no apology can excuse away Donald Trump's reprehensible comments degrading women."
Now, we have to point out, he was Jeb Bush who's never going to supporting Donald Trump. What is interesting here is that it was his cousin, Billy Bush, Bill Bush that was in that video with Donald Trump. He had to release a statement saying, look, "Obviously I'm embarrassed and ashamed. It's no excuse, but this happened 11 years ago. I was younger, less mature, and acted foolishly in playing along. I'm very sorry." Billy Bush who perhaps, he's not very political has now done some collateral damage shall we say to the Republican Party.
And yet -- I mean, John, you're there. You're in Los Angeles. Apparently "Access Hollywood" basically just decided to go and look at some old video and this was following up on an Associated Press story from earlier in the week where they said that people on the "Apprentice" said that he did speak this way both on camera and off.
THOMAS: Yeah. The irony is multiple fold in the fact that it was also a Bush that had a link to dropping this tape. Look, everybody knows that Jeb Bush is not a fan of Donald Trump. Jeb does represent the establishment. He wanted to be the Republican nominee and Donald Trump is everything that Jeb Bush is not from an insider and outsider standpoint.
So, I just don't think having members of the establishment reprimand Donald Trump really means a whole lot to the electorate. They already knew where Jeb Bush stood. I think the question is, will Americans forgive Donald Trump and move on from this or is this going to be the seminal issue going for the home stretch?
NEWTON: But John, what do you think? I mean, do you think at this point in time when you're looking at all of these Republicans, I mean, we have Senator Mike Lee saying he wasn't supporting -- from Utah, he wasn't supporting Trump but he is saying, look, get the heck out of the way and let Mike Pence take over the candidacy.
THOMAS: Yeah. Look, I understand that's cute to talk about. But logistically it's impossible. The ballots have been already been mailed out in many of these states. You can't just take it back. And the idea of going to a write-in candidacy is doomed for failure. I think as much as there maybe some members of the establishment, clearly after night there are, that say they don't want Trump to be president. They also don't want Hillary Clinton to be president. I got to tell you, it is A or B here.
ZILBER: Look, they're not going to take Donald Trump off the ballot but we shouldn't back away from how unprecedented it is for not just for Jeb Bush but George Bush Jr. did not Donald Trump, George Bush Sr., Mitt Romney, nearly every Republican nominee with the exception of Bob Dole wouldn't show up to the convention this year. I mean, this is without precedent in modern history. I'd also add that you could have gotten great odds at one of Donald Trump's failed Atlantic casinos that Billy Bush would damage Trump's campaign more than Jeb Bush would in the end run.
THOMAS: That largely you --as we know and probably you guys well document in the primary. The establishment, the Bush dynasty has not been a fan of Donald Trump. And it's not just because they didn't like his style, Donald Trump stomped them in the primary. So I just don't think brining that up is ...
ZILBER: It's not just the Bush dynasty. I mean, we're talking Senator Mark Kirk called him on to drop out of the race today. Senator Mike Lee, the number of senators in his own party who have failed to endorse Donald Trump is unprecedented on modern American politics for any major party nominee.
THOMAS: And it's understandable for self preservation. I get it. I understand why they did that.
NEWTON: And yet to both of you though, and Mac to you first. I mean, look, it has been said by the Trump campaign, given all of this Hillary Clinton should be doing better right now. Perhaps she will in the coming days especially after that debate on Sunday. But is there a risk that the Clinton campaign will overplay their hand here?
ZILBER: I don't think so. The Clinton campaign has, from the start on these issues been like a matador. They've all but painted -- this is a trap on a red cape and held it in front of Donald Trump on the infidelity issues and he's run at it every single time.
[02:15:05] This debate, they're going to play it slow and steady and they're going to be playing the long game, trying to score a few points but also set up the following media spin cycle and realizing that in the long run, the day or two after the debate is just as important as the debate itself.
NEWTON: John, is there a risk here though, when you look at the way Trump is going to handle this that he wants to come out of this with some kind of a respectable showing even if he doesn't win. I mean, at this point he has been the anti-establishment candidate and that has served him fairly well.
THOMAS: Yeah. I think that the main issue here is that this distracts Donald Trump from his ability to deliver his message that he is the changed candidate of this race, and that Hillary Clinton would be an extension of the last eight years and their disaster policies. That's the problem.
Look, every hour is precious going in to the home stretch. And every second we spend talking about this, it stops Donald Trump from talking about the message that he needs to be delivering. So, look, I think the race is still going to tighten. I think there's a lot of time to recover from this. But, look, he has to deal with it. I think tonight was a first step. Remember, he did something -- he's been through a bunch of controversies in the primary and never once did he even come close to apologizing, but 12 hours ...
ZILBER: Maybe he should have.
THOMAS: ... it's not even 12 hours, he already apologized. This is a big step.
NEWTON: I would say, I'm going to leave it there (inaudible) call time, but I will say that's something the candidates have in common perhaps. They both have trouble apologizing. Gentlemen, thank you for sticking with us through this extraordinary story and who knew that L.A., where you guys are right now, would be the epicenter of politics. We've seen it all gentlemen. Thank you so much. John Thomas there and Mac Zilber in Los Angeles.
Now, next on CNN "Newsroom", more on the fallout following Donald Trump's lewd comments about women that surfaced on that videotape. We will have more right after a break.
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NEWTON: Donald Trump is apologizing for lewd comments he made about women during off-camera banter for an entertainment show back in 2005. Now, the video was released on Friday. And it's causing a widespread uproar in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Now, on the tape, Trump is heard bragging trying to have sex with a married woman and being able to grope women because of his celebrity. Some Republicans are starting to rescind their support for Trump following the release of the tape.
[02:20:04] Earlier U.S Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah told CNN Don Lemon why he can no longer support Trump.
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VOICE OF JASON CHAFFETZ, U.S. HOUSE REPUBLICAN: I'm out. I can no longer endorse Donald Trump for president. There's no possible way I vote for Hillary Clinton but these are abhorrent, they are wrong. To use a baseball metaphor, I got to call balls and strikes the way I see him.
And, you know, my wife, Billy and I, we got a 15-year-old daughter. Did you think I can look her in the eye and tell her that I endorse Donald Trump for president when he acts like this and his apology that was no apology. That was an apology for getting caught. To say that Bill Clinton did it and did it worse. I mean that should have been his first clue it was the wrong behavior. So, I'm not going to put my good name and reputation and my family behind Donald Trump for president when he acts like this. I just can't do it.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Do you think he should step aside?
CHAFFETZ: Well, I do wish that Mike Pence was at the top of the ticket. I really do. I think, not only is his performance at the debate but he is a person of high moral fiber. I did serve with him in the House for years.
I feel bad for the country. I feel bad for Pences. I feel bad for the Donald Trump's wife and daughter. I don't know how he looks at her in the eye and tries to explain this away. It's a tragedy. I don't know what the answer is, but having seen it, talk to my wife and I just -- I can't endorse.
LEMON: But, do you think he should step aside that's was my question. CHAFFETZ: Well, I guess so, like I wish that Mike Pence was at the top of the ticket. We're going to have to figure that out at the -- in the coming days and weeks, but it is tragic the way it is right now.
LEMON: Do you think that the house speaker Paul Ryan should retract his support for Donald Trump, congressman?
CHAFFETZ: Well, everybody's going to have to figure this out for themselves. And, you know, I can only answer to myself and my wife and I got to feel good about what I do it.
In the Congress, I call out Democrats all day long for when they perform or do something silly and stupid, but this goes beyond silly and stupid. This is just intolerable. And so, I can only, you know, do what I see fit and maybe others will do the same. Maybe they won't. Maybe I'll be chastised for it but I feel good in pulling back my endorsement. I have to do it.
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NEWTON: Now, Utah's Governor Gary Herbert meantime said in a tweet that he is also dropping his support for Trump. Now, we could see of course more Republicans distance themselves from Trump. Larry Sabato was the Director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
A few moments ago, I asked him to weigh in on this bombshell but it was before Trump had given his apology. Take a listen.
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LARRY SABATO, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR POLITICS, UNIV. OF VIRGINIA: It's one thing to imagine theoretically that someone is like this. It's another to be confronted with it. And this reality has had a major impact at least on the handful of swing voter and I think also on the Democratic base. It's motivated them.
NEWTON: And yet if talk about what's going to do to Republicans, we've now have Paul Ryan you know basically say that he is sickened by this. That Donald Trump will not be at an event in Wisconsin. They're supposed to be sharing a stage for the first time. What is this doing to the Republican Party?
SABATO: The Republican Party is badly fractured. In fact, they are kind of like Humpty Dumpty and I'm not quite sure how they're going to be put back together again once this election is over. But, for the election itself, here's the impact, it doesn't affect Donald Trump's base at all.
If you look at social media, you'll see that virtually every Trump supporter is defending Trump to the hilt. They don't care. However, Donald Trump is in low of 40. He needs another four or five percent of the vote to win. This is going to help prevent him from getting that four or five percent.
NEWTON: Yeah and we've always said that having to worry that, you know, at this point it's those swing voters that desperately need to get there. Did show that he was getting ever so slight the kind of attraction that he needed and to be Larry, this is on a day when we have had more revelations about Clinton e-mail apparently her speeches to banks have been leaked online and they show some things that perhaps, especially about trade that she may not be so happy with. And yet what, it's completely obscured, ignored.
SABATO: It's totally obscured and really it's the same effect. Her base isn't going to defect at all. They're not going to be concerned about much of this. Why, because the opponent is Donald Trump.
And that's precisely why Donald Trump's base doesn't care about this new videotape. Because the opponent is Hillary Clinton, but look who wins Hillary Clinton is four or five points ahead of Donald Trump. So, if everything stays the way it is, even with these new revelations, Clinton still wins.
[02:25:11] NEWTON: And we set this up going in to an extraordinary town hall debate really on Sunday night here in the United States. I mean, how do you think the tone of that will now change?
SABATO: Well, we're certain to have some additional questions asked that hasn't been planned on. The real question is whether the queries are made by the studio audience. They're supposed to be undecided voters selected by the Gallup organization or will the two moderators ask about the videotape and WikiLeaks materials. I don't know how it will play out, but I know it will add to the spice of the debate.
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NEWTON: Spice of the debate for sure. Next on CNN, more on the fallout over Donald Trump's controversial comments about women, will his apology make a difference?
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NEWTON: And back to the breaking news story. Donald Trump is apologizing for lewd remarks which he made a about decade ago about his aggressive behavior towards women. Now, video clips of his comments were released on Friday. And it's causing quite uproar on the video, Trump is heard bragging about trying to have sex with a married woman and being able to grope women because of his celebrity.
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TRUMP: I've never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not. I've said and done things I regret and the words released today on this more a decade old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who I am.
[02:30:13] I said it, I was wrong and I apologize. I've said some foolish things but there's a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday. (END VIDEO CLIP)
NEWTON: Donald Trump sounding more defiant than contrite there. Now earlier, Brian Stelter host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" weighed in on the fallout from those remarks.
BRIAN STELTER, HOST, CNN "RELIABLE SOURCES": Hey there. Of all of the bad days the Trump campaign has recently had this is has to be the single worst day. It started for the campaign around 1:30 p.m. on Friday when the Washington Post called with transcript of this video that we've now all seen from 2005.
Now let me take you back a little bit earlier to how this really all started to happen. This video was taped in 2005 but it was never broadcast at the time. The video was essentially sitting on a shelf at NBC. The network that produces "Access Hollywood."
And on Monday, some of the producers of "Access Hollywood" started to think about the tape. Start to wonder if they could find it and broadcast it. What triggered all of this was actually an associated press story. The AP one of the biggest newswire in the world published a story early Monday morning with explosive allegations from about 20 former employees who worked on the show "The Apprentice." everyone knows the "Apprentice" as the reality show that helped Trump get to where he is today and help established him in the homes of Americans for many, many years.
So these former employees allege that Trump talked in demeaning, vulgar, sexually explicit ways about some of the staffers, about some of the contestants. And importantly the employees were speaking on the record. But on Monday, when that story came out, the Trump campaign denied it. So there's an absolutely false story. So the allegations were false.
Now that got "Access Hollywood" thinking, what about the tape we have? So they dusted it off, they put it in to NBC's video servers and they were preparing a story about it. My sources at NBC said a script was written and everything but it wasn't going to be broadcast, least until next week. Perhaps for that reason, there was a leak, a leak from inside of NBC to the "Washington Post." And that's why the reporter was calling 1:30 this afternoon, on Friday afternoon, with this tape.
At 4:00 p.m. the story came out, Trump was quoted half apologizing saying that he was sorry if anyone was offended but that was not enough. Throughout Friday evening the story spiraled getting worse and worse for the Trump campaign and there was a scramble inside Trump Tower to get the candidate on camera with a much more robust apology.
So that's what we have seen here in the last couple of hours. More serious apology from Trump. A long video, shared online and shared on television. But the question becomes whether it is enough. This will clearly be an important topic at the debate less than two days from now. Back to you.
NEWTON: And thank you, Brian Stelter. Our own Brian Stelter has been covering the story within an inch of its life and explained there how the back story has become so important now and the fallout also poses a substantial set back to Trump's attempts to overcome, we'll call it a deficit with female voters.
Now our CNN's Randi Kaye reports the Republican presidential nominee has a long and controversial history with women.
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RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONENT: Donald Trump said he loves beautiful women. He also loves to talk about women and it often lands him in hot water. Like during his long running feud with Rosie O'Donnell.
TRUMP: When she came to my wedding. She ate like a pig.
KAYE: After his dust up with Megyn Kelly during the Fox News debate Trump said this about her on CNN.
TRUMP: She started to asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions and, you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.
KAYE: Critics charge he was referring to menstruation. Trump insisted it was a big misunderstanding.
TRUMP: I was going to say nose and/or ears, because that's a common statement, blood flowing out of someone's nose. It is a statement showing anger.
KAYE: Kelly wasn't the first female journalist Trump's spared with, decades after the "New York Times" columnist Gail Collins wrote about rumors of Trump's bankruptcy he sent her a copy of the article she'd written and circled her photo writing across it "The face of a dog."
Much of what Trump has said about women was during his many appearances on Howard Stern's radio show. In 2005, he made this remark talking about a woman in a beauty pageant.
TRUMP: First of all, she's unbelievably short and I'm a little bit surprised. I think that the boob job is terrible. You know, they look like two light posts coming out of a body.
[02:35:00] KAYE: After he bought a pageant, Stern asked Trump how he may change it.
TRUMP: They said "How are you going to change the pageant?" And I said "I'm going to get the bathing suits to be smaller and the heels to be higher"
KAYE: A women's breasts were always a hot topic for him.
TRUMP: I view a person who's flat-chested is very hard to be a ten, OK?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right.
TRUMP: I mean it has to be extraordinary. You have to have the face of Vivien Leigh to be a ten.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exactly.
TRUMP: If you're flat-chested, OK? But she went from an eight to a four.
KAYE: And in another appearance on the show.
TRUMP: Some incredible beautiful women, they'll walk up and they'll flip their top, and they'll flip their panties. I've been with women with extraordinarily bad breast jobs. Isn't it unbelievable? Women, one woman, beautiful, had big beautiful really boobs, really beautiful.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right.
TURMP: And she wants them reduced.
KAYE: Years later on the Howard Stern show, Trump boldly mocked Kim Kardashian's physique.
TRUMP: Does she have a good body, no. Does she have a fat ass, absolutely.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right in other words.
TRUMP: And the word Kim that say, wow, I don't want to go out with her.
KAYE: And just last week, Trump had to defend comments he made about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado. He called her miss piggy and an eating machine on Howard Stern show, mocking her weight gain. He doubled down on those comments on Fox News.
TRUMP: She was the winner and, you know, she gained a massive amount of weight. And it was, it was a real problem. We had a real problem.
KAYE: A candidate struggling to win the support of women come Election Day in his own words.
Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.
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NEWTON: And now to the other breaking news story we're following here for you here at CNN. A deadly hurricane makes its way across the southeaster part of the United States. When we come back the latest on Matthew and the destructive path.
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[02:40:20] NEWTON: Hurricane Matthew is being blamed for four deaths in the U.S. State of Florida and continues to batter parts of the U.S. with strong winds and rain. Now, the U.S. National Hurricane Center says the hurricane's eye is moving north, toward the Coast of South Carolina. Now warns of continued flooding. Now, officials in the Carolinas warn of a dangerous storm surge. South Carolina's governor is urging people who didn't evacuate to go to a shelter and several counties there are already under curfew. We want to go to straight for our Michael Holmes in Florida. I mean, Michael, you've been covering this hurricane for quite a bit as it ripped a tear through the Caribbean and now made landfall in the United States. I mean, there and up to the U.S. coast, a lot of people with a lot of anxiety tonight about what all that water's going to bring.
MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we started following this one in Jamaica. We were in Kingston, Jamaica and then Miami and then Melbourne in Florida where we took the brunt of it there. And then it moved on, we've followed it up, here now to Saint Augusta in Florida as well.
Yeah, you mentioned the water and, you know, it's important to remember that we talk a lot about wind and rain when it comes to hurricanes, but its waters that kills more people than anything else. And when you hear of these people not listening to these evacuation orders they can really be stuck and we'll took a bit nor all about that in a moment.
But the storm surge is interesting. Here, this is a very historic city. It was sort of set up 450 years ago by a Spanish admiral. The oldest city in America they like to call it and what they had here was an eight-foot storm surge. Where I am standing now, the water was up around mid calf level. It's now gone. It's gone from the main part of the city, as well, which is good news. But when the storm surge was on its way, the mayor here put out an evacuation order for the 13,500 or so citizens.
Only half of them acknowledged it and they had to go through this flooding. They were stuck there for quite a while. The city was actually officially closed down. Emergency services weren't running. Fortunately no one was hurt which is a good thing but it just goes to show the importance of following through on these evacuation orders.
Electricity still a major problem in the State of Florida. Around a million people still without power at last count when we were driving up from Melbourne to here, we did see a lot of utility trucks heading south. So a lot of other crews have been coming in from other states to help to get people back online. Now from where the storm is headed, what damage it can do, Derek Van Dam is joining us now. And still Cat 4 -- Cat 2 rather is still a formidable storm and not to be taken lightly.
DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You are absolutely right, Michael. And if this is the concern that we're thinking going forward, a major flood threat and major storm surge threat on top of that, powerful Category 2 winds and a saturated ground in a saturated environment like this can easily topple trees and electrical poles, as well so significant power outage is still a possibility.
Here's the latest radar and I'm going to show quite a bit of detail here because there is just so much to the story as we speak. But we're going to focus in on South Carolina and the coast of Georgia where they currently are under flash flood warnings.
Again, this is the big story, the immediate story that we need to get out to the public because this is a life-threatening situation for this coastal area specifically as we look towards the Charleston harbor region. Do you recall roughly a year ago, Hurricane Joaquin and that fire hose of moisture right off the Atlantic that brought such significant flooding to this region?
Well, what we've done is we've looked back in history and we are noticing now that Charleston harbor has the third highest recorded storm surge in history that's going on as we speak. And it continues to rise because we are approaching high tide which is roughly about 2:00 in the morning or sometime in the overnight period here.
Now this is the latest radar. I've zoomed in to the center of Hurricane Matthew and you can see it has not made landfall just yet but as the National Hurricane Center continues to talk about its northerly direction, we do anticipate a land falling hurricane. Remember, that is defined and characterized by the National Hurricane Center as the eye wall, actually traversing across lands. So that actually hasn't happened just yet.
[02:45:10] But you can see we that we're roughly about three to six hours away from a land falling hurricane in Southern sections of South Carolina, specifically Hilton head in to the Beaufort Region. Here's Charleston and Mount Pleasant remember they had the significant flooding a year ago from Joaquin. So they have had a rough go over the past several months cleaning up from that. This will likely be a significant concern for them, as well.
And you can see the flood watches and warning that extend across North Carolina, as well as a significant amount of rain will be dropped from the system going forward over the next several days. Here's a look at the current storm surge across Savannah and into Charleston. Savannah, 5.7 feet above normal high tide values, Charleston, again we're looking at the third highest recorded storm surge that's 4.7 feet above high tide values. And that's a significant concern, life- threatening concern for that area.
So, that is going to be something that people need to take seriously as we go forward in time. Just look at the amount of rainfall Michael that is being produced from the storm. Our computer model is doing a great job fully depicting that. That dark shading of purple and even shades of white that's approaching the upper Echelon of our scale maybe 20 inches of rain possibly locally from this, so flooding the major concern. Michael?
HOLMES: Yeah, absolutely. 20 inches, can you imagine? Derek, thank you so much. We'll check in with you a little bit later as well. Funny you should mention Savannah and Charleston because that's where we find out Stephanie Elam and Brian Todd.
Stephanie Elam in Savannah let's go to you first in the Savannah, a very important port city for the United States. You are in the thick of it right there now. Tell us what you are experiencing. STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Oh yeah. It's like they knew you were coming to me, Michael because Matthew just kind of brought another band through here now and just really brought some more wind and some more rain. We've been seeing it come through and pick up over the last few hours. It's been raining steadily all day but it's deferentially gotten much heavier in the last couple of hours here. I went over and checked out the Savannah River which is just over to my left. You can't see it because it's so dark, but now, we are standing just about I'd say two feet below the sea wall now.
So it has definitely risen in the time that we've been here and have been watching it. And that's part of the fear here is that that storm surge is expected to be over six feet or so and that it will flood this part of this historic part of the town here in Savannah on river street which runs right along the Savannah river. We've seen a few lights go out but for the most part there is still power.
Across the river I can see there's a -- it looks like a hotel and looks like an alarm is going off, flashing in there. And behind me there is a very large bridge, which they shut down midway through the day because of those gale force winds that they just did not want anyone up there for. We have seen some flashes of light up there, perhaps maybe some transformers that were bursting.
But other than that, from where we have been staying, just a lot of rain and here's the deal. This is what they want people to know. It is not worth coming out here to see what it looks like. It is dangerous out here and when the winds pick up it really does push you around a little bit. So they did not want anyone outside and at this point, first responders are not coming out until thing calm down as far as the weather is concerned. So they're telling people stay inside, hunker down. If you didn't leave it's just obviously far too late now, just stay where are because it is dangerous out here and they want people to stay safe until it is clear of that the storm has really moved on.
They have also set up a curfew from dusk until dawn that's because they know 75 percent of the county has evacuated. And that is to make sure no one takes advantage of all these empty homes and is looting. And so, first responders will be returning to the streets once it's safe for them but that is their big concern and so that's what something that they have been thinking about. But otherwise, right here, the bands of wind and rain is still coming through very strong, Michael?
HOLMES: Yeah. A lot of people don't realize that those first responders they shut up shop when it gets dangerous as well. Stephanie, thank you so much.
Brian Todd, you are in Charleston, which is a beautiful, historic city in the U.S. and it also happens to get some flooding problems in a heavy shower of rain, let alone a hurricane.
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Michael. The flooding has already started in parts of the greater Charleston area, and the wind now kicking up significantly. Always a good barometer as we're getting another gust right here, always a good barometer of how strong the wind is and the hurricane is how much the palm trees are swaying and whipping in the wind.
You can see on Down King Street here are these palm trees really starting to bend with these wind. And over here, also on Warren Street, check out these trees here. These low-lying trees really in danger of buckling, you see that one over to your left to my right, that one over there is about to buckle and we've got to watch out for some flying debris.
[02:50:09] Some of the other effects on the street, this alarm in this restaurants has been going off for a little while so things start to get really dicy here on the streets of Charleston. You talk about flooding, Michael, that's a major, major concern. I just talked to an emergency management official in this area. He said there is flooding, especially on the barrier islands outside of Charleston but it is hard to get a read on that right now from his colleagues in the emergency management agencies out on those islands because there's no power.
So, they are trying to get some updates out there. This official also told me there's a tornado warning in Myrtle Beach South Carolina, which is significantly north of here near the North Carolina border. So this storm really starting to extend here along the Carolina coast.
You talk about storm surge and high tides here. That's a major concern, a major cause of flooding, high tide in Charleston harbor now approaching nine feet. That would be the third highest on record and the highest since Hurricane Hugo 27 years ago, Michael. They are expecting flooding. They are getting it in most of the area. The question is going to how bad with the storm now about 95 miles from Charleston. Is it going to hug this area and then head out to sea? Or is it going to make landfall here? That's going to determine the degree of the flooding here and some of the danger ahead. Michael?
HOLMES: Third highest level in the harbor in history. That is extraordinary, Brian Todd there in Charleston, Stephanie Elam in Savannah, two beautiful, historic cities in the U.S. Thanks to you. And we're going to take a short break here on the program. Paula will pick it up when we come back.
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AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT HEADLINES: I'm Amanda Davies with the CNN World Sport Headlines. The Europen Football nation have been evolve in qualification for the Russia 2018 World Cup and the Euro of 2016 champions Portugal have produce their first win of the campaign. With Cristiano Ronaldo coming back to international duty with bag with questions being asked about his form for Real Madrid, Ronaldo wasn't back within coming force where his country he's scored a first half hat trick four in total as Portugal (inaudible).
Elsewhere France hosted Bulgaria in this first game they started in France since their defeat to Portugal at the Euro 2016 finals. There were boos when they heard Alexandro lost of term penalty to put Bulgaria ahead early on. But the host quickly turned the game on its head with Kevin Gameiro scoring twice and France came back to win 4-1. And Tiger Woods has confirm he'll finally return to action next week. The 14-time major winner will play his first tournament in 14 months at the safe way open in California. He hasn't played since finishing tenth in Wimbledon championship in August of 2015, the cause of a long-standing back injury, but it's going to be a long road back to top who is currently sits 767 in the world rankings.
That is a look at you're Sport Headlines. I'm Amanda Davies.
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[02:55:38] NEWTON: An update now on the breaking news we're covering here. Donald Trump is apologizing for the first time in his presidential campaign. He said he was sorry for lewd comments caught on tape in 2005.
The "Washington Post" obtained the footage and released it Friday. On it, he bragged about his fame letting him do anything he wanted with women using some particularly strong words about groping them. Trump's statement wasn't an apology though, it was somewhat of an apology but he also went after his opponent, Hillary Clinton and her husband, Former President Bill Clinton. He double downed on his criticism of Bill Clinton's infidelity and Hillary's role in it. That could be a central issue he will try to use against Mrs. Clinton at Sunday's presidential debate. And what a debate that would be.
We'll see that right here on CNN. In the meantime, that wraps this hour of CNN "Newsroom". I'm Paula Newton. Stay where you are though. George Howell will be here in just a moment for more breaking news here on CNN.
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