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Aired October 14, 2016 - 14:30 ET
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[14:31:26] BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking news, we're watching and waiting for Donald Trump to speak in Greensboro, North Carolina. This, as another woman comes forward with claims of Trump groping her at a club in New York in the early '90s. Her name is Kristen Anderson. She talked to the "Washington Post." She said she was talking to acquaintances when Trump apparently was next to her and she said, within 30 seconds, didn't say a word, slipped his fingers up her skirt. CNN has not been able to independently confirm her claims, but here is what she told the "Washington Post."
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KRISTEN ANDERSON, ACCUSES TRUMP OF INAPPROPRIATE TOUCHING: I was very young and sort of the whole thing was very inconsequential, seemingly, and I brushed it off. But now I feel like that's kind of a gateway. If you're letting somebody stick their hand up your skirt that, one, has not even introduced themselves, and you weren't even speaking with them, they're sort of groping you on the side, on the fly like you're some sort of stuffed animal on the couch, that is really not OK. And it opens the door for much worse behavior on their part and for the girl, allowing worst things to happen to them because they feel it's inconsequential, and it's meaningless because you're fine, it's nothing. But it's really not nothing. And it sends an awful message to women that they are nothing. If you're touched inappropriately, you should tell somebody and speak up about it and actually go to the authorities.
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BALDWIN: The note from the Trump spokesperson is that Donald Trump strongly denies these allegations calling them totally ridiculous.
Let's talk about all of this. Gloria Borger is our chief political analyst; Kayleigh McEnany is a CNN political commentator and a Trump supporter; and Danny Cevallos is here on the legality of all of this, our legal analyst, and a criminal defense attorney.
Great to see all of you.
Gloria, to you, first.
We keep reminding the viewer we're about to hear from Trump in North Carolina because of this accusation of the woman who talked to the "Washington Post." We talked yesterday. Donald Trump went off. He went on that attack saying this was, you know, lies, fictitious, he has proof to disprove these women. How do you think he will react today?
GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: I think he'll react the same way he reacted yesterday and the day before that. I think this is very personal to him. It's not about the future of the Republican Party or even the presidency to a degree at this point. I think he feels a need to defend himself. And what we're seeing is this avalanche of women coming forward. This was after Donald Trump told Anderson Cooper on that debate that the video on that videotape that he described never occurred, that it was locker room banters and it was effectively just bragging about predatory behavior, that he did not behave that way.
BALDWIN: Gloria, let me jump in. Forgive me.
Let's listen to Donald Trump. He's speaking now.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you. Thank you.
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TRUMP: Thank you, everybody. Nice place. Plenty of room.
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[14:35:14] TRUMP: In 25 days, we're going to win the state of North Carolina, which I love.
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TRUMP: And we're going to win the White House. .
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TRUMP: Early voting starts on October 20th, so you have to get out there, but November 8th, that's our day. November, 8th, right? November 8th. .
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TRUMP: But do the early voting.
I'd also like to take this moment to send our thoughts and prayers to everyone recovering in the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. You know about it very well, unfortunately, right here. We send our deepest condolences to those who have lost loved ones. We are with you and we will always be with you and help you when needed. So good luck to everybody.
(APPLAUSE) TRUMP: The incredible spirit of the people of this state will power its recovery. And it's the same spirit that will rebuild our nation. I have property in this state. This is a great state. You know my property.
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TRUMP: Beautiful property, great employees.
In a Trump administration, we will end decades of policies that enrich special interests and foreign countries at our expense. We're going to take on the big media, big business, and big donors that are bleeding our country dry.
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TRUMP: We're losing our jobs.
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TRUMP: We're going to renegotiate our disastrous trade deals and illegal immigration, stop the massive inflow of refugees, take care of our vets. .
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TRUMP: Our great vets. And we're going to repeal and replace Obamacare. 100 percent. .
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TRUMP: That is a disaster. Premiums are soaring double digits in North Carolina beyond anyone's wildest expectations. It's a disaster. You know what's going on. Your country could be left with only one insurer. You're going to have nothing. Everyone's leaving and you're going to one or two. You're gong to have nobody. Obamacare is failing. We're going to repeal it and we're going to replace it.
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TRUMP: Your jobs will come back under a Trump administration. Your income goes up under a Trump administration. .
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TRUMP: Your taxes go way down under a Trump administration.
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TRUMP: Your companies won't be leaving our country under a Trump administration. They'll be staying right here.
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TRUMP: And believe me, there are plenty of them right now negotiating to leave, I hate to tell you that. These are the issues that we will discuss at the next debate, which I look very much forward to.
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TRUMP: Crooked Hillary is doing no more public events until after the debate. They say she's doing debate prep. But in really she's just resting. She's resting.
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TRUMP: For what she's done, they should lock her up.
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TRUMP: It's disgraceful. Honestly, it's disgraceful. What's going on in our country right now is a disgrace.
The Hillary Clinton documents released by WikiLeaks make more clear than ever just how much is at stake on November 8th. WikiLeaks released new Clinton campaign e-mails revealing how friendly Hillary was with the Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
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TRUMP: This was only a month prior to Lynch's investigation of Hillary's illegal secret e-mail server that gave foreign governments access to our confidential information. This comes on the heels of disclosure that Clinton campaign was conspiring and colluding with the State Department and Justice Department over the release of her e- mails and the investigation into her server.
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TRUMP: Hillary Clinton told the FBI 39 times she couldn't remember, she couldn't remember anything. I couldn't remember, I couldn't remember.
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TRUMP: Or recall key events concerning her e-mail server and related misconduct.
Now in new written testimony just out as part of a Freedom of Information Act request, Hillary Clinton has said she couldn't remember, recall, or anything else, key events and key things 21 different times.
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[14:40:16] TRUMP: It's one more reason that if I win I will ask my attorney general --
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TRUMP: -- to appoint a special prosecutor. And we also investigate the investigation itself.
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TRUMP: Hillary Clinton bleached and deleted 33,000 e-mails after a congressional subpoena. She got a subpoena from Congress and she said this is no good, this is terrible because those 33,000 e-mails had bad stuff. And she said get rid of them, delete them, bleach them. Nobody bleaches because it's such an expensive process. She bleached. Get rid of them. And then she made everybody get rid of iPhones, her iPhones. And some were hammered. They were hammered to death. All to cover up her crimes.
Yesterday, new disclosures were made showing again how Hillary Clinton's Pay-for-Play works. Saudi Arabia paid Bill Clinton a lot of money to make a speech and then gotten an arms deal from Hillary and her State Department that they were unable to get. The nation of Qatar also kicked in $1 million for Bill Clinton's birthday party. And as WikiLeaks showed the Clintons ripped off the people of Haiti as they were suffering and dying after the earthquake. And her brother is on the board of a gold mine, her brother.
But the media is covering up for the Clintons and there are many crimes against so many people. The WikiLeaks document show how the media conspires and collaborates with the Clinton campaign, including giving the questions and answers to Hillary Clinton before the debate, OK?
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TRUMP: What a rigged system, folks. Last night, we had a massive crowd of over 20,000 people in Cincinnati. It filled up an arena.
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TRUMP: And the media won't even talk about the size of the crowd, the enthusiasm of the crowd. I watched NBC this morning, they said, "Last night Donald Trump was in Cincinnati."
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Hillary Clinton has 800 people, "Oh, the crowd was so big."
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It is horrible. It is really horrible.
The corrupt media is trying to do everything in their power to stop our movement, believe me. They don't want this happening. We have one of the great movements. We have a great movement. We have a movement that's never happened before.
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TRUMP: And no paper is more corrupt than the failing "New York Times." The good news, it is failing, it won't be around too much longer. But they are really, really bad people. The largest shareholder in the "Times" is Carlos Slim. Now Carlos Slim as you know comes from Mexico. He's given many millions of dollars to the Clinton and their initiative. So Carlos Slim, largest donor of the paper, from Mexico.
Reporters at the "New York Times," they're not journalists. They're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton. We're going to let foreign corporations and their CEOs decide the outcomes of the -- you just can't do this. We can't let this happen. We are not going to let it happen where they decide the outcome of our elections. They can't do it. And we're not going to let it happen.
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TRUMP: This is our last chance to save our country and, yes, claim it for we the people, and it's going to happen.
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TRUMP: As you have seen, right now, I am being viciously attacked with lies and smears. It's a phony deal. I have no idea who these women are. I have no idea. I have no idea. And I think you all know I have no idea because you understand me for lot of years, OK?
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[14:45:01] TRUMP: When you looked at that horrible woman last night, you said "I don't think so, I don't think so."
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Whoever she is, wherever she comes from, the stories are total fiction. They're 100 percent made up. They never happened. They never would happen. I don't think it would happen with very many people but they certainly aren't going to happen with me.
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TRUMP: Folks, you know, my people always say, don't talk about it, talk about jobs, talk about the economy. Don't worry, your jobs are going to be -- they are going to be coming back to North Carolina like you've never seen. The economy is going to be great.
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TRUMP: But I feel I have to talk about it, because you have to dispute when somebody says something. Fortunately, we have the microphone and we're able to dispute. Some people can't.
These are lies being pushed by the media and the Clinton campaign to try and keep their grip on our country. They are all false. They're totally invented, fiction, all 100 percent totally and completely fabricated. I never met this person, these people. I don't know who they are. I don't know who they -- think of what's has been happening to our country. Think of what's happening. I don't know who these people are. I look on television, I think it's a disgusting thing and it's being pushed. They have no witnesses. There's nobody around. They just come out -- some are doing it for probably a little fame. They get some free fame. It's a total setup. Now suddenly, after many, many years, phony accusers come out less than a month before one of the most important elections in the history of our country. It also comes at a time as WikiLeaks unveils horrible, horrible things about Hillary Clinton. But they'd rather talk about this. Somebody that you've never seen that said, oh, in 1992 he went like this.
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One came out recently where I was sitting alone in some club. I really don't sit alone that much, honestly, folks. I don't think I sit alone. I was sitting alone by myself like this. And then I went --
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-- to somebody. I just heard this one. It's like unbelievable. Even a simple investigation would have shown these allegations against me in just about all cases, it's nonsense, it's false. An eyewitness has already debunked the "People" magazine story.
Here's my question about the dishonest writer from "People" magazine, why didn't said happened before she wrote the story? Why didn't she put in the story? The story would have been one of the big stories. I was the big story, "The Apprentice." Why didn't she do it 12 years ago? 12 years ago? She's writing a story. Think of this. Think of this.
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TRUMP: She's right. She's a liar. She is a liar.
She's writing a story -- check out her Facebook page, you'll understand. She's writing a story about, a beautiful love story, Melania, Donald, and she said I made an inappropriate move. Just so you understand, that's a big story, if I did. She wrote the most beautiful story. Honestly, most beautiful story 100 percent story, like beautiful. Why wouldn't she have put this in to the story?
Two nights ago, I get a call, oh, "People" magazine, they say, oh, it's OK. No, no, it's not OK. It's about a story written 12 years ago. She was on last night on one -- ones of the top people at "People" was on, and he said, no, we were just informed of it. Well, did you hear about it 12 years ago? Did you hear about it five years ago? No, no, we just heard about it recently. These people are sick.
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TRUMP: These people are sick. The reason she didn't write it 12 years ago is very simple, it never happened, never happened. It's a lie.
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TRUMP: TRUMP: And if it did happen, 100 percent she would have written it. It would have been the biggest story of the year. These are horrible lie, all fabrications. And we can't let them change the most important election in our lifetimes. If 5 percent of the people think it's true and maybe 10 percent think -- we don't win. In other words, they make up lies, they have people come around, oh, Donald Trump did this or that. I never saw these people before. I don't know who they are. And then you watch these phony networks and dishonest networks who are 100 percent -- let me tell you something about Hillary Clinton, she' got nothing going. She's got nothing. The only thing she's got going is the media. She's got nothing going. She's got nothing.
TRUMP: The other day at the debate where, by the way, I absolutely destroyed her, OK --
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[14:50:27] TRUMP: -- every online poll, even "Time" magazine -- "Time" magazine is not exactly in love with me -- but every online poll had us winning. She said -- the other day, I'm standing at my podium and she walks in front of me, right? She walks in front of me, and when she walked in front of me, believe me, I wasn't impressed, but she walks in front of me.
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And she takes a question then she walked back, and that was the end of that, no problem. Then she said the next day, I invaded her space. Give me a break.
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And I was waiting for that because she had that incident once before where they made up something. Some guy invaded her space. The poor guy lost the election because of it. But I was very conscious of this so I purposely --
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TRUMP: -- I purposely didn't do anything so -- get this guy out of here.
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TRUMP: Get him out. Out.
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TRUMP: Get out of here.
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TRUMP: It's really total disrespect for the American flag. There he is. Look. Good.
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TRUMP: Great.
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TRUMP: Folks, folks, that's what's happening to our country. That's what's happening. That is total disrespect for our flag. That's what's happening to our country.
We're going to turn it around, folks. We're going to turn it around.
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TRUMP: So just to finish up, so just to finish up, you see what's happening. The process is rigged. This whole election is being rigged. The lies spread by the media, without witnesses, without backup or anything else are poisoning the minds of the electorate. No witnesses, no backup, no anything else. And I'm telling you, I have many top professionals, don't talk about this, Donald, nobody believes it. I said maybe somebody believes it. You have to talk about it. When somebody makes -- am I right? When somebody makes an accusation that you did something and you never saw this before, it's a lie, a total lie, a fabrication -- sometimes they do it for fame, maybe they get money, who knows. The Clinton campaign is pushing it. The "New York Times" did a story on somebody where it was totally false. They knew it was totally false. We gave them the information. They wrote a whole big page about somebody where they were sending me e-mails and letters and everything. And then you realize --it was a one-way send, by the way. There was nothing sent back -- and you realize it was a phony deal. They did a big story on it. They didn't mention all of the e-mails. They didn't mention everything coming my way. And others looked at it, and as bad as they were, as soon as they saw this stuff that was said, they immediately, immediately, decided not to do this. "New York Times" did a story on it. They read these stories and people might not know how bad they are. It's really a disgrace. I've been saying this for a long time. The whole thing we've been going through -- and I hate to say it. But the whole thing we've been going through, Bernie Sanders and the rigged deal, the whole thing is one big fix. It's one big fix. It's one big ugly lie. It's one big fix.
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TRUMP: The press can't write the kind of things they write, which are lies, lies, lies. The stories are fabrications and false. And the only thing I say is, hopefully, hopefully, our patriotic movement will overcome this terrible deception.
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[14:55:19] TRUMP: Hopefully, our great movement -- and there's never been anything like this in the United States. The only way they figure they can slow it down is to come up with people that are willing to say, oh, I was with Donald Trump in 1980. I was sitting with him on an airplane. And he went after me on the plane. Yeah, I'm going to go after you. Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.
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TRUMP: You don't know. That would not be my first choice.
Hopefully, our great movement, powered by everyday citizens, will overcome the sickness that is plaguing our politics and our media. I'll tell you why. Our media is, indeed, sick. And it's making our country sick. And we're going to stop it.
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TRUMP: We're going to stop it, folks.
All right, let's get on, now. Let's get on to another subject. But isn't it good that we talk about this?
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TRUMP: Who thinks I shouldn't talk? Who thinks I shouldn't talk about it? Does anybody think that? OK, I agree. When somebody -- you know, a long time ago -- when you get hit, you hit back. You don't just say, "Oh, I didn't get hit, oh, I didn't get hit." When you get hit -- we are destroying our country with these sick people back there. And they know it better than anybody in this arena.
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TRUMP: I ran because I knew what trouble our country was in. Our country is in tremendous trouble. You know this in North Carolina because you see what's happening to your jobs. They're disappearing.
I know it's not about me. It's about you and that's why I'm doing this. I didn't need to do this. But it's about you. It's about bringing our country back, making our country great again. I'm taking these slings and arrows for you so we can have our borders, so we can get back our jobs --
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TRUMP: -- so we can be a safe nation again. You know, the number of murders in our country this year went up more than they have in 45 years. It's true.
Look, Obama is an incompetent. He is an incompetent president.
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TRUMP: He's doesn't know what he's doing. He's out campaigning all day long. He's talking about me like he knows me. I don't know him. He doesn't know me. And why doesn't some woman maybe come up and say what they say falsely about me, they could say about him. They could say it about anybody. They could say it about anybody. I'll tell you what, he better be careful, because they could say it about anybody. Anybody at all.
But Obama is an incompetent. As a president, he's about as bad as it gets. Look at what's happening. How Iran is taunting us. Look at what's going on. Look at the world. He gives Iran $400 million in cash, but it turns out to $1.7 billion in case. Gives them $150 billion.
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TRUMP: This guy doesn't know what he's doing. It's an embarrassment. You look at the Middle East, it's a blowup. It's a total disaster. We have an incompetent president. I hate to say it but it's 100 percent true. And all he's doing, instead of working on your jobs and your companies leaving for Mexico and other places, he campaigning for Crooked Hillary. That's all he does.
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TRUMP: Either we win this election or we're going to lose our country because four more years of Obama, you can't take it.
WikiLeaks documents, Hillary Clinton speaking in secret -- And you saw this, too -- a secret Brazilian bank. Hillary Clinton said, "My dream is a hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders." There go the rest of your jobs, by the way.
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TRUMP: Even though she doesn't say that, but that's what she said in a very, very secret meeting. The e-mails show that, behind-closed- doors, speaking to international bankers, Hillary Clinton pledged to destroy the sovereignty of the United States. A Trump administration will secure and defend our borders better than you've ever seen them before.
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TRUMP: And, yes, we will build a wall.
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TRUMP: Crooked Hillary --
