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Donald Trump Denies Allegations of Sexual Assault from Multiple Women; Emails Released by WikiLeaks Indicate Criticism of Bill Richardson by Clinton Campaign; Donald Trump Comments that Presidential Election may be Rigged; Donald Trump Jr.'s Comments on Women in Workforce Draw Controversy. Aired 10-11a ET

Aired October 15, 2016 - 10:00   ET

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[10:00:16] DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I am a victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two more women say Donald Trump made inappropriate sexual advances toward them.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Disturbing stories keep coming.

TRUMP: These allegations are 100 percent false. They're made up. They never happened.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The first of eight accusers publicly came forward Wednesday night.

TRUMP: Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.

CLINTON: This is who Donald Trump really is.

TRUMP: This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Clinton corruption.

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TRUMP: I like it better without the teleprompter.

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CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, so grateful to see you on a Saturday morning. I'm Christi Paul.

VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Victor Blackwell. CNN newsroom begins now.

PAUL: Less than a month until the Election Day.

BLACKWELL: Counting down.

PAUL: It's 23 day and counter. And in just a couple of hours Donald Trump is going to be at a rally in New Hampshire, then head to Maine and New Jersey. This as more women are coming forward accusing him of sexual assault. We're going to play you a little bit of how three of the accusers described what happened with Donald Trump, what they say. And we just want to give you a warning here, what they describe does have some graphic language.

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KRISTIN ANDERSON, FORMER MODEL/DONALD TRUMP ACCUSER: The next thing I know there's a hand up my skirt. And I basically just pushed the hand away, turned and looked, got up off the couch. I turned to my girlfriends and I was like, who is this dude? And they go that's Donald Trump.

TEMPLE TAGGART, FORMER MISS UTAH/DONALD TRUMP ACCUSER: It was during the rehearsal at the Miss USA competition that year. And he had walked in and my dad had seen him, and he just introduced himself and introduced me. And the first time it was just like a quick hug and kiss on the lips. I was shocked just because I was like what was that.

SUMMER ZERVOS, FORMER "APPRENTICE" CONTESTANT/DONALD TRUMP ACCUSER: He was on the love seat across from me and I made an attempt at conversation. He then asked me to sit next to him. I complied. He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast.

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BLACKWELL: Trump is firing back, denying specifically these charges from the women, the allegations there and calling the charges in total 100 percent fabricated on Twitter.

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TRUMP: These allegations are 100 percent false, as everybody knows, I think you know. I think you get it. I think you get it. They're made up. They never happened. When have you met tens of thousands of people, as I have, and I've met thousands and thousands and thousands of people, know them, know them well. It's not hard to find a small handful of people willing to make false smears or personal fame, who knows, maybe for financial reasons, political purposes, or for the simple reason they want to stop our movement, they want to stop our campaign. Very simple.

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PAUL: Trump has been tweeting this morning, slamming his accusers, Hillary Clinton, and the media for what he says is fabricating charge and rigging the elections. We want to bring in CNN political reporter Sara Murray. Sara, talk to us first of all about these tweets this morning. SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: That's right. Donald Trump is

pretty much on the warpath against everyone this morning. And he's once again denying that any of these mounting allegations of sexual assault are true. He said on Twitter, "They're 100 percent fabricated and made up charges pushed strongly by the media and the Clinton campaign. May poison the minds of the American voter. Fix."

It's worth pointing out there is so far no evidence the Clinton campaign is the one who is dredging up the examples. And in fact, in some cases some of these women didn't even want to go to the media. They were tracked down by reporters who had heard of their stories.

But Donald Trump is also going after Hillary Clinton in something we're hearing from him more and more, the notion that she should be locked up. Let me read another tweet for you, saying "Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail. Instead she's running for president in what looks like a rigged election". And I can tell you that voters here in New Hampshire have already started up at least one chant of "Lock her up." We're waiting to see what Donald Trump says here when he arrives. An aide tells me he'll talk about the drug problem in New Hampshire, which is a very important issue locally. But the real question is whether that ends up being overshadowed if he continues to talk about the allegations of sexual assault. Back to you guys.

PAUL: Right, the fact he was tweeting that this morning it makes you wonder what is going to be on his agenda today. Not just in Maine, obviously, New Jersey and everywhere he's going to be. But what about Pence, because he's on the campaign trail as well?

[10:05:11] MURRAY: That's right, Mike Pence is also on the campaign trail today. And he's been grappling with how to handle these accusations. A lot of what he has said is essentially that we are going to be putting out more evidence, the Trump campaign is going to put out evidence that these accusations are not true. We have seen a little bit of that so far. We saw the campaign put out a statement from one accuser's cousins today insisting that these allegations must be false, although I think that any woman who has gone through a similar situation like this where they have been groped, where they have been felt up, especially by a position of power, will tell you they don't necessarily share that information broadly so it wouldn't really be a surprise if someone's cousin didn't know about it.

PAUL: All right, Sara Murray in New Hampshire for us there, thank you so much.

Let's bring in David Swerdlick. He's CNN political commentator and assistant editor for "The Washington Post." David, good to see you this morning.

DAVID SWERDLICK, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Hey, Christi.

PAUL: Hey. So "The Washington Post" broke the story of Kristin Anderson, one of the women. Trump says specifically about her that she's accusing him falsely. What is your reaction to that based on your reporting? SWERDLICK: Well, here's the thing, Donald Trump is entitled to say

that the allegations against him are false by all of these accusers. In fact, in a way you wouldn't expect him to say otherwise in general. He's trying to defend himself, protect what he sees as his reputation, and go through these last few weeks of this presidential campaign. The problem for his is that we're a week out from that "Access Hollywood" tape where he was describing, whether or not he actually did it, he was describing groping women, forcibly kissing women. We've seen for the last several months and really for the last year and heard audiotape of him on the Howard Stern show talking about his sexual conquests. There have been other quotes that have been confirmed by him talking about women's looks, talking about the looks of women that he's running against for president, like Carly Fiorina.

So this is the contexts that these accusations are in, Christi. It's hard for him to make the case that this is just out of the blue, that this is a coordinated media attack because there's been all of this run up already. He's going to deny it, but voters are entitled to make up their mind based on everything that they've heard.

PAUL: Of course they are. But let's get back to that. Let's listen here to some of what Donald Trump said yesterday.

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TRUMP: 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 set up.

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PAUL: OK, he said there something that's really important. He said there are no witnesses. We don't know. Unless you know something differently that there was a witness there with Kristin Anderson that night who can corroborate their story. But we do know that you talked to two different people who possibly could, Kelly Stedman, a friend of hers, and Brad Trent, a New York photographer who both say Kelly said within a few days after the incident Anderson told her about it. Brad Trent said at a dinner in March of 2007 he was told about what happened with Donald Trump on that -- in terms of that incident. Are they willing to come forward further to corroborate her story?

SWERDLICK: I don't know if they're going to come forward. But let me take a step back, Christi, and say this. Again, if we were in a court of law, Donald Trump is certainly entitled to a presumption of innocence. If he's charged with a crime he's entitled to due process. But right now we're in the court of public opinion, and I think the challenge for him is that these women are acting as witnesses for themselves, and the public is making their minds adding up the women's accounts of being, you know, groped or attacked or just, you know, inappropriately approached by Donald Trump.

And then at the same time you have Donald Trump talking over and over again on these various tapes about his sexual prowess, enjoying over years, you know, this reputation as a billionaire playboy. And, again, I think what's -- what I'm focusing on is the political ramifications of this, is that every day Donald Trump is talking about this, defending himself against this, what he is doing is getting this narrative going about a media conspiracy against him, which is something that his core supporters are responding to.

But if you look at the polls both nationally and in the swing states, it's not helping him expand his support among the voters that he needs. Single women, women with college degrees, suburban persuadable moderate swing voters in places like the suburbs of Philadelphia, suburbs of Cleveland, suburbs of Orlando, and this is the problem for Donald Trump. He doesn't have a year left. He has three and a half weeks. Instead of talking about the issues that might persuade enough voters, he's talking about this day after day after day.

[10:10:08] PAUL: But in his defense he's saying he's talking about it because he's coming out, and wouldn't you defend yourself if you had to? So what do you think he's doing wrong, and what comes next? I say that because he's got these three or four rallies today. This is what people are talking about. He says he's doing it to defend himself. That's why it's still part of the conversation.

SWERDLICK: Well, you know, as he goes out on the stump -- look, there's a degree to which I can't second guess all of the strategy that's going on at Trump Tower. There was a period in this campaign, Christi, right, as we know, where Donald Trump was doing very -- I shouldn't say doing very poorly, he was dropping in the polls after the Democratic Convention, his controversy over his comments about Captain Khan and Captain Khan's parents who spoke at the Democratic Convention.

Shortly thereafter Kellyanne Conway took control of his campaign and we say Donald Trump gain ground on Clinton in the polls. He stayed on message, talked about his core issues about ISIS, about trade. He was using teleprompters at his rallies. And it was working. He was gaining ground on Clinton.

In the last week or two surrounding the allegations and the "Access Hollywood" tape that came out last Friday in the "Washington Post" he has not talked about those issues that voters have -- swing voters have said that they care about. And he's talked more about defending himself.

Again, there's a point to which, yes, he's going to deny these charges. But he has gotten off on these tangents about what the women look like, was he attracted to them, you know, why did they wait so long to come out with the allegations. These things are not relevant. Either the allegations are true or they're false, and he's spending a lot of time when he could be talking about other thing.

PAUL: To many the way that he is defending himself is what, based on everything we've heard and what's been reported is what is disheartening to many. David Swerdlick, we appreciate you being here, thank you.

SWERDLICK: Thank you.

PAUL: Trump's already polling low, as David said, with female voters. Will the stream of women coming forward with these sexual assault allegations drive his number even lower, because there are some that say, I'm still voting for him.

BLACKWELL: Plus, as more of her staffers hacked e-mails surface on WikiLeaks, are they hurting Hillary Clinton's campaign?

PAUL: And will Donald Trump's message be completely off the cuff for the last few weeks of the campaign?

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[10:15:50] BLACKWELL: All right, so we've discussed on the show that Donald Trump is having a tough time in the polls with female voters now that the sexual assault allegations are piling up. Will the GOP nominee be able to make gains before Election Day? Let's talk about it. Joining me now, Amy Kremer, co-chair of Women Vote Trump, and Tharon Johnson, Hillary Clinton supporter, former south regional director for the Obama 2012 campaign. Good to have both of you back here.

So Amy, I want to start with you, obviously. Co-chair of Women Vote Trump, and I ask you these questions in that context. I want you to listen to what Donald Trump said about his accusers at the rallies yesterday. Let's watch.

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TRUMP: It is a phony deal. I have no idea who these women are. I have no idea. When you looked at that horrible night, you said I don't think so. Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.

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. One came out recently where I was sitting alone in some club. I really don't sit alone that much.

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BLACKWELL: You comfortable with what you heard there?

AMY KREMER, WOMEN VOTE TRUMP: Look, I think Donald Trump is trying to defend himself and that's Donald Trump. I think the best thing is to -- and I think any of us would want to defend ourselves. I think that's human nature to want to defend yourself. But then let's get on to the issues.

This is not going to be decided before November 8th. I don't want to -- I mean, these are very serious allegations. I'm not trying to say that they're not. But it's not going to be decided. If there are any charges brought, I mean you're innocent until proven guilty. And the -- it's not going to be decided by November 8th. So let's get on to the issues that matter.

BLACKWELL: Let me say this about that. Your response is very different than his. Mocking them, you know, slumping -- making in many ways a joke out of it, criticizing their looks. That's a very different treatment.

KREMER: But Victor, we all know how Donald Trump is. He's that New York brash. That's him. And you attack him and he attacks back. I mean, we may not agree with it, it may not be how I would handle it or you would handle it. But that's Donald Trump. To me, it's no surprise.

BLACKWELL: Tharon, when you see what's happening here, there is many who say that -- this was the conversation we were having before the accusers came out for Donald Trump, that Hillary Clinton went after her husband's accusers. Now, there's been a lot of reporting that some people have overstated how much she did that. But they're saying that, you know, the lady doth protest too much.

THARON JOHNSON, HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTER: There is really no evidence to actually say or show that Hillary Clinton actually did what she's being accused of. But let's just be fair here. Both candidates have basically endured claims of, you know, people being victimized or whatever. But the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is this -- when Donald Trump just a week ago sat at a table with four women who were accusers and they had been victimized by Bill Clinton, then he went and put them in the front row of the debate, Hillary Clinton did not attack them. She did not say anything about them on the media or anything. She gracefully went through her debate.

Now a week later when Donald Trump accusers, eight of them, come out and say that he sexually assaulted them or he victimized them, he immediately go and starts attacking them and starts blaming it on the media. So me, that's the --

KREMER: Hillary attacked them years ago, yes, she did.

JOHNSON: No, I'm actually being fair. I'm saying Donald Trump is who he always has been. We know who he is. He's a person who does not respect women and doesn't value them. That's fine.

KREMER: I disagree.

JOHNSON: He doesn't. But let's look at the last 30 days, and he has an opportunity to be presidential. Let's not forget here, Amy, he's running for president of the United States. The difference is how do you conduct yourself as a presidential candidate, and to me Donald Trump has failed miserably at that.

[10:20:00] BLACKWELL: When you hear him say that believe me, she wouldn't have been my first choice. He's essentially saying there she's not pretty enough for me to sexually assault. How does that --

KREMER: I mean, we can't say that that's exactly what he's say.

BLACKWELL: OK, then how do you receive that?

KREMER: I don't know how I receive it. Seriously, I am tired of hearing it all. I'm really over it. I am. I'm over it. It's like all we've talked about for days on end. And I understand that it's a story that needs coverage, but not incessantly over and over again. I mean, the amount of time that has been spent on this -- and the fact is that this stuff going on with WikiLeaks and these e-mails coming out --

BLACKWELL: We'll talk about in the next segment.

KREMER: I know we are. But that is about our national security.

BLACKWELL: Here's the problem with that. And we've had other advisors to the campaign, supporters say we need to talk about the issues. You know what I did, I went on and looked at the mediums that each -- that the campaign controls, the press releases, the Facebook page, the Twitter account. They're not talking about the issues. They control those. They're talking about the "New York Times." They're talking about these accusations. They're talking about Hillary Clinton and e-mails. So if the campaign wanted to talk about Donald Trump's plan for the economy, they have -- they control those mediums.

KREMER: First of all, I'm a super PAC, I can't have anything to do with them.

BLACKWELL: I understand that, but when you say we need to talk about the issues, they can but they aren't.

KREMER: I mean, because I live in suburbia, I live out in the suburbs of Atlanta, and we're tired of hearing it. The everyday average person is really tired of hearing it. And they want to get back to the issues because at the end of the day, they have two choices. And they're going to decide on one of these candidates. And so which one is going to make their life better? And that's what the American people want to talk about.

BLACKWELL: All right. All right. There is also an argument that can be made this is an important issue. But we will take a break.

KREMER: But it's not going to be decided by November 8th.

JOHNSON: It is important.

KREMER: I'm not saying it's not.

BLACKWELL: We'll take a break. We'll turn our attention to Hillary Clinton and the WikiLeaks. We'll be right back.

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[10:25:46] BLACKWELL: All right, Amy Kremer, a Trump supporter, and Tharon Johnson, a Clinton supporter back with us. And we're going to turn to WikiLeaks in a moment. But this conversation continues during the break, and I want to ask you something that you're the co-founder of Women Vote Trump. The other co-founder, Kathryn Serkes, was asked about Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's famous quote "There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women." This is what she said to Breitbart obviously before this scandal broke, "What I say is that there is a special place in hell for women who go and attack their husband's sexual victims," talking about Hillary Clinton. Does this apply to Donald Trump?

KREMER: I mean, I don't know when Kathryn said that. I have no idea. I can't speak for Kathryn.

BLACKWELL: But do you believe that -- I'm not going to ask you to endorse her statement. But when -- as the woman who co-founded Women Vote Trump, to see him on stage attack the women who accused him. He could deny them all day. He is innocent until proven guilty.

KREMER: He is innocent until proven guilty.

BLACKWELL: But to essentially say you saw that horrible woman on television.

KREMER: Victor, again, it goes back to that's Donald Trump. I mean, it is -- it may not be the way you would respond or the way I would respond. But that is Donald Trump. And we know that he attacks when he -- he attacks back when he is attacked.

BLACKWELL: And you're still sticking with him?

KREMER: I'm not going with Hillary Clinton.

BLACKWELL: That ain't the question. You're still sticking with Donald Trump?

KREMER: I am.

BLACKWELL: OK, all right.

Let me turn now to WikiLeaks. Hillary Clinton has to keep together -- we've talked about this over the cycle -- the coalition Barack Obama put together in 2008, kept together in 2012, she's trying to keep together in 2016. Part of that, Latino voters in the U.S. I want you to listen what she said in September at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Awards dinner.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You're not strangers. You're not intruders. You're our neighbors, our colleagues, our friends, our families. You make our nation stronger, smarter, more creative. And I want you to know that I see you and I am with you.

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BLACKWELL: Now, as part of the hacking of her campaign chairman's, John Podesta's e-mail accounts, WikiLeaks released them, we can't verify the veracity of the e-mails, and the campaign isn't commenting on them. But here's one from John Podesta to Hillary Clinton, the subject line "Needy Latinos and one easy call," Tharon and in this email one of the calls that needs to be made is to Bill Richardson, former New Mexico governor, member of her husband's cabinet. "Bill Richardson is still on television a lot, especially on Univision and Telemundo, and notwithstanding the fact he can be a d -- " four letters there. "It was worth getting him in a good place." At the event she says "I am with you." Her campaign chairman calls these, at least three needy Latino. Reconcile those for me.

JOHNSON: Well, Hillary Clinton is with Latinos. And we know that she has the best plan to deal with immigration reform, and quite frankly she's been out reaching to Latinos throughout her entire career and especially on this campaign. One of the things that we should add is these are e-mails that have not been authenticated. We don't know if they are actually real emails --

BLACKWELL: Hold on. If it's better than it looks people tell you.

JOHNSON: But here's the thing. We also have to add that Bill Richardson responded and said, listen, John Podesta is a lifelong friend. He knows that John Podesta he does not devalue the input and really the value that Latino's bring of our country. So it's, again, another one of these WikiLeaks emails which is we're in a time where this election has been full of leaks.

BLACKWELL: Are you comfortable to the chairman referring to them as "needy Latinos"?

JOHNSON: We can't confirm that he did respond to them as "needy Latinos."

KREMER: But they haven't denied it.

JOHNSON: My point is that I truly believe that John Podesta and Hillary Clinton genuinely cares about Latinos and really how they can continue to make an impact on our country. She said that. And I think if you go back and look at her plan, and you look at the Latinos on her staff who work every day, I think it was definitely an e-mail that John Podesta didn't say. And I think that ultimately Bill Richardson said is what we should take.

[10:30:06] BLACKWELL: It's been out for a couple of days now, and, again, if it is better than it looks, people tell you. And the Clinton campaign has made a lot of how much words matter. And when you see this e-mail you think what?

KREMER: It goes back to one of the things she said in her closed door speeches, that she has a different public policy and a private policy. So she's not the same person in public that she is behind closed doors. And, obviously, I think this speech and then, you know, how it's written in the e-mail is an example of that.

JOHNSON: One thing I want to say, Victor, I was on the 2012 campaign. Are there conversations amongst staffers and possibly the chair of the campaign about how we can gain a central view, how we advocate to a certain community? Absolutely.

BLACKWELL: Understood.

JOHNSON: But the difference is this, it's what comes out of the candidate's mouth. And we have seen time and time again that Donald Trump has continued -- even on his opening campaign speech last June, disrespected Latinos. BLACKWELL: I see your pivot there. I see your pivot there. But it

seems to dilute the Clinton campaign's claim of Donald Trump's disrespect of Latinos when her campaign chairman writes an e-mail about needy Latinos about a former governor --

JOHNSON: Again, this is not an e-mail that can authenticated. But I think I would encourage you to look at her record, look at her plan, and look at her outreach to the Latino community over the last 30 years.

BLACKWELL: All right, Tharon, always good to have you both here together and in studio.

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BLACKWELL: Earlier I spoke to Marshawn Evans Daniels, a former contestant on "The Apprentice" and CEO of the faith-based website, Godfidence.com." I thought about what she thought about many of the leaders of the Christian community, evangelicals across the country like Jerry Falwell Jr. of Liberty University still standing by Donald Trump after the release of the "Access Hollywood" recording and after some of these accusations.

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BLACKWELL: You are a Christian woman. Your faith is important to you. And we've heard from many of his supporters who are sticking with him through these allegations that Trump is right on life. He's right on marriage, and they're going to stick with him despite what we're seeing in this release and from these allegations. You think of that what?

MARSHAWN EVANS, FORMER APPRENTICE CONTESTANT: I'm really disappointed. And I think there are millions -- actually I know there are millions of people who are believers in Christ and people who believe in God and have values that are appalled and offended that their faith is being reflected as talking points.

There's clearly an agenda. There is in this country through the vestiges of slavery we have to acknowledge exist today. There is an agenda of not just conservatism but self-preservation. In the history of the Christian faith there has been a lot of objection to women being in positions of leadership, women having significant roles of prominence and having a voice.

And so what I tell people is that they should be very careful where they pay their tithes to and where they pay their tuition to. If there is a problem within -- where if in the pulpit it's OK for people to come for praise and for worship and even for prayer, but when those same people that pay into that church are -- their issues are not being truly pastored or reflected, when brown and people -- brown people and people of different socioeconomic backgrounds, when their interest are not being represented, there is supposed to be a separation of church and state. But now we see religious leaders really be an extension of a political party and that's dangerous.

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PAUL: And a reminder for you, this Wednesday is the final presidential debate showdown. Live coverage begins 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on CNN.

And while Donald Trump fights back against sexual assault allegations, one of his sons is facing criticism for his comments about women in the workforce. We're going to hear what he said and talk more next. Stay close.

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[10:36:50] PAUL: We always appreciate your company. Thanks for being with us. I'm Christi Paul.

BLACKWELL: I'm Victor Blackwell.

PAUL: Donald Trump on the campaign trail today in a couple of hours, he's going to be at a rally in New Hampshire and then head to Maine and New Jersey. He is slamming the women who have accused him of sexual assault and denying all of the allegations. This morning he tweeted "100 percent fabricated and made up charges pushed strongly by the media and the Clinton campaign may poison the minds of the American voter. Fix."

He is also saying that the election result will be rigged. "Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail," he writes. "Instead, she's running for president in what looks like a rigged election."

So how will these latest accusations affect his campaign and in the final extremely crucial weeks here before next month's election? Let's bring in Angela Rye, CNN political commentator, former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus and Hillary Clinton supporter, and Jack Kingston, a senior adviser for Donald Trump's campaign and a former Georgia Congressman. Thank you both for being here. Good to see both of you.

JACK KINGSTON, SENIOR ADVISER, TRUMP CAMPAIGN: Thank you, Christi.

PAUL: I'd like to start with you. Get back to that tweet that Donald Trump sent out this morning talking about a rigged election. The polls are not necessarily in his favor right now. Is this a prelude to if things do not go his way, claiming that this whole thing was not on the up and up?

KINGSTON: You know, Christi, I think it's more a thematic message that the system doesn't work for the average voter out there, whether it's economic opportunities, whether it's legal representation, whether it's, you know, Obamacare, healthcare premiums sky rocketing. The system just it is not working for the average person who is unconnected to Washington, unconnected to the media and unconnected to the financial elite.

So I think what he's describing in that message over and over again is that the system has let you down, and I'm not a candidate who is bought and paid for by Washington or Wall Street. And I am going to be the uber of politics. I'm going to change it, put it upside down, and need an outsider to clean up the mess in Washington. So I think this is consistent with what he's been saying for about a year now.

PAUL: All right. Angela, I want to ask you about some comments that were made, Donald Trump Jr., they were harsh. They were words for women in the workforce who may face sexual harassment. Let's listen to what he said, this is back from 2013.

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DONALD TRUMP JR., DONALD TRUMP'S SON: You can't handle some of the basic stuff that's become a problem in the workforce today, you don't belong in the workforce. You should go, you know, maybe teach kindergarten.

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PAUL: This is tough. This isn't Donald Trump saying this, it is his son, Angela. What do you make of it?

ANGELA RYE, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: The biggest issue here is that he thinks kindergarten is not the workforce, but kindergarten teachers also are a part of the workforce. And no one, whether a man, woman, a child, nobody should face any form of harassment or any type of challenge in the workforce.

[10:40:03] It is up to us as Americans, we're supposed to be the greatest country on earth, to make sure that our work environments are comfortable for our citizens. It's ridiculous. And I don't understand why they think that it's up to them to create a hostile work environment. In fact, the very basis of employment discrimination is to ensure you're never creating a hostile work environment. When you have those types of issues that actually flies in the face of everything that this land says about the law.

So he has a major challenge here not only in terms of legality, but also I terms of what type of presidency we would be entering with his father, who also has said if not worse things about women in the workforce. Of course, we know the lists of accusers continues to grow with his candidacy. So his words are terrible.

PAUL: I have to get to this last thing before we let you both go. Hillary Clinton's e-mails here, the whole WikiLeaks situation, and Josh Schwerin put this out there, and he's the campaign spokesman for Hillary Clinton, and he says "We're still not confirming whether or not any of the WikiLeaks documents are authentic and are therefore not commenting on the content."

Here's the thing, if they know that something is false, Angela, would they not be out there saying emphatically that it's false? And by now, surely there's enough out there that they would be able to at least authentic something. If they're not saying it's all a lie, is there an assumption then that it's true?

RYE: I think the people can certainly infer what they want. It sounds to me like the Clinton campaign is trying to shift gears onto what's important about the WikiLeaks document, and that is that there is potentially a foreign government that is not only interfering with e-mails and reading e-mails, and stealing property, basically breaking a entering into the electronic space, but also interfering with our elections. That is the real change.

And it's at the behest, frankly, of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has encouraged this. He's encouraged it at press conferences that they should go and find her other 30,000 e-mails. Those are his words. Those are the words of someone who is running to be commander in chief of the United States. So I think that is where they're shifting gears. Whether or not you agree with the strategy, I certainly understand your point. But I think they're right. This is a national security issue at this point.

PAUL: Jack, I give you the last word.

KINGSTON: It's absurd for them to be saying, oh, we're not going to say if these are authentic or not. They have no credibility. It's an organization that manufactures lies the way Krispy Kreme manufacturers donuts, the way they operate. She came out and said she was for open borders. She said that terrorism was not a problem in the United States. She said you'd have to have one position in private and another position in public.

RYE: You're misquoting all of that.

KINSTON: And these are very relevant. She stands for universal healthcare. They smeared Catholics. And as you just covered, they were making fun of Latinos. This is an organization that has a private code and then a public persona. And if these are non- authentic, then they should come out swinging. Absolutely, that's what a campaign would do. The fact she's not saying anything about it personally, that tells you a heck of a lot in its own self.

PAUL: I'm sorry that we've run out of time. Angela Rye, Jack Kingston, I appreciate your time, both of you thanks for being here.

BLACKWELL: Donald Trump says the recent allegations against him are false. And he's even threatening to sue. But the question is, does he have a case?

First though, castles, cobblestone streets, and antique cars -- one of my favorite cities in the world, Christi's too, the city of Prague quickly becoming a must stop for tourists and a place that can provide business travelers with a luxurious pit stop. It's something fun to do when you're off the clock.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Filled with centuries old buildings with styles ranging from gothic, baroque, art nouveau, and more, the city of Prague in the Czech Republic is like visiting an architecture museum.

ANDREW BOBROV, PRAGUE HISTORY TRIP: Many believe that Prague is the top architectural place in the world. It easily competes with big cities like Paris, Barcelona.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And while traveling there you can see it all for the luxury of one of its finest antiques, a Czech made vintage car.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People enjoy being in the city like this. Driving the old car in the old city, what can be better?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Originally built in the 1920's and 30s, the cars have been restored and are available for hours dies. Cars can usually be found waiting for riders in many of the tourist hotspots. The guided rides give travelers a quick chance to see some of Prague's most famous landmarks and also provide some historical context on the city and its sights.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm about to show you the king road.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All while enjoying a little bit of first class treatment.

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[10:48:43] BLACKWELL: Donald Trump has forcefully denied every allegation against him. He argues the claims are part of a conspiracy to sink his campaign. Let's bring in Laura Coates, CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. Laura, good morning to you.

LAURA COATES, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Good morning, Victor. How are you?

BLACKWELL: I'm very well, thank you. Let's start with this claim that Donald Trump has made on the campaign trail that he and his campaign are now preparing a lawsuit against "The New York Times." Let's remind people that there could be a release of some information that may not benefit Donald Trump with that lawsuit if it's filed.

COATES: Absolutely. And, Victor, out of full disclosure, I was a former associate at the law firm that is not representing Mr. Trump, but I never handled any of his matters. But I can tell you about these sorts of cases, they're very, very difficult to win, because Donald Trump is the quintessential public figure. And he's got to show the actual publication knew or had reason to know it was false, and also that it somehow damaged a reputation he has himself put forward. So it's a very hard thing to actually do.

But more importantly, we're talking about a boom rang effect. When you put forth a libel suit or you're trying to say that anyone has defamed you, you put yourself on the table to be deposed and have to testify about why it's false. That's very dangerous territory for Donald Trump.

[10:50:00] BLACKWELL: Let's talk about the women who are accusing Donald Trump. For many of them the statute of limitations has expired both civilly and criminally. But when Donald Trump stands at the podium at the rallies and says some of them want fame, they want money, they want other things, do they have a case here potentially against him?

COATES: They do when he calls them a liar. Remember, this happened in the Bill Cosby cases when Bill Cosby called his accusers liars, they then had rise to call -- use defamations against him. And remember, the fact you have Twitter going crazy and social media on behalf of Donald Trump who are now vilifying people who are accusing Donald Trump of the sexual misconduct, that gives more rise and credence to their claims, because now they are damages not only by being called but they also now have the vitriol that's spewed against them. So they have a claim that would otherwise never have come to pass because of the lapsed statute of limitations. But now calling them liars, he opens himself up to liability.

BLACKWELL: All right, former federal prosecutor and CNN legal analyst Laura Coates, thanks so much.

COATES: Thank you.

BLACKWELL: Christi?

PAUL: We're just about an hour away from Donald Trump taking the stage this New Hampshire this morning. He's already been on Twitter blasting the media, calling the election rigged. Live pictures for you here of all the people who are waiting to see what he's going to say on stage. We're going to bring it to you live when it happens. Stay close.

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[10:55:19] BLACKWELL: Car accidents are the leading cause of death among teenagers in the United States, more than cancer and homicide combined. This week's CNN hero is battling that shocking statistic, teaching kids how to properly handle themselves on the road in everyday and emergency situations. Meet Jeff Payne.

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JEFF PAYNE, CNN HERO: A lot of parents would never toss their kid a loaded gun and tell them to have fun. But many of them just don't think twice about throwing them the car keys. We just throw the kids out on the road and expect them to be prepared to handle every situation. And that's just not the case. We're just doing our job so we can make a difference out there and make the road safer for all of us.

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PAUL: To see the extreme driving situations Jeff has put thousands of kids through, go to CNNheroes.com.

And I hope you make some good memories today. Thank you for spending a little time with us this morning.

BLACKWELL: There's a lot more coming to you in the next hour of CNN Newsroom. We're going to turn it over to our colleague Fredricka Whitfield right after the break. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[11:00:00] FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: It is the 11:00 hour on the east coast. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm Fredricka Whitfield.