NEW YORK — It began as a about quiet day in the presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were anniversary holed up with their aides on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, advancing for the additional presidential debate, appointed for Sunday night. Draft Matthew, which was churning off the Florida coast, led the Friday-morning newscasts. The Chicago Cubs were alpha a adventure for their aboriginal Apple Series appellation in added than a century. But by midafternoon three abstracted bombshells, all advancing aural the amount of about 90 minutes, threatened to bandy the hunt into chaos.
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First, the top intelligence admiral of the Obama administering arise their acceptance that the Russian government was abaft the hacking of the Democratic Civic Committee advanced in the year. Afresh the Washington Post arise the abominable “Access Hollywood” bandage in which Donald Trump bragged about banishment himself on women. And WikiLeaks dumped its accession of emails from the Clinton campaign, abashed from the annual of attack arch John Podesta.
Yahoo Annual conducted about two dozen on-the-record interviews with top admiral central and alfresco the Clinton and Trump campaigns and the Obama administration, as able-bodied as aloft media abstracts in Washington, New York and beyond, to after-effects an complete articulate history of the wildest 64 hours in avant-garde political history.
The connected documentary blur and online affection present a immediate annual of three cardinal canicule in the attack and acrylic a active annual of the behind-the-scenes brawl that abundant central the Post newsroom, Trump Tower, Clinton attack abode in Brooklyn, Clinton’s Westchester County, N.Y., hotel, and the agitation armpit in St. Louis.
The accounts actualization how Clinton’s attack aggregation — staffed by some of the best accomplished political agents in the country — accolade to breach advanced of the fast-moving events, as annual caked in on their phones, computers, tablets and televisions. The acumen of a key accommodation — to ascendancy off commenting on the “Access Hollywood” bandage for 48 hours — was hotly debated at the time. Meanwhile, the bandage of about amateurs accumulated by Donald Trump, guided by the candidate’s own implacable, certain actuation for self-preservation, barreled advanced in the face of denunciations from all sides, including his adolescent Republicans. Out of desperation, the attack came up with the byword “locker-room banter” to alarm Trump’s animadversion — and devised the achievement of bringing to the agitation a army of women who had abundantly accused Bill Clinton of animal improprieties in years past.
The boundless claiming of that weekend reflect some capital truths about the two candidates and their campaigns: Clinton cool, active and cocooned by staff; Trump instinctual, advancing and absolved by accordance and convention. The aforementioned qualities that acquire so about gotten him in agitation were additionally the ones that rescued him from this crisis. An embarrassment that adeptness acquire assured the career of a added accepted applicant somehow morphed into an befalling for him to actualization off his animation — a assignment the nation is still acquirements about the applicant who emerged boastful from that one amazing weekend, one year ago.
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5 a.m. ET: Hurricane Matthew is about 40 afar east-southeast of Cape Canaveral, Fla., branch north-northwest at 13 afar per hour. The Civic Draft Centermost in Miami warns that the Category 3 storm — which had already dead added than 300 bodies in Haiti — is accepted to after-effects life-threatening altitude for those active alternating Florida’s east coast.
Matthew had already created political controversy. Advanced that week, Hillary Clinton’s attack was criticized for diplomacy ads on the Weather Channel timed to air during the storm. Admiral Barack Obama was affected to abolish a planned assemblage for Clinton in Miami. And Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Trump supporter, denied the Clinton campaign’s appeal to extend the aborigine allotment borderline in Florida.
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7 a.m. ET: “I’m focused on a storm,” Scott says on “CBS This Morning.” “I’m focused on authoritative abiding people, every action is — you don’t lose a life. That’s what I’m focused on now. We’re in the average of a storm.”
David Fahrenthold, reporter, the Washington Post: I had been autograph about Trump’s giving to alms for months. I was in the average of advertisement about claims that he was action to accord money to charity, and aggravating to amount out whether he’d absolutely fabricated acceptable on them. So that was a connected action that complex calling a lot of charities to see if Donald Trump had anytime accustomed the money. So, as I was planning that Friday, it was aloof action to be addition day of array of that reporting. I didn’t acquire any diplomacy to abode a big adventure that day.
Around 9:30 a.m. ET: Trump is at Trump Tower. While he has no attack rallies, he hosts two “roundtable” photo ops in the morning, including one on bound advocacy in which he alleges the Obama administering is axis a aphotic eye to actionable immigrants in the country so they can vote in the election. “They are absolution bodies cascade into this country so they can go and vote,” Trump declares, which lights up Twitter and cable TV.
A few blocks away, Roger Stone, Trump’s longtime political adviser who for weeks had predicted WikiLeaks architect Julian Assange would advertisement damaging absolute about Hillary Clinton on Oct. 1, answers Twitter followers who acquire developed annoyed of waiting. Bean says he was told by a announcer who had interviewed Assange of WikiLeaks’ plan.
“Stay tuned!” Bean tweets. “Assange was delayed by afterlife threats but undaunted.”
“Julian Assange will bear a adverse betrayal on Hillary at a time of his choosing,” Bean tweeted the day before. “I angle by my prediction. #handcuffs4hillary”
Brian Fallon, Clinton’s spokesman: That’s what contributed to our absolute apocalyptic array of faculty that there was commodity about the corner.
Clinton, who has no accessible claiming scheduled, is in Rye Brook, N.Y., at the Doral Arrowwood, a auberge and appointment centermost amid a few afar from Westchester airport, breadth she is advancing for Sunday’s presidential debate.
Ron Klain, arch adviser to the Clinton campaign: We were accomplishing what you do in agitation prep. That morning in accurate we were action over new answers that had been accounting afterwards the aboriginal agitation — new absolute that took into annual a lot of the advertisement that had been done about Trump’s tax return, leaked pages from Trump’s tax return. Secretary Clinton hadn’t been on a date aback then.
They are additionally ambidextrous with addition distraction: A day earlier, Clinton’s claimed email abode had been apparent in a aperture of aloft Accompaniment Department staffer Capricia Marshall’s email annual by the bearding hacker alignment DC Leaks. During Thursday’s agitation prep, Clinton began accepting a battery of abhorrence mail, so aides agilely took ascendancy of her iPhone while they rerouted the messages.
Philippe Reines, a longtime Clinton adviser who played Trump during agitation practice: It’s adamantine to alarm how abominable what she was accepting was. It was advancing in dozens a minute. I don’t advanced a distinct one of them went to the Secret Service, meaning, none of them were like, “I’m action to coursing you bottomward and shoot you.” They were about worse.
Reines is about to duke Clinton her buzz aback aback it begins to ring.
Reines: I didn’t acknowledgment the phone. It wasn’t a masked caller. It was like one of these things breadth it was like, “What’s breadth cipher 928?” Rings again. Altered number. Rings a third time. At this point, it’s appealing bright to me commodity is amiss, so I acknowledgment it. And you apprehend somebody on the band going, “Yo.” And I said, her cardinal is acutely compromised. Her cardinal allegation acquire been about in Capricia’s email. And the attack was attractive and attractive and attractive but couldn’t acquisition it and afresh they begin it. And you know, that’s array of a abundant added affectionate violation. You know, if annihilation else, you can’t change your buzz cardinal in 10 annual like you could change your email address. And she was accepting altercation messages. It was aloof ugly.
Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton attack communications director: So we were ambidextrous with a little bit of after-effects from that, including Hillary accepting to get a new cellphone.
In Washington, Obama administering admiral are advancing to affair a annual accusing Russia of hacking the Democratic Civic Committee.
Jeh Johnson, aloft secretary of citizenry security: Over the advanced of the summer, there came a point aback the intelligence association had assured that the Russian government was abaft the attempts to baffle in the acclamation process, through the hacks to the DNC. And we were seeing this arising annual of scanning and acid about aborigine allotment databases. We accomplished a point, apparently backward summer, aback the affidavit was aloft a reasonable doubt. The catechism afresh became what to do about it. A cardinal of us acquainted absolute acerb that we had to acquaint the American accessible what we knew. In the bosom of the acclamation season, we had to acquaint the accessible what we knew.
James Clapper, aloft ambassador of civic intelligence: We had a cardinal of diplomacy and had debates about it — about whether we should say commodity and what to say. And the arguments revolved about whether if we say commodity — decidedly if the admiral were to say commodity — about what the Russians were doing, would that, first, adorn or amplify what the Russians breadth doing? And secondly, would that be apparent as the administering putting its duke on the calibration in favor of one of the candidates?
Johnson: There was a affair that by authoritative attribution, in and of itself, we’d be abrasive the candor of our acclamation process. This was a bearings breadth the civic advocacy accoutrement of our government was appealing abundant injecting itself into an advancing campaign, which doesn’t arise too often. And so, it appropriate a lot of accurate thought.
Clapper: So we went about and about about this. Jeh and I, particularly, I think, were of one mind, one articulation on this, breadth we acquainted absolute acerb that, animate what we knew, it was acute to allotment that publicly.
Johnson: Don’t forget, we were in the bosom of a absolute acrimonious attack breadth one of the candidates was casting agnosticism on the candor of our democracy, adage that the acclamation aftereffect was action to be chic a ages later. And we were absolute abashed about not arena into absolutely that. We were additionally accepting letters that that may be the Russian government’s exact objective, by hacking into the DNC emails. And so we were affronted with several altered crosscurrents of considerations. In the end, we assured we had to acquaint the accessible what we knew, and that it would be unforgivable if we did not.
Clapper: If the acclamation did go south for one acumen or another, and afresh afterwards it was abstruse that we knew about what the Russians were accomplishing and sat silent, there’d be hell to pay.
Johnson: Then the catechism became, who? At aboriginal we anticipation actively about the intelligence community, and I advanced that was a appropriate call, because this was their appraisal and their judgment. And at one point, Jim Clapper and I absitively we should both affair a statement.
Clapper: Which was, I thought, logical. We could array of lay bottomward the threat.
Johnson: And I’m gonna affair a annual on annual of the Department of Citizenry Advocacy saying, “And here’s what we’re accomplishing about it.” And I bethink sitting abutting to Jim in the Bearings Room, and he slipped me a agenda saying, “Why don’t we aloof affair a collective statement?” And I said, “That’s a abundant idea. Let’s do that.”
Clapper: The cold was to get it out and achieve this about accepted to bodies afore the acclamation of what the Russians were doing.
Somewhere in Moscow, Russian Admiral Vladimir Putin is adulatory his 64th birthday.
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11 a.m. ET: Trump aides say the applicant will blot the draft of the day accomplishing agitation prep. The accession prepping him includes attack arch Steve Bannon, attack ambassador Kellyanne Conway, adviser Stephen Miller, Republican Civic Committee ambassador Reince Priebus, aloft New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who had been arena Hillary Clinton in agitation prep.
David Bossie, abettor Trump attack manager: We were in the appointment allowance on the 25th attic in Trump Tower, breadth we captivated about every one of our agitation basic sessions with Mr. Trump. There was six or eight of us in the room.
At about the aforementioned time at the Washington Post’s offices, Fahrenthold gets a buzz alarm from a antecedent who claims to acquire video of Trump authoritative bawdy comments about women.
Fahrenthold: We didn’t apperceive it was coming, we didn’t apperceive it existed.
The five-minute video captures a hot mic chat amid Trump and Billy Bush during a 2005 taping of “Access Hollywood” on the set of “Days of Our Lives.” Fahrenthold watched the footage on his computer at his board in the Post newsroom.
Fahrenthold: You see a bus active through a backlot in Hollywood — appealing boring. And you apprehend kinda deadened voices. You can’t see Trump’s aperture affective obviously, you aloof see the bus. But afresh afterwards a few abnormal you alpha audition this chat amid Trump and Billy Bush. And, you know, the aboriginal two annual you knew that you were seeing commodity absolutely different.
Trump brags to Bush that he can kiss and grope women because of his celebrity status. “When you’re a star, they let you do it,” Trump says. “Grab them by the p****. You can do anything.”
Fahrenthold: We were appealing acclimated to actuality abashed by Donald Trump, [but] these were things that were aloft what we’d heard before. So I alleged my neighbor, my board mate, over to accessory at it too. And she puts the headphones on and I can see her watching it. She’s covered Russia, she’s covered all kinds of things that are, you know, absolute serious. She’s apparent a lot of things in her life. And she fabricated this babble of, like, abuse and shock and just, like, a glottal “ugh” that I knew, OK, this is — this is absolutely commodity different.
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Fahrenthold: My editor was in band at Accomplished Foods. I don’t apperceive what he was accomplishing at Accomplished Foods on a Friday morning, but he was at Accomplished Foods. So I alleged him and told him, “Look, I got commodity absolutely important. You gotta arise in.” And we array of started the brawl rolling. Because we knew we had this thing, we knew it was absolutely important, we didn’t apperceive who abroad had it. And so we capital to achieve abiding we got it out as fast as we could.
The bandage is accustomed to the Post’s video agents for preproduction.
Fahrenthold: They had to add subtitles ’cause you couldn’t absolutely apprehend the audio that well. They capital to cut it bottomward because the aftermost three annual are arid — it’s aloof Trump accepting a bout of the NBC backlot. And they capital to run it by their lawyers. So they said, “OK, it’s 11 a.m. now. We’ll acquire this accessible by I advanced 3:30.” That was the borderline they gave us.
11:29 a.m. ET: Hillary Clinton tweets: “To anybody in the aisle of Draft Matthew: Breach safe, and apperceive that America is with you.”
Palmieri: I formed for Admiral Obama in 2012 aback we had Superstorm Sandy. And that meant array of a acquittal in the campaign. And bodies chock-full politicking. And given, this was a appealing abnormal year, we didn’t apprehend that there would be some ceasefire. But things would apathetic down. And additional they would apathetic bottomward because you’re advancing for the debate.
Johnson: The Clinton attack accomplished out to my appointment and said, “Candidate would like a appointment on the accretion effort.” I said, “Sure, fine. But I’ll acquire to action the aforementioned affair to applicant Trump.” So I alarm Chris Christie, and I said, “Chris, Secretary Clinton wants a appointment on Matthew. I’m alms the aforementioned affair to the Trump campaign.” And he said, “Sure, I’ll set it up.”
12:15 p.m. ET: Johnson and Joseph Nimmich, afresh abettor ambassador of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, alarm Clinton to abrupt her on Draft Matthew.
Johnson: This was a appealing cogent draft affective up the Florida coast, and so, in any appointment to the president, or the press, or in this case candidates for president, you accord them the briefing about the admeasurement and the furnishings of the hurricane, its acceptable path, the confusion that occurs, and what FEMA is accomplishing about it, what we’ve mobilized, the president’s adversity declarations and so forth. We gave Secretary Clinton the briefing on what happened that day. Forty-five annual later, I alarm Mr. Trump. They put me beeline into his office.
Bossie: The admiral admired the secretary of citizenry advocacy absolute much, ambidextrous with the Secret Service advocacy — and the advocacy for his ancestors was absolute important to him.
Johnson: He was absolute cordial, and he was absolute absorbed in what we had to say. And afresh got off the buzz and apparently alternate to agitation preparation. Neither one of them brought up that they were advancing for a debate. And I bethink thinking, I’ve aloof abreast them on this draft and the abatement effort, but I didn’t acquaint them that we’re animate on finalizing this annual about the Russian government’s arrest in their campaign. Now, the catechism I will consistently acquire in my mind, is whether at that moment aback I batten to him at 1:00 that afternoon, he was acquainted of the “Access Hollywood” video that was bottomward on his head. Didn’t accept to. No, he seemed to be in appealing acceptable alcohol that day.
Around 12:30 p.m. ET: Fahrenthold calls the Trump attack to explain he has a archetype of the bandage that the agenda diplomacy to publish, and to accord Trump a adventitious to comment. He gives the Trump attack a borderline of 3:30 p.m.
Bossie: I was sitting appropriate abutting to Steve Bannon aback my BlackBerry went off. There was a bulletin from Achievement Hicks [Trump’s longtime publicist] cogent me that she had been contacted by the Washington Post anchorman who capital a animadversion on a archetype that he claimed that he had. So I showed my BlackBerry to Steve, handed it to [him], let him apprehend it. We afresh absitively to leave the allowance to altercate it further. We said we weren’t gonna be giving out a animadversion afterwards seeing something.
Conway: We didn’t acquire any tape. We didn’t acquire any transcript. We didn’t apperceive what was happening.
Fahrenthold: I beatific them a archetype of the two minutes, the array of best abhorrent allotment of the video.
Bossie: We apprehend the archetype calm outside. Accepting accepted the admiral now for seven or eight years, it didn’t complete like him.
Fahrenthold: The aboriginal acknowledgment we got aback from them was, “Well, that doesn’t complete like Mr. Trump. That doesn’t complete like commodity he would say. Can you beforehand us the video?”
As Bossie and Bannon altercate the transcript, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and afresh a arch attack adviser, emerges from the elevator coffer and walks over to accompany their conversation. Hicks and Jason Miller, the Trump attack communications director, accompany too.
Bossie: We’re continuing alfresco in the foyer, alfresco of the appointment room. We were accepting a chat about what to do. Obviously, central the allowance is Chris Christie and Reince Priebus still continuing with the agitation basic session, which we had aloof gotten started about 2. And so, aback we started these sessions, we had a aphorism of deride not to arrest them. And clearly, because it’s a bottle wall, they could see us out there. And Reince and Chris were apprehensive what we were doing. It’s never a acceptable assurance when, you know, the arch agents is accepting a ataxia alfresco of the door. So they knew commodity was afoot, they aloof didn’t apperceive what.
The arch agents interrupts Trump’s agitation basic to altercate the tape. According to Conway, aback Trump saw the transcript, he said it didn’t complete like annihilation he would say.
Conway: He said, “It doesn’t complete like me.”
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3:00 p.m. ET: White Abode releases collective annual from the Department of Citizenry Advocacy and Appointment of the Ambassador of Civic Intelligence adage for the aboriginal time about that the Russian government was abaft the acclamation hacking — and that “only Russia’s senior-most admiral could acquire authorized” the operation.
Johnson: As we were autograph this statement, it occurred to me that this is unprecedented. I don’t advanced the United States government had anytime afore accused a adopted superpower about of amid in our political process. And I anticipation that was a big deal.
Joel Benenson, Clinton attack strategist: We had doubtable that the DNC drudge had been done by Russians. It turns out we were right. We anticipation this would aces up some steam, at that point, accustomed the bodies who were adage it.
Karen Finney, Clinton cardinal adviser and attack spokesperson: It was a absolute big deal. At that point you thought, that’s gonna be the news. It was Friday. So the anticipation was that that’s apparently gonna be what we’ll be talking about into the weekend.
Klain: I bethink Jake Sullivan, who was arch the all-embracing agitation basic accomplishment and was Secretary Clinton’s arch adopted action adviser, stepped out to booty a buzz alarm about it.
Fallon: We jumped on a appointment alarm aural the hour afterwards that collective annual was released. That annual was not commodity we had been expecting, to my knowledge.
Reines: The attack absolutely kicked into accessory on the DNI statement.
Fallon: We had a bit of a scramble. We set up a appointment call. Association who were in agitation basic dialed in, as did association who were in the headquarters. Those of us who were in the abode aggregate in actuality at Robby Mook’s appointment and had the alarm on a apostle phone. The brand of Jen and Podesta and Joel Benenson dialed in from the agitation basic site. We talked apparently for 30 or 40 annual about how to accede to the statement. I bethink one of the credibility of altercation on the alarm was, how should we try to ascendancy Donald Trump’s anxiety to the blaze in the after-effects of this collective statement?
Klain: Sullivan came aback in and we chock-full and he abreast Secretary Clinton and the draft of us about what had happened and its significance. And we beatific a little accession of them to carbon a few pages in the agitation book about that to strengthen our answers about Russian arrest in the acclamation — put added acicular challenges to Trump on this. A little aggregation went off to abode that. We alternate to Q&A and practicing for the debate.
Fallon: Several of us acquainted that we should assert that he acquire the allegation of the government, of the Obama administering and accuse and adjudge the Russians’ advanced on our election. Others acquainted that that was too low a bar and that Trump of advanced would booty the befalling to say he accepts the allegation and condemns this aperture of the DNC. Several others of us acquainted that it seemed like it had been appealing abundant a accustomed that no amount what affirmation adeptness apparent about the Russians’ involvement, for whatever acumen he was consistently action to be abashed to criticize Vladimir Putin. We acquainted it would be a acceptable way to jam him to artlessly appetite him to accede that it was the assignment of the Russians.
Bossie: It was a distraction. It, they, somebody was aggravating to get us to be distracted. It wasn’t important to us.
Conway: I about bethink that actuality the day.
Fallon: This was a big moment for us. We assuredly acquainted like this is action to be the aloft affair of the debate. We’re assuredly action to get some arrant assay of this affair we’ve been aggravating to drive home.
Fahrenthold: We’re accepting afterpiece to 3:30, there’s some altercation amid the editors, “Should we beforehand them the video?” So we beforehand it to them, and we acquaint ’em, ‘OK, now the borderline is 4:00. You know, you acquire to get aback to us by 4:00.’
Inside the appointment allowance on the 24th attic of Trump Tower, Trump and his top attack staffers watch the “Access Hollywood” bandage for the aboriginal time.
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Bossie: We watched it together. We all watched it calm at the aforementioned time. We pulled it up on, actually, my iPad, and we watched it on the iPad — the group.
According to the New York Times, Trump agrees to say he is atoning if anyone was offended. Ivanka Trump, who was in the room, makes “an complete case for a full-throated apology.” But her ancestor is unmoved. “As she spoke, Mr. Trump remained unyielding. His daughter’s eyes welled with tears, her face reddened, and she abrupt out in frustration.”
Bossie: Mr. Trump reacted absolutely like I accepted him to, which he’s a absolute calm actuality aback it comes to these types of events. And he, you know, he is somebody who took it in, internalized it and formed on the acknowledgment — “What are we gonna do about it?” — as adjoin to abode on it.
Christie afterwards tells a New Jersey radio base that he apprenticed Trump to apologize. “I fabricated that absolute bright to Donald on Friday aback this aboriginal came out and, you know, apprenticed him to be atoning and atoning because that’s what he needs to be,” Christie says. “This is just, you know, actuality that you aloof can’t, can’t be complex in and shouldn’t alike be thinking.”
3:30 p.m. ET: In Chicago for a brace of clandestine Democratic fundraisers, President Obama makes an unannounced stop to casting his aboriginal vote. Asked by the traveling columnist basin who he voted for, Obama looks up and smirks.
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Jesse Ferguson, Clinton attack abettor civic columnist secretary: The irony is a ages in advanced I bethink us talking about that actuality a big moment because we were aggravating to animate bodies to booty advantage of aboriginal voting. And the admiral accomplishing it would put a spotlight on it that adeptness accession acquaintance of the befalling and animate bodies to do it. And we anticipation that would be a big, important moment. Aback in reality, because of aggregate abroad that happened, not alone did it not become that, but in [the] history books, it was absolutely forgotten.
Earlier that afternoon, Fahrenthold alleged NBC for animadversion on the “Access Hollywood” tape. In her annual about accoutrement the Trump campaign, “Unbelievable,” NBC Annual contributor Katy Tur describes the brawl beforehand central 30 Rockefeller Center: “I was alleged into NBC’s controlling addition about 3:30 p.m. ‘You’re not in trouble,’ the controlling said over the phone. ‘Just get bottomward here.’ The bandage was from 2005. ‘Access Hollywood’ had it in their athenaeum and the Washington Post somehow got ascendancy of it. Because ‘Access Hollywood’ is an NBC Universal property, the Post alleged us for comment, I was told. ‘Go acquisition an appointment and get me a script,’ the controlling said. ‘We go to air as anon as we can get the video into the arrangement and subtitled. Legal and standards has to assay what you abode afore you abode it. Adeptness out to the campaign. We allegation their response. Do it quickly.’”
Fahrenthold: So advancing up on 4, we had accounting the accomplished story. We talked to our attorneys who had absitively that we acquire this was authentic, this was newsworthy, it was the applicant for the admiral of the United States adage these abhorrent things. We were gonna advertisement it whether the Trump bodies were action to animadversion or not. We still capital to accord them till 4 o’clock to comment.
Bossie: You know, we had, you know, one of the best rapid-response communications admiral in the country, Jason Miller, in the room, accomplishing the antecedent abstract of what that acknowledgment would be to the Washington Post, with ascribe from Achievement Hicks and Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway and others that were in the room: Chris Christie, Reince Priebus, myself. And there were others, as well. But, you know, we capital to get commodity out quickly, ’cause the Washington Post was acute us for a response. And we didn’t appetite the adventure to go out afterwards a response. It’s a affectionate of, you know, Backroom 101.
Fahrenthold: I had been advertisement on the Trump attack for a connected time about his charity, and about they aloof never responded to me. They would never alike say, “No comment.” They aloof wouldn’t alarm me aback at all. And I array of accepted that’s what would arise in this case, but it didn’t. In this case, 4 comes and goes, we’re still abashed that NBC or somebody abroad has this bandage and they’re gonna advertisement it. So the editor leaves my board to airing the array of 30 or 40 anxiety to her board to beforehand to advertisement it. And in that walk, in that, you know, 10 seconds, the Trump bodies called. Achievement Hicks said, “Wait, wait, wait. We’re gonna beforehand you a statement.”
The Trump attack sends a annual to the Washington Post:
“This was locker-room banter, a clandestine chat that took abode abounding years ago. Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf advanced — not alike close. I apologize if anyone was offended.”
Conway claims the applicant came up with the byword “locker-room banter” himself.
Conway: That’s Donald Trump. I mean, that’s the way he angle this. And best of what you see, with him, it’s consistently his articulation and his choice.
4:02 p.m. ET: Fahrenthold tweets: “stand by for some annual about @realDonaldTrump….”
4:05 p.m. ET: The Washington Post story about the “Access Hollywood” bandage is arise online.
Maggie Haberman, New York Times reporter: I got an email active from the Washington Post in my inbox. I was asked to try to amount out what was draft central the Trump attack and how they were ambidextrous with it. And everybody had gone dark. So, I was like aimlessly texting bodies and I can’t adeptness anybody.
4:05 p.m. ET: Fahrenthold tweets a articulation to his story.
“I aloof alpha kissing them. … Aloof kiss. I don’t alike wait,’ Trump said. “And aback you’re a ablaze they let you do it.”
Fahrenthold: The affair that absolutely stood out, the abode breadth I acquainted like we were seeing Donald Trump’s actualization arise through was in this band breadth he says to Billy Bush, you know, “You aloof alpha kissing them. I don’t alike stop. And aback you’re a star, they let you do it.” In those words, in “When you’re a star, they let you do it,” there was a awe-inspiring faculty of wonder. Like, he’s not BS’ing for his friend, he is absolutely absorption that he can’t acquire the apple lets him get abroad with this. That he was aloof cogent the complete things he could get abroad with because he was affluent and famous. I anticipation that was one of the best cogent things of that accomplished chat — he’s anecdotic to you about how he angle the apple and what his abode in it is.
Finney: This audiotape absolutely acquainted like it could end him. And not aloof because it was so outrageous, but because it acquainted like it was connected with, you know, addition who was audacious and aloof and aweless of women, but additionally has lived his action in this absolute burst apple breadth you can do whatever.
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Back at the Doral Arrowwood, the Clinton attack learns about the bandage during agitation prep.
Klain: All of a abrupt you apprehension that some bodies in the allowance were a little absent they had apparent commodity on their Twitter or wherever they saw it. There’s a little active chat in the room, and eventually addition said that we should stop, there’s some big news. So we chock-full breadth we were practicing. We had affectionate of taken a addition of the hotel, a appointment breadth of the hotel. And there was a allowance breadth we did best of the agitation convenance and adjoining to it is what they acclimated for groups — a lounge allowance with a agglomeration of bar tables. It was abounding with televisions. We absolved there and affective some candy and addled on the TVs and watched the advertisement on the “Access Hollywood” tape.
Hillary Clinton watches the bandage alternating with her staff.
Klain: I wasn’t absolutely focused on her acknowledgment to it. I was sitting at a table with [senior action adviser] Jake Sullivan. Added bodies were advertisement at added tables. We watched the advantage like everybody else.
Benenson: It was actuality played over and over afresh so you didn’t apprehend it aloof once. And bodies are all beforehand out in this room. And there is blackout for a connected time. Bodies aggravating to blot that this is absolutely complete — and how the hell did the Washington Post get this? — afore conversations started. And I bethink at one point, I was attractive at the adviser and I bethink Hillary Clinton was built-in abaft me — because she hadn’t had cafeteria yet. And so we had taken this breach in agitation basic and she was accepting commodity to eat. And, you know, I saw her face at one point, aloof in complete atheism that we were alert to this advancing from a man who was a presidential candidate, a appointee of a aloft party.
In her attack memoir, “What Happened,” Clinton describes the seeing the bandage for the aboriginal time: “My aggregation and I had accomplished a arduous morning agitation basic session. We had taken a breach for lunch. The television was on in the room, with no volume. Afresh a analyst came on to acquaint admirers that they were about to apprehend commodity vulgar. Boy, was that true. For many, audition the Donald Trump bandage was absolutely sickening. As for me, it fabricated me sad — for women and girls, for men and boys, for all of us. It was … horrible, aloof horrible. It still is. And it consistently will be, because the bandage is never action away. It’s allotment of our history now.”
Finney, who was traveling with carnality presidential appointee Tim Kaine in Denver: I didn’t acquire abundant bandwidth on my buzz to comedy the accomplished tape. But afresh aback we did, to afresh be able to comedy the bandage was absolutely shocking. I bethink I had to comedy it a brace of times. Because I aloof couldn’t acquire that anyone would allocution like that, that addition who was gluttonous to be admiral of the United States of America was so vulgar.
Ferguson: Can you be abashed but not surprised? Is that technically possible? If so, that was the reaction. I advanced everyone’s aperture hit the attic because of how abhorrent it was. But at the aforementioned time, this was who we all believed Donald Trump was and we’d been adage Donald Trump was for months. So there was additionally a array of amount of validation for our connected altercation that he was unfit to be president. That he didn’t acquire the moral actualization that he should to be president.
Finney: Campaigns are so unpredictable. And I bethink cerebration as that array of communicative array of babble was action on, that with Donald Trump, you know, every new adumbration was so abominable and alarming and disgusting, you sorta thought, “Well, what, what added could there be?” So that aback this dropped, it absolutely acquainted like this was the thing.
At Clinton attack abode in Brooklyn, top staffers are animate on a annual in acknowledgment to the cessation by U.S. intelligence agencies that the Russian government was abaft the acclamation hacking. Afresh televisions set to MSNBC beam annual about the tape.
Fallon: The arrangement was acid in with breaking annual about a Washington Post abode about some bandage that had been acquired breadth Trump was quoted adage absurdly sexist things. Aloof audition that, not audition the absolute audio of the bandage yet, best of us anticipation that would be the accessory affair appropriate now because this is the moment we’ve been cat-and-mouse for — to assuredly get absorption for the Russia issue. So let’s accomplishment banging out this statement, get it appropriate so we can bang it out.
But afterwards the audio is played on air, they apprehend the bandage is action to be a huge story.
Fallon: The one acknowledgment I bethink that’s categorical in my apperception is that of Laura Rosenberger, who was the abettor civic advocacy adviser on the campaign. We all were aloof staring at the television and audition it through the accessible aperture and at one point afterwards we array of candy what was actuality said on the audiotape. Laura Rosenberger gasped audibly, and array of abashed her chest and that was the aboriginal moment that array of collection home how abashed women collectively were action to be by this audio that had surfaced.
Benenson: I couldn’t brainstorm that any mother or ancestor of a daughter, brother of a sister would be able to vote for somebody who bragged about and proudly proclaimed that he was basically committing animal beforehand on women and aloof about it.
Fallon and Glen Caplin, the Clinton campaign’s civic spokesman, breach abroad to accomplishment the annual on Russia.
Fallon: We arise it and started circulating it and animate the phones and aggravating to get bodies to still affliction and pay absorption to this affair in the campaign.
J. Todd Breasseale, afresh the abettor secretary for accessible diplomacy at citizenry security, recalls actuality on the buzz with a top arrangement contributor who was animate on a allotment for that evening’s annual advertisement about the DNI annual on Russia. The correspondent, who Breasseale beneath to analyze by name, was aflame about what he saw as an aberrant acknowledgment of a adopted adeptness advancing American democracy. Then, suddenly, he heard the contributor barking to a colleague: “Oh f***! Unmute the TV!” It was a cable annual abode about the Admission Hollywood tape. “You’re not action to f***ing acquire this!” the contributor shouted over the phone. “Dude, I’m sorry, I got to go,” the contributor said, blind up the phone.
Palmieri: You could see your hopes of anytime actuality able to achieve Russia a big affair aloof dissipate.
4:32 p.m. ET: WikiLeaks begins publishing bags of emails acquired in a drudge of John Podesta’s claimed account, including some that accede the abutting apparatus of the Clinton campaign. WikiLeaks architect Julian Assange, who is active in banishment in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, refuses to accede the antecedent of the emails.
Palmieri: Tony Carrk, who was the assay director, was in the allowance with me. And he aloof said, “It looks like some of John Podesta’s emails acquire been leaked too. And I advanced maybe the Bank Street accent transcripts are in it.” And that is aback I said, “I allegation to go booty a walk.” I got up, and I was like, I got my phone. I affronted on Bruce Springsteen, “Take It as It Comes,” and did a brace laps about the Doral Arrowwood outside. And I was like, “OK. This is — I’ve been through, like, a lot of days, but this is absolutely — this one is aloof absolutely off the charts.”
Benenson: Any day that Hillary Clinton and the chat “emails” are in a adventure was action to be a bad day for us. We knew voters were authoritative no acumen amid the WikiLeaks emails and the political emails and John Podesta’s emails and Hillary Clinton’s emails from secretary of state. That was commodity we couldn’t affected unless we were gonna acquire to try to proactively, like, do a tutorial in Hillary’s emails, which would’ve been politically ludicrous. Decidedly in a hunt breadth we acquire an bend that we’re aggravating to maintain.
Fallon: We had a absolute ambiguous suspicion that there was action to be added absolute that would be weaponized adjoin us and that it would apparently be the assignment of the Russians.
Both campaigns see cabal rather than coincidence.
Palmieri: At aboriginal I aloof had to beam because it was so absurd. And acutely not an accident. And to this day I admiration what the aperture of John’s emails was meant to awning up or abstract from. The “Access Hollywood” bandage or Russia? I’m apprehensive about the “Access Hollywood” tape. I’m apprehensive that the “Access Hollywood” bandage came out either through Trump sources or Russia sources to abstract from the administration’s annual about Russia.
Bossie: The aboriginal affair that comes to my apperception is, this is a Clinton operation, a Clinton oppo assay accomplishment to admission the Sunday night agitation advancing up in 48 hours. Pure and simple. And I advanced that, I still acquire that, to do this day, that they were the ones who put it out.
Palmieri: And afresh Podesta’s emails was aloof addition aberration to, you know, to added conceal what was in the absolute anathema advice that was in the administration’s annual on Russia. Now, that could accept farfetched, although I’m not abiding what’s bizarre given, you know, what we apperceive to be true. And it additionally could accept adventuresome because that bandage did aching Donald Trump. But if you’re the Russians, you don’t care.
Stone doesn’t see it that way.
Stone: It was inadvertent. It was coincidental. I don’t advanced it was planned. Aback I acquire annihilation to do with their absolution and annihilation to do with the Billy Bush tape, of course, I’m apperception too.
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As annual about the “Access Hollywood” bandage breaks, Mike Pence is in Toledo, Ohio, bistro a chili dog with his babe at Tony Packo’s Café — a common stop for Republican presidential contenders and their active mates. The restaurant has a bank of active agenda hot dog buns, Toledo’s agnate of the Hollywood Airing of Fame, and reporters are positioned to watch Pence assurance a bun aback aback the accident is alleged off. “Without explanation, the basin was told Pence would be abrogation anon afterwards he accomplished dining, afterwards attractive at the signatures or abashed any added hands,” Politico reports. “The basin was instructed to acknowledgment to the columnist bus and was not acceptable to blur Pence abrogation the restaurant — appropriately stripping them of an befalling to ask Pence for his reaction.”
Jason Chaffetz, Republican abettor from Utah and aloft ambassador of the Abode Oversight Committee: I saw it on the Drudge Report, as I anamnesis and afresh I absolutely clicked through to see the absolute video and watch it for myself, so I could achieve my own determination. And it was grotesque. It was embarrassing, it was wrong.
Fahrenthold: [At the Post] we acquire this array of, like, ambagious way about talking about atrocious things like that, sex things in particular. So, lying and sex, two things that we like to alarm in absolute bizarre terms. And so in this case we struggled with both what anathema chat we were action to use, you know, basically this had every accessible anathema word.
The aforementioned affair plays out in newsrooms about the country. The New York Times chooses not to abridge Trump’s comments in its commodity about the tape.
On CNN, correspondent Brianna Keilar describes the “Access Hollywood” bandage to admirers during “The Beforehand With Jake Tapper,” censoring herself on the fly. “‘I did try and eff her, she was married,’ Trump says. And afresh a little afterwards goes on to allocution about how, you know, ‘I’m automatically admiring to beautiful. I aloof alpha kissing them, it’s like a magnet, aloof kiss, I don’t alike wait. … And aback you’re a star, they let you do it, you can do anything.’ … And Trump says, ‘Grab them by the —’ and he uses a chat that begins with p, which is a argot appellation for women’s genitalia, he says, ‘You can do anything.’”
Keilar additionally reads Trump’s annual that defends the comments as “locker-room banter.”
4:53 p.m. ET: Chuck Todd tweets: “They don’t absolutely advanced this is a acceptable response, do they?”
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Bossie: The acknowledgment to our acknowledgment was, you know, in hindsight, what we anticipation it would be, which is, we allegation to do more. And that’s aback we absitively to do the video, you know, that evening.
4:55 p.m. ET: Hillary Clinton tweets: “This is horrific. We cannot acquiesce this man to become president.”
5:25 p.m. ET: Stephen Colbert retweets Clinton: “Gotta be a typo. Appealing abiding Hillary said ‘This is terrific!’”
In Westchester, top Clinton agents adjudge to booty an aboriginal banquet breach while they agitation the tape’s acceptation — and how to respond.
Reines: I advanced we had the aforementioned acknowledgment as the draft of the world, like this is — how do you arise aback from that? It wasn’t like anybody was, “Let’s alarm it a day and go to the bar.” But it was this, I mean, how abundant added adverse can it get?
Klain: I bethink aback we aboriginal heard the tape, I absolutely affronted to Jake Sullivan and said, “This is not action to change anything.” We had a big, active agitation about that. I said, “Look, as abhorrent as this is, none of the bodies who are voting for him will acquire their apperception afflicted by this.” I will say that was a able boyhood actualization in the room. Best bodies anticipation this was affectionate of either the end for Trump or a adverse draft and a lot of belief began to agitate in the allowance about whether Trump would arise to the agitation on Sunday.
Palmieri: Did she allegation to say annihilation added in actuality advanced of the debate? It was Friday night. Sunday night seemed like a absolute connected time away. Or could we delay and acquire her not allege until the night of the agitation on it? She anticipation she should wait. She anticipation that it’d be added able for the aboriginal time bodies apprehend from her directly. She’d be on the date adverse him and adage this to his face.
Benenson: I had no agnosticism in my apperception that this would be the aboriginal catechism in the agitation and we could bang it afresh in advanced of a nationally televised audience.
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Palmieri: At aboriginal I had anticipation that she should say commodity advanced — and that it seemed like a absolute connected time to get through afterwards audition from her. But she thought, it’s apparently gonna be bigger if I wait. And the added I anticipation about it and accepted what she capital to say to his face, I anticipation that was gonna be a appealing able moment.
Benenson: I was abashed as hell to get into the acreage [to conduct polling]. We talked about whether we should beforehand our polling agenda and go in appropriate away. And we thought, No, let’s let it settle. Let’s let it bore in for a brace of days.
Fahrenthold: The Post has an centralized arrangement we use to clue web use, cardinal of bodies account the adventure at one time. On your computer, it’s a little dial, like, a spin-o-meter. And it was, like a Bugs Bunny animation that the spin-o-meter started spinning around. Instead of action like this, it was action about like that. We absolutely bankrupt the arrangement that was brash to clue traffic. We had so abundant cartage that the arrangement to clue web cartage broke. I was not assured that, but by the, you know, like, an hour in, you could acquaint it aloof was gonna be commodity absolutely different.
5:30 p.m. ET: Pence attends a advanced appointed assemblage in Rossford, Ohio. He ignores the controversy, instead application his accent to allocution up Trump’s administering and his adeptness to be a able administrator in chief. Afterwards, he tries to avoid questions on the controversy: “Governor, how can you avoid this question?” one anchorman asks. “Invariably, they’ll say, this time we got him. This time we begin that there’s addition cheep arise out or something,” Pence replies. “This time we got addition thing, addition affair that’s arise forward. Afresh they about-face on the abutting television the abutting morning, and Donald Trump is still continuing stronger than anytime afore and affronted for the American people. And he is action to action all the way to the White House.”
Privately, though, Pence is “beside himself” about the “Access Hollywood” tape, and his wife is furious, the Associated Columnist reports. According to the New York Times, he calls Trump afterwards the assemblage to appetite him to actualization humility.
6:25 p.m. ET: Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s aloft attack ambassador affronted CNN analyst, offers his acknowledgment to the tape: “Look, I advanced what this comes bottomward to, and this is not a surprise, is acutely this is not how women should be announced about. But we’re not allotment a Sunday academy abecedary here. And I appetite to be absolute bright about this. And what we apperceive about Donald Trump, this is 12 years ago, this audiotape. And it does not reflect or accompany to apperception the Donald Trump that I’ve spent 18 months with traveling. I’ve never heard annihilation like this out of him. And so let me say, we’re appointing a leader. We are electing a baton to the chargeless world, we’re not electing a Sunday academy teacher.”
7:05 p.m. ET: Jeb Bush: “As the grandfathering of two adored girls, I acquisition that no acknowledgment can alibi abroad Donald Trump’s amiss comments aspersing women.”
7:23 p.m. ET: Reince Priebus: “No woman should anytime be declared in these acceding or talked about in this manner. Ever.”
7:31 p.m. ET: John Kasich: “Make no mistake, the comments were amiss and offensive. They are indefensible.”
Klain: At some point at time, 7 or 8 o’clock, I absolved into one of the apartment and Jen and Podesta were in there busily scribbling abroad on a notepad. And I said, “Hey, what’s action on?” And they told me the aboriginal accession of the emails had been dumped.
7:42 p.m. ET: Podesta tweets: “I’m not blessed about actuality abashed by the Russians in their adventure to bandy the acclamation to Donald Trump. Don’t acquire time to amount out which docs are complete and which are faked.”
Klain: We talked about what was in some of those emails. And so I beatific addition little accession of bodies off to abode agitation answers about what was in those emails.
Fallon: Immediately there was an accomplishment to try to acquire what they had and what they were auctioning out. The triage was draft by ecology Twitter. Reporters were alternative it quicker than we could.
Palmieri: Back in Brooklyn, they set up an operation to alpha analytic through all of his emails to acquire bigger what was, you know, what was there. Had a big aggregation of bodies accomplishing that. It was a lot of emails. John was, you apperceive — you feel really, absolutely exposed. And powerless.
Benenson: The aboriginal footfall was to say, We’re not gonna validate anything. We’re not gonna accredit anything. This was baseborn emails. And we’re not gonna get into that bold with anybody in the columnist or anybody else. So that’s your job. You go amount out if they’re accurate or not. As I said to one editor afterwards on afterwards the campaign, I said, “You know, you suggesting that we should validate or invalidate would be like, you know, Woodward and Bernstein action to Richard Nixon and saying, ‘Hey, is what Deep Throat cogent me true?’ You know, that’s your job as journalists. You go do the work. Don’t aloof booty it from an bureau that you apperceive has ties to Russia, who you aloof abstruse is meddling with our election.”
Clinton, who had gone to her Chappaqua, N.Y., home for dinner, does not acknowledgment to the hotel.
Klain: We told her not to bother to arise convenance because the bearings was so fluid.
7:54 p.m. ET: Clinton tweets a agenda attack ad that uses a blow from the “Access Hollywood” tape.
“Women acquire the adeptness to stop Trump.”
9 p.m. ET: On Fox News, Bill O’Reilly plays allotment of the bandage of Trump’s comments, but omits the crudest part: “In 2005, Donald Trump was accomplishing a articulation with ‘Access Hollywood.’ He was speaking with the ball anchorman Billy Bush abreast about women. The Washington Post somehow acquired that audiotape. I’m not action to comedy too abundant of it because it’s awkward guy talk. But here’s a sample: ‘I bigger use some Tic Tacs in case I alpha kissing her. You apperceive I’m automatically admiring to admirable — I aloof alpha kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Aloof kiss. I don’t alike wait. And aback you’re a ablaze they let you do it. You can do anything.’”
Meanwhile, added arresting Republicans alarm on Trump to affair a full-throated apology.
9 p.m. ET: House Majority Baton Kevin McCarthy: “There is absolutely no abode for that array of conduct or accent in our society. Donald Trump allegation achieve a abounding and amateur apology.”
9:04 p.m. ET: House Apostle Paul Ryan: “I am sickened by what I heard today. Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified. I achievement Mr. Trump treats this bearings with the calmness it deserves and works to authenticate to the country that he has greater account for women than this blow suggests.”
Conway: People were saying, “This is it. It’s done. It’s over.”
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Haberman: Democrats were calling and chortling. I was accepting calls from absolute aflame Democrats. And very, absolute abashed Republicans. I got a alarm from a Republican architect who was animate with the attack who was weeping, because the apprehension is that this meant that Trump was done, and that this was such a blend for the party.
Chaffetz: It aloof looked like a acute bearings for us and I’m abiding the Clinton affected was jumping up and bottomward with joy.
Finney: There was never a celebration. And that’s abundantly because, you know, if you’ve done abundant campaigns you apperceive that October is absolutely strange. And a lot of aberrant things happen. It is absolute unpredictable. And I advanced at the time, I absolutely acquainted like, and I advanced others did, that it was too unpredictable.
Klain: I never anticipation this was action to be a bold changer. I never anticipation Trump was action to bead out and I never anticipation his key supporters were action to carelessness him.
Ferguson: There was not a catechism that he was anytime action to bead out. I’d never affected he would. But there was a moment aback I anticipation the Republican administering adeptness block him.
Benenson: I advanced added bodies at aboriginal thought, you know, how can he survive this? Republicans were starting to about-face on him appealing quickly.
Palmieri: We’d apparent moments like this before. We’d apparent moments breadth Republicans would get abashed in the moment about commodity Trump had said or done and accede bound — in a array of attack to ambit themselves from him. But they would consistently arise aback around.
Klain: As the black played on and a few arresting Republicans came out and aloft doubts about it, I advanced there was some bliss by some associates of the team.
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Ferguson: At some point there was alike a brash altercation about how we achieve abiding to not let expectations of the appulse of this get agitated abroad aback we knew abounding able-bodied that the hunt would still not be over. We knew bodies would affirmation it was. But we didn’t acquire the hype.
Reines: No one, atomic of all Clinton, anticipation that this was in any way a bang dunk.
They additionally abashed about the animation the bandage could accompany to the race.
Palmieri: If you’re in the lead, adherence is your friend. If you’re not, you apperceive — we didn’t allegation to mix up this hunt any added than it was.
9:24 p.m. ET: The Clinton campaign releases a annual on the U.S. acknowledging Russia was abaft the acclamation hacks: “It should affair every American that Russia is accommodating to appoint in such adverse acts in adjustment to advice Donald Trump become president.”
A brace of Trump aloft GOP rivals — and two of his admired targets — cheep their antipathy for his comments.
9:30 p.m. ET: Marco Rubio tweets: “Donald’s comments were vulgar, arrant & absurd to justify. No one should anytime allocution about any woman in those terms, alike in private.”
9:36 p.m. ET: Ted Cruz tweets: “These comments are advancing and inappropriate, there is artlessly no alibi for them.” And: “Every wife, mother, babe — every actuality — deserves to be brash with abode and respect.”
Sometime on Friday night, Billy Bush releases a annual via NBC News: “Obviously I’m abashed and ashamed. It’s no excuse, but this happened 11 years ago. I was younger, beneath mature, and acted absurdly in arena along. I’m absolute sorry.”
10 p.m. ET: Senate Majority Baton Mitch McConnell says Trump’s comments are “repugnant, and unacceptable in any circumstance” and makes bright his abrupt annual would not suffice. “As the ancestor of three daughters, I acerb acquire that Trump needs to apologize anon to women and girls everywhere, and booty abounding albatross for the absolute abridgement of account for women apparent in his comments on that tape.”
Stone: There’s no catechism the sunshine soldiers are branch for the exits. These are bodies who abundantly don’t apperceive Donald Trump. Aloft all, he’s not a quitter. It’s aloof not in his makeup. But yes, there were a lot of depressed bodies that day. And normally, in a accustomed presidential contest, this would be a absolute matter. But there was annihilation accustomed about the absolute election.
Chaffetz announces he is abandoning his endorsement of Trump, acceptable one of the aboriginal arresting Republicans to do so.
Chaffetz: “I talked through it with my wife and anticipation about it and I like to advanced I alarm assurance and strikes as I see ’em and I aloof said, Look, I’m out. I can’t endorse a actuality who’s action to be acting like that.”
On “CNN Tonight With Don Lemon,” Chaffetz says: “Julie and I, we’ve got a 15-year-old daughter. Do you advanced I can accessory her in the eye and acquaint her that I endorse Donald Trump for admiral aback he acts like this?”
Ferguson: That was the moment. If there is one moment that is both indelibly seared in my academician but additionally cogitating of what happened in this campaign, it’s Jason Chaffetz. It’s watching him lie on CNN, alarm in, accurate his disgust, say he can’t accessory his babe in the eye if he stands by Trump, announces he’s out and you apperceive advancing from the man who had been arch the witch coursing adjoin [Clinton], it was a, you know, beauteous moment that fabricated me advanced that the Republican Affair that this adeptness acquire been the harbinger that bankrupt the camel’s aback for the Republican Party. And afresh whatever it was, 72, 96 hours later, Chaffetz is aback and advertisement he’s voting for Trump.
10:45 p.m. ET: At Wrigley Acreage in Chicago, the Cubs defeat the San Francisco Giants 1-0 in Bold 1 of the Civic League Division Series.
Back at Trump Tower, Trump continues to argue with top aides in his 25th-floor appointment about how to accede to a crisis that is bound spinning out of control. Aides afterwards acquaint reporters that Trump capital to acquire a Friday night annual conference, but his aides, backed up by his accouchement Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric, allocution him out of it, abashed it would achieve things worse. It is absitively backward Friday that Trump will affair a annual via video to try and axis GOP defections.
Haberman: I heard from a antecedent that they had put in a appeal to get an ad crew, like an advertisement aggregation absolutely quickly, like a blur aggregation cutting him. They didn’t end up I advanced application that crew, they had to do commodity altered from aural their own headquarters.
Shortly afterwards midnight, Trump issues a videotaped statement:
“I’ve never said I’m a absolute person, nor affected to be addition that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words arise today on this added than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me, apperceive these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, it was wrong, and I apologize. I’ve catholic the country talking about change for America. But my attack acquire additionally afflicted me. I’ve spent time with afflicted mothers who’ve absent their children, alone workers whose jobs acquire gone to added countries, and bodies from all walks of action who aloof appetite a bigger future. I acquire gotten to apperceive the abundant bodies of our country, and I’ve been ashamed by the acceptance they’ve placed in me. I acceding to be a bigger man tomorrow, and will never, anytime let you down. Let’s be honest. We’re active in the complete world. This is annihilation added than a aberration from the important issues we are adverse today. We are accident our jobs, we are beneath safe than we were eight years ago and Washington is broken. Hillary Clinton, and her kind, acquire run our country into the ground. I’ve said some absurd things, but there is a big aberration amid words and actions. Bill Clinton has absolutely abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, abashed and abashed his victims. We will altercate this added in the advancing days. See you at the agitation on Sunday.”
Chaffetz: That was a absolute lame, insincere apology. I acquainted like he was acknowledgment because he got caught, I didn’t feel like he was speaking from his heart. He was account off a teleprompter and it showed.
Stone: It looked like a earnest video, I mean, you could see that he was black accomplishing it. You know, look. One of Trump’s rules is never apologize. It’s absolutely not in his makeup. In this occasion, I advanced he accepted that what he anticipation at the time was kinda regular, locker-room banter, now on the big date of presidential backroom looked terrible. I advanced he was a little affronted at himself. It’s additionally the alone time I advanced that I saw Trump breadth he absolutely seemed dejected.
Haberman: It was the alone time in my anamnesis that Trump has anytime been humiliated, honestly. By that I beggarly he acquainted abashment in a way that you could identify. It’s the alone time I’ve anytime apparent him acquaintance abashment that he couldn’t affectation as courage in some added way.
Stone: I’ve accepted Donald Trump for 40 years. He doesn’t apologize. During the presidential attack of 2012, aback Mitt Romney issued one of his account affliction for commodity brainless that he did, Trump was advancing his beard out. “What’s amiss with this guy? Why does he accumulate apologizing?” So it was out of character. I additionally advanced at the time, it was politically all-important and it did advice annihilate the, you know, the scandal, as it were.
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Meanwhile, the Clinton attack agents is at the auberge discussing how Clinton should abode the “Access Hollywood” bandage when Trump’s video is released.
Benenson: We’re all continuing at the bar, cat-and-mouse to see what Trump does — like, there’s a bar in this room. We’re not out in public. But we’re alert to the TV, air-conditioned out afterwards agitation prep. We’ve affectionate of accomplished our work, waiting, like, what are they gonna do? He hadn’t said anything, which to us was amazing.
Reines: Some of us were in the boyhood assessment that he was not action to see this as commodity he capital to abatement on his brand about, aback that’s aloof not his style. And that he would be appealing Trumpish about it.
Benenson: And afresh you kinda get this midnight earnest video with his affected acknowledgment to nobody, in reality.
Reines: We watch it calm and for the aboriginal minute I was like, “Wow, was I wrong,” because he’s adage all the appropriate things. And afresh it aloof went off the rails. It was “Bill Clinton has said worse.” It’s not like we anticipation he was action to accession the white flag. And his Friday night video annual fabricated bright his mindset.
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Klain: Right afterwards the earnest video, it was acutely bright Trump was blockage in the race. It was acutely bright he was advancing to the agitation on Sunday. And Trump was advancing not with his addendum amid his legs but with his claws apparent and we bare to get accessible for that. Afresh the catechism was should she go out and say commodity Saturday morning or should we save it for the debate. Our accord that we accomplished apparently by 1 o’clock in the morning was, let’s aloof save it for the debate. We didn’t appetite to accord Trump the account of the aback and alternating over the weekend. We capital the focus to be on him and him arresting with it.
Fallon: Why blend with commodity that was arena out as angrily for him as it possibly could have? She can’t say annihilation that would backpack added weight than associates of his own affair aren’t saying. We didn’t appetite to undertake any achieve that would account partisans to retreat aback into their corners breadth Republicans reflexively started arresting him aloof because Hillary attacked him.
Benenson: There’s a aphorism in politics: Aback addition is in the average of a bits storm, you don’t get in the average of it, right? And you know, this was of such a scale, that we said, well, let’s see if they can wind their way out of it.
Fallon: Let’s acquire her breach dark, not counterbalance in. Let’s let this pile-on continue. The added advantage of captivation her aback and befitting her in reserve, it would ensure that whatever she said at the agitation would be the annual of the debate.
Haberman: They did admit that there was there was commodity abounding about this in acceding of her because of her husband. And so Trump and women was consistently a appealing alarming breadth for her. And this was no exception.
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It’s the eve of the additional presidential debate. Reporters atom several Trump aides and admiral entering Trump Belfry aboriginal in the morning, including Chris Christie, Kellyanne Conway and Rudy Giuliani. Hillary Clinton allotment to the Doral Arrowwood Auberge in Westchester to adapt for Sunday night’s debate. The “Access Hollywood” bandage is front-page annual about the world. The U.S. government’s acknowledgment that Russia was abaft the acclamation hacking is not.
Jeh Johnson: It was below-the-fold annual that day, literally, because of the “Access Hollywood” video. I aces up the Post, and I aces up the Times, and it is absolutely below-the-fold annual in both newspapers. I was assured it to be aloft the fold, not full-banner, but at atomic maybe a quarter-banner. And it was below-the-fold news. This was the United States government accusing the Russian government of interfering in our acclamation through cyber-hacking activity. That’s a big deal, and I accepted it to be aloft the fold, and I accepted it to be commodity that would acquire a lot of bill over the afterward days. And that it would be a continuing chat with added questions from the press. How do we apperceive this? What is the admeasurement of it? And so, the columnist had gone off to the added end of the affirmation ’cause of acquisitiveness and sex and groping.
Chaffetz: I started to apprehend how abundant my own comments had been retweeted and spread. I was a little abashed by that.
Fahrenthold: Saturday I’m at the grocery abundance acrimonious up commodity for my family, and I saw my buzz that Jason Chaffetz, the, you know, afresh the Abode Oversight Committee chair, the guy who had accustomed Hillary Clinton so abundant agitation about Benghazi, addition who was array of like a moral ascendancy in the Republican Party, said, I advanced the words were, “I’m out.” You know, “I can’t accessory my boyish babe in the eye and say I accurate Donald Trump.”
In Westchester, the Clinton attack is advancing for the agitation — and for the assured questions about the “Access Hollywood” bandage she’ll face at the debate.
Klain: We did a lot of Q&A with her. We acutely spent a lot of time animate on alteration her Russian answers to try to achieve them added pointed, drafting and practicing some answers about what we anticipation were the best acceptable WikiLeaks-related questions about the Goldman accent and aggravating to amount out what she should say and how she should say it about the “Access Hollywood” tape. What to say about it. We crafted it that morning. Karen Dunn and Mandy Grunwald took the pen themselves, and I did a lot of the antecedent drafting. Sometime midmorning, the two of them presented some account about the answers, and afresh Secretary Clinton herself sat in the allowance and talked through it with us at some length. And afresh through redrafts we got at her amount answers.
Palmieri: She practices what she, you apperceive … we acquire that what’s gonna amount is that moment breadth she confronts him.
10:48 a.m. ET: Trump tweets for the aboriginal time aback his acknowledgment video: “Certainly has been an absorbing 24 hours!”
Haberman: I volunteered to go pale out Trump Tower. I acquainted we bare to be there. We acutely were not alone. And It was grim. I mean, we were all array of in the lobby. All these reporters are blind out. We couldn’t get chat from upstairs. Trump was aloof cloistered, like, central the tower. And we would hunt bodies who came in and out. Jared was about admitting Shabbat. Ivanka did not come, but Jared did actualization up. And he went in through a ancillary aperture so we couldn’t see him. Christie was there at one point; Reince was there at one point. Rudy Giuliani. And Kellyanne Conway. Bannon, I think, was there too. And we all were cat-and-mouse to see: Would he bead out? What was action to happen?
At some point in the morning, Trump gives an interview to Monica Langley of the Bank Street Journal — the aboriginal of two bi-weekly interviews he does that day. Trump tells Langley there is “zero chance” he will abdicate the race. “I never, anytime accord up,” Trump says. “The abutment I’m accepting is unbelievable, because Hillary Clinton is a angrily awry candidate.” Langley asks how his babe Ivanka and wife, Melania, reacted to the tape: “I was with Ivanka yesterday; I’m with Melania now. They absolutely understand, and they’re absolute loyal.” As for supporters’ reactions, he says, “People get it. They get life.”
Sometime afore 11 a.m. ET: Trump calls Robert Costa at the Washington Post, reiterating his abnegation to abdicate the race. “I’ve been actuality before, I’ll acquaint ya, in life,” Trump says. “I acquire action and how you achieve it through. You go through things. I’ve been through many. It’s alleged life. And it’s consistently interesting.”
11 a.m. ET: Hurricane Matthew makes its fourth and final landfall over the Cape Romain Civic Wildlife Refuge abreast Myrtle Beach, S.C., as a Category 1 hurricane. About 600 deaths were abhorrent on the storm, including 548 in Haiti and 47 in the United States, breadth it acquired added than $10 billion in accident — authoritative it afresh the 10th costliest in U.S. history.
Mid- to backward Saturday morning, Trump and his arch agents accumulate central his abode on the 64th attic of Trump Tower.
Bossie: There were abounding of us in the allowance — Governor Christie, Rudy Giuliani, Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon, myself, Reince Priebus. Jared and Ivanka would acquire been there, but it’s during Shabbat and they did not attend. We sat about the room, in a amphitheater and discussed altered opportunities that presented themselves. What should we do? What could we acquire done better? How do we try to get accomplished this to tomorrow night’s debate? With that, Reince came into the affair late, actually. He was advancing up from D.C. He had alternate to Washington Friday evening, and he came up on the alternation Saturday morning.
Conway: Reince was asked by Mr. Trump, “What are you audition from added people?”
And of advanced officeholders were all adage what they said. Some unendorsed him. Some never accustomed him. Some said they were action to abode in Mike Pence’s name. But he was asked, “What are you audition from adopted officials?”
Bossie: Reince’s position was that things did not accessory good. That affair elders, administering in the Abode and Senate and Republican Party, and donors were absolute nervous, some jumping ship. And he said Trump had two choices: He could lose the bigger balloter barrage in American history or he could bead out of the hunt and let somebody abroad be the nominee.
Conway: I advanced Reince was reflecting, “Here’s what they think. They advanced that you could lose and that you’ll annoyance them bottomward with them.”
Bossie: The draft of us were a little bit abashed by the absolutely aboveboard and honest way he put it. The president’s acknowledgment was incredible, which was, “You know, Reince, if that’s what the party’s action to do to me, afresh I’ll lose. They shouldn’t be active abroad from me. This is commodity that I will get through and it will not be a problem. But added importantly, Reince, I’m action to win.” That was his response. “I’m action to win.”
Trump went about the allowance and asked anybody for their opinions.
Bossie: “What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? Gimme a percentage. You know, what am I gonna — am — am — am I in this thing? Am I outta this thing? Everybody accord me your percentage.” And, you know, I’m not gonna say what everybody said, but lots of bodies said, “This is a challenge. This is action to be an acclivous fight. A lot of this will depend on tomorrow night’s agitation performance.”
Conway: I acquainted he should breach in the race. Absentee ballots were already actuality filed in some states, I’m appealing sure. But he should breach in the hunt unless he acquainted that he was no best able and accommodating to be the appointee for the Republican Party. My analytic assay was, “You’ll booty a hit in the polls. But they will consistently do what the larboard consistently does, and what Secretary Clinton consistently does, which is not arise up with a compelling, persuasive, adhesive and absolute bulletin of her own, and they’re gonna beforehand the envelope too far on this. Everybody will be talking about this. You allegation to go out and allocution about aggregate else.”
Bossie: I wasn’t absolutely at 100 percent, but I was close. I said, “If we do these things accurately and the agitation achievement tomorrow night matters. And if you arise out of the agitation achievement tomorrow night animate and on an upswing, we’re gonna win this thing.” Steve Bannon was the alone one in the absolute allowance who said, “100 percent victory, not alike a catechism about it.”
https://twitter.com/CarlyFiorina/status/78478180514878669111:45 a.m. ET: Carly Fiorina calls on Trump to footfall abreast for Pence.
12:56 p.m. ET: Pence changes advanced from his acknowledgment on Friday night and issues a annual added analytical of Trump, adage he can’t avert his active mate: “As a bedmate and a father, I was affronted by the words and accomplishments declared by Donald Trump in the 11-year-old video arise yesterday. I do not disregard his animadversion and cannot avert them. I am beholden that he has bidding anguish and apologized to the American people. We adjure for his ancestors and accessory advanced to the befalling he has to actualization what is in his affection aback he goes afore the nation tomorrow night.”
2:58 p.m. ET: Melania Trump releases a statement: “The words my bedmate acclimated are unacceptable and abhorrent to me. This does not represent the man that I know. He has the affection and apperception of a leader. I achievement bodies will acquire his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues adverse our nation and the world.”
3:03 p.m. ET: Tic Tac USA, which Trump name-checked in his altercation with Billy Bush on the “Access Hollywood” bus, releases a annual break the aggregation from the Republican nominee: “Tic Tac respects all women. We acquisition the contempo statements and behavior absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable.”
In Wisconsin, Paul Ryan bliss off his assemblage afterwards Trump or Pence. “There is a bit of an albatross in this room,” Ryan tells the crowd. “It’s a adverse situation, I’m serious, it is.” The abode apostle is heckled by Trump supporters throughout his remarks.
Trump afterwards tweets: “Thank you to my abundant supporters in Wisconsin. I heard that the army and activity was unreal!”
Meanwhile, statements from GOP leaders abandoning their abutment for Trump crawl in throughout the day.
John McCain, Republican abettor from Arizon: “Trump’s behavior this week, absolute with the acknowledgment of his analytical comments about women and his boasts about animal assaults, achieve it absurd to abide to action alike codicillary abutment for his candidacy.”
John Kasich, Republican governor of Ohio : “Donald Trump is a man I cannot and should not support. The accomplishments of the aftermost day are disgusting, but that’s not why I accomplished this decision, it has been an accession of his words and accomplishments that abounding acquire been admonishing about. I will not vote for a appointee who has behaved in a abode that reflects so ailing on our country. Our country deserves better.”
Fallon: Some of us reacted on Friday night like, “Well, this is aloof action to be addition one of those things breadth he says commodity that should be disqualifying but isn’t.” As alarming a annual as it is, we apparently shouldn’t get our hopes up too aerial that this is action to annihilate his affairs because he’s survived added things before: He took on a Gold Ablaze family. He took on a POW, John McCain. But aback those statements started rolling in from Republicans it was like, all right, maybe this is real. We’re alone a ages out from acclamation and you acquire arresting Republicans unendorsing him.
At the aforementioned time, calls abound louder from added associates of the affair for Trump to footfall abreast in favor of Pence.
Rob Portman, Republican abettor from Ohio: “While I abide to account those who still abutment Donald Trump, I can no best abutment him. I abide to acquire our country cannot acquiesce a Hillary Clinton presidency. I will be voting for Mike Pence for President.”
Condoleezza Rice, aloft secretary of state: “Enough! Donald Trump should not be President. He should withdraw. As a Republican, I achievement to abutment addition who has the abode and ability to run for the accomplished appointment in the greatest capitalism on earth.”
Cory Gardner, Republican abettor from Colorado: “I am committed to acquisition Hillary Clinton. The alone way this is now accessible is with a new appointee that reflects the ethics of our country and our party. I will not vote for Donald Trump. If Donald Trump wishes to defeat Hillary Clinton, he should do the alone affair that will acquiesce us to do so — footfall aide, and acquiesce Mike Pence to be the Republican Party’s nominee.”
John Thune, Republican abettor from South Dakota: “Donald Trump should abjure and Mike Pence should be our appointee able immediately.”
Palmieri: There were times breadth we were abashed about that, aloof because you acquire to adapt for that moment in case that happens, and all of a abrupt you’re active adjoin Mike Pence, and how are you gonna handle that? But, you know, the bodies who knew him had told us he adeptness bead out if he thinks he’s action to lose and doesn’t appetite to be embarrassed, but he’s not gonna bead out aback he’s got his aback adjoin a wall. He’s not gonna do that. This situation, he’s aloof gonna action New York abridged actualization and arise afterwards you. And, you know, I knew what that looked like.
Back central Trump Tower, Trump is watching cable TV and growing angrier by the second, agitated at the cardinal of Republicans who are axis their aback on his campaign.
3:40 p.m. ET: Trump tweets: “The media and enactment appetite me out of the hunt so abominably – I WILL NEVER DROP OUT OF THE RACE, WILL NEVER LET MY SUPPORTERS DOWN! #MAGA”
Conway: He was not action to carelessness them aloof because a agglomeration of bodies who didn’t abutment him in the aboriginal abode capital to beforehand him out of the race. He was never action to get out of that race.
Downstairs, the arena alfresco Trump Belfry has become a circus, a mob arena of Trump supporters and protesters who are sparring. The cable networks and added annual organizations acquire reporters and photographers staked out at all accessible entrances to the building, acquisitive to accumulate clue of the comings and goings. Because Trump has no academic events, the appointed careful poolers acquire been aggravating to accumulate clue of rumors that Trump adeptness ascendancy an ad-lib assemblage in New York City that night, but best questions to the attack are actuality met with radio silence.
4:30 p.m. ET: With no apprehension to the media, Trump aback appears in the antechamber of his architecture with Conway and Donald Trump Jr. and makes his way through the bottle doors to accost supporters alfresco — the ones who hadn’t alone him.
Haberman: He absolved out to this little ad-lib assemblage acknowledging him action on appropriate outside. There were additionally protesters. I bethink actuality afraid. It was the aboriginal time I had absolutely absolutely acquainted fear. Not that annihilation was action to happen. But there was a array of a faculty of crisis in the air because he was so wounded. And I acquainted like he was able of accomplishing annihilation at that moment, which was scary.
Surrounded by abundant security, including Secret Service and the NYPD, Trump all-overs hands, gives aerial fives and basks in the afterglow of his best animated supporters.
Haberman: He went out into the army of people. It was like his Juan Perón moment. They were, like, affecting his jacket. And he put his arm up in the air and did the closed-fist adeptness salute. And afresh he went aback inside, and it was like watching somebody get some affectionate of, like, B-12 injection. There was this faculty of excitement.
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A anchorman asks Trump if he will abide in the race. “One hundred percent,” he replies.
Conway: It angled his resolve, and it showed his allegation to the people.
Campaigning for Hillary in Wisconsin, Bill Clinton does not acknowledgment the Trump bandage in his animadversion at a assemblage in Milwaukee. But as hecklers shouting, “You’re a rapist!” are escorted out of the event, Clinton alongside addresses the controversy. “You gotta feel atoning for them,” he says. “They had a bad day yesterday, accord them a hand.”
At some point on Saturday afternoon, Breitbart publishes an interview with Juanita Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978. In the interview, which the armpit claims was filmed at the Watergate Auberge on Friday, Broaddrick is asked about Trump’s animadversion on the “Access Hollywood” tape. “Bill Clinton raped me, and Hillary Clinton threatened me. I don’t advanced there’s any comparison,” she said. At one point, she is comforted by addition Bill Clinton accuser, Kathleen Willey.
Fallon: It acquainted like this promotional accomplishment that was action to acquire commodity added to it than aloof this Breitbart interview. The Breitbart account acquainted like it was ambience the table for something.
At Trump Tower, Bannon tells Bossie of his plan: to acquire Trump admission at Sunday’s agitation with four women who had accused Bill Clinton of animal delinquency and rape.
Bossie: It was Steve’s — Steve Bannon’s idea. And it was a ablaze stroke. He alleged me into his appointment and told me what his abstraction was. And I aloof looked at him like, a aggregate of abhorrence and brilliance, all captivated up in one idea. Because it could — you don’t apperceive how it’s gonna comedy out. You don’t apperceive how it’s gonna go. There’s a lot of affective genitalia and a lot of downside to it. But we were in a boxy spot. We had to be affecting in our response.
Stone: Bannon and I had talked about this for months — either accepting them at a agitation or accepting them actualization up at a Trump assemblage and be accustomed to speak. Steve had apprehend my book “The Clintons’ War on Women.” In fact, Steve had afterwards the book at Breitbart. He knew a cardinal of the victims of Bill Clinton were compelling, absurd women. And that if you let them speak, they could be actuating on their own behalf. So we talked about accepting them conceivably arise a assemblage and allege afterwards Trump or afore Trump or accepting them actualization up at the debates.
Bossie: We’re action to run an operation in St. Louis with these four women who appetite to arise advanced and acquaint their belief for several reasons. One, to get bodies talking. To get bodies to allocution about Bill Clinton, not Donald Trump, first. Secondly, we appetite bodies in her affected to be absent from acceptance her that time in the two or three hours afore the agitation starts, to acquire accuracy and acquire a calm time afore the bigger agitation at that point. We acquainted that it was a move to get in her arch — and her team’s head.
Stone: For several months, Steve had apprenticed us to go out and try to find, you know, alfresco allotment to do an absolute accomplishment to put these women up on TV and let them acquaint their story. That absolutely never came together. It was an idea, but it never was realized. It was far better, in my opinion, to acquire them allege beneath the advocacy of the campaign. I don’t advanced this would acquire happened but for the Billy Bush tape.
Trump allies additionally assert it was Clinton who aggressive the sideshow weeks advanced by aggressive to seat billionaire Dallas Mavericks buyer and “Shark Tank” host Mark Cuban, who had been about altercation with Trump for months, in the advanced row at the aboriginal presidential debate. Trump countered by adage he adeptness allure Gennifer Flowers, Bill Clinton’s aloft mistress.
Stone: Remember how this begins. Mark Cuban tweets that he’s gonna be accessory the [first] agitation and sitting with the Clinton family. Afresh Donald Trump tweets that maybe he’ll accompany Gennifer Flowers.
Conway: They body it as, you know, be there to stick it in the eye of Donald Trump at the debate, you know, so it would abstract him, which I advanced is itself array of bargain and petty, alone because, why is that the point? Why don’t you agitation on the issues? If you appetite to agitation on the issues, agitation on the issues. But that had started, breadth afresh I advanced somebody mentioned, “Well, then, we’ll aloof acquire Gennifer Flowers,” and everybody was freaking out.
On Saturday night, rumors beforehand about accessible defections aural the Trump campaign, including belief about the fate of Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s attack ambassador and best arresting woman in his campaign. She is spotted at Trump Belfry but has yet to action accessible comments about the “Access Hollywood” tape.
Conway: I acquainted no allegation to affair a academic statement. And I advanced bodies capital to aching Donald Trump by accepting me, his changeable attack ambassador and a mother, they capital me to be Joan of Arc and leave his attack and absolutely actualization that he was done for. And I’m like him. I’m absolute loyal. I had no agnosticism about abashed with him, not one agnosticism about abashed with him, ever. And I fabricated that absolute bright to him and his wife and his family, and my colleagues, and Governor and Mrs. Pence, and others. And I consistently accumulate the specifics of conversations like that absolutely private. But I will acquaint you, I never already flinched.
Back in Westchester, Clinton’s agitation basic concludes for the day.
Klain: I advanced we apparently went till 9:30; about amid 9 and 10 p.m. that night we bankrupt up. I’ve been accomplishing this for 30 years, and there’s consistently some acknowledgment you convenance over and over afresh and you don’t like, and bodies say, “Let’s booty one added ache at it on agitation day.” Decidedly about the aegis of the Goldman speeches, we were still aggravating to amount out absolutely what to say about the accessible answer/private acknowledgment affair and the accessible borders thing. I bethink afterwards she larboard that night a accession of bodies aggravating to abuse those answers again.
10:11 p.m. ET: At Wrigley Acreage in Chicago, the Cubs defeat the San Francisco Giants, 5-2, in Bold 2 of the Civic League Division Series.
Sometime on Saturday night, Haberman receives buzz calls from Democratic strategists animate with the Clinton campaign.
Haberman: They were cackling. All of them said the absolutely aforementioned thing: “Aren’t you admiring this?” And I said, “No, I’m not admiring this. This is horrible. What is there to adulation about this?” And afresh they all went on to say, “Well, I’m admiring this.” Aggregate about it was depressing. What he had said was depressing. The bandage was depressing. Its actuality was depressing. The actuality that they were so aflame by this was depressing, that they acquainted this was all aloof fun. It was all aloof absolutely terrible.
Late Saturday night, CNN’s KFile publishes a adventure that in added annual cycles adeptness acquire been a bombshell: “Donald Trump to Howard Stern: It’s accept to alarm my babe a ‘piece of ass.’” The network’s analytic arm had unearthed old interviews Trump had accustomed to the shock jock.
“In [one] interview, from September 2004, Stern asks Trump if he can alarm Ivanka ‘a allotment of ass,’ to which Trump responds in the affirmative. … In another, from 2002, Trump boasts about how he’s accustomed backstage at the Miss America pageants aback contestants are naked.
“‘Before a show, I’ll go backstage and everyone’s accepting dressed, and aggregate else, and you know, no men are anywhere, and I’m accustomed to go in because I’m the buyer of the celebration and accordingly I’m analytical it,’ Trump tells Stern. ‘You know, I’m analytical because I appetite to achieve abiding that aggregate is good. You know, the dresses. “Is anybody OK?” You know, they’re continuing there with no clothes. “Is everybody OK?” And you see these incredible-looking women, and so, I array of get abroad with things like that.’”
11:35 p.m. ET: “Saturday Night Live” opens its episode with Alec Baldwin biting Trump’s acknowledgment video: “This was way aback in 2005,” Baldwin says. “It was 11 years ago aback aback I was aloof a young, childish, 59-year-old man.”
Haberman: Somebody I apperceive had talked to one of Trump’s abutting advisers. And the guy kept saying, “Everybody is aggravating to annihilate us, everybody is aggravating to annihilate us.” And afresh the adviser said, “You watch what happens now.”
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Klain: There was a activity like this was the axis point in this thing, and if we could go out there and acquire a acceptable agitation we adeptness absolutely coalesce our position. Not acquire the hunt be over, but be in a abode breadth this beforehand could backpack us through. That was added the affecting tone. We were active walking up this mountain, we had assuredly got a little ambit on this mountain, and it was time to go do it. I advanced it was a appealing task-focused, “let’s go get this done” affectionate of mentality.
Benenson: We acquainted Hillary had the aerial hand. She was a bigger debater. The boondocks anteroom ambiance gave us, we thought, an advantage, because she was about bigger with bodies in that bearings than he was. You know, his rallies, he was not acceptable in boondocks halls. He was not absolute acceptable with one-on-one. He still isn’t, because he’s a animal and a bully. And he can’t accommodate that aspect of his personality.
Bossie: He had never debated one-on-one adjoin anyone in his absolute life. And afresh you’re action up adjoin Hillary Clinton, arguably one of the best debaters, one of the best accomplished debaters — she had debated Barack Obama one-on-one. I mean, this is somebody who knew the issues central and out, steeped in policy, and somebody with absurd experience, on one hand, and on the added you had Mr. Trump, who told it like it was. Somebody who batten from the heart, somebody who could affix anon with the American bodies through his use of language.
9 a.m. ET: Trump tweets: “Tremendous abutment (except for some Republican ‘leadership’). Thank you.”
The Sunday shows are captivated by the “Access Hollywood” tape. Echoing the punditry on Friday and Saturday, some guests abide to catechism if Trump can survive.
Fallon: I bethink by Sunday the chat absolutely was axis in the columnist — we weren’t aggravating to stoke it — to the abstraction of accepting him off the ticket. If anything, we were aggravating to action the anecdotal that he alike could. We were putting [Clinton attack lawyer] Marc Elias out there to admonish bodies that there was a federal law that requires states to book out their ballots and beforehand them to above voters 45 canicule out afore the election. It was too backward to change the ballots to try to get addition name out there. So alike if they capital to beforehand him out, [the ballots] had already been beatific out. And so we were like agreeable in a little advice attack to try to advanced this abstraction that he could aloof be replaced from accepting beef lest it absolutely happen. We didn’t appetite that to happen. At that point he was actuality alone larboard and right, he aloof seemed like a sitting duck, and so the abstraction of some Hail Mary accomplishment to alter him seemed like the alone affair that could circling it up. And so we were aggravating to advanced that from accepting steam.
Reince Priebus and Kellyanne Conway had been appointed to arise on several of the Sunday shows, but on Saturday they abruptly cancel. The alone Trump adumbrative accommodating to appear: aloft New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Giuliani says he does not advanced that Trump will accompany up animal beforehand allegations adjoin Bill Clinton during the debate.
Meanwhile, no one from the Obama administering is asked to arise on the Sunday shows to allocution about the Russia announcement.
Clapper: We didn’t get asked. I didn’t get asked to go on allocution shows about it.
Chaffetz: I advanced I got arrive to go on about every Sunday-morning allocution show, but I beneath them all. I respectfully said I was not available.
9:17 a.m. ET: Trump tweets a articulation to Breitbart’s adventure about Juanita Broaddrick.
10:17 a.m. ET: After retweeting supporters, including women accusatory those advancing his candidacy, Trump tweets: “So abounding affected hypocrites. Watch their poll numbers – and elections – go down!”
Fallon: I advanced we array of forgot ourselves in the 36 to 48 hours afterwards that Friday. I advanced that Friday we were appealing agnostic that any one affair could absolutely bones him because we had apparent him blot so abundant before. But afresh I advanced we let ourselves argue ourselves that this adeptness be fatal, accustomed how his own affair was reacting to it.
11 a.m. ET: Fahrenthold appears on Fox Annual to altercate the “Access Hollywood” tape.
Fahrenthold: One of the anchors on Fox, her bedmate is a bullpen for the Orioles, the Baltimore Orioles. You bethink Trump had said, “Oh, this is all locker-room talk.” And she said to me afterwards the cameras were off, like, “He’s been in the locker allowance his accomplished life. He’s never heard anybody allocution like this.”
Finney: The adventure affronted to this chat about locker-room talk. That “Oh, this is aloof locker-room talk. That’s aloof how guys talk.”
Benenson: Let’s actual the record. What Trump did wasn’t talk. This is a guy who additionally bragged about walking in on the Miss Boyish America celebration because he was the buyer and he could audit the girls. Like, this is a arrangement of behavior.
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Finney: The chat we never absolutely got to, absolutely frankly, was “It’s not OK, period.” And alike if it’s, you know, in the locker room, it’s not OK. And this wasn’t aloof in the locker room. This was, you know, out in the world. And he knew absolutely what he was saying. But we never absolutely got there.
11:22 a.m. ET: Clinton boards her alike for St. Louis. She does not accede to a shouted catechism about whether Trump should “stand down.”
Sometime about noon: Trump, who had been appointed to leave for St. Louis about 2 p.m., boards his aircraft hours aboriginal — abrogation his traveling columnist basin behind.
12:24 p.m. ET: Conway tweets a photo from the Trump alike of the applicant with Priebus, Jason Miller, Giuliani and Brad Parscale, the campaign’s agenda media director.
1:16 p.m. ET: Trump tweets a articulation to Breitbart’s account with Broaddrick, Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey advancing Hillary Clinton as an “enabler.”
Back at the Washington Post, Fahrenthold gets addition buzz alarm from addition who saw his actualization on Fox News.
Fahrenthold: I got a alarm from a guy in Milwaukee who wants to allocution about the story, you know, capital to abode me. And afterwards a while I abashed up on him. I afresh go home. Afterwards on that day he alleged the Post again. We afterwards abstruse he was drunk, and he slurred my name into the automatic voicemail arrangement so abominably that it didn’t beforehand him to my buzz again, it beatific him to addition guy in sports whose name starts with D. So he leaves a afterlife blackmail for me on that guy’s voicemail. I don’t advanced it was anytime that serious. The FBI absolutely interviewed him and he affronted out to be bashed aback he fabricated the buzz call. He didn’t beggarly annihilation by it.
Palmieri: There was what I would alarm as age-old acrimony on the attack aisle in that I acquainted — and, you know, we discussed it with the columnist sometimes, too, because I apperceive that the columnist felt, whether you were accoutrement Trump or you were accoutrement Hillary — acquainted like a target. And, you know, it’s like commodity abhorrent is gonna happen. You know, we were absolutely concerned, not necessarily for the candidates, but absolutely abashed that someone’s gonna get hurt. Commodity agitated is gonna happen. Things had aloof absolutely accomplished a baking point.
2:25 p.m. ET: Conway tweets a photo of her and Trump from the celebration advanced in the day, giving photo acclaim to Melania Trump and catastrophe questions about whether Trump’s wife will be at his ancillary at the St. Louis debate.
3:58 p.m. ET: Obama speaks at a fundraiser in Chicago for Democratic Senate applicant Rep. Tammy Duckworth afore abiding to Washington. He doesn’t abode the bandage anon and doesn’t acknowledgment Trump by name.
“One of the best advancing things about this acclamation is aloof the astonishing abode advancing at the top of the Republican ticket,” Obama says. “I don’t allegation to echo it; there are accouchement in the room. But analytical women, aspersing women, but additionally minorities, immigrants, bodies of added faiths. Biting the disabled. Calumniating our troops, calumniating our veterans. That tells you a brace things. It tells you that he’s abashed abundant that he pumps himself up by putting added bodies down. Not a actualization affection that I would admonish for somebody in the Oval Office.”
Just afore landing in St. Louis, Palmieri takes questions from reporters traveling on the Clinton attack plane. “I apperceive there is a lot of absorption in what she is action to acquire to say about his comments from 2005. She will be accessible to do that,” Palmieri says.
Palmieri is additionally asked if Hillary Clinton is able for Trump’s abeyant attacks. “She is prepared,” she says. “We acquire that this is alien territory: to face an adversary that is in the grips of a bottomward spiral.”
Palmieri: There was consistently a sense, you knew that with this candidate, with Trump, annihilation is gonna be out of bounds. So she would acquire to be able for, you know, whatever he may bandy at her. And that was commodity that was aloof allotment of her reality.
Fallon: We sensed that he was desperate, so he could be able of anything.
Klain: We did not decay time practicing a new, added reserved, added attentive Trump. I advanced we consistently accomplished adjoin the affectionate of Trump we saw on the attack trail.
Jonathan Lemire, a anchorman for the Associated Press, is in the columnist basin afterward Trump in St. Louis.
Lemire: We were told already we got there that the draft of the traveling columnist band was action on to the agitation site, which was a academy in St. Louis. But about a dozen of us, we were told we were action to a accessory armpit beforehand, afore the debate. You rarely see a applicant on agitation day afore the debate. So we anticipation it was odd we would acquire an accident beforehand. We artlessly anticipation what we were action to see was Trump, a few admiral action through, perhaps, a quick photo op. We were told we’d be in the allowance for about 30 seconds. That we would aloof see him talking to a brace of aides. And afresh we’d be aerated out, we’d be all loaded in the motorcade. And we would biking to the debate. Uh, that is not what happened.
At the Four Seasons Auberge in St. Louis, the Trump aggregation is active acute its plan for the applicant to unveil Bill Clinton’s accusers.
Bossie: The columnist has been on us to acquiesce them into our agitation basic sessions. For weeks they’ve been asking, “Could you aloof accord us access? A photo spray, something?” At about 6:30, Jason Miller put out the chat to the columnist that “you’re gonna get admission to the aftermost agitation basic session.” Which aerated the media into a frenzy. They were advertisement that they were action to get to report. I mean, that’s the way it was.
7:25 p.m. ET: Reporters are ushered into a allowance breadth Trump is built-in at a table with Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, and Paula Jones — who had accused Bill Clinton of animal delinquency — as able-bodied as Kathy Shelton, a abduction victim from Arkansas. Hillary Clinton had been her attacker’s court-appointed aegis lawyer.
Lemire: So they led us bottomward the hallway. They opened the door. The aboriginal affair I noticed was the allowance was far added awash than I expected. And that there were admiral lining both carelessness of the room. And I saw that Trump was not continuing at a belvedere like you’d advanced he would be, conceivably alarm for the debate. Rather sitting down, belted by four women.
Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller, Rudy Giuliani and Ben and Candy Carson are additionally present. In the aback of the room, Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, who acquire become absurd attack allies, abrasion big cool as the columnist band files in.
Bossie: The basin of reporters, aback they absolved in the room, none of them knew who these women were. It took a moment. I was watching their faces. These were all adolescent reporters. They weren’t around. Annihilation adjoin them, but they didn’t understand.
Lemire: My aperture alone as I was demography in the room. Added associates of the columnist basin had agnate reactions. There was a columnist with us who had been a war contributor for a while, he had been in Iraq. He had been in Afghanistan. This is addition who had apparent some stuff. He absolutely gasped, like an aural gasp, as we absolved into the allowance and accomplished what we had absolved into.
Bossie: It was a agrarian event.
Trump tweets to supporters to accompany him for his final “debate preparations” — and anon cable TV networks are demography the all-a-quiver adaptable video live.
Palmieri: I was alfresco talking to CNN, and one of the producers says, “Hey, we’re accepting this awe-inspiring augment in. And it appears that Donald Trump is accepting some affectionate of Facebook Alive columnist conference, you know, with Paula Jones and others.”
Fallon: I absolved over to the accommodation accoutrement to added admix with some of the reporters who were accoutrement the debate, and [Time annual reporter] Zeke Miller, who treats his buzz as an addendum and is consistently ecology email and Twitter alike as he’s accustomed on a chat in complete life, he pulled it up on his phone. He couldn’t achieve out who the bodies were, so I took a accessory and I could anon acquaint who it was.
TRUMP: “Thank you absolute abundant for coming, and these four absolute adventuresome women acquire asked to be actuality and it was our account to advice them. And I advanced they’re anniversary action to achieve aloof an alone abbreviate annual and afresh we will do a little affair and afresh we’ll see you at the debate. We’ll alpha with Paula.”
JONES: “I’m actuality to abutment Mr. Trump because he’s action to achieve America abundant again. And I advanced everybody abroad should vote for him. And I advanced they should all accessory at the actuality that he’s a acceptable person. He’s not what added bodies acquire been adage he’s been, like Hillary. So advanced about that.”
SHELTON: “So I’m additionally actuality to abutment Trump. At 12 years old, Hillary put me through commodity you’d never put a 12-year-old through. And she says she’s for women and children. And she was asked aftermost year on what happened and she says she’s [inaudible] whether they did it or not, and now she’s bedlam on bandage adage she knows they did it.”
TRUMP: “You went through a lot.”
SHELTON: “Yes, sir. I did.”
BROADDRICK: “Hi. I’m Juanita Broaddrick. And I’m actuality to abutment Donald Trump. I’ve tweeted recently, and Mr. Trump retweeted it, that accomplishments allege louder than words. Mr. Trump may acquire said some bad words, but Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton threatened me. I don’t advanced there’s any comparison.”
Palmieri: He threw the kitchen bore at us. He did conceivably the affliction accessible affair he could do in a accessible setting. Sit bottomward with women who had accused Hillary Clinton’s bedmate of some appealing abominable stuff.
Ferguson: I did not advanced that Donald Trump could stoop any lower than he already had in this campaign, and I was abashed to be accurate wrong.
Trump ignores assorted questions about why his ablaze adeptness allows him to blow women afterwards their consent, how abounding women he may acquire affected afterwards their consent, and why. Trump doesn’t respond, but at the end Paula Jones yells to reporters: “Why don’t you all go ask Bill Clinton that? Go advanced and ask Hillary as well.”
Conway: We apperceive how Bill Clinton brash those women. But the point there is absolutely how Hillary Clinton, who was declared to be apparent as pro-woman, who was aggravating to absolutely milk this bandage as assuming Donald Trump as actuality adjoin women, it was a admonition that Hillary Clinton had brash women absolute ailing in the past, and that included the women in that room.
Lemire: I bethink there was absolutely a faculty of action in there that they pulled this off. The Trump attack was array of a adulterated one. Things got out advanced of them. But this was a complete surprise. And it was at that time addition beatific me a annual that they had taken off of the alive beck of the event. And it’s me in that moment aback I absolved in the allowance and accomplished what was action on. My aperture was agape. I was slack-jawed at what I was attractive at. And appropriate abaft me was Steve Bannon with a little smile on his face. I was surprised. He was pleased.
Bossie: We larboard the allowance and went aback admiral to Mr. Trump’s suite, and the media covered it for the abutting two hours. It was — it was — it was the show. It was absolutely a absoluteness TV adventure that the American people, aloof by ratings of absoluteness TV shows, admired to watch. And for two hours arch up to the debate, instead of talking about Donald Trump, they’re talking about Bill and Hillary Clinton’s accord with women of their past. We anticipation it was an accessible winner.
Lemire: This was acutely the Trump campaign’s accomplishment to about-face the tables. To change the chat by, in some ways, acceleration bottomward on the abstraction of animal assault, but aggravating to casting the ablaze on the added side.
Reines: There was array of a agitation about what Trump’s columnist appointment with the Clinton accusers meant, and I anticipation it meant he was accepting it out of his arrangement because he didn’t acquire the assurance to do it to her face.
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But the Trump attack isn’t done. Top aides acquaint reporters they plan to bench the Clinton accusers in the ancestors box — not far from breadth Bill Clinton will be built-in with his daughter, Chelsea, so that he will “finally” acquire to face them.
Bossie: There’s four ancestors seats for anniversary of the candidates. They’re affectionate of on a pedestal, if you will, or a riser. They’re on a riser. And they’re appropriate in the band of afterimage of the candidates.
Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chairman of the Agency on Presidential Debates: It was agreed by both teams, the Clinton and the Trump team, that there would alone be ancestors associates in the box. That was their agreement, and that was accomplished with the commission. That’s what our compassionate was, it was a ancestors box.
About 11:00 that morning, one of my bodies got a alarm from the Clinton attack and asked whether or not Claire McCaskill, the United States abettor from Missouri, could sit in the Clinton box because there are absolutely alone three Clintons. There was Admiral Clinton, Chelsea and her husband, and there was a fourth chair. So one of my bodies alleged the Trump attack and they said, “No, look. We fabricated a deal. Alone ancestors associates in those boxes, so Abettor McCaskill can’t.” We went aback to the Clinton campaign, and there was no pushback, because they said, “That was the deal.” They didn’t achieve a fuss about it. “No, we understand. That’s what the accord was.”
Bossie: I acquaint our beforehand advanced actuality on the arena to acquaint the agitation agency that we’re action to use those four seats for these four women, that we’re gonna put them there, instead of Melania and some of the kids.
Fahrenkopf: That acutely was a abuse of what both campaigns had agreed to with the agency and what our position was, and the Trump bodies had activated that aphorism adjoin the Clintons that morning. “No, alone family.”
Bossie: To which our acknowledgment was, “We don’t care. You know, we’re gonna put those four bodies in those four seats, acquaint ’em.” To which our advanced guys were, you know, a little abashed because it’s a big — this is not a baby thing: 80 actor bodies watching this debate. It’s a big production. Authoritative any change is a big deal. But we wanted, again, the Clinton attack to acquire to accord with, because if we didn’t beforehand back, the agitation agency may never acquaint the Clinton attack what’s up.
Klain: So I went to the assembly of the agitation agency and said, “Hey, look, we all had to accommodate names of bodies sitting in the accompany and ancestors VIP section. And these people, these women, were not on their list, so I don’t acquire this.” And they were like, “Well, no, of advanced not, they are not on the account and so they can’t sit in that section.” So I said, “You guys are absolutely action to achieve that, right?” Because advocacy had to bright the names. And they were like, “Nope, if they try to accompany them into the accompany and ancestors section, we won’t acquiesce it to happen.” But we affectionate of knew he was there, he was the appointee and he was action to get them in the anteroom somehow.
8:04 p.m. ET: Conway, who had advanced told reporters she had brash Trump adjoin bringing up Bill Clinton’s sex scandals, tweets at Hillary Clinton allurement if she would accede Broaddrick, Jones et al., tagging it #girlpower.
Fahrenkopf: Neither associates had accustomed at the agitation site. They were on their way with the cars and so forth. So I went over to the room, a captivation allowance breadth the Trump bodies were, and I agape on the door, and I asked to see Rick Ahearn and Don McGahn, who is now White Abode counsel, as you know, and I said, “Guys, you can’t do this,” and they kinda looked at me with a bare stare. They said, “Do what?” I said, “You can’t put the women in the box. That’s family-only. You agreed to that this morning.” And it was bright to me that they didn’t apperceive a affair about this.
Fahrenkopf, who is about to go onstage to abode the admirers afore the debate, afresh huddles with an assistant.
Fahrenkopf: I said, “Look, aback they get here, you can say you talked to me and I said if you try to put those women in the ancestors box, I will acquire advocacy stop it, and you don’t appetite the publicity that adeptness arise from commodity like that. So acquaint them not to do it.”
Fahrenkopf, though, is bluffing.
Fahrenkopf: I don’t acquire advocacy at all. Advocacy is the Secret Service, OK? And I didn’t acquire time to run and acquisition a Secret Service abettor and say, “Hey look, this may happen. You’ve gotta stop it.” I was out onstage. There aloof wasn’t time for me to do anything, but the agency does not acquire our own clandestine advocacy forces. We assignment absolute carefully with the Secret Service. They’re the ones who are there, so I don’t apperceive what I would acquire done, to acquaint you the truth.
8:45 p.m. ET: A activity goes through the admirers as the women who appeared alongside Trump as accusers of Bill Clinton are ushered into the amphitheater to sit at the advanced row of the admirers sections. Cameras are firing. Giuliani escorts Broaddrick, Shelton and Willey into the agitation hall.
Fahrenkopf: Just as I was finishing my remarks, I happened to accessory aback over, and I could see Rudy Giuliani arch these three women above the floor.
Ken Bone, boondocks anteroom participant: There was an aural blow on the stage. Everybody up on the stage, whether they were aptitude Trump or aptitude Hillary, anticipation that that was aloof a tasteless move. “I’ve been accused of actuality aloof with women or afield administering myself about women — well, so did your husband.” Best of us were adults up on the stage, you know, professionals who anticipation that bad behavior doesn’t alibi bad behavior. Aloof because Susie pushed you on the amphitheater doesn’t beggarly you get to dip her pigtails in the inkwell and alarm it even.
Reines: What affectionate of achievement are they action to pull? Are they action to go and try to booty a selfie with Admiral Clinton?
Fahrenkopf: I was abashed about it. I was abashed about it.
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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who is accessory the debate: I accessory up, and actuality comes Giuliani, walking above this accessible area, arch these women abaft him. He led them in like an usher. And I thought, can this be true? And abiding enough, they absolved up the stairs and sat down.
Clinton’s accusers booty their seats in the advanced row anon in advanced of Durbin and Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill.
Fahrenkopf: No problem, they were accustomed to sit there, and it was alone afresh that I accomplished that we had abhorred commodity that I advanced would acquire absolutely destroyed the agitation and the abode and the candor of the debate.
Durbin: Someone leaned over and said, “Those are the accusers, the Clinton accusers.” I leaned over to my wife and to Congresswoman Bustos, and I said, “You can accept that we are on camera now and will be for the absolute debate.” And we were. So I said, “Everything you say, every announcement on your face is action to be best up by the camera.” And I sat there like the abundant bean face, adage I’m not action to smile, I’m not action to frown. I don’t appetite to be allotment of the bureaucracy for whatever this annual is.
Fahrenkopf sits a row abaft Durbin.
Durbin: And he leaned over to me and he said, “You apperceive who’s sitting in advanced of you?” I said, “Yes, I do.” And he said, “The Trump attack capital them to be sitting onstage in the ancestors box of the Trump campaign. And we said no, refused. We weren’t action to let that happen, affronted them down. So they capital front-row seats actuality in the bleachers.”
Bossie: We aloof were like, OK, they’ll go in these four and we’ll still acquire the aforementioned result.
Paula Jones joins the accession of accusers a few annual later. Additionally built-in with them: Tiffany Trump, who can’t sit with the draft of the Trump ancestors because of space. Melania Trump arrives at the agitation wearing Gucci’s “pussy bow” shirt. A Trump attack backer afterwards insists her appearance best was “not intentional.”
A little afore 9 p.m. ET: The Clinton and Trump families are escorted into the agitation hall. Bill Clinton, who has been abreast about Trump’s abrupt presser afore his arrival, stands and easily with Melania Trump. He additionally all-overs easily with Trump’s children Ivanka, Eric and Don Jr.
After the aboriginal debate, Don Jr. had told reporters he was appreciative of his ancestor for abnegation from bringing up Clinton’s sex scandals.
Bill Clinton does not arise to accessory at his accusers. Chelsea Clinton walks into the agitation anteroom a few annual afterwards — alienated handshakes with the Trump family.
Bossie: We capital to beforehand adamantine abundant to where, again, as allotment of the accomplishment to get central of their active to advice abstract them, to run an operation. So we did.
Stone: If you saw the accessory on Bill Clinton’s face, it had the adapted effect.
Haberman: He was absolute upset. Visibly absolute upset.
Stone: This is aloof like a prizefight. You try to get central the arch of your opponent. You’re aggravating to attitude your adversary out.
Haberman: Roger Bean had been blame a lot of this for a connected time. But bringing them to the agitation and advance them in her face like that was so aloft any barometer that we had anytime experienced. There were a lot of things that happened on this attack like that, things our academician couldn’t action anon because we acquire never apparent that arise before. This was one of those moments.
Bossie: They had apparently gotten in a little bit of a agitation over it. That was kinda the effort.
“I don’t apperceive what the Trump attack was acquisitive to achieve added than the obvious,” Clinton afterwards writes in her attack memoir. “Dredge up old allegations that had been litigated years before, alter absorption from the Admission Hollywood tape, bandy me off my game, and abstract voters from the election’s awfully aerial stakes. He wasn’t aggravating to achieve a angle for these women. He was aloof application them.”
Benenson: She knew, you know, as we were prepping afore Sunday night, that this was a likelihood. And I advanced at aboriginal her acknowledgment was, “He absolutely — he would — really? He’s gonna do that?” And we had to really, you know, get her to acquire it, as abounding of us at aboriginal anticipation they wouldn’t do it, but they did. And we had to, in everything, in the basic sessions. And our basic sessions were affectionate of not as bland as we would acquire liked. Because I advanced the bandage and accepting to acclimatize for this was complicated. The town-hall ambience was unfamiliar. We had to cross that.
Backstage, Hillary Clinton huddles with top aides one final time.
Palmieri: I went to allocution to her afore she went out onstage. And so I absolved into that room. I said, “OK. So this move was brash to do one affair and one affair only. Bandy you off your game.” She’s like, “I got that.” I said, “But the abundant affair is it didn’t do it.” And she’s like, “No, it didn’t.” She said, “Nope, didn’t do it.” Aloof said, “No, didn’t do it.”
Klain: We were finishing up our little pregame ritual afore we’re sending her off on the stage. I about-face to her and say, “Just punch it out. He’s aloof aggravating to get in your head.” She affronted to me and smiled and said, “You think?” That gave me a faculty of aplomb that she was not ashamed by this.
9 p.m. ET: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump accommodated on the agitation stage.
“It was the best close allowance I’ve anytime been in for the aboriginal 30 minutes, certainly, of a debate,” CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who co-moderated the accident with ABC’s Martha Raddatz, recalled on the air recently.
Trump, who was asked by Cooper to abode his comments on the “Access Hollywood” video, anon pivoted to his vow to “knock the hell out of ISIS.”
“When we acquire a apple breadth you acquire ISIS chopping off heads, breadth you acquire them, frankly, drowning bodies in animate cages, breadth you acquire wars and horrible, abhorrent architect all over and you acquire so abounding bad things happening, this is like medieval times. We haven’t apparent annihilation like this. The annihilation all over the apple and they accessory and they see, can you brainstorm the bodies that are bluntly accomplishing so able-bodied adjoin us with ISIS, and they accessory at our country and see what’s action on. Yes, I am absolute abashed by it and I abhorrence it, but it’s locker-room allocution and it’s one of those things.”
Backstage, abashed Clinton staffers were watching on a monitor, cat-and-mouse for her to abode the bandage — and to accost Trump.
“I’ve spent a lot of time cerebration over the aftermost 48 hours about what we heard and saw,” Clinton said onstage. “You know, with above-mentioned Republican nominees for president, I disagreed with them on politics, policies, principles, but I never questioned their fettle to serve. Donald Trump is different. I said starting aback in June that he was not fit to be admiral and administrator in chief. And abounding Republicans and independents acquire said the aforementioned thing. What we all saw and heard on Friday was Donald talking about women, what he thinks about women, what he does to women. And he has said that the video doesn’t represent who he is. But I advanced it’s bright to anyone who heard it that it represents absolutely who he is.”
“There were 15 to 20 bodies in the hold, and there’s usually whispering, but aback she gave that acknowledgment it was aloof silent,” Klain said. “You could feel the affecting appulse of it. Absolute elegant.”
But Trump voters, as the apple would anon discover, weren’t absorbed in elegance.
When Clinton said it’s acceptable addition with Trump’s attitude was “not in allegation of the law in our country,” he responded with a haymaker: “Because you would be in jail.”
“He was aback on his solid arena of locking her up,” Klain said. “It was a admonition to his amount supporters about the aspect of his candidacy.”
It was additionally a window into how he would accord with the connected agitate of scandals aural his White House. Afterwards a boundless weekend, aback at times Trump seemed on the border of imploding, he steadied himself by reverting to a raging, belligerent, but accustomed form.
“I advanced that weekend absolutely is what set us on the advanced we’re on,” Haberman said.
“The burden was on him not to collapse,” Benenson said. “And he didn’t. So he was in it and adored his antagonism that night.”
For Trump, the storm that accustomed absolutely a ages afore the acclamation had passed. And the rulebook for American politics, at atomic for one election, changed.
“What we don’t apperceive is, are those rules alone for Donald Trump because of his cachet as a pop-culture media amount and they won’t assignment for a bitter human-being politician?” Bean said. “Or acquire the rules afflicted assuredly for everybody? We won’t apperceive until the abutting presidential race.”
This articulate history was appear by Michael Isikoff, Dylan Stableford, Hunter Walker, Holly Bailey, Liz Goodwin, Lisa Belkin, Garance Franke-Ruta and Gabby Kaufman. It was accounting by Stableford. The documentary was produced by Brian Prowse-Gany and Sarah Boxer.
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