[Christi Paul, Cnn Anchor: 7:] 00 on a Saturday morning. I'm glad to see you're up. I'm Christi Paul.
[Victor Blackwell, Cnn Anchor:] I'm Victor Blackwell. Good to be with you
[Paul:] Donald Trump is, of course, they've fighting back this morning. He just tweeted, I want to read this for you here. "100 percent fabricated and made-up, charges pushed strongly by the media and the Clinton campaign may poison the minds of the American voter. Fix." And yesterday, slamming the women accusing him of sexual assault.
[Donald Trump,  Presidential Candidate:] I am a victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country.
[Blackwell:] Well, the two new allegations come from Summer Zervos, a former "Apprentice" contestant and Kristin Anderson, a photographer and former model. But Trump called Anderson's accusation nonsense and false and release the statement on Zervos. He writes or at least the campaign writes, "I vaguely remember Ms. Zervos as one of the many contestants on "The Apprentice" over the year. To be clear, I never met her at a hotel or greeted her inappropriately a decade ago. That is not who I am as a person and it's not how I've conducted might life. In fact, Ms. Zervos continued to contact me for help, e-mailing my office on April 14 to this year, asking that I visit her restaurant in California. Beyond that, the media is now creating a theater of absurdity that threatens to tear our Democratic process apart and poison the minds of the American public." Well, CNN's Ed Lavadera has been following this accusation.
[Ed Lavandera, Cnn Correspondent:] The first of eight accusers publicly came forward, Wednesday night this week. Mindy McGillivray was one of them. For her, it was the presidential debate in St. Louise that prompted her to speak out. Mcgillivray couldn't believe what she had just heard.
[Mindy Mcgillivray, Donald Trump Accuser:] We hear Anderson Cooper ask him like a number of times. You know, is this something you that did? Did you grope women? Did you kiss them? And he just adamantly says no? I jumped off my couch and I was like, "You're a liar."
[Lavandera:] Summer Zervos once appeared as a contest on Trump's reality show "The Apprentice". After she was kicked off the show, Zervos was in talks with Trump about working for his company. He asked to meet her at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
[Summer Zervos, Former Apprentice Contestant:] He came to me and started kissing me open mouth as he was pulling me towards him. I tried to push him away. I pushed his chest to put space between us and I said, "Come on, man, get real." He repeated my words back to me "get real," as he began thrusting his genitals.
[Lavandera:] In the early 1990s, Kristin Anderson was an aspiring model in New York. According to the "Washington Post", Anderson had never met or seen Donald Trump in person until he sat down next to her one night in a Manhattan dance club.
[Kristin Anderson, Trump Accuser:] The person on my right, who unbeknownst to me at that time was Donald Trump, put their hands up my skirt.
[Lavandera:] Temple Taggart is a former Miss Utah. She says, without her consent, Trump kissed her on the lips immediately after meeting her in 1977. Rachel Crooks told the "New York Times" that Trump kissed her inappropriately as well in 2005. Natasha Stoynoff, a write for "People Magazine" says Trump forcibly kissed her and pinned her down while on a reporting assignment at Trump's Mar-a-lago Estate in Florida. And Jessica Leeds says Trump grabbed her breasts and put his hands up her skirt on a plane in the early 1980s. Donald Trump, again, Friday denied all of the allegations against him and described it all as a political smear campaign.
[Trump:] I don't know who these people are. I look on television. I think it's a disgusting thing.
[Lavandera:] Which is exactly how Mindy McGillivray says Trump treated her one night backstage after a Ray Charles concert at the Mar-a-lago Estate. McGillivray was there with a friend waiting to get her picture taken with the singer. When she says Trump grabbed her from behind.
[Mcgillivray:] And he didn't give me a second glance. He knew what he did. I know he knew what he did. I can tell by looking at his smug face, he knew exactly what he did. I told Ken I was like, "Donald just grabbed my ass." And he was like, "What do you want to do about it?" I'm like, I was silent, you know. I don't want to do anything.
[Lavandera:] She says she regrets not confronting the billionaire right on the spot. And despite Trump's insistence that he treats women with respect, all of the women who've come forward say Trump treated them like objects that he could have his way with. What would you tell Donald Trump today?
[Mcgillivray:] You're a sick, sick person. And if he don't acknowledge it, then maybe he's just an helpless old man who needs to step down.
[Paul:] And the Trump campaign released this statement before the lead from Summer Zervos' cousin named John Barry. And the statement said "I am completely shock and bewildered by my cousin, Summer Zervos, and her press conference today. Ever since she was on "The Apprentice" she has had nothing but glowing things to say about Mr. Trump. That was until Summer invited Mr. Trump to her restaurant during the primary and he said no. I think Summer wishes she could still be on reality T.V and in an effort to get that back, she's saying all of these negative things about Mr. Trump."
[Blackwell:] Well, CNN reached out to Zervos' attorney, Gloria Allred and she responded with this. "John Barry is a huge Trump supporter. He was employed at Summer's family restaurant until several months ago when his employment ended. Since then he has expressed hostility and ill will towards Summer." Let's bring in CNN's Chris Frates. Chris, we know that the Trump campaign is releasing the statements. They talk about some of the other allegations. What else are we hearing from the campaign?
[Chris Frates, Cnn Correspondent:] Yeah, Victor, well, you know, that statement is coming, you know, essentially after two more women came forward yesterday. And they alleged Donald Trump groped them. Now, that number of women who have accused Trump of sexual assault or harassment now totals seven. And we heard from Hillary Clinton's campaign, she's steered mostly clear of these allegations against Trump. You know kind of fearing that pulling the spotlight away from Trump's troubled campaign is not the way to go at this point. She stayed mostly quiet. But she did weigh in last night at a fund-raiser in Seattle.
[Hillary Clinton,  Presedential Candidate:] The whole world has heard Donald Trump brags about mistreating women. And the disturbing stories keep coming. This is who Donald Trump really is. We know that. Now, we have to demonstrate who we are. America is better than this.
[Frates:] Now, Kristin Anderson told "The Washington Post" in a story published yesterday that Trump slid his hand up her miniskirt and touched her private parts at the New York City night cluck back in the '90s. And former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos said Trump grabbed her breasts and kissed her over dinner at the hotel back in 2007. Now, of course Victor, Trump dismissing these allegations as lies. In fact, he seems to mock two of his other accusers as too unattractive to draw his eye. And he painted himself as the victim of a smear campaign. Here's what he said last night, reiterating what he said in a tweet this morning.
[Trump:] These allegations are 100 percent false, as everybody. I think you know. These claims defy reason, truth, logic, common sense. They're made without supporting witnesses.
[Frates:] Now, all of these allegations have knocked Trump off his game, off his message since that news broke last week. But in a statement last night, Trump said he plans to address the nation in a much more personal way. He wants to talk about his vision for the country and put this behind him, Victor.
[Blackwell:] All right, Chris Frates, once again form Washington, thanks so much.
[Frates:] You're welcome.
[Blackwell:] Christi?
[Paul:] Chris Moody, CNN Politics Senior Digital Correspondent with us now. So, Chris is there a sense that Donald Trump can come can overcome all of this. And when might we hear more of that policy as opposed to all of the shenanigans that we've heard so far. All of these accusations from Trump himself? When are we going to hear more from him?
[Chris Moody, Cnn Politics Senior Digital Correspondent:] Well, Donald Trump is in fox hole right now fighting for his political life. And with just a couple of weeks left in the election, time is really running out. The major opportunity he has to try to turn this thing around is next week in Las Vegas at the presidential debate with Hillary Clinton. But looking at the electoral map, going into this election, it was already really tight. Hillary Clinton already had a firm head start just because of the demographics of the country. Donald Trump needed or excuse me needs to win states like Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and others. Really have a clean sweep of all of these battleground states in order to reach the 270 votes he needs to get to win the Electoral College. That is getting harder and harder by the day as he's having to answer questions about alleged sexual assault, instead of making his closing arguments. So, he's really going to have to turn this around very quickly. And every time he's talking about alleged sexual assaults, this time he's not talking about his vision for the country. As Chris Frates mentioned just a moment ago, this has knocked him off his game and he has to get back on his feet as soon as possible if he wants any hope of winning those Electoral College votes in those key swing states.
[Paul:] Well, and somebody else who's been publicly silent about all of this is House Speaker Paul Ryan. He would actually, with a build at a major party address in Madison, Wisconsin and he was talking more about Congress. So, when you look at what you we're talking about, the electoral map and the numbers that we're talking about if Hillary Clinton at this moment seems to be poised to win the White House, would that not push Republicans to get out and vote to keep Congress in Republican control?
[Moody:] That's right. The presidency is not the only office that Republicans are worried about right now. They fear that that down ballots, they could suffer as well including popular members of Congress, the House and the Senate. Now, if Donald Trump should lose in November, the Republican Party is really going to have to pick up the broken pieces of what happened over the past couple of years. There's been an incredible split in the party that has been unforeseen, really in modern history. And the Republican Party is going to have to have a real gut check and figure out what kind of party they want to be in the future, whether it's the party of Donald Trump, or more of a conservative party that we saw before Trump's rise. Now, this is complicated for a guy like Paul Ryan who has decades of experienced and time talking about conservative values, but then endorsed Donald Trump. He will be known as a Donald Trump supporter after this election, whether he likes it or now. So, I expect if Donald Trump should lose in November, I expect there to be some real soul searching in the Republican Party.
[Paul:] All right. Chris Moody, appreciate your thoughts. Thank you so much.
[Blackwell:] All right. So, what's next for Donald Trump on the defense fighting allegations for multiple women? Our panel, we'll weigh in next on what this means for the Trump campaign, less than 30 days now from the election.