With the 2016 presidential campaign entering its final weeks, more revealing details about the candidates continue to rattle this election.

  • New released emails cause controversy for Clinton camp
  • Trump's leaked video is causing backlash within the GOP

Leaked videos and leaked emails have revealed new details about the top candidates.

WikiLeaks has released emails from the account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta.

It includes an email from Democratic National Committee official Donna Brazile to Clinton's campaign, indicating she got questions to a CNN town hall in advance.

CNN denies that they ever shared the questions and Brazile denies that she ever received them.

Other leaked emails were about the email server. 

Two days after The Associated Press reported in March 2015 that Clinton had been running a private server in her home in New York to send and receive messages when she was secretary of state, her advisers were shaping their strategy to respond to the revelation.

Among the emails made public Tuesday by WikiLeaks was one from Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill, who optimistically suggested that the issue might quickly blow over.

It did not, and became the leading example of Clinton's penchant for secrecy, which has persisted as a theme among her campaign critics and rivals throughout her election season. Clinton did not publicly confirm or discuss her use of the email server until March 10 in a speech at the United Nations, nearly one week after AP revealed the server's existence.

In the end, Hillary Clinton's team drafted talking points Clinton used at the news conference at the United Nations.

Clinton said she "fully complied with every rule that I was governed by" and that "there is no classified material" among her work-related emails.

Both of those statements were later proved false.

Meanwhile after a 2005 video of Donald Trump speaking in a lewd way about women surfaced, Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Sen. John McCain said they would no longer defend Trump.

The GOP nominee went on a Twitter rant, bashing the Republican Party and Ryan.

A day before last Friday's release of the video showing Trump making vulgar boasts about forcing himself on women, Ryan made two campaign stops in eastern Pennsylvania in which he never spoke the words "Donald Trump." That dramatized how Ryan is trying to guide House candidates through rocky political waters Trump has roiled with regularity.

Republicans have been favored to retain House control in November's voting, with Democrats needing to gain 30 seats to take charge of the 435-member chamber. But Democratic hopes have grown — and GOP nerves have been frazzled — after two weeks of politically seismic setbacks for Trump, capped by the Trump video.

In a conference call on Monday, jumpy House Republicans heard Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, who heads their campaign organization, say the political situation was deteriorating for the GOP, especially among women, according to two people on the call. Walden urged them to poll frequently and warned that the path to victory for candidates in tight races resembled landing a plane in the fog with a hurricane blowing.

And now several women's advocacy groups are urging MGM to release unaired video from Trump's former reality show "The Apprentice."

The Associated Press contributed to this story.