Final Debate Highlights US Presidential Debates

This is a BBC News special programme on the third US Presidential debate.

The debate in Las Vegas continued the campaign's bitter tone,

with less than three weeks to go before Election Day.

The candidates began by addressing issues such as jobs,

gun control and abortion rights, but soon started trading insults.

When it came to relations with the Russian President. From everything I

see... He would rather have a puppet as President of the United States.

In exchanges marked by shouting and interruption...

Each questioned the other's fitness to stand for office.

She should have never been allowed to stand

My social security contribution will go up, as will his,

assuming he cannot figure out how to get out of it.

But the key moment came when Mr Trump refused to commit

to accepting the election result if he loses.

What I've seen is so bad. First of all, the media is so dishonest and

so corrupt, I think the voters are seeing through it, I think they can

see through it. We will find out on November the 8th. Every time Donald

thinks things are going in his direction, he claims whatever it it

is rigged against him. Good morning and welcome to a BBC

News Special Programme about the US There are just 18 days to go before

Americans go to the polls, after one of the most divisive US presidential

campaigns in history. The candidates traded insults

and they were openly hostile. Last night, my colleague Katty Kay

was watching the debate Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

have had their final debate of this long,

contentious election campaign. It will have been seen by millions

of American viewers, as they try to make up their minds

who to vote for. The two candidates came

onto the stage, they did not shake hands, breaking with tradition

here in debate format. The debate was moderated

by Fox News's Chris Wallace. Secretary Clinton,

Mr Trump, welcome. The first topic

is the Supreme Court. You both talked briefly

about the Court in the last debate, but I want to drill down on this

because the next President will almost certainly have at least

one appointment and likely, or possibly, two or three

appointments, which means that you will in effect determine

the balance of the Court for what could be the next

quarter of a century. First of all, where do

you want to see the Court And secondly, what's your view

on how the Constitution Do the Founders' words mean

what they say, or is it a living document, to be applied flexibly,

according to changing circumstances? In this segment, Secretary

Clinton, you go first. You know, I think when we talk

about the Supreme Court, it really raises the central

issue in this election. Namely, what kind of country

are we are going to be? What kind of opportunities

will we provide for our citizens? What kind of rights

will Americans have? And I feel strongly

that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American

people, not on the side of the powerful corporations

and the wealthy. For me, that means that we need

a Supreme Court that will stand up On behalf of the rights

of the LGBT community. That will stand up and say no

to Citizens United, a decision that has undermined the election system

in our country because of the way it permits dark, unaccountable money

to come into our electoral system. I have major disagreements

with my opponent about these issues and others that will be

before the Supreme Court. But I feel that at this point

in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse

marriage equality, that we not reverse Roe v.

Wade, that we stand up we stand up for the rights

of people in the workplace, that we stand up and basically say,

the Supreme Court should And the kind of people that

I would be looking to nominate to the Court would be

in the great tradition Standing up on behalf

of our rights as Americans. And I look forward to

having that opportunity. I would hope that the Senate

would do its job and confirm the nominee that President Obama has

sent to them. That's the way the Constitution

fundamentally should operate. The President nominates and then

the Senate advises and consents, or not, but they go

forward with the process. Mr Trump, same question,

where do you want to see the Court take the country and how do

you believe the Constitution Well, first of all, it's great to be

with you and thank you, everybody. The Supreme Court, it's

what it's all about. It's just so imperative

that we have the right Justices. Something happened recently

where Justice Ginsburg made some very, very inappropriate

statements towards me and towards a tremendous

number of people. Many, many millions

of people that I represent, But these were statements that

should never, ever have been made. We need a Supreme Court that,

in my opinion, is going to uphold the Second Amendment

and all amendments, Which is under absolute siege,

I believe, if my opponent should win this race,

which I truly don't think will happen, we will

have a Second Amendment which will be a very,

very small replica of But I feel that it's absolutely

important that we uphold I feel that the Justices that I am

going to appoint - and I've named 20 of them -

the Justices that I'm going to appoint will be pro-life,

they will have a conservative bent, they will be protecting

the Second Amendment, they are great scholars

in all cases, and they are people They will interpret the Constitution

the way the Founders wanted it interpreted and I believe that's

very, very important. I don't think we should have

Justices appointed that decide It's all about the

Constitution of... And so important, the Constitution

the way it was meant to be. And those are the people that

I will appoint. But I want to ask you specifically -

do you want the Court, including the Justices that

you will name, to overturn Roe v. Wade, which includes -

in fact, states - Well, if that would happen,

because I am pro-life and I will be appointing pro-life judges,

I would think that that would go But I'm asking you specifically,

would you like to... If they overturned it,

it'll go back to the States. But what I'm asking you, sir, is, do

you want to see the Court overturn? You just said you want to see

the Court protect the Second Amendment, do you want to see

the Court overturn Roe v. Well, if we put another two

or perhaps three Justices on, that's really what's

going to happen, that will happen. And that'll happen automatically,

in my opinion, because I am putting I will say this, it will go back

to the states and the states Well, I strongly support Roe v.

Wade, which guarantees to make the most intimate,

most difficult - in many cases - decisions about her health care that

one can imagine. And in this case, it's

not only about Roe v. Wade, it is about what's happening

right now in America. So many states are putting very

stringent regulations on women that block them

from exercising that choice. To the extent that they are

defunding Planned Parenthood, which of course provides all kinds

of cancer screenings and other Donald has said he's in favour

of defunding Planned Parenthood. He even supported shutting

the government down to defund I will defend

Planned Parenthood. I will defend

Roe v. Wade. And I will defend women's

rights to make their own And we have come too far to have

that turned back now. Indeed, he said women should be

punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women

who obtain abortions, and I could just not be more opposed

to that kind of thinking. I'm going to give you a chance

to respond, but I want to ask you, Secretary Clinton, I want to explore

how far you believe the right You have been quoted

as saying that the foetus has You also voted against a ban

on late-term, partial Because Roe v.

Wade very clearly sets out that there can be

regulations on abortion, so long as the life

and the health of the mother And when I voted as a Senator,

I did not think that The kinds of cases that fall

at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking,

painful decisions I have met with women who,

towards the end of their pregnancy, get the worst news

that one could get - that their health is in jeopardy

if they continue to carry to term. Or that something terrible has

happened, or just been discovered I do not think the United States

Government should be stepping in and making those most

personal of decisions. So you can regulate if you are doing

so with the life and the health And particularly on this

issue of late-term, If you go with what

Hillary is saying. In the ninth month, you can take

the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother,

just prior to the birth of the baby. Now, you can say that that's OK

and Hillary can say that that's OK, Because based on what she's saying

and based on where's she's going and where she's been,

you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb -

in the ninth month, on the final day -

and that's not acceptable. Well, that is not what happens

in these cases, and using that kind of scare rhetoric is just

terribly unfortunate. You should meet with some

of the women that I've met with. Women I've known over the course

of my life. This is one of the worst possible

choices that any woman And I do not believe the government

should be making it. You know, I've had the great honour

of travelling across the world I've been to countries

where governments either force women to have abortions,

like they used to do in China, or forced women to bear children,

like they used to do in Romania. And I can tell you the government

has no business in the decisions that women make with their families,

in accordance with their faith, with medical advice,

and I will stand up for that right. All right, just briefly,

I'm going to move on... Honestly, nobody has business doing

what I just said, doing that, as late as one or two or three

or four days prior to birth. All right, let's move

on to the subject of immigration. And there is almost no issue that

separates the two of you more Actually, there are a lot of issues

that separate the two of you! Secretary Clinton, you have offered

no specific plan for how you want Mr Trump, you are calling

for major deportations. Secretary Clinton, you say that

within your first 100 days as President, you are going to offer

a package that includes The question really

is, why are you right Mr Trump, you go first

on this segment. Well, first of all,

she wants to give amnesty, And very unfair to all

of the people that wait in line In the audience tonight,

we have four mothers of... I mean, these are unbelievable

people that I've gotten to know over a period of years whose

children have been killed, brutally killed by people that came

into the country illegally. You have thousands of mothers

and fathers and relatives Drugs are pouring in

through the border. We have no country if we have no

border. As you know, the Border

Patrol Agency, plus ICE More than they've ever

endorsed a candidate. But they know what's going on,

they know it better than anybody. They want strong borders, they feel

we have to have strong borders. I was up in New Hampshire

the other day. The biggest complaint they have -

with all the problems going on in the world,

many of the problems caused by Hillary Clinton

and by Barack Obama - all of the problems,

the single biggest problem is heroin that pours

across our Southern borders. Just pouring, and

destroying their youth. It's poisoning the blood

of their youth and plenty We have to keep the drugs

out of our country. Right now, we're getting the drugs,

they're getting the cash. We need strong borders,

we need absolute... The Border Patrol, ICE,

they all want the wall. We stop the drugs, we shore

up the border. One of my first acts will be to get

all of the drug lords, We have some bad, bad people in this

country that have to go out. And once the border is secured,

at a later date, we'll make But we have some bad

hombres here and we're The same question to you,

Secretary Clinton. Basically, why are you right

and Mr Trump is wrong? Well, as he was talking,

I was thinking about a young girl I met here in Las Vegas, Carla,

who was very worried that her parents might be deported

because she was born in this They work hard, they do everything

they can to give her a good life. And you're right, I don't

want to rip families apart. I don't want to be sending

parents away from children. I don't want to see the deportation

force that Donald has talked We have 11 million

undocumented people. They have four million

American citizen children. He said as recently as a few weeks

ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be

subject to deportation. It means you would have

to have a massive law enforcement presence,

where law enforcement officers would be going school

to school, home to home, business to business,

rounding up people And we would then have to put them

on trains, on buses, I think that is an idea that is not

in keeping with who I think it's an idea that

would rip our country apart. I have been a fan of border

security for years. I voted for border security

in the United States Senate. And my comprehensive immigration

reform plan of course But I want to put our resources

where I think they are most needed, Anybody who should be deported,

we should deport them. When it comes to the wall that

Donald talks about building, he went to Mexico, he had a meeting

with the Mexican president, didn't even raise it,

he choked and then got into a Twitter war because

the Mexican president said, So I think we are both a nation

of immigrants and we are a nation of laws and we can act accordingly

and that is why I'm introducing comprehensive immigration reform

within the first hundred days First of all I had a very good

meeting with the President of Mexico, very nice man,

we will be doing very much better with Mexico on trade

deals, believe me. The Nafta deal signed by her husband

is one of the worst deals ever made of any kind,

signed by anybody, it's a disaster. Hillary Clinton fought for the wall

in 2006, or thereabouts. Now, she never gets anything done

so naturally the wall was not built, I would like to hear from Secretary

Clinton. I voted for border

security and... And there are some limited places

where that was appropriate and there is also necessarily

going to be new technology and how But it is clear, when you look

at what Donald has been proposing, he started his campaign bashing

immigrants, calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals

and drug dealers, that he has a very different view of what we should do

to deal with immigrants. What I am also arguing is that

bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows,

putting them into the formal economy, will be good because then

employers cannot exploit them And Donald knows a lot about this,

he used undocumented labour He underpaid undocumented workers

and when they complained, he basically said what a lot

of employers do - you complain, I want to get everybody out

of the shadows, get the economy working and not let employers

like Donald exploit undocumented workers which hurts

them but also hurts President Obama has moved

millions of people out, nobody knows about it,

nobody talks about it, but under Obama millions of people

have been moved out of this country, She doesn't want to say that

but that is what has happened and that is what has

happened big league. As far as moving these people out,

we either have a Now, you can come back

in and you can become a citizen We have millions of people that did

it the right way, they are online We are going to speed up

the process big league But they are online and they are

waiting to become citizens. Very unfair that somebody runs

across the border, Under her plan you have open

borders, you would have a disaster on trade and you will have

a disaster on your open borders. What she doesn't say is that

President Obama has deported millions and millions of people

just that way. We will not have open borders,

that is a rank mischaracterisation. We will have secure borders

but we will also have reform. Ronald Reagan was the last president

to sign immigration reform and George W Bush supported

it as well. Secretary Clinton, I want to clear

up your position on this issue because, in a speech you gave

to a Brazilian bank for which you were paid $225,000,

we have learned from WikiLeaks, "My dream is a hemispheric common

market with open trade If you went on to read

the rest of the sentence, We trade more energy

with our neighbours than we trade with the rest of the world combined

and I do want us to have an electric grid, an energy system

that crosses borders. I think that would be

a great benefit to us. But you are very clearly quoting

from WikiLeaks and what is really important about WikiLeaks

is that the Russian government has engaged in espionage

against Americans. They have hacked American websites,

American accounts of private Then they have given that

information to WikiLeaks for the purpose of putting it

on the Internet. This has come from the highest

levels of the Russian government, clearly from Putin himself,

in an effort, as 17 of our intelligence

agencies have confirmed, So I actually think the most

important question of this evening, Chris, is finally will Donald Trump

admit and condemn that the Russians are doing this and make it clear

that he will not have the help of Putin in this election,

that he rejects Russian espionage against Americans,

which he actually Those are the questions

we need answering. We have never had anything

like this happen in any That was a great pivot off the fact

that she wants open borders, OK. Hold on, folks, because this

is going to end up Let's try to keep it

quiet for the candidates Just to finish on the borders,

she wants open borders, people are going to pour

into our country, people She wants 550% more people

than Barack Obama and he has thousands and thousands of people,

they have no idea where And you see, we are going

to stop radical Islamic She won't even mention the words

and neither will President Obama. So I just want to tell you,

she wants open borders. I don't know Putin, he said nice

things about me. If we got along well,

that would be good. If Russia and the United States got

along well and went after Isis, He has no respect for her,

he has no respect for our president and I'll tell you what,

we are in very serious trouble. Because we have a country

with tremendous numbers of nuclear warheads, 1800 by the way,

where they expanded and we didn't. 1800 nuclear warheads

and she is playing chicken. Look, Putin, from everything I say,

has no respect for this person. Well that's because he would rather

have a puppet as president That the Russians have

engaged in cyber attacks against the United States

of America, that you encouraged espionage against our people,

that you are willing to spout the Putin line,

sign up for his wish list, break up Nato, do whatever he wants

to do, and that you continue to get help from him because he has a very

clear favourite in this race. So I think that this is such

an unprecedented situation, we have never had a foreign

government trying to We have 17, 17 intelligence

agencies, civilian and military, who all concluded that these

espionage attacks, these cyber attacks come from the highest levels

of the Kremlin and they are designed I find it deeply

disturbing and I think... She has no idea whether it's Russia,

China or anybody else. He would rather believe

Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence

professionals who are sworn She doesn't like Putin because Putin

has outsmarted her at every step Putin has outsmarted her in Syria,

every step of the way. And I would like to ask

you this direct question. The top national security officials

of this country do believe that Even if you don't know for sure

whether they are, do you condemn any interference by Russia

in the American election? I don't know Putin, I never met

Putin, this is not my best friend. But if the United States got along

with Russia, it wouldn't be so bad. Let me tell you, Putin has

outsmarted her and Obama at every single step of the way,

whether it is Syria, Take a look at the

start-up they signed. The Russians have said,

according to many, many reports, I can't believe

they allowed us to do this. She has been outsmarted by Putin

and all you have to do We have spent $6 trillion, they have

taken over the Middle East. She has been outsmarted

and outplayed worse than anybody I have ever seen in any

government whatsoever. We are a long way away

from immigration but I'm going to let you finish this

topic, 45 seconds. I find it ironic that he is

raising nuclear weapons. This is a person who has been very

cavalier, even casual, He has advocated more

countries getting them - He has said, if we have them,

why don't we use them, The bottom line on nuclear weapons

is that when the president gives There is about four minutes

between the order being given and the people responsible for

launching nuclear weapons to do so. And that is why ten people who have

had that awesome responsibility have come out and, in an unprecedented

way, they said that they would not trust Donald Trump with the nuclear

codes or to have his finger I have 200 generals and admirals, 21

endorsing me, 21 Congressional Medal As far as Japan and other countries,

we are being ripped off by everybody, we are defending other

countries, we are spending They have the bargain

of the century. All I said is that we have

to renegotiate these agreements because our country cannot afford

to defend Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, South Korea

and many other places. She took that as saying

nuclear weapons. Look, she has been proven to be

a liar on so many different ways. There's no quote, you're not

going to find a quote from me. Nuclear competition in Asia,

you said, go ahead, The United States has kept the peace

through our alliances. Donald wants to tear

up our alliances. I think it makes the world safer

and frankly it makes I would work with our allies

in Asia, in Europe, That is the only way

we are going to get peace. We are going to move

on to the next topic. Mr Trump, at the last debate,

you said your talk about grabbing And that you had never

actually done it. And since then, as we all know,

nine women have come forward and said that you either

groped them or kissed them Why would so many different women

from so many different circumstances over so many different years,

why would they all in this last couple of weeks make up,

you deny this, why would they make And since this is a question

for both of you, Secretary Clinton, Mr Trump says what your husband did,

and you defend it, was even worse. First of all, those stories have

been largely debunked. Those people, I don't

know those people. I have a feeling how they came,

I believed it was her campaign that did it, just like,

if you look at what came out today, the clips, where I was wondering

what happened with my rally in Chicago and other rallies

where we had such violence. She is the one, and Obama,

that caused the violence. They paid them $1500

and they are on tape saying, be violent, cause

fights, do bad things. I would say the only way,

because those stories are all totally false,

I have to say that. And I didn't even apologise to my

wife, who is sitting right here, I didn't know any of these women,

I didn't see any of these women. These women, the woman on the plane,

I think they want either fame Because what I saw, what they did -

which is a criminal where they are telling people to go

out and start fistfights and start violence, I will tell you what,

in particular in Chicago, people were hurt and people

could have been killed in that riot. And that was now all on tape,

started by her. I believe, Chris, that she got these

people to step forward. If it wasn't, they get

their ten minutes of fame. But it was all fiction,

it was lies and it was fiction. At the last debate, we heard Donald

talking about what he did to women. And after that, a number

of women have come forward, saying that is exactly

what he did to them. Well, he held a number of big

rallies, where he said that he could not possibly have done

those things to those women because they were not

attractive enough... He went on to say, look at her,

I don't think so, He said, that wouldn't

be my first choice. He attacked the woman

reporter writing the story, calling her 'disgusting',

as he has called a number of women Donald thinks belittling women

makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity,

their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who does

not know what that feels like. So we now know who Donald is and how

he acts towards women. I think it's really up to all of us

to demonstrate who we are, and who our country is,

and to stand up and be very clear about what we expect

from our next President, how we want to bring our country

together, where we don't want to have the kind of pitting

of people, one against the nother, where instead,

we celebrate our diversity. And we make our

country even greater. America is great because America

is good, and it really is up to all of us to make that true,

now and in the future, and particularly for our children

and our grandchildren. Nobody has more respect

for women than I do, nobody. And frankly, those stories have

been largely debunked. And I want to just talk

about something slightly different. She mentions this, which is all

fiction, all fictionalised, probably or possibly started

by her and her very sleazy campaign. But I will tell you, what isn't

fictionalised are her e-mails where she destroyed,

33,000 e-mails, criminally, criminally, after getting a subpoena

from the United States Congress. We have a great General,

four-star General, today, you read it in all the papers,

going to potentially serve five She has lied hundreds of times -

to the people, to Congress, And she gets away with it,

and she can run for the presidency That's really what you should be

talking about, not fiction where somebody wants fame,

or where they come out Well, every time Donald

is pushed on something, which is obviously uncomfortable,

like what these women are saying, he immediately goes

to denying responsibility. He never apologises or says

he's sorry for anything. So we know what he has said

and what he has done to women, but he also went after a disabled

reporter, mocked and mimicked him on

national television. He went after Mr and Mrs Khan,

the parents of a young man who died serving our country,

a gold-star family, He went after John McCain,

a prisoner of war. Said he prefers

people who aren't captured. He went after a federal judge,

born in Indiana, but who Donald said couldn't be trusted to try the fraud

and racketeering case against Trump University

because his parents were Mexican. So it's not one thing, this is

a pattern. A pattern

of divisiveness, of a very dark Where he incites violence,

where he applauds people who are pushing and pulling

and punching at his rallies. And I hope that, as we move

in the last weeks of this campaign, more and more people will understand

what is at stake in this election. It really does come down

to what kind of country So sad when she talks

about violence at my rallies, about getting rid of Isis

and I would love to talk But those other charges,

as she knows, are false. In this talk about fitness to be

president, there has been a lot of developments over the last ten

days since the last debate. I would like to ask you about them,

these are questions Secretary Clinton, during your 2009

Senate confirmation hearing, you promised to avoid even

the appearance of a conflict of interest with your dealing

with the Clinton Foundation while you were Secretary of State,

but e-mails show that donors got relief were considered separately

from non-donors and some of those donors got government

contracts, taxpayer money. Can you really say that

you kept your pledge to that Senate committee and why isn't

what happened and what went on between you and the Clinton

Foundation, why isn't it Well, everything I did as Secretary

of State was in furtherance of our country's interests

and our values. The State Department has

said that and I think But I'm happy - in fact,

I'm thrilled - to talk about the Clinton Foundation,

because it is a world-renowned charity and I'm so proud

of the work that it does. I could talk for the rest

of the debate, I know I don't Foundation made it possible

for 11 million people around the world with HIV AIDS

to afford treatment, and that is about half

of all the people in the world In partnership with the American

Health Association, we have made environments in schools

healthier for children. Secretary Clinton, respectfully,

this is an open discussion and the specific question about pay

to play, do you want... Saudi Arabia giving $25 million,

Qatar, all of these countries. You talk about women

and women's rights? So these are people that push gays

off business, off buildings. These are people that kill women

and treat women horribly, So I would like to ask you right

now, why don't you give back the money that you have taken

from certain countries that treat certain groups of

people so horribly? Because she takes a tremendous

amount of money, and you take a look I was in Little Haiti the other day,

in Florida, and I want to tell you, Because what has happened in Haiti

with the Clinton Foundation And you know it, and they know it,

and everybody knows it. Very quickly, we at the Clinton

Foundation spend 90%, 90% of all the money that is donated

on behalf of programmes for people around the world

and in our own country. We have the highest rating

from the watchdogs that follow And I would be happy

to compare what we do with the Trump Foundation,

which took money from other people and bought a six-foot

portrait of Donald. When it comes to Haiti,

Haiti is the poorest country The earthquake and the hurricanes

have devastated Haiti. Bill and I have been involved

in trying to help The Clinton Foundation raised

$30 million to help Haiti after the catastrophic earthquake

and all the terrible problems We have done things

to help small businesses, And we are going to keep

working to help Haiti because it is an important part

of the American experience. They don't want them

to help them any more. The Trump Foundation,

small foundation, people contribute, I contribute, the money goes 100%,

100% goes to different charities I don't get anything,

I don't buy boats, Wasn't some of the money used

to settle your lawsuit, sir? No, we put up the American flag

and that's it. We fought for the right

in Palm Beach to put There was a penalty that was imposed

by the Palm Beach County that the money came

from your foundation. There was, and the money

went to Fisher House, The money you are talking

about went to Fisher House, where they build houses for veterans

and disabled people. Of course, there is no way

we can know whether any of that is true because he hasn't

released his tax returns. He is the first candidate ever

to run for President in the last 40 plus years who has not

released his tax returns so everything he says

about charity or anything else, You can look at our tax returns,

we have got them all out there. But what is really troubling

is that we learned in the last debate, he has not paid a penny

in federal income tax. We were talking about immigrants

a few minutes ago, Chris. You know, half of all immigrants,

undocumented immigrants in our country, actually

pay federal income tax. So we have undocumented immigrants

in America who are paying more federal income tax

than a billionaire. We are entitled, because of the laws

that people like her pass, to take massive amount

of depreciation on other And all of her donors,

just about all of them. I know Buffett took hundreds

of millions of dollars, Soros, George Soros took hundreds

of millions of dollars. Let me just explain,

most of her donors have done Hillary, what you should have done,

you should have changed the law when you were a United States

Senator. Because your donors and your special

interests are doing the same thing as I do,

except even more so. You won't change the law

because you take in so much money. I sat in my apartment today,

in a very beautiful hotel down I sat there watching

ad after ad after ad, all paid for by your friends

on Wall Street that gave so much money because they know

you are going to protect them. And frankly, you should

have changed the laws, if you don't like what I did,

you should have changed the laws. Mr Trump, I want to ask you one last

question in this topic. You have been warning at rallies

recently that this election is rigged and that Hillary Clinton

is in the process of trying to steal Your running mate, Governor Pence,

pledged on Sunday that he and you, his words, will absolutely accept

the results of this election. Today, your daughter Ivanka

said the same thing. I want to ask you here

on this stage tonight, do you make the same commitment that

you will absolutely, Sir, that you will absolutely accept

the result of this election? I'm not looking at anything now,

I will look at it at the time. First of all, the media

is so dishonest and so corrupt The New York Times actually wrote

an article about it, It's so dishonest, and they have

poisoned the minds of the voters but unfortunately for them, I think

the voters are seeing through it. I think they're going

to see through it. We'll find out on November 8th,

but I think they are If you look at your voter rolls,

you will see millions of people that are registered to vote, millions,

this isn't coming from me, this is coming from Puel report

and other places. Millions of people that

are registered to vote that So, let me just give

you one other thing. I talk about the corrupt media,

I talk about the millions of people. I'll tell you one other thing,

she shouldn't be allowed to run. She's guilty of a very,

very serious crime. And just in that respect,

I say it is rigged. Chris, she should never have been

allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with e-mails

and so many other things. There is a tradition in

this country. In fact, one

of the prides of this country, it's the peaceful

transition of power, no matter how hard-fought a campaign

is, that at the end of the campaign, Not necessarily saying

you are going to be the loser concedes to the winner

and that the country comes together Are you saying you are not prepared

to accept that principle? What I'm saying is that

I will tell you at the time, Chris, let me respond to that

because that is horrifying. Every time Donald thinks things

are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is

is rigged against him. The FBI conducted a year-long

investigation into my e-mails. He lost the Iowa caucus,

he lost the Wisconsin primary, he said the Republican primary

was rigged against him. Then Trump University gets sued

for fraud and racketeering, he claims the court system

and the federal judge There was even a time when he didn't

get an Emmy for his TV programme three years in a row and he started

tweeting that the Emmys were rigged. This is a mindset, this is how

Donald thinks. And it's funny but it's

also really troubling. That is not the way

our democracy works. We have had free and fair elections,

we have accepted the outcomes That is what must be expected

of anyone standing on a debate stage President Obama said the other day,

when you are whining before the game is even finished,

it shows you are not Let's be clear about what he is

saying and what that means. He is denigrating, he is talking

down our democracy and I, for one, am appalled that somebody

who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that

kind of position. I think what the FBI did and what

the Department of Justice did - including meeting with her husband,

the Attorney General, on the back of an aeroplane,

on the tarmac in Arizona - I think we've never had a situation

so bad in this country. This is the final time -

probably to both of your delight - that you're going to be on stage

together this campaign. I would like to end it

on a positive note. You had not agreed to closing

statements, but it seems to me in a funny way,

that might make it more interesting because you haven't prepared

closing statements. A minute is the final question,

in the final debate, to tell the American people why

they should elect you to be the next Secretary Clinton, it's

your turn to go first. Well, I would like to say

to everyone watching tonight that I'm reaching out to all Americans -

Democrats, Republicans and Independents -

because we need everybody to help To grow the economy,

to make it fairer, to make it We need your talents,

your skills, your commitment, You know, I've been privileged

to see the presidency up close and I know the awesome

responsibility of protecting our country and the incredible

opportunity of working to try to make life

better for all of you. I have made the cause of children

and families really my life's work. That's what my mission

will be in the presidency. I will stand up for families

against powerful interests, I will do everything

that I can to make sure that you have good jobs,

with rising incomes, that your kids have good educations,

from preschool through college. I hope you will give me a chance

to serve as your President. She's raising the money from

the people she wants to control. But when I started this campaign,

I started very it strongly. It's called Make

America Great Again. It has to be helped,

it has to be fixed. We have the greatest people

on Earth in our military. We take care of illegal

immigrants, people that come Better than we take

care of our vets. Our policemen and women

are disrespected. We need law and order,

but we need justice too. You get shot walking to the store,

they have no education, I will do more for African-Americans

and Latinos than she can ever All she's done is talk

to the African-Americans But they get the vote,

then they come back, they say, We are going to make America strong

again and we are going to make America great again,

and it has to start now. We cannot take four more

years of Barack Obama, and that's what you get

when you get her. Secretary Clinton, Mr Trump,

I want to thank you both for participating in all three

of these debates. That brings to an end

this year's debates, sponsored by the Commission

on Presidential Debates. We want to thank the University

of Nevada, Las Vegas, While millions have already voted,

Election Day, November 8th, is just 20 days away, one thing

everyone here can agree on - It is one of the honours

and obligations of living So this was a debate that touched

a whole range of issues. It was more substantive in many ways

than the previous two debates. But it will have been dominated

by the headline that Donald Trump has not guaranteed

that he will accept the result That is what everyone

here in Las Vegas has been talking about and it is something that

Donald Trump and his campaign will have to tidy up over the course

of the next couple of days. We'll have more analysis in just

a moment but if you have just tuned in and missed the highlights form

the debate, we'll be showing it Reaction to the debate

was predictably polarised. Donald Trump's campaign manager,

Kellyanne Conway, thinks her candidate has a message that

will resonate with Americans, and was keen to push Mr Trump's

socially conservative Everything he has been talking

about was all stirred up tonight Defending the sanctity

of life was a great one. I know a lot of Republican

candidates who say they are pro-life and can't really articulate it

the way he did where he took the case directly

to Hillary Clinton. Basically, she supports abortion

in the ninth month and most However, while Trump may

have wished to focus on his anti-abortion stance,

many of today's headlines home in on his unwillingness to guarantee

that he will accept the result His opponents were quick

to pick up on this. The Interim Chair of

the Democratic National Committee, Donna Brazile, suggested Mr Trump

was falling short of the standards expected of a presidential

candidate. I've gone all over this country,

the world, to talk about how We are an example for the world,

and to have a leading presidential candidate undermine our democracy

I think is shameful. Our US correspondent,

Laura Bicker, is in Washington. How has America reacted to this

final debate? As you heard, the main reaction has been to the Donald

Trump answer about whether or not he would concede this election and

whether he would keep us all in suspense. Why is this such a big

issue when there was 90 minutes of debate and this only took up a

couple? This go to the very heart of American democracy, that there are

elections are free and fair and there is this smooth transition, a

peaceful transition of power. This narrative that he has been talking

about on his campaign speeches and again tonight, that the election is

rigged and he may have to look at the result before he concedes, I

think many of his Republican base are now trying to distance

themselves from that. If you look at the leading Republicans, already

they have said that they will respect the outcome of the debate,

his own daughter said before the debate that they would respect the

outcome. His running mate, Mike Pence, said they would respect it.

The only person who is saying right now that they will keep us in

suspense is the candidate, Donald Trump. It makes him look separate

from the party, again, but also sets him up once more among his base as

this and the establishment candidate. He is saying he's the man

to clean up Washington and if he is going along that line, maybe among

his supporters they might think that Washington does need cleaning up,

including the electoral process but there is no evidence that the

election has been rigged -- antiestablishment. Is there any

common ground between them? That's a good question! When it comes to

tonight, for the first 35 minutes you saw what divided them and very

clearly, and for the first time, for the last two debates from the outset

it has been insulted after insult but tonight we got 35 minutes of

policy, would you believe it. They talked about abortion and gun

control and who they would a point in the Supreme Court. There might

have been a lot of Americans who were looking for answers to these

questions and could see a clear division between them. And it stuck

to party lines. And then you heard Donald Trump veering off, calling

her a liar, saying she was and asked the woman. There is very little that

these candidates have in common. I think in the last debate there was

the question asked, what you respect about them both and certainly Donald

Trump said he respected the fact that Hillary Clinton does not give

up. Perhaps people would say the same about him so they have that in

common. Thank you very much. Laura has been keeping an eye on the final

presidential debate. And there's more on the US

Presidential debate on our website. For highlights, reaction and

analysis head to bbc.co.uk/us2016. And we'll also have another special

highlights programme at 8pm tonight. The headlines are coming up

on the BBC News Channel. In a moment we say goodbye

to viewers on BBC Two. First we leave you with

a look at the weather. It is pretty quiet for much of the

UK. This is the satellite sequence, in fact this is the radar shows a

scattering of showers coming in on the breeze to the east of the UK and

one or two further to the west but a lot of dry whether to be had. Quite

a breeze on the east of the UK and with that and the showers it is on

the chilly side on that Norfolk and Lincolnshire coast, maybe only 11 or

12 degrees but further north and west we have some good spells of

sunshine through the afternoon. Not overly warm, 11 or 12 again and

about 12 in Northern Ireland where it has been fine and right so far

today. That will continue this afternoon and with light winds so

pleasant enough. Many western areas into a decent day but the eastern

side has that breeds and those showers but even here there is some

sunshine -- breeze. 30 or 40 degrees in the West and not particularly

windy. But -- 13 or 14. A few showers around the coast this

evening and a bit of rain in the north-west but mostly fine and dry,

quite chilly in the major towns and cities with six or 7 degrees but

freezing in a few rural places with a touch of frost and maybe some fog.

A pretty fresh start to Friday but a lot of dry weather at the end of the

week. Some light rain in the Western Isles, edging into western Scotland

and maybe a few light showers in the south-eastern corner but inland most

places are doing well. Lighter winds and good spells of sunshine and the

template is will be about 11, 12, 13 degrees. -- temperatures. We have

this area of low pressure to the east and there is quite a breeze

coming in during Saturday. That will bring a fair bit of cloud and some

light rain showers on the east but the further west you go, it should

be fine and dry. Temperatures just about in double figures for most

places. Sunday into Monday, a few showers coming in on the east of the

UK but that should be some good spells of dry whether, particularly

for the West. A bit more cloud and that might thicken up in Plymouth by

Monday to bring some rain, accompanied by a noticeable breeze.

That is the next few days. Maybe you are off on holiday and you can take

a look at the forecast for where you are going on the BBC weather website

but for now,