Second Debate Highlights US Presidential Debates

This is BBC News at 11. We have a special programme on last night's US

presidential TV debate. Refusing to shake hands, Donald Trump and

Hillary Clinton, head-to-head in what is described as the worst

tempered debate in history. This was locker room talk. It is clear to

anyone who heard it it represents exactly who he is. If you look at

Bill Clinton, far worse. Mine are words and his was action. I am

reminded what my friend Michelle Obama advised us, when they go low,

you go high. Donald Trump performed better and put Hillary Clinton on

the defensive. I think it is already decided. Those voters not decided, I

am not sure it helps them. He reminded her that her husband has a

track record that exceeds anything I have seen so I think he was right in

doing that. Hello, this morning we have a special programme on the US

presidential debate. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have clashed

again in the second televised debate in the race for the White House.

Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump's comments about women following the

leak of the video showed he was unfit to be president. Mr Trump

dismissed the tape is locker room talk and accused his rival's

husband, Bill Clinton, of behaving worse. The candidates set the tone

from the start. They did not shake hands when they entered the stage at

Washington University, said Lewis. -- said Louis.

It was at times of extremely fiery second presidential debate

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival

Donald Trump spoke about the fight against these

Islamophobia and, of course, that lewd audio recording

of Mr Trump that he dismissed as locker room talk.

Well, that's where we will pick up the debate as moderated

by Martha Raddatz from ABC News and CNN's Anderson Cooper.

We received a lot of questions online, Mr Trump, about the tape

You called what you said locker room banter.

You described kissing women without consent,

You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women.

I don't think you understood what was said.

I apologised to my family, I apologised to the American people.

Certainly I'm not proud of it, but this is locker room talk.

You know, when we have a world where you have Isis chopping off

And frankly drowning people in steel cages.

Where you have wars and horrible, horrible sights all over.

Where you have so many bad things happening.

Can you imagine the people that are frankly doing so well

against us, with Isis, and they look at our country

Isis happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left

because of bad judgment and I will tell you,

And you should get onto much more important things

Just for the record, though, are you saying that what you said

on that bus 11 years ago, that you did not actually kiss

women without consent, or grope women without consent?

Nobody has more respect for women that I do.

So for the record, you're saying you never did that?

Frankly, you hear these things I said.

I was embarrassed by it but I have tremendous respect for women.

And I will tell you that I'm going to make our country safe,

we're going to have borders in our country which

People are pouring into our country and they're coming in from

We're going to make America safe again.

We're going to make America great again.

But we are going to make America safe again.

And we're going to make America wealthy again,

because, if you don't do that, it sounds harsh to say,

but we have to build up the wealth of our nation.

Now other nations are taking our jobs and they're taking our wealth.

Secretary Clinton, do you want to respond?

Well, like everyone else, I've spent a lot of time thinking

over the last 48 hours about what we heard and saw.

You know, with prior Republican nominees for President,

I disagreed with them on politics, policies, principles.

But I never questioned their fitness to serve.

I said starting back in June that he was not fit to be president

And many Republicans and independents have

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 think it's clear to anyone who heard it that it

represents exactly who he is, because we've seen this

We have seen him rate women on their appearance,

We have seen him embarrass women on TV and on Twitter.

We saw him after the first debate spent nearly a week denigrating

a former Miss Universe in the harshest most personal terms.

So, yes, this is who Donald Trump is.

But it's not only women and it's not only this video that raises

questions about his fitness to be our president.

Because he has also targeted immigrants, African-Americans,

And the question for us, the question our country must answer

That's why to go back to your question, I want to send

a message, we all should, to every boy and girl,

and indeed to the entire world, that America already

is great, but we are great because we are good.

And we will respect one another and we will work with one another

These are very important values to me, because this is the America

that I know and love, and I can pledge to you tonight

that this is the America that I will serve if I am so fortunate

And we want to get to some questions from online.

It's just words, folks, it's just words.

Those words, I've been hearing them for many years.

I heard them when they were running for the Senate in New York,

where Hillary was going to bring back jobs

I've heard them where Hillary is constantly talking

about the inner cities of our country, which are

education-wise, job-wise, safety-wise.

I'm going to help the African Americans,

I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics.

I am going to help with the inner cities.

She has done a terrible job for the African-Americans.

She wants their vote and she does nothing and then she comes

We saw that first-hand, when she was United States senator.

I want to get to audience questions and online questions.

So she is allowed to do that but I am not allowed to respond?

You're going to get to respond right now.

This tape is generating intense interest.

In just 48 hours it has become the single most talked

about story of the entire 2016 election on Facebook.

With millions and millions of people discussing it on the social network.

As we said a moment ago, we do want to bring

in questions from voters around the country via social media.

Trump says the campaign has changed him.

When you walked off that bus at age 59, were you a different man,

or did that behaviour continue until just recently?

I am a person who has great respect for people, for my family,

for the people of this country, and certainly I'm not

proud of it, but that was something that happened.

If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse.

His was, what he has done to women, there has never been anybody

in the history of politics in this nation that's been

So you can say any way you want to say it but Bill Clinton

Hillary Clinton attacked those same women and attacked them viciously,

One of the women, who is a wonderful woman,

Her client, she represented, got him off, and she is seen

laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped.

Kathy Shelton, that young woman, is here with us tonight.

Absolutely I apologise for those words.

But what President Clinton did, he was impeached,

he lost his licence to practise law, he had to pay an $850,000 fine

to one of the women, Paula Jones, who is

And I will tell you that when Hillary brings up a point

like that and she talks about words that I said 11 years ago,

I think it's disgraceful and I think she should

be ashamed of herself, if you want to know the truth.

Secretary Clinton, you have two minutes.

Well, first let me start by saying that so much of what he's

But he gets to run his campaign any way he chooses.

He gets to decide what he wants to talk about instead

of answering people's questions, talking about our agenda,

laying out the plans that we have, that we think can make a better life

When I hear something like that, I am reminded of what my friend

And, look, if this were just about one video, maybe

what he's saying tonight would be understandable.

But everyone can draw their own conclusions at this point

about whether or not the man in the video or the man

But he never apologises for anything to anyone.

He never apologised to Mr and Mrs Khan, the Gold Star family

whose son Captain Khan died in the line of duty in Iraq.

And Donald insulted and attacked them for weeks over their religion.

He never apologised to the distinguished federal judge

who was born in Indiana, but Donald said he couldn't be

trusted to be a judge because his parents

He never apologised to the reporter that he mimicked and mocked

on national television and our children were watching.

And he never apologised for the racist lie that

President Obama was not born in the United States of America.

He owes the president an apology, he owes our country an apology

and he needs to take responsibility for his actions and his words.

Well you owe the president an apology because,

as you know very well, your campaign, Sidney Blumenthal,

he's another real winner that you have, and he's the one that

got this started, along with your campaign manager,

and they were on television just two weeks ago,

and they were on television just two weeks ago, she was,

You're the one who sent the pictures around your campaign,

sent the pictures around with President Obama in a certain garb.

That was long before I was ever involved, so you actually

I've gotten to see the commercials that they did on you.

And I've gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I've

commercials I've ever seen, of Michelle Obama talking

So you talk about friend, go back and take a look

A race where you lost fair and square, unlike

the Bernie Sanders race, where you won, but not fair

And all you have to do is take a look at Wikileaks

and just see what they said about Bernie Sanders and see

what Deborah Wasserman Schultz had in mind because Bernie Sanders

between superdelegates and Deborah Wasserman Schultz,

And I was so surprised to see him sign on with the devil.

But when you talk about apology, I think the one that you should

really be apologising for and the thing you should be

apologising for are the 33,000 e-mails that you deleted and

And then the two boxes of e-mails and other things last week that

were taken from an office and are now missing.

And I'll tell you what, I didn't think I'd say this but I am

going to say it and I hate to say it, but if I win, I am going

to instruct my Attorney General to get a special prosecutor to look

to look into your situation because there has never been so many

lies, so much deception, there has never been

And we are going to have a special prosecutor.

The people of this country are furious.

In my opinion, the people that have been long-term workers

There has never been anything like this where e-mails,

and you get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena,

you delete 33,000 e-mails and then you acid wash them,

or bleach them, as you would say, a very expensive process.

So we are going to get a special prosecutor.

into it because, you know what, people, their lives have been

destroyed for doing one fifth of what you have done

And, honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Everything he just said is absolutely false,

The audience needs to calm down here.

I told people that it would be impossible to be fact checking

I'd never get to talk about anything I want to do and how

we are going to really make lives better for people.

So, once again, go to Hillary Clinton.com.

Last time, the first debate, we had millions of people fact checking.

So I expect we'll have millions more fact checking, because, you know,

it is just awfully good that someone with the temperament

of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.

We want to remind the audience to please not talk out loud,

And Secretary Clinton, I do want to follow up

You said you're handling of the e-mails was a mistake.

You disagreed with the FBI director calling your handling

of classified information quote, extremely careless.

The FBI said there were 110 classified e-mails that

were exchanged, eight of which were top-secret.

And that it was possible hostile actors did gain

You don't call that extremely careless?

Martha, first let me say, and I've said it before,

but I'll repeat it because I want everyone to hear it.

That was a mistake and I take responsibility for using

Obviously, if I were to do it over again I would not.

I think it's also important to point out where there are some misleading

hacked the server I was using, and there is no evidence that anyone

can point to at all, anyone who says otherwise has no basis,

that any classified material ended up in the wrong hands.

I take classified materials very seriously and always have.

When I was on the Senate armed services committee,

I was privy to a lot of classified material.

Obviously as Secretary of State I had some of the most

important secrets that we possess, such as going after Bin Laden.

So I am very committed to taking classified information seriously.

And as I said, there is no evidence that any classified information

And yet she didn't know the word the letter

She didn't even know what that letter meant.

It's amazing, I'm watching Hillary go over facts.

And she's going after fact after fact and she's lying again

because she said what she did with e-mails was fine.

Do you think it was fine to delete 33,000 e-mails?

She said the 33,000 e-mails had to do with her daughter's wedding,

Well maybe we will give three, or four, or five, or something.

33,000 e-mails deleted and now she is saying

And more importantly that was after getting a subpoena,

She got it from the United States Congress.

I'll be honest, I'm so disappointed in congressmen, including

Republicans, for allowing this to happen, our Justice Department

where her husband goes on to the back of an aeroplane

for 39 minutes, talks to the Attorney General,

days before a ruling is going to be made on her case.

But for you to say that there was nothing wrong with you deleting

39,000 e-mails again, you should be ashamed of yourself.

What you did, and this is after getting a subpoena

This next question comes from the public through

the bipartisan Open Debate Coalition's online forum,

where Americans submitted questions that generated millions of votes.

This question involves Wikileaks' release of purported excerpts

of Secretary Clinton's paid speeches, which she has refused

to release and one line in particular in which you Secretary

Clinton purportedly say you need both a public and private

So, To, from Virginia asks, is it OK for politicians

Is it acceptable for a politician to have a private stance on issues?

As I recall that was something I said about Abraham Lincoln

after having seen the wonderful Stephen Spielberg movie called

It was a masterclass watching President Lincoln get the Congress

It was principled and it was strategic.

And I was making the point that it is hard sometimes

to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have

And yes, President Lincoln was trying to convince some people.

He used some arguments convincing other people, he used

That was a great, I thought, great display of presidential leadership.

But, let's talk about what's really going on here, Martha,

because our intelligence community just came out and said in the last

few days that the Kremlin, meaning Putin and the Russian government,

are directing the attacks, the hacking, on American accounts

And Wikileaks are part of that as our other sites where

We don't even know if it is accurate information.

We have never in the history of our country been in a situation

where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence

And believe me, they are not doing it to get me elected.

They are doing it to try to influence the election

Now maybe because he has praised Putin, maybe because he has said

he agrees with a lot of what Putin wants to do, maybe because he wants

to do business in Moscow, I don't know the reason.

But we deserve answers and we should demand that Donald release

all of his tax returns so that people can see

what are the entanglements and the financial relationships.

And we aren't going to get to that later.

Secretary Clinton, you are out of time.

Her papers went out to all her friends at the banks,

And she said things, Wikileaks, that just came out.

Now she is blaming the lie on the late,

That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you.

That is a big, big difference we're talking about.

But, as far as other elements of what she was saying,

I think it would be great if we get along with Russia

because we could fight Isis together, as an example.

But I notice any time any thing wrong happens, they like to say...

She doesn't know if it is the Russians doing the hacking.

And the reason they blame Russia is they think they are trying

I know about Russia but I know nothing about the inner

I have no businesses there, I have no loans from Russia.

I have a great balance sheet, so great that when I did

the old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue,

the United States government, because of my balance sheet,

which they actually know very well, chose me to do the old post office

between the White House and Congress, chose me to do

One of the primary things, perhaps the primary thing was balance sheet.

You could go to the United States government and they would probably

tell you that because they know my sheet very well.

I pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.

Many of our friends took bigger deductions.

Soros, a friend of hers, took a massive deduction.

Many of the people that are giving her all this money

that she can do many more commercials than me

I pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes,

but as soon as my routine audit's finished I'll release my returns.

We are going to turn to the topic of taxes.

We have a question from Spencer Moss.

Good evening, my question is - what specific tax provisions

will you change to ensure the wealthiest Americans

One thing I'd do is get rid of carried interest.

One of the greatest provisions, for people like me,

to be honest with you, I give up a lot when I run

And she could have done this years ago.

She complains that Donald Trump took advantage of the tax code.

Why didn't you change it when you were a senator?

The reason you didn't is that all your friends take the same

You have provisions in the tax code that frankly we could change,

but you wouldn't change it because all of these people give

you the money so you can take negative ads on Donald Trump.

And I say that about a lot of things.

I've heard Hillary complaining about so many different things

over the years but she's been there 30 years,

She'll never change and she never will change.

We're getting rid of carried interest provisions.

I'm lowering taxes, actually, because I think it's

so important for corporations because we have corporations,

massive corporations and little ones, little ones can't form.

We're getting rid of regulations that go hand in hand

with the lowering of the taxes but we're bringing the tax rate down

We're cutting taxes for the middle-class and I will tell

you we are cutting them big league for the middle-class.

Hillary Clinton is raising your taxes, folks.

She's raising your taxes really high.

And what that is going to do is a disaster for the country,

but she is raising your taxes and I am lowering your taxes.

If China has a GDP of 7%, its like a national catastrophe.

And we're going lower, in my opinion.

And a lot of it has to do with the fact that our taxes are so high.

And I'm bringing them down to one of the lower in the world.

One of the most important things we can do.

But she is raising everybody's taxes massively.

Senator Clinton you have two minutes.

The question was, what specific tax provisions will you change to ensure

the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share of taxes?

Well everything you've heard just now from Donald is not true.

I'm sorry I have to keep saying this but he lives

And it is sort of amusing to hear somebody who hasn't paid federal

income taxes in maybe 20 years talking about what he's

going to do, but I'll tell you what he is going to do.

His plan will give the wealthy and corporations the biggest tax

More than the Bush tax cuts by at least a factor of two.

Donald always takes care of Donald and people like Donald and this

Indeed, the way he talks about his tax cuts would

end up raising taxes in middle-class families,

I have said nobody who makes less than $250,000 a year,

and that is the vast majority of Americans, as you know,

Because I think we've got to go where the money is and the money

is with people who take advantage of every single break

When I was a Senator, I did vote to close

I voted to close I think one of the loopholes he took advantage

of when he claimed a $1 billion loss that enabled him to

I want to have a tax on people who are making $1 million.

Yes, Warren Buffett who has gone out and said somebody like him should

not be paying a lower tax rate than his secretary.

I want to have a surcharge on incomes above 5 million.

We have to make up for lost times because I want to invest

in you, I want to invest in hard-working families.

And I think it's been unfortunate, but it's happened, that

since the great recession, the gains have all gone to the top.

People like Donald who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets,

zero for our military, zero for health and education,

And we're going to make sure that nobody, no

corporation and no individual, can get away without

Mr Trump, I want to give you the chance to respond.

I just want to tell viewers what she is referring to.

In the last month, taxes were the number one issue

on Facebook for the first time in the campaign.

The New York Times published three pages of your 1995 tax returns.

They show you claimed a $916 million loss, which means you could have

avoided paying personal federal income taxes for years.

You've said you paid state taxes, employee taxes, real estate taxes,

property taxes, you have not answered, though, a simple question.

Did you use that $960 million loss to avoid paying personal

And so do all of her donors, or most of her donors.

Her donors took massive tax write-offs.

A lot of my write-off was depreciation and other things

The people who give her all this money, they want it.

See, I understand the tax code better than anyone that's

Hillary Clinton, and it's extremely complex, Hillary Clinton has friends

that want all of these provisions, including they want the carried

interest provision, which is very important to Wall Street people,

but they really want carried interest provision,

And very interesting why she is leaving carried interest,

but I will tell you that number one I pay tremendous numbers of taxes.

I absolutely used it and so did Warren Buffett and so did

George Soros and so did many of the other people that

Now, I won't mention their names because they are rich,

but they are not famous, so we won't make them famous.

Can you say how many years you have avoided paying personal

No, but I pay tax and I pay federal tax.

A lot of it is depreciation, which is a wonderful charge,

Hey, if she had a problem, for 30 years she has

Why didn't she do something about it?

Why doesn't she do something about it?

She doesn't do anything about anything other than talk.

With her, it's all talk and no action.

And again, Bernie Sanders, it's really bad judgment.

She has made bad judgment, not only on taxes.

She's made bad judgements on Libya, on Syria, on Iraq.

I mean, her and Obama, whether you like it or not,

the way they got out of Iraq, the vacuum they've left, that's why

They started from that little area and now they're in 32

Hillary, congratulations. Great job.

I want you to be able to respond, Secretary Clinton.

I've been in favour of getting rid of carried interest for years.

Starting when I was a senator from New York.

Why didn't you do it? Why didn't you do it?

Because I was a senator with a Republican president.

I will be the President who will get it done.

If you were an effective senator, you could have done it.

But you were not an effective senator.

You know, under our Constitution, presidents have something

Look, he has now said repeatedly, "30 years this and 30 years that".

So, let me talk about my 30 years in public service.

8 million kids, every year, have health insurance because when I

was First Lady I worked with Democrats and Republicans to

create the Children's Health Insurance Programme.

Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be

adopted because I worked to change our adoption

After 9/11, I went to work with Republican Mayor, Governor,

and President to rebuild New York and to get

health care for our first responders who were suffering because they had

run toward danger and gotten sickened by it.

Hundreds of thousands of National Guard and Reserve

members have health care because of work that I did.

And children have safer medicines because I was able to pass a law

that required the dosing to be more carefully done.

When I was Secretary of State, I went around the world,

advocating for our country, but also advocating for women's

rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance

And negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons.

400 pieces of legislation have my name on it,

as a sponsor, or co-sponsor, when I was a senator

I worked very hard and was very proud to be re-elected in New York

by an even bigger margin than I had been elected the first time.

And as president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work,

that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get

along with people to get things done in Washington.

And for 30 years, I've produced results for people.

She has said a lot of things that are

I mean, I think we should be allowed to maybe dispute.

She has been a disaster as a Senator.

The heartbreaking video of a five-year-old Syrian boy,

after being pulled from the rubble after an air strike in Aleppo

focused the world's attention on the horrors on the war in Syria

with 136 million views on Facebook alone.

But there are much worse images coming out of Aleppo every day now

where in the past four weeks alone, 400 people have been killed,

called for a war crimes investigation of the Syrian

and its ally, Russia, for the bombardment of Aleppo.

This next question comes from social media through Facebook.

Diane from Pennsylvania asks - if you were president,

and the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo?

Isn't it a lot like the Holocaust when the US waited too long

we will begin with your two minutes.

The situation in Syria is catastrophic.

And every day that goes by, we see the results of the regime,

by Assad, in partnership with the Iranians on the ground,

the Russians in the air, bombarding places, in particular

Aleppo, where there are hundreds of thousands of people,

probably about 250,000 still left and there is a determined effort

Aleppo in order to eliminate the last of the Syrian rebels

who are really holding out against the Assad regime.

Russia hasn't paid any attention to Isis.

They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

So I, when I was Secretary of State, advocated, and I advocate today,

We need some leverage with the Russians because they

are not going to come to the negotiating table

for a diplomatic resolution unless there is some

We have to work more closely with our partners

But I want to emphasise that what is at stake

here is the ambitous and aggressiveness of Russia.

Russia has decided that it's all in in Syria.

They have also decided who they want to see

become President of the United States too.

I think wherever we can cooperate with Russia,

that's fine, and I did as Secretary of State.

That's how we got a treaty reducing nuclear weapons,

it's how we got the sanctions on Iran that put a lod

it's how we got the sanctions on Iran that put a lid

on the Iranian nuclear programme without firing a single shot.

So I would go to the negotiating table with more

But I do support the effort to investigate for crimes,

war crimes, committed by the Syrians and the Russians

First of all, she is there as Secretary of State

with the so-called line in the sand, which...

No I wasn't, I was gone, I hate to interrupt you.

At some point we need to do some fact-checking here.

You were in total contact with the White House and perhaps

sadly Obama probably still listened to you.

I don't think he'll be listening very much any more.

It was laughed at all over the world what happened.

With that being said, she talks tough against Russia.

But our nuclear programme has fallen way behind and they have gone wild

Our government shouldn't have allowed that to happen.

Russia is new in terms of nuclear, we are old,

we are tired, we are exhausted in terms of nuclear.

She talks really tough against Putin and against Assad.

Every time we take rebels, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere

else, we are arming people, and you know what happens?

They end up being worse than the people.

Look at what she did in Libya with Gadaffi.

By the way Isis has a good chunk of their oil.

I'm sure you probably have heard that.

The fact is almost everything she has done in foreign policy has

been a mistake and it's been a disaster.

Just take a look at Russia and look at what they did this week

where I agree she wasn't there but possibly she was consulted.

What Russia did with Assad and, by the way with Iran,

who you made very powerful with the dumbest deal, perhaps,

I have ever seen in the history of deal making, the Iran

deal with $150 billion, with the 1.7 billion in cash

which is enough cash to fill up this room.

Iran now, and Russia, are now against us.

I don't like Assad at all but Assad is killing Isis.

Those three have now lined up because of our weak foreign policy.

Mr Trump, let me repeat the question.

If you were President, what would you do about Syria

and the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo.

I want to remind you what your running mate said.

He said provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength,

and that if Russia continues to be involved in air strikes,

along with the Syrian forces of Assad

the United States of America should be prepared to use military force

to strike the military targets of the Assad regime.

He and I haven't spoken, and I disagree.

We have people who want to fight both at the same time.

Syria is Russia and it's Iran who she made strong and carry

and Obama made into a very powerful nation and a very rich nation,

We have to worry about Isis before we can get too much more involved.

She had a chance to do something with Syria.

What do you think will happen if Aleppo falls?

I think Aleppo is a disaster humanitarian-wise.

What do you think will happen if it falls?

I think that it basically has fallen, OK.

You look take a look at Mosul, the biggest problem I have

with the stupidity of our foreign policy.

They think a lot of the Isis leaders are in Mosul.

We have announcements coming out of Washington

and coming out of Iraq - we will be attacking Mosul in three

All of these bad leaders from Isis are leaving Mosul.

make it a sneak attack, and after the attack is made,

inform the American public that we have knocked out the leaders,

Why do they have to say we are going to be attacking Mosul

within the next four to six weeks, which is what they're saying?

There are sometimes reasons the military does that.

It might be to help get civilians out.

Look, I have 200 generals and admirals who endorse me, I have 21

congressional medal of honour recipients who endorse me.

Why can't they do something secretly where they go

in and they knock out the leadership?

How - why would these people stay there?

..For weeks about Mosul that it's the harbour,

between Raqqa and Mosul, this is where they think

Because everybody is talking about how Iraq, which is us,

with our leadership, goes into to fight Mosul.

With these 200 admirals and generals they can't believe it.

All I say is General George Patton, General Douglas

MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity

of what we are doing in the Middle East.

I'm going to go to Secretary Clinton.

Secretary Clinton, you want Assad to go, you advocated arming rebels.

But it looks like that may be too late for Aleppo.

Would you introduce the threat of US military force beyond a no-fly

against the Assad regime to back up diplomacy?

I would not use American ground forces in Syria.

I think that would be a very serious mistake.

I don't think American troops should be holding territory

which is what they would have to do as an occupying force.

I don't think that is a smart strategy.

I do think the use of Special Forces which we are using, the use

of enablers and trainers in Iraq, which has had some positive effects.

You said that half of Donald Trump's supporters are deplorable,

racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic,

you later said you regretted saying half, you didn't express regret

to Mr Carter's question, how can you unite a country

if you have written off tens of millions of Americans?

Within hours I said I was sorry about the way I talked about.

Within hours I said I was sorry about the way I talked about that.

Because my argument is not with his supporters, it's with him

and with the hateful and divisive campaign that he has run,

and the inciting of violence at his rallies and the very brutal

kinds of comments about, not just women, but all Americans,

What he has said about African Americans and Latinos,

about Muslims, about POWs, about immigrants, about

people with disabilities, he has never apologised for.

So, I do think a lot of the tone and tenor he has set, I am proud

of the campaign that Bernie Sanders and I ran.

We ran a campaign based on issues, not insults.

Because we talked about what we wanted to do.

We might have had some differences and we had a lot of debates.

But we believed that we could make the country better

You look at Baltimore, you look at the violence

that is taking place in the inner cities, Chicago.

We have a increase in murder within our cities.

We have a divided nation because people like her and believe me,

she has tremendous hate in her heart, and when she said

And when she said irredeemable you didn't mention that.

But when she said they are irredeemable, to me that may have

She said some of them are irredeemable.

She has tremendous hatred and this country cannot take another four

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

We have snuck in one more question.

My question to both of you is, regardless of the current

rhetoric, would either of you name one positive thing that

Mr Trump, would you like to go first?

I certainly will because I think that's a very fair

His children are incredibly able and devoted and I think that says

I don't agree with nearly anything else he says or does

I think that is something that as a mother and a grandmother

So, I believe that this election has become in part so -

so conflict oriented, so intense because there

We are going to be choosing a president who will set policy

for not just four or eight years but because of some of the important

decisions we have to make at home and around the world, from the

supreme court and on energy, so there is a lot at stake.

It is one of the most consequential elections that we have had.

That's why I have tried to put forward lots of specific policies

and plans, get it off the personal and put it

That's why I hope people will check on that for themselves.

So that they can see that yes, I have spent 30 years actually

maybe a little more, working to help kids and families

and I want to take all that experience to the White House and do

Well, I consider her statement about my children to be

I don't know if it was meant to be a compliment - but it is.

They have done a wonderful job and they have been

I disagree with much of what she is fighting for.

I do disagree with her judgement and many cases.

But she does fight hard and she doesn't quit

I consider that to be a very good trait.

I want to thank the university here, this concludes the town hall meeting

Please tune in for on October 19th for the final presidential debate

which will take place at the University of

It was a debate that was incredibly personal, it was aggressive at times

and there were lots of interruptions and criticisms from the moderators

too but not much participation from the audience which is what it was

meant to be about, it was meant to be a town hall. This was about

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and now they have a few weeks to go

until the actual election. Will they have changed any of those undecided

voters' minds? That's the second presidential debate. One more to

come in Las Vegas next week. Stay with us for more coverage through

the day and BBC World News America and online. From me, goodbye.

That was the highlights of the 90 minute debate. So Howard of the

candidates think they did? Hillary Clinton spoke briefly to supporters

on board her campaign plane back to New York and gave her reaction to

Donald Trump's accusations. I pretty much saw what I expected to see and

that's why, you know, the first thing I said was this is something

that I've been saying since June, that he's not fit to be President

and Commander in Chief and there are a lot of people who said it before,

and increasingly more adding that to the chorus.

It was a very small space and I tried to give him space when he was

talking to people. I would go back and leaned up against my stool. But

he was very present. Nothing surprises me about him, really, Dan.

I was surprised by the absolute avalanche of falsehoods. I really

find it almost unimaginable that someone can stand and just tell, you

know, a falsehood after a falsehood. He was said to be the most

untruthful candidate ever reevaluated and we did the numbers

and I think they said he was 70% untruthful. So I think he exceeded

that percentage tonight. Speaking after the debate Donald

Trump's campaign manager Kelly, said it went well for him but not for Mrs

Clinton. It was a big night for the campaign, Mr Trump won the debate,

she did not sufficiently defend herself. You saw a very resolute,

principled Donald Trump showing he is ready to be President and

Commander in Chief on day one. He took the case on Isis, Syria,

Benghazi, over her e-mails, any number of reasons why the majority

of Americans find her not to be honest or trustworthy.

Ukip Vida Nigel Farage has been formally advising Donald Trump for

the debate and played down the video released over the weekend.

I went to the convention at Cleveland and it was pretty obvious

to me that most of the establishment Republicans don't particularly like

this man. C1 the primaries, nobody thought he would do that, I'm not

even sure he thought he would do that. -- Ahye won the primaries. It

is unusual but it shows that there are a large number of Americans not

happy. A large number of Americans looking for genuine change in

policy, and that ultimately will be Hillary's weakness. Did we not hear

enough about immigration to night? You said he was on message but we

haven't heard him talk about the wall or any of the other major

policy ideas. No, had we had immigration questions tonight he

would have won even bigger. Republicans watching the debate from

long beach in California praised Donald Trump's performance but

appeared divided on who won. To be honest, I don't even think

there was a winner, to be completely honest. I think it's almost exactly

like the first debate. I kind of heard the exact same things. I will

say Trump did a better job in pointing out the things the public

wanted him to point out and I'm sure Hillary pointed out the things the

Democrats wanted her to point out. But at the same point I think it's

already decided. Those undecided voters, I'm not sure this helps

them. The fact is Donald Trump performed a lot better and he put

Hillary Clinton on the defensive this time. His performance was

better but for me it's too early to figure out who won the debate. But I

can say that Donald Trump did perform better and Hillary was on

the defence. I think he has a lot of skills and together they add up to

be very fundamental full. Is not the greatest debater -- formidable. But

I thought he did well and landed some shots. Every time Hillary

Clinton tried to bring up the tape that unfortunately came out one or

two days ago he reminded her that your husband has a track record that

far exceeds anything I've ever seen and he was right to do that because

if she is going attack him on just some childish comments. I went to an

all boys Catholic high school. I know of comments like that. It is a

guy thing. She has to get over it. I think his apology was sincere. He

answered the question right off the top, right away, move on.

And there is more on the US presidential debate on our website.

For highlights, reaction and analysis head to bbc.co.uk/ US 2016.

We also have another special highlights programme at 8pm tonight.

The headlines coming upon the BBC News Channel. In a moment we will

say goodbye to viewers on BBC Two but first a look at the weather.

It will be quite an autumnal week and as we head into the latter part

of this week easterly winds will pick up and make it feel even

chillier. That said there should be a lot of sunshine around,

particularly to start the week and across western areas of the country,

most showers in the north and east, like I mentioned it will turn

cooler. This area of high pressure is dominating the scene, over

Scandinavia feeding in north-easterly winds across the UK.

You would expect it to be more exposed across north-eastern areas

and we have a nagging breeze and some showers that will continue to

feed in to central areas and some could be heavy with hail and

thunder. Lincolnshire down into Yorkshire and also for East Anglia.

Showers hit and miss, some of them quite heavy blustery and feeling

caught close to the coast. Further south and to the south-west and in

towards Wales, north-west England and much of western and Northern

Ireland it is a fine looking day. Variable cloud, sunshine appearing

across Northern Ireland after what has been a cloudy start. Temperature

wise on the poolside if you catch any cloud, 11-13, maybe 14 Celsius.

The showers will linger across eastern areas this evening into the

first part of the night, generally they will fizzle out slowly but

there will be some across eastern Scotland and the far south-east.

Another chilly night to come under clear skies particularly,

temperatures in rural areas one or 2 degrees, and a touch of frost in

some of the Scottish Glens. On Tuesday a lovely bright start and

crisp sunshine but it will be quite cold. Through the day clouds will

build up and it will be a cloudy day through Tuesday afternoon compared

to what we will see this afternoon. Although temperatures will be up a

bit because of the cloud around and the increasing breeze it will feel

that bit cooler. On Wednesday again we will see fresh easterly breeze

pushing in the showers too many central and eastern areas, many

prolonged areas of rain, brightness preserved in western areas.

Temperatures around the low to mid teens Celsius. As we head into

Wednesday and Thursday this area of low pressure into the bay of Biscay

pushes northwards and bumps into the area of high in the north, and it

will squeeze the isobars and we will get strong easterly breezes across

the country, pretty chilly on Thursday and Friday, temperatures

10-14dC. Loss of cloud and outbreaks of rain closer to the east coast.

The wind is starting -- this week starts well and through the week it

will turn windy in Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

Fight fire with fire.