First Debate Highlights US Presidential Debates

I'm Katty Kay in New York City where a day after America's first

presidential debate, the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

are busy assessing the fallout. It's the morning after the big

debate. Here in America, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are losing

no time getting back out on the campaign trail, she's in North

Carolina, critical state and he is in Florida trying to persuade voters

to cast ballots in November and trying to persuade voters,

campaigners and supporters that they won the crucial presidential debate

last night. Some 80 million Americans tuned in

to watch as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took to the stage at

host renews bursty in non-violent, shook hands and then the fun began,

90 minutes long, it whizzed by -- Hof Street University.

It was feisty, combated, the odd bit of policy was squeezed in and the

general consensus the day after seems to be Hillary Clinton had a

strong debate but that there were no Knockout Punch is against her rival

Republican Donald Trump. The debate was moderated by Lester Holt of NBC

News. Beginning with you,

Secretary Clinton, why are you a better choice

than your opponent to create the kind of jobs that will put more

money into the pockets The central question in this

election is really what kind of country we want to be

and what kind of future Today is my granddaughter's second

birthday so I think First we have to build an economy

that works for everyone, That means we need new good jobs

with rising incomes. I want us to invest in you,

I want us to invest in your future. That means jobs in infrastructure,

advanced manufacturing, innovation and technology,

clean renewable energy and small business because most

of the new jobs will come We also have to make

the economy fairer. That starts with raising

the national minimum wage and also guarantee finally equal

pay for women's work. I also want to see more

companies do profit-sharing. If you help create profits,

you should be able to share in them, I want us to do more to support

people who are struggling I have heard from so many

of you about the difficult choices you face and the stresses

that you are under - family leave, and sick days,

affordable child care and debt free college,

by having the wealthy pay their fair share and close

corporate loopholes. Finally, we tonight

are on the stage together, We are going to have a debate

where we are talking about the important issues

facing our country. You have to judge us,

who can shoulder the immense awesome Who can put into action plans that

will make your life better? I hope that I will be able

to earn your vote on November eight. Secretary Clinton, thank you,

Mr Trump, the same question, putting more money into the pockets

of American workers. They are going to Mexico, they are

going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing

to our country in terms of making our product,

they are devaluing their currency and there's nobody in our

government to fight them. And we have a very good fight

and we have a winning fight. Because they are using our country

as a piggy bank to rebuild China and many other countries

are doing the same thing. So we are losing our good jobs,

so many of them. When you look at what is happening

in Mexico, a friend of mine who builds plants says

they are building some of the biggest plants anywhere

in the world, some of the most sophisticated,

some of the best plants. With the United States,

as he said, not so much. You see this, the small

car division, leaving. Thousands of jobs leaving

Michigan, leaving Ohio. They are all leaving and we can't

allow it to happen any more. As far as childcare is concerned,

and so many other things, I think Hillary and I agree on that,

we disagree a little bit as to numbers and amounts and what we're

going to do but perhaps it will talk But we have to do stop our jobs

from being stolen from us, we have to stop our companies

from leaving the United States and with it, firing all

of their people. All you have to do is take a look

at the air conditioning company in Indianapolis,

they fired 1400 people Hundreds of companies

are doing this. Under my plan, I will

be reducing taxes, from 35% to 15% for companies,

but will be a job creator like we haven't seen since Ronald

Reagan. It will be a beautiful

thing to watch. Companies will build,

they will expand, new companies will start and I look very much

forward to doing it. We have to renegotiate our trade

deals and we have to stop these countries from stealing our

companies and our jobs. I think that trade

is an important issue. We are 5% of the world's population,

we have to trade with the other 95%. And we need to have smart,

fair trade deals. We also need to have a tax

system that rewards work, And the kind of plan that Donald has

put forward would be trickle down In fact it would be the most extreme

version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent

of the people in this country, I call it Trumped-Up

trickle-down because that is We just have a different view

about what is best for growing the economy, how we make

investments that will produce I think we come at it from

different perspectives. Donald was very fortunate

in his life and that's He started his business with $40

million borrowed from his father. And he really believes that the more

you help wealthy people, the better off we will be

and everything will work out My father was a small businessman,

he worked hard, he printed fabrics on long tables where he pulled out

those fabrics and went down with a silk screen and dumped

the pain in and took The more we can do for the middle

class, the more we can invest in you, your more we can invest

in you, your future, the better we will be and the better

we will grow. You have talked about creating

25 million jobs and you have promised to bring back millions

of jobs from Americans, how are you going to bring back

the industry that have left this How specifically are you going

to tell American manufacturers For one thing, before we start

on that, my father gave me a small loan in 1975 and I built it

into a company which is worth many billions of dollars with some

of the greatest asset in the world, I say that only

because that is the kind of thinking our country needs,

our country is in deep trouble. We do not know what we are doing

as it comes to devaluations, and all of these countries all over

the world, especially China What they are doing to us

is a very sad thing. So we have to do that, we have

to renegotiate our trade deals. They are taking our jobs,

giving incentives, doing things that Let me give you the example of

Mexico. They have a VAT tax,

we have a different system. When we sell into Mexico,

there is a tax, when they When they sell to us,

there is no tax. It has been defective

for a long time but the With all fairness the Secretary

Clinton, yes, is that ok? In all fairness to Secretary

Clinton, when we started talking about this, it was very recently,

she has been doing this for 30 years, why hasn't she made

the agreement is better? The agreement is

defective because of Secretary Clinton should have

been doing this years, they should have been

doing this the years, not now because we have

created a movement. What has happened to our jobs

and our country and our economy Back to the question,

how do you specifically American manufacturers,

how do you make them The first thing you do

is do not let the jobs leave. There are thousands of them,

they are leaving in bigger And what you do is say, fine,

you want to go to Mexico or some other country,

good luck, we wish you luck. But if you think you are going

to make your air conditioners or cars or cookies or whatever

you are going to make, and bring them into our country

without a tax, you are wrong. Once you say you're going to have

to tax them coming in, and politicians never do this,

because they have special interests and they want

those companies to leave, because in many cases,

they own the company. So we have to stop them from leaving

and that is a big factor. Let's stop for a second and remember

where we were eight years ago. We had the worst financial crisis,

the Great Recession, That was in large part

because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy,

failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off

of Wall Street, and created In fact, Donald was one

of the people who rooted He said, back in 2006, "Gee,

I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy

some and make some money." Five million people

lost their homes. And $13 trillion in family wealth

was wiped out. Now, we have come

back from that abyss. So we're now on the precipice

of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need

to do is to go back to the policies Independent experts have looked

at what I've proposed and looked at what Donald's proposed,

and basically they've said this, that if his tax plan,

which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some

instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy,

were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5 million jobs

and maybe have another recession. They've looked at my plans

and they've said, OK, if we can do this, and I intend

to get it done, we will have ten million more new jobs,

because we will be making investments where we

can grow the economy. Some country is going to be

the clean-energy superpower Donald thinks that

climate change is a hoax We can have enough clean energy to

power a new home and build new homes.

I have tried to specific about what we can and

should do and I'm determined that we are going to get the moving again.

Building on the progress we have made over the last eight years

but never going back to what got us into trouble in the first place.

Go anywhere you want, Secretary Clinton, and you will see

devastation where manufacturing is down 30, 40, 50%.

It is the worst trade deal ever signed anywhere,

Now you want to improve transpacific partnership will stop

You were totally in favour of it, then you had me say how bad it is,

and you say, I cannot win the debate.

You know that if you win it will improve it, and that

You called it the gold standard of trade deals.

You said it was the finest deal you've ever seen.

And then you had what I said about it and all of a sudden

I know you live in your own reality, but that is not the facts.

I did say I hoped it would be a good deal,

When it was negotiated I concluded it wasn't.

There are different views about what is good for our country,

I think it is important to look at what we need to do

That is why I said, new jobs with rising incomes,

investments, not in more tax cuts which would

I do, I have written a book about it, you can pick it up

tomorrow at a book store or at an airport near you.

It is because I see this, we need to have strong

growth, fair growth, sustained growth.

You are going to approve one of the biggest tax raises

in history, you're going to drive business out, radiation oceans

are a disaster and by the way, my tax cut is the biggest

I am very proud, it will create jobs.

But regulations, you are going to regulate these businesses

I have been all over and when I go around, despite the tax cut,

the things that businesses and people like the most is the fact

You have regulations on top of regulations and new companies

cannot form and old companies are going out of business

and you want to increase regulation and make them even worse.

I'm going to cut taxes, big league, you are going

I kind of assumed there would be a lot of these charges and claims.

We have taken the home page of my website and turned it

So if you want to see in real time what the facts are,

We will not add a penny to the debt and your plans

Look at her website, no different than this,

go to her website, she tells you how to fight Isis on the website,

I do not in general Douglas MacArthur would like that.

At least I have a plan to fight Isis.

No wonder - you have been fighting Isis your

Go to the, please, fact checkers, go to work!

We are still on the issue of achieving prosperity.

The fundamental difference is concerning the wealthy,

Secretary Clinton is calling for a tax increase

for the wealthy, and Mr Trump is calling for tax cuts, defend that.

I am really calling for major jobs because the wealthy will

They will expand the company, they will do a great job

on getting rid of the carried interest provision, if you look,

it is a great thing for the middle-class, it is a great

When these people put billions of dollars in companies,

and bring $2.5 trillion back, I happen to think it is double that,

probably $5 trillion, that we can't bring

into our country, with a little leadership, you will get hit

in here very quickly and it could be put to use on the inner cities

and a lot of the other things and it would be beautiful.

And that starts with Secretary Clinton.

You need to defend tax increases for the wealthy Americans.

I think I will be blamed for everything that

has ever happened by the end of this evening.

Why not, join the debate by saying more crazy things.

There's nothing crazy about not letting our companies

This is Secretary Clinton's two minutes.

We have looked at your tax proposals.

I do not see changes in the corporate tax rates

or the kinds of proposals you are referring to that

would cause the bringing back of money stranded overseas.

I happen to support that in a way that will work to our benefit.

When I look at what you have proposed, you have got the Trump

Loophole which it would so advantage you and the business you do.

This is Secretary Clinton's question.

It would be a tax benefit for your family.

Trickle-down did not work, it got us into the mess

Slashing taxes on the wealthy has not worked.

And a lot of really smart and wealthy people know that.

And they are saying, we need to do more to make

the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle-class.

I don't think top-down works in America.

I think building the middle-class, investing in the middle class,

making college debt free so more young people can get

their education, helping people refinance their debt from college

at a lower rate, those are the kinds of things that

Broad-based, inclusive growth is what we need in America.

Not more advantages for people at the very top.

Typical politician, all talk, no action, sounds good,

Our country is suffering because people like Secretary

Clinton have made such bad decisions in terms of our jobs and in terms

Now look, we have the worst revival of an economy since the great

depression and believe me, we are in a bubble right now.

And the only thing that looks good is the stock market but if you raise

interest rates even before that, that will come crashing down.

We are in a big, fat, ugly bubble and we better be awfully careful,

and we have the Fed doing political things, Janet Yellin

of the Fed, the Fed is doing political by keeping interest rates

at this level, and believe me, the day Obama goes off and leaves

and goes to the golf course for the rest of his life,

when they raise interest rates, you are going to see some very bad

things happen because the Fed is not doing their job.

The Fed is being more political than Secretary Clinton.

Mr Trump, we are talking about the burdens that American have

to pay, you have not released your tax returns.

The reason nominees have released their return

to the decades is that voters know if their potential president owes

money and any potential business conflicts, don't Americans

have a right to know if there is any conflicts of interest?

I am under a routine audit and it will be released as soon

You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down

to the Federal elections where I filed a 104 page

financial statement of sorts, the forms they have,

in fact, the income, I just looked today,

the income is filed at $694 million for this past year.

If you would have told me I was going to make that 15 or 20

years ago, I would have been very surprised.

But that's the kind of thinking that our country needs.

When we have a country that doing so badly, that is being ripped off

by every single country in the world, it's the kind

of thinking that our country needs because everybody,

we have a trade deficit with all of the countries

that we do business with, of almost $800 billion a year.

That means, who is negotiating the trade deals?

We have political hacks negotiating our trade deal.

The IRS says an audit of your taxes, you are perfectly

free to release taxes during an audit, so does

the public's right to know outweigh your personal...

I will release them as soon the audit.

I have been audited for 15 years, I know a lot of people

who have not been audited, I get audited every year.

In a way I should be complaining, I do not complain, it is almost

a way of life, I am audited by the IRS.

We have a situation in this country that has to be taken care of.

I will release my tax returns, against my lawyer's wishes,

when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted.

As soon as she releases them, I will release,

I will release my tax returns and that is against my lawyers,

I will tell you this, in fact, watching shows, reading the papers,

almost every lawyer says, you do not release your returns

I would go against them if she releases her e-mails.

Let me admonish the audience, you were meant to be silent.

I think you have just seen another example of bait and switch.

For 40 years, everyone running for president has

You can go and see 39 or 40 years of our tax returns

We know the IRS has made clear there is no probation, on releasing it,

You have got to ask yourself, why will he not release his tax returns?

And I think there could be a couple of reasons.

First, maybe he is not as rich as he says he is.

Second, maybe he is not as charitable as he claims to be.

Third, we do not know all of his business dealings,

but we have been told through investigative reporting

that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks.

Or maybe he doesn't want the American people,

all of you watching tonight, to know that he's paid nothing

in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody has ever seen

were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state

authorities when he was trying to get a casino licence

and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.

That means 0 for troops, 0 for veterans, 0 for schools or health.

It means he is not enthusiastic for the country to see what the real

reasons are, it must be something terrible he is trying to hide.

The financial disclosure statements do not give you the tax rates,

And it seems to me that this is something that the American

people deserve to see and I have no reason to believe that he is ever

Because there is something he is hiding.

And we will guess, we will keep guessing at what it

But I think the question is where he ever to get

near the White House, what would be those conflicts?

Well, he owes you the answers to that and he should provide them.

He also raised the issue of your e-mails, do

I made a mistake using a private e-mail...

And if I had to do it again, I would obviously do it differently.

But I'm not going to make any excuses, it was a mistake

When you have your staff taking the fifth Amendment,

taking the fifth, so they are not prosecuted, when you have the man

that set up the illegal server taking the fifth, I think

And believe me, this country thinks it's,

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that

much from returns, that I can tell you.

You learn a lot from financial disclosure.

And you should go down and take a look about.

The other thing, I am extremely under leveraged.

that said 650, a lot of friends of mine said they'll did not think

that was a lot of money, the building that were mentioned,

it was not even bad story, the buildings were worth

The 650 was not on that, it is much less than that.

I could give you a list of banks, if that would help you,

I would give you a list of banks, very fine institutions,

very fine banks, I can do that quickly.

I have a great company, tremendous income and the reason

bragging way, it is about time that this country has

somebody running at that has an idea about money.

When we have $20 trillion in debt and our country is a mess,

it is one thing to be in debt and our roads and bridges are good,

and everything are in great shape and our airports,

You land in New York and we do not have the money because it has been

And maybe because you have not paid any federal income

It would be squandered too, believe me.

If your main claim to be president of the United States

is your business, then I think we should talk about that.

Your campaign manager said that you built a lot of businesses

And indeed, I have met a lot of the people who were stiffed

I have met dishwashers, painters, architects,

who you refuse to pay when they finished their work.

We have an architect that designed one of your

It is a beautiful facility, it immediately was put to use.

And you would not pay what the man needed to be paid what

Maybe he didn't do a good job and I was not satisfied with his

The thousands of people that you have stiffed over

the course of your business, do they not deserve some

From someone who has taken their labour, taking

the goods they produce, and then refused to pay them?

I can only say that I am certainly relieved that my late father never

When we talk about your business, you have taken business

There are a lot of great businesspeople that have never

You even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate Wrong.

-- negotiate down the national debt of the US.

Well, sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business

to Government, but sometimes what happened in business would be

Look, it's all words, it's all sound bites.

Some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world,

real estate assets anywhere in the world, beyond

the United States, in Europe, lots of different places.

But on occasion, four times, we used certain laws that are there.

And when Secretary Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid,

first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage.

Now, if you want to change the laws, you've been there a long

But I take advantage of the laws of the nation

Mr Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim

that the nation's first black president was not

In the last couple of weeks, you acknowledged what most Americans

have accepted for years: The president was born

Can you tell us what took you so long?

I'll tell you very...well, just very simple to say.

Sidney Blumenthal works for the campaign and close...very

And her campaign manager, Patti Doyle, went to...during

the campaign, her campaign against President Obama, fought very hard.

And you can go look it up, and you can check it out.

And if you look at CNN this past week, Patti Solis Doyle

was on Wolf Blitzer saying that this happened.

Blumenthal sent McClatchy, highly respected reporter

at McClatchy, to Kenya to find out about it.

She failed to get the birth certificate.

I got him to give the birth certificate.

And I'll tell you why I'm satisfied with it.

Because I want to get on to defeating Isis,

because I want to get on to creating jobs,

because I want to get on to having a strong border, because I want

to get on to things that are very important to me and that are very

But I just want to get the answer here.

The birth certificate was produced in 2011.

You've continued to tell the story and question the president's

legitimacy in 2012, '13, '14, '15...

So the question is, what changed your mind?

Well, nobody was pressing it, nobody was caring much about it.

I figured you'd ask the question tonight, of course.

But I was the one that got him to produce the birth certificate.

I mean, you know...now, everybody in mainstream

is going to say, oh, that's not true.

Sidney Blumenthal sent a reporter...you just have

to take a look at CNN, the last week, the interview

But just like she can't bring back jobs,

I'm just going to follow up...and I will let you respond to that,

But we're talking about racial healing in this segment.

What do you say to Americans, people of colour who...

I say nothing, because I was able to get him to produce it.

He should have produced it a long time before.

And clearly, as Donald just admitted,

he knew he was going to stand on this debate stage,

and Lester Holt was going to be asking us questions,

so he tried to put the whole racist birther lie to bed.

But it can't be dismissed that easily.

He has really started his political activity based on this racist lie

that our first black president was not an American citizen.

Well, President Obama and Secretary Clinton

created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq,

because they got out...what, they shouldn't have been in,

but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster.

She's been trying to take them out for a long time.

But they wouldn't have even been formed if they left some troops

behind, like 10,000 or maybe something more than that.

Or, as I've been saying for a long time, and I think you'll agree,

because I said it to you once, had we taken the oil...and we should

have taken the oil...ISIS would not have been able to form either,

because the oil was their primary source of income.

And now they have the oil all over the place, including the oil...a lot

of the oil in Libya, which was another one

Well, I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume

Donald supported the invasion of Iraq.

That is absolutely proved over and over again.

He actually advocated for the actions we took in Libya

and urged that Gadhafi be taken out, after actually doing some

But the larger point...and he says this constantly...is

George W Bush made the agreement about when American troops

When Isis formed in this vacuum created by Barack Obama

And believe me, you were the ones that took out the troops.

They sat back probably and said, I can't believe it.

When they formed, when they formed, this is something that never

Now, you're talking about taking out Isis.

But you were there, and you were Secretary of State

A lot of these are judgment questions.

You had supported the war in Iraq before the invasion.

That is a mainstream media nonsense put out by her,

because she...frankly, I think the best person

Why is your...why is your judgment...

When I did an interview with Howard Stern, very lightly,

first time anyone's asked me that, I said, very lightly,

I then did an interview with Neil Cavuto.

We talked about the economy is more important.

I then spoke to Sean Hannity, which everybody refuses

I had numerous conversations with Sean Hannity at Fox.

And Sean Hannity said...and he called me the other day...and

He said you were totally against the war,

Sean Hannity said very strongly to me and other people...he's

willing to say it, but nobody wants to call him.

He said, you used to have fights with me, because Sean was in favor

And I understand that side, also, not very much,

because we should have never been there.

And then they did an article in a major magazine,

But they did an article which had me totally against the war in Iraq.

And one of your compatriots said, you know, whether it was before

or right after, Trump was definitely...because if you read

But if somebody...and I'll ask the press...if somebody

would call up Sean Hannity, this was before the war started.

He and I used to have arguments about the war.

I said, it's a terrible and a stupid thing.

It's going to destabilize the Middle East.

My reference was to what you had said in 2002, and my

Why is your judgment...why is your judgment any

different than Mrs Clinton's judgment?

Well, I have much better judgment than she does.

I also have a much better temperament

I have a much better...she spent...let me tell you...she spent

hundreds of millions of dollars on an advertising...you know,

The AFL-CIO the other day, behind the blue screen,

I don't know who you were talking to, Secretary Clinton,

I said, there's a person with a temperament that's

Secretary Clinton?

Let's talk about two important issues that

were briefly mentioned by Donald, first, Nato.

You know, Nato as a military alliance has something

called Article Five, and basically it says

this: An attack on one is an attack on all.

And you know the only time it's ever been invoked?

After 9/11, when the 28 nations of Nato said that they would go

to Afghanistan with us to fight terrorism, something

that they still are doing by our side.

With respect to Iran, when I became Secretary of State,

Iran was weeks away from having enough nuclear material

They had mastered the nuclear fuel cycle under the Bush administration.

They had stocked them with centrifuges that

I voted for every sanction against Iran when I was in the Senate,

So I spent a year and a half putting together a coalition that included

Russia and China to impose the toughest sanctions on Iran.

And we did drive them to the negotiating table.

And my successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that

put a lid on Iran's nuclear programme without

The other day, I saw Donald saying that there were some Iranian sailors

on a ship in the waters off Iran, and they were taunting American

He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors,

I'd blow them out of the water and start another war.

That is not the right temperament to be

..of what we heard Donald say has been about nuclear weapons.

He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations

got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia.

It has been the policy of the United States,

Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce

the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

He even said, well, you know, if there were nuclear

war in East Asia, well, you know, that's fine...

And, in fact, his cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons

That is the number-one threat we face in the world.

And it becomes particularly threatening if terrorists

ever get their hands on any nuclear material.

Earlier this month, you said she doesn't have, quote,

And I don't believe she does have the stamina.

To be president of this country, you need tremendous stamina.

You have to be able to negotiate our trade deals.

You have to be able to negotiate, that's right, with Japan,

I mean, can you imagine, we're defending Saudi Arabia?

And with all of the money they have, we're defending them,

You have so many different things you have to be able to do,

and I don't believe that Hillary has the stamina.

Well, as soon as he travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace

deal, a ceasefire, a release of dissidents, an opening

of new opportunities in nations around the world, or even spends 11

hours testifying in front of a congressional committee,

Hillary has experience, but it's bad experience.

We have made so many bad deals during the last...so she's got

Whether it's the Iran deal that you're so in love with,

where we gave them $150 billion back, whether it's the Iran deal,

whether it's anything you can...name...you almost can't

She's got experience, but it's bad experience.

And this country can't afford to have another four years

We are at...we are at the final question.

You know, he tried to switch from looks to stamina.

But this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs,

and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers,

Women don't deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men.

And one of the worst things he said was about a woman

He loves beauty contests, supporting them and

And he called this woman "Miss Piggy."

Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping,"

And she has become a US citizen, and you can bet...

She's going to vote this November.

You know, Hillary is hitting me with tremendous commercials.

Some of it's said...somebody who's been very vicious to me,

Rosie O'Donnell, I said very tough things to her,

and I think everybody would agree that she deserves it and nobody

Extremely rough to Hillary, to her family, and I said to myself,

But she spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me,

And I will tell you this, Lester: It's not nice.

But it's certainly not a nice thing that she's done.

And the only gratifying thing is, I saw the polls come in today,

We have to move on to the final question.

$200 million is spent, and I'm either winning or tied,

One of you will not win this election.

So my final question to you tonight, are you willing to accept

the outcome as the will of the voters?

And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

But I certainly will support the outcome of this election.

And I know Donald's trying very hard to plant doubts about it,

but I hope the people out there understand: This election's

It's not about us so much as it is about you and your families

and the kind of country and future you want.

So I sure hope you will get out and vote as though your

future depended on it, because I think it does.

Will you accept the outcome as the will of the voters?

We are a nation that is seriously troubled.

The other day, we were deporting 800 people.

And perhaps they passed the wrong button, they pressed the wrong

button, or perhaps worse than that, it was corruption, but these people

that we were going to deport for good reason ended

And now it turns out it might be 1,800, and they don't even know.

Will you accept the outcome of the election?

The answer is, if she wins, I will absolutely support her.

That concludes our debate for this evening, a spirit one.

We covered a lot of ground, not everything as I suspected we would.

The next presidential debates are scheduled for October ninth

Louis and October 19th at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

The vice presidential debate is scheduled for October fourth

at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.

My thanks to Hillary Clinton and to Donald Trump

and to Hofstra University for hosting us tonight.

That was the first of three presidential debates.

Let's get straight to analysis with Democratic and Republican

strategists. They both join us from strategists. They both join us from

Washington, DC. Listening to those clips of Donald Trump debating

Hillary Clinton last night, how do you think he did? First of all, I'm

calling my lawyer to sue you for making you listen to it again!

Unless somebody actually throws up on your shoes in these kinds of

debates, the people that were supporting Donald Trump thought he

did well. The people supporting Mrs Clinton thought she did well. The

staff of overnight polls showed that in both cases. I think we will learn

over the next couple of days when the larger polls start rolling in,

we will see what effect this had on voter behaviour, which is really all

that matters. This seems to be a general consensus emerging that

Hillary Clinton had a good night but there were no knockout blows against

Donald Trump. Do you think she will Donald Trump. Do you think she will

have made any of those critical people who are still not decided

about this election, whatever that is, a percent of the American

electorate, do you think she will have made up their minds in her

direction? I think she had an exceptional performance showing

strength, stamina and expertise in a range of issues and Donald Trump was

incoherent, rambling, he wilted under the pressure and he really

just ran out of gas. For a guy who has spoken so much about stamina and

strength, he didn't show that in the debate. He had a couple of good

minutes in the beginning but towards the end he was gasping for

conspiracy theories or factual inaccuracies to keep him propped up

on the stage and I help the think this is going to help a lot for

Hillary Clinton with undecided voters. Out of 20 people in a focus

group, 17 people thought Hillary Clinton one in the battlefield

state. The reporting after the debate is going to be important too

and you are seeing in battle ground states that a lot of headlines are

very bad for Donald so he will have a lot to do to regain Momentum. I

don't disagree with anything Doug said. I just think that most people

don't watch debates like the three of us do. We're not looking for new

alliances or semicolons, but people get a sense of what they are seeing

from one candidate to another. People who liked Trump sues start

with -- Trump to start with will still have liked him. Do you think

the next debate will be important? Will Donald Trump study for it? I

doubt it. Donald Trump is going to be Donald Trump, he's 70 years old

and is going start again, but it shows you that it might make some

sense to strap him into a chair and make him pay some attention to some

of these issues because Hillary Clinton's almost clinical analysis

and answering of the debate and answering of the debate

questions was really kind of remarkable to see and as I wrote in

my column for this morning, it was clear that she was tested and

trained not to fall into the traps that Donald Trump was going to set,

and I thought she did quite well. In some ways she got lucky, there was

not a huge amount of time spent on her e-mail issue, how handling of

pneumonia didn't come up, she could have been pressed much harder by

Donald Trump on of trustworthiness, but I was wondering, does she have

to come up with something a bit more inspirational? If she's going to win

significant numbers and they don't significant numbers and they don't

seem to be flocking to run moment, hasn't she got to come up with

something a little bit more inspiring than those clear policy

answers? I thought one of the key moments in the debate was when she

mentioned this beauty queen Alicia mentioned this beauty queen Alicia

who has been denigrated and humility by Donald Trump and brought that

story to life as one of the people that she is fighting for and that's

going to be a lasting moment for a lot of people when they think about

this debate. I think that the tape of inspirational story that Hillary

Clinton is going to be talking about throughout the rest of this

campaign, as well as a lot of the small business owners that Donald

Trump has stiffed and hasn't paid. I think that a lot of motivation and

energy is going to be put into our efforts over the next 40 days to

register votes, today is National voter registration day in the United

States and that is going to be a big piece of what happens out of the

Hillary Clinton campaign. Of all the personal stories she could have

told, a beauty queen story wouldn't have been my first choice. I think

in the second debate, she will come up with a lot more of those types of

stories, more like her dad, who hung to worry --

thank you for the analysis, gentlemen. It seems that

Republicans are suggesting that Republicans are suggesting that

Donald Trump at the worst of that first presidential debate. They have

two more dates to go -- debates, and we will see whether last night's

debate impact how they prepare for the later debates. A fascinating

contest, 80 million people watched on television. We will bring you all

the coverage over the next debates as well.