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>> it is true. we dont know whether hell show up. we dont know whether hell have a team of advisers. i will say, as i was saying last night online, i thought that actually the format last night, i thought the moderators did a good job of including the audience and being able, also, to persistently follow lines of argument. i thought they set a good example. what trump will do in the next couple of days, we dont know, but i think weve seen that hillary clinton through her debating career has neve...

Those are the issues that have a lot of resonance for republicans, but we saw him out on the campaign trail today, and he is talking about these personal issues over and over again, which leads them to believe that its not really about the republican party for donald trump, its about donald trump. >> james, i mean, you and i have been talking in the weeks running up to this, to last nights debate, you wrote this amazing cover story for "the atlantic" about debating, talking to all different peop...

Couple of days, we dont know, but i think weve seen that hillary clinton through her debating career has never really been wrong-footed. in the face of a lot of different stuff coming at her, include having the four women in the audience, she managed to keep more or less on keel. >> james, bret, gloria, thank you all. fascinating discussion. just ahead, the possibility that more trump hot mike moments exist. and more insight into how the tape we do have got on the radar. and well focus more on...

Handled the format last night? i mean, they didnt get to ask have many questions, and they were seemingly ignored and lost in the back and forth between trump and clinton. i thought trump got so intentionally personal that it probably was very uncomfortable for people seated around them, and i didnt think hillary did a particularly good job of connecting with the audience as well. so i think the real losers last night in the debate was the town hall, the kind of different format that that debate...

>> hes marking his thoughts, his phrases there, and hes indicating approval. so hes saying to himself, nailed that one. that was good, there goes another one. and so this is a way he has of keeping track of where he is in the thought process. >> so the sniff is like an exclamation mark? >> absolutely. >> but hes not aware hes doing it? >> i think its unconscious. clearly its a nervous tick that he uses to talk to himself and give himself a pat on the back and its not working for him. >> one more...

Be a rocket scientist or speaker of the house to understand that this is all heading in a really bad direction for donald trump. and what he is doing and has been doing, quite frankly, is giving members permission to go their own way. because he doesnt want to lose control of the house, nor does he want republicans to lose control of the entire congress. and he got a little bit of push back on that from congressman in ruby red states, who feel like its really in their benefit to be on the trump ...

>> james, if you look at the polling now, the first polls that have come out since the tape leaked on friday, and its really incredible, when you look at this. hillary clinton, with an 11-point lead in a four-candidate race, a 14-point lead when its just her and donald trump. has a candidate ever come back from a double-digit deficit like this? >> not in modern times. theres never been, i think, probably since the republican bull moose split of more than a century ago, theres never been this kin...

For people seated around them, and i didnt think hillary did a particularly good job of connecting with the audience as well. so i think the real losers last night in the debate was the town hall, the kind of different format that that debate brings, where an audience is a major component. >> and james, i mean, nine days is the final debate, assuming it takes place, and no reason to believe it wont. do you expect to see donald trump using the same strategy or -- i mean, this is obviously not a t...

Republicans had is that he cant win with his base. hes got to broaden this out. and the way he can do that is to talk about the issues that some conservatives wanted to talk about, which is, say, obamacare, or trade, or status quo versus change. hillary clinton is untrustworthy on the e-mails. those are the issues that have a lot of resonance for republicans, but we saw him out on the campaign trail today, and he is talking about these personal issues over and over again, which leads them to bel...

It? >> i think its unconscious. clearly its a nervous tick that he uses to talk to himself and give himself a pat on the back and its not working for him. >> one more debate left, as a coach and an expert in this, what piece of advice do you have for hillary clinton? >> i think hillary meeds to get more comfortable with her emotions. >> donald trump? >> donald trump badly needs to reestablish some sort of trust. at a simple body language level, he needs to open uh, open his eyes, warm it up, sto...