appreciate it. safe travels as you leave st. louis, sir. thank you, sir. if donald trump selected president, could he actually send hillary clinton to jail? ari melber, our chief legal correspondent, will explain the legal issues surrounding this coming up and the voice of the voters. looking at key moments from last night s debate and what voters were thinking as they watched. here s just a snippet of what they told us afterwards. i don t think anyone s given us any ideas on who we should really vote for. i don t really trust either one of them. uch abt w you re a digit, yet here youre building a jet engine. we, ge is digil d industrial. like peat butter andelly. yeah. ham d cheese. cops and robbers. yeah. nachos and kate. ahh. not that one so much. e rest were really gd.
that was locker room talk. it s awfully good with the temperament that someone like donald trump is not in charge of the law. because you would be in jail. honestly abe never lied. that s the big difference between abraham lincoln and you. did you use the loss to avoid personal federal income taxes? of course, i do. he lives in an alternative reality. political team up all night, at it again this morning. we start with hallie jackson still in st. louis covering the trump campaign for us. hallie, you ve heard they won, they won, they won. are they saying though that they shored up the base or did they feel like they actually reached new voters? reporter: it s not just that they won. one of the senior advisors came through the spin room and called it the greatest victory in the history of debates. i think he was being a little bit tongue and cheek presumably, but that s what he said.
reporter: what we saw from paul ryan over the last 48 hours is a soul searching potentially at least from ryan. you saw him denounce the comments that donald trump had made. we do expect to see paul ryan. he s out campaigning. we expect to see him in wisconsin. there s a conference call with members of the house conference to discuss issues that are relevant currently, potentially, this is something that could come up but, you know, so far, ryan has got to be walking this delicate balance between supporting the nominee of his party and trying to protect some of the vulnerable down ballot senators who could be at real risk if donald trump in fact loses to hillary clinton in november by, you know, 8, 9, 10 points. hallie jackson in st. louis covering the trump campaign. thank you, as always and kristen welker also in st. louis with reaction from the clinton campaign. kristen, it seemed at times last night that the clinton strategy