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Ac360 starts now tonight on 360 breaking talk debate and the race ahead. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Were just 55 days until the election. We begin with the impact last nights first and only scheduled presidential debate could have on a race thats now a sprint. An estimated 67. 1 million people watched according to nielsen figures out in the past 45 minutes including taylor swift, whose first move was to tell her 283 million instagram followers that shed be voting for kamala harris her ...

Idea. >> the idea that you would target a playground and bomb kids hoping that you would then convince people to give up because youd killed their kids? what kind of a sick mind comes up with a strategy like that? and what kind of severallized country is going to -- civilized country is going to support those tactics? thats what russia has done. martha: so how -- >> i cant believe he can stand there and make a statement like that. of course its true, assad has been systematically targeting civil...

Of the uber-dude for the democrats says the problem was hillary apologized for the e-mail server, she should have simply said it was permitted. really? people knew -- martha: she did say that. >> she was lying about it. martha: yeah. i think its incumbent upon donald trump to keep the promises that he made to people in terms of returning jobs especially in the rust belt states that he won, which is going to be his challenge. >> yep. martha: karl, thank you very much. great piece this morning. >>...

Listen, if youve got the goods, show it to us. >> yeah. i think the comment from peter king is actually the important comment here. what youre having is a campaign of leaks. the nbc report that peter and martha just discussed, thats a serious allegation that vladimir putin himself directed the hacking to interfere with the u.s. election. its sourced to two senior u.s. intelligence officials. if they have that information, it is incumbent upon them to provide it to the american people, to provide...

Concern as to why they denied us access to them and their information. this is our job, and its their job as well, and the american people deserve the transparency that comes with it. as do, does anyone thats running for high office. martha: do you want to speculate as to why they wont show up? >> i cant speculate as to why, but we have written a letter, made it very clear that we expect some answers. and the american people expect some answers. this isnt something you brush under the rug. this ...

Real reason for the partys stunning defeat. martha: and a house intelligence committee request for more information on the russian were going to get reaction from senator lindsey graham, right now heres trumps senior adviser, kellyanne conway. >> lets roll the tape leading up to election day. how many people were talking about this as interfering in the election? they were talking about what they were going to do in the west wing, that the path was closed, we can never win. nobody talked about t...

Meanwhile, mr. trump naming rona romney mcdaniel as the next leader of the rnc. she is the head of the michigan gop, and hes also mitt romneys niece. so theres that to keep an eye on this morning. all of this as a busy day with some of the sultans of silicon valley, telling the group he wants to, quote, help them do well, adding this: >> we want you to keep going with the incredible innovation. theres nobody like you in the world. theres nobody like the people in this room. and anything we can...

These people up until in this process. i think that the american peoples perception of them will likely change as they get to hear more from them and their plans. martha: yeah. we all expected that today there would be a big news conference and a discussion from the president-elect about how he was going to divide his business interests and how he would create a wall between his work as president of the united states and the business that he built over the course of a lifetime. so heres what the...

There -- these are difficult problems. if they were easy problems, they would have been solved already when it comes to the economy, jobs, immigration, its not as though nobody else try today -- tried to fix them, he has fresh ideas. now to implicate -- implement them is not going to be a miracle, hard workday in and day out, building colalitions and support. i think the thank you tour is a stroke of genius, he should continue doing that because it is his way of dealing with reluctant republican...

Thats a five-day window. based on what were hearing, i dont expect it to happen by then. >> no. bill: if thats the case, then this drags into 2017, correct? >> it does. and, look, the issues at the core of this is are important enough that they should be continued to be discussed in 2017 because they matter to sort of the fundamentals of our democracy. bill: twelve-hour honeymoon. get back at it. stephen hayes, thank you so much in washington d.c. >> thanks, bill. martha: we will talk with ohi...