was an event held with four of the accusers where he called them courageous, and when he asked if he touches women without consent, one of the accusers paula jones responded with this. [ inaudible ]. nbc has confirmed that the four women will be in the debate hall tonight. and also leaked friday are many of the hillary clinton wall street speeches where the democratic nominee contradicts some of the positions on trade and the public and private s sector. tonight many of the questions will come from undecided voters and tonight the debate is in the form of a town hall meeting, and half from attendees and half from the social media. it will be moderated by anderson cooper and martha raddatz. there sis a question and then a 2:00 rebuttal. and has there ever been a moment in modern political history where there is this kind of drama leading up to a debate like this one? there hasn t. in fact, the debate era in presidential politics is 40 year-old and we haven t seen a
schieffer: good evening. and welcome to the third and last presidential debate of 2008, sponsored by the commission on presidential debates. i m bob schieffer of cbs news. the rules tonight are simple. the subject is domestic policy. i will divide the next hour-and-a-half into nine-minute segments. i will ask a question at the beginning of each segment. each candidate will then have two minutes to respond, and then we ll have a discussion. i ll encourage them to ask follow-up questions of each other. if they do not, i will. the audience behind me has thank you. are you a teacher? verys, i think that s a good question because i ve heard of from lots of teachers and parents about their concerns about some of the things that are being said and done in this campaign. is very important for us to make clear to our that our country really is great because we re good and we are going to respect one another, lift each other up, we are going to be looking for ways diversity.e our an
martha: please hold the applause. secretary clinton, you have two minutes. secretary clinton: secretary clinton, you have two minutes. first let me start by saying that so much of what he s said is not right but he gets to run his campaign any way he choosed. he gets to talk about our agenda, laying out the plans we have that we think can make a better life and a better country. that s his choice. when i hear something like that, i am reminded of what my friend michelle obama, advised us all. when they go low, you go high. [applause] [cheering] but if thisinton: 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 on the stage respects women. but he never apologizes for anything to anyone. he never apologized to mr. and mrs. kahn, the gold star family whose son died in the line of duty in iraq, and donald insulted and attacked them for w
trish regan with me. kennedy, as folks get ready to talk to the folks in the room, ground rules, this changed everything. in race as dynamic as anything we ve seen in modern politics it changes only minutes before the debate kicks off. you have to wonder, you and i talked about in the break, whether or not the participants, undecided voters on stage, 38 of them have no idea about the trump press conference with the four accusers. neil: if they re locked down in there, they might hear word-of-mouth. trish regan. it has got to come up in questioning now. and change the tone of questions? absolutely the onus on the moderators to make sure it does come up. one would anticipate it absolutely would. it should and it does change the story somewhat. in other words, it is more difficult now for the moderators to sweep under the rug what happened years ago with bill clinton. the fact that hillary clinton stood by his side but not just stood by his side, neil. was willing to trash a