This is not an ordinary time and this is not an ordinary election. We are going to be choosing a president who will set policy for not just four or eight years, but some of the important decisions we have to make at home and around the world to energy and so much else. So there is a lot at stake. Its one of the most consequential elections we had. Thats why i tried to put forth specific policies and plans. Try to get it off of the personal and put it on to what it is on i want to do as president. Thats why i hope people will check on that for themselves. So they can see that yes, i spent 30 years, actually a little more, working to help kids and families and i want to take that experience to the white house and do that every single day. Mr. Trump . Well, i consider her statement about my children to be a very nice compliment. I dont know if it was meant to be a compliment, but im proud of my children. They have done a wonderful job and they have been wonderful kids. I consider that a compliment. I will say that about hillary. Because of that tape. He spoke for 40 minutes and 10 seconds and Hillary Clinton spoke for 39 minutes and five seconds. Almost exactly the same amount of time. You didnt hear a robust emotional apology. From donald trump, did you . The inbox from republicans, thats one of the things they are worried about. Thats powerful for Hillary Clinton to use him saying such vulgar things about women and he didnt say anything aggressively to apologize. He didnt do that behavior and he was pressed by Anderson Cooper and he said and talks in the tape about assaulting women. He said he didnt do those and he apologized. Nowhere near as aggressive as many republicans wanted. He went into the personal attacks of bringing bill clinton
into it. I think it will be based on where do you stand from a partisan perspective. What donald trump is doing is getting more engaged and counter punching. Throwing mike pence under the bus at a time when mike pence is standing by him is an interesting dynamic and he did say that yes, he took that giant deduction so he wouldnt pay federal income taxes. You can bet thats coming to a tv ad without a doubt. That is true. Back to you. Lets check in with the panel of experts. I said it was a wash, but feel free to disagree. At the beginning donald trump did the opposite of what i thought he should have done. He said he was embarrassed by this. The videotape. He said it was Locker Room Talk. He did not apologize to the
women involved and he kept saying its words and it wasnt anything more than that. Period. End of sentence. So there was nothing more than anything he already said. He had already had the Press Conference about bill clinton. We knew that story and when asked are you different than at the young age of 59, he said im not proud of it and i have Great Respect for people, my family. Hillary got him on that because she said you needed to apologize. For the rest of the debate. I think donald trump when he got over that was more disciplined, Attacking Hillary on the email issue where she is vulnerable. I think in a sense he may have done enough. She seemed a little stilted at times and i think he may have done enough to stop the bleeding
and im not sure minds were changed. So much has occurred over the last 48 hours and the last week that people have to digest all of this including the debate tonight to see where they stand. I want to echo one thing that dana said was the mike pence remark. He is praising a dictator who was trying to interfere with our election, period. Whom his running mate said we should stand up to and putin is propping up. That struck a note. Here disagrees with him. Im sure you watched the debate as we all did. We commented on the issues. We are not the same policy. Give it a broader look. Much better counter puncher. I think he did poorly on that he was much more animated and much better counterpuncher i think that he did poorly on that question and he did poorly on the Strange Syria Discussion where he got off on a rant there. Which i think will leave a lot of questions and led to the mike pence question. The truth is Hillary Clinton has her struggles with the same issues she always struggles with, emails, speeches. I thought his counterpunch on
the lincoln comment was good. At the end of the day, i come to the same conclusion. I think she probably wins at some point and i dont think it changes much. Just to set the stage, this has been one of the most disastrous periods for a president ial nominee in the history of the United States. From the first debate and before this debate. Did he change that at all . I think he stopped the panic among most of the republicans there who were panicking. At least for now. I thought it was basically a draw which is basically a good thing for donald trump thinking that Hillary Clinton was going knock him out of this debate and have such a Strong Performance that there would be no question of where this race stood. I dont think she had that great of a performance. He was odd pacing around and standing over here in some of those shots. I think therell be a lot of material stylistically, for snl, she counterpunched well on the youve been there for 30 years what have you been doing and listed all of the things she had done. Childrens health care, expa expanding health care. Veterans and Secretary Of State and 400 pieces of legislation. That was a good moment for her. She dropped one of the Hillary Clinton new Information Things and the Alicia Machado things. With she talked about trump gobbling up illegal steel from china. To build his buildings. I bet well hear more about that. I believe thaefs a news week story about how two out of three buildings that are using the steel that hurts american workers. Whatd you think . I think the night belonged to donald trump. Were not talking about the trump tape. He was able to pivot away and barely controlled at some point. It was a greatest hits real for the 14 million who voted for him. No hand shake at the out set. Bills infidelities and the email erasure and islam and dishonesty and the media, you will hear a lot about how they reported the role of the moderators in this. I think those who voted for him got everything they wanted in their vote. Did he grow . I cant see if there was any outreach. I looked carefully where i thought he could have expanded the base that he already has. Not a knockout, but his night on points. Where could he have expanded the base . Obviously there was a muslim
american woman who spoke. There was an African American who wanted the country African American gentleman, james carter who wanted the country to be united would he be devoted to bring us together . Where were the opportunities that he didnt take . He could have been more expansive on Health Care Reform and rather than repeal and replace it with what and how and whom it would benefit. He could talk more about the reform he wants in the tax code aside from getting rid of interests for wealthy people. Where he always falls down is that he goes on the attack without when a direct question is asked. What would you do about x, y or z, he deflects and goes on the attack that hillary has been here for 30 years and didnt do anything. The way you bring people into the tent is to tell them exactly what you would do for them. Like taxes and health care, i
still do not think that we got much beyond obamacare is a disaster and why didnt she fix the tax code . And by the way, i think we might have heard him admit, im not sure about this, that he did use on the 918 million debt, that he actually used that not to pay taxes. He did say. He didnt say how long but he did say he use it. I think the trump teams thinks they are reaching out to suburban, white women and collegeeducated women when they talk about africanamericans and hispanics, he hurts his case because of his record and the way he talks about africanamericans and the way that he tends to say the africanamericans and not just africanamericans, which is a way of referring to folks in deeply odd. I think they are doing that but i dont think theres any success in growing that tent. The real question is, they fear he doesnt have the right temperament or command, were they assured tonight or think of him differently as a result of this performance . I agree with michael, he was speaking to the base and i think the base is probably very happy. The base is just not big enough to win the election. The demographics of the country are such im sorry to hit this point again, George Herbert walker bush and mitt romney got the same percentage of the white vote. 59 , what earned bush 136 electoral votes got mitt romney only 56. And there is the changing demographic of the country and thats why the missed opportunity was with the muslim woman and the African American man at the end. That was magnanimous. Where hes doing poorly, he
needs to improve significantly, has to do with College Educated white voters. Hes even with College Educated white men. Health care and their families. There was a poll out today in your home state and your home state that had him leading among College Educated voters, white voters by 20 points. This is a cohert that romney carried by 14 in 2012. Thats a stunning tolerance, right . They think hes a bigot. Right. Thats why you hear Hillary Clinton, all of her ads, are about donald trump and what he said and those words, whether its about women, whether its about the birther controversy, those things turn off collegeeducated white voters. He cant undo that because he spent so much time branding himself in that way as this kind of Unreconstructed Alpha Male and the tape only underscores that. Let me say one thing about the tape. Were all talking about the debate and thats going to be our focus until 1 00 in the
morning. Tomorrow morning we wake up in a world where the debate is over. Were not talking about it. Were talking about something else. I cant help but think the Clinton Campaign is going to make sure that that tape is everywhere from now until the election. Its about the image of the women from this point forward. Four women and donald trump and that storys going to get told. College educated white women that weve been talking about. Can i just make one other point in which is its very clear they dont like each other very much. It was kind of an irritating debate in that sense because they were firing these jibes back and forth. And what was missing from it was any invocation of people, humanity. Were in a town hall meeting. The only person that was raised i think Hillary Clinton raised an individual and just as in the last debate she raised an individual to Weap Weaponize that story against donald trump but the daytoday struggle. Health care, nobody mentioned anybody who was actually struggling with health care. I was surprised by that. Lets go back to the tape. I want to play Donald Trumps response when the subject of this access Hollywood Tape, him talking very crudely about women, seeming to boast about grabbing women, assaulting women inappropriately. Here was his response. You called what you said Locker Room Banter. You described kissing women without their consent, grabbing their genitals. That is Sexual Assault. You bragged you sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that . No, i didnt say that at all. I dont think you understood what was said. This was Locker Room Talk. Im not proud of it. I apologized to my family. I apologize to the American People. Certainly im not proud of it. But this is Locker Room Talk. You know, when we have a world where you have isis chopping off heads, where you have and frankly drowning people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible, horrible sights all
over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like medieval times. We havent seen anything like this, the carnage all over the world, and they look and they see. Can you imagine the people that are frankly doing so well against us with isis and they look at our country and they see whats going on. Yes, im very embarrassed by it. I hate it. But its Locker Room Talk and its one of those things. I will knock the hell out of isis. Were going to defeat isis. Isis happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left so because of bad judgment. And i will tell you, i will take care of isis. So the basic response there, van, it was Locker Room Talk but nothing compared to the horrors of isis and im going to stop isis. I just thought that was just horrible. He rather than apologizing he minimized. And that was something that everybody here agreed he should avoid doing. And basically, if the only thing you have to say about yourself is im not as bad as isis, i
mean, thats your defense, theres something wrong with that kind of response. [ cheers and applause ] the other thing is that you cannot underestimate the history that was made in our country. A line was crossed that i dont know has been crossed in my lifetime, maybe ever. He threatened to jail his opponent. Right. He threatened to jail Hillary Clinton if he became president of the United States. That is something i think is a new low in american democracy. But i will Say Something maybe provocative. I think hillary won because donald trump kind of won. In other words, the worst possible outcome for Hillary Clinton could have been if she knocked him out. If she had knocked him out and forced him out of the race, you could have been in a situation where the Republican Party could rally, get somebody else in there. It was actually a good outcome for her. She did well enough. He did well enough. He stabilized himself. And hes going to bleed out. And shes going to be able to get across the finish line. Im not sure we watched the same debate because read the transcript. Donald trump issued three more apologies. Hes now up to issuing five. Thats enough for most of the American People. Im still waiting on the media to call on the apology for Hillary Clinton lying to the families of benghazi members when she told them their families were dead because of a video. Im still waiting for a call for that apology. But i think something very big happened tonight that is lost upon most of us. What we saw tonight was someone speak for the people against the washington elite. There are people in this country, 2 3 of the country thinks were in the wrong direction. Theyre tired of being promised hope and change, which is what president obama promised millennialed, promised the American People and it did not materialize. And you saw donald trump flawlessly expose the double standards of justice when he said when he said if someone, an American Citizen had done 1 5 of what you had done with your emails their lives would have been destroyed. And there was an audible boo from the audience because people know Hillary Clinton lied when
she retorted with the fact that i didnt do anything wrong with my emails. The audience booed because there are two standards. The washington elite get one and we the American People get another. I think that was explosive. I think the audience had Trump Supporters and clinton supporters and we heard both sides. But let me go into let me play some of what youre talking about and specifically, van jones, its the moment you that referred to where he said that were he in charge of the laws she would be in jail. I didnt think id say this but im going to say it. And i hate to say it. But if i win, i am going to instruct my Attorney General to get a Special Prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it. And were going to have a Special Prosecutor. When i speak, i go out and speak, the people of this country are furious. In my opinion, the people that have been longterm workers at the fbi are furious. There has never been anything like this where emails and you get a subpoena. You get a subpoena and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 emails. And then you acid wash them. Or bleach them as you say. A very expensive process. So were going to get a Special Prosecutor and were going to look into it. Because you know what . People have been their lives have been destroyed for doing 1 5 of what youve done. And its a disgrace. And honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Secretary clinton everything he just said is absolutely false but im not surpris surprised. I told people that it would be impossible to be factchecking donald all the time. Id never get to talk about anything i want to do and how were going to really make lives better for people. So once again, go to hillaryclinton. Com. We have literally trump. You can factcheck him in realtime. Its just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald t