And Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Well get the numbers later today, but they were saying this might be the most watched debate ever. Maybe 100 million viewers. That would get us into super bowl territory. There was a lot of hype. In some ways it lived up to it although i think if you look at the coverage this morning most people agree no knockout a lot to chew on no question about it. Well get reaction to the debate from the two Vice President ial nominees. Senator tim kaine and governor mike pence in just a little while. First our decision 2016 team has it covered starting with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Peter, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. I think youre right. It was an historic night. Largely lived up to the hype. A night of contrasts on policy, personality and preparation. Her preparation. Donald trump relying heavily on his instincts. After their opening remarks, pleasantries were quickly abandon abandoned. Donald trump challenging Hillary Clinton on a washington insider. You havent done it for 30 years. I have been a senator and secretary of state. Reporter clinton dismissi i have a feeling by the end of this evening im going to be blamed for everything thats ever happened. Why not . Over 90 minutes, clinton accusing her brash opponent of being racist, sexist and xenophobic. On trumps past comments about women. This is a man who has called women, pigs, slobs and dogs. And on the birther controversy. He has really started his racist lie that our first black president was not an american citizen. Reporter the debate highlighted the contenders liabilities. Trump defending his refusal to release his tax returns like president ial candidates have done for decades. I will release my tax returns against my lawyers wishes when she releases her 33,000 emails that have been deleted. Reporter the billionaire admitting on he didnt pay any federal income tax. He didnt pay federal income tax. That makes me smart. That means zero for troops. Zero for vets. Zero for schools or health. Reporter the republican nominee scolding clinton over her email scandal. I made a mistake using a private email. Thats for sure. That was not a mistake. That was done purposely. Reporter trump raising eyebrows trying to convert what viewers see as his biggest i have much better judgment than she does. No question about that. I also have a much better temperament than she has. Reporter one of the nights fiercest exchanges, on the fight against isis. At least i have a plan to fight isis. Youre telling the minute everything you want to do. You tell the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder youve been fighting isis your entire adult life. Reporter and on trumps dispn iraq war before it began. Donald supported the invasion of iraq. Thats proved. Reporter the later it got, the more heated the exchanges. Where did you find it . She has become a u. S. Citizen and you can bet shes going to vote this november. Okay. Good. Let me just tell you reporter by nights end clinton believes her own debate preparation paid off. Criticized me for preparing for this debate. And yes i did. You know what else i prepared for . I prepared to be president and i think thats a good thing. Reporter unlike in past campaign years, theres no written agreement between the two campaigns that would effectively lock them into participate in each of the next two debates. While Donald Trumps adviser Rudy Giuliani said last night that if he were running, he would pull out of the next debate. Trump told nbc news late last night, that he is committed to showing up for the scheduled october 9th. Matt and savannah . All right, peter. Thank you very much. Lets turn to chuck todd and nicole wallace. Good morning to you both. If you watched this until 9 30 and turned it off, a lot of people felt trump is having a very good night. It did seem like his energy and his answering of the questions waned over the night. Would you agree . The lack of preparation showed itself in the last half of the debate. Her stamina, he seemed to run out of gas at the end. He seemed to run out of steam. I think that goes to a lack of preparation because he took the bait on almost every little thing. The last half of the debate i cant remember a substantive exchange on issues. I remember him defending himself. It became more about himself rather than specific issues. I dont think it was as time went on, i thought in each particular section his first responses to t question, if you will, were fairly much back to his talking points. But when the followups came, he just went back to his talking points. So there seemed to be maybe preparation but a lack of depth there. I mean, understatement of the day. Listen, i was involved in preparing a couple of different candidates who were not known for their debate acumen. Performances than trump did last night. George w. Bush who had a disastrous first debate against john kerry and had to recalibrate. The trump camp was not trying to spin this as a good night for them. Their word was missed opportunities. Missed opportunity after missed opportunity. I have to say both of these things can be true. She was excellent and she exceeded expectations that were very, very high for her. And his poll numbers will likely not be affected by a terrible performance. Lets get to the so what of it. Is it going to move the needle for either of them . If it moves the needle for anybody i think its more likely to move it for her than him. Supporters probably loved the atmosphere that he created. Oh yeah. He got her with tax return and email question. There are a group of voters that are swing voters, moderate republicans, suburban republicans, nothing he did last added those people to his column. These are people pondering clinton. Temperament and trust are a lot of words were hearing. On the subject of trust and her email situation. I thought she did something very smart last night. When she was asked last night, she answered two or three sentences and stopped. She didnt do what shes done in the past going on and on layering answer. She said yesterday we learned so much from the reviews we got and response we got from the commander in chief forum. They had ten days, two weeks, to completely recalibrate. I think they felt like what they had to do was answer that question and move on. They did that last night. I will say to him, he didnt get on offense. The problem voters are willing to give him a pass for not being a politician. Voters are willing hes graded on a curve because voters truthfulness of the way he answers questions. He couldnt get himself on offense and thats why early on he did on a couple of issues. On a couple issues he did. She was speechless almost when he said so when you vote on tpp, that means president obama did she was speechless. He has her on trade. Watch focus groups in ohio and pennsylv cybersecurity comes in and he misses the email hit. Next debate what does he have to do differently . Hell do much better. He has to do better than last night. Easier said than done. Well talk about a new low bar. He can, i would imagine hell be better. He needs to watch videotape of himself on mute. Split screens didnt help him. Dont go anywhere. We want to turn now to senator tim kaine. Hillary clintons running mate. Senator, good morning. Good to see you. Good to be with you. Thanks. If you were a millennial and you were watching last night and toying with the idea of voting for a thirdparty candidate because you want some sort of change to be brought into the process, did Hillary Clinton say anything last night that you think would sway them in her direction . Well, yeah, things. She laid out a detailed plan about how were going to grow the economy including significant support for education and bringing down College Costs and secondly, she drew a clear distinction between herself and donald trump on a fundamental issue with millennials which is she accepts Climate Science and believes we need to do something about Climate Change, and she pointed out that donald trump believes but hes said it over and over again. This is a fundamental litmus test for them. They want to know what youll do to deal with climate issues and the planet. So she drew a good distinction. She was asked about the emails. Tried to dispatch with that question rather quickly. Donald trump did point out correctly that several staffers were given fifth amendment immunity against criminal investigation. She didnt take it on. She didnt explain it. Can you explain that . You know, i thought that there was a pair of trust issues that were put on the table for each of them. The email question was hers to answer. She did. She just looked right in the camera and said i made a mistake. I apologize for it. I take responsibility. Theres been an fbi investigation. They determined nothing more needs to be done. Was the birther issue. He wouldnt apologize. His explanation of why he did it made no sense. Why he persisted in it for five years. You got to see a trust issue put before each. One candidate said i made a mistake. I learned. Im sorry. One refused to apologize and refused to take responsibility. I thought that contrast was sharp. Both you and secretary clinton over the course of the last quite long period of time said you dont believe donald trump has the temperament to be chief. Talk to me about his temperament last night . What did you see that either bolsters your claim or shakes it . You know, i dont think he was prepared. In terms of the specifics, he offered very few specifics on any policy issue. He did attack. Thats true. In terms of policy, he didnt offer specifics with the exception of his big tax plan, which is huge cuts for folks at the top. He didnt show a command of like questions about his tax return. And he showed that he was easily rattled. Probably i thought hillarys best moment was when donald trump got challenged about comments that hes made about her looks that she doesnt look president ial. He tried to change that and said i was talking about her stamina. Hillary said you go to 120 countries and you sit before a congressional hearing for 11 hours and then talk to me about stamina. In the split screen i was watching at that moment, she looked like she was ready for another 11 hours and debate and he looked like he was out of gas and leaning up against the ropes. That showed a temperament and preparedness issue and really worked to hillarys advantage. Senator, we appreciate you being with us after a long night. Thank you very much. You bet. Thanks, guys. In the next half hour well talk to Donald Trumps running night was a feeling of certainly relief but also that they felt they had a good night. No doubt. It is interesting. You brought up the millennial issue first with them. It was clear they had two pieces of business they were hoping to do. One is the way they had this prepared ad with the former beauty pageant contestant who donald trump apparently offended. The minute she launched that hit on him, within ten minutes of the debate being over they were out with an it targeted latinos. The point is she has two big problems in the obama coalition. Enthusiasm with latinos. Ill be curious to see if that worked last night. A week from tonight is the Vice President ial. Is that ever about the Vice President ial candidates or is that just surrogates for the president ial candidates . I mentioned sarah palin in the last segment. In that case it was. Than stellar first debate against john kerry. Vice president cheney was able to turn the momentum back in his direction. It becomes pivotal when one side or the other has lost momentum. If mike pence has a great night, the trump team can turn momentum back in their direction. Interesting. You mention strategy. Pieces of business that the clinton team wanted to accomplish. On the other side, you did see trump hitting some sweet spots for republican voters. Just mentioned fifth amendment thing. He talked about janet yellen at the fed. Do you think thats a good strategy in terms of expanding . I think their goal was to use this to unite republicans and right before the debate he put out a new list of potential Supreme Court nominees. I thought that actually was a missed piece of business last night. Thats been the most important rallying cry for many republicans is the supreme time on that last night. You know, again, this goes to preparation issue. There were ways he could have inserted some issues and he just whiffed. Time and again he whiffed at opportunities. Chuck and nicole, thank you so much. Well have a lot more for you guys and how this may reshape the race in just a little while. Lets take a turn and get a check of the weather from al. Weve been talking about the flooding in iowa. Cedar rapids. Good news is the river there, cedar river, just about rdy start receding. Not quite at records but awfully close. As you look closer you can see that were looking at the peak happening sometime this afternoon and then quickly receding. 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Just off the New Port Richey coastline, tracking one small shower. Not on land. But i left in a 20 rain chance for the coast this morning. That goes up to 30 from noon until 6 00. Back now at 7 30 on a tuesday morning. Its the 27th day of september, 2016. Its also the morning after the first allimportant president ial debate. Millions watching last Hillary Clinton, donald trump going head to head for 90 minutes on the most explosive issues in this election. We talked to tim kaine in our half hour. Mike pence is here and well talk to him in a moment and todays First Cam