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>> it is true. we don't know whether he'll show up. we don't know whether he'll have a team of advisers. i will say, as i was saying last night online, i thought that actually the format last night, i thought the moderators did a good job of including the audience and being able, also, to persistently follow lines of argument. i thought they set a good example. what trump will do in the next couple of days, we don't know, but i think we've seen that hillary clinton through her debating career has never really been wrong-footed. in the face of a lot of different stuff coming at her, include hav...

Those are the issues that have a lot of resonance for republicans, but we saw him out on the campaign trail today, and he is talking about these personal issues over and over again, which leads them to believe that it's not really about the republican party for donald trump, it's about donald trump. >> james, i mean, you and i have been talking in the weeks running up to this, to last night's debate, you wrote this amazing cover story for "the atlantic" about debating, talking to all different people about sort of strategies for debating. i'm wondering what stood out to you? i read some of you...

Couple of days, we don't know, but i think we've seen that hillary clinton through her debating career has never really been wrong-footed. in the face of a lot of different stuff coming at her, include having the four women in the audience, she managed to keep more or less on keel. >> james, bret, gloria, thank you all. fascinating discussion. just ahead, the possibility that more trump hot mike moments exist. and more insight into how the tape we do have got on the radar. and we'll focus more on the tone of last night's debate and how it differs from anything anyone as ever seen in moderate...

Handled the format last night? i mean, they didn't get to ask have many questions, and they were seemingly ignored and lost in the back and forth between trump and clinton. i thought trump got so intentionally personal that it probably was very uncomfortable for people seated around them, and i didn't think hillary did a particularly good job of connecting with the audience as well. so i think the real losers last night in the debate was the town hall, the kind of different format that that debate brings, where an audience is a major component. >> and james, i mean, nine days is the final deba...

>> he's marking his thoughts, his phrases there, and he's indicating approval. so he's saying to himself, nailed that one. that was good, there goes another one. and so this is a way he has of keeping track of where he is in the thought process. >> so the sniff is like an exclamation mark? >> absolutely. >> but he's not aware he's doing it? >> i think it's unconscious. clearly it's a nervous tick that he uses to talk to himself and give himself a pat on the back and it's not working for him. >> one more debate left, as a coach and an expert in this, what piece of advice do you have for hillary...