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  • Now, on the eve of the first televised debate in the U.

  • S presidential election, Donald Trump has been dealing with a wave of new allegations about his tax affairs.

  • New York Times says it has documents which showed the president pay just $750 in federal income tax in 2016 the year in which he was elected president on then the same amount again in 2017 his first year in the White House.

  • He is said to have paid no income tax it all in 10 off the previous 15 years.

  • President Trump said this was yet another example off Fake news.

  • Let's go live to Cleveland, Ohio, where tomorrow's debate will be held on.

  • Join Our North America editor John Sopa Hugh and U.

  • S.

  • Presidential Elections.

  • There's a thing called the October surprise.

  • The event that comes out of the blue on upends things Well, it's arrived a few days early, as well as the income tax disclosures.

  • It seems, according to the New York Times, that Donald Trump has personal debts of $400 million.

  • Ondas Well as that he wrote off against Tax 70,000 for the payment of hairdressers ahead of TV appearances.

  • Will Joe Biden seek to take advantage of it?

  • You bet he will.

  • There's nothing quite like it.

  • 1 to 1.

  • Combat the red and blue corners to fighters looking to land and knock out blow on Donald Trump's taxes on what he did and didn't pay have opened up again is a line of attack on the eve of this televised debate, his tax return is once again a burning issue.

  • It's totally fake news made up fake.

  • Maybe he's not as rich as he says he is.

  • Four years ago, Hillary Clinton thought she had him pinned down on this very topic.

  • Maybe he doesn't want the American people, all of you watching tonight to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes because the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.

  • So that makes me smart.

  • Zero.

  • When you're in the ring, do you stay cool under pressure or if you start to sweat under the lights back in 1960 John F.

  • Kennedy was expected to take a pounding from Richard Nixon.

  • Instead, JFK was unfazed.

  • On it was Nixon who ended up on the ropes.

  • When you're in a race, the only way to stay ahead is to move ahead.

  • Boxing is governed by the Queensberry rules.

  • No punching below the belt, no holding break when I say break.

  • But for the past four years, Donald Trump has played by no rule book.

  • It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country because you'd be in jail.

  • Secretary Clinton.

  • Look at how he followed Hillary Clinton around the room, almost stalking.

  • But here's what I don't want.

  • Donald Trump revels in the image of prizefighter Hey, controversially tweeted this mock video of him beating up a critical news network.

  • It's just got worse with this gentleman.

  • I used the team really loosely.

  • Joe Biden, at the start of this year, looked as though his best days were behind him, but his corner confident on bullish he will go the distance.

  • The two people who will be lacing up their gloves on Tuesday have a combined age of 151 years.

  • Probably neither will float like a butterfly nor sting like a bee, but it's likely to be brutal and compelling.

  • John So Paul BBC News, Cleveland, Ohio.

Now, on the eve of the first televised debate in the U.

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