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  • >>> IT'S TIME TO VOTE

  • FOR AMERICA AND

  • AMERICA FIRST.

  • >> AMERICA'S DESTINY

  • IS OURS TO CHOOSE.

  • >> WE WILL MAKE

  • AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.

  • >> WE JOIN TOGETHER TO

  • GET RID OF THE THREATS

  • WE FACE.

  • >> JOBS, JOBS, JOBS.

  • >> I WILL BE A

  • PRESIDENT FOR ALL

  • AMERICANS.

  • >> FROM NBC NEWS.

  • DECISION 2016.

  • THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL

  • DEBATE.

  • LIVE FROM HOFSTRA

  • UNIVERSITY IN

  • HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK.

  • HERE NOW, SAVANNAH

  • GUTHRIE AND CHUCK

  • TODD.

  • >> AND GOOD EVENING,

  • EVERYBODY.

  • NICE TO HAVE YOU WITH

  • US.

  • CHUCK, AFTER ALL THE

  • HYPE, ALL THE PREP,

  • ALL THE PREDEBATE

  • GAMESMANSHIP FROM BOTH

  • CAMPAIGNS THIS IS IT,

  • WE'RE LITERALLY

  • MINUTES WAY FROM THE

  • START OF THE FIRST AND

  • ALL IMPORTANT

  • PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE ON

  • A STAGE BEHIND US.

  • WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THE

  • CANDIDATES TONIGHT

  • HILLARY CLINTON AND

  • DONALD TRUMP ARRIVING

  • HERE A BIT EARLIER

  • THIS EVENING.

  • THEY'RE WAITING

  • BACKSTAGE.

  • AND CHUCK, WE'VE HAD A

  • MOMENT TONIGHT.

  • >> YEAH.

  • >> PRESIDENT BILL

  • CLINTON IS IN THE

  • HOUSE.

  • AND MET MRS. MELANIA

  • TRUMP.

  • THEY JUST SHARED THAT

  • HANDSHAKE.

  • WE'VE GOT THE WHOLE

  • FAMILIES ASSEMBLED

  • HERE.

  • >> WE DO.

  • AND I THINK ONE THING

  • WE OUGHT TO REMEMBER

  • AS BIG OF

  • PERSONALITIES THAT

  • THEY ARE, WE KNOW THIS

  • IS GOING TO BE A CLASH

  • OF BIG PERSONALITIES,

  • THIS IS ALSO A CLASH

  • OF TWO COMPETING

  • VISIONS OF AMERICA.

  • HILLARY CLINTON

  • EMBRACING THE MANY

  • CULTURAL CHANGES,

  • DIVERSITY,

  • ACCELERATION OF

  • GLOBALIZATION THAT'S

  • HAPPENING.

  • DONALD TRUMP EMBRACING

  • A VISION THAT SAYS

  • WHOA, LET'S SLOW DOWN,

  • LET'S SLOW THINGS

  • DOWN, LET'S LOOK

  • INWARD A LITTLE BIT.

  • LET'S NOT LET THAT GET

  • LOST TONIGHT.

  • >> LET'S BRING IN OUR

  • COLLEAGUE TOM BROKAW,

  • OBVIOUSLY SOMEBODY

  • WHO'S WATCHED A LOT OF

  • DEBATES.

  • DOESN'T THIS FEEL LIKE

  • THERE'S SOMETHING

  • SPECIAL ABOUT THIS

  • ONE, IF NOTHING ELSE

  • BECAUSE THEY THINK

  • MAYBE 100 MILLION

  • PEOPLE COULD BE

  • WATCHING.

  • >> NEVER SEEN ONE

  • QUITE LIKE THIS IN

  • PART BECAUSE THE 100

  • MILLION PEOPLE, A LOT

  • ARE TRYING TO MAKE UP

  • THEIR MINDS.

  • THIS IS AN IMPORTANT

  • DEBATE.

  • ADD TO THE TELEVISION

  • VIEWERSHIP, SOCIAL

  • MEDIA GOING ON,

  • TWEETING THAT IS GOING

  • ON, TEXTING THAT IS

  • GOING ON, THE

  • STREAMING THAT IS

  • GOING ON.

  • THIS IS THE BIGGEST

  • ELECTRONIC EVENT IN

  • AMERICAN HISTORY TO

  • SAY NOTHING OF

  • AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL

  • POLITICS.

  • >> THE STAKES ARE SO

  • HIGH WITH THE POLLS

  • TIGHT AS WE'VE SEEN AS

  • RECENTLY AS TODAY.

  • LET'S GO TO ANDREA

  • MITCHELL, EXCUSE ME,

  • HALEY JACKSON IS IN

  • THE SPINROOM FOR US.

  • GOOD EVENING.

  • >> HI, SAVANNAH.

  • HERE MEDIA AND

  • SURROGATES ARE READY

  • FOR WHAT HAPPENS AFTER

  • THE DEBATE.

  • BEFORE THEN, HERE'S

  • DONALD TRUMP'S BIGGEST

  • TEST.

  • CAN HE PROVE HE HAS

  • THE TEMPERMENT TO BE

  • COMMANDER IN CHIEF?

  • IT'S ONE OF HIS

  • BIGGEST NEGATIVES TO

  • VOTERS.

  • TOO MANY INSULTS HE

  • COULD COME OFF AS A

  • BULLY, TOO FEW

  • SPECIFICS AND COULD

  • SEEM UNPREPARED.

  • SAVANNAH?

  • >> HALLIE JACKSON,

  • THANK YOU.

  • >> LET'S GO TO ANDREA

  • MITCHELL COVERING THE

  • HILLARY CLINTON

  • CAMPAIGN.

  • WHAT'S HILLARY

  • CLINTON'S GOAL

  • TONIGHT, ANDREA?

  • >> HER NEED IS TO

  • RELATE TO PEOPLE

  • ESPECIALLY MILLENNIAL

  • VOTERS AND VERY

  • FRANKLY ONE OF HER TOP

  • AIDES SAID TO ME WE'RE

  • GLAD WE HAVE DONALD

  • TRUMP TO DEBATE

  • AGAINST BECAUSE HE'S

  • THE DRAW, HE'S DRAWING

  • 100 MILLION PEOPLE.

  • AND THAT'S THE KIND OF

  • CROWD HILLARY CLINTON

  • HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO

  • ATTRACT.

  • SHE NOW HAS TO SELL

  • HERSELF TONIGHT AND

  • BILL CLINTON IS HERE.

  • HE NEVER ATED ANY

  • OF THE PRIMARY

  • DEBATES.

  • >> THANK YOU, ANDREA.

  • >> WE'RE ABOUT 30

  • SECONDS AWAY FROM THE

  • DEBATE.

  • THE STAKES ARE VERY

  • HIGH.

  • AS I MENTIONED

  • EARLIER, THE POLLS ARE

  • EX-FREEDOMLY TIGHT.

  • >> THEY ARE.

  • I DO THINK THE

  • AUDIENCE IS VERY

  • FLUID.

  • WE HAVE A BUNCH OF

  • PEOPLE WHO ARE EITHER

  • NONE OF THE ABOVE OR

  • UNDECIDED.

  • I THINK THE POLLS WILL

  • MOVE TONIGHT.

  • >> THE

  • MULTIBILLIONAIRE,

  • FORMER FIRST LADY,

  • SECRETARY OF STATE,

  • U.S. SENATOR ABOUT TO

  • DEBATE.

  • WE'LL LET LESTER HOLT

  • TAKE IT AWAY.

  • >> GOOD EVENING FROM

  • HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY IN

  • HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK,

  • I'M LESTER HOLT.

  • ANCHOR OF \"NBC NIGHTLY

  • NEWS.\"

  • I WANT TO WELCOME YOU

  • TO THE FIRST

  • PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.

  • THE PARTICIPANTS

  • TONIGHT ARE DONALD

  • TRUMP AND HILLARY

  • CLINTON.

  • THIS DEBATE IS

  • SPONSORED BY THE

  • COMMISSION ON

  • PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES.

  • A NONPARTISAN,

  • NON-PROFIT

  • ORGANIZATION.

  • THE COMMISSION DRAFTED

  • TONIGHT'S FORMAT AND

  • THE RULES HAVE BEEN

  • AGREED TO BY THE

  • CAMPAIGNS.

  • THE 90 MINUTE DEBATE

  • IS DIVIDED INTO 6

  • SEGMENTS EACH 15

  • MINUTES LONG.

  • WE'LL EXPLORE THREE

  • TOPIC AREAS TONIGHT,

  • ACHIEVING PROSPERITY,

  • AMERICA'S DIRECTION,

  • AND SECURING AMERICA.

  • AT THE START OF EACH

  • SEGMENT, I WILL ASK

  • THE SAME LEADOFF

  • QUESTION TO BOTH

  • CANDIDATES AND THEY

  • WILL EACH HAVE UP TO

  • TWO MINUTES TO

  • RESPOND.

  • FROM THAT POINT, UNTIL

  • THE END OF THE

  • SEGMENT, WE'LL HAVE AN

  • OPEN DISCUSSION.

  • THE QUESTIONS ARE MINE

  • AND HAVE NOT BEEN

  • SHARED WITH THE

  • COMMISSION OF THE

  • CAMPAIGNS.

  • THE AUDIENCE HERE IN

  • THE ROOM HAS AGREED TO

  • REMAIN SILENT SO THAT

  • WE CAN FOCUS ON WHAT

  • THE CANDIDATES ARE

  • SAYING.

  • I WILL INVITE YOU TO

  • APPLAUD, HOWEVER, AT

  • THIS MOMENT AS WE

  • WELCOME THE

  • CANDIDATES, DEMOCRATIC

  • NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT

  • OF THE UNITED STATES,

  • HILLARY CLINTON.

  • AND REPUBLICAN NOMINEE

  • FOR PRESIDENT OF THE

  • UNITED STATES, DONALD

  • J. TRUMP.

  • >> HEY, HOW ARE YOU?

  • >> GOOD LUCK TO YOU.

  • >> GOOD TO SEE YOU.

  • THANK YOU.

  • >> GOOD TO SEE YOU.

  • >> WELL, I DON'T

  • EXPECT US TO COVER ALL

  • THE ISSUES OF THIS

  • CAMPAIGN TONIGHT, BUT

  • I REMIND EVERYONE

  • THERE ARE TWO MORE

  • PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES

  • SCHEDULED.

  • WE ARE GOING TO FOCUS

  • ON MANY OF THE ISSUES

  • THAT VOTERS TELL US

  • ARE MOST IMPORTANT AND

  • WE'RE GOING TO PRESS

  • FOR SPECIFICS.

  • I AM HONORED TO HAVE

  • THIS ROLE, BUT THIS

  • EVENING BELONGS TO THE

  • CANDIDATES, AND JUST

  • AS IMPORTANT TO THE

  • AMERICAN PEOPLE.

  • CANDIDATES, WE LOOK

  • FORWARD TO HEARING YOU

  • ARTICULATE POLICIES

  • AND POSITIONS AS WELL

  • AS YOUR VISIONS AND

  • YOUR VALUES.

  • SO, LET'S BEGIN.

  • WE'RE CALLING THIS

  • OPENING SEGMENT

  • ACHIEVING PROSPERITY

  • AND CENTRAL TO THAT IS

  • JOBS.

  • THERE ARE TWO ECONOMIC

  • REALITIES IN AMERICA

  • TODAY.

  • THERE'S BEEN A RECORD

  • SIX STRAIGHT YEARS OF

  • JOB GROWTH AND NEW

  • CENSUS NUMBERS SHOW

  • INCOMES HAVE INCREASED

  • AT A RECORD RATE AFTER

  • YEARS OF STAGNATION.

  • HOWEVER, INCOME

  • INEQUALITY REMAINS

  • SIGNIFICANT AND NEARLY

  • HALF OF AMERICANS ARE

  • LIVING PAYCHECK TO

  • PAYCHECK.

  • BEGINNING WITH YOU,

  • SECRETARY CLINTON, WHY

  • ARE YOU A BETTER

  • CHOICE THAN YOUR

  • OPPONENT TO CREATE THE

  • KINDS OF JOBS THAT

  • WILL PUT MORE MONEY

  • INTO THE POCKETS OF

  • AMERICAN WORKERS?

  • >> WELL, THANK YOU,

  • LESTER, AND THANKS TO

  • HOFSTRA FOR HOSTING

  • US.

  • THE CENTRAL QUESTION

  • IN THIS ELECTION IS

  • REALLY WHAT KIND OF

  • COUNTRY WE WANT TO BE

  • AND WHAT KIND OF

  • FUTURE WE'LL BUILD

  • TOGETHER.

  • TODAY IS MY

  • GRANDDAUGHTER'S SECOND

  • BIRTHDAY SO I THINK

  • ABOUT THIS A LOT.

  • FIRST, WE HAVE TO

  • BUILD AN ECONOMY THAT

  • WORKS FOR EVERYONE,

  • NOT JUST THOSE AT THE

  • TOP.

  • THAT MEANS WE NEED NEW

  • JOBS, GOOD JOBS, WITH

  • RISING INCOMES.

  • I WANT US TO INVEST IN

  • YOU.

  • I WANT US TO INVEST IN

  • YOUR FUTURE.

  • THAT MEANS JOBS AND

  • INFRASTRUCTURE AND

  • ADVANCED

  • MANUFACTURING.

  • INNOVATION AND

  • TECHNOLOGY.

  • CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY

  • AND SMALL BUSINESS

  • BECAUSE MOST OF THE

  • NEW JOBS WILL COME

  • FROM SMALL BUSINESS.

  • WE ALSO HAVE TO MAKE

  • THE ECONOMY FAIRER.

  • THAT STARTS WITH

  • RAISING THE NATIONAL

  • MINIMUM WAGE AND ALSO

  • GUARANTEE FINALLY

  • EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN'S

  • WORK.

  • I ALSO WANT TO SEE

  • MORE COMPANIES DO

  • PROFIT SHARING.

  • IF YOU HELP CREATE THE

  • PROFITS, YOU SHOULD BE

  • ABLE TO SHARE IN THEM,

  • NOT JUST THE

  • EXECUTIVES AT THE TOP.

  • AND I WANT US TO DO

  • MORE TO SUPPORT PEOPLE

  • WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO

  • BALANCE FAMILY AND

  • WORK.

  • I'VE HEARD FROM SO

  • MANY OF YOU ABOUT THE

  • DIFFICULT CHOICES YOU

  • FACE AND THE STRESSES

  • THAT YOU'RE UNDER.

  • SO LET'S HAVE PAID

  • FAMILY LEAVE.

  • EARNED SICK DAYS.

  • LET'S BE SURE WE HAVE

  • AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE

  • AND DEBT-FREE COLLEGE.

  • HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO

  • IT?

  • WE'RE GOING TO DO IT

  • BY HAVING THE WEALTHY

  • PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE

  • AND CLOSE THE

  • CORPORATE LOOPHOLES.

  • FINALLY WE TONIGHT ARE

  • ON THE STAGE TOGETHER,

  • DONALD TRUMP AND I.

  • DONALD, IT'S GOOD TO

  • BE WITH YOU.

  • WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A

  • DEBATE WHERE WE ARE

  • TALKING ABOUT THE

  • IMPORTANT ISSUES

  • FACING OUR COUNTRY.

  • YOU HAVE TO JUDGE US.

  • WHO CAN SHOULDER THE

  • IMMENSE, AWESOME

  • RESPONSIBILITIES OF

  • THE PRESIDENCY?

  • WHO CAN PUT INTO

  • ACTION THE PLANS THAT

  • WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE

  • BETTER?

  • I HOPE THAT I WILL BE

  • ABLE TO EARN YOUR VOTE

  • ON NOVEMBER 8th.

  • >> SECRETARY CLINTON,

  • THANK YOU.

  • MR. TRUMP, THE SAME

  • QUESTION TO YOU.

  • IT'S ABOUT PUTTING

  • MONEY, MORE MONEY INTO

  • THE POCKETS OF

  • AMERICAN WORKERS.

  • YOU HAVE UP TO TWO

  • MINUTES.

  • >> THANK YOU, LESTER.

  • OUR JOBS ARE FLEEING

  • THE COUNTRY.

  • THEY'RE GOING TO

  • MEXICO, THEY'RE GOING

  • TO MANY OTHER

  • COUNTRIES.

  • YOU LOOK AT WHAT CHINA

  • IS DOING TO OUR

  • COUNTRY IN TERMS OF

  • MAKING OUR PRODUCT.

  • THEY'RE DEVALUING

  • THEIR CURRENCY AND

  • THERE'S NOBODY IN OUR

  • GOVERNMENT TO FIGHT

  • THEM AND WE HAVE A

  • VERY GOOD FIGHT AND WE

  • HAVE A WINNING FIGHT

  • BECAUSE THEY'RE USING

  • OUR COUNTRY AS A PIGGY

  • BANK TO REBUILD CHINA

  • AND MANY OTHER

  • COUNTRIES ARE DOING

  • THE SAME THING.

  • SO WE'RE LOSING OUR

  • GOOD JOBS.

  • SO MANY OF THEM.

  • WHEN YOU LOOK AT

  • WHAT'S HAPPENING IN

  • MEXICO, A FRIEND OF

  • MINE WHO BUILDS PLANTS

  • SAID IT'S THE EIGHTH

  • WONDER OF THE WORLD,

  • THEY'RE BUILDING SOME

  • OF THE BIGGEST PLANTS

  • ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD,

  • SOME OF THE MOST

  • SOPHISTICATED, SOME OF

  • THE BEST PLANTS.

  • WITH THE UNITED

  • STATES, AS YOU SAID,

  • NOT SO MUCH.

  • SO, FORD IS LEAVING,

  • YOU SEE THAT.

  • THEIR SMALL CAR

  • DIVISION LEAVING.

  • THOUSANDS OF JOBS

  • LEAVING MICHIGAN,

  • LEAVING OHIO.

  • THEY'RE ALL LEAVING.

  • WE CAN'T ALLOW IT TO

  • HAPPEN ANYMORE.

  • AS FAR AS CHILDCARE IS

  • CONCERNED AND SO MANY

  • OTHER THINGS I THINK

  • HILLARY AND I AGREE ON

  • THAT.

  • WE PROBABLY DISAGREE A

  • LITTLE BIT AS TO

  • NUMBERS AND AMOUNTS,

  • AND WHAT WE'RE GOING

  • TO DO, BUT PERHAPS

  • WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT

  • THAT LATER.

  • BUT WE HAVE TO STOP

  • OUR JOBS FROM BEING

  • STOLEN FROM US.

  • WE HAVE TO STOP OUR

  • COMPANIES FROM LEAVING

  • THE UNITED STATES AND

  • WITH IT, FIRING ALL OF

  • THE PEOPLE.

  • ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS

  • TAKE A LOOK AT CARRIER

  • AIR-CONDITIONING IN

  • INDIANAPOLIS.

  • THEY FIRED 1,400

  • PEOPLE.

  • THEY'RE GOING TO

  • MEXICO.

  • SO MANY HUNDREDS AND

  • HUNDREDS OF COMPANIES

  • ARE DOING THIS.

  • WE CANNOT LET IT

  • HAPPEN.

  • UNDER MY PLAN, I'LL BE

  • REDUCING TAXES

  • TREMENDOUSLY FROM 35%

  • TO 15% FOR COMPANIES,

  • SMALL AND BIG

  • BUSINESSES.

  • THAT'S GOING TO BE A

  • JOB CREATOR LIKE WE

  • HAVEN'T SEEN SINCE

  • RONALD REAGAN.

  • IT'S GOING TO BE A

  • BEAUTIFUL THING TO

  • WATCH.

  • COMPANIES WILL COME.

  • THEY WILL BUILD.

  • THEY WILL EXPAND.

  • NEW COMPANIES WILL

  • START.

  • AND I LOOK VERY, VERY

  • MUCH FORWARD TO DOING

  • IT.

  • WE HAVE TO RENEGOTIATE

  • OUR TRADE DEALS AND WE

  • HAVE TO STOP THESE

  • COUNTRIES FROM

  • STEALING OUR COMPANIES

  • AND OUR JOBS.

  • >> SECRETARY CLINTON,

  • WOULD YOU LIKE TO

  • RESPOND?

  • >> WELL, I THINK THAT

  • TRADE IS AN IMPORTANT

  • ISSUE.

  • OF COURSE, WE HAVE 5%

  • OF THE WORLD'S

  • POPULATION.

  • WE HAVE TO TRADE WITH

  • THE OTHER 95%.

  • AND WE NEED TO HAVE

  • SMART, FAIR TRADE

  • DEALS.

  • WE ALSO, THOUGH, NEED

  • TO HAVE A TAX SYSTEM

  • THAT REWARDS WORK AND

  • NOT JUST FINANCIAL

  • TRANSACTIONS.

  • AND THE KIND OF PLAN

  • THAT DONALD HAS PUT

  • FORTH WOULD BE

  • TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS

  • ALL OVER AGAIN, IN

  • FACT, IT WOULD BE THE

  • MOST EXTREME VERSION,

  • THE BIGGEST TAX CUTS

  • FOR THE TOP PERCENTS

  • OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS

  • COUNTRY THAN WE'VE

  • EVER HAD.

  • I CALL IT TRUMPED UP

  • TRICKLE DOWN BECAUSE

  • THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT

  • WOULD BE.

  • THAT IS NOT HOW WE

  • GROW THE ECONOMY.

  • WE JUST HAVE A

  • DIFFERENT VIEW ABOUT

  • WHAT'S BEST FOR

  • GROWING THE ECONOMY.

  • HOW WE MAKE

  • INVESTMENTS THAT WILL

  • ACTUALLY PRODUCE JOBS

  • AND RISING INCOMES.

  • I THINK WE COME AT IT

  • FROM SOMEWHAT

  • DIFFERENT

  • PERSPECTIVES.

  • I UNDERSTAND THAT.

  • YOU KNOW, DONALD WAS

  • VERY FORTUNATE IN HIS

  • LIFE AND THAT'S ALL TO

  • HIS BENEFIT.

  • HE STARTED HIS

  • BUSINESS WITH $14

  • MILLION, BORROWED FROM

  • HIS FATHER, AND HE

  • REALLY BELIEVES THAT

  • THE MORE YOU HELP

  • WEALTHY PEOPLE, THE

  • BETTER OFF WE'LL BE

  • AND THAT EVERYTHING

  • WILL WORK OUT FROM

  • THERE.

  • I DON'T BUY THAT.

  • I HAVE A DIFFERENT

  • EXPERIENCE.

  • MY FATHER WAS A SMALL

  • BUSINESSMAN.

  • HE WORKED REALLY HARD.

  • HE PRINTED DRAPERY

  • FABRICS ON LONG TABLES

  • WHERE HE PULLED OUT

  • THOSE FABRICS AND HE

  • WENT DOWN WITH A SILK

  • SCREEN AND DUMPED THE

  • PAINT IN AND TOOK THE

  • SQUEEGEE AND KEPT

  • GOING.

  • WHAT I BELIEVE, THE

  • MORE WE CAN DO FOR THE

  • MIDDLE CLASS, THE MORE

  • WE CAN INVEST IN YOU,

  • YOUR EDUCATION, YOUR

  • SKILLS, YOUR FUTURE,

  • THE BETTER WE WILL BE

  • OFF AND THE BETTER

  • WE'LL GROW.

  • THAT'S THE KIND OF

  • ECONOMY I WANT US TO

  • SEE AGAIN.

  • >> LET ME FOLLOW-UP

  • WITH MR. TRUMP IF I

  • CAN.

  • YOU TALKED ABOUT

  • CREATING 25 MILLION

  • JOBS AND PROMISED TO

  • BRING BACK MILLIONS OF

  • JOBS FOR AMERICANS.

  • HOW ARE YOU GOING TO

  • BRING BACK THE

  • INDUSTRIES THAT HAVE

  • LEFT THIS COUNTRY FOR

  • CHEAPER LABOR

  • OVERSEAS?

  • HOW SPECIFICALLY ARE

  • YOU GOING TO TELL

  • AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS

  • THAT YOU HAVE TO COME

  • BACK?

  • >> WELL, FOR ONE

  • THING, AND BEFORE WE

  • START ON THAT, MY

  • FATHER GAVE ME A VERY

  • SMALL LOAN IN 1975 AND

  • I BUILT IT INTO A

  • COMPANY THAT'S WORTH

  • MANY, MANY BILLIONS OF

  • DOLLARS WITH SOME OF

  • THE GREATEST ASSETS IN

  • THE WORLD.

  • AND I SAY THAT ONLY

  • BECAUSE THAT'S THE

  • KIND OF THINKING THAT

  • OUR COUNTRY NEEDS.

  • OUR COUNTRY IS IN DEEP

  • TROUBLE.

  • WE DON'T KNOW WHAT

  • WE'RE DOING WHEN IT

  • COMES TO DEEVALUATIONS

  • AND ALL OF THESE

  • COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE

  • WORLD, ESPECIALLY

  • CHINA.

  • THEY'RE THE BEST.

  • THE BEST EVER AT IT.

  • WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO

  • US IS A VERY, VERY SAD

  • THING.

  • SO WE HAVE TO DO THAT.

  • WE HAVE TO RENEGOTIATE

  • OUR TRADE DEALS.

  • AND LESTER, THEY'RE

  • TAKING OUR JOBS.

  • THEY'RE GIVING

  • INCENTIVES.

  • THEY'RE DOING THINGS,

  • FRANKLY, WE DON'T DO.

  • LET ME GIVE YOU THE

  • EXAMPLE OF MEXICO.

  • THEY HAVE A VAT TAX.

  • WE'RE ON A DIFFERENT

  • SYSTEM.

  • WHEN WE SELL INTO

  • MEXICO, THERE'S A TAX.

  • WHEN THEY SELL IN,

  • AUTOMATIC 16%

  • APPROXIMATELY.

  • WHEN THEY SELL INTO

  • US, THERE'S NO TAX.

  • IT'S A DEFECTIVE

  • AGREEMENT.

  • IT'S BEEN DEFECTIVE

  • FOR A LONG TIME.

  • MANY YEARS.

  • BUT THE POLITICIANS

  • HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING

  • ABOUT IT.

  • NOW, IN ALL FAIRNESS

  • TO SECRETARY CLINTON,

  • YES, IS THAT OKAY?

  • GOOD.

  • I WANT YOU TO BE VERY

  • HAPPY.

  • IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO

  • ME.

  • BUT IN ALL FAIRNESS TO

  • SECRETARY CLINTON,

  • WHEN SHE STARTED

  • TALKING ABOUT THIS, IT

  • WAS REALLY VERY

  • RECENTLY.

  • SHE'S BEEN DOING THIS

  • FOR 30 YEARS.

  • AND WHY HASN'T SHE

  • MADE THE AGREEMENTS

  • BETTER?

  • THE NAFTA AGREEMENT IS

  • DEFECTIVE.

  • JUST BECAUSE OF THE

  • TAX AND MANY OTHER

  • REASONS, BUT JUST

  • BECAUSE OF THE --

  • >> LET ME INTERRUPT

  • JUST A MOMENT.

  • >> SECRETARY CLINTON

  • AND OTHERS,

  • POLITICIANS, SHOULD

  • HAVE BEEN DOING THIS

  • FOR YEARS.

  • NOT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE

  • OF THE FACT THAT WE'VE

  • CREATED A MOVEMENT.

  • THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN

  • DOING THIS FOR YEARS.

  • WHAT'S HAPPENED TO OUR

  • JOBS AND OUR COUNTRY

  • AND OUR ECONOMY,

  • GENERALLY, IS, LOOK,

  • WE OWE $20 TRILLION.

  • WE CANNOT DO IT ANY

  • LONGER, LESTER.

  • >> BACK TO THE

  • QUESTION, THOUGH, HOW

  • DO YOU BRING BACK,

  • SPECIFICALLY BRING

  • BACK JOBS?

  • AMERICAN

  • MANUFACTURERS.

  • HOW DO YOU MAKE THEM

  • BRING THE JOBS BACK?

  • >> WELL, THE FIRST

  • THING YOU DO IS DON'T

  • LET THE JOBS LEAVE.

  • THE COMPANIES HAVE

  • LEAVING.

  • I COULD NAME -- I

  • MEAN, THERE ARE

  • THOUSANDS OF THEM.

  • THEY'RE LEAVING AND

  • THEY'RE LEAVING IN

  • BIGGER NUMBERS THAN

  • EVER.

  • AND WHAT YOU DO IS YOU

  • SAY, FINE, YOU WANT TO

  • GO TO MEXICO OR SOME

  • OTHER COUNTRY, GOOD

  • LUCK, WE WISH YOU A

  • LOT OF LUCK, BUT IF

  • YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING

  • TO MAKE YOUR AIR

  • CONDITIONERS OR YOUR

  • CARS OR YOUR COOKIES

  • OR WHATEVER YOU MAKE

  • AND BRING THEM INTO

  • OUR COUNTRY WITHOUT A

  • TAX, YOU'RE WRONG.

  • AND ONCE YOU SAY

  • YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE

  • TO TAX THEM COMING IN,

  • AND OUR POLITICIANS

  • NEVER DO THIS, BECAUSE

  • THEY HAVE SPECIAL

  • INTERESTS AND THE

  • SPECIAL INTERESTS WANT

  • THOSE COMPANIES TO

  • LEAVE BECAUSE IN MANY

  • CASES THEY OWN THE

  • COMPANIES.

  • SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS

  • WE CAN STOP THEM FROM

  • LEAVING.

  • WE HAVE TO STOP THEM

  • FROM LEAVING AND

  • THAT'S A BIG, BIG

  • FACTOR.

  • >> LET ME LET

  • SECRETARY CLINTON GET

  • IN HERE.

  • >> WELL, LET'S STOP

  • FOR A SECOND AND

  • REMEMBER WHERE WE WERE

  • EIGHT YEARS AGO.

  • WE HAD THE WORST

  • FINANCIAL CRISIS, THE

  • GREAT RECESSION, THE

  • WORST SINCE PRESIDENT

  • 1930s.

  • THAT WAS IN LARGE PART

  • BECAUSE OF TAX

  • POLICIES THAT SLASHED

  • TAXES ON THE WEALTHY,

  • FAILED TO INVEST IN

  • THE MIDDLE CLASS, TOOK

  • THEIR EYES OFF OF WALL

  • STREET, AND CREATED A

  • PERFECT STORM.

  • IN FACT, DONALD WAS

  • ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO

  • ROOTED FOR THE HOUSING

  • CRISIS.

  • HE SAID BACK IN 2006,

  • GEE, I HOPE IT DOES

  • COLLAPSE BECAUSE THEN

  • I CAN GO IN AND BUY

  • SOME AND MAKE SOME

  • MONEY.

  • WELL, IT DID COLLAPSE.

  • >> THAT'S CALLED

  • BUSINESS, BY THE WAY.

  • >> 9 MILLION PEOPLE, 9

  • MILLION PEOPLE LOST

  • THEIR JOBS.

  • 5 MILLION PEOPLE LOST

  • THEIR HOMES AND $13

  • TRILLION IN FAMILY

  • WEALTH WAS WIPED OUT.

  • NOW, WE HAVE COME BACK

  • FROM THAT ABYSS AND IT

  • HAS NOT BEEN EASY.

  • SO WE'RE NOW ON THE

  • PRECIPICE OF HAVING A

  • POTENTIALLY MUCH

  • BETTER ECONOMY, BUT

  • THE LAST THING WE NEED

  • TO DO IS TO GO BACK TO

  • THE POLICIES THAT

  • FAILED US IN THE FIRST

  • PLACE.

  • INDEPENDENT EXPERTS

  • HAVE LOOKED AT WHAT

  • I'VE PROPOSED AND

  • LOOKED AT WHAT

  • DONALD'S PROPOSED AND

  • BASICALLY THEY'VE SAID

  • THIS.

  • THAT IF HIS TAX PLAN,

  • WHICH WOULD BLOW UP

  • THE DEBT BY OVER $5

  • TRILLION AND WOULD, IN

  • SOME INSTANCES,

  • DISADVANTAGE MIDDLE

  • CLASS FAMILIES

  • COMPARED TO THE

  • WEALTHY, WERE TO GO

  • INTO EFFECT, WE WOULD

  • LOSE 3.5 MILLION JOBS.

  • AND MAYBE HAVE ANOTHER

  • RECESSION.

  • THEY'VE LOOKED AT MY

  • PLANS AND THEY'VE

  • SAID, OKAY, IF WE CAN

  • DO THIS, AND I INTEND

  • TO GET IT DONE, WE

  • WILL HAVE 10 MILLION

  • MORE NEW JOBS BECAUSE

  • WE WILL BE MAKING

  • INVESTMENTS WHERE WE

  • CAN GROW THE ECONOMY.

  • TAKE CLEAN ENERGY.

  • SOME COUNTRY IS GOING

  • TO BE THE CLEAN ENERGY

  • SUPERPOWER OF THE 21st

  • CENTURY.

  • DONALD THINKS THAT

  • CLIMATE CHANGE IS A

  • HOAX PERPETRATED BY

  • THE CHINESE.

  • I THINK IT'S REAL.

  • >> I DID NOT.

  • >> SCIENCE IS REAL.

  • >> I DID NOT SAY THAT.

  • >> AND I THINK --

  • >> I DO NOT SAY THAT.

  • >> I THINK IT'S

  • IMPORTANT THAT WE GRIP

  • THIS AND DEAL WITH IT

  • BOTH AT HOME AND

  • ABROAD AND HERE'S WHAT

  • WE CAN DO.

  • WE CAN DEPLOY A HALF A

  • BILLION MORE SOLAR

  • PANELS.

  • WE CAN HAVE ENOUGH

  • CLEAN ENERGY TO POWER

  • EVERY HOME.

  • WE CAN BUILD A NEW

  • MODERN ELECTRIC GRID.

  • THAT'S A LOT OF JOBS.

  • THAT'S A LOT OF NEW

  • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY.

  • SO I'VE TRIED TO BE

  • VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT

  • WHAT WE CAN AND SHOULD

  • DO AND I AM DETERMINED

  • THAT WE'RE GOING TO

  • GET THE ECONOMY REALLY

  • MOVING AGAIN.

  • BUILDING ON THE

  • PROGRESS WE'VE MADE

  • OVER THE LAST EIGHT

  • YEARS BUT NEVER GOING

  • BACK TO WHAT GOT US IN

  • TROUBLE IN THE FIRST

  • PLACE.

  • >> MR. TRUMP?

  • >> SHE TALKS ABOUT

  • SOLAR PANELS.

  • WE INVESTED IN A SOLAR

  • COMPANY, COUNTRY, THAT

  • WAS A DISASTER.

  • THEY LOST PLENTY OF

  • MONEY ON THAT ONE.

  • NOW, LOOK, I'M A GREAT

  • BELIEVER IN ALL FORMS

  • OF ENERGY, BUT WE'RE

  • PUTTING A LOT OF

  • PEOPLE OUT OF WORK.

  • OUR ENERGY POLICIES

  • ARE A DISASTER.

  • OUR COUNTRY IS LOSING

  • SO MUCH IN TERMS OF

  • ENERGY, IN TERMS OF

  • PAYING OFF OUR DEBT.

  • YOU CAN'T DO WHAT

  • YOU'RE LOOKING TO DO

  • WITH $20 TRILLION IN

  • DEBT.

  • THE OBAMA

  • ADMINISTRATION FROM

  • THE TIME THEY'VE COME

  • IN IS OVER 230 YEARS'

  • WORTH OF DEBT AND HE'S

  • TOPPED IT.

  • HE'S DOUBLED IT IN A

  • COURSE OF ALMOST EIGHT

  • YEARS.

  • 7 1/2 YEARS TO BE

  • SEMI-EXACT.

  • SO I WILL TELL YOU

  • THIS.

  • WE HAVE TO DO A MUCH

  • BETTER JOB AT KEEPING

  • OUR JOBS AND WE HAVE

  • TO DO A MUCH BETTER

  • JOB AT GIVING

  • COMPANIES INCENTIVE TO

  • BUILD NEW COMPANIES OR

  • TO EXPAND BECAUSE

  • THEY'RE NOT DOING IT.

  • ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS

  • LOOK AT MICHIGAN, LOOK

  • AT OHIO AND LOOK AT

  • ALL OF THESE PLACES

  • WHERE SO MANY OF THEIR

  • JOBS AND THEIR

  • COMPANIES ARE JUST

  • LEAVING.

  • THEY'RE GONE.

  • AND HILLARY, I JUST

  • ASK YOU THIS, YOU'VE

  • BEEN DOING THIS FOR 30

  • YEARS.

  • WHY ARE YOU JUST

  • THINKING ABOUT THESE

  • SOLUTIONS RIGHT NOW?

  • FOR 30 YEARS YOU'VE

  • BEEN DOING IT AND NOW

  • YOU'RE JUST STARTING

  • TO THINK OF SOLUTIONS.

  • >> WELL, ACTUALLY --

  • >> I WILL BRING --

  • EXCUSE ANY.

  • I WILL BRING BACK

  • JOBS.

  • YOU CAN'T BRING BACK

  • JOBS.

  • >> WELL, ACTUALLY, I

  • HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT

  • THIS QUITE A BIT.

  • >> YEAH, FOR 30 YEARS.

  • >> I HAVE -- WELL, NOT

  • QUITE THAT LONG.

  • I THINK MY HUSBAND DID

  • A PRETTY GOOD JOB IN

  • THE 1990s.

  • I THINK A LOT ABOUT

  • WHAT WORKED AND HOW --

  • >> HE APPROVED NAFTA,

  • SINGLE WORST TRADE

  • DEAL APPROVED IN THE

  • COUNTRY.

  • >> INCOMES WENT UP FOR

  • EVERYBODY.

  • MANUFACTURING JOBS

  • WENT UP ALSO IN THE

  • 1990s IF WE'RE GOING

  • IT LOOK AT THE FACTS.

  • WHEN I WAS IN THE

  • SENATE, I HAD A NUMBER

  • OF TRADE DEALS THAT

  • CAME BEFORE ME AND I

  • HELD THEM ALL TO THE

  • SAME TEST.

  • WILL THEY CREATE JOBS

  • IN AMERICA?

  • WILL THEY RAISE

  • INCOMES IN AMERICA?

  • AND ARE THEY GOOD FOR

  • OUR NATIONAL SECURITY?

  • SOME OF THEM I VOTED

  • FOR.

  • THE BIGGEST ONE, A

  • MULTINATIONAL ONE

  • KNOWN AS CAFTA, I

  • VOTED AGAINST AND

  • BECAUSE I HOLD THE

  • SAME STANDARDS AS I

  • LOOK AT ALL OF THESE

  • TRADE DEALS.

  • BUT LET'S NOT ASSUME

  • THAT TRADE IS THE ONLY

  • CHALLENGE WE HAVE IN

  • THE ECONOMY.

  • I THINK IT IS A PART

  • OF IT AND I'VE SAID

  • WHAT I'M GOING TO DO.

  • I'M GOING TO HAVE A

  • SPECIAL PROSECUTOR.

  • WE'RE GOING TO ENFORCE

  • THE TRADE DEALS WE

  • HAVE.

  • AND WE'RE GOING TO

  • HOLD PEOPLE

  • ACCOUNTABLE.

  • WHEN I WAS SECRETARY

  • OF STATE, WE ACTUALLY

  • INCREASED AMERICAN

  • EXPORTS GLOBALLY 30%.

  • WE INCREASED THEM TO

  • CHINA 50%.

  • SO I KNOW HOW TO

  • REALLY WORK TO GET NEW

  • JOBS AND TO GET

  • EXPORTS THAT HELP TO

  • CREATE MORE NEW JOBS.

  • >> VERY QUICKLY --

  • >> YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT

  • IN 30 YEARS OR 26

  • YEARS.

  • >> I'VE BEEN A

  • SENATOR, DONALD.

  • >> YOU HAVEN'T DONE

  • IT.

  • YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT.

  • >> I'VE BEEN SECRETARY

  • OF STATE.

  • >> EXCUSE ME, YOUR

  • HUSBAND SIGNED NAFTA,

  • ONE OF THE WORST

  • THINGS THAT EVER

  • HAPPENED TO THE

  • MANUFACTURING

  • INDUSTRY.

  • >> THAT IS YOUR

  • OPINION.

  • >> YOU GO TO NEW

  • ENGLAND, GO TO OHIO,

  • PENNSYLVANIA, YOU GO

  • TO ANYWHERE YOU WANT,

  • SECRETARY CLINTON, AND

  • YOU WILL SEE

  • DEVASTATION WHERE

  • MANUFACTURERS DOWN

  • 30%, 40%, SOMETIMES

  • 50%.

  • NAFTA IS THE WORST

  • TRADE DEAL SIGNED

  • ANYWHERE, IN THIS

  • COUNTRY.

  • NOW YOU WANT TO

  • APPROVE TRANS-PACIFIC

  • PARTNERSHIP.

  • YOU WERE TOTALLY IN

  • FAVOR OF IT THEN HEARD

  • WHAT I WAS SAYING HOW

  • BAD IT IS AND SAID I

  • CAN'T WIN THAT DEBATE.

  • YOU KNOW IF YOU DID

  • WIN, YOU WOULD APPROVE

  • THAT AND ALMOST BE AS

  • BAD AS NAFTA.

  • NOTHING WILL TOP NANAFA.

  • >> THAT IS NOT

  • ACCURATE.

  • I WAS AGAINST IT ONCE

  • IT WAS FINALLY

  • NEGOTIATED.

  • THE TERMS WERE LAID

  • OUT.

  • I WROTE --

  • >> YOU CALLED IT THE

  • GOLD STANDARD.

  • YOU CALLED IT THE GOLD

  • STANDARD OF TRADE

  • DEALS.

  • SAID IT WAS THE FINEST

  • DEAL YOU'VE EVER SEEN.

  • YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID

  • ABOUT IT AND YOU WERE

  • AGAINST IT.

  • >> DONALD, I KNOW YOU

  • LIVE IN YOUR OWN

  • REALITY --

  • >> OH, YEAH.

  • >> -- THAT IS NOT THE

  • FACTS.

  • I DID SAY, I HOPED IT

  • WOULD BE A GOOD DEAL.

  • WHEN IT WAS

  • NEGOTIATED --

  • >> NOT.

  • >> -- WHICH I WAS NOT

  • RESPONSIBLE FOR, I

  • CONCLUDED IT WASN'T.

  • I WROTE ABOUT THAT --

  • >> SO IS IT PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA'S FAULT?

  • IS IT PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA'S FAULT?

  • >> BEFORE YOU EVEN

  • ANNOUNCED.

  • LOOK, THERE ARE --

  • >> SECRETARY, IS IT

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA'S

  • FAULT?

  • >> THERE ARE

  • DIFFERENT --

  • >> BECAUSE HE'S

  • PUSHING IT.

  • >> THERE ARE DIFFERENT

  • VIEWS ABOUT WHAT'S

  • GOING FOR OUR COUNTRY,

  • OUR ECONOMY, AND OUR

  • LEADERSHIP IN THE

  • WORLD.

  • I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT

  • TO LOOK AT WHAT WE

  • NEED TO DO TO GET THE

  • ECONOMY GOING AGAIN.

  • THAT'S WHY I SAID NEW

  • JOBS WITH RISING

  • INCOMES, INVESTMENTS.

  • NOT IN MORE TAX CUTS

  • THAT WOULD ADD $5

  • TRILLION TO THE DEBT.

  • >> BUT YOU HAVE NO

  • PLAN.

  • >> EDUCATE -- OH, I

  • DO.

  • >> SECRETARY, YOU HAVE

  • NO PLAN.

  • >> I'VE WRITTEN A BOOK

  • ABOUT IT.

  • IT'S CALLED \"STRONGER

  • TOGETHER.\"

  • PICK IT UP TOMORROW.

  • >> THAT'S ABOUT ALL --

  • >> AT A BOOKSTORE OR

  • AT AN AIRPORT NEAR

  • YOU.

  • >> WE'RE GOING TO MOVE

  • TO --

  • >> IT'S BECAUSE I SEE

  • THIS, WHEN NEED TO

  • HAVE STRONG GROWTH,

  • FAIR GROWTH, SUSTAINED

  • GROWTH.

  • WE ALSO HAVE TO LOOK

  • AT HOW WE HELP

  • FAMILIES BALANCE THE

  • RESPONSIBILITIES AT

  • HOME AND THE

  • RESPONSIBILITIES AT

  • BUSINESS.

  • SO WE HAVE A VERY

  • ROBUST SET OF PLANS.

  • AND PEOPLE HAVE LOOKED

  • AT BOTH OF OUR PLANS,

  • HAVE CONCLUDED THAT

  • MINE WOULD CREATE 10

  • MILLION JOBS AND YOURS

  • WOULD LOSE US 3.5

  • MILLION JOBS AND

  • EXPLODE THE DEBT --

  • >> YOU ARE GOING TO

  • APPROVE ONE OF THE

  • BIGGEST TAX CUTS IN

  • HISTORY.

  • YOU'RE GOING TO

  • APPROVE ONE OF THE

  • BIGGEST TAX INCREASES

  • IN HISTORY.

  • YOU ARE GOING TO DRIVE

  • BUSINESS OUT.

  • YOUR REGULATIONS ARE A

  • DISASTER.

  • YOU'RE GOING TO

  • INCREASE REGULATIONS

  • ALL OVER THE PLACE.

  • BY THE WAY, MY TAX CUT

  • IS THE BIGGEST SINCE

  • RONALD REAGAN.

  • I'M VERY PROUD OF IT.

  • IT WILL CREATE

  • TREMENDOUS NUMBERS OF

  • NEW JOBS, BUT

  • REGULATIONS, YOU ARE

  • GOING TO REGULATE

  • THESE BUSINESSES OUT

  • OF EXISTENCE.

  • WHEN I GO AROUND,

  • LESTER, I TELL YOU

  • THIS, I'VE BEEN ALL

  • OVER, AND WHEN I GO

  • AROUND, DESPITE THE

  • TAX CUT, THE THINGS

  • THAT BUSINESSES AND

  • PEOPLE LIKE THE MOST

  • IS THE FACT THAT I'M

  • CUTTING REGULATION.

  • YOU HAVE REGULATIONS

  • ON TOP OF REGULATIONS,

  • AND NEW COMPANIES

  • CANNOT FORM AND OLD

  • COMPANIES ARE GOING

  • OUT OF BUSINESS AND

  • YOU WANT TO INCREASE

  • THE REGULATIONS AND

  • MAKE THEM EVEN WORSE.

  • I'M GOING TO CUT

  • REGULATIONS.

  • I'M GOING TO CUT TAXES

  • BIG LEAGUE AND YOU'RE

  • GOING TO RAISE TAXES

  • BIG LEAGUE.

  • END OF STORY.

  • >> LET ME GET YOU TO

  • PAUSE RIGHT THERE.

  • WE'RE GOING TO MOVE

  • INTO THE NEXT SEGMENT.

  • WE'RE GOING TO TALK --

  • >> THAT CAN'T BE

  • LEFT --

  • >> PLEASE, TAKE 30

  • SECONDS.

  • >> I KIND OF ASSUMED

  • THAT THERE WOULD BE A

  • LOT OF THESE CHARGES

  • AND CLAIMS AND SO --

  • >> FACTS.

  • >> -- WE HAVE TAKEN

  • THE HOME PAGE OF MY

  • WEBSITE,

  • HILLARYCLINTON.COM AND

  • TURNED IT INTO A FACT

  • CHECKER SO IF YOU WANT

  • TO SEE IN REALTIME

  • WHAT THE FACTS ARE,

  • PLEASE GO AND TAKE A

  • LOOK.

  • BECAUSE --

  • >> AND TAKE A LOOK AT

  • MINE ALSO AND YOU'LL

  • SEE.

  • >> WILL NOT ADD A

  • PENNY TO THE DEBT AND

  • YOUR PLANS WOULD ADD

  • $5 TRILLION TO THE

  • DEBT.

  • WHAT I HAVE PROPOSED

  • WOULD CUT REGULATIONS

  • AND STREAMLINE THEM

  • FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.

  • WHAT I HAVE PROPOSED

  • WOULD BE PAID FOR BY

  • RAISING TAXES ON THE

  • WEALTHY BECAUSE THEY

  • HAVE MADE ALL THE

  • GAINS IN THE ECONOMY

  • AND I THINK IT'S TIME

  • THAT THE WEALTHY AND

  • CORPORATIONS PAID

  • THEIR FAIR SHARE TO

  • SUPPORT THIS COUNTRY.

  • >> YOU JUST OPENED THE

  • NEXT SEGMENT.

  • >> COULD I JUST FINISH

  • THAT?

  • I THINK I SHOULD.

  • YOU GO TO HER WEBSITE

  • AND TAKE A LOOK AT HER

  • WEBSITE, SHE'S GOING

  • TO RAISE TAXES $1.3

  • TRILLION.

  • >> MR. TRUMP --

  • >> AND LOOK AT HER

  • WEBSITE.

  • YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S NO

  • DIFFERENT THAN THIS.

  • SHE'S TELLING US HOW

  • TO FIGHT ISIS.

  • GO TO HER WEBSITE.

  • SHE TELLS YOU HOW TO

  • FIGHT ISIS ON HER

  • WEBSITE.

  • I DON'T THINK GENERAL

  • DOUGLAS MacARTHUR

  • WOULD LIKE THAT TOO

  • MUCH.

  • >> THE NEXT SEGMENT --

  • >> AT LEAST I HAVE A

  • PLAN TO FIGHT ISIS.

  • >> NO, NO, YOU'RE

  • TELLING THE ENEMY

  • EVERYTHING I WANT TO

  • DO.

  • >> NO, WE'RE NOT.

  • >> SEE, YOU TELLING

  • THE ENEMY EVERYTHING

  • YOU WANT TO DO.

  • NO WONDER YOU'VE,

  • FIGHTING -- NO WONDER

  • YOU'VE BEEN FIGHTING

  • ISIS YOUR ENTIRE ADULT

  • LIFE.

  • >> THAT'S A -- GO TO

  • THE -- PLEASE, THE

  • FACT CHECKERS, GET TO

  • WORK.

  • >> YOU ARE UNPACKING A

  • LOT HERE.

  • WE'RE STILL ON THE

  • ISSUE OF ACHIEVING

  • PROSPERITY.

  • AND I WANT TO TALK

  • ABOUT TAXES.

  • THE FUNDAMENTAL

  • DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE

  • TWO OF YOU CONCERNS

  • THE WEALTHY.

  • SECRETARY CLINTON,

  • YOU'RE CALLING FOR A

  • TAX INCREASE ON THE

  • WEALTHIEST AMERICANS.

  • I'D LIKE YOU TO

  • FURTHER DEFEND THAT.

  • MR. TRUMP, YOU'RE

  • CALLING FOR TAX CUTS

  • FOR THE WEALTHY.

  • I'D LIKE YOU TO DEFEND

  • THAT.

  • THE NEXT TWO-MINUTE

  • ANSWER GOES TO YOU,

  • MR. TRUMP.

  • >> I'M CALLING FOR

  • MAJOR JOBS.

  • THE WEALTHY ARE GOING

  • TO CREATE TREMENDOUS

  • JOBS.

  • GOING TO EXPAND THEIR

  • COMPANIES, THEY'RE

  • GOING TO DO A

  • TREMENDOUS JOB.

  • I'M GETTING RID OF THE

  • INTEREST PROVISION AND

  • IF YOU REALLY LOOK,

  • IT'S NOT A TAX -- IT'S

  • REALLY NOT A GREAT

  • THING FOR THE WEALTHY.

  • IT'S A GREAT THING FOR

  • MIDDLE CLASS.

  • IT'S A GREAT THING FOR

  • COMPANIES TO EXPAND.

  • AND WHEN THESE PEOPLE

  • ARE GOING TO PUT

  • BILLIONS AND BILLIONS

  • OF DOLLARS INTO

  • COMPANIES AND WHEN

  • THEY'RE GOING TO BRING

  • $2.5 TRILLION BACK

  • FROM OVERSEAS, WHERE

  • THEY CAN'T BRING THE

  • MONEY BACK BECAUSE

  • POLITICIANS LIKE

  • SECRETARY CLINTON

  • WON'T ALLOW THEM TO

  • BRING THE MONEY BACK

  • BECAUSE THE TAXES ARE

  • SO ONEROUS, AND THE

  • BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE,

  • SO WHAT -- IS SO BAD.

  • WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS

  • LEAVING OUR COUNTRY

  • AND THEY'RE, BELIEVE

  • IT OR NOT, LEAVING

  • BECAUSE TAXES ARE TOO

  • HIGH AND BECAUSE SOME

  • OF THEM HAVE LOTS OF

  • MONEY OUTSIDE OF OUR

  • COUNTRY AND INSTEAD OF

  • BRINGING IT BACK AND

  • PUTTING THE MONEY TO

  • WORK BECAUSE THEY

  • CAN'T WORK OUT A DEAL

  • TO, AND EVERYBODY

  • AGREES IT SHOULD BE

  • BROUGHT BACK, INSTEAD

  • OF THAT, THEY'RE

  • LEAVING OUR COUNTRY TO

  • GET THEIR MONEY

  • BECAUSE THEY CAN'T

  • BRING THEIR MONEY BACK

  • INTO OUR COUNTRY

  • BECAUSE OF

  • BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE

  • BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GET

  • TOGETHER.

  • BECAUSE WE HAVE A

  • PRESIDENT THAT CAN'T

  • SIT THEM AROUND A

  • TABLE AND GET THEM TO

  • APPROVE SOMETHING AND

  • HERE'S THE THING,

  • REPUBLICANS AND

  • DEMOCRATS AGREE THAT

  • THIS SHOULD BE DONE.

  • $2.5 TRILLION.

  • I HAPPEN TO THINK IT'S

  • DOUBLE THAT.

  • PROBABLY $5 TRILLION

  • THAT WE CAN BRING INTO

  • OUR COUNTRY, LESTER,

  • AND WITH A LITTLE

  • LEADERSHIP YOU'D GET

  • IT IN HERE VERY

  • QUICKLY AND IT COULD

  • BE PUT TO USE ON THE

  • INNER CITIES AND LOTS

  • OF OTHER THINGS AND IT

  • WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL BUT

  • WE HAVE NO LEADERSHIP

  • AND HONESTLY, THAT

  • STARTS WITH SECRETARY

  • CLINTON.

  • >> ALL RIGHT.

  • YOU HAVE IS TWO

  • MINUTES OF THE SAME

  • QUESTION TO DEFEND TAX

  • INCREASES ON THE

  • WEALTHIEST AMERICANS,

  • SECRETARY CLINTON.

  • >> I HAVE A FEELING BY

  • THE END OF THIS

  • EVENING I'M GOING TO

  • BE BLAMED FOR

  • EVERYTHING THAT'S EVER

  • HAPPENED.

  • >> WHY NOT.

  • >> WHY NOT, YEAH.

  • WHY NOT.

  • YOU KNOW, JUST JOIN

  • THE DEBATE BY SAYING

  • MORE CRAZY THINGS.

  • NOW --

  • >> HEY, THERE'S

  • NOTHING CRAZY ABOUT

  • NOT LETTING OUR

  • COMPANIES BRING THEIR

  • MONEY BACK INTO THEIR

  • COUNTRY.

  • >> THIS IS SECRETARY

  • CLINTON'S TWO MINUTES,

  • PLEASE.

  • >> YES.

  • >> WELL, LET'S START

  • THE CLOCK AGAIN,

  • LESTER.

  • WE'VE LOOKED AT YOUR

  • TAX PROPOSALS.

  • I DON'T SEE CHANGES IN

  • THE CORPORATE TAX

  • RATES OR THE KINDS OF

  • PROPOSALS YOU'RE

  • REFERRING TO THAT

  • WOULD CAUSE THE

  • REPATEUATION.

  • >> YOU DIDN'T READ IT.

  • >> I HAPPEN TO SUPPORT

  • THAT IN A WAY THAT

  • WILL ACTUALLY WORK TO

  • OUR BENEFIT.

  • BUT WHEN I LOOK AT

  • WHAT YOU HAVE

  • PROPOSED, YOU HAVE

  • WHAT IS CALLED NOW THE

  • TRUMP LOOPHOLE BECAUSE

  • IT WOULD SO ADVANTAGE

  • YOU AND THE BUSINESS

  • YOU DO.

  • YOU'VE PROPOSED --

  • >> WHO GAVE IT THAT

  • NAME?

  • THE FIRST EVER -- WHO

  • GAVE IT THAT --

  • >> THIS IS SECRETARY

  • CLINTON'S --

  • >> $4 BILLION TAX

  • BENEFIT FOR YOUR

  • FAMILY.

  • AND WHEN YOU LOOK

  • AT --

  • >> HOW MUCH, HOW MUCH?

  • LESTER, HOW MUCH?

  • >> IT S AS I SAID,

  • TRUMPED UP TRICKLE

  • DOWN.

  • TRICKLE DOWN DID NOT

  • WORK.

  • IT GOT US INTO THE

  • MESS WE WERE IN 2008

  • AND 2009.

  • SLASHING TAXES ON THE

  • WEALTHY HASN'T WORKED,

  • AND A LOT OF REALLY

  • SMART WEALTHY PEOPLE

  • KNOW THAT.

  • AND THEY ARE SAYING,

  • HEY, WE NEED TO DO

  • MORE TO MAKE THE

  • CONTRIBUTIONS WE

  • SHOULD BE MAKING TO

  • REBUILD THE MIDDLE

  • CLASS.

  • I DON'T THINK TOP-DOWN

  • WORKS IN AMERICA.

  • I THINK BUILDING THE

  • MIDDLE CLASS,

  • INVESTING IN THE

  • MIDDLE CLASS, MAKING

  • COLLEGE DEBT FREE SO

  • MORE YOUNG PEOPLE CAN

  • GET THEIR EDUCATION.

  • HELPING PEOPLE

  • REFINANCE THEIR TAX --

  • THEIR DEBT FROM

  • COLLEGE AT A LOWER

  • RATE.

  • THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF

  • THINGS THAT WILL

  • REALLY BOOST THE

  • ECONOMY.

  • BROAD-BASED INCLUSIVE

  • GROWTH IS WHAT WE NEED

  • IN AMERICA.

  • NOT MORE ADVANTAGES

  • FOR PEOPLE AT THE VERY

  • TOP.

  • >> MR. TRUMP --

  • >> TYPICAL POLITICIAN.

  • ALL TALK, NO ACTION.

  • SOUNDS GOOD, DOESN'T

  • WORK.

  • NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.

  • OUR COUNTRY IS

  • SUFFERING BECAUSE

  • PEOPLE LIKE SECRETARY

  • CLINTON HAVE MADE SUCH

  • BAD DECISIONS IN TERMS

  • OF OUR JOBS, AND IN

  • TERMS OF WHAT'S GOING

  • ON.

  • NOW, LOOK, WE HAVE THE

  • WORST REVIVAL OF AN

  • ECONOMY SINCE THE

  • GREAT DEPRESSION, AND

  • BELIEVE ME, WE'RE IN A

  • BUBBLE RIGHT NOW AND

  • THE ONLY THING THAT

  • LOOKS GOOD IS THE

  • STOCK MARKET, BUT IF

  • YOU RAISE INTEREST

  • RATES EVEN A LITTLE

  • BIT, THAT'S GOING TO

  • COME CRASHING DOWN.

  • WE ARE IN A BIG, FAT,

  • UGLY BUBBLE, AND WE

  • BETTER BE AWFULLY

  • CAREFUL AND WE HAVE A

  • FED THAT'S DOING

  • POLITICAL THINGS.

  • THIS JANET YELLEN OF

  • THE FED, THE FED IS

  • DOING POLITICAL BY

  • KEEPING THE INTEREST

  • RATES AT THIS LEVEL,

  • AND BELIEVE ME, THE

  • DAY OBAMA GOES OFF AND

  • HE LEAVES AND GOES OUT

  • TO THE GOLF COURSE FOR

  • THE REST OF HIS LIFE

  • TO PLAY GOLF, WHEN

  • THEY RAISE INTEREST

  • RATES, YOU'RE GOING TO

  • SEE SOME VERY BAD

  • THINGS HAPPEN BECAUSE

  • THE FED IS NOT DOING

  • THEIR JOB.

  • THE FED IS BEING MORE

  • POLITICAL THAN

  • SECRETARY CLINTON.

  • >> MR. TRUMP, WE'RE

  • TALKING ABOUT THE

  • BURDEN THAT AMERICANS

  • HAVE TO FAY, YET YOU

  • HAVE NOT RELEASED YOUR

  • TAX RETURNS AND THE

  • REASON NOMINEES HAVE

  • RELEASED THEIR RETURNS

  • FOR DECADES IS SO

  • VOTERS WILL KNOW IF

  • THEIR POTENTIAL

  • PRESIDENT OWES MONEY

  • TO, WHO HE OWES IT TO

  • AND ANY BUSINESS

  • CONFLICTS.

  • DON'T AMERICANS HAVE A

  • RIGHT TO KNOW IF THERE

  • ARE ANY CONFLICTS OF

  • INTEREST?

  • >> I DON'T MIND

  • RELEASING.

  • I'M UNDER A ROUTINE

  • AUDIT.

  • IT WILL BE RELEASED.

  • AS SOON AS THE AUDIT

  • IS FINISHED, IT WILL

  • BE RELEASED.

  • YOU WILL LEARN MORE

  • ABOUT DONALD TRUMP BY

  • GOING DOWN TO THE

  • FEDERAL ELECTIONS

  • WHERE I FILED A

  • 104-PAGE, ESSENTIALLY,

  • FINANCIALLY SAPEN OF

  • SORTS, FORMS THEY

  • HAVE.

  • IT SHOWS INCOME.

  • THE INCOME, I JUST

  • LOOKED TODAY, THE

  • INCOME IS FILED AT

  • $694 MILLION FOR THIS

  • PAST YEAR.

  • $694 MILLION.

  • IF YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD

  • ME I WAS GOING TO MAKE

  • THAT 15 OR 20 YEARS

  • AGO, I WOULD HAVE BEEN

  • VERY SURPRISED.

  • THAT'S THE KIND OF

  • THINKING OUR COUNTRY

  • NEEDS.

  • WHEN WE HAVE A COUNTRY

  • THAT'S GOING SO BADLY,

  • THAT'S BEING RIPPED

  • OFF BY EVERY SINGLE

  • COUNTRY IN THE WORLD,

  • IT'S THE KIND OF

  • THINKING THAT OUR

  • COUNTRY NEEDS BECAUSE

  • EVERYBODY -- LESTER,

  • WE HAVE A TRADE

  • DEFICIT WITH ALL OF

  • THE COUNTRIES THAT WE

  • DO BUSINESS WITH OF

  • ALMOST $800 BILLION A

  • YEAR.

  • YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS?

  • THAT MEANS WHO'S

  • NEGOTIATING THESE

  • TRADE DEALS?

  • WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT

  • ARE POLITICAL HACKS

  • NEGOTIATING OUR TRADE

  • DEALS.

  • >> THE IRS SAYS AN

  • AUDIT OF YOUR TAXES --

  • YOU'RE PERFECTLY FREE

  • TO RELEASE YOUR TAXES

  • DURING AN AUDIT.

  • SO THE QUESTION, DOES

  • THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO

  • KNOW OUTWEIGH YOUR

  • PERSONAL --

  • >> WELL, I TOLD YOU, I

  • WILL RELEASE THEM AS

  • SOON AS THE AUDIT --

  • LOOK, I'VE BEEN UNDER

  • AUDIT ALMOST FOR 15

  • YEARS.

  • I KNOW A LOT OF

  • WEALTHY PEOPLE THAT

  • HAVE NEVER BEEN

  • AUDITED.

  • I SAID, DO YOU GET

  • AUDITED?

  • I GET AUDITED ALMOST

  • EVERY YEAR.

  • AND IN A WAY, I SHOULD

  • BE COMPLAINING.

  • I'M NOT EVEN

  • COMPLAINING.

  • I DON'T MIND IT.

  • IT'S ALMOST BECOME A

  • WAY OF LIFE.

  • I GET AUDITED BY THE

  • IRS.

  • OTHER PEOPLE DON'T.

  • I WILL SAY THIS.

  • WE HAVE A SITUATION IN

  • THIS COUNTRY THAT HAS

  • TO BE TAKEN CARE OF.

  • I WILL RELEASE MY TAX

  • RETURNS AGAINST MY

  • LAWYER'S WISHES.

  • WHEN SHE RELEASES HER

  • 33,000 E-MAILS THAT

  • HAVE BEEN DELETED.

  • AS SOON AS SHE

  • RELEASES THEM, I WILL

  • RELEASE -- I WILL

  • RELEASE MY TAX RETURNS

  • AND THAT'S AGAINST, MY

  • LAWYERS THEY SAY DON'T

  • DO IT.

  • I WILL TELL YOU THIS.

  • IN FACT, WATCHING

  • SHOWS, READING THE

  • PAPERS, ALMOST EVERY

  • LAWYER SAYS YOU DON'T

  • RELEASE YOUR RETURNS

  • UNTIL THE AUDIT'S

  • COMPLETE.

  • WHEN THE AUDIT'S

  • COMPLETE, I'LL DO IT

  • BUT I WOULD GO AGAINST

  • THEM IF SHE RELEASES

  • HER E-MAILS

  • >> SO IT'S NEGOTIABLE?

  • >> IT'S NOT

  • NEGOTIABLE, NO, LET

  • HER RELEASE -- WHY DID

  • SHE DELETE 33,000 --

  • >> I'LL LET HER ANSWER

  • THAT.

  • LET ME ADMONISH THE

  • AUDIENCE ONE MORE

  • TIME.

  • THERE WAS AN

  • AGREEMENT, WE ASKED

  • YOU TO BE SILENT.

  • IT WOULD BE HELPFUL

  • FOR US.

  • SECRETARY CLINTON?

  • >> I THINK YOU'VE SEEN

  • ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF

  • BAIT AND SWITCH HERE.

  • FOR 40 YEARS, EVERYONE

  • RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

  • HAS RELEASED THEIR TAX

  • RETURNS.

  • YOU CAN GO AND SEE

  • NEARLY, I THINK, 39,

  • 40 YEARS OF OUR TAX

  • RETURNS, BUT EVERYONE

  • HAS DONE IT.

  • WE KNOW THE IRS HAS

  • MADE CLEAR THERE IS NO

  • PROHIBITION ON

  • RELEASING IT WHEN

  • YOU'RE UNDER AUDIT.

  • SO YOU'VE GOT TO ASK

  • YOURSELF, WHY WON'T HE

  • RELEASE HIS TAX

  • RETURNS?

  • AND I THINK THERE MAY

  • BE A COUPLE OF

  • REASONS.

  • FIRST, MAYBE HE'S NOT

  • AS RICH AS HE SAYS HE

  • IS.

  • SECOND, MAYBE HE'S NOT

  • AS CHARITABLE AS HE

  • CLAIMS TO BE.

  • THIRD, WE DON'T KNOW

  • ALL OF HIS BUSINESS

  • DEALINGS, BUT WE HAVE

  • BEEN TOLD THROUGH

  • INVESTIGATIVE

  • REPORTING THAT HE OWES

  • ABOUT $650 MILLION TO

  • WALL STREET AND

  • FOREIGN BANKS.

  • OR 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.

  • >> THAT MAKES ME

  • SMART.

  • >> IF HE'S PAID ZERO,

  • THAT MEANS ZERO FOR

  • TROOPS, ZERO FOR VETS,

  • ZERO FOR SCHOOLS OR

  • HEALTH, AND I THINK

  • PROBABLY HE'S NOT ALL

  • THAT ENTHUSIASTIC

  • ABOUT HAVING THE REST

  • OF OUR COUNTRY SEE

  • WHAT THE REAL REASONS

  • ARE BECAUSE IT MUST BE

  • SOMETHING REALLY

  • IMPORTANT, EVEN

  • TERRIBLE THAT HE'S

  • TRYING TO HIDE.

  • AND THE FINANCIAL

  • DISCLOSURE STATEMENT,

  • THEY DON'T GIVE YOU

  • THE TAX RATE.

  • THEY DON'T GIVE YOU

  • ALL THE DETAILS THAT

  • TAX RETURNS WOULD.

  • AND IT JUST SEEMS TO

  • ME THAT THIS IS

  • SOMETHING THAT THE

  • AMERICAN PEOPLE

  • DESERVE TO SEE AND I

  • HAVE NO REASON TO

  • BELIEVE THAT HE'S EVER

  • GOING TO RELEASE HIS

  • TAX RETURNS BECAUSE

  • THERE'S SOMETHING HE'S

  • HIDING.

  • ANDGUESSING AT WHAT

  • IT MIGHT BE THAT HE'S

  • HIDING BUT I THINK THE

  • QUESTION IS WERE HE

  • EVER TO GET NEAR THE

  • WHITE HOUSE, WHAT

  • WOULD BE THOSE

  • CONFLICTS?

  • WHO DOES HE OWE MONEY

  • TO?

  • WELL, HE OWES YOU THE

  • ANSWERS TO THAT.

  • AND HE SHOULD PROVIDE

  • THEM.

  • >> HE ALSO -- HE ALSO

  • RAISED THE ISSUE OF

  • YOUR E-MAILS.

  • YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO

  • THAT?

  • >> I DO.

  • YOU KNOW, I MADE A

  • MISTAKE USING A

  • PRIVATE E-MAIL.

  • >> THAT'S FOR SURE.

  • >> AND IF I HAD TO DO

  • IT OVER AGAIN, I WOULD

  • OBVIOUSLY DO IT

  • DIFFERENTLY, BUT I'M

  • NOT GOING TO MAKE ANY

  • EXCUSES.

  • IT WAS A MISTAKE AND I

  • TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

  • FOR THAT.

  • >> MR. TRUMP?

  • >> THAT WAS MORE THAN

  • A MISTAKE.

  • THAT WAS DONE

  • PURPOSELY.

  • OKAY?

  • THAT WAS NOT A

  • MISTAKE.

  • THAT WAS DONE

  • PURPOSELY.

  • WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR

  • STAFF TAKING THE 5th

  • AMENDMENT, TAKING THE

  • 5th SO THEY'RE NOT

  • PROSECUTED, WHEN YOU

  • HAVE THE MAN THAT SET

  • UP THE ILLEGAL SERVER

  • TAKING THE 5th, I

  • THINK IT'S DISGRACEFUL

  • AND BELIEVE ME, THIS

  • COUNTRY THINKS IT'S --

  • REALLY THINKS IT'S

  • DISGRACEFUL ALSO.

  • AS FAR AS MY TAX

  • RETURNS, YOU DON'T

  • LEARN THAT MUCH FROM

  • TAX RETURNS.

  • THAT I CAN TELL YOU.

  • YOU LEARN A LOT FROM

  • FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.

  • AND YOU SHOULD GO DOWN

  • AND TAKE A LOOK AT

  • THAT.

  • THE OTHER THING, I'M

  • EXTREMELY

  • UNDERLEVERAGED.

  • THE REPORT THAT SAID

  • $650 MILLION WHICH, BY

  • THE WAY, A LOT OF

  • FRIENDS OF MINE THAT

  • KNOW MY BUSINESS SAYS

  • BOY, THAT'S NOT A LOT

  • OF MONEY RELATIVE TO

  • WHAT I HAD.

  • THE BUILDINGS THAT

  • WERE IN QUESTION, THEY

  • SAID IN THE SAME

  • REPORT WHICH WAS

  • ACTUALLY IT WASN'T

  • EVEN A BAD STORY, TO

  • BE HONEST WITH YOU,

  • BUT THE BUILDINGS ARE

  • WORTH $3.9 BILLION.

  • THE $650 ISN'T EVEN ON

  • THAT.

  • IT'S NOT $650.

  • IT'S MUCH LESS THAN

  • THAT.

  • I CAN GIVE YOU A LIST

  • OF BANKS IF THAT WOULD

  • HELP YOU.

  • I CAN GIVE YOU A LIST

  • OF BANKS, VERY FINE

  • INSTITUTIONS, VERY

  • FINE BANKS.

  • I COULD DO THAT VERY

  • QUICKLY.

  • I'M VERY

  • UNDERLEVERAGED.

  • I HAVE A GREAT

  • COMPANY.

  • I HAVE A TREMENDOUS

  • INCOME.

  • THE REASON I SAY THAT

  • IS NOT IN A

  • BRAGEDOSIOUS WAY.

  • IT'S ABOUT TIME THIS

  • COUNTRY HAS SOMEBODY

  • RUNNING IT THAT HAS AN

  • IDEA ABOUT MONEY.

  • WHEN WE HAVE $20

  • TRILLION IN DEBT AND

  • OUR COUNTRY'S A MESS,

  • YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE

  • THING TO HAVE $20

  • TRILLION IN DEBT AND

  • OUR ROIDS ARE GOOD AND

  • OUR BRIDGES ARE GOOD

  • AND EVERYTHING'S IN

  • GREAT SHAPE, OUR

  • AIRPORTS -- OUR ARNT

  • AIRPORTS ARE LIKE FROM

  • A THIRD-WORLD COUNTRY.

  • YOU LAND AT LaGUARDIA,

  • LAND AT KENNEDY, LAND

  • AT L.A.X., LAND AT

  • NEWARK AND COME IN

  • FROM DUBAI AND QATAR,

  • COME IN FROM CHINA,

  • YOU SEE THESE

  • INCREDIBLE AIRPORTS

  • AND YOU LAND -- WE'VE

  • BECOME A THIRD-WORLD

  • COUNTRY.

  • SO, THE WORST OF ALL

  • THINGS HAS HAPPENED.

  • WE OWE $20 TRILLION

  • AND WE'RE A MESS.

  • WE HAVEN'T EVEN

  • STARTED.

  • AND WE'VE SPENT $6

  • TRILLION IN THE MIDDLE

  • EAST ACCORDING TO A

  • REPORT THAT I JUST

  • SAW.

  • WHETHER IT'S $6

  • TRILLION OR $5

  • TRILLION, LOOKS LIKE

  • IT'S $6 TRILLION.

  • $6 TRILLION IN THE

  • MIDDLE EAST, WE COULD

  • HAVE REBUILT OUR

  • COUNTRIES TWICE.

  • IT'S REALLY A SHAME.

  • IT'S POLITICIANS LIKE

  • SECRETARY CLINTON THAT

  • HAVE CAUSED THIS

  • PROBLEM.

  • OUR COUNTRY HAS

  • TREMENDOUS PROBLEMS.

  • WE'RE A DEBTOR NATION.

  • WE'RE A SERIOUS DEBTOR

  • NATION.

  • AND WE HAVE A COUNTRY

  • THAT NEEDS NEW ROADS,

  • NEW TUNNELS, NEW

  • BRIDGES, NEW AIRPORTS,

  • NEW SCHOOLS, NEW

  • HOSPITALS.

  • AND WE DON'T HAVE THE

  • MONEY BECAUSE IT'S

  • BEEN SQUANDERED ON SO

  • MANY OF YOUR IDEAS.

  • >> LET YOU RESPOND --

  • >> MAYBE BECAUSE YOU

  • HAVEN'T PAID ANY

  • FEDERAL INCOME TAX FOR

  • A LOT OF YEARS AND THE

  • OTHER THING I THINK IS

  • IMPORTANT --

  • >> IT WOULD BE

  • SQUANDERED, TOO,

  • BELIEVE ME.

  • >> -- IS IF YOUR MAIN

  • CLAIM TO BE PRESIDENT

  • OF THE UNITED STATES

  • IS YOUR BUSINESS, THEN

  • I THINK WE SHOULD TALK

  • ABOUT THAT.

  • YOU KNOW, YOUR

  • CAMPAIGN MANAGER SAID

  • THAT YOU BUILT A LOT

  • OF BUSINESSES ON THE

  • BACKS OF LITTLE GUYS,

  • AND INDEED, I HAVE MET

  • A LOT OF THE PEOPLE

  • WHO WERE STIFFED BY

  • YOU AND YOUR

  • BUSINESSES, DONALD.

  • I'VE MET DISHWASHERS,

  • PAINTERS, ARCHITECTS,

  • GLASS INSTALLERS,

  • MARBLE INSTALLERS,

  • DRAPERY INSTALLERS

  • LIKE MY DAD WAS, WHO

  • YOU REFUSED TO PAY

  • WHEN THEY FINISHED THE

  • WORK THAT YOU ASKED

  • THEM TO DO.

  • WE HAVE AN ARCHITECT

  • IN THE AUDIENCE WHO

  • DESIGNED ONE OF YOUR

  • CLUBHOUSES AT ONE OF

  • YOUR GOLF COURSES.

  • IT'S A BEAUTIFUL

  • FACILITY.

  • IT IMMEDIATELY WAS PUT

  • TO USE.

  • AND YOU WOULDN'T PAY

  • WHAT THE MAN NEEDED TO

  • BE PAID WHAT HE WAS

  • CHARGING YOU --

  • >> MAYBE HE DIDN'T DO

  • A GOOD JOB AND I WAS

  • UNSATISFIED WITH HIS

  • WORK WHICH OUR COUNTRY

  • SHOULD DO, TOO.

  • >> THE THOUSANDS OF

  • PEOPLE THAT YOU HAVE

  • STIFFED OVER THE

  • COURSE OF YOUR

  • BUSINESS NOT DESERVE

  • SOME KIND OF APOLOGY

  • FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS

  • TAKEN THEIR LABOR,

  • TAKEN THE GOODS THAT

  • THEY PRODUCED AND THEN

  • REFUSED TO PAY THEM?

  • I CAN ONLY SAY THAT

  • I'M CERTAINLY RELIEVED

  • THAT MY LATE FATHER

  • NEVER DID BUSINESS

  • WITH YOU.

  • HE PROVIDED A GOOD

  • MIDDLE CLASS LIFE FOR

  • US, BUT THE PEOPLE HE

  • WORKED FOR, HE

  • EXPECTED THE BARGAIN

  • TO BE KEPT ON BOTH

  • SIDES.

  • AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT

  • YOUR BUSINESS, YOU'VE

  • TAKEN BUSINESS

  • BANKRUPTCY SIX TIMES.

  • THERE ARE A LOT OF

  • GREAT BUSINESSPEOPLE

  • THAT HAVE NEVER TAKEN

  • BANKRUPTCY ONCE.

  • YOU CALL YOURSELF THE

  • KING OF DEBT.

  • YOU TALK ABOUT

  • LEVERAGE.

  • YOU EVEN AT ONE TIME

  • SUGGESTED THAT YOU

  • WOULD TRY TO NEGOTIATE

  • DOWN THE --

  • >> WRONG.

  • >> -- NATIONAL DEBT OF

  • THE UNITED STATES.

  • >> WRONG.

  • >> WELL, SOMETIMES

  • THERE'S NOT A DIRECT

  • TRANSFER OF SKILLS

  • FROM BUSINESS TO

  • GOVERNMENT, BUT

  • SOMETIMES WHAT

  • HAPPENED IN BUSINESS

  • WOULD BE REALLY BAD

  • FOR GOVERNMENT.

  • >> LET'S LET MR.

  • TRUMP --

  • >> WE NEED TO BE VERY

  • CLEAR ABOUT THAT.

  • >> I DO THINK IT'S

  • TIME.

  • LOOK, IT'S ALL WORDS.

  • IT'S ALL SOUND BITES.

  • I BUILT AN

  • UNBELIEVABLE COMPANY.

  • SOME OF THE GREATEST

  • ASSETS ANYWHERE IN THE

  • WORLD, REAL ESTATE

  • ASSETS ANYWHERE IN THE

  • WORLD BEYOND THE

  • UNITED STATES.

  • IN EUROPE, LOTS OF

  • DIFFERENT PLACES.

  • IT'S AN UNBELIEVABLE

  • COMPANY, BUT ON

  • OCCASION, FOUR TIMES,

  • WE USED CERTAIN LAWS

  • THAT ARE THERE AND

  • WHEN SECRETARY CLINTON

  • TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE

  • THAT DIDN'T GET PAID,

  • FIRST OF ALL, THEY DID

  • GET PAID A LOT, BUT

  • TAKING ADVANTAGE OF

  • THE LAWS OF THE

  • NATION.

  • NOW, IF YOU WANT TO

  • CHANGE THE LAWS,

  • YOU'VE BEEN THERE A

  • LONG TIME, CHANGE THE

  • LAW.

  • BUT I TAKE ADVANTAGE

  • OF THE LAWS OF THE

  • NATION BECAUSE I'M

  • RUNNING A COMPANY, MY

  • OBLIGATION RIGHT NOW

  • IS TO DO WELL FOR

  • MYSELF, MY FAMILY, MY

  • EMPLOYEES, FOR MY

  • COMPANIES AND THAT'S

  • WHAT I DO.

  • BUT WHAT SHE DOESN'T

  • SAY IS THAT TENS OF

  • THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

  • THAT ARE UNBELIEVABLY

  • HAPPY AND THEY LOVE

  • ME.

  • I'LL GIVE YOU AN

  • EXAMPLE.

  • WE'RE JUST OPENING UP

  • ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

  • RIGHT NEXT TO THE

  • WHITE HOUSE, SO IF I

  • DON'T GET THERE ONE

  • WAY, I'M GOING TO GET

  • TO PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

  • ANOTHER.

  • BUT WE'RE OPENING THE

  • OLD POST OFFICE.

  • UNDER BUDGET, AHEAD OF

  • SCHEDULE.

  • SAVED TREMENDOUS

  • MONEY.

  • I'M A YEAR AHEAD OF

  • SCHEDULE.

  • AND THAT'S WHAT THIS

  • COUNTRY SHOULD BE

  • DOING.

  • WE BUILD ROADS AND

  • THEY COST TWO, THREE,

  • FOUR TIMES WHAT

  • THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO

  • COST.

  • WE BUY PRODUCTS FOR

  • OUR MILITARY AND COME

  • AT COSTS THAT ARE SO

  • FAR ABOVE WHAT THEY'RE

  • SUPPOSED TO BE BECAUSE

  • WE DON'T HAVE PEOPLE

  • THAT KNOW WHAT THEY'RE

  • DOING.

  • WHEN WE LOOK AT THE

  • BUDGET, THE BUDGET IS

  • BAD TO A LARGE EXTENT

  • BECAUSE WE HAVE PEOPLE

  • THAT HAVE NO IDEA AS

  • TO WHAT TO DO AND HOW

  • TO BUY.

  • THE TRUMP

  • INTERNATIONAL IS WAY

  • UNDERBUDGET AND WAY

  • AHEAD OF SCHEDULE AND

  • WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO

  • DO THAT FOR OUR

  • COUNTRY.

  • >> WE'RE WELL BEHIND

  • SCHEDULE, SO I WANT TO

  • MOVE TO OUR NEXT

  • SEGMENT.

  • WE MOVE INTO OUR NEXT

  • SEGMENT TALKING ABOUT

  • AMERICA'S DIRECTION.

  • LET'S START BY TALKING

  • ABOUT RACE.

  • A SHARE OF AMERICANS

  • WHO SAY RACE RELATIONS

  • ARE BAD IN THIS

  • COUNTRY IS THE HIGHEST

  • IT'S BEEN IN DECADES.

  • MUCH OF IT AMPLIFIED

  • BY SHOOTINGS OF

  • AFRICAN-AMERICANS BY

  • POLICE.

  • AS WE'VE SEEN RECENTLY

  • IN CHARLOTTE AND

  • TULSA.

  • RACE HAS BEEN A BIG

  • ISSUE IN THIS

  • CAMPAIGN, AND ONE OF

  • YOU IS GOING TO HAVE

  • TO BRIDGE A VERY WIDE

  • AND BITTER GAP.

  • SO HOW DO YOU HEAL THE

  • DIVIDE?

  • SECRETARY CLINTON, YOU

  • GET TWO MINUTE MINUTES

  • ON THIS.

  • >> WELL, YOU'RE RIGHT.

  • RACE REMAINS A

  • SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE

  • IN OUR COUNTRY.

  • UNFORTUNATELY, RACE

  • STILL DETERMINES TOO

  • MUCH.

  • OFTEN DETERMINES WHERE

  • PEOPLE LIVE,

  • DETERMINES WHAT KIND

  • OF EDUCATION IN THEIR

  • PUBLIC SCHOOLS THEY

  • CAN GET, AND, YES, IT

  • DETERMINES HOW THEY'RE

  • TREATED IN THE

  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE

  • SYSTEM.

  • WE'VE JUST SEEN THOSE

  • TWO TRAGIC EXAMPLES IN

  • BOTH TULSA AND

  • CHARLOTTE.

  • AND WE'VE GOT TO DO

  • SEVERAL THINGS AT THE

  • SAME TIME.

  • WE HAVE TO RESTORE

  • TRUST BETWEEN

  • COMMUNITIES AND THE

  • POLICE.

  • WE HAVE TO WORK TO

  • MAKE SURE THAT OUR

  • POLICE ARE USING THE

  • BEST TRAINING, THE

  • BEST TECHNIQUES, THAT

  • THEY'RE WELL PREPARED

  • TO USE FORCE ONLY WHEN

  • NECESSARY.

  • EVERYONE SHOULD BE

  • RESPECTED BY THE LAW

  • AND EVERYONE SHOULD

  • RESPECT THE LAW.

  • RIGHT NOW, THAT'S NOT

  • THE CASE IN A LOT OF

  • OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

  • SO I HAVE EVER SINCE

  • THE FIRST DAY OF MY

  • CAMPAIGN CALLED FOR

  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE

  • REFORM.

  • I'VE LAID OUT A

  • PLATFORM THAT I THINK

  • WOULD BEGIN TO REMEDY

  • SOME OF THE PROBLEMS

  • WE HAVE IN THE

  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE

  • SYSTEM, BUT WE ALSO

  • HAVE TO RECOGNIZE IN

  • ADDITION TO THE

  • CHALLENGES THAT WE

  • FACE WITH POLICING,

  • THERE ARE SO MANY

  • GOOD, BRAVE POLICE

  • OFFICERS WHO EQUALLY

  • WANT REFORM.

  • SO WE HAVE TO BRING

  • COMMUNITIES TOGETHER

  • IN ORDER TO BEGIN

  • WORKING ON THAT AS A

  • MUTUAL GOAL.

  • AND WE'VE GOT TO GET

  • GUNS OUT OF THE HANDS

  • OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD

  • NOT HAVE THEM.

  • THE GUN EPIDEMIC IS

  • THE LEADING CAUSE OF

  • DEATH OF YOUNG

  • AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN.

  • MORE THAN THE NEXT

  • NINE CAUSES PUT

  • TOGETHER.

  • SO WE HAVE TO DO TWO

  • THINGS AS I SAID.

  • WE HAVE TO RESTORE

  • TRUST.

  • WE HAVE TO WORK WITH

  • THE POLICE.

  • WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE

  • THEY RESPECT THE

  • COMMUNITIES AND THE

  • COMMUNITIES RESPECT

  • THEM.

  • AND WE HAVE TO TACKLE

  • THE PLAGUE OF GUN

  • VIOLENCE WHICH IS A

  • BIG CONTRIBUTOR TO A

  • LOT OF THE PROBLEMS

  • THAT WE'RE SEEING

  • TODAY.

  • >> ALL RIGHT, MR.

  • TRUMP, YOU HAVE TWO

  • MINUTES.

  • HOW DO YOU HEAL THE

  • DIVIDE?

  • >> FIRST OF ALL,

  • SECRETARY CLINTON

  • DOESN'T WANT TO USE A

  • COUPLE OF WORDS AND

  • THAT'S LAW AND ORDER.

  • WE NEED LAW AND ORDER.

  • IF WE DON'T HAVE IT,

  • WE'RE NOT GOING TO

  • HAVE A COUNTRY, AND

  • WHEN I LOOK AT WHAT'S

  • GOING ON IN CHARLOTTE,

  • A CITY I LOVE, A CITY

  • WHERE I HAVE

  • INVESTMENTS, WHEN I

  • LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING

  • ON THROUGHOUT VARIOUS

  • PARTS OF OUR COUNTRY,

  • WHETHER IT'S -- I

  • MEAN, I CAN JUST KEEP

  • NAMING THEM ALL DAY

  • LONG.

  • WE NEED LAW AND ORDER

  • IN OUR COUNTRY AND I

  • JUST GOT TODAY THE, AS

  • YOU KNOW, THE

  • ENDORSEMENT OF THE

  • FRATERNAL ORDER OF

  • POLICE.

  • JUST CAME IN.

  • WE HAVE ENDORSEMENTS

  • FROM, I THINK, ALMOST

  • EVERY POLICE GROUP,

  • VERY -- I MEAN, A

  • LARGE PERCENTAGE OF

  • THEM IN THE UNITED

  • STATES.

  • WE HAVE A SITUATION

  • WHERE WE HAVE OUR

  • INNER CITIES,

  • AFRICAN-AMERICANS,

  • HISPANICS, ARE LIVING

  • IN HELL BECAUSE IT'S

  • SO DANGEROUS.

  • YOU WALK DOWN THE

  • STREET, YOU GET SHOT.

  • IN CHICAGO, THEY'VE

  • HAD THOUSANDS OF

  • SHOOTINGS, THOUSANDS

  • SINCE JANUARY 1st.

  • THOUSANDS OF

  • SHOOTINGS.

  • I SAY, WHERE IS THIS?

  • IS THIS A WAR-TORN

  • COUNTRY?

  • WHAT ARE WE DOING?

  • AND WE HAVE TO STOP

  • THE VIOLENCE.

  • WE HAVE TO BRING BACK

  • LAW AND ORDER.

  • IN A PLACE LIKE

  • CHICAGO WHERE

  • THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

  • HAVE BEEN KILLED.

  • THOUSANDS OVER THE

  • LAST NUMBER OF YEARS.

  • IN FACT, ALMOST 4,000

  • HAVE BEEN KILLED SINCE

  • BARACK OBAMA BECAME

  • PRESIDENT.

  • OVER -- ALMOST 4,000

  • PEOPLE IN CHICAGO HAVE

  • BEEN KILLED.

  • WE HAVE TO BRING BACK

  • LAW AND ORDER.

  • NOW, WHETHER OR NOT IN

  • A PLACE LIKE CHICAGO

  • YOU DO STOP AND FRISK,

  • WHICH WORKED VERY

  • WELL, MAYOR GIULIANI

  • IS HERE, IT WORKED

  • VERY WELL IN NEW YORK.

  • IT BROUGHT THE CRIME

  • RATE WAY DOWN, BUT YOU

  • TAKE THE GUN AWAY FROM

  • CRIMINALS THAT

  • SHOULDN'T BE HAVING

  • IT.

  • WE HAVE GANGS ROAMING

  • THE STREET AND IN MANY

  • CASES THEY'RE

  • ILLEGALLY HERE.

  • ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

  • AND THEY HAVE GUNS.

  • AND THEY SHOOT PEOPLE.

  • AND WE HAVE TO BE VERY

  • STRONG AND WE HAVE TO

  • BE VERY VIGILANT.

  • WE HAVE TO BE -- WE

  • HAVE TO KNOW WHAT

  • WE'RE DOING.

  • RIGHT NOW, OUR POLICE

  • IN MANY CASES ARE

  • AFRAID TO DO ANYTHING.

  • WE HAVE TO PROTECT OUR

  • INNER CITIES BECAUSE

  • AFRICAN-AMERICAN

  • COMMUNITIES ARE BEING

  • DECIMATED BY CRIME.

  • >> YOUR TWO MINUTES

  • HAS EXPIRED.

  • I DO WANT TO

  • FOLLOW-UP.

  • STOP AND FRISK WAS

  • RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL

  • IN NEW YORK BECAUSE IT

  • LARGELY SINGLED OUT

  • BLACK AND HISPANIC

  • YOUNG MEN.

  • >> NO, YOU'RE WRONG.

  • IT WENT BEFORE A JUDGE

  • WHO WAS A VERY AGAINST

  • POLICE JUDGE.

  • IT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM

  • HER AND OUR MAYOR, OUR

  • NEW MAYOR, REFUSED TO

  • GO FORWARD WITH THE

  • CASE.

  • THEY WOULD HAVE WANTED

  • IT REPEALED.

  • IF YOU LOOK AT IT

  • THROUGHOUT THE

  • COUNTRY, THERE ARE

  • MANY PLACES --

  • >> THE ARGUMENT IS

  • IT'S A FORM OF RACIAL

  • PROFILING.

  • >> NO, THE ARGUMENT IS

  • WE HAVE TO TAKE THE

  • GUNS AWAY FROM THESE

  • PEOPLE THAT HAVE THEM

  • AND ARE BAD PEOPLE

  • THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE

  • THEM.

  • THESE ARE FELONS.

  • THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT

  • ARE BAD PEOPLE THAT

  • SHOULDN'T BE -- WHEN

  • YOU HAVE 3,000

  • SHOOTINGS IN CHICAGO

  • FROM JANUARY 1st, WHEN

  • YOU HAVE 4,000 PEOPLE

  • KILLED IN CHICAGO BY

  • GUNS FROM THE

  • BEGINNING OF THE

  • PRESIDENCY OF BARACK

  • OBAMA, HIS HOMETOWN,

  • YOU HAVE TO HAVE STOP

  • AND FRISK.

  • YOU NEED MORE POLICE.

  • YOU NEED A BETTER

  • COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW,

  • RELATION.

  • YOU DON'T HAVE GOOD

  • COMMUNITY RELATIONS IN

  • KMAUG.

  • CHICAGO.

  • IT'S TERRIBLE.

  • I HAVE PROPERTY THERE.

  • IT'S TERRIBLE WHAT'S

  • GOING ON IN CHICAGO.

  • YOU GO TO FERGUSON, GO

  • TO SO MANY DIFFERENT

  • PLACES.

  • YOU NEED BETTER

  • RELATIONSHIPS.

  • I AGREE WITH SECRETARY

  • CLINTON ON THIS.

  • YOU NEED BETTER

  • RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN

  • THE COMMUNITIES AND

  • THE POLICE BECAUSE IN

  • SOME CASES IT'S NOT

  • GOOD.

  • BUT YOU LOOK AT

  • DALLAS, WHERE THE

  • RELATIONSHIPS WERE

  • REALLY STUDIED.

  • THE RELATIONSHIPS WERE

  • REALLY A BEAUTIFUL

  • THING.

  • AND THEN FIVE POLICE

  • OFFICERS WERE KILLED.

  • ONE NIGHT, VERY

  • VIOLENTLY.

  • SO THERE'S SOME BAD

  • THINGS GOING ON.

  • SOME REALLY BAD

  • THINGS.

  • >> SECRETARY

  • CLINTON --

  • >> BUT WE NEED --

  • LESTER, WE NEED LAW

  • AND ORDER AND WE NEED

  • LAW AND ORDER IN THE

  • INNER CITIES BECAUSE

  • THE PEOPLE THAT ARE

  • MOST AFFECTED BY

  • WHAT'S HAPPENING ARE

  • AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND

  • HISPANIC PEOPLE.

  • AND IT'S VERY UNFAIR

  • TO THEM WHAT OUR

  • POLITICIANS ARE

  • ALLOWING TO HAPPEN.

  • >> SECRETARY CLINTON.

  • >> WELL, I'VE HEARD --

  • I'VE HEARD DONALD SAY

  • THIS AT HIS RALLIES

  • AND IT'S REALLY

  • UNFORTUNATE THAT HE

  • PAINTS SUCH A DIRE

  • NEGATIVE PICTURE OF

  • BLACK COMMUNITIES IN

  • OUR COUNTRY.

  • THE VIBRANCY OF THE

  • BLACK CHURCH, THE

  • BLACK BUSINESSES THAT

  • EMPLOY SO MANY PEOPLE.

  • THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT

  • SO MANY FAMILIES ARE

  • WORKING TO PROVIDE FOR

  • THEIR KIDS.

  • THERE'S A LOT THAT WE

  • SHOULD BE PROUD OF AND

  • WE SHOULD BE

  • SUPPORTING AND LIFTING

  • UP, BUT WE DO ALWAYS

  • HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE

  • KEEP PEOPLE SAFE.

  • THERE ARE THE RIGHT

  • WAYS OF DOING IT AND

  • THEN THERE ARE WAYS

  • THAT ARE INEFFECTIVE.

  • STOP AND FRISK WAS

  • FOUND TO BE

  • UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND

  • IN PART BECAUSE IT WAS

  • INEFFECTIVE.

  • IT DID NOT DO WHAT IT

  • NEEDED TO DO.

  • NOW, I BELIEVE IN

  • COMMUNITY POLICING

  • AND, IN FACT, VIOLENT

  • CRIME IS ONE-HALF OF

  • WHAT IT WAS IN 1991.

  • PROPERTY CRIME IS DOWN

  • 40%.

  • WE DON'T WANT TO SEE

  • IT CREEP BACK UP.

  • WE'VE HAD 25 YEARS OF

  • VERY GOOD COOPERATION,

  • BUT THERE WERE SOME

  • PROBLEM, SOME

  • UNINTENDED

  • CONSEQUENCES.

  • TOO MANY YOUNG

  • AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND

  • LATINO MEN ENDED UP IN

  • JAIL FOR NONVIOLENT

  • OFFENSES AND IT'S JUST

  • A FACT THAT IF YOU'RE

  • A YOUNG

  • AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN

  • AND YOU DO THE SAME

  • THING AS A YOUNG WHITE

  • MAN, YOU ARE MORE

  • LIKELY TO BE ARRESTED,

  • CHARGED, CONVICTED AND

  • INCARCERATED.

  • SO WE'VE GOT TO

  • ADDRESS THE SYSTEMIC

  • RACISM IN OUR CRIMINAL

  • JUSTICE SYSTEM.

  • WE CANNOT JUST SAY LAW

  • AND ORDER.

  • WE HAVE TO SAY WE --

  • WE HAVE TO COME

  • FORWARD WITH A PLAN

  • THAT IS GOING TO

  • DIVERT PEOPLE FROM THE

  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE

  • SYSTEM, DEAL WITH

  • MANDATORY MINIMUM

  • SENTENCES WHICH HAVE

  • PUT TOO MANY PEOPLE

  • AWAY FOR TOO LONG FOR

  • DOING TOO LITTLE.

  • WE NEED TO HAVE MORE

  • SECOND-CHANCE

  • PROGRAMS.

  • I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE

  • ENDING PRIVATE PRISONS

  • IN THE FEDERAL SYSTEM.

  • I WANT TO SEE THEM

  • ENDED IN THE STATE

  • SYSTEM.

  • YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE A

  • PROFIT MOTIVATION TO

  • FILL PRISON CELLS WITH

  • YOUNG AMERICANS.

  • SO THERE ARE SOME

  • POSITIVE WAYS WE CAN

  • WORK ON THIS, AND I

  • BELIEVE STRONGLY THAT

  • COMMON SENSE GUN

  • SAFETY MEASURES WOULD

  • ASSIST US.

  • RIGHT NOW, AND THIS IS

  • SOMETHING DONALD HAS

  • SUPPORTED ALONG WITH

  • THE GUN LOBBY, RIGHT

  • NOW WE'VE GOT TOO MANY

  • MILITARY-STYLE WEAPONS

  • ON THE STREETS AND A

  • LOT OF PLACES OUR

  • POLICE ARE OUT-GUNNED.

  • WE NEED COMPREHENSIVE

  • BACKGROUND CHECKS AND

  • WE NEED TO KEEP GUNS

  • OUT OF THE HANDS OF

  • THOSE WHO WILL DO HARM

  • AND WE FINALLY NEED TO

  • PASS A PROHIBITION ON

  • ANYONE WHO'S ON THE

  • TERRORIST WATCHLIST

  • FROM BEING ABLE TO BUY

  • A GUN IN OUR COUNTRY.

  • IF YOU'RE TOO

  • DANGEROUS TO FLY, YOU

  • ARE TOO DANGEROUS TO

  • BUY A GUN.

  • SO THERE ARE THINGS WE

  • CAN DO AND WE OUGHT TO

  • DO IT IN A BIPARTISAN

  • WAY.

  • >> SECRETARY CLINTON,

  • LAST WEEK YOU SAID

  • WE'VE GOT DO

  • EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO

  • IMPROVE POLICING TO GO

  • RIGHT AT IMPLICIT

  • BIAS.

  • DO YOU BELIEVE THAT

  • POLICE ARE IMPLICITLY

  • BIASED AGAINST BLACK

  • PEOPLE?

  • >> LESTER, I THINK

  • IMPLICIT BIAS IS A

  • PROBLEM FOR EVERYONE,

  • NOT JUST POLICE.

  • I THINK,

  • UNFORTUNATELY, TOO

  • MANY OF US IN OUR

  • GREAT COUNTRY JUMP TO

  • CONCLUSIONS ABOUT EACH

  • OTHER, AND, THEREFORE,

  • I THINK WE NEED ALL OF

  • US TO BE ASKING HARD

  • QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU

  • KNOW, WHY AM I FEELING

  • THIS WAY?

  • BUT WHEN IT COMES TO

  • POLICING, SINCE IT CAN

  • HAVE LITERALLY FATAL

  • CONSEQUENCES, I HAVE

  • SAID IN MY FIRST

  • BUDGET WE WOULD PUT

  • MONEY INTO THAT BUDGET

  • TO HELP US DEAL WITH

  • IMPLICIT BIAS BY

  • RETRAINING A LOT OF

  • OUR POLICE OFFICERS.

  • I'VE MET WITH A GROUP

  • OF VERY DISTINGUISHED,

  • EXPERIENCED POLICE

  • CHIEFS A FEW WEEKS

  • AGO.

  • THEY ADMIT IT'S AN

  • ISSUE.

  • THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF

  • CONCERNS.

  • MENTAL HEALTH IS ONE

  • OF THE BIGGEST

  • CONCERNS BECAUSE NOW

  • POLICE ARE HAVING TO

  • HANDLE A LOT OF REALLY

  • DIFFICULT MENTAL

  • HEALTH PROBLEMS ON THE

  • STREET.

  • THEY WANT SUPPORT.

  • THEY WANT MORE

  • TRAINING.

  • THEY WANT MORE

  • ASSISTANCE.

  • AND I THINK THE

  • FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

  • COULD BE IN A POSITION

  • WHERE WE WOULD OFFER

  • AND PROVIDE THAT.

  • >> I'D LIKE TO

  • RESPOND.

  • >> PLEASE.

  • >> FIRST OF ALL, I

  • AGREE AND A LOT OF

  • PEOPLE EVEN WITHIN MY

  • OWN PARTY WANT TO GIVE

  • CERTAIN RIGHTS TO

  • PEOPLE ON WATCH LISTS

  • AND NO-FLY LISTS.

  • I AGREE WITH YOU, WHEN

  • A PERSON IS ON A WATCH

  • LIST OR NO-FLY LIST,

  • AND I HAVE THE

  • ENDORSEMENT OF THE

  • NRA, WHICH I'M VERY

  • PROUD OF.

  • THESE ARE VERY, VERY

  • GOOD PEOPLE AND

  • THEY'RE PROTECTING THE

  • 2nd AMENDMENT, BUT I

  • THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK

  • VERY STRONGLY AT

  • NO-FLY LISTS AND WATCH

  • LISTS AND WHEN PEOPLE

  • ARE ON THERE, EVEN IF

  • THEY SHOULDN'T BE ON

  • THERE, WE'LL HELP THEM

  • LEGALLY, WE'LL HELP

  • THEM GET OFF, BUT I

  • TEND TO AGREE WITH

  • THAT.

  • QUITE STRONGLY.

  • I DO WANT TO BRING UP

  • THE FACT THAT YOU WERE

  • THE ONE THAT BROUGHT

  • UP THE WORD,

  • SUPERPREDATOR, ABOUT

  • YOUNG BLACK YOUTH.

  • THAT'S A TERM THAT I

  • THINK WAS A -- IT'S

  • BEEN HORRIBLY MET AS

  • YOU KNOW.

  • I THINK YOU'VE

  • APOLOGIZED FOR IT.

  • BUT I THINK IT WAS A

  • TERRIBLE THING TO SAY.

  • AND WHEN IT COMES TO

  • STOP AND FRISK, YOU'RE

  • TALKING ABOUT TAKING

  • GUN AWAY.

  • I'M TALKING ABOUT

  • TAKING GUNS AWAY FROM

  • GANGS AND PEOPLE THAT

  • USE THEM AND I REALLY

  • DON'T THINK YOU

  • DISAGREE WITH ME ON

  • THIS, IF YOU WANT TO

  • KNOW THE TRUTH.

  • I THINK MAYBE THERE'S

  • A POLITICAL REASON WHY

  • YOU CAN'T SAY IT, BUT

  • I REALLY DON'T

  • BELIEVE -- IN NEW YORK

  • CITY, STOP AND FRISK,

  • WE HAD 2,200 MURDERS

  • AND STOP AND FRISK

  • BROUGHT IT DOWN TO 500

  • MURDERS.

  • 500 MURDERS IS A LOT

  • OF MURDERS.

  • HARD TO BELIEVE.

  • 500 IS LIKE SUPPOSED

  • TO BE GOOD?

  • BUT WE WENT FROM 2,200

  • TO 500 AND IT WAS

  • CONTINUED ON BY MAYOR

  • BLOOMBERG AND IT WAS

  • TERMINATED BY CURRENT

  • MAYOR.

  • BUT STOP AND FRISK HAD

  • A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON

  • THE SAFETY OF NEW YORK

  • CITY, TREMENDOUS

  • BEYOND BELIEF.

  • SO WHEN YOU SAY IT HAS

  • NO IMPACT, IT REALLY

  • DID.

  • IT HAD A VERY, VERY

  • BIG IMPACT.

  • >> WELL, IT'S ALSO

  • FAIR TO SAY, IF WE'RE

  • GOING TO TALK ABOUT

  • MAYORS, THAT UNDER THE

  • CURRENT MAYOR, CRIME

  • HAS CONTINUED TO DROP

  • INCLUDING MURDERS.

  • SO THERE --

  • >> YOU'RE WRONG.

  • YOU'RE WRONG.

  • >> NO, I'M NOT.

  • >> MURDERS ARE UP.

  • ALL RIGHT.

  • YOU CHECK IT.

  • >> NEW YORK HAS --

  • >> YOU CHECK IT.

  • >> -- DONE AN

  • EXCELLENT JOB.

  • I GIVE CREDIT.

  • I GIVE CREDIT ACROSS

  • THE BOARD GOING BACK

  • TWO MAYORS, TWO POLICE

  • CHIEFS, BECAUSE IT

  • WORKED AND OTHER

  • COMMUNITIES NEED TO

  • COME TOGETHER TO DO

  • WHAT WILL WORK AS

  • WELL.

  • LOOK, ONE MURDER IS

  • TOO MANY, BUT IT --

  • >> TRUE.

  • >> -- IS IMPORTANT

  • THAT WE LEARN ABOUT

  • WHAT HAS BEEN

  • EFFECTIVE AND NOT GO

  • TO THINGS THAT SOUND

  • GOOD THAT REALLY DID

  • NOT HAVE THE KIND OF

  • IMPACT THAT WE WOULD

  • WANT.

  • WHO DISAGREES WITH

  • KEEPING NEIGHBORHOODS

  • SAFE?

  • BUT LET'S ALSO ADD NO

  • ONE SHOULD DISAGREE

  • ABOUT RESPECTING THE

  • RIGHTS OF YOUNG MEN

  • WHO LIVE IN THOSE

  • NEIGHBORHOODS.

  • AND SO WE NEED TO DO A

  • BETTER JOB OF WORKING,

  • AGAIN, WITH THE

  • COMMUNITIES, FAITH

  • COMMUNITIES, BUSINESS

  • COMMUNITIES, AS WELL

  • AS THE POLICE TO TRY

  • TO DEAL WITH THIS

  • PROBLEM.

  • >> THIS CONVERSATION

  • IS ABOUT RACE AND SO

  • MR. TRUMP, I HAVE TO

  • ASK YOU --

  • >> I'D LIKE TO JUST

  • RESPOND IF I MIGHT.

  • >> PLEASE, 20 SECONDS.

  • >> I'D LIKE TO

  • RESPOND.

  • >> PLEASE RESPOND THEN

  • I HAVE A FOLLOW-UP

  • QUESTION.

  • >> LOOK, THE

  • AFRICAN-AMERICAN

  • COMMUNITY HAS BEEN LET

  • DOWN BY OUR

  • POLITICIANS.

  • THEY TALK GOOD AROUND

  • ELECTION TIME LIKE

  • RIGHT NOW, AND AFTER

  • THE ELECTION, THEY

  • SAY, SEE YOU LATER,

  • I'LL SEE YOU IN FOUR

  • YEARS.

  • THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN

  • COMMUNITY -- LOOK, THE

  • COMMUNITY WITHIN THE

  • INNER CITIES HAS BEEN

  • SO BADLY TREATED.

  • THEY'VE BEEN ABUSED

  • AND USED IN ORDER TO

  • GET VOTES BY DEMOCRAT

  • POLITICIANS BECAUSE

  • THAT'S WHAT IT IS.

  • THEY CONTROL THESE

  • COMMUNITIES FOR UP TO

  • 100 YEARS.

  • >> MR. TRUMP --

  • >> UNBROKEN.

  • AND I WILL TELL YOU,

  • YOU LOOK AT THE INNER

  • CITIES AND I JUST LEFT

  • DETROIT AND I JUST

  • LEFT PHILADELPHIA AND

  • I JUST -- YOU KNOW,

  • YOU'VE SEEN ME.

  • I'VE BEEN ALL OVER THE

  • PLACE.

  • YOU DECIDED TO STAY

  • HOME AND THAT'S OKAY.

  • BUT I WILL TELL YOU,

  • I'VE BEEN ALL OVER AND

  • I'VE MET SOME OF THE

  • GREATEST PEOPLE I'LL

  • EVER MEET WITHIN THESE

  • COMMUNITIES.

  • AND THEY ARE VERY,

  • VERY UPSET WITH WHAT

  • THEIR POLITICIANS HAVE

  • TOLD THEM AND WHAT

  • THEIR POLITICIANS HAVE

  • DONE.

  • >> MR. TRUMP --

  • >> I THINK DONALD JUST

  • CRITICIZED ME FOR

  • PREPARING FOR THIS

  • DEBATE.

  • AND YES, I DID.

  • AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE

  • I PREPARED FOR?

  • I PREPARED TO BE

  • PRESIDENT AND I THINK

  • THAT'S A GOOD THING.

  • >> MR. TRUMP, FOR FIVE

  • YEARS, YOU PERPETUATED

  • A FALSE CLAIM OF THE

  • NATION'S FIRST BLACK

  • PRESIDENT WAS NOT A

  • NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

  • YOU QUESTIONED HIS

  • LEGITIMACY.

  • THE LAST COUPLE OF

  • WEEKS YOU ACKNOWLEDGE

  • WHAT MOST AMERICANS

  • HAVE ACCEPTED FOR

  • YEARS, THE PRESIDENT

  • WAS BORN IN THE UNITED

  • STATES.

  • CAN YOU TELL US WHAT

  • TOOK YOU SO LONG?

  • >> I'LL TELL YOU --

  • WELL, JUST VERY SIMPLE

  • TO SAY.

  • SYDNEY BLUMENTHAL

  • WORKS FOR THE CAMPAIGN

  • AND VERY CLOSE FRIEND

  • OF SECRETARY CLINTON.

  • AND HER CAMPAIGN

  • MANAGER, PATTI DOYLE,

  • WENT TO -- DURING THE

  • CAMPAIGN, HER CAMPAIGN

  • AGAINST PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA, FOUGHT VERY

  • HARD, AND YOU CAN GO

  • LOOK IT UP AND YOU CAN

  • CHECK IT OUT AND IF

  • YOU LOOK AT CNN THIS

  • PAST WEEK, PATTI DOYLE

  • WAS ON \"WOLF BLITZER\"

  • SAYING THAT THIS

  • HAPPENED.

  • BLUMENTHAL SENT

  • McCLATCHY, HIGHLY

  • RESPECTED REPORTER, TO

  • KENYA TO FIND OUT

  • ABOUT IT.

  • THEY WERE PRESSING IT

  • VERY HARD.

  • SHE FAILED TO GET THE

  • BIRTH CERTIFICATE.

  • WHEN I GOT INVOLVED, I

  • DIDN'T FAIL.

  • I GOT HIM TO GIVE THE

  • BIRTH CERTIFICATE.

  • SO I'M SATISFIED WITH

  • IT.

  • I'LL TELL YOU WHY I'M

  • SATISFIED WITH IT

  • BECAUSE I WANT TO GET

  • ON TO DEFEATING ISIS.

  • I WANT TO GET ON TO

  • CREATING JOBS.

  • I WANT TO GET ON TO

  • HAVING A STRONG

  • BORDER.

  • BECAUSE I WANT TO GET

  • ON TO THINGS THAT ARE

  • VERY IMPORTANT TO ME

  • AND THAT ARE VERY

  • IMPORTANT TO THE

  • COUNTRY.

  • >> I'LL LET YOU

  • RESPOND.

  • THAT'S THE POINT.

  • I WANT TO GET THE

  • ANSWER HERE.

  • THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE

  • WAS PRODUCED IN 2011.

  • YOU CONTINUED TO TELL

  • THE STORY AND QUESTION

  • THE PRESIDENT'S

  • LEGITIMACY IN 2012,

  • 2013, 2014, 2015, AS

  • RECENTLY AS JANUARY.

  • THE QUESTION IS WHAT

  • CHANGED YOUR MIND?

  • >> WELL, NOBODY WAS

  • PRESSING IT.

  • NOBODY WAS CARING MUCH

  • ABOUT IT.

  • I FIGURED YOU'D ASK

  • THE QUESTION TONIGHT,

  • OF COURSE.

  • BUT NOBODY WAS CARING

  • MUCH ABOUT IT.

  • BUT I WAS THE ONE THAT

  • GOT HIM TO PRODUCE THE

  • BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND

  • I THINK I DID A GOOD

  • JOB.

  • SECRETARY CLINTON ALSO

  • FOUGHT IT, YOU KNOW,

  • EVERYBODY IN THE

  • MAINSTREAM IS GOING TO

  • SAY THAT'S NOT TRUE.

  • SYDNEY BLUMENTHAL SENT

  • THE REPORTER -- TAKE A

  • LOOK AT CNN LAST WEEK,

  • THE INTERVIEW WITH

  • YOUR FORMER CAMPAIGN

  • MANAGER AND SHE WAS

  • INVOLVED.

  • BUT JUST LIKE SHE

  • CAN'T BRING BACK JOBS,

  • SHE CAN'T PRODUCE.

  • >> I'M SORRY, I'M

  • GOING TO -- I WILL LET

  • YOU RESPOND TO THAT.

  • THERE'S A LOT THERE.

  • WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

  • RACIAL HEALING IN THIS

  • SEGMENT.

  • WHAT DO YOU SAY TO

  • AMERICANS --

  • >> WELL, I WAS VERY --

  • I SAY NOTHING.

  • I SAY NOTHING BECAUSE

  • I WAS ABLE TO GET HIM

  • TO PRODUCE IT.

  • HE SHOULD HAVE

  • PRODUCED IT A LONG

  • TIME BEFORE.

  • I SAY NOTHING.

  • BUT LET ME JUST TELL

  • YOU, WHEN YOU TALK

  • ABOUT HEALING, I THINK

  • THAT I DEVELOPED VERY,

  • VERY GOOD

  • RELATIONSHIPS OVER THE

  • LAST LITTLE WHILE WITH

  • THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN

  • COMMUNITY.

  • I THINK YOU CAN SEE

  • THAT.

  • AND I FEEL THAT THEY

  • REALLY WANTED ME TO

  • COME TO THAT

  • CONCLUSION AND I THINK

  • I DID A GREAT JOB AND

  • A GREAT SERVICE NOT

  • ONLY FOR THE COUNTRY,

  • BUT EVEN FOR THE

  • PRESIDENT IN GETTING

  • HIM TO PRODUCE HIS

  • BIRTH CERTIFICATE.

  • >> SECRETARY CLINTON.

  • >> WELL, JUST LISTEN

  • TO WHAT YOU HEARD.

  • AND CLEARLY AS DONALD

  • JUST ADMITTED, HE KNEW

  • HE WAS GOING TO STAND

  • ON THIS DEBATE STAGE

  • AND LESTER HOLT WAS

  • GOING TO BE ASKING US

  • QUESTIONS, SO HE TRIED

  • TO PUT THE WHOLE

  • RACIST BIRTHER LIE TO

  • BED.

  • IT CAN'T BE DISMISSED

  • THAT EASILY.

  • HE HAS REALLY STARTED

  • HIS POLITICAL ACTIVITY

  • BASED ON THIS RACIST

  • LIE THAT OUR FIRST

  • BLACK PRESIDENT WAS

  • NOT AN AMERICAN

  • CITIZEN.

  • THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY

  • NO EVIDENCE FOR IT,

  • BUT HE PERSISTED.

  • HE PERSISTED YEAR

  • AFTER YEAR BECAUSE

  • SOME OF HIS

  • SUPPORTERS, PEOPLE

  • THAT HE WAS TRYING TO

  • BRING INTO HIS FOLD,

  • APPARENTLY BELIEVED IT

  • OR WANTED TO BELIEVE

  • IT.

  • BUT REMEMBER, DONALD

  • STARTED HIS CAREER

  • BACK IN 1973 BEING

  • SUED BY THE JUSTICE

  • DEPARTMENT FOR RACIAL

  • DISCRIMINATION BECAUSE

  • HE WOULD NOT RENT

  • APARTMENTS IN ONE OF

  • HIS DEVELOPMENTS TO

  • AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND

  • HE MADE SURE THAT THE

  • PEOPLE WHO WORKED FOR

  • HIM UNDERSTOOD THAT

  • WAS THE POLICY.

  • HE ACTUALLY WAS SUED

  • TWICE BY THE JUSTICE

  • DEPARTMENT.

  • SO HE HAS A LONG

  • RECORD OF ENGAGING IN

  • RACIST BEHAVIOR.

  • AND THE BIRTHER LIE

  • WAS A VERY HURTFUL

  • ONE.

  • YOU KNOW, BARACK OBAMA

  • IS A MAN OF GREAT

  • DIGNITY AND I COULD

  • TELL HOW MUCH IT

  • BOTHERED HIM AND

  • ANNOYED HIM THAT THIS

  • WAS BEING TOUTED AND

  • USED AGAINST HIM, BUT

  • I LIKE TO REMEMBER

  • WHAT MICHELLE OBAMA

  • SAID IN HER AMAZING

  • SPEECH AT OUR

  • DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL

  • CONVENTION.

  • \"WHEN THEY GO LOW, WE

  • GO HIGH.\"

  • AND BARACK OBAMA WENT

  • HIGH DESPITE DONALD

  • TRUMP'S BEST EFFORTS

  • TO BRING HIM DOWN.

  • >> MR. TRUMP, YOU CAN

  • RESPOND THEN WE'RE

  • GOING TO MOVE TO THE

  • NEXT SEGMENT.

  • >> I WOULD LOVE TO

  • RESPOND.

  • FIRST OF ALL I GOT TO

  • WATCH IN PREPARING FOR

  • THIS SOME OF YOUR

  • DEBATE AGAINST BARACK

  • OBAMA.

  • YOU TREATED HIM WITH

  • TERRIBLE DISRESPECT

  • AND I WATCHED THE WAY

  • YOU TALK NOW ABOUT HOW

  • LOVELY EVERYTHING IS

  • AND HOW WONDERFUL YOU

  • ARE.

  • DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.

  • YOU WERE AFTER HIM.

  • YOU WERE TRYING TO --

  • YOU EVEN SENT OUT,

  • YOUR CAMPAIGN SENT OUT

  • PICTURES OF HIM IN A

  • CERTAIN GARB.

  • VERY FAMOUS PICTURES.

  • I DON'T THINK YOU CAN

  • DENY THAT.

  • BUT JUST LAST WEEK

  • YOUR CAMPAIGN MANAGER

  • SAID IT WAS TRUE.

  • SO WHEN YOU TRY TO ACT

  • HOLIER THAN THOU, IT

  • REALLY DOESN'T WORK.

  • IT REALLY DOESN'T.

  • NOW, AS FAR AS THE

  • LAWSUIT, YES, WHEN I

  • WAS VERY YOUNG, I WENT

  • INTO MY FATHER'S

  • COMPANY, REAL ESTATE

  • COMPANY IN BROOKLYN

  • AND QUEENS AND WE

  • ALONG WITH MANY, MANY

  • OTHER COMPANIES

  • THROUGHOUT THE

  • COUNTRY, A FEDERAL

  • LAWSUIT, WERE SUED.

  • WE SETTLED THE SUIT

  • WITH ZERO, WITH NO

  • ADMISSION OF GUILT.

  • IT WAS VERY EASY TO

  • DO, BUT THEY SUED MANY

  • PEOPLE.

  • I NOTICE YOU BRING

  • THAT UP A LOT, AND,

  • YOU KNOW, I ALSO

  • NOTICE THE VERY NASTY

  • COMMERCIALS THAT YOU

  • DO ON ME AND SO MANY

  • DIFFERENT WAYS WHICH I

  • DON'T DO ON YOU.

  • MAYBE I'M TRYING TO

  • SAVE THE MONEY.

  • BUT FRANKLY, I LOOK --

  • I LOOK AT THAT AND I

  • SAY, ISN'T THAT

  • AMAZING, BECAUSE I

  • SETTLED THAT LAWSUIT

  • WITH NO ADMISSION OF

  • GUILT.

  • BUT THAT WAS A LAWSUIT

  • BROUGHT AGAINST MANY

  • REAL ESTATE FIRMS AND

  • IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE

  • THINGS.

  • I'LL GO ONE STEP

  • FURTHER.

  • IN PALM BEACH,

  • FLORIDA, TOUGH

  • COMMUNITY, A BRILLIANT

  • COMMUNITY, A WEALTHY

  • COMMUNITY, PROBABLY

  • THE WEALTHIEST

  • COMMUNITY THERE IS IN

  • THE WORLD, I OPENED A

  • CLUB AND REALLY GOT

  • GREAT CREDIT FOR IT.

  • NO DISCRIMINATION

  • AGAINST

  • AFRICAN-AMERICANS,

  • AGAINST MUSLIMS,

  • AGAINST ANYBODY.

  • AND IT'S A

  • TREMENDOUSLY

  • SUCCESSFUL CLUB AND

  • I'M SO GLAD I DID IT

  • AND I HAVE BEEN GIVEN

  • GREAT CREDIT FOR WHAT

  • I DID AND I'M VERY,

  • VERY PROUD OF IT.

  • AND THAT'S THE WAY I

  • FEEL.

  • THAT IS THE TRUE WAY I

  • FEEL.

  • >> OUR NEXT SEGMENT IS

  • CALLED SECURING

  • AMERICA.

  • WE WANT TO START WITH

  • A 21st CENTURY WAR

  • HAPPENING EVERY DAY IN

  • THIS COUNTRY.

  • OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE

  • UNDER CYBER ATTACK.

  • AND OUR SECRETS ARE

  • BEING STOLEN.

  • SO MY QUESTION IS,

  • WHO'S BEHIND IT AND

  • HOW DO WE FIGHT IT?

  • SECRETARY CLINTON,

  • THIS ANSWER GOES TO

  • YOU.

  • >> WELL, I THINK CYBER

  • SECURITY, CYBER

  • WARFARE, WILL BE ONE

  • OF THE BIGGEST

  • CHALLENGES FACING THE

  • NEXT PRESIDENT BECAUSE

  • CLEARLY WE'RE FACING

  • AT THIS POINT TWO

  • DIFFERENT KINDS OF

  • ADVERSARIES.

  • THERE ARE THE

  • INDEPENDENT HACKING

  • GROUPS THAT DO IT

  • MOSTLY FOR COMMERCIAL

  • REASONS TO TRY TO

  • STEAL INFORMATION THAT

  • THEY THEN CAN USE TO

  • MAKE MONEY.

  • BUT INCREASINGLY, WE

  • ARE SEEING CYBER

  • ATTACKS COMING FROM

  • STATES.

  • ORGANS OF STATES.

  • THE MOST RECENT AND

  • TROUBLING OF THESE HAS

  • BEEN RUSSIA.

  • THERE'S NO DOUBT NOW

  • THAT RUSSIA HAS USED

  • CYBER ATTACKS AGAINST

  • ALL KINDS OF

  • ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR

  • COUNTRY AND I AM

  • DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT

  • THIS.

  • I KNOW DONALD'S VERY

  • PRAISE WORTHY OF

  • VLADIMIR PUTIN, BUT

  • PUTIN IS PLAYING --

  • >> WONG.

  • >>

  • PLAYING A REALLY TOUGH

  • LONG GAME HERE.

  • ONE OF THE THINGS HE'S

  • DONE IS TO LET LOOSE

  • CYBER ATTACKERS TO

  • HACK IN TO GOVERNMENT

  • FILES, TO HACK INTO

  • PERSONAL FILES.

  • HACK INTO THE

  • DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL

  • COMMITTEE.

  • AND WE'VE RECENTLY

  • HAVE LEARNED THAT THIS

  • IS ONE OF THEIR

  • PREFERRED METHODS OF

  • TRYING TO WREAK HAVOC

  • AND COLLECT

  • INFORMATION.

  • WE NEED TO MAKE IT

  • VERY CLEAR WHETHER

  • IT'S RUSSIA, CHINA,

  • IRAN OR ANYBODY ELSE,

  • THE UNITED STATES HAS

  • MUCH GREATER CAPACITY

  • AND WE ARE NOT GOING

  • TO SIT IDLY BY AND

  • PERMIT STATE ACTORS TO

  • GO AFTER OUR

  • INFORMATION.

  • OUR PRIVATE SECTOR

  • INFORMATION, OR OUR

  • PUBLIC SECTOR

  • INFORMATION.

  • AND WE'RE GOING TO

  • HAVE TO MAKE IT CLEAR

  • THAT WE DON'T WANT TO

  • USE THE KINDS OF TOOLS

  • THAT WE HAVE.

  • WE DON'T WANT TO

  • ENGAGE IN A DIFFERENT

  • KIND OF WARFARE.

  • BUT WE WILL DEFEND THE

  • CITIZENS OF THIS

  • COUNTRY AND THE

  • RUSSIANS NEED TO

  • UNDERSTAND THAT.

  • I THINK THEY'VE BEEN

  • TREATING IT AS ALMOST

  • A PROBING.

  • HOW FAR WILL WE GO,

  • HOW MUCH WILL WE DO?

  • THAT'S WHY I WAS SO

  • SHOCKED WHEN DONALD

  • PUBLICLY INVITED PUTIN

  • TO HACK INTO

  • AMERICANS.

  • THAT IS JUST

  • UNACCEPTABLE.

  • IT'S ONE OF THE

  • REASONS WHY 50

  • NATIONAL SECURITY

  • OFFICIALS WHO SERVED

  • IN REPUBLICAN

  • INFORMATION -- IN

  • ADMINISTRATION --

  • >> YOUR TWO MINUTES

  • HAVE EXPIRED.

  • >> -- HAVE SAID DONALD

  • IS UNFIT TO BE THE

  • COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

  • IT'S COMMENTS LIKE

  • THAT THAT REALLY WORRY

  • PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND

  • THE THREATS THAT WE

  • FACE.

  • >> MR. TRUMP, YOU HAVE

  • TWO MINUTES ON THE

  • SAME QUESTION.

  • WHO'S BEHIND IT AND

  • HOW DO WE FIGHT IT.

  • >> YEAH, I DO WANT TO

  • SAY I WAS JUST

  • ENDORSED, MORE ARE

  • COMING NEXT WEEK.

  • IT WILL BE OVER 200

  • ADMIRALS, MANY OF THEM

  • ARE HERE, ADMIRALS AND

  • GENERALS ENDORSED ME

  • TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY.

  • THAT JUST HAPPENED AND

  • MANY MORE ARE COMING.

  • AND I'M VERY PROUD OF

  • IT.

  • IN ADDITION, I WAS

  • JUST ENDORSED BY

  • I.C.E.

  • THEY NEVER ENDORSED

  • ANYBODY BEFORE ON

  • IMMIGRATION.

  • I WAS JUST ENDORSED BY

  • I.C.E.

  • I WAS JUST RECENTLY

  • ENDORSED, 16,500

  • BORDER PATROL AGENTS.

  • SO WHEN SECRETARY

  • CLINTON TALKS ABOUT

  • THIS, I MEAN, I'LL

  • TAKE THE ADMIRALS AND

  • I'LL TAKE THE GENERALS

  • ANY DAY OVER THE

  • POLITICAL HACKS THAT I

  • SEE THAT HAVE LED OUR

  • COUNTRY SO BRILLIANTLY

  • OVER THE LAST TEN

  • YEARS WITH THEIR

  • KNOWLEDGE.

  • OKAY?

  • BECAUSE LOOK AT THE

  • MESS THAT WE'RE IN.

  • LOOK AT THE MESS THAT

  • WE'RE IN.

  • AS FAR AS THE CYBER, I

  • AGREE TO PARTS OF WHAT

  • SECRETARY CLINTON

  • SAID.

  • WE SHOULD BE BETTER

  • THAN ANYBODY ELSE AND

  • PERHAPS WE'RE NOT.

  • I DON'T THINK ANYBODY

  • KNOWS IT WAS RUSSIA

  • THAT BROKE INTO THE

  • DNC.

  • SHE'S SAYING RUSSIA,

  • RUSSIA, RUSSIA, BUT I

  • DON'T -- MAYBE IT WAS.

  • IT COULD BE RUSSIA.

  • COULD ALSO BE CHINA.

  • COULD ALSO BE LOTS OF

  • OTHER PEOPLE.

  • ALSO COULD BE SOMEBODY

  • SITTING ON THEIR BED

  • THAT WEIGHS 400

  • POUNDS.

  • OKAY?

  • YOU DON'T KNOW WHO

  • BROKE INTO DNC, BUT

  • WHAT DID WE LEARN WITH

  • DNC?

  • WE LEARNED THAT BERNIE

  • SANDERS WAS TAKEN

  • ADVANTAGE OF BY YOUR

  • PEOPLE.

  • BY DEBBIE

  • WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ.

  • LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO

  • HER.

  • BUT BERNIE SANDERS WAS

  • TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF.

  • NOW, WHETHER THAT WAS

  • RUSSIA, WHETHER THAT

  • WAS CHINA, WHETHER IT

  • WAS ANOTHER COUNTRY,

  • WE DON'T KNOW BECAUSE

  • THE TRUTH IS, UNDER

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA, WE

  • LOST CONTROL OF THINGS

  • THAT WE USED TO HAVE

  • CONTROL OF.

  • WE CAME IN WITH AN

  • INTERNET, WE CAME UP

  • WITH THE INTERNET.

  • AND I THINK SECRETARY

  • CLINTON AND MYSELF

  • WOULD AGREE VERY MUCH

  • WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT

  • ISIS IS DOING WITH THE

  • INTERNET, THEY'RE

  • BEATING US AT OUR OWN

  • GAME.

  • ISIS.

  • SO WE HAVE TO GET

  • VERY, VERY TOUGH ON

  • CYBER AND CYBER

  • WARFARE.

  • IT IS A HUGE PROBLEM.

  • I HAVE A SON, HE'S 10

  • YEARS OLD.

  • HE HAS COMPUTERS.

  • HE IS SO GOOD WITH

  • THESE COMPUTERS.

  • IT'S UNBELIEVABLE.

  • THE SECURITY ASPECT OF

  • CYBER IS VERY, VERY

  • TOUGH AND MAYBE IT'S

  • HARDLY DOABLE, BUT I

  • WILL SAY WE ARE NOT

  • DOING THE JOB WE

  • SHOULD BE DOING.

  • THAT'S TRUE THROUGHOUT

  • OUR WHOLE GOVERNMENTAL

  • SOCIETY.

  • WE HAVE SO MANY THINGS

  • WE HAVE TO DO BETTER,

  • LESTER, AND CERTAINLY

  • CYBER IS ONE OF THEM.

  • >> SECRETARY CLINTON?

  • >> WELL, I THINK THERE

  • ARE A NUMBER OF ISSUES

  • THAT WE SHOULD BE

  • ADDRESSING.

  • I HAVE PUT FORTH A

  • PLAN TO DEFEAT ISIS.

  • IT DOES INVOLVE GOING

  • AFTER THEM ONLINE.

  • I THINK WE NEED TO DO

  • MUCH MORE WITH OUR

  • TECH COMPANIES TO

  • PREVENT ISIS AND THEIR

  • OPERATIVES FROM BEING

  • ABLE TO USE THE

  • INTERNET TO

  • RADICALIZE, EVEN

  • DIRECT PEOPLE IN OUR

  • COUNTRY AND EUROPE AND

  • ELSEWHERE, BUT WE ALSO

  • HAVE TO INTENSIFY OUR

  • AIR STRIKES AGAINST

  • ISIS AND EVENTUALLY

  • SUPPORT OUR ARAB AND

  • KURDISH PARTNERS TO BE

  • ABLE TO ACTUALLY TAKE

  • OUT ISIS IN RAQQAH, IN

  • THEIR CLAIM OF BEING A

  • CALIPHATE.

  • WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS.

  • OUR MILITARY IS

  • ASSISTING IN IRAQ AND

  • WE'RE HOPING THAT

  • WITHIN THE YEAR, WE'LL

  • BE ABLE TO PUSH ISIS

  • OUT OF IRAQ AND THEN,

  • YOU KNOW, REALLY

  • SQUEEZE THEM IN SYRIA.

  • BUT WE HAVE TO BE

  • COGNIZANT OF THE FACT

  • THAT THEY'VE HAD

  • FOREIGN FIGHTERS

  • COMING TO VOLUNTEER

  • FOR THEM, FOREIGN

  • MONEY, FOREIGN

  • WEAPONS.

  • SO WE HAVE TO MAKE

  • THIS THE TOP PRIORITY

  • AND I WOULD ALSO DO

  • EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO

  • TAKE OUT THEIR

  • LEADERSHIP.

  • I WAS INVOLVED IN A

  • NUMBER OF EFFORTS TO

  • TAKE OUT AL QAEDA

  • LEADERSHIP WHEN I WAS

  • SECRETARY OF STATE

  • INCLUDING, OF COURSE,

  • TAKING OUT BIN LADEN.

  • I THINK WE NEED TO GO

  • AFTER BAGHDADI AS

  • WELL.

  • MAKE THAT ONE OF OUR

  • ORGANIING PRINCIPLES

  • BECAUSE WE'VE GOT TO

  • DEFEAT ISIS AND GOT TO

  • DO EVERYTHING WE CAN

  • TO DISRUPT THEIR

  • PROPAGANDA EFFORTS

  • ONLINE.

  • >> YOU MENTIONED ISIS

  • AND WE THINK OF ISIS

  • CERTAINLY AS OVER

  • THERE, BUT THERE ARE

  • AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO

  • HAVE BEEN INSPIRED TO

  • COMMIT ACTS OF TERROR

  • ON AMERICAN SOIL.

  • THE LATEST INCIDENT,

  • OF COURSE, THE

  • BOMBINGS WE JUST SAW

  • IN NEW YORK AND NEW

  • JERSEY.

  • THE KNIFE ATTACK AT A

  • MALL IN MINNESOTA.

  • AND THE LAST YEAR,

  • DEADLY ATTACKS IN SAN

  • BERNARDINO AND

  • ORLANDO.

  • I'LL ASK THIS TO BOTH

  • OF YOU.

  • TELL US SPECIFICALLY

  • HOW YOU WOULD PREVENT

  • HOMEGROWN ATTACKS BY

  • AMERICAN CITIZENS?

  • MR. TRUMP?

  • >> FIRST, I HAVE TO

  • SAY ONE THING.

  • VERY IMPORTANT.

  • SECRETARY CLINTON IS

  • TALKING ABOUT TAKING

  • OUT ISIS.

  • WE WILL TAKE OUT ISIS.

  • WELL, PRESIDENT OBAMA

  • AND SECRETARY CLINTON

  • CREATED A VACUUM THE

  • WAY THEY GOT OUT OF

  • IRAQ BECAUSE THEY GOT

  • OUT WRONG.

  • THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE

  • BEEN IN.

  • ONCE THEY GOT IN, THE

  • WAY THEY GOT OUT WAS A

  • DISASTER AND ISIS WAS

  • FORMED.

  • SHE TALKS ABOUT TAKING

  • THEM OUT.

  • SHE'S BEEN DOING IT A

  • LONG TIME.

  • SHE'S BEEN TRYING TO

  • TAKE THEM OUT FOR A

  • LONG TIME.

  • THEY WOULDN'T HAVE

  • EVEN BEEN FORMED IF

  • THEY LEFT SOME TROOPS

  • BEHIND LIKE 10,000 OR

  • MAYBE SOMETHING MORE

  • THAN THAT.

  • AND THEN YOU WOULDN'T

  • HAVE HAD THEM.

  • OR AS I'VE BEEN SAYING

  • FOR A LONG TIME, AND I

  • THINK YOU'LL AGREE

  • BECAUSE I SAID IT TO

  • YOU ONCE, HAD WE TAKEN

  • THE OIL, AND WE SHOULD

  • HAVE TAKEN THE OIL,

  • ISIS WOULD NOT HAVE

  • BEEN ABLE TO FORM

  • EITHER BECAUSE THE OIL

  • WAS THEIR PRIMARY

  • SOURCE OF INCOME AND

  • NOW THEY HAVE THE OIL

  • ALL OVER THE PLACE

  • INCLUDING THE OIL, A

  • LOT OF THE OIL IN

  • LIBYA WHICH WAS

  • ANOTHER ONE OF HER

  • DISASTERS.

  • >> SECRETARY CLINTON.

  • >> WELL, I HOPE THE

  • FACT CHECKERS ARE

  • TURNING UP THE VOLUME

  • AND REALLY WORKING

  • HARD.

  • DONALD SUPPORTED THE

  • INVASION OF IRAQ.

  • >> WRONG.

  • >> THAT IS

  • ABSOLUTELY --

  • >> WRONG.

  • >> -- PROVED OVER AND

  • OVER AGAIN.

  • >> WRONG.

  • >> HE ACTUALLY

  • ADVOCATED FOR THE

  • ACTIONS WE TOOK IN

  • LIBYA.

  • AND URGED THAT GADHAFI

  • BE TAKEN OUT AFTER

  • ACTUALLY DOING SOME

  • BUSINESS WITH HIM ONE

  • TIME.

  • BUT THE LARGER POINT,

  • HE SAYS THIS

  • CONSTANTLY, IS GEORGE

  • W. BUSH MADE THE

  • AGREEMENT ABOUT WHEN

  • AMERICAN TROOPS WOULD

  • LEAVE IRAQ.

  • NOT BARACK OBAMA.

  • AND THE ONLY WAY THAT

  • AMERICAN TROOPS COULD

  • HAVE STAYED IN IRAQ IS

  • TO GET AN AGREEMENT

  • FROM THE THEN-IRAQI

  • GOVERNMENT THAT WOULD

  • HAVE PROTECTED OUR

  • TROOPS AND THE IRAQI

  • GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT

  • GIVE THAT.

  • BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT

  • THE QUESTION YOU

  • ASKED, LESTER.

  • THE QUESTION YOU ASKED

  • IS WHAT DO WE DO HERE

  • IN THE UNITED STATES?

  • THAT'S THE MOST

  • IMPORTANT PART OF

  • THIS.

  • HOW DO WE PREVENT

  • ATTACKS?

  • HOW DO WE PROTECT OUR

  • PEOPLE?

  • AND I THINK WE'VE GOT

  • TO HAVE AN

  • INTELLIGENCE SURGE

  • WHERE WE ARE LOOKING

  • FOR EVERY SCRAP OF

  • INFORMATION.

  • I WAS SO PROUD OF LAW

  • ENFORCEMENT IN NEW

  • YORK, IN MINNESOTA, IN

  • NEW JERSEY.

  • YOU KNOW, THEY

  • RESPONDED SO QUICKLY,

  • SO PROFESSIONALLY, TO

  • THE ATTACKS THAT

  • OCCURRED BY RAHAMI AND

  • THEY BROUGHT HIM DOWN

  • AND WE MAY FIND OUT

  • MORE INFORMATION

  • BECAUSE HE IS STILL

  • ALIVE, WHICH MAY PROVE

  • TO BE AN INTELLIGENCE

  • BENEFIT.

  • SO WE'VE GOT TO DO

  • EVERYTHING WE CAN TO

  • VACUUM UP INTELLIGENCE

  • FROM EUROPE, FROM THE

  • MIDDLE EAST.

  • THAT MEANS WE'VE GOT

  • TO WORK MORE CLOSELY

  • WITH OUR ALLIES.

  • AND THAT'S SOMETHING

  • THAT DONALD HAS BEEN

  • VERY DISMISSIVE OF.

  • WE'RE WORKING WITH

  • NATO, THE LONGEST

  • MILITARY ALLIANCE IN

  • THE HISTORY OF THE

  • WORLD, TO REALLY TURN

  • OUR ATTENTION TO

  • TERRORISM.

  • WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR

  • FRIENDS IN THE MIDDLE

  • EAST.

  • MANY OF WHICH, AS YOU

  • KNOW, ARE MUSLIM

  • MAJORITY NATIONS.

  • DONALD HAS

  • CONSISTENTLY INSULTED

  • MUSLIMS ABROAD.

  • MUSLIMS AT HOME.

  • WHEN WE NEED TO BE

  • COOPERATING WITH

  • MUSLIM NATIONS AND

  • WITH THE AMERICAN

  • MUSLIM COMMUNITY.

  • THEY'RE ON THE FRONT

  • LINES.

  • THEY CAN PROVIDE

  • INFORMATION TO US THAT

  • WE MIGHT NOT GET

  • ANYWHERE ELSE.

  • THEY NEED TO HAVE

  • CLOSE WORKING

  • COOPERATION WITH LAW

  • ENFORCEMENT IN THESE

  • COMMUNITIES.

  • NOT BE ALIENATED AND

  • PUSHED AWAY AS SOME OF

  • DONALD'S RHETORIC,

  • UNFORTUNATELY, HAS LED

  • TO.

  • >> MR. --

  • >> WELL, I HAVE TO

  • RESPOND.

  • >> PLEASE RESPOND.

  • >> THE SECRETARY SAID,

  • VERY STRONGLY, ABOUT

  • WORKING WITH -- WE'VE

  • BEEN WORKING WITH THEM

  • FOR MANY YEARS AND WE

  • HAVE THE GREATEST MESS

  • ANYONE'S EVER SEEN.

  • YOU LOOK AT THE MIDDLE

  • EAST.

  • IT'S A TOTAL MESS.

  • UNDER YOUR DIRECTION

  • TO A LARGE EXTENT, BUT

  • YOU LOOK AT THE MIDDLE

  • EAST.

  • YOU STARTED THE IRAN

  • DEAL.

  • THAT'S ANOTHER BEAUTY

  • WHERE YOU HAVE A

  • COUNTRY THAT WAS READY

  • TO FALL, I MEAN, IT

  • WAS DOING SO BADLY,

  • THEY WERE CHOKING ON

  • THE SANCTIONS AND NOW

  • THEY'RE GOING TO BE

  • ACTUALLY PROBABLY A

  • MAJOR POWER AT SOME

  • POINT PRETTY SOON THE

  • WAY THEY'RE GOING.

  • BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT

  • NATO, I WAS ASKED ON A

  • MAJOR SHOW, WHAT DO

  • YOU THINK OF NATO?

  • YOU HAVE TO

  • UNDERSTAND, I'M A

  • BUSINESSPERSON.

  • I DID REALLY WELL, BUT

  • I HAVE COMMON SENSE.

  • AND I SAID, WELL, I'LL

  • TELL YOU, I HAVEN'T

  • GIVEN LOTS OF THOUGHT

  • TO NATO, BUT TWO

  • THINGS.

  • NUMBER ONE, THE 28

  • COUNTRIES OF NATO,

  • MANY OF THEM AREN'T

  • PAYING THEIR FAIR

  • SHARE.

  • NUMBER TWO, AND THAT

  • BOTHERS ME BECAUSE WE

  • SHOULD BE -- WE'RE

  • DEFENDING THEM.

  • THEY SHOULD AT LEAST

  • BE PAYING US WHAT

  • THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE

  • PAYING BY TREATY AND

  • CONTRACT.

  • AND NUMBER TWO, I

  • SAID, AND VERY

  • STRONGLY, NATO COULD

  • BE OBSOLETE BECAUSE --

  • AND I WAS VERY STRONG

  • ON THIS.

  • IT WAS ACTUALLY

  • COVERED VERY

  • ACCURATELY IN \"THE NEW

  • YORK TIMES\" WHICH IS

  • UNUSUAL FOR \"THE NEW

  • YORK TIMES\" TO BE

  • HONEST.

  • BUT I SAID, THEY DO

  • NOT FOCUS ON TERROR.

  • AND I WAS VERY STRONG.

  • AND I SAID IT NUMEROUS

  • TIMES AND ABOUT FOUR

  • MONTHS AGO, I READ ON

  • THE FRONT PAGE OF THE

  • \"WALL STREET JOURNAL\"

  • THAT NATO IS OPENING

  • UP A MAJOR TERROR

  • DIVISION AND I THINK

  • THAT'S GREAT.

  • AND I THINK WE SHOULD

  • GET, BECAUSE WE PAY

  • APPROXIMATELY 73% OF

  • THE COST OF NATO, IT'S

  • A LOT OF MONEY TO

  • PROTECT OTHER PEOPLE.

  • BUT I'M ALL FOR NATO,

  • BUT I SAID THEY HAVE

  • TO FOCUS ON TERROR

  • ALSO.

  • AND THEY'RE GOING TO

  • DO THAT.

  • AND THAT WAS, BELIEVE

  • ME, I'M NOT GOING TO

  • GET CREDIT FOR IT BUT

  • THAT WAS LARGELY

  • BECAUSE OF WHAT I WAS

  • SAYING AND MY

  • CRITICISM OF NATO.

  • I THINK WE HAVE TO GET

  • NATO TO GO INTO THE

  • MIDDLE EAST WITH US IN

  • ADDITION TO

  • SURROUNDING NATIONS

  • AND WE HAVE TO KNOCK

  • THE HELL OUT OF ISIS

  • AND WE HAVE TO DO IT

  • FAST.

  • WHEN ISIS FORMED IN

  • THIS VACUUM CREATED BY

  • BARACK OBAMA AND

  • SECRETARY CLINTON, AND

  • BELIEVE ME, YOU WERE

  • THE ONES THAT TOOK OUT

  • THE TROOPS.

  • NOT ONLY THAT, YOU

  • NAMED THE DAY.

  • THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE

  • IT.

  • THEY SAT BACK PROBABLY

  • AND SAID --

  • >> LESTER, WE COVERED

  • THIS --

  • >> WAIT A MINUTE.

  • THEY SAID WAIT A

  • MINUTE, WHEN THEY

  • FORMED, THIS IS

  • SOMETHING THAT NEVER

  • SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED.

  • IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE

  • HAPPENED.

  • NOW YOU'RE TALKING

  • ABOUT TAKING OUT ISIS.

  • BUT YOU WERE THERE AND

  • YOU WERE SECRETARY OF

  • STATE WHEN IT WAS A

  • LITTLE INFANT.

  • NOW IT'S IN OVER 30

  • COUNTRIES AND YOU'RE

  • GOING TO STOP THEM?

  • I DON'T THINK SO.

  • >> MR. TRUMP, WITH A

  • LOT OF THESE ARE

  • JUDGMENT QUESTIONS.

  • YOU HAD SUPPORTED THE

  • WAR IN IRAQ BEFORE THE

  • INVASION.

  • WHAT MAKES YOUR --

  • >> I DID NOT SUPPORT

  • THE WAR IN IRAQ.

  • >> 2002 --

  • >> THAT IS A

  • MAINSTREAM MEDIA

  • NONSENSE PUT OUT BY

  • HER BECAUSE SHE

  • FRANKLY I THINK THE

  • BEST PERSON IN HER

  • CAMPAIGN IS MAINSTREAM

  • MEDIA.

  • >> MY QUESTION --

  • >> WOULD YOU LIKE TO

  • HEAR?

  • I WAS AGAINST -- WAIT

  • A MINUTE.

  • I WAS AGAINST THE WAR

  • IN IRAQ.

  • JUST SO YOU PUT IT

  • OUT.

  • >> THE RECORD SHOWS

  • OTHERWISE.

  • WHY --

  • >> THE RECORD DOES NOT

  • SHOW --

  • >> WHY IS YOUR

  • JUDGMENT ANY --

  • >> THE RECORD SHOWS

  • THAT I'M RIGHT.

  • WHEN I DID AN

  • INTERVIEW WITH HOWARD

  • STERN, VERY LIKELY

  • FIRST TIME ANYONE'S

  • ASKED ME THAT, I SAID,

  • VERY LIKE LI

  • ASKED ME THAT, I SAID,

  • VERYGHTLY, I DON'T

  • KNOW, MAYBE, WHO

  • KNOWS, ESSENTIALLY.

  • I THEN DID AN

  • INTERVIEW WITH NEIL

  • CAVUTO, TALKED ABOUT

  • THE ECONOMY IS MORE

  • IMPORTANT.

  • I SPOKE TO SEAN

  • HANNITY, EVERYBODY

  • REFUSES TO CALL SEAN

  • HANNITY.

  • I HAD NUMEROUS

  • CONVERSATIONS WITH

  • SEAN HANNITY AT FOX

  • AND SEAN HANNITY SAID,

  • AND HE CALLED ME THE

  • OTHER DAY, AND I SPOKE

  • TO HIM ABOUT IT.

  • HE SAID, YOU WERE

  • TOTALLY AGAINST THE

  • WAR.

  • HE WAS FOR THE WAR.

  • >> WHY IS YOUR

  • JUDGMENT BETTER --

  • >> THAT WAS BEFORE THE

  • WAR STARTED.

  • SEAN HANNITY SAID,

  • VERY STRONGLY, TO ME

  • AND OTHER PEOPLE, HE'S

  • WILLING TO SAY, BUT

  • NOBODY WANTS TO CALL

  • HIM.

  • I WAS AGAINST THE WAR.

  • HE SAID, YOU USED TO

  • HAVE FIGHTS WITH ME

  • BECAUSE SEAN WAS IN

  • FAVOR OF THE WAR.

  • I UNDERSTAND THAT SIDE

  • ALSO.

  • NOT VERY MUCH, BECAUSE

  • WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER

  • BEEN THERE.

  • BUT NOBODY CALLS SEAN

  • HANNITY.

  • THEN THEY DID AN

  • ARTICLE IN A MAJOR

  • MAGAZINE SHORTLY AFTER

  • THE WAR STARTED I

  • THINK IN '04, BUT THEY

  • DID AN ARTICLE WHICH

  • HAD ME TOTALLY AGAINST

  • THE WAR IN IRAQ.

  • AND ONE OF YOUR

  • COMPATRIOTS SAID, YOU

  • KNOW, WHETHER IT WAS

  • BEFORE OR RIGHT AFTER,

  • TRUMP WAS DEFINITE

  • BECAUSE IF YOU READ

  • THIS ARTICLE, THERE'S

  • NO DOUBT.

  • BUT IF SOMEBODY, AND

  • I'LL ASK THE PRESS, IF

  • SOMEBODY WOULD CALL UP

  • SEAN HANNITY, THIS WAS

  • BEFORE THE WAR

  • STARTED, HE AND I USED

  • TO HAVE ARGUMENTS

  • ABOUT THE WAR.

  • I SAID IT'S A TERRIBLE

  • AND A STUPID THING.

  • IT'S GOING TO

  • DESTABILIZE THE MIDDLE

  • EAST AND THAT'S

  • EXACTLY WHAT IT'S

  • DONE.

  • >> MY REFERENCE WAS

  • WHAT YOU HAD SAID IN

  • 2002.

  • MY QUESTION WAS --

  • >> YOU DIDN'T HEAR

  • WHAT I SAID.

  • >> WHY IS YOUR

  • JUDGMENT ANY DIFFERENT

  • THAN MRS. CLINTON'S?

  • >> I HAVE MUCH BETTER

  • JUDGMENT THAN SHE

  • DOES.

  • THERE'S NO QUESTION

  • ABOUT THAT.

  • I ALSO HAVE A MUCH

  • BETTER TEMPERAMENT

  • THAN SHE HAS.

  • YOU KNOW?

  • I HAVE A MUCH

  • BETTER -- SHE SPENT,

  • LET ME TELL YOU, SHE

  • SPENT HUNDREDS OF

  • MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON

  • AN ADVERTISING -- YOU

  • KNOW, THEY GET MADISON

  • AVENUE INTO A ROOM,

  • THEY PUT NAMES -- OH,

  • TEMPERAMENT, LET'S GO

  • AFTER IT.

  • I THINK MY STRONGEST

  • ASSET, MAYBE BY FAR,

  • IS MY TEMPERAMENT.

  • I HAVE A WINNING

  • TEMPERAMENT.

  • I KNOW HOW TO WIN.

  • SHE DOES NOT --

  • >> SECRETARY CLINTON?

  • >> WAIT.

  • THE AFL-CIO THE OTHER

  • DAY BEHIND THE BLUE

  • SCREEN, I DON'T KNOW

  • WHO YOU WERE TALKING

  • TO, SECRETARY CLINTON,

  • BUT YOU WERE TOTALLY

  • OUT OF CONTROL.

  • I SAID, THERE'S A

  • PERSON WITH A

  • TEMPERAMENT THAT'S GOT

  • A PROBLEM.

  • >> SECRETARY CLINTON.

  • >> WHEW.

  • OKAY.

  • LET'S TALK ABOUT TWO

  • IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT

  • WERE BRIEFLY MENTIONED

  • BY DONALD.

  • FIRST NATO.

  • YOU KNOW, NATO AS A

  • MILITARY ALLIANCE HAS

  • SOMETHING CALLED

  • ARTICLE 5 AND

  • BASICALLY IT SAYS

  • THIS.

  • AN ATTACK ON ONE IS AN

  • ATTACK ON ALL.

  • AND YOU KNOW, THE ONLY

  • TIME IT'S EVER BEEN

  • INVOKED AFTER 9/11

  • WHEN THE 28 NATIONS OF

  • NATO SAID THAT THEY

  • WOULD GO TO

  • AFGHANISTAN WITH US TO

  • FIGHT TERRORISM.

  • SOMETHING THAT THEY

  • STILL ARE DOING BY OUR

  • SIDE.

  • WITH RESPECT TO IRAN,

  • WHEN I BECAME

  • SECRETARY OF STATE,

  • IRAN WAS WEEKS AWAY

  • FROM HAVING ENOUGH

  • NUCLEAR MATERIAL TO

  • FORM A BOMB.

  • THEY HAD MASTERED THE

  • NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE

  • UNDER THE BUSH

  • ADMINISTRATION.

  • THEY HAD BUILT COVERT

  • FACILITIES.

  • THEY HAD STOCKED THEM

  • WITH CENTRIFUGES THAT

  • WERE WHIRLING AWAY.

  • AND WE HAD SANCTIONED

  • THEM.

  • I VOTED FOR EVERY

  • SANCTION AGAINST IRAN

  • WHEN I WAS IN THE

  • SENATE, BUT IT WASN'T

  • ENOUGH.

  • SO I SPENT A YEAR AND

  • A HALF PUTTING

  • TOGETHER A COALITION

  • THAT INCLUDED RUSSIA

  • AND CHINA TO IMPOSE

  • THE TOUGHEST SANCTIONS

  • ON IRAN.

  • AND WE DID DRIVE THEM

  • TO THE NEGOTIATING

  • TABLE AND MY

  • SUCCESSOR, JOHN KERRY,

  • AND PRESIDENT OBAMA

  • GOT A DEAL THAT PUT A

  • LID ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR

  • PROGRAM.

  • WITHOUT FIRING A

  • SINGLE SHOT.

  • THAT'S DIPLOMACY.

  • THAT'S COALITION

  • BUILDING.

  • THAT'S WORKING WITH

  • OTHER NATIONS.

  • THE OTHER DAY, I SAW

  • DONALD SAYING THAT

  • THERE WERE SOME

  • IRANIAN SAILORS ON A

  • SHIP IN THE WATERS OFF

  • OF IRAN AND THEY WERE

  • TAUNTING AMERICAN

  • SAILORS WHO WERE ON A

  • NEARBY SHIP.

  • HE SAID, YOU KNOW, IF

  • THEY TAUNTED OUR

  • SAILORS, I'D BLOW THEM

  • OUT OF THE WATER AND

  • START ANOTHER WAR.

  • THAT'S --

  • >> THAT WOULD NOT

  • START A WAR.

  • >> THAT'S NOT

  • JUDGMENT.

  • THAT IS NOT THE RIGHT

  • TEMPERAMENT TO BE

  • COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

  • TO BE TAUNTED.

  • AND THE WORST PART --

  • >> NO, THEY WERE

  • TAUNTING US.

  • >> -- I HEARD DONALD

  • SAY HAS BEEN ABOUT

  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

  • HE HAS SAID REPEATEDLY

  • THAT HE DIDN'T CARE IF

  • OTHER NATIONS GOT

  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS,

  • JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA,

  • EVEN SAUDI ARABIA.

  • IT HAS BEEN THE POLICY

  • OF THE UNITED STATES.

  • DEMOCRATS AND

  • REPUBLICANS TO DO

  • EVERYTHING WE COULD TO

  • REDUCE THE

  • PROLIFERATION OF

  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

  • HE EVEN SAID, WELL,

  • YOU KNOW, IF THERE

  • WERE NUCLEAR WAR IN

  • THE EAST ASIA, WELL,

  • YOU KNOW, THAT'S FINE,

  • YOU KNOW.

  • >> WRONG.

  • >> HAVE A GOOD TIME,

  • FOLKS.

  • AND, IN FACT, HIS

  • CAVALIER ATTITUDE

  • ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS

  • IS SO DEEPLY

  • TROUBLING.

  • THAT IS THE NUMBER-ONE

  • THREAT WE FACE IN THE

  • WORLD AND IT BECOMES

  • PARTICULARLY

  • THREATENING IF

  • TERRORISTS EVER GET

  • THEIR HANDS ON ANY

  • NUCLEAR MATERIAL.

  • SO A MAN WHO CAN BE

  • PROVOKED BY A TWEET

  • SHOULD NOT HAVE HIS

  • FINGERS ANYWHERE NEAR

  • THE NUCLEAR CODES AS

  • FAR AS I THINK ANYONE

  • WITH ANY SENSE ABOUT

  • THIS SHOULD BE

  • CONCERNED.

  • >> GETTING A LITTLE

  • BIT OLD, I MUST SAY.

  • >> IT'S A GOOD ONE,

  • THOUGH.

  • WELL DESCRIBES THE

  • PROBLEM.

  • >> IT'S NOT AN

  • ACCURATE ONE AT ALL.

  • IT'S NOT AN ACCURATE

  • ONE.

  • SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE

  • A LOT OF THING, JUST

  • TO RESPOND.

  • I AGREE WITH HER ON

  • ONE THING.

  • THE SINGLE GREATEST

  • PROBLEM THE WORLD HAS

  • IS NUCLEAR ARMAMENT,

  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

  • NOT GLOBAL WARMING

  • LIKE YOU THINK AND

  • YOUR PRESIDENT THINKS.

  • NUCLEAR IS THE SINGLE

  • GREATEST THREAT.

  • JUST TO GO DOWN THE

  • LIST, WE DEFEND JAPAN,

  • WE DEFEND GERMANY, WE

  • DEFEND SOUTH KOREA, WE

  • DEFEND SAUDI ARABIA,

  • WE DEFEND COUNTRIES.

  • THEY DO NOT PAY US,

  • BUT THEY SHOULD BE

  • PAYING US BECAUSE WE

  • ARE PROVIDING

  • TREMENDOUS SERVICE AND

  • LOSING A FORTUNE.

  • THAT'S WHY WE'RE

  • LOSING -- WE'RE

  • LOSING -- WE LOSE ON

  • EVERYTHING.

  • I SAY WHO MAKES

  • THESE -- WE LOSE ON

  • EVERYTHING.

  • ALL I SAID THAT IT'S

  • VERY POSSIBLE THAT IF

  • THEY DON'T PAY A FAIR

  • SHARE, BECAUSE THIS

  • ISN'T 40 YEARS AGO

  • WHERE WE COULD DO WHAT

  • WE'RE DOING.

  • WE CAN'T DEFEND JAPAN,

  • A BEHEMOTH SELLING US

  • CARS BY THE MILLIONS.

  • >> WE HAVE TO MOVE ON.

  • >> THEY MAY HAVE TO

  • DEFEND THEMSELVES OR

  • HELP US OUT.

  • WE OWE $20 TRILLION.

  • THEY HAVE TO HELP US

  • OUT.

  • AS FAR AS THE NUCLEAR

  • IS CONCERNED, I AGREE,

  • IT IS THE SINGLE

  • GREATEST THREAT THAT

  • THIS COUNTRY HAS.

  • >> WHICH LEADS TO MY

  • NEXT QUESTION AS WE

  • ENTER OUR LAST

  • SEGMENT, ON THE

  • SUBJECT OF SECURING

  • NAERK.

  • ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS,

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA

  • REPORTEDLY CONSIDERED

  • CHANGING THE NATION'S

  • LONGSTANDING POLICY ON

  • FIRST USE.

  • DO YOU SUPPORT THE

  • CURRENT POLICY?

  • MR. TRUMP, YOU HAVE

  • TWO MINUTES ON THAT.

  • >> I HAVE TO SAY, FOR

  • WHAT SECRETARY CLINTON

  • WAS SAYING ABOUT

  • NUCLEAR WITH RUSSIA,

  • SHE'S VERY CAVALIER IN

  • THE WAY SHE TALKS

  • ABOUT VARIOUS

  • COUNTRIES BUT RUSSIA

  • HAS BEEN EXPANDING.

  • THEY HAVE A MUCH NEWER

  • CAPABILITY THAN WE DO.

  • WE HAVE NOT BEEN

  • UPDATING FROM THE NEW

  • STANDPOINT.

  • I LOOKED THE OTHER

  • NIGHT, I WAS SEEING

  • B52s, THEY'RE OLD

  • ENOUGH THAT YOUR

  • FATHER, YOUR

  • GRANDFATHER COULD BE

  • FLYING THEM.

  • WE ARE NOT -- WE ARE

  • NOT KEEPING UP WITH

  • OTHER COUNTRIES.

  • I WOULD LIKE EVERYBODY

  • TO END IT, JUST GET

  • RID OF IT, BUT I WOULD

  • CERTAINLY NOT DO FIRST

  • STRIKE.

  • I THINK THAT ONCE THE

  • NUCLEAR ALTERNATIVE

  • HAPPENS, IT'S OVER.

  • AT THE SAME TIME, WE

  • HAVE TO BE PREPARED.

  • I CAN'T TAKE ANYTHING

  • OFF THE TABLE BECAUSE

  • YOU LOOK AT SOME OF

  • THESE COUNTRIES, YOU

  • LOOK AT NORTH KOREA,

  • WE'RE DOING NOTHING

  • THERE.

  • CHINA SHOULD SOLVE

  • THAT PROBLEM FOR US.

  • CHINA SHOULD GO INTO

  • NORTH KOREA.

  • CHINA IS TOTALLY

  • POWERFUL AS IT RELATES

  • TO NORTH KOREA.

  • AND BY THE WAY,

  • ANOTHER ONE POWERFUL

  • IS THE WORST DEAL I

  • THINK I'VE EVER SEEN

  • NEGOTIATED THAT YOU

  • STARTED IS THE IRAN

  • DEAL.

  • IRAN IS ONE OF THEIR

  • BIGGEST TRADING

  • PARTNERS.

  • IRAN HAS POWER OVER

  • NORTH KOREA.

  • AND WHEN THEY MADE

  • THAT HORRIBLE DEAL

  • WITH IRAN, THEY SHOULD

  • HAVE INCLUDED THE FACT

  • THAT THEY DO SOMETHING

  • WITH RESPECT TO NORTH

  • KOREA AND THEY SHOULD

  • HAVE DONE SOMETHING

  • WITH RESPECT TO YEMEN

  • AND ALL THESE OTHER

  • PLACES.

  • AND WHEN ASKED TO

  • SECRETARY KERRY, WHY

  • DIDN'T YOU DO THAT,

  • WHY DIDN'T YOU ADD

  • OTHER THINGS INTO THE

  • DEAL?

  • ONE OF THE GREAT

  • GIVEAWAYS OF ALL-TIME,

  • OF ALL-TIME, INCLUDING

  • $400 MILLION IN CASH,

  • NOBODY'S EVER SEEN

  • THAT BEFORE, THAT

  • TURNED OUT TO BE

  • WRONG.

  • IT WAS ACTUALLY $1.7

  • BILLION IN CASH.

  • OBVIOUSLY, I GUESS,

  • FOR THE HOSTAGES.

  • IT CERTAINLY LOOKS

  • THAT WAY.

  • SO YOU SAY TO

  • YOURSELF, WHY DIDN'T

  • THEY MAKE THE RIGHT

  • DEAL?

  • THIS IS ONE OF THE

  • WORST DEALS EVER MADE

  • BY ANY COUNTRY IN

  • HISTORY.

  • THE DEAL WITH IRAN

  • WILL LEAD TO NUCLEAR

  • PROBLEMS.

  • ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS

  • SIT BACK TEN YEARS AND

  • THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO

  • MUCH.

  • >> YOUR TWO MINUTES

  • HAS EXPIRED.

  • >> I MET WITH BIBI

  • NETANYAHU THE OTHER

  • DAY.

  • BELIEVE ME, HE IS NOT

  • A HAPPY CAMPER.

  • >> ALL RIGHT.

  • MRS. CLINTON,

  • SECRETARY CLINTON, YOU

  • HAVE TWO MINUTES.

  • >> LET ME START BY

  • SAYING WORDS MATTER.

  • WORDS MATTER WHEN YOU

  • RUN FOR PRESIDENT AND

  • THEY REALLY MATTER

  • WHEN YOU ARE

  • PRESIDENT.

  • AND I WANT TO REASSURE

  • OUR ALLIES IN JAPAN,

  • IN SOUTH KOREA, AND

  • ELSEWHERE THAT WE HAVE

  • MUTUAL DEFENSE

  • TREATIES AND WE WILL

  • HONOR THEM.

  • IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT

  • AMERICA'S WORD BE GOOD

  • AND SO I KNOW THAT

  • THIS CAMPAIGN HAS

  • CAUSED SOME

  • QUESTIONING AND SOME

  • WORRIES ON THE PART OF

  • MANY LEADERS ACROSS

  • THE GLOBE.

  • I'VE TALKED WITH A

  • NUMBER OF THEM, BUT I

  • WANT TO, ON BEHALF OF

  • MYSELF AND I THINK ON

  • BEHALF OF A MAJORITY

  • OF THE AMERICAN

  • PEOPLE, SAY THAT, YOU

  • KNOW, OUR WORD IS

  • GOOD.

  • IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT

  • THAT WE LOOK AT THE

  • ENTIRE GLOBAL

  • SITUATION.

  • THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT

  • WE HAVE OTHER PROBLEMS

  • WITH IRAN, BUT

  • PERSONALLY, I'D RATHER

  • DEAL WITH THE OTHER

  • PROBLEMS HAVING PUT

  • THAT LID ON THEIR

  • NUCLEAR PROGRAM THAN

  • STILL TO BE FACING

  • THAT.

  • AND DONALD NEVER TELLS

  • YOU WHAT HE WOULD DO.

  • WOULD HE HAVE STARTED

  • A WAR?

  • WOULD HE HAVE BOMBED

  • IRAN?

  • IF HE'S GOING TO

  • CRITICIZE A DEAL THAT

  • HAS BEEN VERY

  • SUCCESSFUL IN GIVING

  • US ACCESS TO IRANIAN

  • FACILITIES THAT WE

  • NEVER HAD BEFORE, THEN

  • HE SHOULD TELL US WHAT

  • HIS ALTERNATIVE WOULD

  • BE, BUT IT'S LIKE HIS

  • PLAN TO DEFEAT ISIS.

  • HE SAYS IT'S A SECRET

  • PLAN, BUT THE ONLY

  • SECRET IS THAT HE HAS

  • NO PLAN.

  • SO WE NEED TO BE MORE

  • PRECISE IN HOW WE TALK

  • ABOUT THESE ISSUES.

  • PEOPLE AROUND THE

  • WORLD FOLLOW OUR

  • PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS

  • SO CLOSELY TRYING TO

  • GET HINTS ABOUT WHAT

  • WE WILL DO.

  • CAN THEY RELY ON US?

  • ARE WE GOING TO LEAD

  • THE WORLD WITH

  • STRENGTH AND IN

  • ACCORDANCE WITH OUR

  • VALUES?

  • THAT'S WHAT I INTEND

  • TO DO.

  • I INTEND TO BE A

  • LEADER OF OUR COUNTRY

  • THAT PEOPLE CAN COUNT

  • ON BOTH HERE AT HOME

  • AND AROUND THE WORLD

  • TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT

  • WILL FURTHER PEACE AND

  • PROSPERITY, BUT ALSO

  • STAND UP TO BULLIES

  • WHETHER THEY'RE ABROAD

  • OR AT HOME.

  • WE CANNOT LET THOSE

  • WHO WOULD TRY TO

  • DESTABILIZE THE WORLD

  • TO INTERFERE WITH

  • AMERICAN INTERESTS AND

  • SECURITY.

  • >> YOUR TWO MINUTES --

  • >> GIVEN ANY

  • OPPORTUNITIES AT ALL.

  • >> IS EXPIRED.

  • >> LESTER, ONE THING

  • I'D LIKE TO SAY.

  • >> VERY QUICKLY.

  • 20 SECONDS.

  • >> I WILL GO VERY

  • QUICKLY BUT I WILL

  • TELL YOU THAT HILLARY

  • WILL TELL YOU TO GO TO

  • HER WEBSITE AND READ

  • ALL ABOUT HOW TO

  • DEFEAT ISIS WHICH SHE

  • COULD HAVE DEFEATED BY

  • NEVER HAVING IT GET

  • GOING IN THE FIRST

  • PLACE.

  • RIGHT NOW IT'S GETTING

  • TOUGHER AND TOUGHER TO

  • DEFEAT THEM.

  • THEY'RE IN MORE AND

  • MORE PLACES.

  • >> MR. TRUMP.

  • >> IT'S A BIG PROBLEM.

  • AS FAR AS JAPAN IS

  • CONCERNED, I WANT TO

  • HELP ALL OF OUR

  • ALLIES.

  • WE'RE LOSING BILLIONS

  • AND BILLIONS OF

  • DOLLARS.

  • WE CANNOT BE THE

  • POLICEMEN OF THE

  • WORLD.

  • WE CAN NOT PROTECT

  • COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE

  • WORLD WHERE THEY'RE

  • NOT PAYING US WHAT WE

  • NEED.

  • >> WE HAVE A FEW FINAL

  • QUESTIONS.

  • >> SHE DOESN'T SAY

  • THAT BECAUSE SHE'S GOT

  • NO BUSINESS ABILITY.

  • WE NEED HEART, A LOT

  • OF THINGS.

  • YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME

  • BASIC ABILITY.

  • SADLY, SHE DOESN'T

  • HAVE THAT.

  • ALL OF THE THINGS THAT

  • SHE'S TALKING ABOUT

  • COULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN

  • CARE OF DURING THE

  • LAST TEN YEARS, LET'S

  • SAY, WHILE SHE HAD

  • GREAT POWER BUT THEY

  • WEREN'T TAKEN CARE OF.

  • IF SHE EVER WINS THIS

  • RACE, THEY WON'T BE

  • TAKEN CARE OF.

  • >> MR. TRUMP, THIS

  • YEAR SECRETARY CLINTON

  • BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN

  • NOMINATED FOR

  • PRESIDENT BY A MAJOR

  • PARTY.

  • EARLIER THIS MONTH YOU

  • SAID SHE DOESN'T HAVE,

  • \"A PRESIDENTIAL LOOK.\"

  • SHE'S STANDING HERE

  • RIGHT NOW.

  • WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY

  • THAT?

  • >> SHE DOESN'T HAVE

  • THE LOOK.

  • SHE DOESN'T HAVE THE

  • STAMINA.

  • I SAID SHE DOESN'T

  • HAVE THE STAMINA.

  • AND I DON'T BELIEVE

  • SHE DOES HAVE THE

  • STAMINA.

  • TO BE PRESIDENT OF

  • THIS COUNTRY, YOU NEED

  • TREMENDOUS STAMINA.

  • >> THE QUOTE WAS \"I

  • JUST DON'T THINK SHE

  • HAS --

  • >> WAIT A MINUTE.

  • YOU ASKED ME A

  • QUESTION.

  • DID SHE ASK ME A

  • QUESTION?

  • YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO

  • NEGOTIATE ON TRADE

  • DEALS.

  • YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO

  • NEGOTIATE -- THAT'S

  • RIGHT, WITH JAPAN,

  • WITH SAUDI ARABIA.

  • I MEAN, CAN YOU

  • IMAGINE WE'RE

  • DEFENDING SAUDI ARABIA

  • AND WITH ALL OF THE

  • MONEY THEY HAVE, WE'RE

  • DEFENDING THEM AND

  • THEY'RE NOT PAYING?

  • ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS

  • SPEAK TO THEM.

  • WAIT, YOU HAVE SO MANY

  • DIFFERENT THINGS YOU

  • HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DO

  • AND I DON'T BELIEVE

  • THAT HILLARY HAS THE

  • STAMINA.

  • >> LET'S LET HER

  • RESPOND.

  • >> WELL, AS SOON AS HE

  • TRAVELS TO 112

  • COUNTRIES AND

  • NEGOTIATES A PEACE

  • DEAL, A CEASE-FIRE, A

  • RELEASE OF DISSIDENTS,

  • AN OPENING OF NEW

  • OPPORTUNITIES IN

  • NATIONS AROUND THE

  • WORLD, OR EVEN SPENDS

  • 11 HOURS TESTIFYING IN

  • FRONT OF A

  • CONGRESSIONAL

  • COMMITTEE, HE CAN TALK

  • TO ME ABOUT STAMINA.

  • >> THE WORLD -- LET ME

  • TELL YOU.

  • LET ME TELL YOU.

  • HILLARY HAS EXPERIENCE

  • BUT IT'S BAD

  • EXPERIENCE.

  • WE HAVE MADE SO MANY

  • BAD DEALS DURING THE

  • LAST -- SO SHE'S GOT

  • EXPERIENCE THAT I

  • AGREE, BUT IT'S BAD,

  • BAD EXPERIENCE.

  • WHETHER IT'S THE IRAN

  • DEAL THAT YOU'RE SO IN

  • LOVE WITH WHERE WE

  • GAVE THEM $150 BILLION

  • BACK.

  • WHETHER IT'S THE IRAN

  • DEAL, WHETHER IT'S

  • ANYTHING YOU -- YOU

  • ALMOST CAN'T NAME A

  • GOOD DEAL.

  • I AGREE, SHE'S GOT

  • EXPERIENCE, BUT IT'S

  • BAD EXPERIENCE.

  • AND THIS COUNTRY CAN'T

  • AFFORD TO HAVE ANOTHER

  • FOUR YEARS OF THAT

  • KIND OF EXPERIENCE.

  • >> WE ARE AT THE --

  • WE'RE AT THE FINAL

  • QUESTION --

  • >> WELL, ONE THING --

  • >> VERY QUICKLY

  • BECAUSE WE'RE AT THE

  • FINAL QUESTION.

  • >> HE TRIED TO SWITCH

  • FROM LOOKS TO STAMINA,

  • BUT THIS IS A MAN WHO

  • HAS CALLED WOMEN PIGS,

  • SLOBS, AND DOGS AND

  • SOMEONE WHO HAS SAID

  • PREGNANCY IS AN

  • INCONVENIENCE TO

  • EMPLOYERS.

  • WHO HAS SAID --

  • >> I NEVER SAID THAT.

  • >> WHO HAVE SAID WOMEN

  • DESERVE EQUAL PAY

  • UNLESS THEY DO AS GOOD

  • A JOB AS MEN.

  • >> DIDN'T SAY.

  • >> AND ONE OF THE

  • WORST THINGS HE SAID

  • WAS ABOUT A WOMAN IN A

  • BEAUTY CONTEST.

  • HE LOVES BEAUTY

  • CONTESTS, SUPPORTING

  • THEM AND HANGING

  • AROUND THEM.

  • AND HE CALLED THIS

  • WOMAN MISS PIGGY.

  • THEN HE CALLED HER

  • MISS HOUSEKEEPING

  • BECAUSE SHE WAS

  • LATINA.

  • DONALD, SHE HAS A

  • NAME.

  • >> WHERE DID YOU FIND

  • THIS?

  • WHERE DID YOU FIND

  • THIS?

  • >> HER NAME IS MACHADO

  • AND HAS BECOME A U.S.

  • CITIZEN AND YOU CAN

  • BET SHE'S GOING TO

  • VOTE THIS NOVEMBER.

  • >> OKAY.

  • GOOD.

  • LET ME JUST TELL

  • YOU --

  • >> MR. TRUMP, TEN

  • SECONDS THEN WE'LL

  • HAVE THE FINAL

  • QUESTION.

  • >> YOU KNOW, HILLARY

  • IS HITTING ME WITH

  • TREMENDOUS

  • COMMERCIALS.

  • SOME OF IT'S SAID IN

  • ENTERTAINMENT, SOME OF

  • IT SAID, SOMEBODY

  • WHO'S BEEN VERY

  • VICIOUS TO ME, ROSIE

  • O'DONNELL, I SAID VERY

  • TOUGH THINGS TO HER

  • AND I THINK EVERYBODY

  • WOULD AGREE THAT SHE

  • DESERVES IT AND NOBODY

  • FEELS SORRY FOR HER.

  • BUT YOU WANT TO KNOW

  • THE TRUTH?

  • I WAS GOING TO SAY

  • SOMETHING --

  • >> PLEASE, VERY QUICK.

  • >> -- EXTREMELY ROUGH

  • TO HILLARY, TO HER

  • FAMILY AND I SAID TO

  • MYSELF, I CAN'T DO IT.

  • I JUST CAN'T DO IT.

  • IT'S INAPPROPRIATE.

  • IT'S NOT NICE.

  • BUT SHE SPENT HUNDREDS

  • OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

  • ON NEGATIVE ADS ON ME.

  • MANY OF WHICH ARE

  • ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE,

  • THEY'RE UNTRUE AND

  • MISREPRESENTATIONS.

  • I WILL FELL YOU THIS,

  • LESTER.

  • IT'S NOT NICE AND I

  • DON'T -- I DON'T

  • DESERVE THAT BUT IT'S

  • CERTAINLY NOT A NICE

  • THING THAT SHE'S DONE.

  • IT'S HUNDREDS OF

  • MILLIONS OF ADS AND

  • THE ONLY GRATIFYING

  • THING IS I SAW THE

  • POLLS COME IN TODAY

  • AND WITH ALL OF THAT

  • MONEY, OVER $200

  • MILLION IS SPENT AND

  • I'M EITHER WINNING OR

  • TIED.

  • >> ONE OF YOU --

  • >> I SPENT PRACTICALLY

  • NOTHING.

  • >> ONE OF YOU -- ONE

  • OF YOU WILL NOT WIN

  • THIS ELECTION.

  • SO MY FINAL QUESTION

  • TO YOU TONIGHT, ARE

  • YOU WILLING TO ACCEPT

  • THE OUTCOME AS THE

  • WILL OF THE VOTER?

  • SECRETARY CLINTON.

  • >> WELL, I SUPPORT OUR

  • DEMOCRACY, AND

  • SOMETIMES YOU WIN,

  • SOMETIMES YOU LOSE,

  • BUT I CERTAINLY WILL

  • SUPPORT THE OUTCOME OF

  • THIS ELECTION.

  • AND I KNOW DONALD'S

  • TRYING VERY HARD TO

  • PLANT DOUBTS ABOUT IT,

  • BUT I HOPE THE PEOPLE

  • OUT THERE UNDERSTAND

  • THIS ELECTION'S REALLY

  • UP TO YOU.

  • IT'S NOT ABOUT US SO

  • MUCH AS IT IS ABOUT

  • YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES

  • AND THE KIND OF

  • COUNTRY AND FUTURE YOU

  • WANT.

  • SO I SURE HOPE YOU

  • WILL GET OUT AND VOTE

  • AS THOUGH YOUR FUTURE

  • DEPENDED ON IT BECAUSE

  • I THINK IT DOES.

  • >> MR. TRUMP, VERY

  • QUICKLY.

  • THE SAME QUESTION.

  • WILL YOU ACCEPT THE

  • OUTCOME AS THE WILL OF

  • THE VOTERS?

  • >> I WANT TO MAKE

  • AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

  • WE ARE A NATION THAT

  • IS SERIOUSLY TROUBLED.

  • WE'RE LOSING OUR JOBS.

  • PEOPLE ARE POURING IN

  • TO OUR COUNTRY.

  • THE OTHER DAY WE WERE

  • DEPORTING 800 PEOPLE.

  • PERHAPS THEY PRESSED

  • THE WRONG BUTTON.

  • THEY PRESSED THE WRONG

  • BUTTON.

  • OR PERHAPS WORSE THAN

  • THAT, IT WAS

  • CORRUPTION.

  • BUT THESE PEOPLE THAT

  • WE WERE GOING TO

  • DEPORT, FOR GOOD

  • REASON, ENDED UP

  • BECOMING CITIZENS.

  • ENDED UP BECOMING

  • CITIZENS.

  • AND IT WAS 800 AND NOW

  • IT TURNS OUT IT MIGHT

  • BE 1,800 AND THEY

  • DON'T EVEN KNOW.

  • >> WILL YOU ACCEPT THE

  • OUTCOME OF THE

  • ELECTION?

  • >> I WANT TO MAKE

  • AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

  • I'M GOING TO BE ABLE

  • TO DO IT.

  • I DON'T BELIEVE

  • HILLARY WILL.

  • THE ANSWER IS IF SHE

  • WINS, I WILL

  • ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT

  • HER.

  • >> ALL RIGHT.

  • THAT IS GOING TO DO IT

  • FOR US.

  • THAT CONCLUDES OUR

  • DEBATE FOR THIS

  • EVENING.

  • A SPIRITED ONE.

  • WE COVERED A LOT OF

  • GROUND.

  • NOT EVERYTHING.

  • AS I SUSPECTED WE

  • WOULDN'T.

  • WOULD.

  • THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL

  • DEBATES ARE SCHEDULED

  • FOR OCTOBER 9th IN

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

  • IN ST. LOUIS.

  • AND OCTOBER 19th AT

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF

  • NEVADA LAS VEGAS.

  • THE CONVERSATION WILL

  • CONTINUE.

  • A REMINDER THE VICE

  • PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IS

  • SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER

  • 4th AT LONGWOOD

  • UNIVERSITY IN

  • FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA.

  • MY THANKS TO HILLARY

  • CLINTON AND TO DONALD

  • TRUMP.

  • AND TO HOFSTRA

  • UNIVERSITY FOR HOSTING

  • US TONIGHT.

  • GOOD NIGHT, EVERYONE.

  • >> FIRST PRESIDENTIAL

  • DEBATE OF THIS

  • CAMPAIGN SEASON IS IN

  • THE RECORD BOOKS.

  • HILLARY CLINTON,

  • DONALD TRUMP TAKING

  • QUESTIONS FOR OVER 90

  • MINUTES.

  • WENT A LITTLE BIT

  • LONG.

  • AND WE SEE THEM NOW

  • SHAKING HANDS WITH THE

  • MODERAOR LESTER HOLT

  • AND EXPECT THEM TO

  • GREET THEIR FAMILIES

  • AS IS TRADITION ON

  • THESE NIGHTS.

  • CHUCK TODD, I'LL TURN

  • TO YOU FIRST.

  • WHAT DID WE WITNESS

  • TONIGHT?

  • DO YOU THINK EITHER

  • CANDIDATE MOVED THE

  • NEEDLE IN THEIR

  • DIRECTIONS?

  • >> BEFORE I WANT TO

  • TALK ABOUT THE

  • CANDIDATES, THIS MOST

  • ABNORMAL EVENT I'VE

  • EVER WITNESSED.

  • NOT A NORMAL POLITICAL

  • DEBATE.

  • LET'S NOT SIT HERE AND

  • PRETEND WE SAW

  • SOMETHING THAT WAS A

  • QUADRENNIAL OCCASION

  • HERE.

  • THIS WAS AS SURREAL AS

  • SOME THOUGHT IT MIGHT

  • BE.

  • IT WAS CLEAR BOTH

  • CANDIDATES DIDN'T LIE

  • TO US ABOUT HOW THEY

  • PREPARED FOR THIS

  • DEBATE.

  • HILLARY CLINTON WAS AT

  • TIMES EVEN, YOU COULD

  • ARGUE OVERPREPARED IN

  • HER OPENING STATEMENT

  • MUST HAVE HAD 15

  • POLICY PROPOSALS

  • WITHIN THAT TWO

  • MINUTES.

  • AND THAT WAS DONALD

  • TRUMP WHO WE'VE ALL

  • COME TO COVER ON THIS

  • CAMPAIGN.

  • THAT WAS THE SAME

  • DONALD TRUMP.

  • VERY REACTIVE.

  • HE WAS FILLED WITH

  • EMOTION.

  • HE HAD A COUPLE OF

  • DECENT MOMENTS AT THE

  • TOP.

  • BUT THERE WERE TIMES

  • WHERE I DIDN'T

  • UNDERSTAND THE POINT

  • HE WAS MAKING.

  • I HAVE TO SAY, THIS

  • WAS, I THINK AS THIS

  • NIGHT WORE ON, BECAME

  • TOUGHER AND TOUGHER

  • FOR TRUMP AND IT

  • EXPOSED HIS LACK OF

  • PREPARATION.

  • >> TOM BROKAW, WIN,

  • LOSE OR DRAW?

  • >> WELL, I THINK IT'S

  • SETTLED ON POINTS.

  • IT WAS NOT A KNOCKOUT

  • EVENING AND PEOPLE ARE

  • GOING TO BE AT HOME

  • ADDING UP THE POINTS.

  • AND I THINK THAT

  • HILLARY'S COMPOSURE

  • AND MASTERY OF THE

  • DETAIL WAS CONSISTENT

  • THROUGHOUT AND SHE WAS

  • PLEASANT THROUGHOUT.

  • EVEN WHEN SHE TURNED

  • TO DONALD TRUMP.

  • DONALD TRUMP STARTED

  • IN A MORE ORGANIZED

  • FASHION THAN WE'VE

  • SEEN IN THE PAST BUT

  • THEN HE RESORTED TO

  • THE KIND OF BOMBAST

  • THAT HE'S USED NOW.

  • MY GUESS IS THAT HE

  • PROBABLY KEPT HIS

  • CONSTITUENCY, BUT I

  • DON'T THINK HE PULLED

  • ANYBODY ACROSS THE

  • LINE.

  • >> I'M WITH YOU THERE.

  • THE PUGILISTIC ASPECT

  • OF HIM IS WHAT EXCITES

  • HIS VOTERS.

  • YOU HEAR IT.

  • THE FIRST SPONTANEOUS

  • MOMENT IN A DEBATE

  • AUDIENCE I REMEMBER

  • COVERING THE THINGS IS

  • WHEN HE SAID, OH YEAH,

  • I'LL RELEASE MY TAX

  • RETURNS WHEN SHE DOES

  • HER E-MAILS.

  • THE PUGILISM OF HIM IS

  • AN APPEAL THERE BUT

  • BOY, WHEN IT CAME TO

  • THE BIRTHER QUESTION,

  • WHEN IF CAME TO

  • QUESTIONS ABOUT WOMEN,

  • HE DID NOT DO ANYTHING

  • TO HELP HIM ADD TO HIS

  • SUPPORT TOTAL.

  • I DON'T KNOW HOW

  • SUBURBAN REPUBLICANS

  • WHO HAVE HAD DOUBTS

  • ABOUT HIM GOING INTO

  • THIS DEBATE, I DON'T

  • KNOW WHAT HE DID TO

  • SOMEHOW WIN THEM OVER.

  • >> I THINK THAT THERE

  • WAS ONE MOMENT THAT

  • WAS -- IN WHICH THEY

  • WERE BOTH PLAYING TO

  • THE CONSTITUENCY.

  • SHE WAS NOT CRITICAL

  • AT ALL OF

  • BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME.

  • SHE WAS DEFENDING, IN

  • FACT, THE BLACK

  • COMMUNITY AND SAYING

  • WE GOT TO HAVE REFORM

  • IN THE CRIMINAL

  • JUSTICE SYSTEM WHICH

  • WE DO.

  • NO QUESTION ABOUT

  • THAT.

  • A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE

  • TROUBLED ABOUT

  • BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME.

  • HE WENT COMPLETELY TO

  • THE POLICE PIECE OF

  • IT.

  • THEY WERE DIVIDING UP

  • THE BLACK

  • CONSTITUENTTIES AND

  • PLAYING TO THEIR

  • PEOPLE AT THAT POINT.

  • >> AS WE TALK HERE,

  • WE'RE LOOKING AT

  • PICTURES.

  • PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

  • IN THE HALL TONIGHT,

  • NOT HIS NATIONAL

  • COURSE OF ACTION IN A

  • DEBATE.

  • NORMALLY WHEN YOU SEE

  • A PRESIDENT IN THE

  • HALL AT ONE OF THESE

  • THINGS THEY'RE RUNNING

  • FOR RE-ELECTION.

  • THERE HE IS.

  • I WANT TO BRING IN

  • NICOLLE WALLACE, OF

  • COURSE, OUR ANALYST

  • AND OF COURSE HAS BEEN

  • A VETERAN OF THE

  • REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGNS

  • PAST.

  • NICOLLE, AS I GO TO

  • YOU I GUESS THE

  • QUESTION THIS MORNING

  • IS IF THIS DEBATE WERE

  • FOUGHT ON DEMEANORS,

  • ON THE GROUND OF WHO

  • IS MORE LIKABLE, WHO

  • HAS ADDRESSED SOME OF

  • THE CHARACTER OR

  • TEMPERAMENT ISSUES

  • THAT HAVE DOGGED BOTH

  • OF THEM, FRANKLY, IN

  • THIS CAMPAIGN, DO YOU

  • THINK ONE SIDE OR THE

  • OTHER COMES OUT ON

  • TOP?

  • >> WELL, LISTEN, THE

  • EXPECTATIONS FOR

  • HILLARY CLINTON

  • COULDN'T HAVE BEEN

  • HIGHER AND SHE MET

  • THOSE EXPECTATIONS

  • TONIGHT.

  • BUT I THINK THAT WE

  • WOULD BE INCORRECT TO

  • THINK THAT WHAT WE

  • SHAW IS WHAT EVERYONE

  • ELSE SAW.

  • WHAT THE VOTERS HAVE

  • TOLD US TIME AND TIME

  • AGAIN IS THAT WITH

  • DONALD TRUMP, THEY

  • HOLD HIM TO A

  • DIFFERENT STANDARD.

  • I REMEMBER IN THE

  • REPUBLICAN PRIMARY

  • AFTER THE SOUTH

  • CAROLINA DEBATE, LOT

  • OF PEOPLE WATCHED THAT

  • AND THOUGHT THAT HE

  • WOULD BE OUT OF THE

  • RACE WITHIN DAYS.

  • HE BLAMED 9/11 ON

  • GEORGE W. BUSH.

  • IT WAS REALLY A

  • CALAMITOUS

  • PERFORMANCE.

  • NOT ONLY DID HE WIN

  • SOUTH CAROLINA, BUT HE

  • WON THAT STATE RUNNING

  • AWAY.

  • IT WAS THE END OF JEB

  • BUSH'S CANDIDACY.

  • SO THESE DEBATE

  • PERFORMANCES FROM

  • DONALD TRUMP ARE NOT

  • ALWAYS EXPERIENCED BY

  • VOTERS THE WAY

  • POLITICAL VETERANS AND

  • POLITICAL OPERATIVES

  • LIKE ME SEE THEM.

  • SO I AGREE WITH CHUCK

  • TODD THAT IT WAS

  • SURREAL, BUT I THINK

  • HE PROBABLY CONNECTED

  • ON THE QUESTION OF

  • TRADE.

  • I THINK THERE ARE SOME

  • PEOPLE OUT THERE

  • CERTAINLY IN HIS BASE

  • THAT APPRECIATED HIS

  • ANSWERS OF LAW AND

  • ORDER, BUT IN THE SUM

  • OF THE PERFORMANCE

  • FROM EACH, SHE

  • CERTAINLY LOOKED MORE

  • PRESIDENTIAL.

  • I'M JUST NOT SURE

  • THAT'S THE STANDARD BY

  • WHICH WE'RE GOING TO

  • PICK THE NEXT

  • PRESIDENT.

  • >> NICOLLE, I WANT TO

  • GO TO THE PREPARATION

  • ISSUE.

  • YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED

  • IN THE ROOM THERE.

  • YOU TELL ME IT IS

  • CLEAR NO ONE SHOWED

  • HIM A VIDEOTAPE OF HIM

  • ON MUTE.

  • BECAUSE DURING THE

  • SPLIT SCREENS, BOY

  • DID -- I THINK IF HE

  • HAD SEEN HIMSELF IN

  • REACTION SHOTS HE

  • MIGHT HAVE CHANGED HIS

  • DEMEANOR.

  • >> YOU KNOW, I SENT A

  • TEXT TO ONE OF OUR

  • COLLEAGUES WHEN I

  • FIRST STARTED SEEING

  • THAT SHOT AND, YOU

  • KNOW, IN THESE GENERAL

  • ELECTION DEBATES,

  • EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR

  • PERFORMANCE IS

  • TELEVISED AND IT WAS

  • INDECIPHERABLE FROM A

  • \"SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE\"

  • SKIT.

  • HIS FACES AND

  • GRIMACES.

  • YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I'M

  • JUST -- I'M JUST NOT

  • SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE

  • GOING TO HOLD THAT

  • AGAINST HIM.

  • THEY LIKE THAT HE'S

  • REAL.

  • THEY LIKE THAT HE

  • EMOTES.

  • I AGREE WITH YOUR

  • ASSESSMENT EARLIER, I

  • DON'T THINK HE PULLED

  • ANYONE NEW INTO HIS

  • CAUSE WITH TONIGHT'SLE WALLAE

  • APPRECIATE THAT.

  • WE'RE JOINED BY DAVID

  • PLOUFFE, VETERAN

  • DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST

  • WHO WON BARACK OBAMA'S

  • CAMPAIGNS BACK IN

  • 2008.

  • ALSO WAS ON 2012.

  • DAVID, GOOD EVENING TO

  • YOU.

  • I GUESS THE QUESTION

  • IS, WE'LL JUST LET YOU

  • HAVE A FREEBIE HERE.

  • HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR

  • CANDIDATE DID?

  • >> I AGREE WITH CHUCK.

  • IT WAS SURREAL.

  • I MEAN, I THINK ONE

  • PERSON WAS PREPARED TO

  • BE PRESIDENT.

  • ONE PERSON WASN'T

  • PREPARED.

  • THERE WAS BIG MOMENTS.

  • I MEAN, BASICALLY

  • SAYING HE WAS SMART

  • NOT TO PAY TAXES,

  • CELEBRATED FACT HE

  • TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE

  • HOUSING CRISIS, LIED

  • ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR AND

  • ASKING PEOPLE TO CALL

  • SEAN HANNITY.

  • MAYBE SOME OF HIS

  • SUPPORTERS LIKED IT.

  • I'M SURE THEY DID.

  • HE'S LOSING IN THE

  • ELECTION.

  • HE NEEDS TO GAIN

  • SUPPORT.

  • I DON'T THINK HE DID

  • ANYTHING TO DO THAT.

  • I THINK HILLARY

  • CLINTON WAS STRONG,

  • COMPOSED, TOUGH WHEN

  • SHE NEEDED TO BE AND

  • CONNECTED WITH A LOT

  • OF UNDECIDED VOTERS

  • OUT THERE.

  • >> DAVID, DON'T YOU

  • THINK TRUMP SCORED

  • POINTS ON THIS ISSUE

  • OF TRADE AND ALSO THE

  • FACT THAT HILLARY

  • CLINTON HAD BEEN AT

  • THIS FOR QUITE A LONG

  • TIME?

  • SHE TALKS ABOUT HUE

  • SHE WANTS TO SOLVE

  • PROBLEMS.

  • SHE'S HAD THOSE

  • OPPORTUNITIES AND

  • HASN'T SEIZED ON THEM.

  • DID HE SCORE ONLY

  • POINTS THERE?

  • >> WELL, I DON'T THINK

  • SO.

  • HE TRIED TO IN THE

  • LONGEVITY.

  • I APPRECIATE WHAT HE

  • WAS TRYING TO DO.

  • BUT NO ONE WATCHING

  • THAT DEBATE IN MY VIEW

  • WHO'S NOT A TRUMP

  • PARTISAN THINK THIS IS

  • ANYBODY WHO'S GOT

  • SOLUTIONS TO PLANS.

  • IT WAS A LOT OF ALMOST

  • UNHINGED AND UNMOORED

  • PARTICULARLY AS THE

  • DEBATE WENT ON.

  • HE TALKED ABOUT HIS

  • TEMPERAMENT.

  • ANYBODY WATCHING THE

  • END OF THE DEBATE

  • WOULD RAISE QUESTIONS.

  • TRADE IS AN IMPORTANT

  • DEBATE.

  • SHE DID A GOOD JOB OF

  • EXPLAINING HOW SHE

  • APPROACHES TRADE.

  • AGAIN, I THINK

  • SOMEBODY LOOKING AT

  • THIS DEBATE WHO'S NOT

  • SURE IF THEY'RE GOING

  • TO VOTE FOR TRUMP OR

  • CLINTON, I DON'T THINK

  • TRUMP GAVE THEM

  • ANYTHING.

  • I THINK IT WAS A

  • PRETTY DOMINATING

  • PERFORMANCE.

  • VERY LOPSIDED IF YOU

  • ASK ME.

  • I'VE BEEN THROUGH A

  • FEW OF THESE.

  • BEEN ON THE RIGHT SIDE

  • AND WRONG SIDE OF

  • THEM.

  • I THINK THIS WAS A

  • VERY LOPSIDED WIN FOR

  • HILLARY CLINTON.

  • >> DAVID PLOUFFE WHO

  • WAS, OF COURSE, ON

  • TEAM CLINTON TONIGHT,

  • AS A SURROGATE.

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH.

  • BY THE WAY, WE'RE

  • GOING TO TALK TO RUDY

  • GIULIANI ON BEHALF OF

  • THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IN

  • A FEW MOMENTS.

  • >>> WHEN WE COME BACK,

  • OUR COVERAGE

  • CONTINUES.

  • CHUCK TODD HAS PICKED

  • KEY MOMENTS FROM THE

  • DEBATE.

  • WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT

  • THOSE AND ASSESS HOW

  • THE TWO CAMPAIGNS ARE

  • FEELING AFTER THE

  • >>> WE'RE BACK LIVE AT

  • HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY.

  • AND THE SPIN ROOM IS

  • ACTIVE.

  • THE SPINNERS ARE

  • SPINNING.

  • THE CORRESPONDENTS ARE

  • THERE.

  • KATY TUR WHO'S COVERED

  • THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN

  • FROM THE BEGINNING.

  • KATY, GOOD EVENING,

  • WHAT ARE YOU HEARING

  • BACK THERE?

  • >> THE DONALD TRUMP

  • CAMPAIGN WANTED HIM TO

  • COME OUT AND BE

  • PRESIDENTIAL, WANTED

  • HIM TO NOT FALL FOR

  • ANY ATTACKS WITH

  • HILLARY CLINTON.

  • TO NOT HIT BACK AT HER

  • UNNECESSARILY.

  • THEY WERE GOING FOR

  • MODERATE REPUBLICANS.

  • THEY WERE GOING FOR

  • WOMEN.

  • THOSE ARE THE FOLKS

  • THAT THEY NEED TO WIN

  • OVER THIS ELECTION.

  • TO ADD TO HIS BASE OF

  • SUPPORT.

  • TO GET HIM PAST THAT

  • 40% MARK.

  • DID HE GET THOSE FOLKS

  • TODAY?

  • IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE

  • HE IS GOING TO BREAK

  • GROUND WITH THEM.

  • DONALD TRUMP FELL FOR

  • A LOT OF HILLARY

  • CLINTON'S TRAPS, IF

  • YOU WILL.

  • HE INTERRUPTED HER

  • REPEATEDLY.

  • HE DIDN'T ACT AS

  • PRESIDENTIAL AS THE

  • CAMPAIGN HAD HOPED HE

  • WOULD EARLIER ON.

  • IN ALL, THOUGH,

  • SAVANNAH, WE SAW THE

  • DONALD TRUMP WE SAW

  • DURING THE PRIMARY

  • SEASON.

  • NOT THE PRESIDENTIAL

  • DONALD TRUMP THAT THE

  • CAMPAIGN WAS HOPING

  • FOR.

  • >> ALL RIGHT.

  • TA

  • .

  • >> LET'S GO TO ANDREA

  • MITCHELL, THE CLINTON

  • CAMPAIGN, WHAT ARE THE

  • MOMENTS THEY HOPE WILL

  • BE REMEMBERED THE

  • MOST?

  • >> CERTAINLY HER

  • COMMENTS ABOUT WOMEN.

  • WHEN DONALD TRUMP SAID

  • SHE DIDN'T LOOK

  • PRESIDENTIAL AND THEN

  • PIVOTED TO HER NOT

  • HAVING THE STAMINA AND

  • THE WAY SHE SEIZED ON

  • THAT SAID THAT HE HAD

  • PIVOTED FROM STAMINA

  • TO -- FROM LOOK TO

  • STAMINA AND THAT

  • ANYONE WHO HAD

  • TRAVELED AROUND TO 112

  • COUNTRIES AND SAT

  • THROUGH 11 HOURS OF

  • THE BENGHAZI HEARINGS,

  • COUNTERED HIM ON THE

  • WOMEN ISSUE AND THE

  • WAY HE TALKED ABOUT

  • WOMEN, TALKED ABOUT

  • THE LATINA WOMAN WHO

  • WAS A BEAUTY

  • CONTESTANT IN A

  • CONTEST.

  • SUGGESTING SHE HAD

  • GUILTY OF RACIST

  • BEHAVIOR GOING BACK TO

  • WHEN HE BEGAN HIS

  • BUSINESS IN 1973.

  • I THINK SHE WAS ON THE

  • DEFENSIVE ON TRADE, ON

  • JOBS.

  • THE ECONOMIC ISSUES,

  • EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD A

  • LOT OF FACTS ON HER

  • SIDE WERE NOT AS

  • COMPELLING TO THE WAY

  • HE WAS REACHING OUT TO

  • HIS BASE.

  • BUT NOT ADDING TO THAT

  • BASE.

  • >> ALL RIGHT, ANDREA.

  • I WILL LET YOU GO BACK

  • INTO THE SPIN ROOM AS

  • THEY SPIN AROUND.

  • >> HALLIE JACKSON IS

  • THERE, TOO.

  • I'M SURE YOU WERE

  • LOOKING AT YOUR iPHONE

  • OR BLACKBERRY AT THE

  • SAME TIME YOU WERE

  • WATCHING THIS DEBATE.

  • WHAT'S THE

  • CONVERSATION ON SOCIAL

  • MEDIA, WHAT ARE THE

  • MOMENTS THAT ARE

  • REALLY STANDING OUT?

  • >> SOME ACTIVITY HERE,

  • SAVANNAH, BEFORE WE

  • GET TO THOSE MOMENTS.

  • DONALD TRUMP, HIS

  • CAMPAIGN MANAGER

  • KELLYANNE CONWAY

  • COMING IN THE SPIN

  • ROOM RIGHT NOW.

  • I'M GOING TO KEEP AN

  • EAR ON THEM AND TALK

  • TO YOU.

  • MR. TRUMP, WE'RE LIVE

  • ON NBC NETWORK.

  • YOU'RE SEEING THE

  • TRUMP CAMPAIGN WISHING

  • THEY HAD HAD MORE

  • ABOUT BENGHAZI, ABOUT

  • HER E-MAILS.

  • MR. TRUMP, WE'RE LIVE

  • ON NBC RIGHT NOW.

  • MR. TRUMP.

  • LET'S LISTEN IN,

  • SAVANNAH, RIGHT NOW.

  • >> AND MY QUESTION FOR

  • YOU IS, IT SOUNDS LIKE

  • YOU ADMITTED YOU

  • HADN'T PAID FEDERAL

  • TAXES AND THAT THAT

  • WAS SMART.

  • IS THAT WHAT YOU MEANT

  • TO SAY?

  • >> I DIDN'T SAY THAT

  • AT ALL.

  • IF THEY SAY I DIDN'T,

  • IT DOESN'T MATTER.

  • I WILL SAY THIS.

  • I HATE THE WAY OUR

  • GOVERNMENT SPENDS OUR

  • TAXES.

  • BECAUSE THEY ARE

  • WASTING OUR MONEY.

  • THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT

  • THEY'RE DOING.

  • THEY'RE RUNNING IT SO

  • POORLY.

  • WHETHER IT'S SPENT IN

  • IRAQ OR WHEREVER

  • THEY'RE SPENDING IT,

  • THEY ARE WASTING OUR

  • MONEY.

  • SO I DO HATE THE WAY

  • OUR GOVERNMENT SPENDS

  • OUR MONEY.

  • >> MR. TRUMP, THAT

  • BIRTHER MOMENT GOT A

  • LOT OF ATTENTION, MR.

  • TRUMP.

  • DO YOU --

  • >> SAY WHAT YOU

  • SAID --

  • >> WHY DON'T YOU SPEAK

  • TO WOLF BLITZER

  • BECAUSE I GOT TO SEE

  • THAT ON WOLF BLITZER.

  • >> IN TERMS OF JUST,

  • SHE WAS EXPLAINING

  • WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE

  • SHE WAS THERE.

  • >> WHY DON'T YOU

  • SEE --

  • >> YOU SAID WHEN SHE

  • FIRED A VOLUNTEER FOR

  • WAS IN TRAFFICKING IN

  • SAYING THAT HE WAS A

  • MUSLIM, NOT ABOUT

  • BIRTHERISM.

  • >> WHY DON'T YOU DO

  • THIS?

  • WHY DON'T YOU SEE THE

  • REPORTER FROM

  • McCLATCHY, SPEAK TO

  • SYDNEY BLUMENTHAL

  • BECAUSE HE'S NEVER

  • GOING TO TELL YOU THE

  • TRUTH.

  • TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT

  • WHAT SHE SAID TO WOLF

  • BLITZER.

  • >> DO YOU APOLOGIZE

  • FOR THE BIRTHER PASS?

  • >> I GOT HIM TO PUT UP

  • HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE.

  • HILLARY CLINTON FAILED

  • BECAUSE SHE CAN'T

  • BRING IT HOME.

  • SHE'LL FAIL WITH JOBS

  • AND FAIL ALL THE WAY

  • ALONG THE LINE.

  • I THINK WE PROVED THAT

  • TONIGHT.

  • SHE FAILED WITH

  • GETTING HIM TO DO IT.

  • I GOT LIMB TO DO.

  • I'M PROUD OF THAT.

  • >> WILL YOU ACCEPT THE

  • OUTCOME OF THIS

  • ELECTION, MR. TRUMP?

  • >> SAY IT?

  • >> WILL YOU ACCEPT THE

  • OUTCOME OF THE

  • ELECTION?

  • >> ABSOLUTELY I WILL.

  • >> ALL RIGHT.

  • SAVANNAH, THAT WAS A

  • LIVE LOOK AT DONALD

  • TRUMP WALKING THROUGH

  • THE SPIN ROOM.

  • HIS CAMPAIGN MANAGER

  • KELLYANNE CONWAY

  • BEHIND HIM.

  • TRUMP TALKING A BIT

  • ABOUT SOME OF THE

  • MOMENTS TONIGHT

  • PARTICULARLY THE

  • BIRTHER MOMENT.

  • REPUBLICAN OPERATIVES

  • TEXTING ME TONIGHT,

  • ONE CALLING IT

  • DEVASTATING.

  • WE WILL SEE HOW THIS

  • PLAYS OUT WITH THE

  • CRUCIAL UNDECIDED

  • VOTERS.

  • SAVANNAH?

  • >> HALLIE JACKSON,

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH.

  • WHO NEEDS SURROGATES

  • WHEN YOU HAVE THE

  • CANDIDATE, HIMSELF?

  • CHUCK, YOU MENTIONED

  • TONIGHT WAS SURREAL.

  • HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A

  • PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

  • ACTUALLY GO INTO THE

  • SPINROOM AND DO THIS

  • OW SPIN?

  • >> HE'S DIFFERENT AND

  • CREATURE OF THE MEDIA.

  • NAME DROPS MEMBERS OF

  • THE MEDIA, WHETHER

  • SEAN HANNITY, WOLF

  • BLITZER.

  • THERE WAS A FEW

  • NETWORKS LEFT OUT.

  • I MEAN, MY GOSH, HE

  • DOES DO THAT.

  • CAN WE JUST -- THERE

  • WAS A BIG LOSER

  • TONIGHT.

  • I THINK IT WAS THE

  • AMERICAN PUBLIC FOR

  • THIS REASON.

  • THEY SPENT ALMOST, I

  • WOULD SAY, 75 MINUTES

  • TALKING ABOUT

  • THEMSELVES.

  • TALKING ABOUT

  • DEFENDING THEMSELVES

  • OR GOING AFTER EACH

  • OTHER.

  • I HAVE TO SAY THIS

  • WASN'T -- EARLY ON WE

  • GOT A LITTLE BIT OF

  • BACK AND FORTH ON

  • TRADE AND I THOUGHT --

  • THERE WERE TIMES WHERE

  • THEY JUST BLEW PAST

  • WHAT THE TOPIC WAS.

  • THEY GOT INTO THIS --

  • I HAVE A FEELING THERE

  • IS GOING TO BE THIS

  • FRUSTRATION FROM

  • VOTERS ABOUT THE LACK

  • OF SUBSTANCE.

  • >> BY THE WAY, WE'VE

  • ALREADY SEEN THAT

  • FRUSTRATION.

  • PEOPLE ARE FAIRLY

  • FRUSTRATED.

  • >> I THOUGHT YOU SAW A

  • FRUSTRATED DONALD

  • TRUMP.

  • HE DIDN'T STOP AND

  • SAY, I HAD A GREAT

  • EVENING, DID YOU SEE

  • WHAT SHE DID?

  • HE KEPT ON TRUCKING.

  • HE WAS DOING A DO-OVER

  • ON TRADE AND ON THE

  • DEFICIT BECAUSE HE

  • DIDN'T THINK HE

  • PROBABLY PUT THAT ONE

  • AWAY WHEN HE WAS ON

  • THE STAGE.

  • IT'S HARD TO KNOW.

  • BOTH OF THEM CAME

  • TONIGHT TRYING TO

  • ATTRACT VOTERS THAT

  • ARE STILL SITTING OUT

  • THERE IN THE MIDDLE.

  • THEY NEEDED TO GET

  • THEM TO THEIR SIDE.

  • IT'S ALWAYS A GUESS,

  • BUT MY GUESS IS THAT

  • HE HELD ON TO HIS

  • CONSTITUENCY, I DON'T

  • THINK HE BROUGHT A LOT

  • OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE

  • LINE TONIGHT BECAUSE

  • THIS AS I SAID

  • EARLIER, WE'RE GOING

  • FROM SPRING TRAINING

  • NOW INTO THE SEASON.

  • PEOPLE ARE LOOKING

  • WHO'S GOING TO BE THE

  • PRESIDENT AND IS THAT

  • THE PRESIDENT THAT I

  • WANT?

  • AND THE COUNTRY IS

  • DECIDING, WE'LL KNOW

  • MORE TOMORROW.

  • >>> AND THAT ABOUT

  • DOES IT FOR OUR

  • COVERAGE THIS EVENING.

  • CHUCK, IN ABOUT 20

  • SECONDS, WHAT'S YOUR

  • FINAL THOUGHT, YOUR

  • VERDICT ON THIS?

  • >> WE'LL KNOW HOW THE

  • CANDIDATES FEEL

  • TOMORROW MORNING.

  • HOW PUGILISTIC ARE

  • EITHER SIDE?

  • THE MORE AGGRESSIVE

  • CANDIDATE TOMORROW

  • MORNING IS THE ONE WHO

  • THINKS THEY LOST.

  • >> WE'LL BE WATCHING

  • BODY LANGUAGE AS

  • ALWAYS.

  • CHUCK AND TOM, GREAT

  • TO HAVE YOU WITH US.

  • BY WAY, THE NEXT

  • DEBATE TAKES PLACE

  • OCTOBER 4th BETWEEN

  • VICE PRESIDENTIAL

  • CANDIDATES TIM KAINE

  • AND MIKE PENCE.

  • COVERAGE OF TONIGHT'S

  • DEBATE CONTINUES RIGHT

  • NOW ON MSNBC.

  • WE WILL HAVE FULL

  • COVERAGE FIRST THING

  • IN THE MORNING ON

  • \"TODAY,\" LATER ON

  • \"NIGHTLY NEWS WITH

  • LESTER HOLT.\"

>>> IT'S TIME TO VOTE

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