we never know exactly what is going to happen. i would say tonight, we know less about what is going to a, oh myhis is more of god, what are we about to watch? dealthillary clinton has with these questions her entire career, donald trump has not. tonight promises to potentially be one of the most dramatic moments we have seen, not just in this presidential race but in any modern presidential race. if the issues that donald trump raised this afternoon, the issues the video raised, if these issues are joined, it is going to be something. john: charged with deep visceral issues around gender and power. mark: you can see bill clinton there with chelsea clinton and the trump's as well as the most prominent accusers bill clinton has ever faced. drama,n addition to the it also could be a hallucinatory debate. we are seeing things on this stage that none of us imagined seeing on a presidential debate

stage. mark: as another colleague said, the trump they are emphasizing policy tonight. john: they are going about it in a strange, not conventional way. mark: it is not an exaggeration to say that going into the debate before the video was released, the talk was he must win or his campaign and chance of winning are zero. even his supporters. we now have the prospect of trump needing a big performance under extraordinary, unusual, peculiar conditions. to this moment previously, this thing that happened on friday with the videotape put him in a position where he already had to win the debate. the odds got longer against him, and in the context of what he has done today, many people are going to be looking at him, many republicans, saying, what are you doing? mark: if you can't get excited for this, if you're not

interested in presidential politics but in humanity or in how people perform under pressure, i don't know what you are waiting for. tonight will be an epic battle between who are clinton and donald trump here at washington university. you see their bill clinton, the 42nd president of the united states, who knows he is going to be discussed shortly in terms that will likely be vivid and personal. will ask you this -- we have said it dozens of times, hillary clinton has been waiting for this, steeling herself for it. she prepares like crazy. i'm sure all of these issues have been litigated in practice, but it is different when it is gametime and you have to get in front of 60 million people. -- this isg to be going to feel not like a debate. this is going to be a different thing for her. mark: as meticulous and careful as her team is, certainly they

have tried to dig up every possible way donald trump could broach these issues. they probably did not think of the press conference. is this a situation in which all the preparation in the world can truly prepare? you see a vodka trump and eric and -- ivanka trumpdka and eric trump and melania trump. this is an unbreakable situation. john: the second presidential debate is about to begin. we are going to be broadcasting that live on bloomberg television and on twitter. is going to be on live on the stream all night long. we are going to be back afterwards. we are going to the debate hall now. ms. raddatz: good evening, i am arthur raddatz from abc news -- i am martha raddatz from abc news. mr. cooper: and i'm anderson

cooper from cnn. we want to welcome you to the second debate. tonight's debate is a town hall format, which gives voters the chance to directly ask questions. martha and i will ask follow-up questions, but the night belongs to people in this room and across the country who have submitted questions. ms. raddatz: the people you see on this stage were chosen by the gallup organization. they are all from the st. louis area and told gallup they have not committed to a candidate. each of them came here with questions they want to ask, and we saw those questions for the first time this morning. anderson and i and our team from abc and cnn are the only ones who have seen them. both candidates will have two minutes to answer each question. we hope to get to as many questions as we can, so we have asked the audience not to slow things down with any applause. except for now. ladies and gentlemen, the republican nominee for president, donald j. trump, and

the democratic nominee for president, hillary clinton. [applause] mr. cooper: thank you very much for being here. we are going to begin with a question from one of the members in our town hall. each of you will have two minutes to respond. secretary clinton, you will go first. the first question comes from patrice. >> thank you and good evening. the last presidential debate could have been rated as ma, mature audiences. educators assign students

to view as homework. do you feel you are modeling appropriate behavior for today's youth? ms. clinton: thank you. are you a teacher? >> yes. ms. clinton: that is a very appropriate question, because i have heard from a lot of teacher's concerns about things that are being done in this campaign. i think it is important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we are good. and we are going to respect one another, lift each other up. we are going to be looking for ways to celebrate our diversity. and we are going to try to reach out to every boy and girl, as well as every adult, to bring them in to working on behalf of our country. i have a very positive and optimistic view about what we can do together. that is why the slogan of my campaign is stronger together.

i think if we work together, if we overcome the divisiveness that sometimes sets americans against one another and instead, we make some big goals -- i have set forth some big goals, getting the economy to work for everyone, making sure that we have the best education system from preschool through college, and making it affordable -- and so much else. if we set those goals and go together to try to achieve them, there is nothing, in my opinion, that america can't do. that is why i hope that we will come together in this campaign. obviously, i'm hoping to earn your vote. i'm hoping to be elected in november. and i can promise you, i will work with every american. i want to be a president for all americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion. i want to heal our country and bring it together, because that is the best way for us to get

the future that our children and grandchildren deserve. mr. cooper: thank you. mr. trump, you have two minutes. mr. trump: i actually agree with that, i agree with everything she said. i began this campaign because i was so tired of seeing such foolish things happen to our country. this is a great country. i have gotten to know the people of the country over the last year and a half that i have been doing this as a politician. i cannot believe i'm saying that about myself, but i guess i have been a politician. and my whole concept was to make america great again. when i watch the deals being made, when i watch what is happening with some horrible things, like obamacare, where your health care is going up by numbers that are astronomical, 68%, 59%, 71%. when i look at the iran deal and how bad it is for us, a one-sided transaction where we

billion toback $150 the number one terrorist state. we have made them a strong country from a week country just three years ago. when i look at all the things i see and all the potential our country has, we have such tremendous potential. whether it is in business and trade, where we are doing so badly. last year, we had an almost $800 billion trade deficit. it is hard to believe. inconceivable. you say, who is making these deals? you're going to make great trade deals, have a strong border, bring back law and order. a policeman was just shot, and this is happening on a weekly basis. we have to bring back respect to law enforcement. at the same time, we have to take care of people on all sides. we need justice. i want to do things that have not been done, including fixing

in making our inner cities better for the african-american citizens that are so great, and for the latinos and hispanics. that, it isrd to called make america great again. mr. cooper: the question from patrice was about, are you both modeling positive and appropriate behaviors from today's youth. ofhave received a lot questions online about the tape that was released on friday. you called what you said locker room banter. you describe kissing women without consent and grabbing their genitals. that is sexual assault. you grab -- you brad that you aggedsexually -- you br that you have sexually assaulted women. do you understand that? mr. trump: that is not what happened. this is locker room talk. i have apologized, and i'm not proud of it, but this is locker room talk. in a world where you have isis chopping off heads, wars and

horrible sites all over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like medieval times -- we have not seen anything like this, carnage all over the world. can you imagine the people that are frankly doing so well against us with isis, and they look at our country and see what is going on? i'm very embarrassed by it, i hate it, but it is locker room talk, and it is one of those things. i will knock the hell out of isis. we are going to defeat isis. isis happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left because of bad judgment. and i will tell you, i will take care of isis. mr. cooper: mr. trump -- mr. trump: we will get on to more important and bigger things. mr. cooper: just for the record, are you saying that you did not actually kiss women or grope women without consent? mr. trump: nobody has more respect for women than i do.

you hear these things are said. and i was embarrassed by it, but i have tremendous respect for women and women have respect for me. no, i havee not. -- not. and i will tell you, i will make our country safe. we will have borders around our country. they are coming in for the middle east and other places. we are going to make america great again and safe again. and we are going to make america wealthy again, because if you don't do that, it sounds harsh to say, but we have to build up the wealth of our nation -- other nations -- mr. cooper: thank you, mr. trump. secretary clinton, do you want to respond? ms. clinton: like everybody else, i have spent a lot of time thinking over the last 48 hours about what we heard and saw. with prior republican nominees, i disagreed with them on

politics, policies, principles, i never questioned their fitness to serve. donald trump is different. i said starting back in june that he was not fit to be president and commander in chief. and many republicans and independents have said the same thing. ont we all saw and heard friday was donald talking about women, what he thinks about women, what he does to women, and he has said that the video does not represent who he is. but i think it is clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is. because we have seen this throughout the campaign. we have seen him insult women. rate women onim their appearance, ranking them

from one to 10. we have seen him and there is women on tv and on twitter. they saw him after the first debate spent nearly a week denigrating a former miss universe in the harshest, most personal terms. so yes, this is who donald trump is. but it is not only women and it is not only this video that raises questions about his fitness to be our president. because he has also targeted immigrants, african-americans, latinos, people with , muslims, andpows so many others. this is who donald trump is. the question our country must -- this is not who we are. that is why, to go back to your question, i want to send a message -- we all should -- to

every boy and girl and the entire world that america already is great, but we are great because we are good. and we will respect one another, and we will work with one another, and we will celebrate our diversity. these are very important values to me, because this is the america that i know and love. and i can pledge to you tonight that this is the america that i will serve if i'm fortunate enough to become your president. ms. raddatz: we want to get to some questions from online. ms. clinton: --. mr. trump: can i respond to that? it is just words, it is just words. i've been hearing them for many years. i heard them when they were running for the senate in new york when hillary was going to bring back jobs to upstate new york, and she failed. where hillaryhem is constantly talking about the

inner cities of our country, which are disaster education wise and job wise, safety wise, in every way possible. i'm going to help the african-americans, latinos, hispanics. i'm going to help with the inner cities. she has done a terrible job for the african-americans. she wants your vote and she does nothing. we saw that firsthand when she was the united states senator. she campaigned -- ms. raddatz: mr. trump: i want to get to audience questions. mr. trump: so she is allowed to do that, but i'm not allowed to respond? sounds fair. ms. raddatz: this tape is generating intense interest. that has become the single most talked about story of the entire facebook, withn millions and millions of people discussing it on the social network. as we set a moment ago, we do want to bring in questions from voters around the country via

social media. our first question on this topic is, trump says the campaign has changed him. when did that happen? mr. trump, let me add to that. when you walked off the bus at the age of 59, were you a different man, or did that behavior continue until just recently? you have two minutes. mr. trump: i just told you, that was locker room talk. i'm not proud of it. i am a person who has great respect for people, my family, the people of this country. certainly i am not proud of it, but that was something that happened -- if you look at bill clinton, far worse. mine are words, and his was action. there has never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that has been so abusive to women. so you can say anyway you want to say it, but bill clinton was abusive to women. hillary clinton attacked those same women and attacked them

viciously. four of them are here tonight. one of the women, a wonderful woman, at 12 years old, was raped at 12. her client she represented got him off, and she is seen laughing at two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped. kathy sheldon, that young woman, is here with us tonight. don't tell me about words. absolutely, i apologize for those words. but it is things that people say. but what president clinton did -- he was impeached, he lost his license to practice law, he had to pay an $850,000 fine one of the women, pol a jones, who is also here tonight -- pollock -- paula jones, who is also here tonight.

when hillary talks about words that i said years ago, i think she should be ashamed of herself. [applause] ms. raddatz: please hold the applause. secretary clinton, you have two minutes. ms. clinton: first, let me start by saying that so much of what he just said is not right, but he gets to run his campaign anyway he chooses. he gets to decide what he wants to talk about and set of answering people's questions, talking about our agenda, laying out the plans that we have that we think can make a better life and better country. that is his choice. when i hear something like that, i am reminded of what my friend, michelle obama am a advised us all -- when they go low, you go high. [applause] [cheers] ms. clinton: if this were just about one video, maybe what he is saying tonight would be

understandable. that everyone can draw their own conclusions at this point, about whether or not the man on the video or the man on the stage respects women. but he never apologizes for anything or to anyone. he never apologized to mr. and , the gold star family whose son died in the line of duty in iraq. and donald insulted and attacked them for weeks over their religion. he never apologized to the distinguished federal judge who , but donaldindiana said he could not be trusted to be a judge because his parents were "mexican." he never apologized to the reporter that he mimicked and mocked on national television, and our children were watching. and he never apologized for the racist lie that president obama

was not born in the united states of america. he owes the president an apology, he owes our country and to take and he needs responsibility for his actions and his words. the president owe and apology, because as you know very well, your campaign -- sidney blumenthal, another real winner that you have -- he is the one who got this started. they were on television saying exactly that. you really owe him an apology. you are the one who sent the pictures around with president obama and a certain garb. that was long before i was involved, so you actually owe him an apology. number two, michelle obama. have gone to see the commercials that they have done on you, and i have gone to see some of the most vicious commercials i have ever seen of michelle obama talking about you, hillary.

you talked about a friend -- go back and take a look at those commercials. a race you lost fair and square, unlike the bernie sanders race, where you won but not fair and square, in my opinion. all you have to do is take a look at wikileaks and see what they said about bernie sanders and see what deborah wasserman schultz had in mind, because between superdelegates and her, he never had a chance. i was so surprised to see him sign on with the devil. but when you talk about apology, i think the one you should really be apologizing for our the 33,000 e-mails that you deleted and that you acid washed. and then the two boxes of e-mails and other things last week that were taken from an office and are now missing. what, i didell you not think i would say this, but i'm going to say it, and i hate to say it. but if i win, i'm going to

instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception, there has never been anything like it. and we are going to have a special prosecutor. when i go out and speak, the people of this country are furious. that opinion, the people are the long-term workers at the fbi are furious. there has never been anything like this were e-mails -- and you get a sabena -- you get a subpoena, and after getting a subpoena, you delete 33,000 e-mails and then you bleach them, as you would say, a variant expensive process. so we are going to get a special prosecutor in look into it. because people's lives have been destroyed for doing 1/5 of what you have done, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

everything he just said is absolutely false, but i'm not surprised. ms. raddatz: the audience needs to calm down here. ms. clinton: in the first debate, i told people it would be impossible to fact check on it all the time. -- fact check donald all the time. i would not be able to talk about everything i want to do to make lives better people. go to my website, you can fact check him in real-time. at the first debate, we had millions of people fact checking , so i expect we will have millions more. it is -- it is just awfully good that someone with a temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law and our country. mr. trump: because you would be in jail. [cheers] mr. cooper: we want to remind the audience to please not talk out loud. please do not apply. you are wasting time.

ms. raddatz: secretary clinton, i do want to follow up on e-mails. you said you were handling of e-mails was a mistake. the fbigreed with director calling your handling of classified information "extremely careless." 110fbi said there were classified e-mails exchanged, eight of which were top-secret, and that it was possible hostile actors did gain access to those e-mails. you don't call those extreme the careless? ms. clinton: i have said it before, but i will repeat it. that was a mistake, and i take responsibility for using a personal e-mail account. obviously, if i were to do it over again, i would not. i'm not making any excuses. it was a mistake, and i'm very sorry about that. but i think it is also important to point out where there are some misleading accusations from critics and others.

investigation,ng there is no evidence that anyone hacked the server i was using, and there is no evidence that anyone can point to at all -- anyone who says otherwise has no basis -- that any classified material and it up in the wrong hands. i take classified material very seriously and always have,. when i was on the senate armed services committee, i was privy to a lot of classified material. obviously, as secretary of state i have some of the most important secrets that we possess, such as going after bin laden. to takingry committed classified information seriously, and as i said, there is no evidence that any classified information and it up in the wrong hands. mr. trump: and yet, she did not know the word -- the letter c on a document. she didn't even know what that

letter meant. it is amazing, i'm watching hillary going after facts, and she is lying again, because she said what she did with e-mails was fine. you think it was fine to delete 33,000 e-mails? she said they had to do with her daughter's wedding and yoga class. orl, maybe three or four five could be, but 33,000 e-mails deleted. more importantly, that was after getting a subpoena. that was after. she got it from the united states congress, and i'm so disappointed and congressmen, including publicans -- including republicans, for allowing this to happen. her husband goes into an airplane for 35 minutes, talks to the attorney general days before ruling is made on her case. but for you to say that there was nothing wrong with you --eting 39,000 e-mails

again, you should be ashamed of yourself. and this is after getting a subpoena from the united states congress -- mr. cooper: we have to move on. ms. raddatz: we want to give the audience a chance. mr. trump: you should be put in jail. mr. cooper: secretary clinton, you can respond, but we have to move on to an audience question. ms. clinton: it is just not true. personal e-mails, not official. mr. trump: 33,000. ms. clinton: well we turned over -- mr. cooper: please allow her to respond, she did not talk while you talked. ms. clinton: i did not -- i try not to in the first debate, and i will try not to in this debate. i want to get to the questions that people need to ask. donald, i know you are into a diversion tonight, anything to avoid talking about your campaign and the way republicans are leaving you --

but i want to talk about the issues people care about tonight. mr. cooper: we have a question from ken about health care. mr. trump: i would like to know, why aren't you bringing out the e-mails? it has not been finished at all. .r. cooper: 10 has a question mr. trump: one on three, thank you. >> the affordable care act known as obamacare is not affordable. up,iums have gone deductibles have gone up, co-pays have gone up, and the coverage has gone down. what will you do to bring costs down and make coverage better? start out: we will with secretary clinton, because you started with the last one. ms. clinton: if he wants to start, he can start. mr. trump: no, i'm a gentleman, hillary, go ahead. ms. clinton: i think donald was

about to say he is going to solve it by repealing it and getting rid of the affordable care act. and i'm going to fix it, because i agree with you. premiums have gone too high, co-pays, deductibles, prescription here is what i do not want people to forget when we are talking about reining in the cost which has to be the highest priority of the next president. when the affordable care act pass, it was not just the 29 people that got insurance that did not have a before, but that was a good thing. i need these people all the time and they tell me what a difference having the insurance meant to them and their families. the 170 million of us that get health insurance through our employers got big benefits. the one, insurance companies cannot deny you coverage is of a pre-existing condition. number two, no lifetime limits.

that is a big deal if you have serious health problems. number three, women cannot be charged more than men for our health insurance which is the way it used to be before the affordable care act. number four, if you are under 26 and your parents have a policy, you can be on the policy until the age of 26. something that did not happen before. whatt very much to save works and is good about the affordable care act, but we have to get cost down. we have to provide some additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance. if we were appealing, as donald has proposed and start over again, all of those benefits i just mentioned are lost to everybody, not just people that get their health insurance on the exchange. and then we would have to start all over again. healthow, we write 90% in current -- health insurance coverage, the highest we have

been. i want to get to 100% by get cost down and keep quality up. mr. cooper: mr. trump you have two minutes. mr. trump: it is a great question and it is the question i get more than anything else outside of defense. obamacare is a disaster. we all know it. it is going up at numbers that no one has ever seen like this for health care. it is only getting worse. it implodes by itself. they plan to go ask congress for more money. we are almost $20 trillion in debt. obamacare will never work. it is very bad, very bad health insurance. and not onlysive, expensive for the person that has a, unbelievably expensive for our country. it is one of the biggest line items very shortly. we have to repeal it and replace it with something absolutely

much less expensive and , where yourat works plan can be tailored. we have to get rid of the lines around the state where we stop insurance companies from coming because theying want to leave those lines because that gives the insurance companies essentially monopoly. we want competition. you will have the finest health care plan there is. she wants to go to a single player -- pay her plan. when the canadiens need a big operation, when something happens, they come to the united states in many cases ,ecause their system is so slow it is catastrophic in certain ways. she wants to go to single-payer, which means the government basically rules everything. hillary clinton has been after this for years. obamacare was the first step. obamacare is a total disaster.

not only of the rates going up by numbers no one has ever seen, unless you get hit by a truck, you are never going to be able to use it. it is a disastrous plan and it has to be repealed and replaced. mr. cooper: secretary clinton, your husband called obamacare "the craziest thing and the world." premiums doubled, coverage cut in half. was he mistaken? ms. clinton: no. he clarified what he meant. it is a very clear. int, we are in a situation our country where if we were to start all over again, we might come up with a different system. but we have an employer-based system. that is where the best majority of people get their health care. the affordable care act was meant to try to fill the gap between people that were too poor and cannot put together any resources to afford health care, namely people on medicaid.

obviously, medicare which is a single-payer system which takes care of our elderly and does a great job doing it, by the way. all of the people that were employed, but people who were working but did not have the money to afford insurance and did not have anybody, and employer or anyone else to help them. that thethe slot obamacare approach was to take. 20 million people now have health insurance. if we just rip it up and throw it away, but donald is not telling you is, we just turn it back to the insurance companies the way it used to be. that means the insurance companies to do pretty much whatever they want, including saying, i am sorry you have diabetes, you had cancer, your child has asthma, you may not be able to have insurance because you cannot afford it. let's fix what is broken about it, but let's not throw it away and give it all back to the insurance companies. that is not going to work. mr. cooper: mr. trump let me follow up on this. mr. trump: first of all,

everything is broken about it. saystwo, bernie sanders hillary clinton has very bad judgment. this is a perfect example of it. mr. cooper: you said you want to end obamacare. you want to end obamacare. you also want to make coverage accessible to people with pre-existing conditions. how do you force insurance companies to do that if you are no longer mandating? mr. trump: we're going to have a plan. mr. cooper: what does that mean? mr. trump: the plans are going to be so good because there will be so much competition. once we break out the lines that allow the competition to come. mr. cooper: will there be a mandate? mr. trump: excuse me. by president obama keeping the lines around each state, almost on until very toward the end of the passage of obamacare. and by the way, was a fraud. jonathan gruber, the architect of obamacare said it was a great lie.

president obama said you keep your doctor, you keep your plan. it does not work. when we get rid of those lines, you will have competition, and we will be able to keep the existing. we will also be able to help people that do not have money because we are going to have people protected and republicans feel this way. believe it or not, they feel strongly this way. grantsgoing to block into the states. mr. cooper: thank you, mr. trump. mr. trump: we will be in the to take a people without the necessary funds to take care of themselves. ms. raddatz: we now go to a question for both candidates. >> hello. muslimse 3.3 million and i am one of them. you mentioned working with muslim nations but with islamophobia on the rise, how we you help people like me deal with the consequences of labeled as a threat to the country after the election is over? ms. raddatz: mr. trump, you are first. mr. trump: you are right about

islamophobia and that is a shame. there is a problem. whether we like it or not, and we could be very politically correct, but whether we like it or not, there is a problem. we have to be sure that muslims come and and report when they see something going on, when they see hatred going on, they have to reported. an example from san bernardino. any people saw the bombs all over the apartment of the people that wounded many people, horribly wounded. they will never be the same. muslims have to report the problems when they see them. there is always a reason for everything. if they do not do that, it is a very difficult situation for the country. you look at orlando and you look at san bernardino and you look at the world trade center.

she will not even mention the word and neither will president obama. he will not use the term radical islamic terrorism. to solve a problem, you have to be able to state but the problem is or at least say the name. she will not say the name and president obama will not say the name. the name is there. it is radical islamic terror. before you solve it, you have to say the name. ms. raddatz: secretary clinton. ms. clinton: thank you for asking a question. i have heard this question from a lot of muslim-americans from across our country because unfortunately, there has been a lot of very divisive, dark things said about muslims, and ,ven some of like captain khan the young man sacrificing himself defending our country in the united states army has been subject to attacks by donald. i want to say a couple things. first, we have had muslims since george washington. we have had many successful

muslims, we just lost it particularly well known one with muhammad ali. america is in america where everyone has a place if you are willing to work hard, do your part, contribute to the community. that is what america is and that is what we want america to be for our children and grandchildren. it is also very shortsighted and even dangerous to the in gauging and the type of rhetoric donald has about muslims. to bed american muslims part of our eyes and ears, on the frontlines. i have worked with a lot of different muslim groups around america. i have met with a lot of them and i have heard how important it is for them to feel they are wanted and included an part of our country, part of our homeland security and that is what i want to see. it is also important, i intend

to defeat isis, but to do so in a coalition with majority muslim nations. right now, a lot of those nations are hearing what donald says and wondering, why should we cooperate with the americans? this is a gift to isis and the terrorists, violent jihadist terrorists. .e are not at war with islam it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of a terrorist to act as though we are. so, i want a country where citizens like you and your family are just as welcome as anyone else. ms. raddatz: thank you, secretary clinton. this,ember you said donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our countries representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. we have no choice. we have no choice. your running mate said the muslim ban is no longer your

position. what is that correct? mr. trump: first of all, captain .han is an american hero if i was president, he would be alive today because unlike her who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, i would not have had our people in iraq. iraq was a disaster. he would have been alive today. is something that in some form has morphed into extreme vetting from certain areas in the world. hillary clinton wants to allow -- ms. raddatz: why didn't morphed into that? answer the question. mr. trump: why don't you interrupt her? ms. raddatz: will you explain whether the muslim ban still stands? mr. trump: it is called extreme vetting. we are going to areas like syria where they are coming in the tens of thousands cousin of

barack obama and hillary clinton increasellow a 550% over obama. people are coming into our country like we have no idea who they are, where they are from, what their feelings about our country is, and she wants 550% more. this is going to be the great trojan horse of all time. problems in our country. i believe in building safe zones and having other people pay for them. an example, states that are not carrying their weight. i do not want to have, with all of the problems this country has and all of the problems you see going on, hundreds of thousands of people coming in from syria where we know nothing about them, know nothing about their values and we know nothing about their love for our country. ms. raddatz: secretary clinton, let me ask you about that, because you have asked for an increase of 65,000 syrian

refugees. we know you want tougher bedding. that is not a perfect system. why take the risk of having to refugees coming to the country? ms. clinton: first of all, i will not let anyone in our country that poses a risk to us. there are a lot of refugees, women and children, think of that picture we all saw of the four-year-old boy with the blood on his four head to kiss he had been bombed by the russian and syrian air forces. there are children suffering in this catastrophic war, largely because of russian aggression and we need to do our part. we by no means are cheering anywhere near the load europe and others are. vettingwill have i that is as tough as it needs to be from our professionals, intelligence experts and others.

it is important for us as a policy, not to say, as donald has said, we are going to ban people based on the religion. how do we do that? we are a country founded on religious liberties? how do we do what he has abdicated without causing great distress within our own country? are we going to have religious tests when people fly into our country, and how do we expect to be able to implement those? i thought that what he said was extremely unwise and even dangerous. indeed, you can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorist sites, and what donald trump says about muslims is used to recruit fighters because they want to create a war between us. the final thing i will say, this

is the 10th of 12 time he has denied being for the war in iraq. we have it on tape, the entire press corps has looked at it and it has been devonte that it never stops him from saying whatever he wants to say. go to hillary clinton.com and you can see it. mr. trump: that was against the war in iraq. you voted for it and you should not have. ms. raddatz: there has been a lot of fact checking on that. mr. trump: she just went about 25 seconds over her time. can i respond to this? hillary clinton in terms of having people come into our country. we have many criminal illegal aliens. we want to send them back to their country but the country says, we do not want them. in some cases they are murderers, druglords and they do not want them. hillary clinton when she was secretary of state says, that is ok. let me to you, i will force them right back into the country. they are murderers and some very

bad people. i will tell you, i feel very strongly, when bernie sanders said she has its bad judgment, she has really bad judgment as we are letting people into this country that are going to cause problems in crime like you have never seen. we are letting drugs pour through the southern border. it should not be allowed to happen. they have never endorsed a presidential candidate. the border patrol candidates, 16,500 recently endorsed me. they endorsed me because i understand the border. she does not. she wants amnesty for everybody. come right in, come right over. it is a horrible thing she is doing. she has bad judgment and honestly, so bad she should never be president of the united states. ms. raddatz: thank you, mr. trump. i want to move on. the next question comes to the bipartisan open forum where american submitted questions that generated millions of votes.

wikileaksion involves experts of secretary clinton's paid speeches which he has refused to release and one line in particular in which you say, you need both a public and private position on certain issues. beit ok for politicians to two-faced? secretary clinton, your two minutes. ms. clinton: as i recall, that was something i said about abraham lincoln after having seen the wonderful steven spielberg movie called "lincoln." it was a master class watching president lincoln get the congress to approve the 13th amendment. it was principled and it was strategic. that itking the point

is hard sometimes to get the congress to do what you want to do, and you have to keep working at it, and yes, president trying to convince some people using some arguments, convincing some people he used other arguments. display ofgreat presidential leadership. you know, let's talk about what is really going on because our intelligence community just came out and said in the last few days that the kremlin meaning putin and the russian government are directing the attacks, the hacking on american accounts to influence our election. wikileaks is part of that as our other sites where the russians hacked information, we do not even know if it is accurate information, and then they put it out. we have never in the history of

our country been in a situation where an adversary of foreign toer is working so hard influence the outcome of the election, and believe me, they are not doing it to get me elected. they are doing it to try to influence the election for donald trump, maybe because he has praised putin, they do because he says he agrees with a lot of foot putin wants to do, maybe because he wants to do business in moscow. i do not know the reasons that we deserve answers, and we should demand that donald release all of his tax returns so that people can see what are the entanglements and the financial relations that he has. ms. raddatz: secretary clinton you are out of time. mr. trump: i think i should respond. look, now she is blaming, she got caught in a total lie. her papers went out to all of her friends and she says things that just came out.

she lied. now she is blaming the lie on the late, great abraham lincoln. never lied. that is the big difference between abraham lincoln and you. that is a big, big difference. we are talking about some difference. as far as other elements of what she was saying, i think it would be great if we get along with russia because we could fight isis together for example. anythinganything time wrong happens, they say the russians. maybe there is no hacking. they always blame russia. the reason they blame russia is because they think they are trying to tarnish me with russia. i know nothing about russia. i know nothing about the inner workings of russia. i have no businesses, no loans from russia. i have a very great elegy, so great-- balance sheet, so

that because of my balance sheet, which they know really ose me to do the old post office. perhaps the primary thing was balance sheets. i have no loans with russia. you could go to the united states government and they would probably tell you that because they know my sheet really well in order to get that development. now, the taxes are a very simple thing. first of all, i pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. bigger her friends to deductions. warren buffett took a bigger deduction, a massive deduction. many of the people giving her all this money that she could do many more commercials then me took massive deductions. i pay hundreds of millions of soon asin taxes, but as my routine audit is finished, i will release my turn my returns. ms. raddatz: thank you, mr.

trump. mr. cooper: on the topic of taxes, we have a question. >> good evening. my question is, what specific tax provisions would you change to ensure the wealthiest americans pay their fair share of taxes. mr. cooper: mr. trump, you have to minutes. mr. trump: one of the greatest provisions, for people like me, to be honest with you, giving up a lot when i run because i would knock out the talks can -- tax code. she could have done this years ago. she complains that donald trump took advantage of the tax code. well, why did she not change it when you were a senator? the reason is because all of your friends take the same advantage. you have provisions in the tax code that we could change, but you would not change it because all of these people give you the money so you can take negative ads on donald trump. i say that about a lot of

things. i have heard hillary complaining about so many different things over the years, but she has been there for 30 years, doing the stuff and she never changes and never will change. she never will change. we are getting rid of carried interest provisions. i am lowering taxes because i think it is important for corporations. we have massive corporations leaving. the little ones cannot form. we are getting rid of regulations, but we are bringing the tax rate down from 35% to 15%. we are cutting taxes for the middle class. i tell you, we are cutting the big-league. hillary clinton is raising your taxes. people look at me, she is raising your taxes really high, and what that is going to do is a disaster for the country. she is raising your taxes and i am lowering your taxes. that is a big difference. we are going to be thriving again. we have no growth in this country. 7% it ishas a gdp of

like a natural catastrophe. we are down 1% and that is like no growth. we are going lower, in my opinion. a lot of it has to do with the fact that our taxes are high, just about the highest in the world and i'm bringing them down to one of the lower in the world and i think it is so important, one of the most important things we could do but she is raising everybody's taxes massively. mr. cooper: secretary clinton, you have to minutes. what tax provisions would you change to make sure the wealthiest americans pay their fair share? ms. clinton: everything you have heard is not true. i am sorry, i hate to keep saying this, but he lives in an alternative reality, and it is sort of amusing to hear somebody that is not pay federal income taxes and maybe 20 years talking about what he is going to do. i will tell you what he is going to do. his plan will give the wealthy and corporations the biggest tax cuts have ever had. more than the bush tax cuts by at least a factor of two.

donald always takes care of donald and people like donald, and this would be a massive gift. indeed, the way that he talks about his tax cuts would end up raising taxes on middle-class families, millions of middle-class families. here is what i want to do. i have said, nobody who makes less than $250,000 a year, and that is a vast majority of americans as you know will have their taxes raised because i think we have to go where the money is, and the money is with people who have taken advantage of everything a break in the tax code. i didhen i was a senator vote to close corporate loopholes. i voted to close one of the loopholes he took advantage of when he claimed a billion-dollar loss that enabled him to avoid paying taxes. peopleto have a tax on who are making $1 million, it is called the buffet role. yes, warren buffett is the one that says, someone like him

should not be paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. i want to have a surcharge on incomes above $5 million. we have to make up for lost time to guess i want to invest in you. i want to invest in hard-working families and i think it is been unfortunate, but it has happened that since the great recession, the gains have all gone to the top. we need to reverse that. donald who pay zero in taxes, zero for the veterans, zero for the military, zero for health and had you -- education, that is wrong. we are going to make sure that nobody, no corporation and no individual can get away without paying his fair share for our country. mr. cooper: mr. khan, i want to tell our viewers what she is referring to. taxes were the number one issue on facebook. the new york times published three pages of your tax returns laming and $960 million loss which means you could avoid

paying federal income taxes for years. he said he paid employ taxes, real estate taxes, but you have not answered, did you lose the $916 million loss to avoid pain income taxes? and ofmp: of course i do course all of her donors do. i know many of her donors. her donors took massive tax write-offs. a lot of my right off was a pretty -- depreciation. she always allowed this because the people that give for all this money, they wanted and that is why. i understand the tax code that have been anyone has ever run for president. 11 clinton, and it is extremely complex, 11 clinton has friends that want all of the provisions including the carried interest provision which is very important to wall street people. is leavingillary carried interest, but i will tell you that the one i paid tremendous numbers of taxes. i absolutely used it and so did

warren buffett and so did george soros and so did many of the other people that hillary is getting money from. i will not mention any names because they are rich but they are not famous, so they will not make them famous. mr. cooper: can you say, years you have avoided paying federal income taxes? mr. trump: no. i have a right off and a lot of it is depreciation. it is a wonderful charge. she has given it to us. if she had a problem, for 30 years she has been doing this. she talks about health care. why did she not do something about it? she talks about taxes. she does not do anything about anything other than talk. with her, it is all talk and no action. again, bernie sanders, it is really bad judgment. nothas made bad judgment only on taxes. she has made bad judgment on libya, syria, iraq.

her and obama, whether you like it or not, the way they got out of iraq, the vacuum they have left, that is why isis formed in the first place. they started from the little area and now they are in 32 different nations. congratulations. right job. mr. cooper: a response from secretary clinton. ms. clinton: well, here we go. i have been in favor of getting bit of carried interest for years, starting when i was a senator in york. that is not the point. mr. cooper: why did you not do it? ms. clinton: i was a senator with a republican president. mr. trump: if you were affective, you would've done it. you could have done it. you are not an effective senator. mr. cooper: she is allowed to respond. ms. clinton: you know, under our constitution, the president is something called the veto powers. he has now said repeatedly 30 years this, 30 years that. let me talk about my 30 years in

public service. i am very glad to do so. 8 million kids every year have health insurance does when i was first lady i worked with democrats and republicans to create the children's health insurance program. hundreds of thousands of kids now the chance to be adopted because i worked to change our adoption and foster care system. after 9/11, i went to work with republican mayor, governor and president to rebuild new york and get health care for our first responders who were suffering because they had run byard danger and got sick at. hundreds of thousands of national guard and reserve members have health care because of work i did. children have safer medicine because i was able to pass a law that required the dosing to be more carefully done. when i was secretary of state, i went around the world advocating for our country but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better

life and negotiated a treaty with russia to lower nuclear weapons. 400 pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when i was a senator for eight years. and was very hard proud to be reelected in new york and even bigger margin than i had been elected the first time. as president, i will take that work, the bipartisan work, the finding common ground is you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in washington and i have proven that i can and for 30 years, i produce results. we are ms. raddatz: we are going to move on. mr. trump, we are going to go on. it is about the audience. esther trump, we are going to move on. the heartbreaking video of a five-year-old syrian boy sitting in the ambulance after being pulled from the rubble after an

airstrike in aleppo focused the world's attention on the horrors of the war in syria. are much worse images coming out of aleppo every day for the past few weeks alone 400 people have been killed, 100 of them children. just days ago, the state department called for a war crime investigation of asa sad and its ally, russia. and comes from diane pennsylvania. if you are president, what would you do about syria and the humanitarian crisis in aleppo? isn't it like the holocaust when the united states waited too long before we helped? secretary clinton we will begin with you. ms. clinton: the situation in syria is catastrophic, and every day that goes by we see the assads of the regime by

in partnership with the iranians, the russians in the air bombarding places, in particular, aleppo where there are hundreds of thousands of people, probably 250,000 still left. there is a determined effort at the russian air force to destroy aleppo in order to eliminate the last of the syrian rebels who were really holding out against .he assad regime russia has not paid any attention to isis. they're interested in keeping assad and power. as secretary of state i advocated a no-fly zone and save zone. we need some leverage with the russians the chasm they are not going to come to the negotiating table for a diplomatic resolution unless there is some leverage over them.

we have to work more closely with our partners and allies on the ground. emphasize that what is at stake here is the ambitions and aggressiveness of russia. russia has decided that it is all in in syria and they have also decided who they want to see become president of the united states and it is not me. i have stood up to russia. i have taken on putin and others and i would do that as president. i think wherever we can cooperate with russia, that is fine and i did a secretary of state. that is how we got a treaty reducing nuclear weapons. it is how we got the sanctions on iran was put a lid on the iranian nuclear program without firing a single shot. i would go to the negotiating table with more leverage than we do have now but i do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the syrians and the russians and

try to hold them accountable. ms. raddatz: thank you, secretary clinton. mr. trump: she was there with the line in the sand. ms. clinton: no i wasn't, i was gone. i hate to interrupt you. at some point, we need to check the facts. obama listenrhaps to you. i do not think you would be listening to much anymore. it was laughed at all over the world what happened. with that said, she talks tough about russia. when our nuclear program has fallen way behind and they has wild with their nuclear program. our government should not have allowed that to happen. russia is new in terms of nuclear. we are old, tired exhausted in terms of nuclear. a very bad thing. she talks tough, really tough against putin and assad. she talks in favor of the rebels.

she does not know who the rebels are. every time we take rebels whether it is iraq or anywhere else, we are bombing people, and you know what happens? they end up worse than the people. look at what happened in libya with qaddafi. and isis has a good chunk of their oil. i am sure you have heard that. it is a disaster. almost everything she has done and foreign policy has been a mistake and a disaster. if you look at russia, take a look at russia and look at what they did this week where she was not there, but possibly she consulted, we sign a peace treaty. everyone is so excited. what russia did, and by the way with iran who we made very powerful with the dumbest deal i have ever seen in the history of dealmaking, the iran deal with $150 billion, the $1.7 billion in cash which is enough cash to fill up this room, but look at that deal. iran and russia are now against us. she wants to fight.

she wants to fight for rebels. it is only one problem, you do not know who the rebels are. ms. raddatz: mr. trump, your two minutes are up. mr. trump: one thing i have to say. but not like assad at all they are killing isis. iran is killing isis. they have lined up because of our weak foreign policy. ms. raddatz: mr. trump, let me repeat the question. [laughter] ms. raddatz: if you were president, what would you do about syria and the humanitarian crisis in aleppo. i want to remind you what your running mate said. russia, provocations by need to be met with american strength and that if russia continues to be involved in airstrikes along with the syrian government forces, the united states of america should be prepared to use military force to strike the military targets of the acai regime. mr. trump: ok. he and i have not spoken and i disagree.

ms. raddatz: you disagree with the running mate? mr. trump: right now, syria is fighting isis. we have people that want to fight both at the same time. syria is russia and iran who she made strong and obama made into a carol -- a very powerful nation very quickly, very quickly. get isis.we have to we have to worry about isis before we can get too much more involved. she had a chance to do something with syria and that was the line. ms. raddatz: what you think will happen if aleppo falls? what do you think will happen if it falls? mr. trump: it basically has fallen, ok? you take a look at muscle, the biggest problem i have with the stupidity of our foreign policy. they think a lot of the isis leaders are in mousel. we will be attacking them in three weeks or four weeks.

all of these bad leaders from isis are leaving. why can they not leave quietly? do the attack, make it a sneak attack, and after the attack is made, inform the american public that we have knocked out the leaders, had a tremendous success. why do they have to say we are going to be attacking them in the next four to six weeks which is what they are saying? how stupid is our country? ms. raddatz: there are reasons the military does that, psychological warfare. mr. trump: i cannot think of any. ms. raddatz: it might be to help get civilians out. mr. trump: i have 200 generals that have endorsed me. i have 21 congressional of metal on her endorsements. we talk about it all the time. they understand. why can they not do something secretively where they go in and they knocked out the leadership. why would these people stay there? ms. raddatz: tell me what your strategy is. .r. trump: that is the harbor

this is where they think the isis leaders are. they are not saying they are anywhere? they are gone. everyone is talking about how iraq, which is us with their leadership goes into fight. the 200 at numeral's, they cannot believe it. all i say is this, general george patton, general douglas macarthur are spinning in their graves at the stupidity of what we are doing in the middle east. ms. raddatz: i am going to go to secretary clinton. you advocated arming rebels but it looks like that may be too late for aleppo. you talk about diplomatic efforts, those that have failed, cease-fires have failed. would you introduce the threat of u.s. military force beyond a no-fly zone against the assad regime to backup diplomacy? ms. clinton: i would not use american ground forces in syria. i think that would be a very

serious mistake. i do not think american troops should be holding territory, which is what they would have to do as an occupying force. i do not think that is a smart strategy. i do think the use of special forces, which we are using, the use of enablers and trainers in iraq which is had some positive a fact are very much in our interest, and so i do support what is happening. ms. raddatz: what would you do differently than president obama? ms. clinton: i hope by the time i am president, we will have pushed isis out of iraq. i do think there is a good osel,. that we can take m . says he knows more about isis then the generals. he does not. there is a lot of important planning going on, and some of

it is to signal to the sunnis and kurdish fighters that we all need to be in this, and that takes a lot of planning and preparation. i would go after baghdad. i would specifically target baghdad because the targeting of al qaeda leaders and i was involved with a lot of those operations, highly classified ones made a difference. i think that could help. i would also consider arming the kurds who has been our best partners in syria and iraq. i know there is a lot of concern about that in some circles, but i think they should have the equipment a need so that kurdish and arab fighters on the ground are the principal way that we take mr. cooper: we have a question

from james carter. mr. carter. is, do youion devotedyou can be a president to all of the people in the united states? mr. cooper: mr. trump. mr. trump: absolutely. are people deplorable, a large group, irredeemable. i will be a president for all of her people. i will be a president that will turn the inner cities around and will give strength to people and will give economics to people and will bring jobs back because nafta is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world, not in this country, it stripped us of manufacturing jobs. lost our jobs, lost or money,

while star plans and it is a disaster. now she wants to sign tpp. she called it the gold standard. at the last debate she lied because it turned out that she did say the gold standard and she said she did not say that. he actually said that she lied. she lied. she has lied about a lot of things. i would be a president for all of the people, african-americans, the inner cities. devastating what is happening to the inner cities. she has been talking about them for years. as usual, she has been talking about it and nothing happens. same thing with the latino americans. the hispanic americans. the same exact thing. they talk but they do not get it done. you go into the inner cities and you see 45% poverty. african-americans, 45% poverty in the inner cities. the education is a disaster. jobs are essentially nonexistent. i mean, it is, you know, and i have been saying in big speeches

where i have 20,000 people, 30,000 people, what do you have to lose? they cannot get any worse. she has been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. nothing isshe is doing everyonee favors. mr. cooper: mr. trump -- mr. trump: she is all talk and it does not get done. you have to look at her is her record.nd secretary it turned out as a disaster. ms. clinton: well, six e 7% of the people voted to reelect me when i ran for my second term and i was very proud and very humbled by that. mr. carter, i have tried the entire life to do what i can to .upport children and families you know, right out of law

school i went to work for the children's defense fund. donald talks a lot about the 30 years i have been in public service. i am proud of that. i started off as a young lawyer working against dissemination against african-american children in schools and the criminal justice system. i worked to make sure that kids with disabilities could get a public education, something that i care very much about. i have force with latinos, one of my first jobs in politics was down in south texas registering latino citizens to be able to vote. devotion to deep use your absolutely correct word to making sure every american feels like he or she has a place in our country. and, i think when you look at the letters that i get, a lot of people are worried that maybe they would not have a place in donald trump's america. they write to me and one woman son felixbout hearsr

who she adopted when he was a toddler. day,id to his mother one will he send me back to ethiopia if he gets elected? you know, children listen to what is said, to go back to the very, very first question. there is a lot of fear. in fact, teachers and parents are calling it the trump a fact. bullying is up and a lot of people are feeling uneasy. a lot of kids are expressing their concern. first and foremost, i will do everything i can to reach out to everybody, democrats, republicans, independents, people across the country. if you do not vote for me, i still want to be a president. i want to be the best president i can be for every american. mr. cooper: i want to follow up with something donald trump said to you, a comment you made last month. he said half of donald trump's

supporters were deplorables, racist, xenophobic, islamophobia and you later said he regretted saying half. you did not express regret for using the term deplorable. how can you unite the country if you have written off tens of thousands of americans? ms. clinton: i said i was sorry about the way i talked about not because my argument is with his supporters, it is with them and the hateful and divisive campaign he has run. the inciting of violence at his rallies and the very brutal kinds of comments about not just women but all americans, all kinds of americans. what he has said about african-americans and latinos immigrants,s, pows, people with disabilities he has never apologized for. and so, i do think that a lot of the tone and tenor he has said, i am proud of the campaign bernie sanders and iran.

we ran a campaign based on issues and not insults and he is supporting me 100% because we talked about what we wanted to do. we might have had some differences, and we had a lot of debates, but we believed that we could make the country better, and i was proud of that. mr. trump: we have a divided nation. we have a very divided nation. you look at charlotte, you look at baltimore, you look at the violence taking place in the inner cities of chicago. you take a look at washington dc. we have an increase in murder within our cities, the biggest and 45 years. we have a divided nation because of people like her. believe me, she has tremendous hate in her heart. when she said deplorables she meant it. when she said, irredeemable, they are irredeemable, you did not mention that. when she said they are irredeemable, to me that might have been even worse. she has tremendous hatred.

this country cannot take another four years of barack obama and that is what you are getting with her. mr. cooper: mr. trump, in 2008 you wrote in one of your books that the most important characteristic of a good leader is discipline. you said, if a leader does not have it, he or she will not be around for very long. in the days you sent out a series of tweets from 3:00 a.m. to five of 5 a.m. including one that told people to check out a sac state. ex tape. mr. trump: it was not about a sex tape. it was about a wonderful woman she built up. take a look at benghazi, who is going to answer the call at 3:00 in the morning. guess what, she did not answer because when ambassador stevens. mr. cooper: that is not the point. a. trump: she also sent tweet out of 3:00 in the morning. she said she is going to be away. ?

ambassador stevens sent 600 requests for help and the only when she talked to was cindy blumenthal who is her friend and not a good guide, by the way. you know, she should not be talking about that. tweeting happens to be a modern form of communication. you can like it or not like it. the between facebook and twitter, i have almost 25 million people. it is a very effective way of communication. you can put it down, but it is no very effective way of medication. mr. cooper: does he have the discipline to be a good leader? ms. clinton: no. mr. trump: i am shocked to hear that. ms. clinton: it is not only my of manybut the opinion others, national security experts, republicans, former republican nubbers of congress, but it is in part because those of us that have had the great privilege of seeing this job up

close and know how difficult it is, and it is not just because i watched my husband take a $300 billion deficit and turn it into a $200 billion surplus and 23 million new jobs were created and incomes went on for everybody, everybody. african-american incomes went up 33%. it is not just because i worked with george w. bush after 9/11. i was very proud that when i told him what the city needed, what we needed to recover, he said, you got it and he never wavered. he stuck with me. i have worked and i admire president obama. he inherited the worst financial crisis since the great depression. that was a terrible time for our country. mr. cooper: we have to move along. ms. clinton: 5 million homes were lost in $13 trillion in family wealth was wiped out. he would send us back into recession with his tax plans. mr. cooper: secretary clinton

we're moving to an audience question. we are almost out of time. ms. raddatz: mr. trump we are moving to an audience question. we want to get to the audience. thank you very much, both of you. we have another audience question. beth miller has a question for both candidates. >> good evening. perhaps the most important aspect of this election is a supreme court justice. what would you prioritize as the most important aspect of selecting a supreme court justice? ms. raddatz: we begin with secretary clinton. ms. clinton: thank you. you are right. this is one of the most important issues in this election. i want to appoint supreme court justices that understand the thed -- understand the way world really works, who have real life experiences, have not been in a big law firm but

tried some more cases, actually understand what people are up against the cousin i think the current court has gone in the wrong direction. i would want to see the supreme court reverse citizens united and get dark, i counted money out of the politics. donald does not agree with that. i would like to supreme court to understand voting rights are still a big problem in our country. that we do not always do everything we can to make it possible for people of color and older people and young people to be able to exercise their franchise. i want to supreme court that will stick with row versus wade and a woman's right to choose and i want to supreme court that will stick with marriage equality. a donald has put forth the names of some people he would consider. among the ones that he has suggested our people who would reverse roe versus wade and reverse marriage equality. i think that would be a terrible

mistake and would take us backwards. i want to supreme court that is not always side with corporate interest. i want to supreme court that understands that because you are wealthy and you can get more money to something does not mean you have any more rights or should not have any more rights than anyone else. i have very clear views about what i want to see to change the balance on the supreme court. that the senate has not done its job and they have not permitted a vote on the person that president obama, a highly qualified person, they have not given him a vote to be able to have the full complement of supreme court justice. i think that was a dereliction of duty. i hope that they will see their way to doing it, but if i am so fortunate as to be president, i will immediately move to make sure that we fill that and we have nine justices and get to work on behalf of our people. ms. raddatz: you are out of time. mr. trump: justice scalia, great

judge, died recently. we have a vacancy. judgesoking to appoint very much in the mold of justice scalia. i am looking for judges, and i have picked 20 of them so that people would see highly respected, highly thought of and actually very beautifully reviewed by just about everybody. people that will respect the constitution of the united states. i think this is so important, also the second amendment which is totally under seizur by -- under siege like hillary clinton. some important to me. hillary clinton mentioned something about contributions. race, more in my than $100 million put in of my money, meaning i am not taking all of this big money from all

of these different corporations. what i ask is this, i am putting in more by the time it is finished, i will have more than $100 million invested, pretty much self funding mine and we are doing tremendously on the small donations, $61 average or so. i asked hillary, why did she not make $250 million by being in office? she used the power of her office to make a lot of money. why is she not funding, 10 million or $30 million into your own campaign? it is $30 million less for special interests that will tell you exactly what to do and it would be a nice sign to the american public. why are you not putting money in? you have made a lot of that because of the fact that you have been in office? you made a lot of that while you were secretary of state. why are you not putting money in your own campaign? ms. raddatz: we are going to get onto one question. the question was

about the supreme court. i respect the second amendment, but i believe there should be, intensive back on checks and we should close the gun show loophole and close the online loophole. ms. raddatz: we have one more question. mr. cooper: we have one more question about energy policy. what steps will your energy policy take to meet our energy needs while at the same time reminding environmentally friendly in minimizing job loss for fossil power plant workers? mr. trump: i think that is such a great question because energy is under siege. the environmental protection agency is killing the energy companies. foreign companies are coming in and buying so many of our changing plants and the plan to take care of their oil. we are killing our energy

business in this country. i am all for alternative forms of energy, including wind and solar, etc. we need much more than wind and solar. hillary clinton wants to put all of the miners out of business. there is a thing called clean coal that will last for 1000 years in this country. we have natural gas because of technology, we have unbelievable, we have found over the last seven years, we have found tremendous wealth under our feet. so good, especially when you have $2020 in debt. i will bring our energy companies back. they will be able to compete, make money, pay off the national debt, pay off the tremendous budget deficits which are tremendous, but we are putting our energy companies out of business. we have to bring back our workers. you take a look at what is happening to