♪ >> welcome to our special bloomberg politics special, the third and final prime time presidential debate. i am megan murphy. we are live outside the university of nevada las vegas for the third and final presidential debate. arriving,ald trump

and an half an hour they will share the stage for the last time. will bes moderator chris wallace. we welcome all of you watching live on twitter as part of our new and groundbreaking partnership. tonight, we will be looking at -- earlier tonight, my colleague spoke with a clinton campaign surrogate, reverend jesse jackson. he started by asking what clinton had to do tonight. >> to make the distinction between two sides of history. she kidron those distinctions where it matters. keep drawing those

distinctions where it matters. think that when you see donald trump talking about a rigged election, worried that the election will be stolen from him and his supporters, telling his supporters they need to watch certain polling places, how do you translate that? >> it is unfortunate and unfair. we have a voting rights act that dealt with the injustices. she calls resistance, he calls fraud. doing that and undermined in the integrity of

the entire process. he is laying the groundwork for a third party and maybe a tv network. is a signthink it that he has basically lost already? conflict he has with paul ryan, for example, the republicans in 1964, the wingrson davis segregation join the reagan-goldwater wing. split and aig tenuous coalition between the southern democrats in the northern republicans. trump is pulling the covers off of it. that it iseve certain that hillary clinton will win this election? >> i

>> i don't think it is certain. you cannot predict the polls. what matters at the end of the day is that people vote. you mention that what she had to do tonight was counter his personal attacks with policy. of people whot still have profound doubts about her. veracity, her trustworthiness, whether she is about ambition or the country. where do you think hillary clinton over the course of the do tohree weeks needs to allay concerns that she will be able to govern effectively as president? her for therust support for gender equality and racial justice, raise worker

,ages, to have a supreme court issues that matter to people on the ground, you can trust her to engage on those issues. so much focus on wikileaks, putin, and the women beenll that stuff, it has entertaining, but not in lighting for people who need to hear substance. say, had marco rubio today issued a warning to his own party and said this is an unprecedented thing with foreign power and russia stealing data from the democratic party, john podesta, and now using it in this and in dairy way. he said we should stay away from this because it could happen to us next time. feel about this issue

that has never happened before in a presidential election? to cozy up to putin at this stage and gave him an open door to undermine the process, he runs an oligarchy and a fascist regime. we run a democracy. thes not right to give russians to operate in. i think the senator from florida is right. thing, if you had to give hillary clinton one sentence of advice for what she should do tonight. , it would be what? shouldn't so like an eagle and take us with her to higher ground. jackson, you are still a go, and you know it. >> we also heard from the trump side. spoke with the

executive director of the national diversity coalition for trump. what ited by asking would look like a donald trump executes his game plan this evening. win. are going to it will be large. trump will bring that fire, enthusiasm, energy he had when he started the campaign in june. you see it tonight 10 times more. >> what are you hoping that he will raise this evening? people will be looking at national security, not to mention our job situation as it relates to our debt, hopefully that we can have more dialogue and that we don't get off track into other things, but that is what i believe the american people are looking for two more than anything. the point if the object is to focus on issues and bring people to debate to accusing the clinton of impropriety? it is unfortunate that all

candidates find a way that they can have a significant gain and to bring into question about a candidate's viability in terms of ethics are being commander-in-chief for what they have done, i think it is fair game as it relates to a candidate that has some questionable parts of him or her that needs to be brought into question, so i think it is fair. >> you say you want to focus on issues and voters want to focus on issues, now for the second straight debate mr. trump is bringing people to the they don't really go to issues as it does to the clintons past and their ethics. fair.hink it is it is unfortunate that mr. trump has been hit from every angle with people coming out of the woodwork claiming he did this, he did that, and i think it is once again everything epically that goes on with candidate does

need to be brought to the forefront and let the american people make a decision on that. democrats are talking about expanding the states are going , arizona, texas, georgia, any chance the democrats could win georgia? >> no, i don't say that just because i am a party chairman of that state for-five years ago, but the difference with us is that every single constitutional , public service commissioners, congressional, senate, everyone down the down ballot are supporting donald trump wholeheartedly. strong significant, playing field in terms of the primary. we were 48 plus percent in the primary, and that tsunami has only grown. in the general, you will see no, so is absolutely not whatsoever, no. >> is donald trump's line to

african-americans continuing to play well? a lot of people expressed reservations. >> i think it is healthy and speaks to the heart and soul of a lot of cities that are under -- predominantly african in communities like atlanta. the city of atlanta has a situation in the public school system. democratic school board, democratic city council, democratic mayor, democratic leadership or 30-40 years, and they're not the only one. a neighboring county had the same situation where the governor had to come in and unseat the board members because there was so much chaos going on. buts very stern and direct, you asked the question, look around in your communities, our ministry works in the inner cities, we know they need, and you look around and say, guys,

do we like what we see or do we want something different or what do we have to lose? it is very strong indirect, but it sends a great article signal for a republican candidate to bring this to the forefront. you have been quoted as saying that if people really solve with donald trump is like, he is. what are the aspects you have yet to see that would convince the american people? i'm a friend.l, i do not work for the campaign. i am a business owner. i speak for the small business that i represent in atlanta. one thing i like to say about donald trump is that if you notice, every single poll, if you look at polls, he always has the high mark of trustworthy, and there's one thing i can say fact hem that at is the is absolutely trustworthy. it is strong, direct, firm, but when you shave away all the other things that people throw is trustworthy.

that is one harmful tool that i see for me as a person, fran, i have traveled with them, i have been on his plane, that is one viable asset that is powerful, and you see it in the media. his ratings are very high when it comes to trustworthy. >> good luck tonight. thank you for joining us. wins thel see who trustworthy about tonight. we will be back more here on bloomberg tv and now streaming on twitter. stay with us. ♪

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coverage of the third and final presidential debate. i am megan murphy. we are at the university of nevada las vegas and host of tonight's presidential debate. we are partnering with twitter for this special coverage so that you can watch live. you can watch it on bloomberg politics and bloomberg tv. everyone is talking about what kind of donald trump we will see. discussed, there is a lot of pressure on hillary clinton as well. no question about it, donald trump is behind in the polls. donald trump has to have a huge night tonight in order to make , butr the loss that he had hillary clinton has a big night too, and here is why. has a choiceon between a minor victory on

november 8, or she could win by a huge margin. we know her campaign is trying to exchange outreach. think aboutwe donald trump, what donald trump do you think we will see tonight? we've heard all sorts of rumors uests, who willwho will sho show up. i think that trump campaign realizes he did not come off as well as they wanted him to and that second debate, and donald trump was out today doing a lot of the stuff we saw him doing before that second debate, but if he stays on message, we know they have been pushing this message of ethics reform, his outsider status, trying to shake up washington, trying to tie

some of clinton's scandals and bad polling numbers into one big narrative of, you can't trust her. she is corrupt. i'm the only one who can take on washington. if he stays on message, that might be his best hope. ,hen donald trump is desperate we don't know what he will do. megan: there's a new poll that shows are leading among men for the first time. leading among less educated voters, voters without a college degree. with those two trends, there's no way he pulls out a victory. is there anyway he can turn that tied around? that is his face. that is who he was supposed to have in the bank.

he needed to focus on persuadable voters, independent s, maybe pull away some young people are disenfranchised and then so they stay at home. clinton is tapping into donald trump coalition. to speak tom multiple groups at once, and that is really hard to do because you can talk to your out otheryour leaving people, or you can go to the middle and try to see more presidential, but you are abandoning these people you need to write a love. remember, the donald trump campaign really does believe there are voters out there that these polls are not capturing. but theree are some, are republicans out there who might turn out and surprised people in november 8. ,e needs to speak to them too

so this is the challenge. how does he speak to all of them tonight? my colleagues are in the spin room and have someone with them. been scurrying around this room trying to get our stuff together and talking to people. people, whataign is your current thing about what will happen here tonight on the stage. mark: the tension seems lower tonight. they know the drill. they know what is going on. clinton's side, there is a high degree of confidence they will win the election regardless of what happens here tonight. the reality is that the

first debate is always huge tension. of theond debate because unusual circumstances of the access hollywood take, another level of super bowl intensity. ins is where stuff is locked , a little bit lower energy, but still matters a lot. mark: chris wallace is one of the best in the business, and i would suspect the campaigns have for the extra hard kinds of questions chris wallace will ask. in the case of donald trump, you have a guy coming in here who has made the news for the most of the last week. donald trump is been making news, but not making news. bannon said donald trump

fake, so of the head he's been disciplined talking about reform, corruption, all that stuff. on the basis of what he has been doing, what is the head fake. where does he go? clinton's health? here now joining us by magic. what you think about this. if donald trump is the master of the head fake, what does that mean for tonight? we already know, the people don't quitehere have the punch of the past presidentbut between obama's half brother, sera palin, and still to be determined. the: there is a sense on clinton's side that this race is

over. what is your sense? >> they think donald trump is acting out of desperation. they're still looking at the strategy of building beyond 270. if he has lost noncollege voters in white male voters, it's difficult for him to turn it around in the next three weeks. i remember in 2008, the moments after the financial crisis when barack obama said i'm going to be president and i have to start talking like roosevelt now. he started to talk like a president, not a presidential candidate. anticipate continue the track they are on now that we will here this from hillary clinton? what i'm looking for is

really to see whether she starts this for governance, the transition, trying to come together with the best version of a mandate she can come up with. when we see her turn towards that and away from the idea of getting across the finish line, that is when we will know they are confident about winning. we are 10 minutes away from the start of the third and final debate between donald trump and hillary clinton. joining us now are our colleagues. what if you been doing? >> i just spoke with governor pence. they are prepared to see a donald trump tonight who continues to go after hillary clinton in an aggressive way. i asked him about the controversial guests in the debate hall. supportthey welcome the obama, then they

pivoted and talked about patricia smith, the mother of the individual who lost his life in benghazi. they're not shying away from the controversy they are bringing to the drama. john: do you have any sense that in addition to controversial guests, donald trump in the case he wants to prosecute that he will throw some long passes here tonight? are we going to hear about hillary clinton's health for instance? is that where the debate will go? it's the last opportunity to reset the race, so you will hear a lot about wikileaks, her time at the state department, but at the latestthe day, poll shows him nine points down. there is an understanding of where they are at this juncture in the race, but i spoke with one prominent republican pollster and he said

this is it, but no one can count .im out you're watching bloomberg's coverage of the debate starting a little after 9:00. we are streaming live on twitter. what is something people getting ready to watch the debate may not realize are fully appreciate. >> i think trump is speaking to withe who are committed his strategy of being aggressive, confrontational, rattle hillary clinton. i think we will hear attacks on her as an enabler of her husband with women, a lot about wikileaks. mark: you think about donald trump's experience as a debater,

history moments were when he relentlessly went after folks and basically took them down. for him in thell primary. with the swing voters that he needs, i don't know whether how well that will work. john: we know that hillary clinton prepares intensely. she knows chris wallace will come at her with tough questions. donald trump is flailing away like george foreman in rumble in the jungle. let donald trump punch or fight him.rtlan >> i think she will try to portray herself as the adult in the room. tohink she will continue portray trumpets temperamentally unfit and unqualified. try to get has to

him as much rope to hang himself as possible. we are just minutes away from that very debate. break andke a quick be back right after this. ♪

tonight'sright, so debate about to start. you can watch on bloomberg television and twitter. we will be back with analysis starting at 10:30 p.m. now, wallace is on stage giving the audience the house rules. final thoughts, mark? mark: if donald has a path, he must win this debate decisively. he must change the trajectory of their race, and many people around him know that. we will see. schmidt thought

donald trump had given a bad performance in the first and second debate. he thinks the race is over. the only possible way it could at be over is if he gave performance tonight as good as it was bad in his first performance. this is the last formal event. they will both appear in manhattan on thursday, but no other event will bring the two of them together. john: we have had a lot of october surprises already. given the daily october surprises, we could have more.