all. i have never seen someone break down in tears aths they were running the bases again. >> that's really beautiful. thank you for joining us. insi "inside politics" starts right now. >> thank you, john and kate. i am john king, thank you for sharing some time with us today. assessing the impact from last night's big debate. exactly, six weeks until election day. question one, will donald trump learn his question? and at times looking unprepared. >> i would like everybody to end it, just get rid of it. i think once the nuclear alternative happens, it is over. at the same time we have to be prepared, i cannot take anything off the table.

>> a little bit of contradiction there. did hillary clinton stopped donald trump? >> he called this woman miss piggy then he called her miss housekeeping because she was latino. donald, she has a name. she has became a u.s. citizen and you can bet she's going to vote this november. >> oh really? >> feisty debate with us last night. jonathan martin with the new york times and cnn's mali malikmalika hep malika henderson. >> i think it went better than i ever thought. >> no, i loved it. but, it did not take long just a minute or two for the finger

pointing to start. >> they also gave me a defective mic. did you noticed that? >> that guy is not getting paid. >> was that i purpose? i had a mic that was not working properly. lets be clear, the mic was not the culprit. there was a lot of grumbling among republicans, including some really close to trump that their candidates dropped the ball at the moment. he had a chance to seize control of the race, the bottom line as we debate the be dadebate over next hour is that he did not do that. >> hillary clinton before flying to north carolina of the key battleground of this state. >> well, i think his demeanor and temperament and behavior on the stage could be seen by everybody and people can draw

their own colnclusions. and then this. >> what about his stamina? he's blaming about the microphone that he's not having a good night. >> she's not known for coming back and talking to reporters. we'll get in the best exchange of the debate the next hour and we'll go through tax and foreign policies and e-mails of the best and the worse. the big picture this morning is campaigns trying to put a face on it. donald trump acted on twitter saying that he really enjoyed the debate last night. you always try to put the best face on it. among republicans and even in the trump circle, they realized they missed the opportunity. >> the biggest challenge that donald trump faces is winning over female voters. that's his central challenge. the story comame out of last night's debate was not great. the exchange of gender was the

end of that debate. donald trump comes out on a news show -- >> lets listen. >> she was contested in the miss universe, hillary clinton says donald trump insulted her. you think donald trump this morning would say that was a long time ago and i apologize if i offended anybody. that's not what he said. >> that person was a miss universe person and she was the worst we ever had. >> did not know that story. >> she was the winner and she gained a massive amount of weight, it was a real problem. >> it boggles the mind that somebody of accused -- ensuring that story line is the central of the next day.

like i said, his biggest challenge is winning over female voters. >> this story about alin alina machado, i have not heard it before. that was the plan to introduce something new. they gone in the debate with the scene about donald trump and his words and using his words against him and you have harry reid calling him out a flat out racist. he was taking the debate. that was such a terrible moment for him in the debate because he did not have a real answer for it and to continue for it. they knew this is going to happen. >> no matter who you support, it was crystal clear. she i am in with a clear strategy. she had a clear strategy. she studied the video tape and knew what worked for the primary to get under his skin. she targeted every one of her answers and she knows she v

struggles with african-americans and young voters. this morning, she responded, this one, miss piggy, she gained a massive amount of weight, that's a problem. the clinton campaign is watching, matt, keep your phone on the pedal >> they're going to keep going with this. history with the first female a candidate on the stage. they're going to push with that. donald trump is giving oxygen by keep on talking about that. he needs to change his subject on something else. maybe we'll see that on his rally this afternoon. we are talking about women and donald trump and on miss universe contested in 1997. >> you saw it over and over again, such a difference in preparations and in the sense that she had kind of cleverly of the debate that she wanted to lay for him and he took it

almost every time where he kept on returning because of his rattle, he kept on returning to subjects that did not, you know, go to his benefit. he went back to the middle of the e-mail discussion, went back to his tax returns. the strategy was not thought through and that's what's the big difference was. >> he also went back to rosie o' donnel. >> back to that first debate when he brought up rosie o' donnel last night. >> he is who he is and that's not going to change. he does have a talent for focusing on one big issue and driving that. i thought he was effective in doing that in the opening 20 minutes talking about this issue of american decline. that appeals to a good chunk of

vot voters in this country. the issue is, he cannot stay on that and once he's bait in, he just drifts from his focus and talks about his own personal. >> i want to get to the economy stuff in a minute. this is a key point because it is about preparations and strategies and coming in of clear goals. they're trying to reach different voters. he did not have a system planned. we'll get to this in a minute whether it was his taxes or birther debate. she had clear plans and ideas and how to get under his skin and how to debate him. she also clearly studied him. she knew he likes to raise the issue of stamina. when it came, she passed. >> i just left detroit and philadelphia you have seen me, i have been all over the place. and you decided to stay home and that's okay. >> i think donald just criticizing me for preparing for

this debate. and yes, i did, you know what else i prepared for? i prepared to be president and i think that's a good thing >> she's playing the hands. it is a tough one. people in this country wants change. he's the outsider and she's a brand that's been in politics for more than 30 years but it is the brand that she's got. i am prepared and i studied, that's wrong with that. >> this idea and this is her idea alone. he does not take it seriously. this is all game to him and donald trump has built his own kind of reality and this is his extension of reality. he plays into that immediately and even i thought he's good at channelling the anger of working class and all the people experiencing the downturn economically but he did not make it about them, he made it about himself. why are you running so many ads against me? >> she effectively talks about

her own father, you know, in the business, she had trouble in the past kekiconnecting her story oe working people of this interesting moment where she talked about an architect who said he was not paid by trump and she was able to tie that back to her father that it could have been my father and how would people feel about that. >> much more to talk about. we'll break down some of the best moments. as jonathan just mentioned, donald trump had his moment including of a strong start, his case for change and her answer, next.

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if you only watched the first 30 minutes or so of last night's debate. all this talk today of clinton winning may seem out of place. >> you have been doing this for 30 years, why are you just thinking about these solutions now, for 30 years you have been doing this and now you are starting to think of solutions. excuse me, i will bring back jobs, you cannot bring back jobs. >> well, actually, i have thought about this quite a bit. >> yeah, for 30 years. >> well, not quite that long. i think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s. >> that was his part of the best moment when he's trying to make the case of the in rum decumben the country goes to the other

party. you can take disgust with washington and the way it was going to work or does not work in most cases. that's what donald trump was trying to channel. i thought that was his best moment. you been there too long and you are apart of the problem and you cannot fix it. >> hillary clinton was talking in herring language and she was not clear or concise, trump was at his best in those early moments before it changed to his business records and his taxes and she started laying the ground work for kind of baiting him in the debate >> i do think though the interruptions within that first, i did think the first 23 minutes were his strongest. those interruptions over and over again that men and women maybe have different responses to that and in a way, i was just texting with folks like during the debate and some people thought that was great that he came off as fighter, the champion for the working guy and another woman i spoke to did not

like that interruptions over and over again and clearly the clinton campaign is use that to their advantage today. >> if you are a trump voter, he's repeatedly getting in the face of hillary clinton and you like that. if you think trump is a bully or is rude, and even the gender thing aside, there is too many of that. if you are clinton supporters and he came across the guy in the office that does not know a lot and talks a lot and int interrupts everyone. he may have said this last night or early this morning when we are on tv, he said something like, 62% -- >> that was not that much, he had about 3-minute time, something in that area. >> he blew it. she seem to like that and kind of let him do and kind of boys

will be boys thing. >> she was not interrupting him at all. she was content. >> 46 minutes for him. >> and to that, on the way to north carolina, he told reporter that those interruptions reminded women around the country of the bully they know in their lives. >> we are talking about different subsets of voters. they both have different constituents that they try to put together. each candidate is trying to micro-target. her calling card is he's dangerous and yes, he's an outsider but this guy is dangerous and he tried to turn it back on her and saying well, you got a good resume but what have you done with it? >> hillary has experience but it is bad experience. we have made so many bad deals

during the last -- she's got experience that i agree whether it is the iran deal or anything you can -- you almost cannot name a good deal. i agree she got experience but it is bad experience. this country cannot afford of having another four years of that kind of experience. >> i think that was a fantastic moment for him. it is a pretty straightforward election. what the conversation is about the status quo in washington and who can best bring change to that. it is usually on his turn. that's home game for donald trump. when the conferring versation i donald trump, she wants to make it about him. most times, you know, you don't want to have a referendum cam pa

ca campaign -- typically, the incumbent would like to run. trump is so extraordinary that she got to make it about him and less about the message. >> a big issue for him if ru lookiyou are looking at the battleground stakes. the way he's looking at people in these states, he's looking at pennsylvania and ohio and michigan and looking at place that is used to be the foundation of american factories are struggling. he blames a lot of this on the free trade deals and to be determined whether it passes the trans pacific partnership. when she was secretary of state, it was a top priority for her. >> you called it the gold standard of trade deals. you said it was the finest de s

deals. >> donald, i know you live in your own reality. >> secretary, you have no plan. >> i have written a book about it, it is called "stronger together." you can book it up. >> he like to say that, she does not have a plan. she does have many detailed plans far more than he does. she did call it the "gold standard." i had a boss at the time and i had to do my boss' bidding. she was clear and gave a couple of detailed speeches. >> in those expression, you can see she's been knocked off on back on her field by him in that moment that she does not have a particular, sharp, good answer for that. that's why was the strong moment for him. >> but, he could not sustain. >> right. >> even, looking there in that

split screens, at times you felt like he was yelling at her even when he's making a really good point. yes, the trade was not a good point for him but he could not sustain it. and just repurpose it for 90-minute and keep on repeating the same thing. >> that's where the preparation comes into account where hillary clinton prepared lines that trump did not come in with. >> that moment was one of the best for him where hillary clinton does have issues on trades and she sort of flip-flopping on this issue and bernie sanders pushing her a little bit on the primary. she's got issues with that. he did note bring up the e-mails fes effectively. there were a whole host of things that he could find a way into it. >> blaming moderator today. >> i am going to talk about the

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. welcome back, inside politics, a lot of moving parts with the day after the debate. six weeks until the election here in the united states. president obama spoke to ryan seacrest about the debate, lets hear about his thoughts. >> everybody that's watching the debate, got a sense and a vision about where we should take the country, and i admittedly biassed, i have worked with hillary and i have known her, he's well prepared and got the right temperament for the job and well respected and she's serious and does her homework and she got a vision to put people back to work and make

sure the economy is working for everybody and not just a few. i would say that the other guy, does not have the preparations and the temperament or the core values of inclusion and making everybody, you know, have opportunities. >> we are going to get to the reasons the president of the united states does not like the other guy as he calls him in just a minute. the beginning of the development, one of the exchanges last night, hillary clinton brought up miss piggy. the clinton campaign announced this morning that miss maschad decided to join the campaign. morning after the debate. lets go back to the debate last night. donald trump knew his role as the cheer leader for the birther movement would be the debate

flash point. he had nothing new to say after years of conspiracy garbage, he decided to cgo on president obaa was born in the united states. >> what would you say of americans of color. >> i said nothing. he should have produced it a long time before. i think i did a great job and service and not only for the country but for the president in getting him to produce -- >> secretary clinton. well, just listen to what you heard. [ laughter ] >> and, clearly as donald knew he admitted and he knew that lester holt will be asking questions. he try todd put the whole racist and birther lie to bed but it cannot be. >> i just do not understand how you walk into a debate, donald trump is a smart man and he had

smart people around him, how did you walk on a debate on this issue and she wants to use against you and you had nothing to say and after five years, forgive me, this is not a partisan thing. this was conspiracy garbage. the president of the united states was born in the united states. five years after the birth certificate released, he was still talking about it and he has not said why and did not come up with an answer. >> this was part of trump's new strategy of not doing as many interviews and news conferences, he had the event before saying the president was born in the united states, period. he did not answer any further questions or pressed on it until last night and he did not have a good answer so it is still lingering. >> she very smartly, this was the foundation narrative of his political campaign and switched to his business record and his lawsuit involving houses discrimination and his answer to that is well, everybody got sued

and we settled with no admission of guilt. he never said discrimination is wrong or did not do anything was wrong. >> it was an odd role rehearsal. right. >> and calling president obama "your president," this was another striking moment. who's donald trump's president? >> you nominate a candidate who's vulnerable on matters of race and gender. mike murphy has a great line, you could not fashion a candidate like a basement or a lab laboratory who was built to hurt the party more. race and gender. who now is the new clinton's surrogate, a hispanic woman. those are the two groups, john. hispanics and females. >> and yet -- donald trump

walked onto that stage last night tieing the national polls and tieing ahead of the many states. it is ever small now and a month ago, trump -- now, he has more menu options. she tried to mention his business record and making case that donald trump is trying to hide something. every since richard nixon releasing his taxes here in the united states. i am kidding. donald trump has refused to release his tax and hillary clinton released taxes going back to 40 years. she tried to press him hard on that last night. >> maybe he does not want the american people, all of you watching to know that he paid nothing in federal taxes. the only years that anybody ever seen were a couple of years where he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license and they showed he did not pay any federal income tax. if he said zero, that means zero

for troops and vets and zero for schools or health and i think probably he's not all that enthusiastic about having the rest of our countries seeing what the real reasons are because it must be something really important, even terrible that he's trying to hide. >> coming soon to a tv at near you. >> she was so wedded to her message there. >> hang on a second. did you just admit that you did not pay taxes? >> but, the fact that it is another example of the fact that donald trump is still talking to the people that are already supporting him. they love the fact that he works the system and knows the inside of the system better. of course, those are the people that are going respond positively to that kind of comment that it was smart and we saw this morning they're going to go after him on that for the

next couple of days. >> she said smart to either pay no or little taxes as you can and he also said it was good business to use bankruptcy laws to screw the little guys and the guy that is put the drinks in your casino. he does okay in business. we are going to see this. maybe that helps her with her biggest weaknesses. >> and the candidates not on the stage, the green party jill stein are hurting hillary clinton with younger votes out in the western state and the libertarian states. they're supporting climate change and other issues. hillary clinton came to the debate knowing that i got some weaknesses and i am going to play. here is when she goes after donald trump with climate. >> i think it is important that we -- >> i did not. >> he did not smay not have sai

he tweeted it repaeatrepeatedly. >> he often has a casual relationships with the troop. he repeatedly saying climate change is a hoax. >> and kellyanne conway this morning clarified that believe that climate change is happening but it is naturally occurring but not manmade. that was her answer. it is an issue and to your point that clinton trying to come in and convince millenials that they are throwing away their votes and giving their vote to donald trump and that's the kind of issues they're pounding on. >> she talked about that. and she said language. >> that's the gateway. >> it used to be economic or education opportunity. >> i think that's right.

she talked about college affordability a little bit. and even her critique of donald trump with the beauty pageant thing, right? if you are a young woman, the idea of a beauty pageant to be a feminist and modern woman and you have to be a certain weight and all sorts of ridiculous thing, even that will resonate some of these folks who are perked with those candidates. >> sorry, that's hillary clinton, the democratic resident arriving to raleigh, north carolina. one of the most competitive state. minim mit romney won in 2012, it is the most evenly balanced democratic state in the country. the candidates are looking ahead, on the road, where the campaign is headed this week and how the next debate will be very different, coming up.

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so where do we go from here? it is a busy day from the campaign trail. donald trump will be in florida tonight and clinton is getting some help from her husband and her running mate, who is also in florida. >> let me talk about the debate last night. hillary clinton shows she's prepared to be president and commander in chief. she offered the details of her plans and he gave us the stronger together vision and she answered the questions that had to be answered and she told the truth. on the other side, you had a guy who was -- well, if you are that rattled in the debate -- >> the vice president debate squares off one week from today and the second debate is a week from sunday, it is a town hall format, different setting, 40 undecided voters in the hall.

a risky choice if donald trump decide to get more personal. >> i am happy that i was able to hold back on the in discretion with respect to bill clinton because i have a lot of respect for chelsea clinton and i did not want to say what i was going to say. >> which is? >> which is i will tell you at the next debate, we'll see. >> i don't know if the word is threatening that he wanted to in the first debate bring up bill clinton's past and decided not to out of respect for chelsea clinton who was in the room. he sort of drop things to get us talking about it. >> well, i didn't say it john. >> number one, the interesting thing is to see where is the race when we get to the next presidential debate. the vice presidential debate, we'll see how it goes. probably not going to move the need until the race. in a town hall setting with 40

undecisive voters, that we bring up, is it a bluff or trying to get her up for gain. is that when you bring up bill clinton? >> nothing that surprises me at this point. he had a pattern trying to insert new information of the blood screen that changed the conversations. yeah, i think if he's pressed again by her at this next debate and the same fashion he was last night about gender, you would absolutely go there because it changes the conversation immediately. >> potentially, clearly, there are some people in his campaign who thinks that's a really good issue for him to go after although that's quite up for debate. and, he may do it before the next debate to change the conversation and clearly he's going to find a way to change the narrative from what we are talking about today. >> that to me is a great point

in the sense that we have all this time. what does he do? he had some bad republican primary debates. he will do something provacative to regain. how much does this matter, you just saw tim kaine, and mike pence is out there. but democrats have a deeper bench if you will. here is joe biden on the campaign tomorrow, pennsylvania, of his home state making the case that hillary clinton made last night on donald trump and why cannot we see this? >> tell that to the januaitor he paying taxes. tell him that my dad is alive busting his neck working 60 hours a way and paying all his taxes. tell that your mom and father is breaking their neck to send you here who paid taxes. his anger and it angers me.

>> it is an unconventional year. i don't know if people are listening. you have vice president biden and now bill clinton is going to be out today and bernie sanders tweeted this morning, he's going to new hampshire tomorrow to work for hillary clinton. and she's got elizabeth warren and the president of the united states and donald trump has his running mate. >> they need all the help that they get. this is a tough race for while they felt it is a blow out and tighten particularly in the blue walts states. you see them going out and trying to nail down those blue states. that clip of joe biden that would it make so great for him to run because he's so good in the blue language of blue collar. they have all of these demographic roots that they need to pull together. >> and how much trump has got a

handful of his friends surrounding him. the institutional gop is missing an action from this campaign. >> they don't want any part of it. >> you watch paul ryan this morning struggling to find some phrase for donald trump's performance. >> it is kind of like bless your heart. he was trying. >> where are the governor of in evidence of governor of mexico. they're not on the campaign trail. they don't want to be associated with their own party's nominee. >> they're afraid it is going to be wreckage. >> the town hall format, anderson cooper, my colleague, one of the fairest people in the business. you are in a town hall setting, donald trump had a lot of opportunities he did not bring

up calling his supporters basket of deplorables. she had a little more experience. can they work that part of it? >> it was a big deal of his one-on-one debate. ho town halls are not his format either. he does big rallies so him and a small intimate setting is not his comfort zone at all. >> she has not shown the ability that bill clinton had to connect with those audience members. that's probably the most famous debate was the town hall moment when he approached this woman and had her tell her story again. she's still working on finding a way to connect with those

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as closing, we'll ask our reporters. >> well, we thought for a while that colorado was pretty much going to be off the table that the clinton campaign is going to have an easy win there and donald trump obviously, have been put in a lot of efforts there. our polls this week shows a clear tightening there and it is a close race and nevada is right close by. the trump campaign thinks they are doing better among suburban women in those counties around denver they are attracted to donald trump. we'll have to see after last night's debate whether that's a

reset. we hear that he's heading to colorado and it will be fascinating to see whether those key swing republican women voters are, whether they'll be able to recapture them and bring them in. >> the fall in colorado, nevada, horrible. >> jonathan. >> bubba is back. en bill clinton is going to be doing a bus tour across north florida. what strikes me about this is, it also tells us where the clinton folks are trying to show up in their weaknesses. their biggest challenges is trying to get her to a number among white voters that they can still win or all win. there is some concerns that it is public polling showing her a little bit below where obama with and in some states with white voters four years ago.

here comes clinton, they're going to try out there like places like pensacola and tallahassee to woo those white voters to get those deficits a little closer. >> it is very important. >> early voting, i spent friday in minnesota which is the first state to start voting and it is already happened. people were wearing "i voted" stickers which they plan to wear for the next 48 days in minnesota. they were standing in line with coffee and dounutsdonuts. it is at the election day but things are changing. 40% of the country will be voting early by election day this year which is up to 15% by the 2000s. they can tell if they are getting their voters out or not. they can pull resources from one state or put them in another. iowa starts voting this week and

ohio is october 12th, a key thing to look at over the next couple of weeks is early voting stage. >> absolutely critical from the clinton campaign. >> i heard from a couple of black republicans last night, these were folks from the sideline waiting to see if donald trump will give them a policy reason to come off the sideline enjoying thinks campaign and campaigning for him. if he gets black republicans, maybe he could get 7% or 8%. they said they felt that he took two steps back last night of the whole ratio segment of that was problematic and they all said to me why can me be like rand paul? >> well, because he's not. >> i should say early this morning here in new york city and he spent some time calling

friends and advisers. several of them telling him that he had strong moments but he missed many opportunities. out mashed was a word that was used by a friend of trump's. lets be honest, the candidate calls the shot and he pushed back when pressed to work harder in debate prep. one insider tells me this morning, the only thing that'll get trump's attention is he slip in the debate polls and those take a few days to come in. thanks for watching, wolf starts after a quick break. ♪ ♪ ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides.

hello, i am wolf blitzer, it is 1:00 p.m. in new york. where ever you are watching around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we start with the fallout from last night's first presidential debate, donald trump and hillary clinton squaring off face to face trying out their campaign attacks in person. today, they are back in the campaign trail looking to carry