of you in the media. but when i'm traveling around the country the american people really are focused on a stronger and more prosperous america. my hope is tonight that beyond the small details that will be widely discussed and probably will be twitter fodder out there is that you will really have an opportunity to see the tremendous clear choice between donald trump who wants to bring -- rebuild our military, cut taxes, repeal obamacare, end the war on coal, expand access to american energy, make conservative appointments to the supreme court. and hillary clinton who literally wants to continue the same failed policies who have weakened america's places in the world stifle the economy and continue to take us farther of the left. >> your campaign told brook baldwin today that trump is mast overt the he er of the head fake and planning to expose bill and hillary clinton's sordid past. bannan's words. are you comfortable with that

plan? >> i'd let mr. banen speak for himselfon's words. are you comfortable with that plan? >> i'd let mr. banen speak for himse himself. i'mnon speak for himself. i'm --. hillary clinton runs for president eight years ago and talked about getting the call in the middle of the night, being able to have someone in a leadership position to take that. the call from benghazi didn't come in the middle at night. it was late afternoon and for 13 hours the state department failed to send help. four americans fell. she ended up telling pat smith and other family members it was because of a film maker in florida. and when she was confronted on that, when the evidence and e-mails showed she knew it was a terrorist style attack she told the senate what difference at this point does it make. i truly believe the fact she said that. the fact she did that. the leadership failed in that moment of crisis in benghazi

should be front and center with the american people and we're honored have to her with us tonight. >> your running mate mr. trump is saying over and over again that he believes the system is rigged. i know that you and mr. trump are talking a lot about the media. but i want to put that aside right now and talk specifically about the electoral system and voting. do you believe that the system is rigged and that there is wide spread fraud? >> well i wouldn't separate them dana. donald trump has made it very clear. think a poll showed today 55% of the american public thinks the media has been biased against donald trump. >> but that is different from vote are fraud. >> it is. a very fair point. but the overwhelming negative bias chasing after unsubstantiated allegations while ignoring a mountain range of documented evidence about hillary clinton's years of secretary of state and the clinton foundation, i think is a frustration to millions of americans. but on the subject of voter fraud. but the point donald trump has made. that i made traveling around the

country is voter fraud is real. and has happened throughout the country in specific places. >> -- has shown it's not meant the difference between winning or losing. it is real, perhaps. but not wide spread. >> -- price paid for the right to vote, you know, why is it a numerical issue? republican, democrat, independents augment independents ought to stand for the begt integrity of the vote. and simply calling on supporters to come to rallies and saying to them be involved in the electoral process. be there on election day. respectfully provide the kind of accountability that will ensure the integrity of the vote. but voter fraud dana is real. we're dealing with it in the state of indiana right now. we have literally thousands of instances of fraudulent voter registration. we're working to run all of that to ground right now. we just need to be vigilant. >> the other thing bedrock of

democracy is a smooth transition. and so given that, do you believe that you and mr. trump will accept the results of this election no matter what? >> i've said before, we'll certainly accept the outcome of this election. >> do you want mr. trump to make that clear. >> but in the twenty days -- well he said it in the first debate. >> and then he took it back. >> well he said it in the first debate. >> since then he's been talking about rigged elections. >> donald trump is going to win this election. i know that now you mention polls and where the polls are. investors business daily just came out, jake, and we're ahead by a percentage point national. i think this is real -- >> so we should listen to that poll but not the other thirty. >> i think the poll that matters is the one we finish on november 8th. but there is something happening in the country. the american people are tired of a weak and apologetic foreign policy. the american people are tired of an economy that only produces 1% growth. the american people are tired of being told by liberal elites

from washington d.c. to new york city about how we ought to think and how we ought to view our constitutional liberties and rights. and i think donald trump has tapped into that. and my confident hope tonight is the american people are going to see donald trump lay out that choice before the american people and then it is going to be head down, kick to the finish. dana, we were out at that ronald reagan library not too long ago. ronald reagan in 1980 this time was down eight points in the national polls. came back to deliver a great victory and america had a great, great comeback under ronald reagan. i think we're headed for the same thing on election day and the same thing as we bring america back and make america great again. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> anderson over to you. >> wolf thanks very much. you are watching ac 360. a special edition on this debate night in america. about an hour away from the final debate of the 2016.

right now surrogates for hillary clinton and donald trump are out in force in the debate spin room making their case for their candidates. cnn's jeff zeleny is there. >> i'm here with mega whitman, chairman of hewlett packard enterprise and 2010 republican candidate for governor of california. you were one of the first republicans out of the box to support hillary clinton. how did that feel as a republican and have more joined you since then? >> many more have joined me. there is a umbrella organization called "together for america." and i was one of the first, you are right. and it took some courage. as a lifelong republican voting for president was very easy thing do. but this time i decided i had to put country before party and i got a lot of support and a lot of people who said what are you doing? but over the last four or five months more and more people are coming across. >> you have compared droump hitler and mussolininy. that said, how can 40% of the

electorate still support him. >> a dishonest demagogue i called him. who played to our worst fears. and that's not the right way to win an election. we need to bring this together. and then what i really liked about hillary clinton was actually her economic policy, which might surprise you as a republican. but if the president could work on only one thing, for me it would be the economy. obviously the president has to work on many things but we have to put average people back to work in america. and i'd very much like her economic plan around infrastructure and innovations agenda and skill-free training. >> you spent time around secretary clinton. what's surprised you about getting to know her? >> i didn't really know her very well at all. and i very much liked her. she's thoughtful. she's got a lot of experience she brings to bear. she's very calm under pressure and i think she's got the temperament to lead this country in what is going to be a very difficult -- if she wins, trying to bring this country together

is going to be very difficult. and i think she's got the character and the temperament do that. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you very much. anderson back you do. >> we're back with our panel. just in terms of strategy for each candidate moving forward tonight. for hillary clinton, does she just try to run out the clock essentially and not make mistakes? >> well yes. but she also has to talk to those people who are worried about her and don't like her. and appear as somebody they can accept as president, talk about their lives and make it a little bit more personal about how she will effect their lives. and i think she tries to take the high road. i think for donald trump, he's got appear as a plausible commander in chief, somebody who has the temperament to be

president. i keep going back to the polls. 32% say they would trust him with nuclear weapons. this is a big problem for him. so he has that not take hillary clinton's bait. he has to try and talk about these serious issueses and present himself as someone they can see in the oval office. it is going to be very difficult. >> i think that is true. but i just want to point outlet something we just saw which i thought was remarkable. something we just saw which i thought was remarkable. the thing a candidate has to do is unite his country. he can't unite his party, his campaign or even his ticket. pence sounds like a completely different party, planet, universe than donald trump. and so part of what you have here is a massive failure of leadership. he gets compared to ronald reagan. ronald reagan did something extraordinary. he led an insurgency inside the party and actually captured that

party and used it to take over the country. he's still glot -- >> there is a reason for that. donald trump is an outsider. she's challenging the status quo not only the democrats but republicans as well. he's making an anti-politician argument. an anti-washington argument. he's trying to make a broad case for corruption that we've seen on a mass scale from the doj where bill clinton meets with the attorney general on a plane and days later no prosecution by the fbi. and average tea part -- >> -- [inaudible]. >> -- and they lied. they have to spent wide spread corruption. we've seen in government and -- >> -- >> one at a time. >> didn't mean to interrupt. but honest question. seriously. and maybe jeffrey you want to get in here. if all the stuff you are saying sounds great on the face. he can't get his own party. his own running mate on the same page with him for more than three seconds. that is a failure of leadership.

>> jeffrey. >> there are two people here at the debates. one for donald trump and one for hillary clinton that are perfectly representative of what the problem is. hillary clinton chose mega whitman who is an elitist extraordinary who's talking about temperament and going out there and accusing donald trump of being hitler and mussolini. what kind of temperament is that. and he chose pat smith, who's son is dead today because of the hillary clinton's judgment. and right there is the argument. >> can i say something about this climate of inviting individuals to come in and watch these debates? because i think it's become such a clown show. this is not the first lady's box at the state of the union address. and i think it demeans from the process. frankly think the country would be better served if there were no audience inside for any of the debates. the ratings might not be so strong. i don't like to watch ball games

and turn it on and see no crowd there. but i think it would be a step in the right direction if we stopped this process. i don't know how he helps himself by bringing barack obama's half brother. i don't know how any of these individuals are going to cause someone to say well now i'm for him. >> it is sci-ops. -- i think this whole notion of it, i agree with michael totally is sort of ridiculous. and it is a little bit of the reality tv getting into -- >> for a republican candidate you struggle to get coverage of opposition stories against the democratic candidate. look at the recent poll that showed abc, nbc, cbs spent 7 hours and 30 minutes on donald trump's kissing allegations. spent one hour and ten minutes on wikileaks. the only way you can get coverage of james o'keefe, and pat smith and benghazi is to make a show of it because we actually get to talk about benghazi now. we actually get to talk about the voter fraud --

>> but -- >> as caught on video. >> also donald trump himself likely spent more time on that issue of women than he did on wikileaks. >> during his own convention donald trump called into fox news while the widow was actually speaking. so if he wanted her message heard he would not have called into fox news to blow out her own message. >> not to mention there's never been a greater beneficiary of media coverage in the history of american politics than donald trump. kayleigh, i listened to what you said earlier and i appreciate your very disciplined and your presentation. here is the issue. and i'm just looking at this as a clinical matter. donald trump has been on a rampage for the last few weeks trying to rally the base. you said well he's not the typical candidate. he's an outsider. he's rallying the base and he's losing ground every day to the point where he is behind by such a margin that it would be

historic if he were able to catch up. so it is fine if you feel that that is what he should do. but it isn't really producing the results that would lead to him being elected. may produce the results of him being able to lead a tv network or a movement. but it is not going to pay off in the presidency. >> we're less dhan an hour from the start of the debate. we'll soon see if there is a clinton/trump handshake or not. more of this ahead.

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we're live in las vegas. less than an hour before the final presidential debate. this night and this state will influence the outcome on november 8th. donald trump and his team we're learning took a different approach to tonight. so what was the preparation tonight. >> new details on how donald trump prepared for tonight. in previous debate trump opted for a looser format where he jousted back and forth with advisors. for tonight trump went with with a more traditional mock debate approach. we were told rnc chair reince priebus asked questions as a

mock moderator. and new jersey governor, get this, stooth stood in for clinton to provide the pushback. also in the room were steve bannon and campaign manager kellyanne conway. we saw trump previewing a line of attack earlier this week. generating a lot of enthusiasm on the campaign trail from all appearances today. donald trump is coming tonight ready to rumble. anderson. >> jim acosta, thanks. now to brianna keilar with hillary clinton's debate prep details. >> reporter: hillary clinton has been largely out of sight here for days now. she spent five days preparing. it is time i'm told they believe is well spoent. tonight we'll see hillary clinton back behind a lecturn.

that's how she's been practicing playing donald trump long time. and --. and her debate advisors who have been with her day in and day out include karen dunn and ron klain in addition to her top aide and campaign chairman john podesta. on of the big unknowns here tonight is podesta's hacked el mails. newly released ones where he refers to bernie sanders as a dufus. and long time confidants of the hooibts sort of talk about her weaknesses in unflattering turns. hillary clinton is going to try to pivot this back to russia behind the hack, what the u.s. beliefs and also questioning donald trump's business ties to russia. but she may also have to defend some of the content. >> brianna, thanks very much. we just saw donald trump melania. trump arriving.

and donald trump and hillary clinton face somewhat different expectations tonight than the first time they debateality. john king has been comparing the first and last debates in other presidential races. job. >> anderson when you look at the state of the the change of the race from the first debate to now the quite striking. the first debate, donald trump came into the debate with chance to seize control of the race. he was down two points in the polls. he has closed in or taken the lead in several key battleground states. on that day our conversation was can donald trump seize control of the race? that was then. a two point race momentum all on donald trump's side. as donald trump walks in tonight hillary clinton will be there be an eight point lead national. eight points. that is unheard of in the polarized politics of the united states. he needs a home run. she needs to protect what she has. a very different dynamic. not only on the national stage but when you look at the map. when you break this up, this is our current cnn electoral map

projection. 307 for democrats. hillary clinton, 179 for the republican donald trump. and anderson as we've changed this map today. here is what's most surprising. out in the west, utah, arizona, mitt romney won utah with 7 2%. mitt romney won arizona by ten points four years ago. these are reliable republican states. toss ups because of trump's troubles. hillary clinton actualhead in t most recent poll in arizona. this is the most significant. donald trump can't get to 270 without the 29 electoral votes from the state of florida. he's promised he would win it. we moved it to lean democrat today because of the recent polls. this is the biggest change in the map. surprising out here. significant right here. we're also now leaning nevada. democratic as well. when donald trump walks on the stage tonight he needs to fundamentally change the arc of this race. try to get it back to where it was at the first debate. because if it stays like this,

near impossible. >> john, thanks very much. minutes way from the third and final presidential debate. we'll be right back after this quick break. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ i'll never go down your road ♪ ♪ i'll find my way on my own ♪ ♪ i'm never gonna fall in line ♪ your future is not mine ♪ your future is not mine ♪ we're about 35 minutes from the start of this, the final debate. let's talk a little about expectations from our viewers. patty, we haven't heard from you. what do you think viewers should be looking for particularly in the beginning, the opening of the debate? >> well i know everyone is going to look and see if they shake hands but i don't really care about that. i this i hillary needs do a few things. needs to come prepared to answer some really difficult questions about her speeches to wall

street. about the e-mails, and fbi quid pro quo and has do it without looking defensive. she's not going to get it from donald trump if he's not disciplined enough to go at her on that. she's dental going to get pretty chris wallace. i think she needs to go high when he goes low. exactly what she did at the last debate. show a lot of dignity like at the last debate. and i think she needs to. -- what's gotten lost here because donald trump has taken all the oxygen out of the election is her positive case for her presidency. she's been in public life 30 years. a former u.s. senator. former u.s. secretary of state. she is a -- >> i have no doubt we'll hear she's been in -- but this is a podium debate. not a town hall like the last debate was. more like the first debate was. chris wallace is the only one

asking questions. >> i think chris wallace is likely to be hard on both. if you look at the topics chosen, for example debt and entitlement programs. he's going come with hard questions about whether their numbers add up. neither have said they were going to do anything in terms of entitlement programs. and hillary has -- this is where -- the one place where i think the wikileaks issue hurts her in the sense that she made representations in private about her support for simpson bowles and -- [ shouting in background ] -- gonna try and balance the questions off. and if there is going to be back and forth it is likely to be between the candidates. >> i'm looking forward to a question asked tonight about how -- and maybe it is the environment in which we're seated this evening. how are they going put the

pieces back together. such a divide in the country. maybe it will come in a question about the supreme court. as an attorney, i'd be particularly interested in learning whether hillary clinton would endorse the idea of being supportive of merrick garland. if she wins there is going to be a lame duck session about what happens what should happen to his nomination. i think it would be a healthy step if she resisted pressure from the left who would want her to make a more progressive selection for the united states and say something like i'd be just find in the interim with garland were confirmed for supreme court. >> what about for donald trump? >> one thing we might even have unanimous agreement on this panel is that this election and donald trump have been totally unpredictable. throughout all of this. and i would just caution here, whether it is this debate or the remaining time in this election, if it's been this unpredictable and he's been this unpredictable and gotten this much support,

don't misjudge it. don't count him out. don't they this is necessarily a typical debate. it could be a very untypical debate -- >> i just want to check in with sarah murray. what are you learning? >> well anderson the republican leaders that i have spoken with have been nearly unanimous in their advice for donald trump tonight and that is to make tonight, to make the race about hillary clinton, about her foreign policy failures, about wikileaks, and they look at the roster of guests donald trump has lined up tonight from president obama's half brother to yet another clinton accuser. and one republican actually told me trump is losing the debate before it starts. they believe that this is a miss step to focus on these issues and this is the risk with donald trump. they do not know if he can actually stay on message for a full ninety minutes and he can just go out there and stick to it hillary clinton which is what so many republicans would love to see tonight, anderson. >> sarah murray.

thanks very much. kayleigh? >> jeff and i have both said we want to see the case against corruption in washington laid out but i think donald trump needs do something bigger. every focus group we've heard we've heard voters say i've not heard how my life is going to be better after the debates. the first 15 minutes of the debate, donald trump won the case when he talked about t.p.p. and trade. it was powerful and he won that. the one indicator where voters do trust trump more is the economy. even in some recent national polls and it is the issue most important to voters. he these to lay off his positive agenda. it is a winning one because voter want to know ultimately how is my vote going to change my life. >> and stop talking about himself and stop taking her bait and stop talking about everything he's been talking about for the last two or three weeks where he's had this incredible decline. and he has to start talking about issues. >> i -- >> -- and i think chris wallace

is going to drill down on this. this was a clear guide. and so they are going to go to toe on this stuff and we'll see how each of them comes out. >> there are two things she has to do. i think tendency want to be above it all [ shouting in background ] >> i don't believe that as all. she needs to be on the offense in two areas where i think he is very very weak. first of all i some point somebody should challenge donald trump to register himself as a foreign agent for the russian government. you have got to at some point ask him some tough questions about why he is so comfortable with the russians hacking only the democrats and not the republicans and talk about the dangers of this country of having someone in the white house who is an ally of our enemy. that is an important point to raise and has not been raised enough. the second thing is this idea of nullifying essentially the result of an american election. donald trump has a long history of trying to nullify the last

election, the birther stuff was nothing but an attempt to disqualify and undermine a sitting president and he's doing it again. and those are two issues. this appalling lack of patriotism on the part of donald trump when it comes to russia and respecting our institutions. and to prosecute that hard tonight. hard. >> wolf? anderson, thanks very much. this is the final debate. less than three weeks to go. only about 20 days until the election. donald trump comes in. he's losing ground in so many of the national polls as well as the key battleground states. jake, can tonight really change anything? for trump. >> it can. it can. absolutely. hillary clinton certainly has the advantage right now and anybody would want to be her rather than him at this point in the campaign. but we should point out first of all the clinton campaign is not overconfident. they say in battleground states they have seen swings of support from her and to him and back

again. and so anything could happen. no one should think this is over certainly the clinton campaign doesn't think so in terms of what would need to happen tonight in terms of change of republican states shifting away from donald trump. she would need to have a really bad night feeding into the concerns that so many americans have with her trust worthiness and honesty. i'm sure chris wallace will ask questions about the wikileaks. and she says things in private with the well to do bankers and such that she does not in public. and he would need a very strong night, a statesmanlike night where he reassures the significant doubts american people have about his temperament which is going to be very very tough for him to overcome. i don't know if he's capable of that. we see him bringing guests from a far right wing home page in some cases. accusers of bill clinton. estranged half brother of president obama. does that suggest he's going to

be reaching out to the middle? no. but i guess we'll see what he does when he gets on stage, wolf. >> she's kept a low profile of hillary clinton since the last debate. has that been smart. >> a very low profile. she's been preparing and fundraising and she's been nowhere to be found when it comes to be out there so the voter can see her? is it smart? certainly her campaign aides think it is very smart because she's wanted to stay back not just to prepare but to let donald trump continue to dig his own hole. but tonight that is going to end. the question is whether she talks about the women who have come out to accuse donald trump. but more importantly, to your point jake, she has hasn't been asked about the a new wikileaks that have come out. and there are a lot of tough questions for her to answer. but as for donald trump, my understanding is that he has been doing a lot more traditional debate prep. real, sort of trial by fire with the people he's been working

with. reince priebus, the rnc chair. chris christie the new jersey governor and that he's been preparing as much more of a traditional candidate. the question though from people inside trump world that they don't know the answer to, about their own candidate is whether he is going to follow those rules, follow the prep, do what he prepared to do, or whether he's going to go off and follow his gut, which he believes got him to where he is right now. and obviously he did in the primary. but we'll see what happens tonight where he thinks that will actually get him beyond the primary voters to the undecided or those who are not already part of his base. >> 90 minute, no commercial interruptions. six themes that are going to be asked. each one for 15 minutes. debt and entitlements. immigration, economy. supreme court. foreign hot spot, the final one fitness to be president. it sounds like this could be a pretty substantive debate on key national security and domestic economic issues. >> obviously the immigration

question is one that feeds into his base, one of the reasons he got the nomts was because of his hard-lined stance. however that is not a general message in fact a recent fox news poll suggested 65-70% of voters actually have the hillary clinton, back obama, george w. bush position in favor of comprehensive immigration reform and not a hard-line position. so it is going to be interesting to watch him try to walk that line, keeping his base there in favor of this hard-line position while also reaching out. and this is something we've been talk about for weeks now. we've not seen since the first debate donald trump try to expand eoened his base. he's tried to rally his base. say things his base finds titillating and musing, suggesting that hillary clinton was on drugs. obviously there is no evidence she was on any performance enhancing drugs at the last debate. but saying things like. that the crowd cheers, everyone

laughs. it turns the moderate votes, the swing votes off significantly. does he have what it takes to reach out to those voters to expand from the 39, 40% of the vote who are like him right knew? i don't know. we'll see. >> we'll see how substantive this debate tonight behind us is going to be. anderson back to you. >> minutes away from the start of the debate. no doubt members of the commission, presidential debates all come out to address the crowd first. janet brown and some of the others whether also likely hear from the moderator chris wallace and then of course the debate will actually start t candidates will come out. [ chanting in background ] >> traditionally does a third debate actually matter? does it have the power to change the narrative? >> generally no. the audience for the debates decline and the impact is not particularly great. the first debate is always the most consequential debate.

the town hall debate always has interesting wrinkles because of the choreography of them. by the time the third debate -- i mean look at where we are. look at these polls. so much is locked in now anderson, that it's very hard to see a completely new dynamic at this point in the campaign. by the way jeffrey would say donald trump surprises us. but as michael said earlier he really hasn't surprised us. been very predictable. >> you disagree with it? >> i think there was one determinant factor in the debate hall tonight. chachie has been spotted. i think we can o two home. >> do you think he's the hail mary pass that donald trump is going to use? >> it could be. >> he needs to do something to change the trangtry of the race. make a move that would start a structural change that would be so -- >> the question is does he believe he needs do something? does he believe he needs to

change the structure of the race? >> -- bring out hoyas voters and there are hitten ones that we're not polling. >> i think e looks at the crowds and thinkss that enough to get him into the white house. he gets 10,000 people or so. but bernie sanders got a lot of crowds too and he didn't end up winning that democratic nomination. i think for him just on point stylistically he needs to give a better television performance. he seemed often times a little rattle, a little distracted. argued with the moderators last time. kept interrupting. so he's got to be better on that. he's got to be really conscious that t the camera always on him. >> can i make a point? this crew has been together since the iowa caucus. dozen election nights. two conventions, four debates. there is a theme that emerged about anger among the electorate. when in fact it was really about 40% of republican voters who were telling exit pollsters

their feelings about the federal government were one of anger. and he harnessed that. that is not representative of the entire country. and he's -- no it's not. may be typical of what you are hearing tonight but not of the nation. and kayleigh, you have to say, kayleigh --. he's never expanded beyond the angriest among us. and thank god they don't represent the nation as large. >> i have two words. bernie sanders. there is so much anger on the democratic side. they want and outsider and i firmly believe there is a chance bernie sanders would have been the nominee had the dennis not stacked the deck against him. -- dnc not stacked the deck. 55% say they want a leader very different than the current. people feel left behind. the real family income hasn't gone up in 30 years. >> the angriest voices among us have muted those in the center. >> the campaign manager is a pollster. if she believes that he's on a trajectory to win this election, that she's not telling him the truth.

because she can read polls. she can read data. she can look at the trend lines and fact is that we're talking about now not whether donald trump gets 270 electoral vot votes but whether hillary clinton can push into a state like arizona which democrats have coveted for a long time but have never been able to win. this is extraordinary development. >> donald trump's running donald trump's campaign. >> somebody mentioned the left woichkt the democratic party. i know some people of that wing of the party. there is anger but there is more heartbreak. i think people are feeling disgusted right now. by this entire charade. and what it feels like a race to the bottom for two great political parties. and i think that more than anything this mirror being held up to people of the donald trump -- [indiscernible] -- is actually making people take a bit of a pause. bernie sanders -- politics of

addition and multiplication. not a politics of derision and distraction. and what you are seeing with donald trump, the way he's conducted himself and the way frankly that when challenges came to him he didn't rise to the occasion. instead he took us lower and lower every time. i don't think you are going too find the left wing of this party inspired by donald trump. i think you have to find the left wing of our party disgusted and disappointed with the whole system and willing to give a chance now to hillary clinton because she's not followed him all the way down in the gutter. >> i had a chance to talk with nigel farage, the head of the brexit movement. and he said to me he was frankly stunned at the similarities between what's going on here and what went on in great britain. and one of the things he said to me, two things i found interesting, that the remain slogan over there was stronger together. where have we heard that from? which also happens to be hillary clinton's slogan. and his other point was that they had been behind in the

polls. i think they were behind by ten and won by four. in other words there are a lot of people out there that the establishment of great britain, both parties, simply didn't -- >> i talked to nigel too. do you know what he told me, which i thought was very fascinating. he gave me the exact same line you just gave. but then i said did you have something like donald trump that had done the kind of things with the treatment of women. and his eyes got very big and goes "nothing like that". >> of course. he was the figure head of that moment. the fact is they weren't electing a leader. they were voting on an issue. quite different than electing a president. >> -- to the final debate of 2016 at the university of nevada las vegas. spoo in spite of the commission's long name, our offices could

easily fit on to this stage. and i hope during the next few minutes you will take a chance to look at the program that you have been given. it will flop open to the middle part that was the production crew that works together to put these on in a little more than three weeks this set and this crew have been to four different sites. and prepared them for broadcasts that are seen around the world by tens of millions of people. the production crew comes together only once every four years to work on these events. and a number of the leading members of the crew actually have full-time day jobs on other endeavors and yet find the time to do this. among others, kroll and mooring, explo and phillips lighting and phillips healthcare provide some of the leading members of our team who somehow juggle their

day jobs, along with giving us months of their time to bring this to the american public. there are a lot of people who have been working for almost two years here in las vegas to bring about this event on this campus. to start the thanks that are warmly owed. i'd like to introduce the co-chairman of the commission, frank farenkoff and mike mccurry. >> thank you. and good evening ladies and gentlemen. as a nevin i can't tell you how proud i am for us to be at unlv to host this final debate of 2016. and we want to thank the university. we want to thank the convention authority for working so very very hard. to get the job done. and as you came into this arena tonight, i know you were able to see the great amount of work that goes into this. and not only do we want to thank those individuals, but clearly

the faculty and students of the university. the commission, went into existence in 1987. and since then we've conducted 21 presidential debates in the general election. we have nothing do with the primary, please, i hope you understand that. and we have done eight vice presidential debates. so tonight is the 30th debate that the commission will have produced in those period of time. [ applause ] and we couldn't do it without the tremendous support of our board. and we have four members of our board here tonight, i want to spruce them to you. i'm going to -- introduce them to to you. i want to ask them to stand and wait until they are all standing to give them the due thanks they deserve. first thegibson, you know him as former anchor on the nbc nightly news and good morning america.

and anthony hernandez. and the dorothy dot. and former congresswoman from california now heads the woodrow wilson scholarship organization and that's jane harmon. join me in giving them a -- [ applause ] now let me describe briefly what is going to happen this evening. for those of you who watched the debate a few weeks ago at hofstra, you know what the format is going to be. it is different than it was for many many years. the 90 minutes is divided into six 15 minute seconds. tonight chris wallace, who is our moderator, will propose a question in each of those six segments. the six that he has indicated he wants to explore are number one, the national debt. entitlements, the economy, the supreme court, foreign hot spots

and fitness to serve as president. we do not know what order he's going to ask those questions in. we do not know what the questions are. only chris knows what will be asked. the candidates clearly do not know. now what will happen is as he proposes a question in one of those section, each candidate will have two minutes, uninterrupted, to state their views on that particular issue. and then for the remainder of that segment of time they can have, hopefully, some interchange between the candidates and really a drilling down to see what the positions are of the candidates on those issues. now, the first debate that was at haofstra had we believe abou a hundred million people observe it. when you count people who observed on computer, streamed and on websites and ipad, iphones, whatever it might be they use.

we had about 85 million for the second. we don't know what is beginning to happen tonig -- going to happen tonight. but the one thing that is clear is this program is for them. not for you in this audience. there are hundreds of millions of people who are going to watch and who are going to take what they hear tonight, take it into consideration in how they are going to cast their ballots. so we ask you please, do not interfere with that by participating, uninvited, in the debate process tonight. so we ask you not to clap, not to make signs, not to get involved. we would appreciate that. one other thing before i introduce my co-partner, at about 9:00, it is going to be very quiet in here. 9:00 eastern time, 6:00 here. thank you. you democrats always know the right time. [ laughter ] but that will be broken, the silence, because of what's behind you. those of you know that those are the anchor booths.

and right at 9:00 you are going to hear them all go on the air, announcing their program, introducing who's going to be commentating and so forth. it will be two or three minutes later that the debate will start and chris will begin. so again we ask you to cooperate. now, as i said in 1987 we formed the commission. i was chairman of the republican national committee at that time and paul kirk was chairman and paul served us for 24 years until the death of ted kennedy when he was asked by the governor of massachusetts to fulfill teddy's term until a special election could be held. and he had to step down. but we were most fortunate to have this guy standing next to me, step up and be my co-chairman and partner in this endeath. in this endeavour. >> thank you. i want to tell you about the presidential debates.

it is a nonpartisan organization, nonprofit. we don't receive any support from the government, from the political parties, or from any public entities. the support for the debates come from people who just care about the fact we want to have candidates together on engage in productive discussion about the future of the country. so corporations, foundations and individuals who help us do that kind of work with their support. i would like to mention our 2016 national sponsors. they are the anheuser-busch companies, the howard g buffett foundation, aarp, and the national governor's association. will you join me in thanking them. in addition to that the commission participates in a lot of educational work. the primary mission of the commission is to help educate the american people with the choices that we make as citizens when we vote so we have a number

of programs that we work a number of partnerships. in the last two years, we've especially concentrated on social media because of changes in the mete itself. the importance of social media, facebook, twitter, google. they are now rich sources of content for the american people so we built out strong partnerships with them and that is something that we are especially pleased to show case. i want to mention especially facebook for the extraordinary support and contributions they made in this initiative. i hope that's something that you recognize as one of the ways in which we bring the work of the debates to a much broader audience. another thing we do, and i think this is important to note. we run an international program. we share our techniques and best practices in other countries who also run debates. we learn from them, they learn

from us and overall we globally improve democracy. at this debate, the commission is hosting over 50 representatives from 24 countries in the debates international network and they've received a first hand look of what goes on behind the scenes of one of these debates. they are here and i would like to ask our friends from the debates international to please stand up and let's give them a round of applause. [ applause ] finally, there are millions watching and there's one who deserves a special note of thanks. 85-year-old holocaust survivor fred kahn who is out there in tv land. he is the one who originally came up with televised debates fred, look what you've done.

with that we would not be here if it weren't for the work of the two people i would like the introduce. the head of the las vegas convention and visitors authority. would you please welcome them. >> thank you. i'm the president of the university of nevada las vegas. >> i'm president and ceo of the las vegas convention and visitors authority. >> welcome to the thomas and mack center. if you squint, you can see some of our banners. many championship banners. one national championship banner. here at unlv, we are a university that is different. we're daring and we're diverse.

we're not a very old university. we're about 60 years old, in fact. we're on the pathway to become a top tier university in research and education and in community impact. you probably heard about our world class hospitality program. it would be natural that we would have one. our hotel college is highly ranked. we have great programs in a number of other areas, nationally recognized throughout the arts and the sciences and the health sciences, law school, the boyd school of law and many other areas. and we're proud to announce a brand new medical school. in fact, great timing. just yesterday we learned that our brand new unlv school of medicine was accredited and it will begin admitting students in the fall. thank you. just the day before that, on monday, the governor was on campus. governor sandoval signing into law the new stadium that the university will be able to use

and much expanded. tonight the presidential debate. what is the most special about the debate is what this does for our students. we've got a few hundred students working here in the debate hall and the cox pavilion and spin alley. a total of 1,000 students working the debate all week long all across campus. we have faculty that created new courses for the debate for this fall. we have a national lecture years business we're running and many other things on the debate that are going. and probably the thing we're most proud of is the partnership with the clark county school district. our nationally ranked debate team is working with the debate teams throughout all the schools and they've been watching the debates live and analyzing them. and in addition we have all the students throughout the district writing essays about the debate. so it has been a thrill to participate. it is a great time for unlv. >> thank you. on behalf of our hotel resort partners, i want to thank all of you for being here at this

debate. for those a traveled to las vegas, welcome. it is a very exciting time. we're also proud to partner with unlv to host this debate. it is very important for the university. i grew up in las vegas and i've never seen this much excitement and this much buzz in our community. both on the resort corridors as well as the community itself. las vegas is the only city that evolved to host people. we've been doing that many, many years and we continue to refine what we do and go to the next level. last year we attracted more than 42 million visitors who generated $50 billion of economic impact for las vegas and created 336,000 jobs. so that's very important for the health of our city, the state and the country. and the special events, we are the special events capital of the world. and we have had all types of events. nascar races, championship races, championship fights. we've had the nba all-star game here. but nothing matches what this debate is all about.

this special event and the importance of this. we're here today and here tonight to select the leader of the free world, the next president of the united states. so we're very happy to be part of that. people say you can't get business done in las vegas. i disagree with them. this shows that serious business gets done in the united states. i invite you to come back again as a visitor. have a great time. have a great debate night and thank you very much. [ applause ] >> the commission is very grateful to have chris wallace, anchor of fox news sunday, as the moderator of this evening's debate. >> good evening. let me be the last person to welcome you to tonight's debate and also the last person to lecture you on why it is so

important to be quiet. let me as a show of hands. how many of you have been to a general election debate between two presidential nominees? raise your hands. wow! okay. so you know the drill. and those of hue don't, i'm going to repeat the drill. it is really important. i know in some of the primary debates and i participated in some of them. people would hoot and holler but that wasn't necessarily bad. you one of these two people three weeks from yesterday will be the next president of the united states. it is very important for them to be able to make their case. it is very important for the millions of people who will be watching to listen to them make their case. i'm sure in the course of the evening you'll hear your candidate say something absolutely wonderful and you'll want to cheer. don't. i'm sure in the course of the next hour and a half, you'll their other person, the other candidate, say something that you don't like. you want to make some noise.

don't. just remember you're not a participant here. you're a guest. so i will sit here and get ready at 3:00 sharp. we'll see, you will hear in the back, all the networks beginning to do their coverage. 30 seconds before, i'll give you notice that we'll start. we'll introduce the candidates, applause then. at the end of the debate, you can applaud all you want. in the meantime, silence. please. blessed silence. >> only minutes away now from the start of this historic debate. the third and final presidential debate. this is probably the final opportunity donald trump has to make a comeback. and i have to point out that his family is already seated. so we won't see the families shake hands. >> this is the last chance each of these candidates has a chance to make their case to