coming up, reaction to last night's debate. we will take your phone calls, and you can also join the conversation on facebook and twitter. donald trump: you have been doing this for 30 years. why are you just picking about the solutions right now? for 30 years you have been doing it and you're just trying to think about solutions. hillary clinton: donald, i know you live in your own reality. ♪ host: good morning, it is tuesday, september gary seven. the day after the first presidential debate. -- september 27. the day after the first presidential debate. the pundits have given us their opinion about who won last night , but we want to know what you, the voter, has to say. if you're supporting hillary clinton, call (202) 748-8000. if you are supporting donald

trump, call (202) 748-8001. a third-party candidate, call (202) 748-8002. if you are undecided, (202) 748-8003. you can also tell us to want on or postercspanwj, comments on facebook.com/c-span. we will get all those thoughts in just a minute, so start dialing in. john mcardle on the news desk set with more about last night's debate. john: both sides claiming victory last night immediately after the debate ended. here's the new york daily news headline from this morning. from penn clinton camps both claim a win in the first residential debate -- trump and clinton camps both claim a win in the first presidential debate. as we look ahead to the polling that's coming out in recent days. on debate day, hillary clinton

was leading donald trump 46.6% to donald trump's 44.3%. snap holes immediately after the debate happened. 62% of voters who tuned in to watch thought hillary clinton won the debate. i 7% say they thought donald a poll incumbent with a stable of democratic clients found that hillary clinton defeated donald trump 51% to 40%. polls the online donald trump 22 last night in his twitter page after the debates was this online survey n 50%ng the donald trump wo hillary clinton 36%. lots of pulling numbers out there that will be coming out in recent days. for viewers, go toward twitter

page with a poll that up right now. we want to hear your thoughts this morning on the "washington journal." host: jerry in detroit on michigan, you're supporting hillary clinton. do you think she won last night? caller: i think she did a knockout job despite all the muck that is being thrown at her. greeting once again from motown. i think she touched on one of cops ands of racist their treatment of african american men. donald trump deflected attention away from the racist cop issues by bringing up so-called black on black crime in chicago. she gave as much as she got and it's ticking off some of the white people who hate us.

we wanted to bring up one other thing. in regards to this, as far as the debates. yesterday, from mississippi, there was a white woman from mississippi named gina who claimed that president obama made race relations horrible. i wanted to ask her and any other white person who is going to be calling on the republican line, because i know they are going to be slamming me -- can they think of a time in america's entire history before president obama when blacks and whites got along, were together, and were side by side. host: maybe that's a question for another day. we're going to focus on last night's president will debate. it was the first one of -- presidential debate. the first one, and we want to let the parties know who you think it a better job last night. inn is supporting mr. trump

turn -- in north carolina. go ahead. caller: thanks for having me on. to the dome before, i'm a white american and first of all, i'm an american. second of all, i'm white. everything through the prism -- i don't look at everything through the prism of race. that is one thing the donald trump says -- we are americans. last night, i think donald trump showed a distinct difference between hillary clinton, the establishment candidate who continuous down the road deficit spending, overburdened regulations, not to mention defense.ional she makes donald trump out to be the scary one on national defense, the scary thing about

national defense would be obama and clinton, they don't do anything. that's what's invited so much intrusion and challenging and everything else. not that anybody wants to go to war, but you have to come from a position of strength instead of weakness and passive walkaway attitude. -- i john, let me ask you will ask this of hillary clinton supporters. -- whatyou think question do you think he did not answer well last night? caller: he did not answer well. let's see. host: was there any point where you thought she got him on that? that i the one question thought he did not answer well was -- you have to understand, hillary clinton is a professional debater. she's loading him up with a whole much of information. he's trying to keep up with the questions and answers that we

can address it all. but the one thing i thought that he was really trying to to her about, and let it go by, was the question of cyber security. i, myself, would have said this is the biggest irony of the debate that we are talking hillary clinton about cyber security. the lady set up her own homebrew server. the other question that i thought he let go by was the fact that we have evidence now that president obama used a pseudonym to contact hillary clinton on that private server. think about it. you have a president who is going to the links of using a fake name to talk to somebody on a private server. host: i just want to leave it there so i can get another voice in. i've been in palm beach county, florida, you are supporting hillary clinton. who did better? caller: hillary, of course.

i want to bring up two issues. the first issue is, a person running for president of the united states brings up rosie o'donnell? i beg your pardon? and then threatens to bring up her husband and his infidelities? this is a man who broke his marriage bowels -- his marriage valid two or three times -- marriage vows to her three time. for 66 years,ied and to my wife passed away. we went through hell. most of us in this country and other countries in the world believe in our marriage vows. donald trump believes in nothing but donald trump. i live on the streets of our long ago, and the people who walk the streets of marlowe don't care about the rest of the world like trump doesn't. host: where do you think she

appeared weak last night or didn't answer the question or had a misstep as you are watching last night? caller: i was watching a man who did not answer any question as a president of the united states. host: but what about her? caller: she did incredibly well, in spite of being put upon. host: you don't think she made any mistakes in the 90 minutes? caller: of course she did, we all make mistakes. major?major -- were they no. host: supporting donald trump, go ahead. won.r: i feel that trump decisions,ot of good and what was good about him was he hasn't slandered her on tv on commercials like she has him very she's taken parts of

different things he has said and tried to slander him. host: ok. caller: i think he has a good head on his shoulders and i think he will save united states. aboutwhat do you think donald trump's taxes? do you think, as a supporter of his, he should just release them? caller: to be honest with you, i do think it has anything to do with the elections. host: you don't. what about his taxes shows he has not paid for has paid very little in federal income taxes -- money that goes to education and veterans, etc., like hillary clinton pointed out last night? with that bother you? caller: no, it wouldn't. host: why not? caller: i see the things that hillary clinton has done, when she got in trouble with the whitewater, where she collected all that money. the people don't bring up that.

husband, hee her lied, he was in the white house and he lied under oath that he wasn't having relationships with other women. thisgotten by with all stuff. it's like anything hillary does, every thinks it's all right, it is not. host: i want show our viewers that donald trump and hillary clinton and the exchange on releasing his taxes. [video clip] mr. trump: i told you, i will release them as soon as the audit. i've been under audit almost for 15 years. i know a lot of wealthy people that have never been audited. i get audited almost every year. should bei complaining. i'm not even complaining. i don't mind it, it's almost become a way of life. other people don't. i will say this, we have a situation in this country that has to be taken care of. i will sayi will release my tax, against my lawyer's wishes, when she releases her 33,000 e-mails

that have been deleted. as soon as she releases them, i will release my tax returns. and that's against my lawyers -- they say don't do it. i will tell you this. watching the shows, reading the papers, on most every lawyer says you don't release your returns to the audit is complete. when the audit is complete, i will do it. i would go against them if she releases her e-mail. lester holt: so is negotiable? mr. trump: it's not negotiable, no. let her release the e-mails. why did she delete 33,000 -- holt: well, i'll let her answer that. but let me just admonish the audience one more time. there was an agreement. we did ask you to be silent, so it would be helpful for us.

secretary clinton? ms. clinton: well, i think you've seen another example of bait-and-switch here. for 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. you can go and see nearly, i think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it. we know the irs has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit. so you've got to ask yourself, why won't he release his tax returns? and i think there may be a couple of reasons. first, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to wall street and foreign banks. or maybe he doesn't want the american people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax. mr. trump: that makes me smart. ms. clinton: so if he's paid zero, that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health.

and i think probably he's not all that enthusiastic about having the rest of our country see what the real reasons are, because it must be something really important, even terrible, that he's trying to hide. host: after that exchange about his taxes, as donald trump said, he would release them if she releases the e-mails. this is how she addressed the e-mail and the private server at last night's debate. mistakenton: i made a using a private e-mail. if i had to do it over again, i would obviously do differently. i'm not quite a make any excuses. it was a mistake, and i take responsibility for that. mr. trump: that was more than a mistake. that was done purposely. that was done purposely. when you have your staff taking the fifth amendment taking the , fifth so they're not

prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the fifth, i think it's disgraceful. and believe me, this country thinks it's -- really thinks it's disgraceful, also. host: donald trump and hillary clinton and hostile university last night for their first -- at hofstra university last night. up. of your calls coming john: in a 90 minute debate, time spent and words used so important. to focus on the last two clips you showed our viewers this morning, this from a review from the independent journal review. during the presidential debate on monday, donald trump spent a lot of time explain his campaign's most controversial issues. clinton spent 45 words discussing her e-mails. trump spent 741 words discussing his tax return and business record. the story talks about the words

used. several other organizations looking at words used in this campaign. the words said and words left unsaid is the headline of review by the "wall street journal." some of the words that were left unsaid is banks bailout, inc. breakouts -- bank breakups, the state tax, fracking, gmo, hedge funds. that review of the transcript often showing where both candidates talked about topic and one talked about a topic and one did not. a few other notes on word choices. e-mail you was used -- e-mail times.ed four obama talked about 18 times, birth certificate was said five differentther, two

times. immigrants and immigration were used one time each. both by donald trump. the word muslims used six times in the debate. justby hillary clinton is this exchange were she said we are working with our friends in the middle east, many of which as you know our muslim majority nations. donald has consistently insulted muslims abroad. and the word wall used three different times, all in the context of talking about wall street. --two words not mentioned supreme court. other words the maybe top twitter moments of the debate, this from the "wall street journal," good temperament. donald trump saying he had a good temperament became one of the top twitter moments of the debate. his comments on stop and frisk also listed on top moments. aboutnald trump talking his exchange and their plans for defeating isis, one of the top twitter moments of the debate.

we'll keep reviewing the transcripts and information that comes out today from social media as a breakdown the debates. more of your calls coming up, john entebbe, florida, supporting hillary clinton. florida, supporting hillary clinton. caller: [indiscernible] donald trump criticizes innocent people like myself. i have cereal palsy -- cerebral palsy. i believe this country will be in trouble if he becomes president. goes, i far as hillary believe that you make a great president. her husband was one of the best presidents of this country ever had. did when heat he

was in office, that's between her and him. he ran a country and he was a very good president. if this country is in danger from isis, i would rather have in case something .appens we will be a lot safer. bennington,n vermont. undecided. after last night's debate, are you still undecided? for sure. i just had a couple questions, thanks for taking my call. on hillary, i've been pondering this really hard. she wore a red dress, never mind me of nancy reagan. -- that reminded me of nancy

reagan. she seems to be acting a lot. everything that comes out of her mouth is acting. tax thing with donald trump, she wants to tax the rich. she is rich. she going to tax herself? she is a government employee, she doesn't pay federal taxes herself. h donald trumps when she doesn't pay federal tax? host: federal employees pay taxes. caller: not federal taxes. host: we will check that, i'm pretty sure they do. on twitter, if the private e-mails wereleted a mistake, why did five or staff members receive immunity? she is a criminal. i don't feel that any minds were changed. was to bebjective presidential and he showed he was. hillary was her smug self.

trump bragged he pays no taxes because he is smart. he stiffed the country claims to love after he dodged the draft. i thought the debate last night was informative. this viewer saying common sense thinkers are the best leaders to steer the country in the right direction. trump interrupted hillary clinton 28 times and claims he has the better temperament. wow. in whitehall, arkansas, supporting hillary clinton. good morning. are you there? you got to be ready and listen to your phone. turn the tv down. a reminder for all of you calling in. david who is supporting hillary clinton. caller: good morning. i want to take a point about a previous caller who said that hillary's campaign was slanderous in its advertising. nearly every she put on tv has really been a collection of donald loanwords, which have -- words, including

accusing a mexican-american adge of bias and insulting reported disability. she's just regurgitating donald trump's talking points. host: before you go, what was your highlight last night, her highpoint and low point in the debate? caller: i thought she stood up to trump very well. she stuck to substance rather to be justeemed ranting by trump. i thought she did a good job. trump, he dido hold his own. i think he didn't take what seemed to me her beating him at times. i do think trump did hold up little bit. but he fell short completely on substance. host: what do you think on the debate for trade?

state, recalling the transpacific partnership the gold standard, which he reminded her of those words last night. her on tradering deals, nafta, the past. do you think she is vulnerable on that? caller: she is a little bit vulnerable, but you have to remind yourself that she wasn't the president or senator when i waspassed -- when that passed. when she was commenting on the tpp, it was still being you have to take her at her word where she says the final agreements fall short of where she wanted to be. so it's not perfect. she would like to see improved. not all agreements are perfect, which is why president obama supports it, and is trying to have it passed. with a lot of republican support, because traditionally they are the party of free trade.

hillary wants to be improved upon, that is something she should do in the administration that she sets up. host: david, a clinton supporter in virginia beach. linda, supporting mr. trump. good morning. caller: i just want to say that i'm 69 years old, and up until the first time obama ran for president, i voted for him. after that, i changed to republican. living in the 60's, obama and hillary have set this country back 50 years or more. id coming from west virginia, do what we will do if trump isn't president. my daughter is a coal miner and my brother, my dad, i was. we don't know what our way of life will be without it. it's a scary situation. if trump doesn't get to be president, we just don't know what we will do. host: linda, what is the direction you see the coal industry going right now? there are reports that it's

already starting to -- because , that thedemands etc. coal industry is decreasing its presence in this country. doing knowledge, do you see it happening even before the next election? caller: it's because of the epa that we have his problems right now. there is such a thing as what we call clean coal. they can clean it and wash it and burn it and it doesn't hurt the environment. but it's all about politics now. they're going to put people out of work. people are going to go hungry and they are shutting down. they are closing down. there are only a few working. two in my area back home are working. host: what do you think donald trump will do for your family, for the coal industry? caller: it will put us back on our feet. we will be able to make mortgage payments and we will be back on our feet. people will be like to be back to work. nobody wants assistance from the state. free, and weare

don't like to take handouts and stuff like food stamps and whatnot. we'll like being pushed back into a corner where we have to. host: have you always win for republicans? caller: no, democrat. i voted for obama the first time he run, not the second time after i saw the mistake i had made. host: did you vote for senator manchin? exit, he's from fairmont, yes. i did. he was from fairmont. he's not for: either, that much. host: you still voted for him. caller: if you come from a small town like that, you know the family. it's funny like that. host: i know how that works. linda, let me ask you about last night. when do you think donald trump did his best and when do you think he did not do so well? caller: i think he did well on the whole thing. i didn't get to watch the whole thing, i drove into the outer banks last night.

i did get to see some of it. he always handles itself well. they try to make him look stupid , but he's not a stupid man. he's a very intelligent man. we need him. richard in hear from kingsport, tennessee, supporting a third-party candidate. who are you supporting? caller: darrell castle, constitution party. host: ok. what did you think about last night? me to behat allows more objective maybe that partisan. i told your screener that neither one -- this probably not exactly right. clinton certainly presented herself as more prepared, of course. but i thought really both performances just confirmed the stereotypes that we have seen about them.

beingrump came across as misinformed, a novice, repeating himself endlessly and losing himself in mid-thought. beinginton came across as -- although she was a bit more natural than her stump speeches, she still is reprogrammed, arrogant. she kind of cold at joe biden, laughing and mocking trump during the split screen. i really don't think that either convinced any undecided voters to support them. i certainly don't plan to watch the next two debates. i didn't learn anything. at this point, lester holden ask about supreme cold -- lester holt did not ask the supreme court. that's the one issue that might make me remotely consider voting for trump. host: what do you want to say on that issue?

caller: if i thought he could be trusted to do anything he says, i would hope that he would appoint conservative justices. clinton has said that she would apply litmus test to pick liberal justices for liberal social issues and causes. she is on record as doing that. about thecomplain other side doing the same thing. host: richard, if you are thinking you would like to hear that from donald trump, what do you say to people that would say if you're going to vote for a third-party candidate, you are possibly risking that hillary clinton gets into office then? caller: that's an excellent point. you're right. that is something that does give me pause. through most of my life, i was supporting republicans and i would support paul ryan or nikki

haley or susana martinez. any number of republicans. trump to do trust anything -- i think he is neither -- another expedient person. host: i will invite you to call in the morning, (202) 748-8003 fourl (202) 748-8002 third-party candidates. more calls later. john: you were talking about third-party candidates who were not invited by the commission on presidential debates. one story is about green party candidate jill stein, this from heavy.com. jill stein was planning to hold a rally at hofstra university

before the debate, and she was scheduled to host a twitter q&a better plans changed when she was escorted off campus around 2:30 p.m. yesterday when she was supposed to have an interview with msnbc. she was on her way to that interview when the nassau county police and hofstra security stopped her, according to her twitter feed. she followed along with what happened with the interaction with the police on her twitter feed. she did a quick in project press conference for msm bc -- impromptu press conference for msnbc, before being assorted off by police. her supporters were there, the occupy the debate movements, the hashtag on twitter. here's a moment from some of those protests. [video clip] [chanting]

>> jill not hill. john: live tweeting some of the parts of the debate, she says i wasn't there but i knocked clinton and trump off the stage with my solutions with the hashtag occupy the debates. i would be terrified with trumps finger on the button, i would also be terrified with clinton's finger on the one. we will keep you updated with other candidates as we go along today. host: we are in the bottom of the first hour of today's "washington journal." we are dividing the lines by whether or not you support hillary clinton, supporting donald trump, undecided and third-party candidates as well. let me show you what's next for debates. debate isresidential what's coming up next, tuesday,

october 4 at lohman university in farmville, virginia. the vice president will debate will be divided into 910 minute segments. host: if you didn't hear a topic brought up last night, it could be brought up to one of these debates coming up. our coverage will continue here on c-span, with coverage of the debates and your phone calls after the debate is finished. and again the next morning here on the "washington journal." for waiting in richmond, virginia, supporting

hillary clinton. what did you think about last night's debate? caller: i thought last night's debate was kind of an eye-opener for people with common sense. to see the donald trump couldn't number one speak to issues, number two, trying to avoid facts about his tax return because the first president like him who had to show him and had it under on it was richard nixon. it came out that when richard nixon showed his taxes, ended up owing money back to the some odd., about $700 it's a patriotic thing to pay taxes, knowing what taxes go towards. it's almost for me like disrespectful for people who support him to not say he should show it. because it's a matter of respect and honor to american people. he's trying to escape that issue, and for me, that should

be a disqualifying facts all the way up till the election. he should lose just because of that. not showing people information that will help them know that he is ok. for me right now, he is not ok. ins got core issues going on relation to this whole college he had. he said other issues going on the like i said, being audited -- it's just ridiculous that this man is even close to being our president. host: finish your thought. clinton,ooking at mrs. the lady should totally be respected. she went to college for this type of responsibility. her whole life has been dedicated to learning about politics, helping people, was the wife of a president, senator, secretary of state. she is trying to help our country. host: i want to follow up on an

earlier caller who said -- talked about taxes and said workers don't pay taxes. perhaps he was thinking of this story that federal workers and retirees owe the irs $3.5 billion in back taxes, about 3.1% of all federal employees, including civilian and military employees are late on their taxes. it means they pay them, but some of these people didn't pay the full amount owed when they filed a return, or an irs audit found that they owed more than they paid. last year, 3.3% of federal $3.3rs owned -- owed billion. randy, undecided. why are you undecided? caller: because the democrats and republicans are the same boat. they play off each other. atse people -- i'm looking

-- johnson should have been up on the podium too, last night. orfar as their taxes goes, foundations and taxes, whatever. they are both probably criminal. hillary has taken so many donations from rogue countries and everything. just to get to say hello to. people are fed up with it. as far as that goes, i don't see any difference between either one of them. trump, i know what hillary and her cronies have done. i don't know what trump has done , but if i had to vote for just those two, it would have to be trump. but johnson, i wish they would've had him on the podium last night. host: one of over gary johnson -- why not vote for gary johnson? caller: it's kind of looking that way.

but he doesn't have a well diggers chance in hades to win. hillary, her family is as criminal as can be. and trump, i'm sure he's done some shady deals going on too. but i mean what are you going to do? host: this a story in the front page of the "washington post ," trump income directed to moguls foundation is the headline. trump'sts that mr. charitable foundation has received approximately $2.3 million from companies that owed money to trump, or one of his businesses, there were instructed to pay his tax-exempt foundation instead. cases where he diverted his own income to his foundation --

host: this is an in-depth piece in the "washington post," you want to learn more. larry in montrose, virginia. who are you supporting? caller: i'm larry from a rose, virginia. in my opinion, the person who won the debate was dr. jill stein of the green party. just because of what she had to overcome just to get on the podium. oligarchyis two-party that's done every thing he can to disappear her and make her a nonperson. but some people got together, we were able to do it, we were able to get her on the podium and she could participate in the debate.

remotend it was from a location and she would just answer questions as they came up. but that's all we had to overcome. and we did that. host: so you watched her then. caller: i watched her, i don't care about that farcical pie fight that was overhyped on the major networks. i really don't care about that. i knew what that was going to be like. and yeah, it was like that. i have no doubt. host: you are going to vote for jill stein. caller: i'm working for jill stein, i am sending her money, i will do whatever i can. host: let me ask you something, larry. who do you fear being in the white house? mr. trump or mrs. clinton? trump, he says were will things, i fear clinton because she does horrible things. i don't want either one of them. host: lisa in sacramento, california, supporting hillary clinton. caller: good morning.

i do support hillary clinton. i think she did a wonderful job last night. i didn't watch the first part of it, i have got home from work a little late. the part i did watch, i think she did a great job. host: what do you think she did a great job on? caller: i think she did a great when heefending herself kept trying to talk about the e-mails. or think about the e-mails, i don't really care about the e-mails. they are gone. it's old news. apologizeh she would about the mistake she's made. everyone makes mistakes. us, why can'tgive we forgive her? host: where do you think she did not do well last night? caller: with the tpp.

i didn't know what that meant and one time, and i had to look it up and do my research. the transpacific partnership trade deal the president obama has negotiated. caller: yes, and i'm upset with him for doing it. i did my homework, and i don't think it's a good idea. our viewers inow case anybody was watching last night and missed this part, or missed this part, this is the two of them on trade deals. you've been doing this for 30 years. where you just thinking about the solutions right now? ms. clinton: well, actually --

mr. trump: i will bring -- excuse me. i will bring back jobs. you can't bring back jobs. ms. clinton: well, actually, i have thought about this quite a bit. mr. trump: yeah, for 30 years. ms. clinton: and i have -- well, not quite that long. i think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s. i think a lot about what worked and how we can make it work again -- mr. trump: well, he approved nafta -- ms. clinton: -- million new jobs, a balanced budget -- mr. trump: he approved nafta, which is the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country. ms. clinton: incomes went up for everybody. manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s, if we're actually going to look at the facts. when i was in the senate, i had a number of trade deals that came before me, and i held them all to the same test. will they create jobs in america? will they raise incomes in america? and are they good for our national security? some of them i voted for. the biggest one, a multinational one known as cafta, i voted against. when i was secretary of state, we actually increased american exports globally 30%. we increased them to china 50%. so i know how to really work to get new jobs and to get exports that helped to create more new jobs. holt: very quickly -- mr. trump: but you haven't done it in 30 years or 26 years or any number you want to -- ms. clinton: well, i've been a senator, donald -- mr. trump: you haven't done it. you haven't done it. ms. clinton: and i have been a secretary of state -- mr. trump: excuse me. ms. clinton: and i have done a lot -- mr. trump: your husband signed nafta, which was one of the worst things that ever happened to the manufacturing industry.

ms. clinton: well, that's your opinion. that is your opinion. mr. trump: you go to new england, you go to ohio, pennsylvania, you go anywhere you want, secretary clinton, and you will see devastation where manufacture is down 30, 40, sometimes 50%. nafta is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country. and now you want to approve trans-pacific partnership. you were totally in favor of it. then you heard what i was saying, how bad it is, and you said, i can't win that debate. but you know that if you did win, you would approve that, and that will be almost as bad as nafta. nothing will ever top nafta. ms. clinton: well, that is just not accurate. i was against it once it was finally negotiated and the terms were laid out. i wrote about that in -- mr. trump: you called it the gold standard. you called it the gold standard of trade deals. you said it's the finest deal you've ever seen. ms. clinton: no. mr. trump: and then you heard what i said about it, and all of a sudden you were against it. ms. clinton: well, donald, i know you live in your own reality, but that is not the facts. the facts are -- i did say i hoped it would be a good deal,

but when it was negotiated -- mr. trump: not. ms. clinton: -- which i was not responsible for, i concluded it wasn't. i wrote about that in my book -- mr. trump: so is it president obama's fault? ms. clinton: -- before you even announced. mr. trump: is it president obama's fault? ms. clinton: look, there are differences -- mr. trump: secretary, is it president obama's fault? ms. clinton: there are -- mr. trump: because he's pushing it. ms. clinton: there are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world. and i think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again. that's why i said new jobs with rising incomes, investments, not in more tax cuts that would add $5 trillion to the debt. mr. trump: but you have no plan. ms. clinton: but in -- oh, but i do. mr. trump: secretary, you have no plan. ms. clinton: in fact, i have written a book about it. it's called "stronger together." you can pick it up tomorrow at a bookstore -- host: that was the exchange between the two candidates at last night's first presidential debate over trade. politico fact checking says this about trump saying clinton

wanted to approve the tdp deal. host: sam, you are undecided in flat rock, michigan. thank you for joining us. what did you think about the debate? caller: i thought it was great, and thank you c-span. the winning it really getting to me was donald trumps constant sniffling and guzzling water. i don't of you guys picked up on that. it seemed like he is getting sick. and they wanted -- hillary clinton -- they want to bash hillary clinton for being sick and off the trail. host: as you are watching a

noticing this, why do you think you noticed it? to distract you? caller: it was very apparent and very distracting. it was almost like he needed a clean next. nex. klee host: in fort lauderdale, florida, supporting trump. caller: i cannot believe, that anyone not even one person would consider voting for hillary clinton. her major economic a compliment accomompliment -- plishment will be higher taxes and is supposed to increase jobs? that's ridiculous. she talks about trickle-down economics, trickle-down economics to not cause the last to get on the collapse, it was the wish of administration, which i didn't really care for the much, allowing banks to over leverage. they came out with all of these ridiculous kinds of loans.

and you throw them together with the economic development program of the democratic party, of course, before were getting into loans they didn't belong in. that's what caused it. trickle-down economics is based on a pillar of economic theory which is proven. it's just another word for velocity of money. here's how that works. conditions for ,usinesses to have career jobs jobs that can command loans. those loans go out and buy goods. when all of these goods are bought, that creates other career jobs. and so on. multipliert a economistsand 20, so that say trickle-down is work are being very hypocritical, because that's just another word for velocity of money, and

velocity of money is a proven economic principle. learn -- we heard your point rate we lost him on that. more calls coming up, but let's get more on last night's debate from john mcardle. john: we told our viewers about what jill stein was doing last night, here is what libertarian candidate gary johnson was doing last night. gary johnson also not making the 15% cut off to make the debate stage. here's a facebook live for him he held before the debate started. when the debates were going on, terry johnson and his vice presidential candidate bill weld live tweeted from his offices in chelsea, new york. they didn't mince words, when responding to donald trump and hillary clinton's answers, or providing their own responses to debate questions. gary johnson, in his very first tweet showing his displeasure with being left off the stage. he says sponsored by the

commission on presidential who debates? he talks about tax plans dealing with the middle-class class, free trade, all the issues of the candidates were talking about. at one point he wrote i just left to go to the bathroom, came back, didn't miss a thing. the debates sound like the same thing we have been listening to all year. wrote this is really inspiring, isn't it, america? towards the end of the night, gary johnson writing on his page but he agreed with both candidates on one major point. i agree with hillary clinton, don't vote for donald trump. and i agree with donald trump, don't vote for hillary clinton. host: debra in kansas city, missouri. voting for hillary clinton. deborah, what do you think about last night's debate? caller: i thought it was great and i thought hillary did a great job.

it's just what i always thought fort trump, that he entered trump, not for the people. and i'm scared. i'm 63 years old, and this is the first time since i started voting that i'm afraid. i don't care about tax relief to the rich or anything about that. i care about somebody like trump being able to put his finger on the button. and that scares me to death. those are deborah's thoughts, supporting hillary clinton. karen supporting donald trump in norman, oklahoma. it's your turn, good morning. caller: good morning. she was on their saying there must be some reason, he's so bad, there is something in his taxes, it has to be bad that he will release them. that can also apply to her wall street speeches.

is there something in there so bad that she won't release them? i know her son-in-law works on wall street and she's trying to protect and family. about theirn their all on about the birth thing that was years ago, yet she wants to call our black youth of super predators, but that was a mistake so let it be over. classified information after a congressional subpoena, but she made a mistake, so let's get over it. snippet -- slip up that trump makes, they want to take it to living. didn't ask her how to do make $60 million while you were secretary of state? she had no other job, how did she make all that money? -- i can i ask you

understand what you're saying in your point about hillary clinton less night. can you take a step back, you are supporting donald trump. the throughout the debate, was there any point where you thought he didn't answer the question well? caller: i thought he didn't answer it well on the taxes, because he should have come back with her on will what are you hiding? using my taxes are so bad that i'm hiding, let's see your wall street speeches and see what you are trying to hide there. they keep saying that clinton is such a good president, they don't remember that he was impeached for lying to congress. he didn't say anything to her about any of the stuff she's done. it was just all trump, trump, trump. host: on the tax issue, do you think you should just release democrats, and hillary clinton keep making this accusation against him? just release it and get it over with? caller: it's like they're

rioting in the streets because they want more information on what the cops did during their shooting of the black youth. and i'm not for shooting black youth, believe me. we love our african-american brothers and sisters here in the south. we get a bad rap. but we love them. but i don't know. she can say one thing and then it turns back to him. show -- mys to knowledge of the that is they want to see stuff, we are mad because we want to see stuff. we want to see what she owes to wall street. host: we got you, in norman, oklahoma. let's go to last night's debate. in this moment between the two candidates, talking about trump being a businessman. he says that's one of the reasons why people should vote for him, this country needs a businessman, not a politician.

[video clip] mr. trump: your main claim to be -- mrs. clinton: your main is you are president not a politician. you know, your campaign manager said that you built a lot of businesses on the backs of little guys. and, indeed, i have met a lot of the people who were stiffed by you and your businesses, donald. i've met dishwashers, painters, architects, glass installers, marble installers, drapery installers, like my dad was, who you refused to pay when they finished the work that you asked them to do. we have an architect in the audience who designed one of your clubhouses at one of your golf courses. it's a beautiful facility. it immediately was put to use. and you wouldn't pay what the man needed to be paid, what he was charging you to do -- mr. trump: maybe he didn't do a good job and i was unsatisfied with his work -- ms. clinton: well, to -- mr. trump: which our country

should do, too. ms. clinton: do the thousands of people that you have stiffed over the course of your business not deserve some kind of apology from someone who has taken their labor, taken the goods that they produced, and then refused to pay them? i can only say that i'm certainly relieved that my late father never did business with you. he provided a good middle-class life for us, but the people he worked for, he expected the bargain to be kept on both sides. and when we talk about your business, you've taken business bankruptcy six times. there are a lot of great businesspeople that have never taken bankruptcy once. you call yourself the king of debt. you talk about leverage. you even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate down the national debt of the united states. mr. trump: wrong. wrong. ms. clinton: well, sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to

government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government. holt: let's let mr. trump -- ms. clinton: and we need to be very clear about that. mr. trump: so, yeah, i think -- i do think it's time. look, it's all words, it's all sound bites. i built an unbelievable company. some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world, real estate assets anywhere in the world, beyond the united states, in europe, lots of different places. it's an unbelievable company. but on occasion, four times, we used certain laws that are there. and when secretary clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation. now, if you want to change the laws, you've been there a long time, change the laws. but i take advantage of the laws of the nation because i'm running a company. my obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. and that's what i do. but what she doesn't say is that

tens of thousands of people that are unbelievably happy and that love me. i'll give you an example. we're just opening up on pennsylvania avenue right next to the white house, so if i don't get there one way, i'm going to get to pennsylvania avenue another. but we're opening the old post office. under budget, ahead of schedule, saved tremendous money. i'm a year ahead of schedule. and that's what this country should be doing. host: the two candidates swearing off last night at hofstra university for the first presidential debate. we're getting your thoughts this morning on who won. the pundits have an opinion, but what do you, the voters, had to say about this. we divided the lines this morning, if you are supporting hillary clinton, call (202) 748-8000. if you are supporting donald trump, call (202) 748-8001.

if you have a third-party person in mind, call (202) 748-8002. and all of you who are undecided, (202) 748-8003. we want to hear from you, and so does edwin on twitter, and what has this to say. trump supporters will stay with him, clinton supporters will stay with her. but we need to hear is from those who decided last night. any of you, please call in as well. but fear from edward in keyport, -- let's hear from edward in keyport, new jersey. caller: my third party would be abstention. i believe the american people made the government and we are being sold a nonsense of sham democracy. first of all, hillary clinton subverted the vote to make sure that she got into office. in the last time that happened, we ended up with 9/11 and all that. the fact of the matter is people

need to start representing themselves and start standing up. people are unsatisfied with what's happening, we need to do some thing about it. i think that people should abstain. we should have a general strike of the strike of the election and a general strike on that day. show them that we need real change and real voices to be heard. ohio supporting mr. trump. good morning. caller: good morning. watched the debate last night and i am a trump supporter and i do believe the debate was pretty even. i'm going to have to go with trump. they both showed good qualities in the debate. there's no denying that. hillary clinton was strong. she was stern.

she didn't give in too much. he did interrupt her numerous times. on the same note as bad she was also doing the chuckling laughing thing. and also she did the puppet thing where she looks like she is being pulled by strings where she's just a robot. host: that makes you later toward mr. trump in november -- lean toward mr. trump in november? caller: yes. host: we are 41 days from election day with your thoughts about last night's debate. bob in kentucky. clinton. go ahead. caller: she won hands-down. he never answered one question. everything was about trump.

you've got to know how to act with foreign dignitaries and he sure doesn't know how to do it. she answered everything and laid out her plans and everything. couldn't have been more clear. he talked about her having no stamina. he was all over the podium. he did everything but dance with that thing. i just don't get him. thank you for taking my call. host: john is undecided. good morning. wondering what your decision-making process is like just now. caller: i have been around for 76 years and never saw such a campaign in my life. my fear is that the rightful winner may not win because there is so much voter fraud going on.

had a voter id law down since 2011. all of a sudden they changed it and said it might be discriminatory against poor people. against blacks. blacks are voting in bigger numbers now more than ever. there is nothing stopping them from voting. it's the voter fraud. they wanted lax and others and all of these recent immigrants that were supposed to be deported that were given citizenship. do you know how it feels for somebody that thought for this country to listen to the sis crap that people that are supposed to be deported have the same vote that i do? this is terrible. host: what are you going to do? caller: he didn't stick to her about the 33,000 e-mails. his taxes aren't hurting us. what did she have in those e-mails? why did she redact them in the first place?

why is everybody taking the fifth amendment? she's crooked!!! host: that's john's opinion. of your commentary about who won last night coming up. john mcardle has more details about the debate last night. >> so much focus on the moderators in this debate. so much focus on lester holt. here are some of the reviews. donald trump with his review telling reporters in this bedroom after the debate that he was happy with lester will's -- lester holt's moderating. he said, honestly i thought he did a great job. some disagreed. congressman peter king said he missed a series of questions about mrs. clinton while asking trump about his past.

david produce said lester holt should have pressed mrs. clinton on her own immigration policy. night from at last republican from south carolina. nbc's lester holt gave us a birther question, a trump tax return question, and only 20 seconds on hillary's e-mails. this from business insider. the camp appeared pleased with his performance. i think it was a very informative debate. he said the campaign was happy with the debate as it went.

those are some of the early reviews of the candidates themselves. when donald trump went to this bedroom -- most of the time presidential candidates don't go to the spin room. i want to show viewers what he had to say about the moderator. then he teased what might happen at the next debate. >> much more disgraceful than tonight are the commercials. because she is desperate. polls are coming out. you know it better than anybody. we are really leading now. we are doing very well. americaing to make great again. she cannot make america great again. there's no way she can do it. >> how was your prep? >> i thought my prep was very good and i really enjoyed it.

i held my fire with respect to his transgressions. he had major transgressions. with chelsea in the room i thought it would be inappropriate. host: you heard him. he said he thought it was a fair debate and that he may bring up bill clinton's past at the next debate. by alldidate was mobbed the media when he went into the screen room. hillaryesta in the clinton campaign also talking to reporters in the spin room. here's what he had to say. it was very clear. she painted a positive picture.

if you focus on doing the right things by the middle class you will have a very strong economy, improved wages. better lives. paid leave. making sure that you get to college debt-free. voters really want to hear the discussion about it. i want to hear what you are going to do for them. i think she really connected tonight. i'm just going to stick with what i said.

when he attacked a gold star family because of their muslim faith. you make your own judgment of what's in his heart. >> it was reported that the campaigns agreed -- everybody calls him mr. trump. he's donald trump. john podesta in the spin room after last night's debate at hofstra university. it was the third consecutive presidential debate hosted by hofstra university last night.

it is just a few miles east of new york and has around 11,000 students. we are going to talk to a few of them throughout today's washington journal and your phone calls. brian is undecided in michigan. welcome to the conversation. caller: thank you, gretchen. your program for letting us do what we are doing right now. host: you bet. what did you think about the debate? was very thought it informative. i want to thank the commentator and that asked all the questions i wanted to learn and i want to see the next debate. host: why are you still undecided? caller: it caught my interest. what was that? host: why are you still undecided? caller: i need to learn a little bit more about them both. host: ok.

we will go to wisconsin. hillary clinton supporter. good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to say that i watched the debate two times last night. voice.forgive my i just got out of the hospital tuesday with pneumococcal pneumonia. i sounded like mcnulty when i first came in but i finally got that part of my voice back. bit. talk a little i'm going back to the hospital today. first of all i would like to stress the point that hillary clinton started out in college studying how to make mankind better. militarylinton took a desk benefit of a military g.i.

lawyer that fights for our and their children and their wives and their families for a husband to take care of their family. hillary through painstaking effort raised that amount to $100,000 to help the families of the deceased soldiers that were killed in a war situation. i have to stress this point and it is very very important for everybody to listen. because any human being including donald trump that can look at a man in his face and tell this man i know you spent

four years in college in your career. i know you have a family. i know you have a wife. i know you have children. i know you have a lot of relatives that depend upon your career because you worked your life in order to become what you are today. well i'm taking personal pleasure this day in firing you. i love firing people. host: all right. i'm going to move on. frank in lauderdale supporting mr. trump. caller: good morning everybody. yes. i thought they both did very well in the debate itself. think donald trump hit her hard enough on the e-mail issue. she jeopardized the united bytes national security using classified information on her private server.

fbi director komi said 110 times there were classified information on the e-mails she turned over to the fbi. and she's got a pension for secrecy. like in the watergate scandal those files disappeared as well. she talks about transparency. that's good generally speaking but when you are dealing with --ernment secrets host: the next debate is the vice presidential candidates. after that -- what more do you want to see from donald trump besides the e-mail stuff? i think the e-mails are extremely important. i would like to see him go even

tougher on that issue. another issue that i'm very concerned about is children. she claims in her public career she has done all of these things for children on how they have such great potential and how every american child should begin in that opportunity. yet she has a big advocate for abortion. an can she claims she is advocate for children when she discriminates against a group of children, the unborn? boys and girls, the black little boys and girls, the white little boys and girls. she discriminates against them. host: all right frank. from our twitter followers to showing you the spin room from last night. we covered all of the spin room. you can go to our website and find it there.

we want to let you know the candidates are up to today. hillary clinton is going to raleigh, north carolina. we will have coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. you can also listen to what she has to say postdebate on the c-span radio app. hits thelinton campaign trail in north carolina and donald trump goes to a rally in florida. this is -- mrs. clinton has lavished attention on north carolina this month after her lead in the polls evaporated. she is making her third trip after not paying a single visit in august. she teams up with senator bernie sanders current rally wednesday in new hampshire where she is

working to cement her hold on the electoral vote. mr. trump has kept the pressure on with repeat visits by himself and his running mate mike pence. mr. trump leads in the polls in iowa. the race is a dead heat in florida. trump is looking to break into the lead in florida with a rally today. this will be the 10th event in the sunshine state. traditionalohio are swing states. the billionaire held nine ohio events this month. mrs. clinton only visited months for a labor day event in cleveland. pence has events tuesday in

wisconsin. thursday in pennsylvania. a look ahead at the landscape before election day. patricia in michigan. you are supporting mrs. clinton. good morning. good morning. i am just so proud of hillary. she did tremendous. said itchristmassy use best. .he cleaned his clock she did everything right and he did everything wrong. host: why do you say that? of what he dids right and what she did wrong and then tell us -- caller: no, she did right. host: ok tell us what she did right and he did wrong. caller: she was patient while he was repeating things over and over which is what he does at all of his rallies.

she was substantive in what she said. the only thing that i would really like to have them talk about is the affordable care act which saved my life. itould not be here today if wasn't for that. it just terrifies me to think that might be taken away for 20 million americans. i know it's in its infancy and needs to be corrected. we all deserve and need health care. host: ok patricia. try to be objective here. i know you are supporting clinton. what did he do right? what did she do wrong? caller: donald trump scares me to death. this man is a narcissist beyond compare. all he ever talked about was himself. every single time something was mentioned about him he attacked her and ended the subject. he was promoting his business

es. he wasn't even talking to the american people. i think she just did a wonderful job and i would vote for her in a heart he. she's not perfect. no one is. host: did you vote for her in 2008? caller: no i didn't. i have not voted since 2008. but i will be out there. and i love president obama. i think it's just a shame that donald trump cannot apologize to the man. host: more phone calls coming up. first, john mcardle. >> so many areas of disagreement between the candidates last night. perhaps we can focus on one area where there seemed to be agreement. striking to find the candidates seem to agree on one policy. supportreiterated her

for what democrats and gun control advocates have called a no-fly know by policy. it restricts individuals on the terror watch list being able to purchase guns. he went on to reiterate his pro-gun bona fides citing his endorsement from the national rifle association. the nra tweeting out, here we go again. advocating for stripping citizens of the right to due process. the nra did not have a follow-up when donald trump seemed to agree on that point. here's an article from earlier this summer after this issue came up. spokesperson for the nra replied the organization is happy to meet with trump that will remain opposed to using the

no-fly list to deny rights to american citizens. of congress noting their disagreement with donald trump on this issue. here is a congressman from michigan saying that both candidates support using secret lists to deny rights without due process. then there's chris murphy of connecticut who is very strong on gun control. he has been pushing for that in several speeches on the house floor. he spent a lot of time on this issue. hillary clinton did not get a question on guns tonight yet she talked about guns twice. another tweet from sen. murphy: prediction, trump won't rebut clinton on guns. he knows it's a losing argument with swing voters. host: here on the washington journal what do you think about

the first presidential debate? dominic in north carolina. you are an undecided voter. who do you think won? caller: hillary clinton. host: why do you say that? only did she have a plan for every question that was asked of her. she had a plan for everything that was thrown at her. not only did she called a with donald trump. she was prepared. off withe he cut her his disrespectful miss. she was prepared. she was patient. she did not disrespect him at any time. donald trump has no plan.

she controlled her actions the whole time. host: we heard you say that. are you still undecided? caller: not any longer. i decided last night. host: it was all about how she prepared. caller: how she had control of her behavior. he was really disrespectful towards her. are around the table with different countries you have to hold your composure. you cannot argue and call people names because you don't like what they say. you have to come to an understanding. he didn't have a valid response as far as race. as what yourfar husband did. she cannot control that her husband cheated. it's nothing she did wrong. not decidedve you

to support hillary clinton until last night? caller: i wanted to see more. i wanted to see what were her plans. i wanted to hear her plans. i wanted to see her in action and see how her behavior was. and it wasn't what i expected. she handled it as a lady. gale in california supporting hillary clinton. caller: good morning. yes i support hillary clinton. because she has the integrity. she has the stamina. which is a joke to donald trump. she knows her business. she knows the laws. she is a lawyer. she has been the first lady twice. woman that is unprepared like donald trump

was. trumpot a donald supporter mainly because of the birther issue. donald trump took it too far. since 1864, myns grandmother sadie thompson when she found out she was a free slave and left the foundation -- plantation, they were arrested because they didn't have papers. all african-americans for generations back didn't have birth certificates or papers and they were free americans that they couldn't travel the country. up thenald trump brought birther issue in a statement he made last night really pushed me toward hillary clinton. host: caffe in florida supporting mr. trump. you're on the air. good morning. i didn't get to see it all but i'm definitely with trump.

i think it's about time we had a wherewithal to go forward and bring back america. america is gone. our forefathers have got to be rolling. because america is not like it used to be. and i am for the immigration and the things of that nature. i'm not prejudiced. i'm colorblind. politicians these give things to everybody except for the americans. we go into war. we go back and rebuild. it's time to put a man in that is going to stand up and bring america back to america. he's a strong man. very strong in business. host: john mcardle. >> two stories outside the debate itself.

here's one from politico. donald trump's presidential campaign website went down briefly approximately 30 minutes into the presidential debate. outage began shortly after both trump and hillary clinton encouraged viewers to visit their website about their details about their policy. the hacked in this group anonymous tweeted that it was getting things set up for the debate but it was not clear what that was in reference to. anonymous has taken down trump's website before. camptory hillary clinton's probably wasn't happy to see yesterday. when the audience arrived on monday, the spelling of hillary on the's name was wrong commemorative tickets given to the audience at hofstra university. the mistake was reported by

serious xm politics. was spelled's name correctly. you can see a picture of the commemorative ticket. act to you. in north carolina. you are supporting a third-party candidate. what did you think of the debate? i am an independent. my question is this. that he ists forget a businessman. he had no business to get into the election. but democrats and republicans are failing our nation. if we were to see what's really happening, hillary has been there for 30 years. what has she really done that make this country go down the toilet? i also notice while i'm watching

the debate that she has an ear piece in her ear. why? why did she have to cheat? let's be for real. host: where did you see that? that wouldn't be allowed. caller: if you look at her left ear. there's an earpiece. host: where did you see that? caller: when i'm watching the debate. on her left hand side. there's an earpiece. ok, talk about transparency. let's be honest. let's be for real. host: steve in virginia supporting hillary clinton. caller: hello. i watched some of it twice. i'm still watching it now. just forget about all of the rhetoric and back-and-forth stuff.

you have to look at the big picture. the reason our country is in bad shape is because of trickle-down economics. the whole idea should work but greed is not going to let that work. hillary was right when she said trumped up trickle-down economics. it's just a new spin on a thing that doesn't work. host: at what point did you decide you were going to support hillary clinton? caller: i was from arkansas. i have been with them for my whole voting life i guess. they are for the people. i admire their way of helping in health care. it was a big issue especially for children. everyone should have access to health care. have been a real champion

for that and donald trump hasn't done anything except enrich himself, his family and friends. host: we are continuing to take your phone calls. we also want to go out to hofstra university. team is outarketing there with six students who will be sharing their reaction on the debate. let's hear from one of them now. >> good morning. host: what did you think of the debate? >> i think it was so exciting to begin the debate hall. i got a ticket last night. did ak hillary clinton great job explaining what her platform is and what she wants to do to make america better than it's ever going to be. host: go ahead. >> i think donald trump definitely did not share what he wants to do.

a donald trumpht that was just not a president. he was not really there. he was not using correct grammar. he was not presidential when he was standing up there. i think hillary clinton really did a good job. host: have you always been a hillary clinton supported? >> definitely obama supporter. i will support her through her presidency if elected. if you could tell us on scientifically, are the majority of students supporting hillary clinton or donald trump? >> we have a very diverse group on campus. you can definitely see with all that theredcasts were definitely both hillary and trump supporters here on campus. host: we didn't catch your name or your year. >> my name is tori.

i am a first-year graduate student in the leadership policy and education program. we will go back to hofstra in a bit. susan is supporting donald trump. good morning. >> good morning. what did you think about your candidate? what did you like? disappointed. i think he missed several areas where he could have made some points. when they were talking about creating jobs. when hillary was a senator in new york she promised to create jobs in upstate new york and she did not keep that promise. also when they were discussing the hacking issue. don't understand why mr. trump didn't cite the fact that she was using unsecured servers so that made hacking a lot easier.

when they were talking about his opinion on iraq. he didn't have the information that she did. she was in the senate and she voted in favor of the war. and there are videos that say that he was against it. in any case he didn't have the insider information that she did. but i was proud of him in a way. when she attacked him on what he said about women, he didn't turn on what heattack her could have attacked her on. you know. regarding her husband. think he should go there in the next debate either? caller: i don't think he should. the only thing is there are a lot of younger people who don't know anything about that history. i don't think that's proper.

think the way she attacked him with that specific issue was proper either. we all say things in our laws that we may regret. but i think that was a personal kind of thing. sling's going to start to personal things she better consider what could come back at her. that's my opinion. do you feel that donald trump was prepared last night? should he have done more debate prep? caller: i think he should have. absolutely. i really truly do. the one thing that really annoys the heck out of me was that his microphone was so low that he kept having to bend forward and stoop. i don't think that was so great. needs to do more preparation. i think he has a lot of good ideas and i think that he can really bring this country back.

most important issue in this election is the supreme court justices. host: you wanted to hear him talk about that. caller: they didn't talk about that last night. the six words that scare the heck out of me are supreme court justice barack hussein obama. me if mrs. surprise clinton would try to do that. host: gym in washington. caller: good morning. host: who are you supporting? caller: i was supporting senator sanders. and since things went the way i wasid in the primary

what she might have picked up from him. and i'm still not convinced. donald trump on the other hand was very naive on a lot of the things he was saying. like about nato. he -- [laughter] he seems like a megalomaniac to me. that was jim in washington. let's go back to john mcardle at the news desk. >> so much fact checking happening during and after the debate. from one of the most

well-known fact checkers, political. fact. onald trump denies saying climate change is a chinese hoax. hillary clinton said her opponent donald trump thinks climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the chinese. notnterrupted saying, i did say that. say thatout he did climate change is a hoax of chinese origin as they found in their fact checking on november 6, 2012. trump tweeted the concept of global warming was created by and for the chinese to make u.s. manufacturing noncompetitive. in an interview he indicated the tweet was a joke.

he certainly has a lengthy record of using that word to describe climate change. one interesting note on this. there was a flurry on twitter last night indicating that donald trump may have deleted one of those old tweets talking about climate change and using the word hoax. shortly after that exchange a viral tweet started to spread claiming that trumps campaign had deleted that we. the story notes trump and his campaign have rarely deleted tweets due to controversy but it has happened in the past. peoples quite a few really wanted to believe the campaign had done it again last night while he was on stage despite that the original tweet was still on twitter available for anyone to see. you can see the fact checking as it happens. plenty to read about today. in harrisburg, north

carolina. you are supporting hillary clinton. good morning. how did you think your candidate did last night? caller: actually i thought she did very well. i thought hillary was very issue oriented. trump was very self-promoting. as he usually is. one of the things that i didn't hear, donald trump wants stop and frisk. how is he going to do that? friskts to stop and african-americans. he wants to stop and frisk latin americans. he wants to stop and frisk muslim americans. he's going to have to militarize the inner city to do that. he wants to build a wall. for every 12 foot wall there is

a 14 foot ladder. he's going to have to militarize the border. this kind of reminds me of this word fascism. he's going to have to create a fascist state in america in order to implement his plans. i don't understand how america wants to vote for that. host: ok. let's show the viewers that exchange last night about stop and frisk. >> stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional in new york because it largely singled out black and hispanic young -- >> no, you're wrong. it went before a judge who was a very against police judge. it was taken away from her. our new mayor refused to go forward with the case. they would have won on appeal. if you look at it throughout the country -- >> the argument is it's a form

of racial profiling. >> the argument is we have to take the guns away from these people that are bad people and shouldn't have them. these are people that are bad -- whenhat shouldn't be you have 3000 shootings in chicago. when you have 4000 people killed in chicago by guns from the beginning of the presidency of barack obama, his hometown. and frisk. have stop you need more police. you need a better community relation. you don't have good community relations. in chicago it's terrible. i have property there. it's terrible what's going on in chicago. chicago is not the only one. you need better relationships. i agree with secretary clinton. you need better relationships between the communities and the police. in some cases it's not good. if you look at dallas where the relationships were really

studied. the relationships were really a beautiful thing. and then five police officers were killed one night very violently. there are some bad things going on. some really bad things. we need law and order. in the inner cities. because the people that are most arected by what's happening african-american and hispanic people. and it's very unfair to them what our politicians are allowing to happen. i've heard donald say this at his rallies. it's really unfortunate that he -- paints such a dire negative picture of black communities in our country. the vibrancy of the black church. black businesses that employ so many people. the opportunities that so many families are working to provide

for their kids. there's a lot that we should be proud of that and we should be supporting and lifting up. we always have to make sure we keep people safe. there are the right ways of doing it. and then there are ways that are ineffective. stop and frisk was found to be unconstitutional. in part because it was ineffective. it did not do what it needed to do. i believe in community policing. violent crime is half of what it was in 1991. property crime is down 40%. we don't want to see it creep back up. we've had 25 years of very good cooperation. were some problems. some unintended consequences. african-american and latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. it's just a fact that if you are

young african-american man and you do the same thing as a young white man you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted and incarcerated. host: young african-american mad you do the same thing as a young white it was at hofstra university where the candidates squared off last night. we are approaching the top of the hour on washington journal. we will continue until the house gavels in. getting your thoughts about one -- who won the debate last night. we want to know your opinion. if you are undecided or perhaps decided last night dialing as well. we're also getting a reaction on twitter. says people say debates to matter. ask michael dukakis. are going to hear from matthew in virginia beach who is undecided.

i want to show you some of the across the country on the debate. go ahead, matthew. good morning c-span and america. i was undecided that i decided last night. not to throw my vote away. i'm going to elect hillary clinton. donald trump doesn't see very well. to the conversation last night and i think america has lost so much. donald trump says he loves the poorly educated. that's because he can get away with non-truths. i feel both parties are corrupt. i don't like either one of them. i think given the choice between the two i prefer electing hillary clinton. to forget that we were thrown into a deficit because of the republicans. because of the banking scandals.

because when ronald reagan came into office he took certain things off of people being able to watch the banks. bill clinton was coerced when we had a budget ceiling that needed to be cast -- past. they forget all of that. and money got stolen. obama had to bail america out. he kept the programs going that george bush put when he was in office. came out withhe -- that's how the deficit got blown up. the republicans did it. when donald trump says we need more law and frisk. you guys are out of touch. racism still exists in america. we don't need stop and frisk.

we need police officers and people who are going to respect one another. and the key to all this is love. words that jesus according to the bible is when jesus wept. that's because he looked at the misery of people. we need to learn to one -- love one another. onused to have commercials tv that said live your face and you can light a world. turn your children back to whatever faith you love and believe in. all this corruption, this will all go away. the word of god says a nation that turns its back on me will be turned into hell. host: all right, matthew. charles supporting mr. trump. hi there. caller: good morning. host: what did you think about the debate? caller: i thought it was a pretty fair debate.

i heard this morning about some of the pundits who thought trump was off-center most of the night. i just don't believe that. i think he was what he is all the time. i'm for trump but i'm not for hillary. for any reason. they both may have their little discrepancies. but i think hillary is just business as usual which is very obvious. ok? she's a nice lady. we need somebody who knows how to spend a dollar bill. ok? we are $20 billion in debt. nobody wants to address the problems. how can they continue to create bills and spend more money and give away money to people like iran when we say we don't have money at home to do this and that is beyond comprehension.

that's your government as it stands which is very democratic. they want everybody to have a free ride. me ask you this. how did you vote in 2012 and in 2008? i didn't vote for the people -- i didn't vote for obama. she wants to downgrade mr. trump because he's not a politician. i don't think that's a feather in your cap anymore. these people are a bunch of lying crooks and they get away with it. $20 billion in debt. host: we heard your point, charles. let's hear from ronnie and north carolina supporting hillary clinton. caller: hello. i support hillary clinton all the way. i'm a democrat. i did vote for obama in 2008.

i support the democrats through because i have been a democrat my whole life. i'm kind of going on the generations. i couldn't really go for trump. i couldn't see anything he said. he has big businesses. but he takes his big businesses to draw the money from the little businesses as he takes them and passes them around the world. that's taking money from the united states and taking it out of the country. host: ok. credit the third time in a row hofstra university hosted the presidential debate last night. c-span has been on campus since sunday participating in a lot of campuswide debate event. our marketing team this morning with some of the hofstra students. let's go to one now.

please tell us your name and what he thought of the debate last night. whitney shepherd. i am a senior public relations major. waserday the debate fantastic. very interesting. i was in the debate hall which is really exciting. i think hillary did a great job. to stay collected. she seemed very prepared. she was able to get her points across and stick to her campaign message. i think she was really targeting those voters who might have been and was really sticking to her campaign and getting her message across. host: what was it like to be in the debate hall? especially if the crowd were to react to what they heard from the candidates. how is it different from watching it on tv? >> at times it was hard to hear because it was loud. it is a great atmosphere.

and i am so thankful to be there. great.just really there was a lot of energy. mostly positive. i think everybody was just there for the same purpose. and really supportive as a whole. host: what was it like to get into the debate hall security wise? >> it was tight. everything went really smoothly at there was a little bit of the venueriod overall looked amazing. everything they had set up was really nice. all of the volunteers were really nice and helpful. it was a great atmosphere. everyone was really excited. host: thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. let's go back to calls. diana in pennsylvania. you are supporting mr. trump. how do you think he did last night? caller: i thought the debate was very biased towards hillary. w so? housw

caller: i watched it from beginning to end and it seems the narrator allowed her to speak more freely than he did mr. trump. it seemed that he frequently interrupted mr. trump and broke his train of thought. and allowed hillary to speak on. and i believe that they did not get a fair shake. host: ok. do you think the moderator should not try to fact check at all during the debate? caller: you say fact check. they do it. spoke,ime that mr. trump the narrator interrupted him. but he did not interrupt hillary. i also believe that he allowed her morse taking time than he did mr. trump. she has been in politics for how long, she knows how to speak

more publicly than maybe mr. trump does. i felt that it was biased towards him. host: because you feel that way do you feel that hillary clinton won the debate because of the? were no -- or no? caller: i believe it was more a forum for hillary clinton's politics than it was a debate. host: ok. let's hear from mark who is supporting hillary clinton. good morning. caller: good morning. announced to the whole country last night that he doesn't pay taxes. that makes me smart. ok. that was so cute. he talks about bringing jobs back. when is somebody going to ask mr. trump, when are you going to bring your company's back. nobody is asking that.

that's a question that should be asked of him at the next debate. ok.: that was a caller talking about the candidates getting interrupted. interrupting each other. the moderator jumping in. mr. trump interrupted hillary clinton 25 times in the first 26 minutes of the debate and clinton was interrupted 40 times overall. sharon in keystone, illinois. who are you supporting in this campaign? caller: i'm a libertarian. i don't believe in elections. they need to outlaw them because they waste too much money. speaker of the house should just do his job and announce that we are not going to have any more elections. this one doesn't count. a little crew from wisconsin. delaware orers from wherever they are from. he can organize them and they can just start doing their job.

all the money going to add should go to the american people and safety or pay the teachers or put the money somewhere. that's my opinion. thank you. host: james supporting hillary clinton. caller: good morning. i have a suggestion. take donald just trump is the most honest person in this country. donald trump has been very vocal about citizenship. i heard him last night renounced his citizenship. host: how so? made a comment about president obama and there were three words that came from donald trump. i would ask all undecided voters to listen to those words. he said, that's your president. ok.: clinton supporter in south carolina. john mcardle at the news desk. >> good morning. we talked about earlier one of

the fact checks of the claims made by donald trump. here is one that was done last night by fact check.org about hillary clinton's claims involving the jobs numbers she talked about. of jobsent projections created under her economic plan are nearly seven below her forecast. clinton saying her economic plans would create 10 million new jobs is incorrect. it's at most 3.2 million new jobs. some of that ongoing fact check that happened during and after the debates. he shared some newspapers around the country. i want to share some newspapers from around the world including the globe and mail out of canada. clinton trump offer starkly different visions in the first debate. london.s of that story on the front page of their website this morning.

clinton rattles racist trump indicated first debate. the sydney morning herald. some analysis from the debate. the moment that trump gave up. donald, she has a name. that was the moment donald trump gave up. retz withrael, haa their analysis of the debate. debunking trump and clinton's foreign policy claims is their fact check taking place on their front page. those are some of the headlines from around the world this morning. >> yes, i do, i want to make a couple comments. not been as strong as he could have last night with the holt handled his

questions and interruptions. i remember when the clintons started. a lot of folks in america don't know the facts. clinton's bill policies, freddie mae and fannie mae gave loans to to le who could not afford pay for the homes. they had no advisors. the democrats get otes and i hear everybody talking about how bill clinton's name shouldn't be brought up. hillary clinton said she will in charge of finances in the united states. in 's the biggest mistake the world. created one that also nafta, which pennsylvania used producer biggest steel in the world with the best quality steel. landscaping, and i buy chinese blades and they ast a third as the

american-made steel. bill clinton put us -- i heard mention earlier george bush's policies did this. hillary clinton needs to release her speeches, you know, her the big financial organizations. he talks about donald trump's taxes. e-mails? the 33,000 release her speeches. host: rick, how do you think did on the question of composure last night and showing temperament to be president? how do you think each of them did? caller: i think donald trump kept his composure pretty good. about what he e believes in. hillary clinton thinks verything is a joke, she think its is very funny, i have a problem with that. we had men that died in benghazi, because of her

decisions. some e-mails that she destroyed intentionally would probably secrets t some of the that she let get out over hrough the foreign -- when donald trump talks about putin, he's not praising him, he's know how dangerous putin is, because he is -- the he leads his country. caller: rick, i want to show our candidates n both were asked about judgment in temperament. > i have better judgment than she does, no question about that. i also have a better temperament has, a much better. she spent, let me tell you, she millions of s of dollars on an advertising to get avenue in a room. temperament, let's go after it. asset, maybe by far is my temperament. i know how to win.

does not. behind the er day, blue screen, i don't know who you were talk to secretary but you were totally out of control. i said, there is a person with a has a problem.t >> secretary clinton. >> oh, okay. about two important issues that were briefly mentioned by donald. nato. nato as a military alliance has 5, it ing called article says this, an attack on one is an attack on all. time it's ever been nvoked after 9/11, when the 28 nations of nato said that they with us to afghanistan to fight terrorism. something they still are doing by our side w. respect to iran,

secretary of state, iran was weeks away from aving enough nuclear material to form a bomb. they had mastered the nuclear under the bush administration, they had built covert facilities. stocked them with centrifuges that were whirling away. them, i voted for every sanction against iran when i was in the senate, but it enough. i spent a year and a half putting together a coalition, china, luded russia and to impose the toughest sanctions and we did drive them to the negotiating table and my kerry, and ohn president obama, got a deal that nuclear on iran's program. without firing a single shot. diplomacy, coalition building, that is working with other nations. day, i saw donald saying that there were some a ship in thes on

waters off of iran and they were who ing american sailors, were on a nearby ship. he said, you know fthey taunted sailors, i'd blow them out of the water and start another war. that's -- that is not good judgment, that is not the right commander in be chief, to be taunted. the worst part -- they were talking -- >> what i heard donald say about weapons, he has said repeatedly, he didn't care if nuclear ions got weapons, even saudi arabia, it has been the policy of the and d states, democrats republicans, to do everything we the to reduce proliferation of num lar weapons, he said, if there were war in east asia, well, you know, that's fine. >> wrong. time, folks.d and in fact, his cavalier ttitude about nuclear weapons

is so deeply troubling, that is the number one threat we face in world and it becomes particularly threatening if ever get their hands on any nuclear material. so a man who can be provoked by tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the i thinkcodes, as far as anyone would with any sense about this should be concerned. bit old, i little must say. >> it's a good one, though, well describes problems. accurate at all. host: the two andidates squaring judgment his issue of and temperament. ne of the points, one of the exchanges we've been throwing throughout today's "washington continue untilll 10 a.m. we want to know from you, who won, the pundits have their opinions, but what do all of you think who get to vote in 41 days bronx , new york, you are on the air.

hi, good morning to you. host: good morning. caller: i mean, my thing with he's supposed to be this great businessman, you i find that he's in breach of even running for president. refuses to fill in one of the criteria, releasing his tax of the and that is one criteria that he needs to submit, you know, in order to be for president. and he's just getting away with and attacking hillary on deleted.that have been let's let that go. what about tax records? you are a businessman. to know as an american society. host: okay. supporting linois, mr. trump. what do you think? aller: yes, i think when hillary says she has a plan to isis and donald trump said that, is why have you been life.ng isis your whole

she's also been using her e-mails to give away our secrets f.b.i. like the director said, she was extremely many were d classified and some considered i think that she s giving away secrets and i think donald trump will -- she did do bad about telling what on was going what she to do about isis. also, i think when he said, should be stop and frisk in chicago, i live in the of chicago and most of these peep they'll have been kids under the age of 12, that are innocent kids. they will say,s, they were not the intended target. shooting rs are innocent kids and getting away with it, there should be stop it would and i think

help. it helped in new york. i have to say, i think donald trump would be a good president. when did you decide you were going to support donald trump? you decide? caller: when i saw the f.b.i. director talk about clinton's e-mails, that she was so irresponsible and i thought because she wanted to cover up, she was doing the s for people giving to clinton administration, do them favors through the government. were muslim s just ies and, you know, i don't know everything involved in that, i thought that was very using her e was e-mails mainly for that and didn't care about giving away secrets. host: and robert, before that, were you undecided?

caller: yes, i was. yes, i was. host: who did you support in the primary? caller: well, i supported trump. b but -- reservationse your or what were your reservations about mr. trump? well, i didn't like the things he said about meghan he said the things about mccain because i'm a eteran and i think veterans should be respected. but he did apology pol jize for afterward. host: okay. rian in north dubson, indiana, supporting third party candidate, welcome to the conversation. caller: hi, thank you for having on. i'm kind of like an independent voter. i voted for barack the first was a he second time mistake, just because of congress and i think we had to the whole voting

system and just have it like duty, where everybody gets in, they get a letter in the two and they serve for years or four years and then they go home. be the same with presidents. mean, it's ridiculous the money that is spent on this whole shebang. i want to know if there is a i could press for none of the above? ost: all right, brian in indiana, supporting third-party candidate. dale -- talking about the debate last night this morning. want to update viewers on closelyg we're watching at c-span, the effort to keep the government funded past the fiscal year, ongoing efforts to push through cr, to government funded through december. here is the latest from politico this morning. bet is still that congress will pass some sort of topgap bill to keep the

government running past friday. shut r party wants to be down before the election. any government funding bill must federal aid to address the water crisis in flint. risky move, ally a democrats think they can get republicans to bend or paint gop indifferent to the people in flint and responsible for capitol hill's deepening dysfunction. there will be a vote tuesday on roposal introduced by majority leader mitch mcconnell. that measure is expected to fall threshold he 60 vote needed to advance, that is the most recent reporting from politico. tweet from ent majority leader, mitch mcconnell, the cr, before the is clean tis fair and we should pass it, is what he wrote esterday afternoon on his twitter page. one tweet from congressman north carolina, as we talk about this showdown budget, he says, $24

billion, the last gop shutdown cost the economy. are three days away from letting it happen again. we'll keep watching and of ourse show you everything that is happening on the floor of the ouse and the senate here on c-span. host: taking your calls, we have your utes left to get thoughtos who won last night's presidential debates. editorial imes" board, ugly campaign, 90-minute last night.y saw mrs. clinton met, exceeded, failed to meet expectations, her. were different for she had just enough levity mixed with substauns to be stern, not funny, not flippant, smart, but not pimantic. pull today off. attacks aside and delivering own higher former ground. more appealing and competent set stoppeddates might have this. a responsible republican party,

interest nottional obsessed with thwarting president obama might have stopped it. on to say, not this year. worst of the worst, gave the ebate strange, potentially tragic dimension. it is absurd the fate of the nation future of the might carum this way or that television minute ritual tainted by falsehood. that is what the "new york board believes. the "washington journal," folks there, clear contrast they say, first debate revealed only candidates is fit to be president, none of this should have been a surprise to attention to the presidential race. when debate turned to foreign policy, mr. trump showed ignorance, claiming it could ave been prevented if we had taken the oil and iran should abliobliged to reign in north korea.

said, i haven't given much thought to nato. evening, he f the made clear you could end that be ence with any policy and accurate. that is what two national papers, folks in washington what they believe about who won last night's debate. we're asking all of you. watertown, south dakota. you are undecided. david?that, caller: well, number one, i don't like either one of them. surprised me that was w left-wing bias holt in his questions. hy did he ask donald trump about the issue when everybody bloomenthal and hillary clinton started that in lester holt come never asked hillary clinton 30,000 e-mails g fter they were under subpoena

by the house? softball ked her questions and then kept interrupting trump. hillary was more prepared and she's been in longer, but the thing i said to my wife, all debate, was how biassed lester holt was in favor hillary. come benghazi never gave the e-mails were never brought up. he kept interrupting trump and hillary.errupted i thought it was unfair whachlts about the clinton foundation, hundreds of n millions of dollars from eastern countries, like afghanistan and

where they still murder gay people and women to vote, drive or anything and she keeps taking monfrethem and how come lester holt never asked her any that she wouldn't want to answer? host: okay, david, you are still undecided, though? caller: i think i'm leaning for trump. going back to bill, and here is the other thing my wife told me to bring up, was when bill clinton was withg all of these affairs all these different women, the ry clinton attacked women, the things she said about lewinsky, and until produced the dress with .n.a. evidence, she attacked the women that bill clinton was fooling around with and then she

a feministtseems hilarious, she would attack the women that her husband slept then say, women have he right to go after these guys. host: okay. david, let's show our viewers between nge last night hillary bout women and clinton looks whether or not she has -- doesn't have the right to be president, lester holt asked donald trump about comments and hillary clinton responded, as well. >> this year secretary clinton nominated first woman by a major party, earlier this onth you said she doesn't have "a presidential look," she's standing here now, what did you mean by that? have the look. she doesn't have the stamina. said she doesn't have the stamina and i don't believe she does have the stamina. country,esident of this

you need tremendous stamina. >> the quote was, i tonight presidential a look. >> you asked me a question. did you ask me a question? negotiateo be able to on trade deals, be able to negotiate, that is right, with japan, with saudi arabia, i mean, can you imagine we're efending saudi arabia and with all of the money they have we're defending them, speak to them. have so many different things you have to be able to do hillaryn't believe that has the stamina. let her respond. >> well, as soon as he travels negotiates arys and peace deal, a cease-fire, a dissidence, an opening of new opportunities and nations around the world or even spends 11 hours testifying in front of a congressional can talk to me about stamina. >> i agree, she's got experience. it's bad

this country can't afford to have another four years of that kind of experience. the -- we are at the final question. thing. more >> final question now. >> he tried to switch from looks but this man called omen "pigs, slobs and dogs," and someone who has said tognancy is an inconvenience employers, who has said women don't deserve equal pay unless as good a job as men, nd one of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty ontest, he loves contests, supporting them and anging around them and he called this woman miss piggy, then he called her miss housekeeping because she was latina. donald, she has a name. alecia machado, and she's become a u.s. citizen and

bet she's going to vote this november. >> okay, good. -- me just tell you >> mr. trump, 10 seconds and we'll take the final question. > hillary is hitting me with tremendous commercials, some said in entertainment, somebody to me, been vicious rosie o'donnell, i said tough to her, everybody would agree she deserves and nobody feels sorry for her. getting calls this morning. your reaction to moments like hat at last night's first presidential debate at hofstra university. are supporting hillary clinton, you are up next. caller: thank you. yes. i notice there is a lot of talk about hillary clinton's e-mails, but the truth of the matter is, there has been a lot of about her on done e-mails and not one time have come out information about hillary's e-mails hurting this country,

this country, bringing devastation to this country. no one has been able to use them against her. look at it, the time we're spending talking about e-mails and yet the e-mails have not done us any damage as far as know. next thing i want to say is that that hede the statement nows more about isis than the generals do. ell, he also said last night that he has a lot of generals and admirals on the side. could see why. i guess they shouldn't be on this side. finally, talking about hillary clinton.and bill they start talking about

hillary and bill, all they're going to do is show how strong she is, the stamina she has, the shows because he in a song, as said "stand by your man," she stood her man because what she believed in and because of if a nd in my opinion, woman is able to withstand what hillary clinton did, during the era, she deserves being president because she has she is andhow strong her willingness to be called a woman of strength. that's all i want to say. host: all right, we'll leave it there. university. c-span is still there at the university after last night's debate. talking with some students at hofstra university. tois 11,000 students that go the university, private university, located in hempstead, new york, just a few new york city. we're joined by another student. good morning. what did you think of last

debate? > hi, my name is lois, history major with women's cities minor. hofstra ar student at university. i think it was frustrating to watch the debate for two reasons. being, i'm supporting jill stein, it was frustrating not to see the third-party candidates on the stage. i know it was frustrating to see and his man slamming, he wouldn't let hillary clinton finish almost any sentences, he would interrupt her the whole time. he did a fantastic job remaining professional and presidential. i'm not supporting hillary, i do job. she did an amazing host: why are you supporting jill stein? stein, supporting jill because i don't think either candidates ideals and values lineup with mine. stein has done an amazing job at addressing the issues are not, one of them being black lives matter.

her website, she supports black lives matter movement. to help the indigenous community, i haven't of the candidates speak about. she is talking about issues that community nt to our and neither of the candidates have been addressing at all. say: what if -- what do you to peep whole say, if you vote for dr. jill stein, you could donald trump in the white house? caller: i've heard that, i'm voting for a e third-party candidate. that, rustrating to hear i don't think it is democratic to not allow a third-party on the ballot and on the stage. i think that third party is kind against the ut two-party system. it is a wastethat of my vote to vote for a help party candidate or trump in his campaign. i'm supporting jill, not trump.

very much for talking to us this morning, hanging out with c-span after last night's debate. hopefully you got some sleep last night. appreciate your time. >> thank you. host: let's go back to the callers, frank in maine, you're trump.ing mr. hi, frank. caller: yes. couple topics. one, i think lester leaned the debate in hillary's favor. donald trump, like any other c.e.o. uses tax code penny they can and all c.e.o.s do the same thing. were put in place by crony politicians like hillary. putin y stated trump is a fan, but she doesn't mention her coalitionput a global together and they sold all their ecrets to putin and helped him set up at silicon valley there, boehing and other corporations. any government employee that gives fifth

fired, theyhould be are supposed to be transparent s air and that shows they are trying to hide something. as far as stop and search is concerned, any -- our government's local and federal governments are sworn to protect us. if you have a why that is bothering you, use a fly cotton you don't use balls, that goes same as wall between and yous mexico. ost: all right, all right, frank, leave it there. john, what do you have? back to the clip you played a minute ago, ontroversy hillary clinton brought up about alecia machado, donald trumpegedly called miss piggy, a story since the program began this morning alecia machado, the story otes former miss universe and actress and television personality from venezuela. she won the miss universe representing ile venezuela in 1996, a pageant once ownd and formerly judged by

trump n. an interview with inside edition, she claimed rump publicly called her an eating machine on the howard stern show. to ado claims she needed lose scombaet brought her to a gym with a media crew in tow. machado recently became a citizen and has been compaining clinton.ary in an interview, trump went the machado claiming, worst we ever had, the absolute worst. of gained a massive amount weight and it was a problem. claiming the clinton campaign talked about and her like she was mother teresa. that is reporting from nbc news morning. host: back to calls. good morning. caller: good morning. hi, gretta. i'm a hillary voter. okay. caller: i watched the debate and hillary closely so i can be a hillary supporter. for the longest time, i had a

opinion of her because she during all bill that stuff that came out publicly, but i've gotten over that. a bernie supporter in the primary, but i'm working hard to as an r that and see her individual person and not just the clintons, because also in my opinion, bill clinton a bad president, so i'm watching her to see if her olicies are going to be better than his and more like obama's. want toncy, what do you hear from her? caller: well, more of what i heard. that i heard hing er say, especially about supporting our nato allies and reassuring them that we're not cut them off and just everything that she talks about is good. like to also uld make another point about donald trump.

host: okay. caller: in my opinion, it does not really matter the ridiculous he says, he's an ignorant bafoon and this is obvious to very obvious, i think, to the leading republicans like mitch mcconnell paul ryan because they know they f he gets elected, will be running the show and i ryan on sunday ay, don't forget that anything that is enacted has to go through the congress and then i earlier talk in front of the new york economic club going to reform and that is their code word for social security, medicare, the vtlt a, this and it will be all the way and donald trump won't have allhing to say about it and of these policies that he's aying, like oh, we're going to

have carrots, no, excuse me, the real republicans are for free all the way and export your money and leave it in caymans.and and the that is why i'm afraid of him elected. host: nancy, i want to let our viewers know we covered paul at the new york economic club, so they can listen for themselves what he had to say. golden valley, arizona, supporting mr. trump and you are air.e caller: yeah. was a bernie supporter in the primary, but i wouldn't vote for hillary. would ask her is, public so-called servant, who claims her and bill office,e when they left how do they become multi-millionaires, because i'd to know that one. host: all right.

don, why not, how do you go from voting for somebody who is voting for mr. trump? conservative. i had a choice between two and i don't trust hillary clinton, i don't like her. a war hawk.s i think she's going to get us going tothing that not be that easy to get out of. host: okay. and i don't blame trump for using any laws available to as a businessman and one other thing, if we don't get the money out of politics, nothing you er going to change and know what i'd like to see is draft for f a congress and the senate and i it.k that would do host: don, it sounds like you're looking for the candidate who

the status quo. caller: i'm looking for economics and i think donald it.p can do host: okay. caller: i think he knows the ins and outs in business and i don't he's going to take any crap off anybody. host: okay. new in millford, hampshire. good morning, mark, who are you supporting? aller: i'm going to support third-party candidate, governor new mexico. of host: okay, why is that? caller: well, when i started to was a democratic voter. i changed to republican and now i'm an independent voter. i just cannot stand support or or for hillary clinton donald trump. and i just want to send a message to all the voters out vote for a ight third-party candidate to remember if one of the wins state and gets electoral votes and trump and 270 electoral get votes, the three would go to

second and vote on third ballot to see who is president, to make history. happen, ay this would fwhut such a divided country, it could. host: did you watch the last night?bate caller: yes, i did. host: and what did you like hillary clinton and donald trump? was there an issue or something that you liked about each of them that could possibly convince you to not vote for party and vote for one of them? caller: no, not really. the two of them, hillary clinton stood her ground. donald trump, i didn't think there was anything new from him and i pretty much thought at for the first depate, it was somewhat a tie, nobody to ly had great advantage it. host: mark, on that tuesday, vote, this to number, what if it is looking could win the mp white house, if more people vote candidates, take

votes away from hilt sxhilt that puts donald trump in the white house. caller: i really -- host: what will you do? aller: i don't think that will happen because with gary johnson and the libertarian party, they conservative and 50% liberal, they are taking votes away from trump and getting some supporters from bernie sanders. host: okay. new hampshire. topeka, kansas, charlie is undecided. charlie. you are on the air. i'm still a yeah, little undecided. voted republican, mainly, on the ticket, registered republican. but i have voted for democrats. year i couldn't vote for hillary, there would be no way possible. there's too much, it's just too uch, benghazi, e-mails, the

clinton foundation, the selling material company to russia. the past, in whitewater, so on and so forth, much.just too in, like trump said, been in politics for 30 years, but she hasn't gotten anything done she wanted to get done or she care of it and plus, blam banks for the the housing crisis, which caused the recession, but yet she went and spoke and took money from the banks. that's kind of hypocritical. host: anderson, indiana, clinton.ng hillary good morning. caller: good morning. penny.i, caller: thank you for taking my call. host: you bet. think? you who do you think won last night, your candidate, hillary clinton?

caller: definitely i believe hillary clinton did a much better job than donald trump. i want to bring up and my husband and i both watched the whole 90 minutes of debate. we were both upset with the moderator, lester holt. they eard people say thought he favored mrs. clinton. think he st don't reigned in donald trump. onald trump would just talk over lester holt. hey need, i guess, to have a moderator that can actually limits or two-minute however long they let the be -- tes talk, and not not let them talk over the other person. host: how do you do that, penny, clip the mic? caller: well, i guess when somebody keeps talking, keep your time is up. and don't let them talk over you. host: okay. and lester holt didn't do that. donald trump et

have way too much air time. hillary clinton, i thought she did a wonderful job. has so much experience and she has more knowledge in her little finger than donald trump in his full body. i simply do not understand, i comprehend why anyone would want to vote for donald trump, i just don't understand it. penny, we'll talk to trump supporters coming up. mcardle.hn john mcardle: gretta, the next presidential election is vice presidential debate in virginia on october .th want to give our viewers perspective on what the vice presidential candidates were night during the debate. thernor mike pence attended debate. a picture he posted from his twitter page. looking forward to watching the president of the united states, donald trump, share his vision to make america great again.

the front row during the debate. tim kaine sending a picture of his debate. settled in for debate night. you've got this, hillary clinton, is what he wrote on his twitter page. florida, from om orlando, noting tim kaine was watching the vice presidential debate at watch party, lgbt watch party in orlando. both candidates tweeting during the debate. uring the debate, tim kaine saying we released our tax returns, so did hillary and last candidates, donald should do the same. after the debate, he wrote, of hillary prouder clinton tonight. fundraising pitch, pitch in to how you have her back in this home stretch. mike pence with his tweet after the debate. running mate on a great debate. we will make america great again. both vice r from

presidential candidates next week, october 1, longwood cover og c-span. host: after the vice presidential candidates sit down we'll have the second presidential debate on sunday, october 9 at washington in santiago and third presidential debate on .ednesday, october 19th we'll have coverage of them on c-span, followed by your phone reaction andg your the next day on the "washington journal," as well. the next hat here for 20 minutes. ary and waynesville, missouri, supporting donald trump. good morning. caller: yes, ma'am, i would like aboute a few observations what happened last night. host: okay. when the van ced rove up and had the camera on it with clinton, bill got off on one side and hillary got off on the other side. seemed odd he didn't help her out of the van or they didn't exit out the same way.

unusual, that was looked like he was shot out of a annon, he had to go to the restroom real quick. my other observation, i thought debate, it was a speech prepared by hillary clinton, with a few trump.uptions from donald but she didn't debate him at all. speech. a prepared host: gary -- go ahead with your last observation. other observation was that hillary clinton is supposed this experience in federal government, but yet when he was asked by the benghazi committee if she had heard of a counseling statement and she counselling statement is used by the office management and equired by snoop advisors and managers to get to employeeos what kind of job they have been doing. get promoted ey and she didn't know what a counseling statement was. in the something years

federal government, she didn't have a response other than, no. all right. laurie in ohio, supporting hillary clinton. is morning to you, why that? laurie, are you with us? yes, ii iil i am. are supporting hillary clinton, how do you think she did last night? i watched, i rts couldn't stand the way donald trump was behaving. condescending and that woman that called, i florida, she also -- hillary made herself a person last night, i believe. people see her as bill clinton's former first lady, but she made her point. the woman is educated. donald trump, anybody that votes for him, i'm sorry to say, are they leave t or did their heads at the shrink? i don't know, they are off

medications. but i'm a female veteran, desert storm veteran. prioritizing vathat, scares the of me.t host: laurie in ohio, one of the battleground states. go, more phone calls coming up, we'll go to hofstra university, c-span is still talking to some students who are joining us this via skype to get reaction to last night's debate. your name and what you thought. > hi, my name issard golden, a senior at hofstra university. to hearion, i was happy hillary clinton talking about had impact on tons of americans and it was disappointing to hear how trump talked about stop and and is when proven time time again by criminologist and less er racial profiler,

than 1 percent of stop his guns or were violent offenders. do you think hillary clinton can do on the issue versus donald trump, though? justice reform? caller: right. hillary clinton has been communityto the black since the 1990 necessary an attempt to get crime out of there. expanding private -- was not the right thing to do. half the black congress was that policy and thought it was going to irradicate crime and she's been listening since then. i think she's going to listen today and what more could be asked for. host: what do you want to hear from her on this issue? she say during the next debate? disappointed to hear her say force when necessary some come out of the police. i don't think death should be punishment for any crime. ever t think force is necessary. other developed countrys and police forces, it is more

less forceful. i want to hear her say more about community policing and about effective strategy to get the policies passed. sharing yourou for points this morning and your perspective of last night's debate. of the hofstra students with the c-span crew this morning. getting third consecutive presidential debate last night. is -- has 11,000 students located in hempstead, york, east of new york city. thank all of them for joining thus morning. 15 minutes left to get in more of your phone calls, let's go to sergio in south carolina, who is undecided. hi, sergio, good morning. caller: good morning. hi. it is a pleasure to be on your show today. i love watching it and i want to you are doing a great job. host: thank you. appreciate that. caller: you're welcome. want to tell you about the debate last night. targeted it was very

the d trump in that narrator, or the guy asking the questions, seemed to always want hillary, but yet, a lot of times when donald trump up issues that really , yes, they ddressed were hard issues, he addressed of likeof them, he kind slated back to hillary to kind of soften the blow, but at the tshowed partiality toward hillary. a lack of hat showed respect for donald trump. i know people don't like the he is coarse and direct, but sometimes some of your most will tend to le not be as coarse and direct nswer and the people that usually tell the truth are kind of harsh when it comes to issues

this, they see areas that need to be addressed. thought trump did a fantastic job last night. think that america does need change and i think that a lot of the answers that hillary gave just a bunch of words because had she really of what she said last night, it would have already happened the time she's in office. so basically i am swayed to vote for trump. okay. we'll go to new york. donna, who is voting for mr. trump, as well. hi, donna. greta.: hi, host: what did you think about the debate? caller: unfortunately, i think debate because she is a professional speaker. she's had many years of doing it. i agree with the caller when you're cause passionate about something, you

riled because you want answers and you find a problem speak out about it. years ago, ht many when ross perot was running, not aat maybe he should have been president, but in the fact that be best to n would run this country because this ountry is a business. and unfortunately, we have lost our businesses. donald p mentioning trump filed bankruptcy, anybody ho has gone to college knows bankruptcy is liquidation tool, available to anyone in business. it is not looking on your alance sheet as a negative thing. so for hillary or for any of the emocrats to keep bringing this up is ridiculous. the other thing. i'm sorry. that really just stands out for me the most is as '60san, who grew up in the

and '70s, when all the feminists were out, marlow thomas and steinum, and fighting for our rights to break through the was an iling, when i early voter and i did vote for clinton, mr. clinton, i did. for him.e he was charming and had great ideas and that was fine. know what, when i see a feminist r all movement stand by a husband who on his wife in the white people have know their things, but in the white house and it was blatant and the it.d knew for any woman to stand by her husband who is a cheater and for her own gain, when technically she really doesn't politician, s been feel a lawyer she has, i

hillary clinton would have been either up for nomination for president ent or if she had stood as a strong woman without leaning on the crutches of her husband. is that the reason you're supporting donald trump? caller: no. trump because i believe that a business person should run this business and ring business back to this country. host: okay. heard you on that. connecticut, ford, supporting hillary clinton. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to go back to the tax issue. i know you already discussed it at length, but what swayed me hillary was his admittance he didn't pay taxes because he could have said other than, i'm smart, that makes me smart, or whatever exact quote was. it first made me feel stupid as an right thing, the paying my taxes, so that makes me stupid. and, too, if you

your taxes, to me you wave your right to complain. you can't complain about the roads, we need more police. if you are not paying your fair c.e.o., i know he's a every c.e.o. does it, explain how you will change that, that away like you can't get with not paying your taxes, like me. i have to pay my taxes. complain aboutto the roads. you don't pay your taxes, to me, ou wave your right to complain about anything. host: would you be able to run for president and earn taxpayer dollars? caller: right. exactly. i mean, you know, you just lost saying, i ooting by don't pay for anything, but everything is broken. dollar in put your and i realize, like i say, he is only one who does it, but then my question is, what did you do with your salary your t.v. show? that really wasn't about your businesses, that was salary from

nbc, why didn't you pay taxes on that host: okay. caller: i might be wrong, but is what i feel. host: okay. waukt that swayed me toward hillary. host: last night? caller: yes. so thank you, thank you for speak.g me host: all right. michelle, undecided. hi, michelle. we don't have michelle. we'll keep getting calls here. we have less than 10 minutes, will be gaveling in soon. john mcardle, what do you have? expectations were high, big turnout for presidential debate last night. c-span not rated, but if you are nielsen rating, here are umbers, nbc has drawn the biggest audience among broadcast networks, 15 share. percentage of audience watching television at the time.

13 share. 13% of the audience watching television at the time was abc.ing 10% watching cbs or fox, it was of the debate towered above every other program in prime time, other p.m. telecast of the big bang theory. of course, these numbers are subject to significance revision later today. o we'll keep looking for numbers as they come out today, but for comparison sake, here is on past debates. the biggest drawing debates of all-time, october 3, 2012, the bama-romney debate having largest number of households who watched, 46.2 million. kaerter-reagan debate in 1980 in second at 45.8 million. numbers k for the today. they are expected to be high. host: all right. 1 more days to go before you folks get to vote. what did you think about last

presidential debate? michelle in north carolina, you are undecided. hi, michelle. how are you? host: doing fine. what do you think, who won? think trump won last night, honestly, i was debate in d with the general. what i mean by that is, you from we haven't heard hillary in such a long time and i'm a woman, i would love to see president. i look forward to that day, but woman. the right with that being said, she just any of our red questions. the voters, the american people's questions, she's been absent. i was really looking forward to the debate, i just knew, okay, some answers. get she's on the hot seat now. biassed last night. what i wanted answered, what i wanted to hear from her, i hear.t what i heard was, a professional peaker, a professional

politician, once again, you know. yeah, it's great to be a good i think donald trump really needs to get a little etter at that, but the same time, i want honestly and her not there and st hasn't been there for couple decades. ost: michelle, what about he's not being transparent because he's refusing to release tax returns? do see that point. i've actually thought that myself. you know, i say that, one of his key thing system he's good at business. really good. very, very successful. well, then, show us your tax black , i want to see in and white. host: okay. caller: prove it. do : you think he should that? caller: i do. host: if he doesn't, how will you vote? definitely still vote for him because i refuse to vote for hillary because i feel

she's been give every opportunity to be transparent, questions and it seems like on stage last night, she educated, so smart, wonderful. you know, whenever she gives kequestions in the investigations, she didn't emember certain things, you know, about national security, classes or urses or check-offense she was supposed to have done. that.idn't recall any of and i mean, you can't have it both ways. able tost night she was recall policy and details about er plan and that made you skeptical of her past answers? caller: yeah. felt like trump needed to do more preparation and i think hat will come with just experience. he isn't a politician. i think that will come with time. think he's smart enough to have informed, educated

guide him nd him to to make appropriate decisions. host: okay. michelle, before you go, how did vote in 2012 and 2008? caller: this will be my first year. host: okay. caller: i'm registered independent. get in kevin t's in middletown, new york. supporting hillary and kevin, we're watching the house floor, have toy come in, we'll say goodbye. go ahead. caller: okay, i'll make this real quick. disappointed m with mr. donald trump. believe, you know, what he said about african americans and neighborhoods they live in. disagree with him. house.now i have a i have four cars, okay. retired civil servant. okay. the way he has said that african americans live,

is number one. number two, i want to mention assistant about obama and where he was born. kenya, he born in finally admitted he was born in hawaii. and number three, i think that very, very thin how he nd i can't see can possibly believe that he can run the united states. kevin, we'll leave it on point three. that does it for today's "washington journal." calls this all your morning and comments about last night's debate. enjoy your day. we'll be back tomorrow morning 7 a.m. eastern time. now live coverage of the house. ]

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., september 27, 2016. i hereby appoint the honorable bradley byrne to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. -- january 5, 2016, the chair will now recognize members from list submitted by the majority and minority leads