devotes the entire program to reaction to the presidential debate in st. louis. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal ♪ good morning, everyone. tengion the high last night at the second presidential debate. hillary clinton and donald trump began the debate without the customary handshake. from there accusations flying over the treatment of women, national security. we'll show you the key moments from washington university. candidates, and the parties, how you think it went last night. trump,support mr. 202-748-8001, if you support

mrs. clinton, 202-748-8000, and if you support a third-party candidate, 202-748-8002 and if you are still undecided, we want to still hear from you, 202-748-8003. at join us on twitter @cspanwj. first, we are talking about the reaction to last night's debate. guest: some of the earliest things on twitter, the most tweeted debate ever. this is according to statistics they put out, about foreign policy, health care, and guns. his discussionut of women than any area of policy as the two candidates made their

points last night. noting the cnn statistic that showed the two candidates getting equal time in the debate, donald trump trump with 40 minutes and 10 seconds, hillary clinton with 39 minutes and five seconds of talking time. some of the other statistics without by google trends, showing the top fact checking questions during the debate were on what did he say about women, and does he agree with mike pence. for hillary clinton, what happened in benghazi, and how many e-mails were deleted. if you want to weigh in this morning, you can do it by calling or going to our twitter page. aboutn answer our poll who won the second debate. host: we will see what viewers

we show you after from the top of the debate last night, one of the first questions about the 2005 audio and video tape of donald trump talking about what he has or would like to do with women. when we have a world where we have isis chopping off heads and people in steel cages, wars and horrible sites all over, it's only bad things happen that this is like medieval times, we've not seen anything like this all over the world, and they look and they see, can you imagine the people frankly doing so well against us with isis and a look at our country and want to see what is going on, it is embarrassing and i hate it, but it is locker room talk. knock the hell--

out of crisis. it was created out of a vacuum left. weill take care of isis and want to much more important things and bigger things. >> for the record there, are you saying what you said that you did not actually kiss women without consent? mr. trump: i have great respect for women, nobody has more respect for women than i do. >> so you never did that? mr. trump: i was embarrassed by it, but i have tremendous respect for women. and they have tremendous respect for me. i will tell you, no i have not. mr. trump's response to the 2005 audio and video tape at last night's presidential debate. the second one. hillary clinton was asked to react. here it is. ms. clinton: like everyone else, i spent a lot of time thinking over the last 48 hours about what we heard and saw.

with prior republican nominees for president, i disagreed with them, politics and policies, principles. i never questioned their fitness to serve. donald trump is different. i said starting back in june that he was not fit to be president and commander in chief. and many republicans and independents have said the same thing. heard onll saw and friday was donald talking about women, what he things about women, what he does to women, and he has said that the video does not represent who he is. but i think it is clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is. because we are seen as throughout the campaign, we have

seen him insult women, we've seen him rate women on their appearance, ranking them from one to 10, we have seen him embarrassed women on tv and on twitter, we saw him after the first debate for nearly a week denigrating a former miss universe from the -- on the harshest and most stimulating terms. donald trumpwho is. but it is not only women and not only this video that raise questions about his fitness to be president. because he has also targeted immigrants, african-americans, latinos, people with disabilities, pows, muslims, and so many others. so this is who donald trump is and the question for us, the question our country must answer is that this is not who we are.

that is why we go back to your question, i want to send a message. we all should. every boy and girl, and indeed to the entire world, that america already is great, but we are great because we are good. and we will respect one another and we will work with one another and we will celebrate our diversity. these are very important values to me, because this is america that i know and love. and i can placed to you tonight that this is the america that i i will pledge to you tonight that this is the america that i will serve. trump: i assume i am. >> yes, you can response that. mr. trump: it is just words, folks, it is just words. host: that was from the debate last night. now it is your turn to tell us

what you think. david in georgia, supporting mr. trump. good morning, you are on the air. caller: how are you doing? host: doing fine, sir. what was your reaction as you are watching the back and forth between the two of them? i am a black male who grew up in the worst inner cities and i am 40 now. i look at hillary clinton last was undecided, but after watching the debate yesterday, donald trump yes, he said a lot of bad words. a lot of bad statements. the point that those were just words. hillary clinton, and her family, and her husband, those are actions. he talked about her life, saying you have been in politics for 35 years, and i lived in the worst cities. and those policies have never worked.

he put her back against the wall about obamacare. my policy has gone up double. he backed her up against the wall by saying obama did that and if she had a chance she would have read on it. so i'm telling you that their policies are not working. and they keep saying that america is great, you should ask those people, black americans been shot in the streets, ask their families if america is great. if you believe that america is ask how great they think america is. if she thinks america is great, ask them how those families in san bernardino think america is great. what he is on you is that people in the world today don't see it that way. people overseas, they do not see it that way.

you go to the communities where taxes are hurting communities, small businesses, people do not see it that way. heard your, we point. let's go to wendy in california, supporting hillary clinton. caller: hello. host: you're on the air. good morning to you. how do you think your candidate did last night? caller: fabulous, as always. i will become a democrat just because of hillary clinton. host: you were a republican? caller: i was not anything, i was undecided, but i am a democrat now. i like her policies. not heard donald trump talk with anything, any policies of what you would be doing. she has been there. he is not held public office. wendy, have you not voted before? you said you not been registered with the party. does that mean you have an

independent, loaded -- voted across party lines? caller: i voted, just whichever way it was, never republican or democratic for me. host: wendy, were you, as a woman, offended by what you heard on the 2005 tape? caller: which one? host: the 2005 tape that came out on friday, donald trump speaking. caller: i did not hear it. host: you did not hear it? you do not hear his remarks? caller: no. host: ok. let me show you the front page of usa today, they have an investigation going with the in 2005of a video threatening to derail the campaign. but an ongoing investigation of trump, 4000 plus lawsuits show

that he and his companies have been accused or years of mistreating women. -- 28 separate lawsuits accuse trump and his managers at his companies of discriminating against women, ignoring sexual-harassment complaints and even participating in sexual harassment themselves. this suggests that the kind of lewd behavior may be more common in his organization than previously known. one supervisor at trump national pulled a woman aside one day and said, i want you to get some good-looking hostesses here. it goes on from there. you can read it in usa today. that is on that issue. many more issues came up. hillary clinton speeches to wall street also discussed last night. national security issues, as well. we will show you some of those

moments as we take your phone calls. bob, maryland, undecided. bob, after last night, do you have an inkling of how you might vote? caller: no. as of last night i walked into towardshat leaning libertarian candidate. he has disappointed me of late. time heard for the first above the mudslinging was some strong talk on policy. we heard donald trump speaking of very serious security issues. we heard them talking about tax policy -- him talking about tax policy and he laid one out. it is something we need real bad right now. stuff, theng in this

health care issue. i heard reality. on the other side, as to this speak one wayi publicly and another way to you, i will take care of you, when she was speaking to the bankers. that is a major turnoff for me. that is what i heard last night. host: the that mean you're still undecided? caller: mr. trump has won me over. it sounds like policy. instead of fluff. that is why. he laid out a plan on the different issues? caller: yes. and speaking of the problem we have with taking in unvented ed refugees.unvett he calls it for what it is, islamic terrorism. it is not irish terrorism.

a did let it out, and it is legitimate concern. host: all right, bob. more calls coming up. bob was talking about when hillary clinton and donald trump were asked about the wikileaks e-mail. dump over the weekend. excerpts of her speeches to wall street. mr. trump: i think the one who should be really apologizing and what you should be apologizing for are the e-mails you deleted and that you acid washed. and the two boxes of e-mails and other things last week taken from an office and now missing. i will tell you what, i would and going to say it, and i hate to say it, but if i win, i'm going to instruct my attorney

general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much never anything like that. and we will have a special prosecutor. when i speak, and i go out and speak, the people of this country are furious. in my opinion, the people that have been long-term workers for the fbi are furious. there's never been anything like this where e-mails, you get a subpoena, and after you get a subpoena, you delete 33,000 e-mails. and then you acid wash them. a very expensive process. so we will get a very special prosecutor to look into it because, you know what, people have been, their lives have been destroyed because of what you have done. it is a disgrace. honestly, you should be disgraced -- ms. clinton: everything he just said is absolutely false.

i was toldt debate it would be impossible to be fact checking donald all the time. i never get to talk or anything i want to do, and how we are going to make lives better for people. so once again, go to hillary clinton.com, we are fact checking them in real-time. last time, the first debate, with millions of people fact checking. so i expect we will have millions more fact checking. you know, it is just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not charge of the law in our country. host: from last night's debate, the washington post put this on the front page. a better face-off in st. louis. third-party.yland, did we just talk?

tell us what you think. caller: that of the -- mediansored bitter is on display again. i'm not ready say anything about the audience last night. as. clinton, when she was defense attorney, she defended a man who raped a 12-year-old girl. this is all on the internet, you can look at it. she gleefully and joyfully celebrated getting this man off of a rape of a 12-year-old girl. goalccused the 12-year-old -- girl of being promiscuous. he was never convicted of any foul, sexual things. mr. clinton was on the floor of the senate for a sexual activity. he was convicted on the floor of the senate. mentionmedia does not

any of these things here. they just want to talk about the war on women, but the fact she destroyed women, the victims of sexual assault, she destroyed a 12-year-old girls life. she destroyed these women who bill clinton had affairs with. here toour she is the bring up a subject like this. donald trump never did such a thing. robert, we lost robert there. what he is referring to, donald trump for the debate appeared at a media event on sunday and brought with them from right to paulawalter jones, -- jones. he had them at this news conference, or photo up, -- opp. and they were his guests at the debate all last night.

in case you missed it and want to watch it, you can watch what he had to say there before the debate while they were in the debate all last night. more of your goals, coming up. coming up. guest: you mentioned the women who have accused bill clinton were in the hall. more on that. that donaldting trump actually wanted to put them in his family's box at the debate, according to the washington post. officials said he could not do that. to embarrass the candidate and her husband by putting them in his box in the debate hall. more on that in the washington post. trump before the debate. headed to pennsylvania at

3:00 p.m. today. evening hillary detroit andeaded to columbus, ohio. those events around the country. two things to watch for happening here in washington, d.c. a.m. conference call among republicans, reporting about that in politico. paul ryan has discussed provoking his donald trump endorsement. politico saying he is increasingly dismayed at trump's campaign. rncanother event today, the has a 5:00 p.m. call scheduled to last for 30 minutes, according to an invitation obtained by politico.

it is i have a set agenda on it. if you're looking for news from that, that is happening. our road to the white house coverage continues here on c-span. a clinton campaign rally at 2:45 p.m. and donald trump in pennsylvania, 3:30 p.m. eastern time. and, again, you can go to c-span.org or use the c-span radio app area a color supporting mrs. clinton. myler: thank you for taking call. i appreciate c-span. thes the only place to get well-rounded story. i think secretary clinton did an amazing job. i am amazed by his constant

disrespect. i don't think the audio will put him out of his this -- business, but if i was a woman, it would certainly make me think twice. and i am amazed over a few things. all the dismissing he did throughout his speaking. i think it is obvious. host: does it concern you at all about these speeches she gave where she says, you have to have a public and a private vision on issues? does that concern you at all? caller: no, it does not. i think that is accurate. you now to lincoln was appropriate. -- the analogy to lincoln was appropriate. you have to woo these people if you work across the aisle. she has experience, and he does

not know anything about how to run a country. he talks about his business experience. the declared bankruptcy. he has cheated on every life he ever had. he could be cheating on this 1 be cheating ond this one now. host: let's hear from kevin, fort wayne, indiana. it is your turn. caller: good morning. withproud to say i agree the sentiments expressed by many of your callers in support of trump. dark debated a very , much like the first debate. one, it was clear that mr. trump was angry, but i think he and many others will

find that anger is greatly justified because many americans are angry, again, rightfully angry, over the incompetency of this administration, the incompetency of hillary clinton, the incompetency of the establishment wing of both parties. donald trump represents american frustration over the situation we areington and i think remarksry about the from the media are presented as last night and the constant sensationally -- sensational ovation by the media over -- sensalization by the media in this campaign. host: can i ask you how you're going to vote?

what you think of republican leadership and some senators now saying they can no longer support or endorse donald trump, they have condemned his remarks? what is your reaction to that from the republican leadership question mark how does that impact your vote? caller: many of them are cowardly. they are looking at self interest in terms of the election. secondly, i would agree somewhat with the remarks trump has made that a number of them are hypocrites. given the background of some of these individuals on capitol hill. -- i'm notggest suggesting it is completely a debt of sinners, but there are not a lot of saints in washington from either party. i think that the republican displayed aas not great deal of fortitude, shall

we say, in terms of supporting their nominee. i think they are going to regret that. host: how are you going to vote in the senate race in your state? caller: actually, i do not support either of the candidates in that race. i have to say, notwithstanding the ads that have come out, of course, from supporters of both candidates, but i do agree it is time for a change even in the state of indiana. i don't think the representative's attitude on some issues, like social security, for instance, are reflective of what the people want. senator, the former senator being a lobbyist and establishment figure represents -- does not represent the needs of the future of this state as well. host: you're just going to leave

that one alone? caller: that will be the case. host: what if you tip the scales for the former senator? not too long ago, the indiana senate race statistically tied. is amongo question it a number of hotly contested senate races throughout the country. i agree that this is a very close election, but as far as my own personal opinion is concerned, i stand by what i said previously, i cannot support either of these two candidates at this time. host: jerry, california, supporting third-party candidate. my personal conviction is that i will be glad when this mess of an election is over. that hillary will be

thataster, but i feel trump would be a catastrophe and i would rather have a disaster than a catastrophe. thirdon't know why parties have gotten no traction this year. why theyee anybody should support these two candidates. they should support start. -- jill stein. host: you just said you do not want to trump in the white house. show that- polls voting for sign would put them trump in the white house, what would you do? voting for hillary, i just could not do it. i have to vote for jill stein. if i was going to vote, it would have to be for jill style. -- stein.

e-mails're taking your and facebook comments this morning about last night's residential debate. one more to go, october 19. what you think about it. the lines byed those supporting donald trump, supporting hillary clinton, third-party candidate, and of course, undecided. less than 30 days ago here. georgia, virginia, supporting hillary clinton. good morning. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. i thought it was a pretty good today, i recorded it. am not surprised that mr. trump. he is the kind of guy who really and truly is not prepared. depth. not have the how can he say he is going to obliterate and destroy isis? what is he going to do? raid? a b-52

he is unaware of the nature of the warfare. i don't care how many generals he has for him. it does not matter. he does not know. also, the question of women, he proved again and again with the tape but he is set on the apprentice, he has no respect for women. people of my generation, male chauvinist takes. -- pigs. and he was gone. he was caught this one time. host: let's hear from charles in new york. undecided. caller: good morning. how are you? host: good. what did you think of the debate? caller: as somebody in the majority of people who dislike both candidates, it was hard to watch that after number of minutes. while inkly, after a

just turned it off. , both ofhey diverted them. i think the whole two-party system is a sham. i would think if there were polls done by anybody in the united states, each of the most people, most americans would like to see more candidates on the stage. and i'm not saying johnson or stein would be able candidates, i'm dissing people, in america, would like more choice. it shows with these two candidates. even in prior elections. this, the folks who do the debates, the moderators, they represent the big corporate entities, fox, time warner, comcast, and disney.

i think, and i ask you this russian, so be like he's been moderating a debate -- like c-span moderating a debate would be more accountable to people of the united states. so let me ask you, since you're still undecided, what a you looking for? what you want to hear in these closing weeks? from the two candidates? i probably going to vote for ste in. i live in new york. my vote will not reflect the outcome -- affect the outcome. i think trump would be a horror. horror,clinton is a too. she is not a progressive. spoke tonders, if he the truth, would be swallowing his words and support of hillary. is that we need more

candidates. the good thing about bernie running, even though he fell short, not his own fault, but the fault of others, really, is the fact that it shows that you don't need big money like ross perot to maybe run a campaign. and young people became engaged. me, people who were democrats at the beginning, have moved to the right as they got older. the bottom line is this, we need more representation among the real people and i would love to know if c-span has ever been a moderator of the debate. and i would think the majority of people would think it would be a fair representation rather than having fox do it or cnn or msnbc. host: i don't know if you know this, charles, we have not been

but we have the backup to all of these moderators, every single one of these debates. in case they are not able to be the moderator, he would be the backup. richard in new york, supporting mr. trump. caller: i think supporting mr. harsh.s a little -hillarylly anti clinton. i more fearful of a clinton presidency that a trump presidency. i just don't want her to get elected. but i don't think mr. trump did enough last night to resurrect his campaign. and i am fearful that as a result hillary is going to be elected.

i would really like to see all these republicans who are running away from donald trump, even if donald trump were to ego will notch his allow to happen, republicans would never put up an alternative at this late date. so what i suggest is that republicans throw their support johnson and his running mate. remember that those two were both republican governors. richard, so what, where do you think donald trump wrong last night? you do not think he did enough to resurrect his campaign. where did he have the steps or

bad strategy -- missteps or bad strategy? caller: i just don't think he did enough. she has him on the ropes at this point. host: all right, that is richard in new york. are you going to vote for him, richard? perhaps johnson at this point. i live in new york, so it will not really change the situation, so i will probably vote for johnson at this point. host: charlotte, florida, supporting mrs. clinton. caller: am grateful to have the opportunity on this beautiful morning. well, where we are with respect to the presidential debate is that we are in the midst of aving we are people who have made our path and journeying building this nation.

c-span, i'm not sure if it was yesterday, but i think the reference to our community here in florida, and florida is one of the third-largest states in the nation in terms of diversity, seniors, retirees over 65, and we have the university community, with large public universities that bring you together. -- youth together. florida is a good spectrum state for us to view. i've lived here for almost 30 years. yesterday in my city, allahassee, we brought thousand neighbors and citizens together to break bread and fellowship. our mayor came up with that concept. and c-span, as it brings us

together every morning, and every day, actually, with programming, i saw this judicial watch that was on over the weekend. a segment on the judicial watch, a group that i assume is a 501vate final one group -- group, that has promoted for lawsuits against the clintons, against issues. host: so i can get in some other voices, what is your point? caller: i think judicial watch represents the kind of breakdown in a society. a man, presidential candidate was 70 years old -- who is 70

years old and cannot create a sentence with a mission, and more importantly, has not lived a life of service, and only for his own benefit, versus a woman who shows her self to be competent, to have a vision and a mission -- host: we have to leave it there because i have to get in some other viewers and their thoughts on last night's debate. one viewers as i would vote for third party if they had a chance to win, but gary johnson instills stein are not strong candidates. -- and jill stein are not strong candidates. and another said, another example of trump not taking responsibly for his actions. and we are asking all of you to tell us over the next several hours on washington

journal what you think about the presidential debate. there are the lines on your screen. and on twitter and facebook, as well. i want to show you another moment from last night when mr. trump was asked if he agreed with his running mate, indiana governor mike pence, with what he said at the last debate that there needs to be action taken, military action to address the situation in syria. this is how he answered. trump: i disagree. you have to knock out isis. right now, syria is fighting isis. we want to -- we have people who want to fight both at the same time. and --s now with russia, i believe we have to get isis. we have to worry about isis before we can get too much more

involved. she had a chance to do something with syria. what you think will happen if aleppo false? ,r. trump: aleppo is a disaster humanitarian disaster. i think the city has gone, basically has fallen. the biggest from ihop stupidity of our foreign policy, -- i have with the stupidity of our foreign policy, if we had not attacked a rock -- iraq, all of , like it theyers do it quietly, why can't they do the attack, they get a sneak attack, and after the attack is made inform the american public that we knocked out the leaders, we have had tremendous success? why do they have to say we're going to be attacking mosul in the next four to six weeks? how stupid do you have to be? >> there are reasons the

military sometimes does that. ms. clinton: it might be to help get civilians out. 200 generalshave and admirals who have endorsed me. 21 medal of honor recipients. we talk about all the time. why can't they do something secretly? they go in and knock out the leadership? why would these people stay there? >> tell me what your strategy is? mr. trump: this is where they think isis is. why would they be saying that? they are not staying there, they are gone. ,veryone is talking about iraq our leadership going in to mosul. these 200 admirals and generals cannot believe it. general george patton, general douglas macarthur, they are

spinning in their graves at the stupidity of what we are doing in the middle east. >> i'm going to go to secretary clinton. rebels, you want to our but that maybe -- arm rebels, but that may be too late in aleppo. would you introduce the threat of u.s. military force the on a no-fly zone against the assad regime? would not use american ground forces in syria. there be a very serious mistake. i do not think american troops should be holding territory, which is what they would have to do, as an occupying force. i do not think that is a smart strategy. host: the two candidates last night on their vision, what they with the situation in syria, the civil war there. we'll show you more from washington university in st. louis, missouri, last night.

more of your calls, as well. another update. a moment where donald trump appeared to contradict his running mate on syria, news organizations and reporters saying last night that there were rumors mike pence might leave the ticket. hence try to -- he tried to cross that last night. he sent out a tweet after the event congratulating donald trump on the big debate win. proud to stand with you as we make america great again. he was reported to be watching the debate from the governor's mansion. here's a story from the indianapolis star. speculationt the that came out on friday. he has been sending this -- mixed messages since that event.

canceled a saturday appearance in wisconsin and issued a statement saying he cannot condone trump's comments. a story talking about mike pence canceling an appearance in new jersey in ocean county, one that was scheduled to be happening today in new jersey. schedules ofat the the candidates and vice president joe candidates, -- vice presidential candidates, as well. kaine saying that hillary clinton won the debate last night. no question that she won the debate. donald focused on hillary, hillary focused on the american people. tweets he sent out trump keepsebate, whining to the moderator about how much time caps on answers.

thin-skinned. one of his many tweets last night. and about dollar from with the moderators, this from rnc ofkesman who said that as 9:50, moderators interrupted trump 14 times and clinton just three times. host: will have coverage of his campaign rally there, 1:00 andern time on c-span.org the radio app, if you want to hear what the vice presidential running mate of donald trump has to say. fort lauderdale, florida, for trump. caller: good morning and thank you very much. some points i would like to make. 's remarks were

horrible. but hillary clinton's actions over her career have resolved in unbornling of 18 million little black boys and girls. totally defenseless. and also it is about the justice. -- supreme court justice. she would appoint a liberal and he went on conservative. and all of the dead bodies over the clinton careers. a lot of people do not know that the clinton white house intern was murdered at a starbucks restaurant. host: frank, let's not go down that road without evidence. but you sound like an ardent supporter of donald trump. madeu think last night he

inroads with undecided voters in this country? caller: i don't know about that. but i want to talk about all these dead bodies. host: we're going to move on. chicago, supporting hillary clinton. good morning to you. caller: good morning. onust have a few thoughts the town hall yesterday. apologizewe saw trump to the american people for his really sexist and misogynistic comments on the bus. but he never apologized to the young woman. .e never apologized just like with the brother comments. to presidentogized clinton, i mean president obama. we make an apology, you apologize to the person you hurt, or the person you lied

about, and he never does that. he never takes responsibility for his actions. host: what you say to republicans who say hillary clinton does not take responsibility for words that she has said, like the speeches she gave to wall street where she talked about having a public position versus a private one question mark what did you think of her answer to that? caller: everybody has a public and a private position. the problem is when you have religious extremists put their private positions into a public position like passing laws against gays and against women who want to control their own bodies. people have their own private opinion about what they think should happen, but you cannot publicly come out and pass laws to restrict everybody who does not believe as you do.

host: let me show you how the washington post put it this morning. their front page story. orderly clinton struggles to lyke case against -- lawyer clinton struggles to make case against combative rival. take a listen to what she had to say about her comments about public and private positions on issues. ms. clinton: as i recall, that was something i said about abraham lincoln. after having seen the wonderful steven spielberg movie called lincoln. it was a master class, watching president lincoln get the congress to approve the amendment. it was principle and it was strategic. and i was making the point that it is hard sometimes to get the congress to do what you want to

do and you have to keep working at it. and yes, president lincoln was trying to convince some people, used some arguments to convince other people, other arguments. that was a great, i thought a great display of presidential leadership. but let's talk about what is really going on here. because our intelligent -- intelligence community said the last few days that the kremlin, meaning putin and the russian government are directing the attacks, the hacking on american accounts to influence our election. and wikileaks is part of that, as are other sites with the russians hack information. we don't even know if it is accurate information, and they put it out. we have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign

power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election. believe me, they're not doing it to get me elected. they're doing it to try to influence the election for donald trump. it is because he has praised putin, has said he agrees with a do,of what putin wants to wants to do business in moscow, we deserve answers and we should demand that donald release all of his tax returns that people can see what are the entanglements and financial relationships -- >> we're going to get to that later. secretary clinton, you're out of time. mr. trump: look, now she is blaming -- it is a total lie. her friends at the banks, goldman sachs, everyone else, and you look at the wikileaks it just come out, and as is blaming the light on the late, great in

ramekin. [laughter] -- abraham lincoln. he never lied. that is the big difference between him and you. some difference. as what she was saying, i think it would be great if we got along with russia because we could fight isis together, as an example. but i know that anytime anything wrong happens, she says she does not know if it is the russians doing the hacking. maybe there is no hacking. and they blame russia because they are trying to tarnish me with russia. i know nothing about russia. i know things about russia, but nothing about the innerworkings. let's go through the papers about that exchange, see what they have to say. the wall street journal, an issue about trust. allegedrt says, the

showhes to goldman sachs bias against people less successful or propagated lives. another speech, she told the room, you're the smartest people, according to the e-mails. and during the democratic primary stressors criticized by mr. sanders or receiving $225,000 apiece for speeches to goldman sachs. taxnew york times on the issue, mr. trump, whether or not he will release them. their headline, mr. trump admits to not paying federal taxes for years. explicitlyime he using the loss to avoid paying personal federal income

taxes for years. his response, of course i do, of course i do, was the fullest is provided since the report that the loss to avoid federal income taxes were up to 18 years. and the washington times, about russia and acting. -- hacking. the headline, the u.s. officially blames russia for meddlesome hacking attacks. trying to meddle with the election through cyber attacks. the obama in ministration -- saying it long had suspected russia of meddling, but this is the first official blame. supporting hillary clinton. before.ris

let's go to tony. comments iave a few want to make this morning. first of all, i think that america has enjoyed a great years of a democratic president, a disastrous fall in the economy, homeownership how, student debt, and even he has gotten us out of these wars started by the republicans. but the thing the kind of puzzles me, 1870, the. during reconstruction, after lincoln freed the slaves, -- democrats and republicans decided they dead -- did not want the kind of leadership from

the civil war. ,ow we have come to think candidates running for the nomination, but somehow in america we came up with donald trump and hillary clinton. the lesser of two evils. i've not figured that out, yet. heard at on what i've the two debates and what we keep reading in the press, i don't know which of either one of these nominees or candidates is going to bring america back to place where we can be proud to be americans. peace and harmony and prosperity in this country. i don't know whose agenda, who is sitting agenda is going to -- or causecause more atrocities. i'll be going back to jim crow?

the haves and have-nots. , and things that are out of theolve election of either one of these people because neither one wants to tell america exactly what they're going to do. and the health care plan we have now is benefiting the poor people who never had insurance, because with medicare and medicaid taxpayers have to fit -- foot the bill. now everybody pays their fair share. we came up with a system and republicans do not have a plan. to now they say they want change to make america great again. i don't know what make america great again means. we still have people coming to this country for better lives. host: let's go to georgia, supporting third-party. caller: gary johnson.

i as an objective deserve -- of the -- observer, would give it to donald trump last night. hillary clinton, confronted with her crimes, the fbi investigation was a sham and they should be under indictment. that being said, donald trump is in 35 lawsuits either as a plaintiff or defendant, and he's 100% a narcissist. if you look up the definition, he meets every count. now, hillary is at least a partial narcissist, so i give her some kudos for that. but i would defeat the people to call the debate. we got one debate left in nine days. you know, there needs to be other voices on that stage. please call 202-872-1020 and voice your opinion. i don't know if we can do any good, but it sure as hell can't hurt. scommoip we were there covering

last night's debate. and take your phone calls ahead of time and after to get your reaction. we'll do so again for the last presidential debate that will be taking place on october 19 in las vegas. fox's chris wallace is the moderator that have debate. it will be similar in format to the fist one with nbc's lester holt, so be sure to tune in to c-span then and the next day here on the "washington journal," like we're doing today, getting your reaction and your thoughts about the debate in st. louis, missouri, at washington university. we'll continue to do so for the next couple of hours. coming up with more of your calls here in just a minute, but first, we get this. >> one of the things we try to keep track of is reaction from members of congress, especially throughout all the twists and turns of this presidential campaign. we have a twitter list on our c-span twitter page with all the twitter handles of those members of congress who have twitter handles.

so we'll try to run through some of that reaction. of course, this debate last night coming at the end of a weekend in which, as "the washington post" notes, three dozen republicans have now called on donald trump to drop out of the race. among those who have called on donald trump to step aside, of course, john mccain, his tweet from over the weekend, there's no excuses for donald trump's offensive behavior. cindy and i will not vote for him. kelly aottawa, another one of those who said she will not be voting for donald trump, last night during the debate she tweeted out her work with the university of new hampshire students that she was hanging out with last night, hearing what's on their minds is what she said on they are twitter page. no live tweeting from her during the debate. one member of the senate who came out with a statement yesterday about donald trump is senator inhoffe of oklahoma, he said what trump sbade married women 10 years ago is disgusting and i do not support women being talked about in

such vile ways. but he says the hypocrisy of hillary clinton to criticize trump's past is equally disturbing, as her personal failings involved expensive to bully and degrade women. at in point did she believe there was a need to apologize to victims, only the need to bury their stories and destroy their reputations. we need to remember that in this election cycle. november is about who is the best policy to revive our country and rebuild our military. some other reactions during and after last night's debate, republican congressman jeff miller of florida, he said i applaud donald trump tonight, command of the facts, unwavering under attack, a true agent of change is what the florida republican said. justin of michigan with his tweet at the debate, we've become a country that place over which presidential candidate is less horrible. we can and will do better in 2020 is what he had to say. a few democratic members of congress with their reaction. there's congressman huffman of

california, his tweet last night, worst presidential debate in my lifetime. hillary won on substance and temperament, but trump succeeded in taking us all into the gutter. one other tweet, a democrat from massachusetts, he said when all the dust and twotes have settled from tonight's debate, only one candidate will remain who is prepared to be our commander in chief. and then there's congressman clay of missouri, his district in st. louis where that debate was held. he failed to change one vote tonight, stunts fell flat. unhinged is what he wrote. host: we'll continue to watch what members of congress had to say, especially republicans this morning as they plan to meet over a conference call with their leader. speaker of the house paul ryan will be holding a conference call, as will the r.n.c. today. one thing they'll probably be discussing is the latest poll numbers, and this from "the

wall street journal." new polls show republicans trail in two key states. donald trump trails in florida and pennsylvania. according to new polls, lin clinton leading by 1 in pennsylvania and -- by 12 in pennsylvania and three in florida. the surveys were taken last week before the race was roiled by the disclosure of a 2005 recording in which mr. trump talks about women in having far terms. so more to come from there. you are undecided, did you watch last night, and does that -- after watching, do you feel like you're leaning more toward one candidate than the other? caller: i'm not -- i mean, for one thing, i watch it off and on for a while, but what i was really host: we're listening. caller: what i was really hoping to hear were two things. i was hoping the moderator ask them about what were they going to come to come to power. the president vetoed, they

would have allowed the victims of 9/11 to sue sued rain. i was hoping somebody would ask them about that and what would they do if they came to power. what i was trying to comment on is the campaign trail, especially mr. trump, though talk about islamic extremism, blame it on an act of terrorism against the muslims and talk about the borders. but nobody talks about home grown terrorism. that's what i was hoping to hear, from the unabomer to timothy mcvay -- to timothy mcveigh to the shooter, to all the shooting carried out by americans. i was hoping somebody brought that up and talk about it. so the whole thing is about our side, many the majority of the acts of terrorism in america has kind of been our own american citizens. host: ok.

gloria in memphis, tennessee, supporting hillary clinton. good morning to you. what did you think about the debate? caller: i don't like what i heard. all the talking about each other. i'm not into that. i was waiting to hear like some enjoyed but also where they had the stage talking about bill clinton. that's in the past. i don't even want to hear that mess, because mr. trump, the early part of the year, i heard him on national tv talking about his 15-year-old daughter when she was 15 being fine. she was a 10, and if she weand his daughter, he would be banging her. so i don't even know why he would go there with bill clinton when he's been accused of raping his wife, a

13-year-old, the defense, what wasn't his wife, that a man can rain his wife. but a man can rain his wife and then the first wives turn around and changed it to assault. the same thing, i just wish that they would just leave all this stuff alone. he was talking about what they were going to do for me. host: what's your number one issue that's important to you? caller: education. i got three children that graduated from college. and they paying student loans now, and it's 10 and 15 years, and they still paying student loans. now, i have two grand children ready to go to college. i don't want them to go through all that paying all these student loans back. host: ok. heard your point. linda from new jersey, supporting mr. trump. hi, linda.

what was your reaction to watching last night? caller: well, i never voted -- this is the fist time i'm ever voting, ok? i've never seen a country the way it is right now. now, as far as the moderators, they didn't ask the right questions. they kept on interrupting him. i mean, they shouldn't even have brought up the -- i mean, i hear people say why are we going into the clinton? well, that should work both ways, ok? i hear you say c mccain is bringing up how he interrupted clinton. he interrupted clinton, cain 72 times, and nobody said nothing about that as much. you know, my thing is they should have asked about the social security. they should have asked about north korea. you know? they should have asked about the most important things instead of asking the stupid stuff that they had to take from 11 years ago, and i didn't

know if he was running to do he -- you know, people need to ear more important things, but they're the ones that brought this up. host: what do you think that your candidate did to help convince undecided voters to vote for him last night? do you think he reached out to them? caller: i think it it on some of them as far as the health insurance that is not working out. i don't know how anybody can say it is, just that it is for certain ones. i agree with having, you know, the supreme court for our first and second amendment to keep that, because otherwise we'll go to liberal. we'll wind up being a communist country, but people don't

realize that, you know? we're going to end up being like venezuela and greece if we don't do something. obama had eight years to do it, ok? i mean, a good sign is, look at the people in syria, they should have also made a safety zone for them before they went in there, or if they seen it was a bombing, why didn't they help them right away? host: ok, linda, i'm going to go on to jim, third-party candidate in florida. hi, jim. good morning. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: we can. you're on the air. who are you supporting? caller: well, trump won the debate last night i think. host: ok. caller: but i am thoroughly disgusted with our congress sitting on their hands. we have an attorney general that is in content of congress. we have the director of the f.b.i. that's in contempt of

congress. by the attorney general granting those i am muents -- granting those immunities for hillary's two aides for the computers and then requiring they destroy the computers, the -- under were under subpoena by the congress, and now the attorney general and the director of the f.b.i. are both in contempt of congress. why haven't they issued a subpoena on him? there was an issue that was talked about last night at the debate about the f.b.i. investigation. donald trump said he would appoint a special prosecutor to look into the emails. this is "the new york post" this morning with the headline, trump, if i win, i'd lock her up, "jail to the chief" is what they put on the front page this

morning. "the washington post" editorial board had something to say about what donald trump said to her, a threat to the rule of law, a new low they said from mr. trump, promising to imprison his opponent. and they say, when he said because you'd be in jail, they say mark that moment. a major party presidential nominee is officially promising to lock up his political opponent, despite the fact that an impartial federal investigation concluded that no fair prosecutor would have charged mrs. clinton in the matter of her emails. if anyone needed any more proof that mr. trump does not understand the meaning of rule of law as opposed to arbitrary rule of autocrat, that he would use the levers of the federal government in a vindictive, self-serving and corrupt manner, mr. trump provided it last night is what "the washington post" editorial board had to say, who have already come out against mr. trump. "washington times," front page story this morning about the emails, private words to -- excuse me, about the speeches. private words to wall street put clinton allies in a bind. republicans argued that our

self-described dream of open borders proves mrs. clinton isn't willing to secure america or make protecting the homeland a top priority for liberals, for double speak on wall street reform. crystal ises the law by senator bernie sanders and others throughout the democratic primary campaign that mrs. clinton is a hypocrite who will say and do anything to get and keep power. that's some of the reaction from the pages of the newspapers this morning, what do all of you think? mary ann in rochester, new hampshire, is undecided. you're next. good morning. caller: good morning, and thank you for c-span. i totally agree with jim from florida. she should be indicted. she should go to jail. there's so many americans that totally agree with this. they get away with murder up there, and that's just saying that very nicely. we are different as americans for what we are penalized for. another thing i wanted to bring up was donald trump and his mouth about females.

you had a woman from tennessee that said we shouldn't live in the past or we shouldn't talk about the past, it was done in clinton it's ok for to do some things eliminated in the past, but you can't do it for trump. and another thing that i would like to be able to say is, as far as his comment about women and hiring beautiful women, americans are so hypocritical, it's unbelievable. what about hooters, playboy, people whoer and miss america, why can't they be a little bit overweight? why can't they have a little bit saggy breasts? why can't american people stop being so hypocritical? they were comments that were long done ago n. today's world, we walk in, and i have heard many women talk about men or other women in a very, very nasty way. i work in a hair salon. i see it being con all the time. host: let me jump in.

are you still undecided? caller: you know what? i have been, and i'm really still not comfortable with either either one running. but if i had to go vote today, after i watched that debate last night, i will vote for trump. i cannot trust hillary clinton. her past is unbelievable, and like i said, people have got to bring up the past. there have been a lot of people who have been murdered under her -- i'm going to say 30 years of being in office. host: ok, more calls after this. john, what do you have? john: you just showed the editorial from "the washington post" about donald trump's threat to jail hillary clinton if he's elected president. some other reaction out there on that this morning. that gathering a lot of headlines and tweets. here's a headline from "fortune" magazine, democrats and republicans agree donald trump was wrong to threaten hillary clinton with jail is what "fortune" writes.

eric holder, former attorney general, with a tweet last night, in the u.s.a. we do not threat ton jail political opponents. donald trump said he would. he's promising to abuse the power of the office. former george bush press secretary ari flisher last night, winning candidates don't threaten to put opponents in jail. trump is wrong on this is what ari fleischer says. republican consultant rick wilson, who is supporting evan mcmullen for president, the independent, he said i want to you imagine what trump's mode i can't would say if hillary promised to investigate and jail trump. senator chris murphy from connecticut, a democrat, if you don't think trump wants to mirror putin as president, then you didn't hear him threat ton jail his political rival if elected. and then there's senator brian of hawaii, he asked, wait, why is no one discussing the threat to jail her opponent? some of the reaction from twitter and some of the headlines out there. host: all right, let's go to

virginia in pennsylvania, supporting mr. trump. hi, virginia. caller: hello. host: good morning. caller: i think donald trump is amazing. this man has been doing it alone. he doesn't have the president, michelle, and all these other people fighting for him. he's doing it alone, and he's doing one hell of a job. host: reminder to you and others, you got to turn that tv down. listen through your phone. betty in davenport, florida. betty, who are you supporting? caller: well, being independent, i was on the fence. but i am leaning towards hillary, especially after last night. you know, this is not the first time that donald trump has threatened to have a prosecutor . when we had the latino judge that was going to rule over

him, he also said at that time i'm going to -- when i become have a , i'm going to special prosecutor, and he was going to go to jail. i don't like that kind of talk, because i don't like our congress or senate spending all their time prosecuting people when, in the end, they don't do anything anyhow. that's not our country. and i think that's what turned me last night, really leaning towards hillary. host: ok. that's betty there, who says she's now supporting hillary clinton after donald trump's debate performance last night. we're getting your thoughts about that from all across the country. divided the lines by supporting mr. trump, supporting hillary clinton, third party, and also undecided. to twitter, @cspanwj or facebook.com/cspan as well.

tim in new york, supporting mrs. clinton. hi, tim. caller: how you doing? host: morning. caller: i looked up the survey, and he said trump supporters, the average, $72,000 a year in salary. that's a good salary. it seemed like the country is going bad, people hurt, people doing that because of trades and all of this. the republicans haven't came up with anything in congress. the only thing they did, benghazi. now chafee, he want to talk about emails bringing that up. they don't do anything, and this is like understand republicans, they get older. the people at these rallies, they talk older. they really don't talk to young people at rallies. it's older people, oh, the country is going, this and that. they don't work anymore. they all retired. what's going on here? it seem like it's just

something going on. host: what was your reaction when you heard about these excerpts from her speeches that she gave to wall street being leaked out? are you concerned about that or her prospects of winning? caller: yes, because it's politics. it's just like, ok, you behind closed doors. of course you going to tell them something different. you going to tell the public something different. host: how does that win over people who are reluctant to vote for her, because they think that they can't trust her, that she's not telling them the truth? caller: so you can trust trump? he don't talk about anything. last night, they kept asking him, what would you do, what would you do? he kept going on to something else. she had to keep interrupting him. like what you going to do, trump? he go to something else. he's never talked about what he's going to do. red line this. we got to stop this.

go into some details. that's what you supposed to do. you running for office. this is not kiddie games no more. and the republicans, i hope they lose the senate. i hope they lose seats in congress, because they don't do anything. that's why the country is not going anywhere. and it's just ridiculous. it's just too much bickering and posturing. we need to get this country back on track. host: tim, i want to follow up with your comments by showing our viewers, last night, the back and forth between hillary clinton and donald trump on the question about how the candidates would help muslims deal with the consequences of being labeled a threat to this country. mr. trump: well, you're right about islamaphobia, and that's a thing. one thing we have to do is we have to make sure that -- because there is a problem. i mean, whether we like it or not, and we can be very politically correct, but whether we like it or not, there is a problem. and we have to be sure that muslims come in and report when

they see something going on, when they see hatred going on, they have to report t. as an example, in san bernardino, many people saw the bombs all over the apartment of the two people that killed 14 and wounded many, many people. horribly wounded them, never be the same. muslims have to report the problems when they see them. and, you know, there's always a reason for everything. if they don't do that, it's a very difficult situation for our country. because you look at orlando, and you look at san bernardino, and you look at the world trade center. go outside, you look at paris, look at the horrible -- these are radical islamic terrorists, and she won't even mention the word, and nor will president obama. he won't use the term radical islamic terrorism. now, to solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name. she won't say the name, and president obama won't say the

name. but the name is there. it's radical islamic terror. and before you solve it, you ave to say the name. >> secretary clinton? ms. clinton: thank you for asking your question, and i've heard this question from a lot of muslim americans across our country. because, unfortunately, there's been a lot of very divisive, dark things said about muslims. and even someone like captain khan, the young man who sacrificed himself defending our country in the united states army, has been subject to attacks by donald. i want to say just a couple of things. first, we've had muslims in america since george washington. and we've had many successful muslims. we just lost a particularly well known one with muhammad ali. my vision of america is an america where everyone has a place, if you're willing to

work hard, do your part, you contribute to the community, that's what america is, that's what we want america to be for our children and grandchildren. it's also very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagoguery that donald has about muslims. we need american muslims to be part of our eyes and ears, on our front lines. i've worked with a lot of different muslim groups around america. i've met with a lot of them. and i've heard how important it is for them to feel that they are wanted and included and part of our country, part of our homeland security, and that's what i want to see. host: from last night's second presidential debate at washington university in st. louis, we're getting your reaction to it this morning. loretta in lucasville, ohio, supporting mr. trump. hi, loretta. caller: hello. i'd like say that it doesn't

matter where muslims come from. it doesn't matter what they call themselves. it only matters if they follow the koran. the koran teaches the killing of the jews and the christians. host: loretta, you've read the entire koran? caller: no, but i've read -- parts of it. i mean, let everybody read it. go ahead and read it. host: well, doesn't the -- doesn't the bible have parts where they talk about violence as well? caller: they talk about killing the infidels. that is the religion. they have to clear the world of all infidels whether their god or whatever they have comes back. there's no difference. isis raids, if they follow the koran, isis follows the same bible that the muslims do. it's all the koran. host: that's loretta's opinion there. we'll go on to steve in robertsville, missouri, third party. good morning to you, steve.

who are you supporting? caller: hey, thank you, greta, for taking my call. i'm just going to have to say, you're going to have to -- to the american people, you're going to have to pick your poison. it's going to be trump or it's going to be clinton. now, we might disagree with both of them. there's good and bad on each side. but let's go a little bit with trump. he's going to lower the taxes for the rich, and they are already not paying their share of it, of taxes. the budget was balanced under clinton. george w. bush got in there and unbalanced the budget and lowered the taxes for the rich. now, trump is going to frack. that's how he's going to make his money to balance the budget, which weave already got earthquakes all over in oklahoma. you can't go to wyoming and drink the water or west virginia. you know, it's all about -- he's going to make money, but he's going to do it off the backs of everybody else, and the rich are still not going to pay their taxes. host: steve, are you then going

to support hillary clinton? caller: what are they going replace it with? the republicans is the one that shot down universal healthcare, which is the only thing that's going work. obamacare is trash. you got to throw that out the door. ok, so everything that the republicans do blocks up for the majority of the people, and these people are so uninformed that they would actually vote for this man who has got -- who is a racist. i mean, denigrates everybody. so got to pick your poison, ok? hillary's got a lot of bad things, too. we understand that. but i will go with hillary any day of the week. i'm sorry. host: all right, all right, steve, heard you there. want to share a piece with you this morning in "the wall street journal." over the weekend, after the 2005 tape was released on friday, there was chatter about whether or not republicans, and some republican senators, did call on donald trump to step down from the candidacy and let

governor pence be the head of the ticket. in today's "wall street journal," a path to president pence. he's a constitutional lawyer in d.c. this is what they write, that the republicans can effectively replace mr. trump at the top of the ticket without having to endure the logical and legal turmoil of formally nominating a new standard-bearer less than a month before election day. if mr. trump were to drop out before the election, the party would have to fill the vacancy through a vote governed by the republican national can he rules, a process that would be time consuming and tumultuous, and that would distract republicans during the critical home stretch. the constitution offers a different way forward, under the 20th amendment, the newly elected president's term begins at noon on january 20. a president-elect trump could recite his oath of office, and then immediately resign, under the 25th amendment, power would fall to his vice president, mr. pence. in this way, americans inclined

to vote republican but who are unwilling to support mr. trump would be able to vote for him in name only,s with understanding he was just a place holder am they write under the constitution mr. pence's nominee for vice president would have to be approved by a majority of congress. securing house approval would not be difficult, given that the chamber seems likely to remain under republican control. the fate of the senate, after november's election, is less certain, but even a democratic senate might accede to mr. pence's choice, especially sense a vacant vice-presidency would make the republican speaker of the house, presumably paul ryan, second in line under the presidential succession act. steve -- let's hear from katherine in mobile, alabama, supporting hillary clinton. hi, katherine. good morning. go ahead. caller: good morning. first of all, i'm calling to support hillary and to say that she is the only candidate with any sense. donald trump has reduced our presidency to a row at tv show,

and as a patriot, i find it very sad. but my main point today is, we allowed a bully, a misogynist male to passively aggressively sexually assault a woman on national tv last night. by bringing the display before the debate and trying to rattle this woman to her core and blame her for something that her husband did, and she, like a lot of women in this country, stood by her husband, trying very hard not to believe what she saw happening. i know many women who don't care what she said to any of those women who were playing with married men. let's get one thing straight. we need to have civility brought back to this country, and i am pleading with every female with any ounce of education or sensibility in your soul, and any man that has

any dignity towards your wife and your daughters, to look at what we are watching, people, and realize that bullying and shaming and all of this degradation to our presidency is so sad, and that women in this country need equality. we need respect. we are tired of being objectified. we are sick and tired of not having equal pay, the same prices for things. this is the last-ditch effort of the white supremacy, misonly niss particular male that has run rampant in our country. the good old boy network is ard at work. host: i want to share with you the opinion about last night's debate. mr. trump goes low, they write

that mr. trump probably performed well enough to silence the 11th hour whispering campaign among republicans about somehow ejecting him from the ticket. that means the g.o.p. will continue asking americans to volt for a candidate who is debating and trivializing our politics. during the debate, it seems moderators -- it seemed somewhere between poignant and futile to hear the moderators invite undecided voters to ask about his plans for the nation. the videotape disclosed friday provided gruesome evidence that the republican standard-bearer has for years used his powerful status to prey on women. other revelations followed, including that in 2005, he told howard stern on his radio show that when he owned the miss universe page he want, he made a practice of inspecting naked contestants backstage. you know they're standing there with no clothes and you see these incredible looking women, so i sort of get away with things like that. now, as he struggles to close the biggest deal of his lifetime, a woman is getting the better of him. that's not surprising, but it is apt. that is what the "new york times" editorial board has to say.

john in michigan supporting mr. trump. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call this morning. i've been a donald trump fan since day one. two things he said last night i agree on. about inner cities. our blacks, we're not getting educated. we don't have jobs. and the second thing he said was about hillary clinton. about putting her in jail. if i was him, i'd get elected, only put hillary clinton in jail, i put president obama in jail with him. so the things she did, there's no way in the world she did that for four years and he didn't know nothing about it. it's impossible. somebody running, you don't know? so he had a good point last night, and i hope he keeps speaking the part about what he's doing in the inner cities. host: you can hear more from mr. trump today. he's having a rally this afternoon. we're going to be covering that, as well as hillary

clinton's rally. so go to c-span.org. go to our road to the white house coverage to see the schedule there. more calls coming up, but we also want to include in this conversation here for the rest of today's "washington journal," students from washington university who were at last night's debate. they'll share their reaction and thoughts to it. c-span and the c-span bus has been at the washington university college in st. louis since friday, and we're still hanging out there with some of the students. let's begin with our first one. good morning to you. what did you think of the debate? where were you last night? caller: sure, good morning. i'm the president of the college democrats here, and i'm a political science and chinese majorment last night i watched the debate with the staff in the media center here. it was certainly a night to remember. host: what sticks out in your mind? >> you know, donald trump had one goal last night. at this late in the game, that was to persuade any remaining undecided voters left. i don't think he was successful in that goal. instead he was incoherent, and

he failed to demonstrate his capability as our leader. he was petty. he debated with the moderator instead of hillary clinton, and he spent his time talking to the camera while hillary clinton spent her time talking to the audience members. clinton clinton spoke to the audience, like i said, and she presented her clear and concise policy proposals. host: are you a hillary clinton supporter going into last night's debate? >> yes. yes, i'm a very sympathetic hillary clinton supporter. host: do you think, though, that she answered the question about her speeches to wall street effectively enough to convince young people like yourself who were worried about her relationship with wall street, and that's why they were supporting senator sanders during the primary? >> well, if you look, nine out of 10 bernie sanders supporters are supporting secretary clinton in this presidential rasmse the idea that hillary clinton has a millennial problem is a bit of a disnoamer. if you look at the campus, i believe you can see a lot of the support for secretary clinton in the background shots.

a little bit of a sore throat. you know, i think this is a little distraction. russia wants a donald trump presidency. that's why they hacked the d.n.c., and it's why they're attempting to influence our election. i think we need to focus on what's important here. host: this is the fifth time that washington university has hosted a debate. what was it like for you to be in this environment? >> you know, i'm really extraordinarily grateful that we've all had this privilege to host this debate. again, it's the fifth time. clearly washington university is doing something right. the opportunity for civic engagement has never been greater, regardless of your party affiliation. i'm really just happy that i was able to be a part of it my senior year here and as involved in politics as i am, it really is something i think i'll remember the rest of my life. host: thank you for being with c-span this morning and sharing your thoughts. >> thank you, greta, very much. host: we'll get in some more students as we continue throughout today's "washington journal," having a conversation with all of you. it's your turn to let washington and the parties and

the candidates know how you think it went last night. new bedford, massachusetts, supporting hillary clinton. we are less than a month away from election day. what do you think your candidate did last night? caller: i think that she was absolutely calm, cool, regardless of all the pettiness. i wish she had left off some of the issues that he caught her a couple of times in the pettiness basically. she brought a couple of things that was wrong with him. i think that the american people need to understand that he's a businessman. he has shown it time and time again that he's only into lining his pocket. and if you think that you can trust a car salesman over a politician, that's the problem. we have to pick between two untruth worthy type of people. but if we're going pick between both of them, then we need to understand that she has only

done what has been asked of her . or has only done what other people have been involved with. is it just her? him as a businessman, it's all him. his comment, his everything is on him. and that's what people need to understand, that he's a businessman. not a politician. host: all right. greg supporting a third-part candidate in chattanooga, tennessee. you're on the air. caller: hi. host: good morning. caller: i've had a whole change of look at things, greta. e way i see it, and i hope the american public can really change their paradigm, the way of thinking is he stands for -- trump stands for americanism. that last call expert college caller, all i want to say is bless their heart, they're indoctrine ate. that boy has gone to college to

learn to hate the united states. hip are you is a globalist, people. please think about it. kissinger, soros, he is all about americanism. he doesn't have to be the president. he's got plenty of mofpblee he's going to have to do this for money. he's doing it because he loves this country. host: what about his comments about praising vladimir putin and saying that he's a stronger leader than our president? caller: i have to fullly agree with him. think about it. have you watched putin? he's been trying to tell our media that we have been putting nato up against his border, trying to force him into a nuclear war. that's what the new world order is trying to do right now, as we speak. and that's nothing but danger. that's going to kill all of us. host: ok, that's greg's thoughts in tennessee. john, what do you have?

john: we have the line this morning for third-party supporters. let's wrap up the comments from the third-party candidates, as they're watching the debate last night, we mentioned evan mcmullen, the independent, he tweeted last night after the debate, 90 minutes of old policies and mudslinging, if you're frustrated, join our discussion with a tweet to his website. the green party candidate with several tweets, live tweeting last night during the debate, a real debate would include the four candidates on enough ballots to win, as 76% of americans support calling for the debates to be open to the third party candidates, or at least that third party to be open to those third-party candidates. should clinton and trump are the least like or trusted candidates ever, it was not a good use of the viewers' time. and then the release from the johnson well, the libertarian ticket, they wrote last night, when donald trump holds a press conference an hour and a half

before the debate begins with the intention of deflecting attention from him by trying to convince us the clintons are worse, we probably know everything we need to know about this campaign. we have fallen through the looking glass thanks to the two candidates who are each running on a platform of not being the other. we are in historically uninspiring territory. you can hear more specifically from jill stein and the libertarian candidate for president, gary johnson, here on c-span tomorrow starting at 8:00 tomorrow. we're going to be joined by gary johnson from santa fe, new mexico. that's going to be live on c-span and c-span radio. from 9:00 to 10:00, we're going to be joined by jill stein and her running mate. they're going to be from here in our c-span studios in d.c. host: back to calls. tom in ohio, undecided. hi, tom. caller: hey, how are you this morning? thank you for taking my call. host: you bet.

caller: well, listen i just want to get this out there because apparently people aren't paying attention during these debates. i thought bill clinton was fair game on what he did to women. but are they understanding what happened? this man raped a 12-year-old child, and hillary, as an attorney, defended her husband and got him off, probably by paying the family money so it would go away. i'm going to try to remind the women out there, if you elect hillary clinton, you are returning a pedophile to the white house. the other thing is, on the this woman was under subpoena, and i think you know the story, all the people that work for her have taken the fifth amendment, which means you take that when you know you're going to get caught, so you say i refuse to answer. they all know that the fix was

in. they all know that loretta lynch and bill clinton met for 39 minutes on a tarmac to make sure all this stuff went down. wake up, america. you're being lied to, just like in the nixon administration, but it's all being done by obama. it's time to change the people that are in power in this country, where america is going down the tubes. host: tom, i want to you listen. this s from politifacts morning. donald trump said hillary laughed at a 12-year-old rain victim. i think you mixed up the -- mixed what happened. donald trump offered a confusing mash up of unsavory accusations during sunday night's presidential debate as he lumped allegations against bill clinton with a claim about hillary clinton's attitude when she discussed her defense of a man accused of raping a child in 1975. trump asked about his offensive comments while taping a segment of "access hollywood," said if you look at bill clinton, mine are words, his was actions.

trump continued on, as you all know, and they say this, the alleged rain of a 12-year-old had nothing to do with bill clinton. trump was suddenly and without explanation shifting gears to hillary clinton's successful defense of the alleged rapist after she was reluctantly assigned to the case. that's the part of trump's claim. we'll fact check here. and they say at the time clinton, 27, was working at a legal aid clinic. the accused man was specifically asked for a woman to represent him. he ultimately pleaded guilty on unlawful fondling of a minor, receiving a year in jail and four years probation. when we asked about the trump campaign about a allegation, the spokesman referred us to a july 15, 2014 article in the conserve tough washington free beacon, which uncovered all yo recordings of clinton. although it's not clear when the recordings were made, the beacon says they date from 1983 to 1987. in the tape, she calls it a terrible case and a fascinating case for reasons that will become clear.

the article notes she can be heard laughing at several points on the point, but it doesn't say she was laughing at the victim as trump claims. politifact. she's seen laughing on two separate occasions, trump is referring to, as we said, the audiotape. they rate this claim false. so, again, that is politifact for you to read yourself, if you go to their website. steven in northampton, pennsylvania, supporting mr. clinton. hi, steven. caller: good morning. i've been voting since 1980 right out of high school. i've been working in the factory environment since then. what i've been following with current events on every campaign coming into even local elections, i find that the people who speak out against the democratic party are considered not worthy of any type of opinion, across the

board in the media zones. and what i'm seeing in america for the past couple of years since 1980, i've seen a down turn. now, i've watched every presidential debate since then. there's one thing that i picked out that donald trump actually does whenever he speaks. he speaks to the people, not at them. and he doesn't refer to the people who aren't in his ampaign or otherwise deplorable, like clinton clinton did. now, you take that accusation, and you throw that out to the american people. if somebody is calling the american public a deplorable or doesn't agree with them, they are the ones causing the cancerous rumor from their campaign, and it just turns the american people off. what i fear the most in this

country is that the people, like myself, with a high school education or even less had been rown down on to the ground too many times. we see it. we talk about it at our jobs. we talk about it outside the work. now, i just came back from north carolina, and i went through all the states through the delmarva. i have never seen so much support and signs for one candidate since ronald reagan. and i think the american public should wake up to world problems instead of worrying about tapes and crap being thrown up by the media who supports the clinton campaign machine. host: ok. let me move to mississippi. tristan is supporting mr. trump. good morning to you. i understand you're 11? caller: yes, i am. i'm up. host: good morning. did you watch the debate? caller: oh, yes, i watched most of it. host: ok. and why are you supporting mr.

trump? caller: because i think we need more jobs over here, because there aren't that many jobs where i live. 's a small town, and there aren't that many jobs, and some people -- i think he'd bring more jobs because he's also a businessman. so if he can bring more jobs over here, that would be great, because there are some people in certain parts of the united states that don't -- they either don't have a good job or they don't have a job at all. so if he can bring some more jobs over here, then that would be great. host: tristan, so what's it like in your town, in mississippi? caller: it's pretty small. it's pretty small over here. host: and what happened to the obs there?

caller: well, there aren't that many businesses over here. scommoip do you think donald trump's business record, him being a businessman, could help your community? caller: yes, ma'am. scommoip are your parents supporting mr. trump, too? caller: yes. my sister don't like him, don't like him very much. host: she doesn't. so there's a house divided. caller: yes, ma'am. host: well, tristan, thank you for watching our show this morning, and for calling in and sharing your comments with us. we appreciate that. all right, let's get more from john this morning. john, good morning. go ahead. john: good morning, greta. a lot of focus since the release of that tape that has caused so much attention on donald trump's support, specifically among christian conservatives and evangelicals. most prominent christian conservatives who have been supporting trump standing by him, including tony perkins of the family research council.

some of the tweets last night from christian conservatives as well during the debate, here's david brody, a journal west the christian broadcasting network. he said donald trump won the debate overall, focused for 90 minutes, hits major trigger points. clinton on the defensive much of the night. he went on to say it was fascinating that donald trump went in on the defense, but turned the tables on hillary clinton. we still have a race is what he said. one evangelical leader that's making news today is wayne gruden. he's one of the most influential christian conservative backers, and he pulled his support, his endorsement for donald trump on sunday. sheer the column from townhall.com. i'll read the beginning of it for you. there's no morally food presidential candidate in this election. i previously called on donald trump -- called donald trump a good candidate with flaws, and a flawed candidate, but i now regret i did not more strongly condemn his moral character.

i cannot commend his emotional character, and i strongly urge him to withdraw from the election. his vulgar comments in 2005 about his sexual aggression and assault against women were morally evil and revealed pride in conduct that violates god's command that you shall not commit adultery. that's wayne depruden's column making headlines today. scommoip governor pence right now on cnn, telling them that it's absolutely false that he considered dropping out of this race over the weekend. and the conservative newspaper, "the wall street journal" editorial board, trump's last stand. they write this morning that we prefer mr. pence as president, too, they write, but this election isn't about us. it's about the american public and the millions of dollars who put mr. trump on the ballot. republicans would find it very difficult to replace mr. trump at this late stage of the race unless mr. trump agrees to voluntarily recede. on saturday he said there's zero chance i'll quit. if mr. trump can turn his

campaign around and won't withdraw, then republicans have difficult choices. can't be planned for breaking from mr. trump if this is what their consciences demand or if that is the best path to political survival this year. the conservatives this weekend show the trouble mr. trump is in. republicans running for the house and senate will have to mobilize voters with an argument that they need them as a choke hillary clinton. her domestic agenda is to the left of president obama's. a nancy pelosi house would implement it. if this sounds like damage control, that's where the g.o.p. may soon be. lee, you're supporting hillary clinton in brooklyn. you're on the air. good morning. what did you think of the debate? caller: oh, i was surprised that donald kept it together for the whole time. i've been listening to donald trump spout baloney for 30 years here in brooklyn and new

york. and i want to tell the american people, we in new york, we see him as just a total gas bag. he will lie. it's all about ego for him. as far as a moral center, this man has no moral center. it's all about self-promotion. he will step on anybody to get what he wants, because that's what it's about. it's not about -- and as far as im being a businessman, that's a joke. nobody near new york will do business with him, because he breakups his company. you know, he's had -- because he bankruptcies his company. he's had six bankruptcies the last time i checked, and the banks won't even talk to him unless he has a cosigner to anything. because he walks out and he leaves them sitting there with 10 cents. the one time he floated his

company on the stock exchange, the opening the one cost per sh $35. these poor people put their money in there, in their pensions, to this $35 stock, and, you know, donald talked up his stock, was going to go through the roof. well, when it finally closed two years later, it was worth 17 cents per share. now, if you figure from $35 to 17 cents, and that hit all and pension rs funds and said, hey, i'm a businessman, i'm the best, you know, i'm going to do wonders for you, but, you know, we in new york here, there's a reason donald has never been mayor or senator or congressman or governor from new york. host: ok, understood. let me show our viewers what the new york papers have on their front pages this morning.

"the daily news" out of new york, "grab a seat, loser" is what they put on their front page. trump's vile comments take center stage, help hand hillary another debate win is what they believe. and then as we showed you before, "the new york post" there in new york, trump, if i win, i'd lock her up, jail to the chief. town brawl gets vicious. that is the front page of the "new york post" this morning. north carolina, good morning. hi, shari. caller: hi. how are you? host: doing well. what did you think of the debate? you're supporting a third-party candidate. who is it? caller: well, i was. i'm an ex-republican. i voted for reagan, and then clinton, and, of course, bush, and until 9/11, i was a republican. and i'm now independent. and i have been on the line trying to figure out -- i was looking towards johnson, but johnson will get us in trouble. he doesn't know enough about

security matters. you know, he just cannot be a president. 've got to say that i, as an ex-republican, i just am appalled at the fact that it took this pace for people to say something that they've done all along. i don't care if you're a republican, independent, or democrat. we've known for months and months that this man had no moral character. he's gone through one woman after another, and then he has also bankrupt all these businesses and left the middle man hurting. he said last night he was going to take care of the middle class when, if you go online and just look, he's making it even better for the top 1%. he said hillary clinton was going to rob -- just fact check, people. fact check. host: ok, and there's plenty of sites to go to. politifact has a website.

"washington post" does fact checking, the "new york times," etc. you can look at all the claims made last night by each of them and see how the fact checkers who investigate the records, what they say about whether or not those claims are false, true, mostly true, but mislead being, etc., you know the ratings. you can go find them out. let's hear from a trump supporter. alan in atlanta, georgia. good morning. go ahead. caller: good morning. i'm a lifetime republican that will not vote for president in the next election. i'll just leave that section blank. host: so why did you call in on the supporting donald trump line? caller: because i do support some of his ideas, but he's so far over the top that i just cannot in good conscience vote for either candidates as they're both derble. my question is why. the answer, which is never discussed on c-span, is that

our problem is that we have primaries. the primaries are not part of our constitution that originated in the late 19th century. so each party, both the republican and the democratic party, could ditch candidates that they didn't want. few people vote in the pry marches, so they're the ones -- in the primaries, so they're the ones who actually decide who's going to the president, not the general public. if we had all the major candidates on stage for these debates, neither of these two candidates would stand a chance, but we're stuck with them. host: in the primary, who was your candidate? caller: kasich. he's the only one who's sane. i would have voted for ted cruz, but he's turned into a real politician, and he's now being cowered by the republican party. they would not let him run as a republican if he doesn't support trump, so he's backed down and now he's tacitly supporting trump. host: what did you make of

governor kasich saying over the weekend that he cannot support him anymore, will not endorse him, will not voted for him? caller: well, he's like many people who vote republican or democrats. they just won't vote. they'll hold their noses and they'll vote for the least attractive of the two. they'll vote against a candidate. they won't vote for candidates. they'll vote against them. host: the remarks there in georgia. let's get another student from washington university in, go back up there, where spab span man hanging out there. the c-span bus has been there since friday. by the way, this is a private university, and as we said before, fifth time hosting a presidential debate. good morning to you. what did you think of last night's debate? caller: hi. thanks for having me. i'm a graduate student here in chemical engineering, and i'm co-founder and co-director of missouri youth trump, the fficial outreach organization.

the atmosphere was absolutely electric. we are all over the performance. you were in a room with the staffers, telling us some of the names that people know. stick out to you? >> the points that stick out for his talk finitely about bringing back secretary clinton. it has been rough weekend for campaign, i'll be first to admit that. bringing back to clinton was wanted to hear and the pivot we talked wasn't talked in the media. the tape was a giant -- music to our ears. heather

on behalf ou working on mr. trump in missouri? what is the ground game like there? guest: the ground game is strong. we have been knocking on doors, banking, doing social media outreach, the kind of in a traditional campaign. ost: what do you think about get to middle -- down the road moderate, there is americans? what do you think? guest: i can speak a little bit small town, from a very small town, traditionally economy. a union we used to have a lot of factories, a lot of traditional where people are blue-collar dems. gone by inesses have the wasteside, moved to right to businesses or the have simply closed up shop in

st. louis. i have talked to a lot of people, obviously i still go them have lot of switched th allegiances to mr. because they feel something there, sort of an amazing thing. a billionaire from new york that is connecting with people on the ground, people who jobs, people who have had to take out social security 10 years early to keep surviving after their jobs and shifts were cut. it's something incredible. to his rallys and campaign events, i see people of ages.ces and when i went to a mitt romney rally in 2012, that is something i never saw. host: thank you for joining us this morning and being with us perspective, your again, able to watch last night's debit with the missouri staffers for the donald trump campaign. all of us can see a strong the new york billionaire. let's go back to calls.

david in indianapolis, hillary clinton, it is your turn, david, you're on the air. caller: good morning. taking my call, i want to stick to three issues and not debate itself even worry about all of the inuendo passed along last night. host: okay. socially nancially, and foreign affairs, okay. financially, donald trump trying every same thing republican since reagan has tried out, trickle-down economics that don't amount to anything. they do not help anyone, it was proven. deficit so ased the slowly, he had the biggest deficit that any president has ever had and they continue to push the policies. he's saying, i will give the money by the top more

using taxes to give it to them and then they have proven year time and time again, that they're going to keep that money and continue to do can to make more. okay. ocially, he has proven completely inept at any ability empathize with anyone, other than rich people. game, own, he talks the every policy he's tried to discuss has shown him to not anyone, butpathy for rich people. he doesn't know -- he's never poor neighborhoods. he doesn't travel in those circles. people he talks about he's met are peep nel suburbs of country that the he's been to. host: all right, david's thoughts, supporting former of state. we'll hear reaction to the second presidential debate, one election day.ore so what did you think about the

xchanges between the two candidates last night? keep dialing in. we'll go until the top of the this morning. the house and then senate are as we told ngton, you earlier, the speaker of the house, paul ryan is holding a call with his conference members this morning round 11 a.m. eastern time to talk about the debate last night and the videotape that was weekend and what to do next and the republican ational committee also having meetings today on that, as well. surrogatesw you what for each candidate had to say last night after the debate. called the what is spin room and give the media their take. with giuliani, former mayor of new york city, say.is what he had to >> victimized for years by both bill clinton, they have been called names, told there are things wrong with

them. want to be they heard, they wanted to be heard. no, i think the [indiscernible] -- end of the debate, didn't make sense she was so outstaged. on and on. and >> social media, believe mr. trump didn't show -- i think mr. trump -- made no nible] -- sense, went on and on and on. he trump made it clear what would do about taxes bisis, he would do about immigration, what he would do secret aling with top information being revealed. she never answered. never answered. the fact she destroyed 33,000

which talks her into jail. enormously,expanded way beyond republican, i think and rats will look at that say, one time we saw -- [indiscernible] -- other side saw a person who has been a secretary of state, can't keep her promises. abraham le story about lincoln, give me a break, said to what you goldman sachs, you said, sometimes have you to say different in public than you do in private. what makes clinton different in private is called -- mayor ormer of new york rudy giuliani, busy place to be post-debate. fallon, the hillary clinton spokesperson for the campaign, he also was there, with other surrogates, here is what he had to say.

one moment was she in ed about 30 years government to maintain -- and i hink it is going to be consistent element of remarks in the days ahead. what he's t compare been doing for 30 years, she's been fighting for women and family, and he's been -- [indiscernible] -- bankruptcies, e're happy to compare their respective records over the last 30 years. they think that is a talking we intend to , lift it up and have that over days.xt 29 >> was she rattled? > he was the one that was talking, couldn't control himself, she calmly sat down. throughout the enzo s invokeing times

her and ering around menacing. i think he was rattled. policy questions rattling and incoherent on from healthcare to syria. i think he was trying to unnerve her and she seemed like the only one you could picture in the oval office making decisions a make.ent needs to >> what is the reason for you -- [indiscernible] -- >> i think complatancy is what against.to guard we have to be -- going to be a lose race, everybody needs to work hard. host: hillary clinton spokesperson there. or can hear how they saw what they think happened last in st. louis at washington university. voters, to ou, the find out what you sxng how you vote in november. undecided voter, good morning to

you. caller: good morning to you. we are supposed to be leader of world.st i want you to listen to donald you realize that we are republic. banana ladenthing goes to the bin or -- no chance for us to hear he has to offer the country. this, can understand is he has no plans at all to fwe know it going to be a secret keeping it foreign policy. another thing is this, i keep hearing republicans saying we're going in the wrong direction. it amazes me because when obama power was losing jobs, two wars and they

country over e that plight. are they suggesting we should u-turn and come back around, like the storm intend to do? us to go back to days at the end of george bush's election? okay. john. guest: good morning. book, all is in the eyes turn to debate number three, october 19th at of nevada las vegas, another 90-minute format, the moderator, chris wallace, of course steve scully will be backup moderator again, if needed smchlt reporting about debate on october 19th. this from the nevada review las vegas renew journal, unlv will class half october s for presidential debate.

the story noting that nstructors across the campus have been encouraged to move classes away from the school and experiences ative so students can attend the activities and viewing events. also, one other thing to show affiliationas's nbc conducted an interview with the unlv, lynn jessup, to talk about how the university brought the debate to the campus and what it means for the campus. guest: the next president of the united states will first address at unlv. >> this will be the most not only of the year, but probably ever held at unlv. lynn jessup ent, says it will be big and he's right.oving first two republican debates blockbusters.ing >> this is significant. >> the work to get it was

too, the university have been campaigning for the campaign for months. lbcv a board paid money to likely be well spent. >> the economic impact to the community alone is $6 million roughly. just to have those people in town. worth publicity around the event is $50 million, we icity we can't, no way could buy that kind of marketing and publicity. > for students, though, it is more than money, it is an opportunity for their school to e centerstage in presidential politics. >> really good way to advertise. unlv student, i think that is really cool. host: so will be the location of the last presidential debate on 19th.r our coverage, of course, will get underway earlier that debate before the begins and we will of course have your reaction after the

debate, as well. ou can watch the entire debate n c-span, c-span.dlshgs or listen on your c-span app. that is wednesday, october 19th. missed last night's or missed the first one or vice go to ntial debate c-span.org and watch them there. victor, who are you supporting? for r: i was going to vote a third party candidate, i decided after watching the ebate that i would vote for hillary clinton. the reason why is her position on healthcare. you have tonds that get a single-payer system like inry other developed country the world. we're paying $8000, the federal person, nts, for every they are paying $4000 in most healthcareubsidizing where we spend $8000.

the cost of drugs are out of congress won't do anything about it, maybe she can get something through congress, going the problem she's to have, she's going to have to mitch th paul ryan and mcconnell who, have their own idea of what they want to do. way, they a better have obstructed barack obama, by the majority of the people to put in his and those two have done a terrible job, they have 12 to approval rating. instead of working with the resident, they put partisan politics and campaign contributions, which are country, above the good of the country. ow we need to get rid of the united decision and she will appoint judges that will do that. balanced budget amendment or the next generation will be paying $20 trillion debt. i do like some things trump said about immigration and i think we

from syria coming costing er -- taxpayers, he wants to keep them in the middle east and give them safety zones, which is a good idea. i like some things he says, but own party won't support donald trump. he says he will support social what's he's going to tells mitch mcconnell him, if you don't cut social security, we will not give you money for your wall. victor, i want to leave it there and show the viewer when is both candidates were asked if can be president for all americans to get at your point. a president for all of the people, african cities, , the inner devastating what is happening to the inner cities. it for en talking about years. she talks about it, nothing get it she doesn't done. same with the latino americans,

americans, same exact thing, they talk, don't get it done. cities and see 45% poverty. african americans 45% poverty in inner cities. the education is a disaster. essentially nonexistent. i mean, it's, you know, i've saying big speeches have 20 people, what do have you to lose? it can't get any worse. she's been talking about the years, ties for 25 nothing will ever happen. let me tell you, if she's president of the united states, going it happen, just talk. all of her friends, the taxes i would king about, just get it by osmosis, she's favors.g me any by doing others favors, she's favors.e

>> thank you. >> she is all talk, take a look at her senate run, upstate new york. >> your minute is up. >> two minutes, secretary clinton. 67% of the people voted to re-elect me when i ran for second term, i was proud and that.ed by mr. carter, i have tried my can to ife to do what i support children and families. you know, right out of law i went to work for the children's defense fund. lot about, you know, the 30 years i've been in public service. i'm proud of that. started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination african american children in schools and in the criminal justice system. worked to make sure kids with disabilities could get public care very something i much about, i have worked with latinos, one of my first job necessary politics, down in latino xas registering citizens to be able to vote. use have a deep devotion to

your absolutely correct word, to making sure that every american like he or she has a place in our country. when you look at the letters that i get, a lot of worried maybe they wouldn't have a place in donald trump's america. me and one woman wrote me about her son, felix, adopted from ethiopia, when he was a toddler. he's 10 now. country he's known. he listens to donald on t.v. and day, id to his mother one will he send me back to ethiopia if he gets elected. from last night's second presidential debate about uestion being, can you be a president for all americans? go to if you missed that c-span.org. we're having a conversation with you, the voter, about what you happened last night and what does that mean for november

8? viewer follow-up on a earlier who said he was voting for hillary clinton because he elieves she wants to go to single-payer plan for healthcare. that is what donald trump said night, politifact says that is not true, she has not said to go to single payer plan for healthcare. wants public she option added to what already affordable care act. dorothy in kansas, supporting trump. dorothy. caller: hi. thank you for taking my call. pbs when n watching they profiled all the residents, you know, and abraham lincoln was plagued with have anythingdn't to do with him being a president. he was a good president. kennedy, look at his affairs, he was still a good president. clinton, well,is we won't talk about that.

to ask about who paid for hillary's new jet that talking about and she supports children, but she wants babies. and donald apologized for what look at teddy oosevelt, charge, that is what i think about donald. charge. host: all right. ohio, n dayton, supporting hillary clinton. hi, julia. aller: hi, good morning, happy president's day. which is rather ironic after presidential debate. i really have to say, listening to ll of this and listening the different point of views, i think it is unreal. that the american people are smart enough to not vote for donald trump for of the united states because he's definitely unfit. points.our quick he really proved last night and

multiple times he really on y is a lying, ignorant, every issue candidate. sexually about harassing and assaulting a woman. we heard the tape. decades. doing it for we've seen it during the campaign. away, ep exkuzing it saying distraction, not important. it is important. sexual assault is a serious issue facing the united states, colleges,litary and on especially. that is not okay behivior. he hasn't apologized. secondly, he's not educated on foreign policy. last lly was clueless night on syria to the point he speak to the mosul,on about, it wasn't it was alepo, he couldn't even not only what the problem was, but what he was whereas do to solve it,

hillary clinton has very good going anding of what is on and actually has a plan on her website that actually does of the problems and explain necessary details what they should do. there.i'll leave it more calls coming up. other news update from john mcardle. the caller was talking about foreign policy, as in one the e first debates, discussion on foreign policy was iraq.ar in mike news with a story out about that exchange during the debate yesterday. during sunday's second presidential debate, republican nominee, donald trump, repeated familiar lie he war in iraq he since the beginning. this time trump took the lie a further saying a muslim soldier killed in iraq in 2004 whose family trump disrespected following the democratic national committee, valid been alive had he been president at the time.

kahn's family is not tolerating trump using their political points. they released a statement, we know our son is an american hero and donald trump is not telling the truth when he says he was against the war in iraq. our son serveed with honor and distinction and gave the the only acrifice, thing donald trump sacrifices is the truth. kahn atement from the family last night. host: we told you couple fact hecks from donald trump from last night on politifact's website. has headline, 13 times trump was dead wrong and two times clinton was. let me share what they say were falsehoods by hillary clinton last night. donaldone, she said that trump never apologized for anything to anyone. on saturday morning after publication of the 2005 tape making comments about women, trump made a statement of apology.

now for the e are first time energy independent remain energy independent. according to energy information, united states imported 9.4 million barrels per day from 88 u.s. production is up and share of import system down. being not the same as energy independent. clinton misleading claims 33,000 e-mails deleted, that was after, not before, it is not true, they e-mails and not official. trump is correct that some of clinton's e-mails were deleted computer technician after being subpoenaed for relevant records. comment about clinton deleting 33,000 messages are she gave the instruction in late 2014, before subpoenaed, second, she has messages she ordered erased were to be nature. personal in so again, go to politico, go to

"washington post," "new york imes," check it out for yourself. wally, norman, oklahoma. hi, wally. hi.er: yeah. you have me on. debatew, i trump won the as far as i'm concerned. he isn't the most knowledgeable seen in my ve ever life, that is a fact. is, i mean, they take him to task for saying he's clinton. jail hillary that was a zen moment, he's not in rally going to put her jail. and the total media is in the bag for hillary and fox except c-span news, we'll say. they have been since the start of this thing. the democratic primary was in the bag for hillary clinton from first.y and so, she couldn't lose. she couldn't lose. african american voted 80%

for her. anywhere she ose went. bernie sanders was the honest candidate who promised change, college, single payer medical. they don't care about that. no, no, no. host: let me ask you then, why third-party on line? why did you call on the line for people supporting a third-party like you are nds supporting donald trump. caller: i called to get in to talk, i'm supporting donald trump as protest in this election. lying and i on is tell you something, the iraq voted to allow their iraq war, hillary clinton, kerry, reid and joe biden. people were crammed down our throats, and we're sick of it. change it, ants to they will protest vote for trump of god knows ars what. host: okay, but what about his

invasion fore the it was hat he thought, sort of a mild endorsement saying, i guess so, if was a idea to invade iraq. caller: do you think they should go to iraq? said, i guess so, that is not determination ad that we should invade iraq, just stern nt on the howard show. he was against iraq very quickly. host: okay. that.elieve him on that is wally there in norman, oklahoma. you will hear more from donald campaign trail again after last night's debate, of he battleground state pennsylvania. polls show he is trailing hillary clinton there. thaf on ave coverage c-span, c-span.org, or get the c-span radio app. hillary clinton will have coverage of her rally today, as well, she'll be hitting the in michigan.l in detroit at 2:45 p.m. eastern

tierm. and you can watch that on c-span2. pence going g mike to charlotte, north carolina, 1 p.m. eastern time today and that live on c-span, c-span.org, app.he radio ind c-span, c-span 2, and c-span 3 on the radio. c.b. supporting hillary clinton. morning to you. caller: hello. i'm proud to be able to vote for woman president and come on, pennsylvania, get hillary clinton. look at the debate last night, peace l call trump a candidate, give me a break. stands round the stage, behind her when she's talking, oesn't act like a human being, this is ridiculous. host: c.b., what don't you like what he has said about his vision for this country?

democrat?lways been a why did you decide for hillary clinton? caller: not against him. he's against muslims, talking bout, you have to say the word islamic terrorist, what the heck does that mean? is the saying islamist only terrorist in america? that's crap. people run around that are killing people. sugar rove,anne in north carolina. undecided. are you undecided after watching last night? caller: i'm kind of leaning toward hillary clinton. i love what the lady before me pennsylvania had to say. i want to correct the young man from the university that you had the last gentleman, that had the make america great again cap on. said, yeah, and everybody getting social security 10 years early. needs to be corrected, greta,

bug e somebody would put a in your ear, there is a 10 second delay or whatever it is, and i can a half social plying for my security the end of this year, actually christmas day is the ate i can start applying because i turn 62 in march. just really want to put that out there, so many -- i'm nervous, so many low information, low information know, out there that, you somebody wearing that hat and all for trump and young kid says they believe things. host: and that is why we have the program the way we have it to call up and give nge or disagree or the other side to what you hear from a previous caller or from on this at we have program, the hosts that sit in the chair can't be walking

encyclopedias, we're trying to what we can while we're out here. it is a conversation we're our g with and you doing best to facilitate that. let's go to washington university, actually, as we hosted the debate last night for the fifth time makes it the which most by any institution in the history. t is a private university founded in 1853, located just a few miles west of downtown st. louis, 14,000 students attend the school. now.s talk to one of them tell us your name and where were you for the debate? your reaction to it? caller: good morning, greta. dunkley, i'm a senior and pardon me there, member of the college democrats. ast night i was enjoying the debate with some other ra's and their freshman floor. is that i definitely think that it is honorable for

host this debate and to have been able to host as been able s as we've to have and it provides publicity for our school and it experience and i feel that i and other students are debate on have this our campus. host: what did you hear from the joined with you last night? some might not be old enough to vote in november. they engaged in the election season? so.ler: definitely the freshmen were engaged in the ebate and interactive with the debate g. back to your comment when you said freshmen may not -- may not be old enough to vote. that is true, however, i notice vantage point, a lot of students are registered as what may be thought. s an ra, i was doing a voter registration drive in my building and almost every

student was registered to vote. many were actually registered to vote, i show that speaks to civic engagement we have at wash u in preparation season.s election host: what have you been told by the head ofhere, by you niversity about and do agree about what impact this will have on washington university? definitely. so i think that earlier there was someone saying from actually unlv that presidential debate can add publicity to a school. debate that this definitely is something that will be able to do that for wash u. while wash u is already on the ap, the debate can help to spread wash u's name and also present missouri in a mo more, national lens as a result f this debate that occurred last night. host: well, thank you so much

for joining us this morning. up early after late night there at washington university and hanging out with c-span this morning. appreciate it. caller: thanks for having me, greta, i appreciate it. calls. the carl in augusta, georgia, supporting third-party candidate. carl, good morning, you are on the air. carl, are you there? maybe i pushed. i pushed the wrong button. carl? caller: yes. host: we're we go, i got you now, good morning. caller: good morning. of the at did you think debate? caller: i think there are a lot viewers out there. i mean, they're supporting sociopath who is a beist bigot and i'm happy to alive this morning according to him, i could walk down the be shot any point in time. this guy as to have my commander-in-chief.

eople say he will bring jobs back, he's outsourcing to china filed for bankruptcy six times. -- cut on loans he's defaulted release his tax o let us know what type of -- he's involved with in everything. ost: carl, are you comfortable with hillary clinton being your commander-in-chief? to pick ell, you have your poison, lesser of two evils. -- she d be a better would be a better choice than this guy. i feel. host: all right. peggy, rock falls, illinois, supporting mr. trump. there. caller: hi. most people in my community that know of are -- they want to see change come to washington,

d.c. and i don't think what donald trump does understand, once he there, he cannot be having the attitude he does have. there is certain things that i that he says, you from like comments wherever, but hillary clinton, know, i ther hand, you just can't get over the benghazi it's just like the caller said, you know, who is evils. of two well, if donald trump does get there, and he doesn't do what he doesn't should, live up to his promises right away. hen i think that, you know, four years the tables would be because obama has been in here eight years and the

republican party has blocked a his decisions and if hillary is in there, probably ry to do the same thing with her. host: okay, peggy. is supporting hillary clinton. hi there. hi, good morning. i -- i have couple of situations. he talked about hillary putting in to the own money stuff.gn costs and well, i'll bet you he hasn't put a penny in and any money he gets rom campaign contributions, he pays off lawsuits and stuff. he's totally out of it. he was pacing y and snorting, he looked like was high on coke. host: kevin, washington, d.c.,

undecided. kevin, did you watch the debate last night? caller: oh, of course. host: you are still undecided? caller: yeah. increasingly i'm becoming more undecided the more that i watched two candidates is not a very good thing for the democratic nominee. for hillary clinton. i was a hillary supporter this election should be bernie versus donald trump. the reason i say that, bernie sanders started from zero in the polls and shot up to 46%, where, know, he was just short of taking over hillary clinton, but bernie sanders was a rising super nova in this rising , he was the stock and because of the media, the way how hillary clinton establishment candidate and so many other rules, super delegates, we could

days, but that is not why i'm calling. kev, what about bernie sanders saying he shared the same vision and policy agenda as hillary clinton and that is why he's asking people like you, who supported him, to now support hillary clinton? caller: absolutely not. bernie sanders and hillary disagree on so many fundamental issues. ppp, hillary clinton won't ppp. of her it is on camera speaking about ppp in hundreds and hundreds of different speeches, calling it the gold standard. hillary clinton is very quiet ppp matters. eleblcted fshe gets elected, she will advance ppp. know, please. want to go back to something -- host: we heard from you. want karen in lakeview,

supporting donald trump. hi, karen. caller: hi. comment, i to believe trump won the debate night.down last he did a wonderful job and shout out to trump for doing that for people.ican and i want to comment on touted that she she wasn't convicted or found any of the private etc, etc, il, etc, he reason she wasn't found guilty, she deleted and destroyed evidence of the crime. find somebody guilty, none of us american people valid gotten by with that been subpoenaed by congress, by the f.b.i., by the system or anyone else. host: all right, karen. joe, who is supporting hillary clinton, in oklahoma city. think about you

the debate? caller: well, i was actually i wasn't veryback wiki-leaks thing. i went to wikileaks and started information that was out there. what i started to see was that things going two on. it's really donald trump versus establishment. an establishment that is newspapers, media, primary elections and then you thinking, well, where did and fundingir money and power. it is coming from upper class of us to that don't want move green fast. that ant big trade deals, like tax code that don't want us system a national health because pharmaceutical companies

and national hospital chains had a ose money if you fair health system that made sense. so you start looking at it and i kind of switch, after looking at wikileaks, i switch my ided to vote away from hillary. i liked her because of her but i know she's cause that t thf funnels money and lines people's pockets. maybe they have good interest and will not throw people necessarily under the bus. than that, we need and the he system down answer to that, sadly enough, is trump. think trump will be a very good president, necessarily, but he could be. host: okay. at that point. akron, ohio, lenna, supporting candidate. good morning. caller: oh, i was -- i thought i undecided. host: that is okay.

why are you undecided? moment, i'm is trying to make a decision between which candidate will be candidate. i know they say lesser of the going to try to wait for the third debate. thought this debate, the mediators i believe dominated mat jority of the debate and in the et the people town hall or didn't ask as many questions from twitter or that ok from the public, made this debate a little bit more -- instead of giving chance to just answer the question and move on to another question from the hall. so i'm hoping the next mediator does a little better, but it as if they are letting the right mediators debates.hese then also was thinking, although tis sort of decided disappointing the republican party is not standing behind candidate. it would be better if they go ahead and try to build up on the

if he doesn't en listen, present policies to him stronger em build a base when he's sharing his comments or suggestions about thinks we that he will, you know, benefit from as a country. okay. so len ai want to share with you and others that chris the moderator of the third and final debate and t will be -- he will be the first presidential debate moderator from fox news, this las vegas at n nevada las vegas. fox news launched in 1996 and top rated news channel since as we know in recent months, it has been in the most network overall in recent months. so he will be debating moderating that debate.

in las vegas and first for fox news. harry in walnut creek, california, support manager trump. good morning. morning.ood yes, i'm definitely as a democrat supporting mr. trump several reasons, a lot of red meat in last night's debate. with taxes, he told the absolute truth, if you look at fleeing this country, not talking about personal tax rate, talking about tax rates, if you took our corporate tax rate down from the 15 he is changed to but yet where deductions were limited. years ago ge went to the federal government and said, we deserve money back for this this and this and asked for $14 billion refund, ridiculous, ght was especially the profit they made. family, as a veteran and having six brothers that are

all agree that if you were to attack me, i will i will respond in kind. if you look at democratic kahn attacked mr. trump, so when he returned i had no problem with that and the third thing, just tweeted er something, eric holder should be failed ated because he to investigate all of the and rent things, fast furious. he actually obstructed congress. back to ry, can i go taxes real quick before we let you go. if donald her you tru "new york times" said, in the debate last night, he admitted to not paying federal tax for years.

caller: no, it doesn't bother me. two reasons. it doesn't bother me george soros did the same thing. avoiding taxes, he put that oney back into business and employed several thousand people who actually paid more in taxes than he would have paid. if a business loses money, take ost money, i would every deduction available f. congress didn't want him to have deductions, they should have rewritten the law to eliminate them. is the next thing -- host: harry, i have to leave it there, we have 10 minutes left, to get in phone calls from other folks here this morning. i want to get in one last from washington university in st. louis, our bus has been there and c-span has been there since friday. let's go up there and tell us your name and where you were last night and what were you when you were watching

the debate? morning, abby occa, pr chair for challenge republican. last night i watched in the volunteering, i got that opportunity. i think the debate went as well as can be expected. i do wish donald trump hadn't been as childish and i wish that focused more on the issu issues. as much as i don't support a good clinton, she did job -- i think she's more overall it was a bad night for republicans and good night for hillary. why do you say bad night for the republicans? hat do you think the impact is going forward? caller: i continuing has been republicans.for the donald trump's actions are unforgivable, he apologized, but out, not much ng he can do and i don't think anything else he can do to this point, f at other than drop out of the election, which i don't think

he's going to do. losing a lot of support. i know i personally am not for him. republicans are not voting for him. who haveme republicans said they will vote for hillary, which is a big deal. far as republican president in 2016, no, at this time is not going to happen. abbey, do you plan to vote for the presidential race or what will you do? aller: i will not vote for hillary or trump, i can't decide if i will vote third party or not at all. heartbreaking to me, i want to exercise my right to vote and privilege as an citizen. i cannot get behind the two candidates. host: abbey, we appreciate you sharing this perspective with us this morning. much. you very caller: thank you. host: thanks to the students at washington university in st. louis, for getting up early

after a late night on the campus. debate h presidential washington university. thanks to all of them. we appreciate it. debra in topeka, kansas, supporting hillary clinton. hi, debra. caller: hi. 'm calling because i support hillary clinton for two reasons. one reason is because i live in republican state and a lot of policies are hurting our state bad.ly and a lot of the other republican states are adopting same policies and also another thing i want to comment n, the thing about the e-mails about hillary clinton. i learned when i watched c-span 8th, that the state department said a lot of things contradicted what the f.b.i. said about her e-mails

confidential and also said stuff -- turn in she did and then there is another time you had on where someone testified about the phones being hammered and that transferred on to other devices so it wouldn't lost. and another thing i heard was testified that they was ed the e-mails and it their fault, not her fault, they were trying to delete the ones were unwork related, but deleting all of them, all the ones they had, up or something. host: debra, we've been following the investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail

server, news conferences with can .b.i. director, you find it on our website c-span.org. wrap up,dle, before we what else do you have? guest: a lot of opinion from the callers about the debate, a lot of different headlines and takes press around from the country and world. here are a few examples. tart with brightbart news, donald trump's campaign chief xecutive, steve bannon, former executive chairman taking a leave from brightbart, they went ith the headline, surprise, trump dominates. to the left leaning, huffington post, they went with the eadline, monster smuck, locker room talk g. to canada, to the globe, trump gets personal. aily mail, out of london, donald's great escape, trump keeps campaign alive with comeback after confronting hillary with four clinton sex

fail says to e nail him over sleazy scandal. other headlines from around the world. buenoa aries herald, trump clinton with jail. feisty debate there. is n times saying trump urged to quit is the headline they went with there. host: all right. a few phone calls here before we say goodbye. undecided.rida, pat, did the debate last night help? you know, it's helped me this atching you on t.v. morning than actually the debate did last night. host: okay. is that? caller: well, the one thing that when i was rs old irst able to vote and i was so excited about that. it was -- i was born and raised nashville, tennessee. we had nashville tennessee and

very neutral er, as far as politics were the news thatwere we watched every evening. see now a lot of news ection is won with media. i will say that i have been that i d and the reason watch c-span is that thar more objective. us to make that decision for ourselves without results for us. towas a time when i was able vote, very somber time in our now.ry, just like it is we had the vietnam war and one was to pay e did attention to the candidate and say. they had to host: pat, i only have four minutes left and i want to get joan, tell me then,

you saw that t made you decide you're voting for one or the other and tell us who that is. caller: the right before the not right,hought was but what i've heard today and istening to you and from the debate last night, i have never voted anything, but democrat. supported my party, but i'm leaning toward trump now. because of he seems to address clinton andore than he spend a lot of time depending himself. host: lisa in louisiana, support manager trump. lisa. caller: hi, greta, glad to talk to you again. i know i have to go fast, first time ever i have a tingle going matthews, i chris will never watch cnn, fox again, i go to c-span because you are so good. greta, please look up the part

clinton saidillary she was not there when they drew you ine in the sand, if could look that up, because she lied. host: about the red line? yes, greta. also, the part when martha got into it with mr. trump, i felt that was kind of candy carle moment, i didn't appreciate it. at ink donald trump will least try to make change in the country. republican, i'm going to go independent because that the believe republicans and democrats are all the same. a ta, thank you for doing good job. host: lisa, you will support donald trump, but down ballot voting for a republican, is that right? caller: no, probably not. know yet, if i don't vote republican, greta, we'll anything through, i'm kind of if you about it, if you

know what i mean. independent when i vote again four years from now, do not want a republican or democrat in there. host: all right, lisa, i was on politifact where clinton said, hillary clinton, she was gone for the in syria incident, olitifact says that is mostly false, when she made that statement last night, october 9, presidential debate. aey said that since there was call for fact checking, decided to find out who is correct, trump. or basically obama drew the red line in august twept12 when of state, secretary y the time confirmed a year later she had been replaced by john kerry. you can find that on poelt poerlt's website. joan, rochester, minnesota, hi, good morning.

onald trump has character bashed hillary clinton because he knows nothing about the if he is easier to pick on the other person so you don't have to answer the he seemed to just pick on the other person so we do not have to answer the questions. the republican congress -- we would have more of the same come up because the only thing that the republican congress did in boastlame-duck years was their pension for the rest of their lives. what they did was take care of themselves. what they did was interfere with anything that president obama did. it