we get thousands of letters. thank you for watching us tonight. i'm bill o'reilly. please remember the spin stops here because we are definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight, new fallout from last night's big g.o.p. debate as the critical media now start to focus on the woman getting credit for owning the stage at the reagan lie you brear. welcome to the kelly file, everyone, i'm megyn kelly. today is a new day for the republican field. at this moment the pollsters are hard at work dialing voters, adding the numbers and figuring out how last night's three hour brawl may have reshaped the race for the white house. and tonight we are doing some polling of our own, check this out. we have assembled almost 2 dozen g.o.p. voters here, live, in the studio right now to look at the questions that have yet to be answered. who would be best against hillary? how will voter anger effect this field? and will donald trump face any blow back for how he,

tonight, answered a question he at a town hall about muslims in america? we start with fiorina a woman whose poll numbers kept her off the main stage in the first debate. now being called the winner of the second contest. less than an hour after it ended. the weekly standard declared it was carlie's night. the newthe "new york post" saide quote made her case to be the g.o.p. frontrunner. while the folks at bloomberg suggested no one performed better than the former hewlett packard ceo. here is a quick look at some behalf impressed the critics. >> donald trump said the following about you. quote: look at that face. would anyone vote for that? mr. trump later said he was talking about your persona, not your appearance. please feel freely to respond what you think about his persona. [ laughter ] >> you know, it's interesting to me, mr. trump said that he heard mr. bush very clearly, and what mr. bush said. i think women all over this

country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. [ applause ] >> i would like to link these two issues, both of which are incredibly important, iran and planned parenthood. one has something to do with the defense of the security of this nation. the other has something to do with the defense of the character of this nation. >> you have not heard a plan about iran from any politicians up here. here is my plan, on day one in the oval office i will make two phone calls the first to my good friend b b netanyahu to assure him we will stand with israel. and supreme leader unless and until opens every nuclear facility to real, any time, anywhere expectations by our people not his, we the united states of america will make it as difficult as possible and move money arranged the global financial system. as regards planned parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape, i dare, hillary clinton, barack obama, to watch these topics. watch a fully formed fetus

on the table its heart beating. its legs kicking. while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain. this is about the character of our nation. and if we will not stand up and force president obama to veto this bill, shame on us. [ applause ] >> that's when she dropped the mike. our panel is with us here now with reaction. welcome, everybody. raise your hand if you thought fiorina won that debate last night. wow. and put your hands down, raise your hand if going into the debate you were a fiorina supporter. you liked her as your top choice? wow. so it wasn't necessary lay a field of fiorina rooting people but you -- she persuaded you what was it? was it any one answer or the overall performance? go ahead in the front. >> i feel that carlie's focus on the for the occasion of fortification

overseas. we draw down post iraq. >> what about rubio? he was big on rubio. people were giving him props on. >> that she gave comprehensive view. rubio didn't. >> hold on get the mike here i don't think it was one specific issue. whole personality the way she attacked mr. trump and all the other candidates and the president she was very decisive and that's what the american people want. >> go ahead. >> i think she used trump's own words is what i liked best about her answer about his persona. >> what did you make of the face remark and his response you are a beautiful woman? >> his response? he was trying to pander and walk it back. he wasn't sincere. >> i'm curious how the woman in the room going into the debate last night. did the women like donald trump? raise your hand if you liked him. no one. none of the women. we have donald trump supporters here. it's just none of the women apparently.

[ laughter ] i said this on the air last night. she was accused of so you canning at him when she said beautiful woman. my own take was she didn't want any further comments about the appearance. the solution to the comments about the appearance was not more comments about the appearance your take on it? i will ask the ladies about it. >> she demonstrated a tremendous resiliency in the way she reacted to his remarks. his remarks that i believe you are beautiful were disengine disengine yus. it was clear didn't mean that his marks were disingenuous. her reaction was inspiring. >> raise your hand if you like trump. all right. so gary you like trump in the front. you are a woman and you are in the front. i'm sorry. heather? >> i like any republican candidate who is not hillary? [ laughter ] >> and because i run an organization that does independent expenditures in elections we don't take sides against candidates.

can you see where his attraction has come from. we did economic messaging work earlier this year. clearly the thing that is the driver, not only among g.o.p. voters but among swing voters is somebody who is confident, who has leadership abilities, outsider to washington and who is focused on making things great. the what made -- that makes him helpful, carlie manages to have all those virtues without the liabilities. his core value proposition is i'm a truth teller and i'm a fighter. if you watched the debate last night. she is the one who owned those two characteristics. >> to what extent do you think it would be useful, a, to have a female nominee on the g.o.p. side given the likelihood of hillary clinton being the female nominee on the democratic side or should that not play any role? let's go to this side. >> i think regardless of who it is, trump offer no, sir content behind what he he is saying in a former life he was successful by getting good tv ratings and i don't think he understands that

high nielsen ratings don't beat isis and fix a broken va. i think a lot of voters are recognizing that. >> do you think there is any importance to having a female nominee on the g.o.p. side? anybody put any weight on that. >> i think the candidate who goes up against hillary clinton needs to be the most qualified candidate, regardless of gender. but carlie foreignna, she demonstrated last night that she has the foreign policy credentials. she is not afraid to go after hillary clinton. she obviously can't be accused of sexism if she does go after hillary clinton. and i think that would completely derail democrats. they wouldn't know what to do if we had a woman nominee. >> one of the moments that got a lot of attention wasn't in our montage was when she talked about drugs and she talked about the fact that she had a stepdaughter who died as an adult of drugs. and that's when she said is, you know, marijuana is not the same as it was when jeb bush tried it 40 years ago it was a powerful moment. one in which she showed emotion. you could almost hear her voice come close to cracking but she held it together. speak to the importance of that she's candidates speaking about their own

personal experience and whether it affected you at all. >> can i? >> yes. >> for those who haven't seen it on youtube is an ad that the fiorina campaign put out called faces, which was in response to the trump comment. and it was -- it's i think maybe the most brilliant political ad i have ever seen. it presses the answer that she gave. it was strong, it was about all americans and it talks about women are not a victim group. they are 54% of the electorate. if we remember, romney lost women to obama 55% to 44%. having a woman on the ticket who can neutralize a lot of the issues that the left uses on women, if you look back to 2014, fiorina was talking about the war on women, about the wage gap, about all sorts of issues that our male politicians have been reluctant to add on. she adds the empathy of the personal experience. >> here's the question. and i say this with all due respect to my sisters.

do you believe america is ready for a female g.o.p. nominee and a female democratic nominee. >> sure. >> politically correct answer. do you really believe that the two parties might do that this year? >> yes. >> that would be fantastic if something like that can happen. if we had two women on both ends. we have already had an african-american president. if we had two women from both parties that would be dynamic and phenomenal for us as a country in terms of our representation of what we produce. >> did you guys know fiorina before? she has been on my show many times. she was on the night before. she says my problem is many people don't know my name. my name recognition is not as high as it needs to be be in order to make inroads with the g.o.p. field but i'm going to make it. >> did you know her prior to the debate and do you think once people really know her she is going to go up? >> i grew up in northern california and i watched her senate race in 2010. i was familiar with her. but a lot of my, you know, with the millennial generation had no idea who carly fiorina was before she entered the republican field. and i would say that last

night really gave her that name recognition that she is going to need going forward to beat somebody like donald trump and launch herself into that role as a washington outsider. >> she is one of the outsiders. you have got foreignna, you have got trump, and you have got carson although this is one of the things we are going to talk about next after the break which is now everyone is claiming that he or she is an outsider. every single one. i'm an outsider. we have a great montage of that next. we will show you how the candidates did it. it was clever for some of them see what you think. there was an interesting campaign moment when a voter tonight, this is just breaking. asked donald trump what he is going to do about all the muslims in america. that is just ahead. plus, almost every candidate on that stage last night suggested i'm a political outsider. i have been in washington 400 years but i'm an outsider. like none of them had ever been to washington before. are the voters buying that? our panel is back on that in moments. >> as far as being an outsider is concerned, let

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these candidates for president had ever worked in politics before. and why do you think that is? check out this recent cnn poll showing more than 68% of the respond dents feel the folks in washington do not represent their interests well. only 30% seemed happy with their elected officials. now listen to some of what we heard from the folks on stage last night. >> i'm leaving the senate. i'm not running for re-election. i'm running for president because i know this. unless we have the right president, we cannot make america fulfill its potential but with the right person in office, the 21st century can be the greatest era that our nation has ever known. >> good evening, everyone. i'm an eye surgeon from bowling green, kentucky. my wife kelly and i have been married 25 years. i spend my days defending the constitution and the bill of rights. i think there is nothing more important than understanding that the constitution restrains government and not the people. >> let me say this, jake, i'm a republican in new jersey. i wake up every morning as an outsider.

i wake up every morning with a democratic legislature who is trying to beat my head in and fight me because i'm trying to bring conservative change to it a state that needed it desperately. >> i will tell you why people are supporting outsiders. it's because you know what happens if somebody has been in the system their whole life, they don't know how broken the system is. the fish swims in water, it doesn't know it's water. it's not that politicians are bad people. it's they have been in that system forever. >> all right. so, was nibbing that? i'm just an eye surgeon. but you are also a u.s. senator. in the back go ahead, sorry. jordan? >> absolutely. obviously they have have to have some sort of experience to get where they're right now. i grew up in new york and new jersey. so someone very familiar. never believe someone an outsider as well. i don't think that's going to capture me that story is going to capture me is just their qualities as well. carly fiorina i never heard

of. but when she spoke about the iran deal and repairing with benjamin netanyahu that struck me. >> how many of you think it's important to find somebody outside of washington. >> why don't you want somebody from government. >> people are tired right now of what is going on in washington. we have been betrayed in the last two elections. last two elections they prom misted to do something and they didn't carry it through. >> what specifically? >> first of all, they didn't repeal obamacare. >> they tried? >> well, they act like they tried. but deep down inside we know the games were played. >> so what do you think -- who do you like? you like fiorina? trump? carson? who? >> i haven't made up my whole mind yet but i really like the way she handled herself last night on the debate. because she gave very substantive answers and they sounded like they were coming truly from her heart and also from a knowledge that she knew exactly what she was talking about. >> what about trump though? trump, he is outside as you can get. sort of. he says, look, cro i don't

play by their rules. i'm going to do it my way. i win. that's what i do. you will get sick of winning. go ahead. yes. >> you know, i think we are obsessing a little bit too much about whether someone is an outsider or not. ultimately good policy is good policy. outside from her insider. trump so far hasn't elucidated any serious policy proposals. is he claiming is he going to have this tax overhall coming out in the next two weeks. i don't know what it's going to look like. i can see good politicking coming from jeb, trump, fiorina. it's really about the yumed lying policies. >> people are worried that once they get to washington they are going to bend to washington instead of making washington bend to them. >> my concern with trump, he had spoken last night about obviously russia being in syria and he is going to handle that. >> he is going to talk to putin. >> he is going to talk to putin. he is going to handle assad. how? he doesn't even have a foreign policy team. so these outers are such a

concern. what's happening, i'm afraid, is that these qualified politicians, senators, governors, are being completely dismissed. nobody is paying much attention to them. they are season dollars. and there are some good candidates like rubio and cruz that are really being disregard disregarded because of people like trump. he can't outline his plan. >> go ahead, gary. >> donald trump is very successful when he ran the trump organization. he was able to do whatever he wanted walking in and say i'm going to bomb syria. it doesn't work like that. i was a supporter of trump. after last night i was disappointed in his performance, lack of dignity of the office of president, even. i think he is going to have to really rethink his whole policy. he can't go in there like a bull in the china shop. >> go ahead. >> you think being an outsider is sort of the flavor of the month. you think we are going to

see that change. i think that donald trump has done a lot to bring that flavor of the month to the fore. i look back and maybe i'm older than some of the other folks in the room but in my lifetime i don't think i have seen a president who has been a true outsider. and i you think you are going to see the candidates with more experience come to the front. whether it's a jeb bush or marco rubio and i will tell you i was very impressed with marco rubio last night. >> why? >> i think he had a command of foreign policy. >> i am going to challenge the idea that we haven't had an outsider before. our president that sits in the office right now was an outsider. very few people had heard of him. he had been in the senate only a few months before he decided he was ready to be president. the problems and difficulties that america experiences right now i think largely come because he really wasn't prepared for the job. so when i walch the debate what i was interested in

seeing is specifically are your policies. give me your website so can i loo and look on it it fiorina has done, this walker has done this with an actual bill he is going to introduce on the first day and send up to capitol hill. i haven't seen this from donald trump. i want to see this, bombastic, i don't have a problem with with it. shaking things up i don't have a problem with it i don't want someone who doesn't know what they are doing, hasn't had any experience proving what they are doing and then let's just find out what's going to happen. >> stand by. hold that thought. while a lot of folked complained that last night's debate questions seemed focused on donald trump there was some heat for hillary clinton as well. when we come back, we are going to speak about who looked most ready to take on senator clinton? >> here's the problem. we are fighting with each other up here. we agree. let's ask hillary clinton had. we shouldn't be fighting with each other. she is the real opponent and

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lots of complaints today that too many of last night's debate questions were all about donald trump. the candidates still managed at times to turn some answers to hillary clinton who will actually be their opponent should they become the nominee. she got hit, maybe, depends on if she wins. she got hit on issues ranging from private email serve tore benghazi to her relationship with other candidate. one of the questions g.o.p. voters need to answer in the coming months is which of the g.o.p. candidates is best positioned to go against is somebody like clinton, if she wins in the general election. >> in this administration with president obama and hillary clinton has created insecurity, the likes of which we never have woo have imagined. >> i can't wait to stand on that debate stage with hillary clinton and to make abundantly clear if you vote for hillary you are voting for the ayatollah khomeini to possess the nuclear weapon. >> she believes in

systematic murder of children in the womb maximizes their value for sale for profit it is disgusting the american people need to hear it. we shouldn't be fighting with each other. she is the real opponent and she is the real problem. >> hillary clinton talks about the minimum wage. that's her answer to grow the economy. >> if you want to stump a democrat, ask them to name an accomplishment of mrs. clinton. >> you think it's time to put a former federal prosecutor on the same stage as hillary clinton. and i will prosecute her during those debates on that stage for the record that we are talking about here. >> all right. so who did you think -- i mean, just shout it out. who do you think is the best republican to go up against hillary? >> fiorina. >> women say fiorina. you say fiorina as well? >> rubio. >> rubio? >> rubio. >> so rubio is hispanic. so he has the advantage of diversity. how important is that? is the republican party hampering itself if it chooses a white male to go up against a female should she become the nominee?

>> i'm bothered by that kind of a question because it plays into the identity politics that this administration has brought forward hillary ought to be able to tell us what her accomplish. s are and not just that i will be the first woman. i want the most talented, the most capable and most energetic person possible. that's a man, that's a woman. that's black, whatever it might be. >> think how hillary is going to argue it at the debate. if she becomes the nominee obviously favored to. it's possible fall apart. if she become the nominee. she has already said for example i would love to debate trump. the whole reason i asked donald trump the question i asked him about women this that debate, she is lukely to be the nominee. she is going to raise these issues about the way he has spoken about women. who is the most effective person to take her on? >> i think -- so far on the campaign trail. time and time again she has not been going after g.o.p. candidates. she has been going after clinton.

>> what about trump? one of things people love about him take no prisoners. he won't be pushed around by hillary clinton or things of that nature. >> all trump has said so far in the field about hillary clinton is she was the worst secretary of state ever. >> which true. >> they all say that. >> doesn't have any samples to back that up. >> at the end of the day no concept. up there entertaining like he is on the apprentice again. marco rubio, ted cruz and jeb bush. >> how about jeb bush the family name an asset or not? >> i thought he was disappointing. he looked very weak last night, especially when he was looking at trump face to face. he looked like he was scared. >> let me ask you about this moment that just broke tonight. donald trump was holding a town hall meeting in new hampshire, i believe. he was asked the following question about muslims and barack obama watch? >> amen. okay.

we have a problem in this country called muslims. we know our current president is one. you know he is not even an american. >> we need this question. but anyway. we have training camps where they want to kill us, that's my question. when can we get rid are of them? >> we'll be looking at a lot of different things. a lot of people are are saying that. and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. we are going to be looking at that and plenty of other things. >> now, already trump is getting hit with answering that is we are going to be looking at a lot of different things as owe opposed to taking on the premise of the question and just before i get the answer refer you back to this moment john mccain in 2008 when he was put in a similar position, watch. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him and he is not -- he is not -- he is a he is an arab. [ laughter ] >> no?

>> no? >> no ma'am. is he a decent, family man, citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with. on fundamental issues. he is not. thank you. >> she said he is an arab and he said he is not. your thoughts on the two men in the back? >> fundamental difference right there to show trump is not prepared to handle the tough questions. questions that are quote unquote politically incorrect. >> in his defense i'm sure he is caught off guard. >> like he said this has to be the first question. >> poised very cool calm and collective about it what trump could have done as a real politician gone and pointed out the iran deem and the problem with islamic terrorism, yes. >> do you think he had a duty to stand up and say, no no about barack obama. >> you think even if he was caught off guard, i'm sure senator mccain was caught off guard as well. you could see so much more about his character that he

is going to defend hits opponent as still being a good person. still have disagreements with with him whereas donald trump didn't do anything. he looked totally loss and didn't know what to do. >> i think that's a fact that looking back at 2008 as opposed to current day. and there is a lot of changes and a lot of things that have been exposed about obama. and you know his past husband industry and renched wright. >> he is not a muslim. >> well, we don't. >> we don't know. >> we do know. >> all of these ties didn't come about until later on, i would say until way after 2008. >> we have seen some surveys that come out and people are being lamb bassed because republicans, a large number of them said he wasn't christian. and there were newspaper stories that 54% of republican voters didn't

think he was christian. here is the question i wanted to ask. by did 25% of democrats didn't think he wasn't a christian. i started looking it up online and there are large numbers of americans who have problems with both the philosophical and gentlemen of the religious background on our president. that's not on the american people. that's the president's job tone gauge them in a way. >> the president has said repeatedly he is a christian and not a muslim. >> this was made a campaign issue back in 2008. it was put to bed even by john mccain saying no. now it resurrects itself in a question that was on continuably ugly. i don't know whether the question was real or a plant or what was. the question itself do you disagree with the question was ugly? >> you think the question is ugly but i don't necessarily think it's the responsibility of any particular candidate to own what americans say. >> the response was we're looking into it. >> in america you get to call out the president of the united states. >> the basic problem here is that trump has shown that he can't represent all

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i couldn't reach her. didn't know whether she was dead or alive we had three children 3, 5 and is 1. i had to confront so many the idea i might become a single parent. the idea that my life and my children's life might be changed forever. i support what president bush did at that time going into afghanistan hunting al guide divide and leaders and getting sanctuary out of place making it as difficult around the world to move people and money when the issue occurred in 2003, i suggested to president bush that he not go to war, okay, so i just want that on the record. >> every time we have toppled a secular dictator. we have gotten chaos, the rise of radical islam and we are more at rusk. talk about that. foreign policy took center stage. rubio had big moments as well. dr. carson, was anybody to surprised to learn that he did not support the war in afghanistan?

yes? i was very surprised. harmful to him. we lost 3,000 people that day and the country that hoarded those people that planned this, they did not hand them over and they were asking for us to do what was necessary. you know, the one foreign policy achievement that i supported of barack obama was sending that seal team in there to get usama bin laden. that's how you respond when you have this kind. >> how many here like dr. carson? by the way none of you is committed, we internal ledgely selected you because you are uncommitted republican voters.w at least yoe open minds about who you might voted for. i will ask you what was asked of the republican candidates. would you support the ultimate nominee, whoever it is, you know, whoever the republican is, who run ares as a republican? >> yes. so you are all planning on voting republican no matter which of these guys or gals get the nomination. >> yes. >> who did you think won when it came to the foreign policy section. >> marco rubio. >> why?

>> has a better understanding of a lot of these foreign policy topics is he talking about. >> but is he is insider. >> he is insider. any time there is a debate they try to one up who has the most humble upbrings. >> brit hume calls it destination derby. >> my dad was a coal miner and his dad was a harder coal miner. getting back to the foreign policy. he hit it really well when he said that our military is not designed for pinprick actions and we can't leave power vacuums when we do go somewhere we need to be strong and smart. >> other than rand paul who obviously made his libertarian position very clear. do you see a clear distinction between these candidates when it comes to foreign policy. >> not at this point, no. >> you don't no. >> no, i don't. >> what we are doing route now is this is still in the beginning stages of these debates. wait until we get into the later stages when there is going to be a necessity for each candidate to become much more specific on policies of all kind.

but foreign policy in particular. >> any doubt that each one of them would do better than hillary clinton as to you republican voter? >> no. no doubt. >> influential on the iran deal. for example, casic would accept the iran deal. >> is that a problem for you? >> that's a problem for me. >> it is a problem for you? >> absolutely. >> you want the person to get rid -- on day one it's gone? >> absolutely. >> it's a tawcial deal. there is no way to get it back. >> i think that we need to look at a lot of the intricacies associated with the iran deal. there is is a a lot of things we don't know. i hear things left and right. however, with the underbelly of this deal is what my concern is. i hear candidates saying that they want to rip up the deal on day one. let's look at the deal. let's before we make any snap judgments relationship of the deal. call to death to america. what are you looking at to talk to another leader to wants to wish wish death to us.

>> look at the side deal. >> and figure out what those are and why won't the ewham that administration turn those deals over to congress. and let them actually debate on those issues and find out what's in that deal. >> going to keep being a big issue. all right, the next section has got to be one of the most interesting for our panel here. there was a lot of drama at the big debate but there was some funny moments, too. did you catch this one between ben carson and donald trump? the moment that made us cringe and laugh next. >> we have some remarkable people. and, in fact, not only are we the a team, we even have our own mr. t who doesn't mind saying about others, you are a fool.

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big debate long on political attacks. water bottle props. one candidate apologizing to his mother for smoking pot. no shortage of laughs, watch >> ever-ready, very high energy, donald. [ laughter ] [cheers and applause] >> mr. trump? >> humble. [ laughter ] >> that's a good one. >> i think we are, in fact, the a team. we have some remarkable people, and, in fact, not only are we the a team, we even have our own mr. t who

doesn't mind saying about others you are a fool. >> i'm also aware that california has a drought that's why i made sure i brought my own water. >> mr. donald trump would be dangerous as president. he said he wouldn't want, quote, such a shot head with his finger on the nuclear codes. you, as he as well, have raised concerns about mr. trump's temperament. >> so 40 years ago i smoked marijuana and i admit it. i'm sure other people might may have done it and don't want to say it in front of 25 million people. my mom is not happy i just did. >> so, okay. >> back now to our panel. what did you think of the rubio water moment funny or did it fall flat? >> i he thought it was hysterical. >> you liked that one. >> hysterical? a strong review. >> yeah. >> one thing you have got to give donald trump. he is funny. he makes you laugh out loud like the humble remark. it makes you bond with him. this is one of the criticisms of fiorna is that she wasn't warm enough in

that she didn't smile at all. trump laughs at himself it is induring. >> national college of republicans. my primary foe us is can how are they going to focus. how are they going to decide on presidential election. one thing that voters value more than anything is authenticity. see real moment with the candidates. unprompted jokes matters to the next generation. particularly dealing with the alternative candidate hillary very secretive and very evasive when it comes to her own scandals and emails. >> she tries. whether it's authentic. it doesn't work if it's not authentic. >> her jokes are too corny. >> her advisors just said they are going to try more jokes on the campaign trail. >> trump is genuinely funny. not funny and try to be funny that's bad, too one is

trump is a natural television animal. relishes being in front of the camera. no way to get around it. >> the it factor. >> carlie especially last night she was up there to prove herself. that's why i think you saw such a sort of stud steady sobriety. for those who have seen her off camera, on the campaign trail. there is a warmness there that i think is going to come up later. >> how about you guys audibly reacted when jeb bush, donald trump hand smack. was it aggressively too hard. >> there was something behind it. >> something behind that? sending him a message? >> what i noticed about trump is he took a look at him had when the camera was on him when he was not speaking. he had some of the most incredible facial expressions. >> we showed some of that and that's something else. >> you are a trump supporter you liked that or didn't like that. >> i'm undecided. >> somebody said last night he went through all the

emogi faces during the debate. i thought that was the perfect summation of exactly what he did. >> feel sorry for some of these candidates? i realize they want george washington job but three hours long. standing at these lecturns by the end some of them were sort of bent over. they were sweating. it was hot. i felt bad i wanted to get them out of there and i'm a moderator it was definitely too long. my favorite joke was not somebody who was on stage lindsey graham made the joke we are going to drink when i get to the white house. >> drink a lot of beer. speaking about the lindsey graham debate happy hour debate as it was called. did anybody watch that. >> yes. >> you did? did anybody stand out to you? go ahead. >> i thought lindsey graham did a great job. his foreign policy was spot on and the other three candidates failed to reach the mark that lindsey graham did. >> i was disappointed in bobby jindal. he spent too much time of his going after trump. it was a lost opportunity to

stand out. >> a lot of the republicans on stage went after trump last night which i understand they feel they need to take him down. but was it frustrating? did you want to hear it more directed at hillary than, you know, than another republican on the stage? go ahead. en i don't know if that was there strategy necessarily. it certainly was the questioning that came from the moderators it seemed like this is going to be a debate where all the other republicans tell it us what they think about trump. that's not so helpful for the rest of us in making our decisions about these candace. >> you raised the inner about the moderators and the debate itself. he we will get to that next with our panel right after the break with the most must-see moments from last night's showdown when we return our panel will shower their thoughts on the moderators. >> earlier this year the treasury department announced that a woman will appear on the $10 bill. what woman would you like to see on the so dollars bill? >> oh, that's a tough one.

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while many of us have be spent the day hashing out who were the winners and losers at the cnn debate, several cnn's des

the country! he's the front-runner and he got the most time in the fox news debate as well because he was the front-runner then as well. did you have the amount of time allotted between the candidates? >> absolutely. at the end of the day they are pitting one another against each other. >> they wanted them to "debate." >> as a veteran, military family members across the country want to hear what you feel on foreign policy. >> the moderators would call people out on say you made this derogatory comment about this candidate, if they didn't get an answer they'd critique them until they got an answer. but when they were asked how they felt on a specific issue and didn't answer, they let it go. >> the moderators failed to marshal the pool of candidates.

we understand donald trump wars the front runner. however, i wanted to hear from mike huckabee. >> there is 11 people -- >> they learned very quickly -- because i saw it. jake, jake, he stopped and said yes and let you go. they were running the debate at some point. >> did you miss the buzzer? why didn't cnn give jake a buzzer. then you don't have to keep saying "thank you. my question was where was dana bash and hugh hewitt? like helloo! did you know they were part of the debate? >> they were interns. >> to your first question, look. to be fair to the group that's sitting here, a lot of us are probably more policy oriented than average voter. but still, the debates are supposed to be substantive. and i think a lot of us would

have been happier had there been -- there was a fair bit of foreign policy discussion but there was almost no discussion about the economy. there was almost no discussion about obamacare. i realize there is an enormous number of issues out there. even with three hours it is still hard to get to everything. >> and it was three hours too long. long. yes, it was too long! ♪

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. we'd love to get your thoughts on the debate and on the candidates and how you see them tonight. go to facebook.com/the "the kel fil file". thanks for watching, everybody. this is ""the kelly file."" tonight -- >> first of all, rand paul shouldn't even be on this stage. he's got 1% in the polls. donald trump traded jabs with his rivals at the second gop debate. >> excuse me, one second. >> no. you cannot take -- >> more energy tonight. i like that. >> the republican front-runner is here tonight. then senator ted cruz stood out for taking a stand against the iranian nuclear deal. >> if i am elected president on the very first day in office, i will rip to shreds this catastroph