that's straight ahead. coming up next. good night. ♪ ♪ hi, i'm eric bolling in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching this special election. four days since the blockbuster presidential debate. three days until the one and only vice presidential debate and two more showdowns between trump and clinton still loom with that back tropic, get to the story. donald trump on super charged offense. ignited a fresh controversy in the wee hours of the morning accusing former miss universe alicia machado of having a sex tape among other things that led hillary clinton to dewar on women charge against him.

finds it a lot easier to putting down women than talk to the former president of mexico about building a wall. who gets up at 3:00 in the morning to engage in a twitter attack. [ laughter ] against a former miss universe? >> but trump appears undaunted as his campaign released a strong attack ad against clinton today. >> why aren't i 50 points ahead? you might ask. >> maybe it's because the director of the fbi said you lied about your emails. >> there was classified material emails. >> or maybe it's because your policies have aloud isis and terrorism to spread or maybe it's because you call americans deplorable. >> you can put half of trump supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. >> why aren't i 50 points ahead? you might ask. >> do you really need to ask? >> i'm donald trump and i approve this message. >> meanwhile the commission on presidential debates admitted today that there was, in fact, a problem with trump's sound level inside

the presidential debate hall. though it did not effect the actual tv broadcast. trump sounded off about it a short time ago in michigan. by the way, it was just announced by the commission that holds the debate that trump's microphone was defective as i have been saying. i mean, working that microphone was a hell of a lot more difficult than working crooked hillary clinton, that, i can tell you. i wonder why it was bad? think of that i wonder why it was bad? >> is this increasingly aggressive stance from trump what he needs to gain the you were hand against clinton? joining us now with reaction from philadelphia, richard good stein, an attorney and former hillary clinton advisor and from little rock, arkansas, sarah huckabee sanders, a senior advisor for the trump campaign. starlight with you. sarah, so the -- you know, everyone is talking about the 3:00 in the morning tweet that keeps this alicia machado story alive. tell us, dot the campaign say donald, put the twitter

machine down when you go to sleep and if you get up in the middle of the night, don't pick it up? >> you know, one of the things that i just heard hillary clinton say, which i think is extremely telling is she just said what's he doing up at 3:00 a.m. well, we know hillary clinton doesn't get up at 3:00 a.m. and if the phone rings she certainly isn't there to answer it that's far more problematic to be president to not be there ready to take the charge, ready to lead. and actually be able to be awake at something like that. the biggest problem here is hillary clinton wants to make this a big issue. the problem with that is the most offensive thing that's been said on the campaign trail this year, and probably in modern politics is what hillary clinton said about millions of americans, including millions of american women, and that's that they are deplorable and irredeemable. that alone disqualifies her from being president, the utter contempt that she has for so many americans across this country. >> you know, richard, we played the trump ad hitting hillary clinton now when she very loudly wondered why she

wasn't up by 50%. they go through the reasons why she wasn't up by 50%. the problem is we are spending most of the day talking about alicia that aiss a machado. >> a problem for who? >> the suggestion that somehow hillary is in the physically up to this. any of the 84 million people who watched that debate the other night saw one person in a red suit who was totally vibrant until the end and the other guy was leaning on that podium and kind of flagging from about 30 minutes onto the last 60. this, i mean, i hope the trump campaign predicates a strategy that somehow or the other hillary clinton doesn't have stamina. as she said he hasn't been to 112 countries. he hasn't stood up to. >> eric? >> i will let you get in here. let's point out a couple of things on the battle ground states.

donald trump has visited 54 times the battleground states. hillary clinton 25 times. sarah, i want to ask you this though. a lot of people want to know. debate number two strategy. will donald trump come out a little bit more aggressive? will donald trump? and he hinted to this about this today. will he go ahead and talk about bill clinton's infidelities? >> you know, i think all things could be on the table. depending on the direction that hillary clinton goes. we now know she wants to get into the gutter so that she can distract from her own record. you know, one of the problems with what he just said, we are not worried about her stamina. we are worried about her credibility. this is a woman who has been in government for 30 years and has nothing but a failed record to show for it that's what we are worried about. that's why we don't want her to be president. that's why donald trump is doubling up on the number of stops that she is. it's not to show a discrepancy in stamina but to tell the story and to get that message out there in the contrast of if you want the status quo, you have got hillary clinton. if you want somebody to come

in, shake up, and change washington, you have got donald trump who is the ultimate change agent in this race. >> so what about it, richard, do you think if donald trump does, in fact, go there and talk about bill clinton's infidelities, do you think it's fair tore him to do something like that? >> i think if he wants to, he should. you know, there are terms like clean hands, right? or people in glass houses. have you got him and his leading two surrogates giuliani and newt all of whom who have had three wives and won't talk about the circumstances how they got there look, the fact of the matter is, if donald trump wants to run against bill clinton for president in some alternative universe, great, he should do that. in this universe, is he living in a agreement world. >> richard. >> republican republicans have d the strategy, excuse me,. >> can play the victim but she also attacked some of the accusers of bill clinton who said -- she called monica lewenski as far as

sits stick loony tune and were jennifer flowers a gold digger. that's someone who is blaming the victim, is it not? >> everything you just said happened as of the off year election to 1998 where newt then speaker of the house ran the campaign to reelect republicans on monica lewenski. guess what? for the first time in the history of the republic, the six year white house, one seat. the democrats won seat in that election and newt was no longer speaker as a result of that brilliant strategy. bring it on. i'm sure it will work well today. >> what will he do in debate two? will he change the strategy? he laid back. he wasn't very ayeive. i don't even think -- i may be mistaken. i don't even think he brought up the deplorables comment, did he? >> look, rimped, here's the problem. while the infidelity issue is problematic for the clintons. it's far from the strongest

attack against hillary. have you got the pay to play scandal. have you got the email scandal. have you got putting our government and our national security at risk. and putting our government up to the highest bidder. there is a lot of content out there to come after hillary clinton. >> pay-to-play, you have heard of pam bondy, right? you talk about the trump foundation. >> yeah. >> what it did. that's textbook pay to play. it was illegal, too, to have him make that contribution out of his foundation and she shut down the foundation right after she got that contribution. that is textbook pay to play. >> the debate goes on about the debates coming up. we have to leave it right there. sarah, richard, thank you very much. billionaire provocateur mark cuban hits the no spin zone and talks presidential debates and athletes protesting the national anthem. we'll be right back with that.

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highest profile supporters and loudest critics of donald trump. i spoke with him earlier today. >> so let's talk a little bit about yesterday when hillary clinton was on the campaign trail feeling very good about her debate performance and actually invoked the name of mark cuban as maybe being a little bit of help and support during the debate. listen at the debate the other night, one of my well known supporters mark cuban was there in the front row. and he really, i think, unsettled my opponent. >> so, what do you think, demarco, are you going to take credit for unsettling. >> i think she won the debate hands down. b, i'm not taking credit. i don't think i was the one unsettling him. but i certainly unsettled rudy giuliani when he saw me there, he was like what's he doing here? so, i got a big kick out of

that i think what really unsettled him was, first, her ability to bait him. but, second, some of his answers, i don't know if you could hear it over the tv but he was getting laughed at by the crowd. i think that really upset him and that kind of made him really antsy, which turned in really combative. >> you know, mark, i was in the debate. i listened to it inside. at first it was a little bit unsettling, his microphone wasn't working. hers was. >> no, no, no, no, no. i'm not going to let you go there. >> i was there. i listened. >> i will not let you go there i was right there. i even talked to people who were there for the walk-through. during the walk through he complimented the audio guys. >> no, no, i'm telling you during the debate and i was there before it started, i was there probably 30 minutes before had to be seated at 8:30. when it started her microphone was louder than his. it wept out on tv equally loud. that was not an issue. i'm not crediting that with her success at the debate. i was pointing out there was

actually an audible difference between the two inside at least. >> the whole trump family was right across the aisle from me. they were very observant of everything that was going on. i spent more time watching them than i did him. not a word from anybody before, during, or after. >> all right. so let's do. this you are a billionaire. donald is a billionaire. you started out calling him one of the best presidential candidates in the history of america. and now you are on her side. what happened? >> you know, very straightforward. i was excited to have somebody who was candid, who spoke what was on his mind i thought it would change the political process and a lot of respects he has. at some point and i said this to him directly via email. at some point you have to learn the issues. to me, you have to be -- in order to be a good president, because there is so much uncertainty that comes with the job, you have to be willing to dig in and learn. you have to be able to -- you know, not only understand your own policies but the policies of

countries and leaders around the world. he made no effort to learn. and once he got past ted cruz. i told him specifically, donald, you have to learn the issues. you have to learn the policies. and that obviously was of no interest to him. >> you tweeted, i believe today, maybe yesterday or today, you tweeted that you thought donald trump would be -- if he doesn't win the election he would be broke in seven years. what do you mean? >> he has built his brand in properties particularly properties and hotels premium brand. plenty of studies that have said that trump was one of the top ten premium brands in the country. and i don't see that matching up with the demographics now that really are his following. i think, you know, he talks a lot about the elites and the insiders and the wealthy and how that's not his core following. and that's not who is voting for him. well, those are the people that really bought into his brand. and could afford to stay at

a trump hotel who could afford a tee time at a trump golf course. that doesn't match up anymore. i think he is losing the people that were his customers coming in to the election. and gaining potential customers that don't really match up or can't afford his branding. >> and i think at one point you tweeted that the clinton brand was stronger than the trump bland. >> globally without question. >> okay. some of the things you associated clintons with, bill clinton, the infidelity, hillary clinton the mistrust. >> come on now, come on now. first of all, bill clinton is not running for office. second, if you want to talk infidelities, donald has him hands down and there is a lot of things people aren't even talking about and i won't go there. there is a global brand. bill clinton was the leader of the free world. he took a lot of steps. look, for all of the paparazzi oriented things we will talk about during the clinton presidency or now, those aren't the things that people around the world really pay attention to. bill clinton, through his foundation, has gone around

the world and helped people that has helped build his brand. that has built awareness of who he is and created a very positive association. >> i will give that you. >> donald can't say that. >> i will give you that. in the news, collin kaepernick has decided he is going to create the protest against oppression, oppressive things going on in america. now, you are a team owner, dallas mavericks, if your dallas mavericks decided to take a knee during the national anthem? your thoughts on this? first of all let me do. this bill o'reilly talked about it last night in talking points memo. take a listen. >> the overriding nobility of america far outweighs individual bias and terrible mistakes on the part of a few police officers. colin kaepernick and others who despise their own country infantry do have a right to vent. by taking things out of context, by diminishing the proud history of this country, in freeing millions of people, all over the world, those anti-american

displays insult us. >> your thoughts, do you agree with bill o'reilly. >> i agree with part of what he said. i don't think it's necessarily insulting. i will tell you what my dad told me and this is what guy by. my dad enlisted in the navy at 16. my uncle enlisted as well. one of the reasons he enlist sod early is because my grandparents came from a country where if you spoke out against leadership, there was a good chance you were going to die. that's why they left their homeland. and as i was growing up and there were things that were going on, he made it very clear to me that there were going to be times when you disagree with people. but in this great country of ours, they have the right to be heard. and there is going to come a time when if we don't support those we disagree with, if we speak out against power and we speak out against government, someone might not be there to protect us. and so what i told our players in our meeting on monday before i left for the debate. i said look, guys, i'm going to stand there with my hand hand on my heart and my family is going to stand

there with their hands on their heart. whatever you decide to do do it upfront and do it as a team and i will support you. in this country just like my father and uncle taught me we have a first amendment and we will support it because if we don't support those we disagree with,ed when people in power come for me, and come for those that i love, there will be no one there to support us. >> all right. mark cuban. great friend, great american. just picking the wrong side this time around. [ laughter ] >> this election. >> thanks, eric. >> thanks for joining us. >> appreciate it, buddy. >> never boring talking with mark cuban. footnote. we spoke with mark before commission admitted there was problem inside the debate hall but not on the television broadcast of the debate. next on the rundown, a wave of new post debate polls just out and they may not have the news hillary clinton was hoping for. right back with that.

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in the campaign 2016 segment tonight, the state of the presidential race, there is a flood of new post debate polls out today. the new fox news poll of likely voters shows hillary clinton with a modest 3 point lead over donald trump. that's a 2 point gain for clinton since early september. libertarian gary johnson comes in 8%. green party nominee jill stein has 4%. and there are key swing state polls just out showing slight movement for hillary clinton. joining us to analyze caitlin huey burns political reporter for real clear politics. arnon michigan director of the fox news decision desk. we will talk to you very quickly. the fox news poll is a change from prior to this debate to after the debate. >> precisely. >> donald trump stayed the same at 40%, right? >> hillary clinton had a 1 point lead prior to the debate and now she has 3. >> exactly. >> she moved up two ticks

and he stayed the same, any surprises in that. >> the big surprise in that is that frankly she has not closed the deal. clearly she had a great week this week. she did very well in the debate. 61% of voters in the fox news poll said she won the debate. and she has continued to talk about that for the rest of the week. even -- nonetheless, only two two thirds of those people who say she won the debate are voting for her. she has not closed the deal it suggests that actually there is still some room for opportunity for this election to change. >> caitlin, your thoughts on the fact that post debate and a lot of people think she did win the debate and as arnon points out it's not making voters flock to her. >> i think this does show the debate had impact on the polling. close race a couple of points is kind of a big deal, right? what she did do was she improved on the negative things that were hurting her. so, honest and trustworthiness, she is now on par with trump on that measure, which is significant. she gained points on

temperament. he has not. when you are looking at the polling, and when you look at the aggregate. trump is scheduling to get out of low 40's. that's what we're seeing here. even though she had a modest increase he has had no movement at all. >> talk with us about the independence, i think he has a 12 point lead. >> he has 12 point lead in independents. to me the most interesting thing about the poll is not that there is a lead clinton has. she has this lead in all swing state polls that you talked about that came out today, nevada, colorado, and one other state. the key thing is to look at the people who are not voting for either hillary clinton or donald trump in the polls. if you look at nationally in the fox news poll, 17% of the country, are either voting for johnson or stein or undecided. those people are what i would call the movables. they are going to move in some way in the next four weeks and that's going to determine our next five weeks. >> they have to if they are going to vote they are going to have to. >> when you look at those

people, and we have seen this across a number of polls, 90% of them say they want change. 80% of them say donald trump doesn't have the right trump temperament. and 70% of those undecides say hillary clinton. >> do you know what that sounds like? and this is what is going on with the millennials, caitlin, talk to you about this, 2008, 47% turenelsd out millennial vote. in 2012, 41% turned out. this election cycle sounds like the millennials are the movables they are not going to show up. >> this is the problem for clinton is that it's not that she is losing young people to trump. she is still leading trump among young people. she is something like 20 points behind where obama was in 2012 and in 2008. it's that enthusiasm measure. that's why you hear her and bernie sanders, elizabeth warren out on the campaign trail. michelle obama saying don't vote for a third party candidate. come to our side. that takes a lot of work. >> let me throw another one at you guys, start with you arnon. good friend of mine runs hispanic company.

30% of all new small businesses in america are run by hispanics all the new ones. 40 million hispanic run businesses in the country. if you are hispanic and starting a business, which candidate is your candidate going forward? >> according to the polling, the hispanics are likely to vote very heavily for clinton. >> but if you are a business owner, and you want to hire people, and you want a more friendly business environment, tax structures, who are you going to vote for. >> here is the thing, republicans have been trying to reach out to latino voters on that measure, talking about business, talking about the economy. the problem is that trump is not doing those things. is he not messaging to them on the economy. is he not really talking about the economy right now. we have seen over the past week is he talking about lots of other things, except for the issues at hand. so that's the problem here. that republicans feel like they have a message, but they can't -- they don't have a candidate who is giving that message. >> that's such an untapped asset to donald trump. is he the guy perceived as better on the economy. hispanics are very, very intune with what's going on in the economy. 27 million hispanics are going to vote this time.

>> he has not reached out to the hispanic population. he has tried to reach out to the african-american population. there is some argument about is he doing that to reach out to african-americans or is he doing that to reach out to whites who are sceptic call about him. but he has not reached out to the mile-per-hours, one thing he has done very effectively is that he is the candidate of change. >> there you go. and those are the bernie sanders voters who are looking at maybe jill stein and johnson. maybe that's it. maybe they want -- i got to go guys, sorry. i ran out of time. thank you very much. bill o'reilly squares off with donald trump over his presidential debate performance and his game plan for victory in november. don't miss it. >> the vice presidential candidates take center stage, representing their running mates. proving themselves on the biggest stage in politics. governor mike pence. >> democrats are about to anoint someone who represents everything this country is tired of. >> senator tim kaine. >> the trump campaign just feels like trump's next big

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in the personal story segment tonight, donald trump in the no spin zone zone. before speaking at rally earlier this week. trump faced on with bill o'reilly offer debate

performance. lester holt and how he will deal with hillary clinton leading up to the next debate showdown. >> is there anything hillary clinton said in the debate that you will use, your campaign will use against her in the weeks ahead? >> i think there is. and i will tell you what really happened during the debate that was very interesting to me. i saw when she is talking and talking about what she's going to do and how she is going to do it and all of this, i realized she has been doing this for 26 to 30 years. and nothing ever gets done. even when she went to the united states senate, representing new york, she said she was going to bring jobs back to new york. and it was a disaster. upstate new york is a total disaster. but as she was talking about the various things. and i started to say wait a minute, hillary, have you been there for 26 years. and you vice president done it. why all of a sudden are you going to do it? you are not going to do it. get votes and after the votes see you later. four years or whatever. you were not real critical

of hillary clinton at the time. >> i was if a businessman. i was all over the world. i was doing great. frankly, i got along with all politicians. it was my job to get along with politicians. i don't think about it now i think about it. i always got along with politicians. it was very important aspect of my business. >> okay. those who know manhattan know that's true. they are going to come after you, they being the clinton campaign, on the statement that you made that you were smart for paying as few taxes as you could possibly pay. you know that's going to be in the next debate. it's going to be on campaign ads. do you have any defense for that right now? >> no. i didn't say that what she said is maybe you paid no taxes i said well that would make me very smart. >> right. >> i have to till you something, tax is a big expense. i would mind paying taxes a lot less if our politicians knew thousand spend money but they don't. i saw the other day a report came out, $6 trillion. 6 trillion spent on the middle east. we have coo have rebuilt our country twice.

>> now, the other avenue they are going to come after you is the women card all right? they are going to say that you are a mean guy and you don't respect women. do you have anything further to say on this miss universe thing? >> no, not much. i mean, look, i halderly know this person. this is a person 20 years ago. she did not do well. she had a lot of difficulties. and, you know, they wanted to fire her. the company itself wanted to fire her. i saved her job. look what i get out of it i get nothing. a lot of things are coming out about her. i really just don't know her. >> do you think that was a cheap shot by secretary clinton to bring that up? >> well, i think it was. and now a lot of things are coming out that i wasn't aware of like they say that she threatened the life of a judge and they got involved in all sorts of problems. if that turns out to be true, a lot of the things that are turning out to be, perhaps true, i think it's going to make hillary look extremely bad.

>> do you believe that you have to do better among women, american women to win the election or do you believe you have enough support now? >> well, i think i'm doing well and i have been doing well with especially with married women. you saw the numbers. they went way up. hillary has spent over $200 million on ads against me. many of those ads are false. they are vicious and they are false. >> now, i'm asking you to grade lester holt, the debate moderator. a is best. f is worst. you say? >> c. you know, when i first did it, i thought i was fine. i wasn't thinking about it. but when i reviewed it and i saw all the commentary because a lot of people thought he was terrible. and i looked at all of the commentary, i realized he was much, much tougher on me than he was on hillary. it was like a day and night. and then he started, he hits me with the birther question, of course, and he likes to correct things that where i happen to be right, like we talked about stop and frisk and he was 100 percent wrong. but in the meantime i had go

and prove the point it turns out that i was right. >> he interrupted you 41 times and interrupted hillary clinton seven times. >> i think he did. >> that's more than i interrupt you by the way. that's more than i do. >> he was worse than you and i agree. >> that's bad. charlotte, north carolina, the guy was shot dead, served six years in a texas penitentiary for shooting another guy. that was not reported. i have said that the protests are fine if you believe that the police are not fair to african-americans, you should protest. however, individual cases we should all wait until all the data comes. in all the facts are in. you agree with that correct? >> yeah. i do. i always agree on waiting and trying to get the information before you make a judgment. >> why did you not -- then why did you not say to hillary clinton, hey, you jump the gun by saying that we have -- this is deplorable, this is terrible. we have to solve this police problem. why didn't you go are a her on that. >> because i had many other things that i did go after her. a lot of people, you know,

the whole evening was an interesting evening. a lot of people liked what i said about her. and, frankly, it was pretty tough what i said. you can't hit every single point. >> no, but you are the law and order candidate. >> it's called answer in 30 seconds. i thought her answer, having to do with the police, was very, very disrespectful to the police. she was petrified to talk about them in a positive way. and i thought, frankly, that was a disgrace. >> i thought you were going to bring that out. >> i thought it was very disrespectful answer to the police. there is no question about it. but i -- you know, you can only say so much in 22 seconds. >> i got it, but i was surprised because the law and order thing got into the stop and frisk and i thought the cops were going to come up. you got two more shots and she has two more shots at you. and we always appreciate you coming on. thank you very much. >> in the wake of this week's first presidential debate, the stakes just got higher for the next two. not to mention the vice presidential debate just three days away. ed henry joins us with a special preview right after this.

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loirl. in the factor follow-up segment tonight, the presidential debates. the first one is in the bag. the first and only vice presidential debate is just three days away and the remaining two presidential faceoffs could not be more critical for donald trump and hillary clinton. joining us now to analyze fox news chief national correspondent ed henry. ed, let's start with we talked about presidential debate. let's talk about vp debates. what do you expect out of that? two kind of low key guys? >> more policy-based i think there will be less of the personal attacks. out on the road you hear a lot of people on n. both parties saying if you flip these tickets, it would be a lot less of a circus and lot more serious talk about policy. both of these people, i think mike pence and tim kaine, both of them show that donald trump and hillary clinton pretty good judgment in terms of picking people. in both cases they have helped the base a little bit. but, also, they have been out there and been good surrogates. but they haven't been what you normally see from vp which is the attack dog. the red meat. do you know why in the top of the ticket is doing all of that. they are attacking the heck

out of each other. they don't need the number two to do it. how could it be any tougher, any nastier than. >> we're so used to the attacks. if we set down for a policy debate with the vps, we might all fall asleep. >> so you don't. >> surprise. i think expectations are so low for the vp debate that maybe something interesting will happen. but the truth of the matter is, everybody in both parties senior officials tell me they are waiting for the second presidential debate. that's the main event. >> is there going to be any changes? i assume hillary clinton wants to do the same thing because she feels like she did a good job. >> i was talking to people very close to donald trump today say look, where they think they scored very well is obviously the first 20, 30 minutes on the message of you have been at it for 30 years. you are all talk, no action. hillary clinton, now when back and look at the tape had no real answer to that it's a mystery as to why donald trump moved off of that number one. number two, i heard from one person inside donald trump's camp that a line of attack they were planning to use but didn't use for whatever

reason. >> why not? >> maybe he forgot. maybe there was a lot happening. people close to trump say that lester holt kept driving it in to tax returns and other issues. so he couldn't go to this other issue i'm going to tell you about that he really wanted to do which was how hillary clinton made all this money in public service. >> remember the big thing when hillary clinton brought up alicia machado, lester holt asked him a different question. donald trump you called her, commented about her looks. she didn't look presidential. he commented and then she took it and she. >> twist it and that's where donald trump has to learn something between the first and second debates. you put your finger right on it. which is that all of this talk about lester holt is a distraction. if he asks you a b. your tax returns, you can pivot to anything i want. what i hear inside the trump camp is some line of attack he wanted to use but did not is how did she leave the white house saying we're flat broke then make tens of millions of dollars? speeches, books, the foundation, all of this stuff, and meanwhile the clintons are attacking donald trump for making

money as a businessman, when they both have been in public service making tons of cash. that was a library of attack, left not on the table but under the table somewhere. donald trump has to bring that. >> debate 101, answer the question you are asked in one sentence and 90 seconds on what you want to talk. >> much more effective at that donald trump is a businessman who has been through all kinds of pit falls, bankruptcies and always come back. people have counted him out. let's not forget in 2012 who won the first debate mitt romney and got his clock cleaned later. first debate night not matter. >> bill clinton, don't do it. not turning for him does he do that? >> if he makes this even nastier then it becomes boomer rang on donald trump. it's a race about him. only wins this race when he talk to people in both parties. donald trump wins this race if it's about hillary clinton. if it's about him. is he more likely to lose. meaning, look at her record, syria, bengals, all the foreign policy problems and challenges. and the fact that, again, on

the domestic front, and overall leadership, when asked, what you have done for 30 years beyond give speeches, she had no good answer. >> three days we have a vp debate. 10 days we have a presidential debate. 10 days after that another presidential debate. boom, boom, boom. this thing in the next 23 days, that's where the sweet spot is. >> get the seat belt ready. >> thank you very much, ed. up ahead, geraldo rivera opines on the mainstream media hysteria over donald trump this week. my blood pressure might reach dangerously high levels. don't go away. attorneys can help you every step of the way. with an estate plan including wills or a living trust that grows along with you

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geraldo rivera. let's talk about the usa today. they have never done it today but today they decided to say we're not going to introduce -- >> well it's not just the usa today. but dallas morning news, san diego union tribune, cincinnati inquirer. i think sometimes you live in a bubble and don't realize how much of the republican establishment has rejected donald trump. and it seems to be growing. every time he does one of these outrageous stunts, like the miss universe in the last debate he loses more of the establishment, i believe. you know one of the things, new york republicans -- >> what do you mean? >> george h.w. bush. >> he never had him him 15 months now. >> something is motivating the

editorial boards to take a position -- >> they're nonsubscribers. >> you lose a couple here and there. look at the chicago tribune. tribune is the solid rock of the republican establishment. they endorsed garry johnson who can't name one foreign leader. >> the day after he couldn't name one foreign leader. who owns the tribune? anyway, the point is the day after he can't name one single foreign leader that he looks up to, ten, 20 days later he says what is aleppo. >> and endorse gary johnson. >> detroit news also, the same thing. >> why? >> because donald trump is giving a lot of people the vibe that he is unsuitable to have the nuclear codes. you can't start tweeting at 3:00 in the morning -- >> so don't endorse anybody. but gary johnson, you really

want that guy with if nuclear codes? >> i wouldn't gary johnson to be the mayor of hoboken. it is what it is. donald trump is not attracting people who traditionally wou would -- >> they're not legitimately endorsing anybody. >> you can suggest that editorials don't mean anything bf au after a while they start to mean something. >> let's talk about howard deen who, for whfr reason, decided to tweet that post debate he alluded that donald trump may have had a coke problem. >> everybody noticed donald trump sniffing. i think howard dean is the only one that went to that unsubstantiated wild and hurtful rumor. today i heard you with mark cuban. you were right there there were audio problems. the debate commission admitted that there was something wrong with his mike phone. i think they had it jacked up

too high and that's why you could hear him breathe in a way that was unnatural. but for how ward dean to say that -- >> awe doubling down on msnbc. today he apologized for innuendo. was it innuendo when he accused donald trump of having a coke habit? >> i think it's immature, he should be ashamed of himself. >> let's get to alicia machado. >> she set him up. hillary clinton absolutely set him up. he could have handled that with ease. he could have said to her, you want to talk about miss universe from 20 years ago, lock at the middle east, there are 300,000 dead syrians, libya, you got rid of gaddafi and now it's a mess. you want to talk about miss universe? i submit to you that's what's wrong with your candidacy and your party. but what he did do, he went to sleep with a chip on his

shoulder, got up and started tweeting. >> remember when mitt romney was fact chekted, he didn't have it in his back pocket saying no, you're wrong, i'm right on this issue. why didn't he have it there. why didn't he go back and say this is not what the question was. >> because he was unprepared. he was unprepared. you can't wing it. sometimes you just can't wing it. even you come on the show, i'm here to talk to you three, four minutes. you read, you do background, check things out, put things in perspective. you don't just wing it on basic knowledge. he thinks because he's charismatic -- and i love the guy. i've known him forever and i'm so proud of the way he advanced through the republican primary process. but you can't -- >> if you're donald trump do you change? >> you have to. today he was many michigan and he read a teleprompter speech,

thank god. he should do just that. you sit with experts, sit with someone who plays the role of hillary clinton. how could he not be prepared for birtherism. >> i have to go. maybe he's got to come out with a west coast offense. >> i think he played wing it. >> bill will be back on monday. i want to congratulate bill. his book "killing the rising sun" is number one on every single best selling list in the world. has lrnd 1.3 million copies in front. after picking up his book, check out my book "wake up america." but when we come back, jesse watters at the presidential debate. a sneak peek at the watters

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before we go tonight, i cleared my saturday evening schedule for one reason, an all new episode of watters world. watters didn't miss is golden opportunity to go to monday's presidential debate. >> why did hillary go so negative right from the jump. >> she didn't go negative. >> this isn't an election. it's a contrast. >> elections are a contrast, okay? >> well this episode airs saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on fnc. don't miss it. there's a brand-new podcast up today features new information on the warrior scandal. check it out. it's a very good one. that's it for us tonight. thanks for watching the special edition of "the o'riley factor." i'm in for bill o'reilly who

will be back on monday with powerful analysis of where trump stands with his matchup with hillary clinton. please remember, the spin stops right here because we're looking out for you. breaking tonight, we have new numbers from the first major polls since the presidential debate and they give us significant insight of how the showdown of hofstra is affecting this race. well come to "the kelly file" everybody. i'm megyn kelly. that was taken after the debate by hillary clinton and donald trump. we'll get to it in a moment with chris stirewalt and howie kurtz. with 39 day to go before the collection, charles crout hammer offers his advice to the candidates. over the past 24 hours we've witnessed a remarkable series of attacks from the two candidate