and you're guaranteed to see results. go to trysubd.com or call the number on your screen now. operators are standing by. this has been a paid presentation for cold plasma sub-d brought to you cold plasma sub-d brought to you by guthy renker. good >> reporter: good morning, diane and kendis. we were told by the clinton campaign we should expect the vice presidential candidates to go on the attack right off from the top, but, still, to some people, even within the campaign, this debate was a surprise.

battle lines were drawn at the vice presidential debate at longwood university. >> you are donald trump's -- >> isn't this is discussion. >> reporter: asked to defend his running mate, donald trump, that he didn't pay taxes for nearly two decades. >> he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code the way it's supposed to be used and did it brilliantly. >> how do you know that? >> reporter: kaine ready to pounce. >> he had to give donald trump his tax returns to show he was qualified to be vice president. donald trump must give the american public his tax returns. >> reporter: kaine forced to defend hillary clinton as well. >> we believe in comprehensive immigration reform. donald trump believes in deportation nation. >> reporter: attacks coming so quickly, the men talked over each other. >> i'm saying facts about your running mate, and -- >> i can defend him, senator,

>> reporter: in a surprising return, the republican pence praised president obama on he ohhism pledging to do more. >> i want to give this president credit for bringing osama bin laden to justice, but the truth is bin is bin laden was al qaeda. now we have isis. >> he was calm, but never fundamentally defended donald trump. >> reporter: while kaine and continuously throughout the debate, on twitter, another dynamic played out with the account of donald trump and hillary clinton also going head-to-head. diane, kendis? >> all right, lana, thanks. more coverage later in in half hour, but we turn to other headlines this morning. a u.s. service member has been killed by an ied in afghanistan. it happened tuesday near the pakistan border in an operation against isis. the name of the service member has not been released pending

tensions between a u.s. and russia and syria. moscow beefed up the military presence in the country with new air defense missiles. this comes a day after the u.s. broke off talks with russia over a cease fire. the russians say the system is purely defensive, and no threat to anyone. the leader of the armed standoff in oregon returns to the stand today. alan bundy broke down testifying tuesday and was reluctant when he first agreed to ranchers out of prison. he's one of seven facing conspiracy charges. emotional day in a courtroom for a dad accused of deliberately leaving his young son to die in a hot car. the defense acknowledged the father is to blame, but insists he did not commit a crime. we have more now. >> reporter: this 35-year-old father crying in court as his attorneys argued his son's death was an accident.

>> reporter: here's pleading not guilty, his 22 mopd old son, cooper, died on a hot summer day in 2014 after more than 7 hours in a rear facing child seat in the back of his silver suv. >> oh, my god, what have i done? >> reporter: eyewitnesss at the time told us he looked truly destroyed. >> his cries out of desperation and passion and hurt. >> reporter: prosecutors say it was all an act. >> the defendant's own words shows he's guilty. i love my son and all, but we both -- both -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: while his son was dying outside his office, he was inside sexting with other women. they are now divorced, but she too thinks this was an accident. abc news, atlanta. terrifying moments when a

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>> i can't imagine how governor pence can defend the insult-driven, selfish-me donald trump. >> you would know about an insult drip campaign. >> reporter: engaging in an intense war of words so aggressive it required the moderator's intervention. >> ygentlemen, the people at hoe can want understand either one of you. i ask you to wait until it is that the other is finished. interruptions and continuing campaign attacks. >> she had a clinton foundation accepting contributions from foreign governments. >> you are donald trump's sue premi premise. let me -- >> it's my time. >> reporter: clearly placing aim on taking down trump. >> donald trump can't start a twitter war with miss universe without shooting himself in the foot. he loves dictators. he's a personal mount rushmore.

one a long time. that had a lot of creative lines. >> reporter: forcing pence to defend his running mate. >> used the tax code the way it's supposed to be used brilliantly. >> how do you know that? >> because he's created a business that's worth billions of dollars today. >> how do you know that? >> donald trump and i would never support legislation that punish women that ended a pregnancy. >> why did donald trump say that? >> he's not a polished politician like you and hillary clinton. >> reporter: proving less reactive to provocation than his running mate. >> reagan said something interesting about nuclear prolife nation. he said the problem with nuclear proliferation is some fool or maniac could trigger a

his running mate, who reagan warned us about. >> senator, there's been a feud with hillary clinton, and that's pretty low. >> reporter: clinton campaign supporters are knocking her running mate's performance, the interruptions did not serve the senator well. next up, round two for the presidential contenders who will face off in a town hall style debate forum hosted by martha raddatz days away this sunday. kendis, diane? >> thank you. ben stiller's recent health scare. >> opening up about the controversial screening test he says saved his life. you're watching "world news now."

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>> i had prostate cancer a couple years ago. >> reporter: ben stiller dropped a bomb shell. >> it just stops everything in your life when you get a diagnosis of cancer. you can't plan for a mu view because you don't know what's going to happen. >> reporter: saying his doctors caught cancer early because of a noninvasive blood test called the psa. >> it's a controversial subject the psa test. it's the only early screener for prostate cancer >> you think everyone should get that test in your 40s? >> i do personally. >> reporter: he says the government doesn't endorse the test for good reason. >> the problem with the test is that it overdiagnoses prostate cancer and picks up all kinds of things that never would have caused harm. >> reporter: stiller disagrees. >> i feel it saved my life. >> reporter: stiller had surgery two years and and is now cancer free, but the doctors say the danger of overscreening is you

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this morning on "world news now," campaigns jockey for position after the v.p. daekeba. >> battling it out on stage going after running mate's records in the one and only who came out on top? we have a full breakdown. bracing for impact, millions of americans on the east cst prepare for hurricane matthew. the category 4 storm slamming cuba overnight and potentially taking aim at florida and the carolin carolinas. we have the latest on the storm's path haez. a massive explosion levelled two homes in the new jersey area. how residents called in a suspicious smell and how hay got out just in time. later, we're going under the

you'll you'll see. it's no whale of a tale. it's all real on this wednesday, october 5th. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> we had under the sea and whale of a tale. a lot of lines in that little deal. we say good morning to you, everybody, on this wednesday, i'm kendis gibson. >> i'm diane macedo, and begin with the intense showdown of the vice presidential nominees repeatedly talking over each other to fire off the best shots. >> tim kaine used the debate to defend hillary clinton and launched an attack on donald trump, and mike pence unflappable outlining a conservative agenda but avoiding defending some of trump's controversial comments. lana zac has the details from

>> reporter: good morning, if you expected a genteel debate between two seasoned politicians, you didn't expect t what we saw on stage here. right out of the gate, the battle lines were drawn at the vice presidential debate at longwood university. >> you are trump's supremice. >> isn't this >> isn't this a discussion? >> reporter: asked to defend his running mate on not paying tax for nearly two decades. >> he went through a very difficult time but used the tax code how it's supposed to be used. he did it brilliantly. >> low do you know that? >> reporter: the senator ready to pounce on the tax topic. >> he had to give donald trump his tax returns to show he was qualified to be vice president. donald trump must give the public his tax returns. >> reporter: kaine forced to defend hillary clinton as well.

immigration reform, and trump believes in deportation nation. >> reporter: they often talked over each other. >> i'm telling facts about -- >> i'm happy to defend him. >> reporter: in a surprising turn, the republican pence seemed to praise president obama on terrorism before pledging he and trump would do more. i want to give this president credit for bringing osama bin laden to justice, but the truth is, osama bin qaeda. ou qaeda. our premier threat today is isis. >> pence deflected, did great on style, but never defended donald trump. >> reporter: and that may end up working in his favor. we knew that tim kaine was going to be the attack dog from the clinton campaign headed into the debate, but to put it in perspective for you, diane and kendis, he used trump's name 165 times, and by comparison, pence

>> they both used trump's name quite a bit, and you're there in the debate hall, the spin room area of the campaigns come out, did you get a sense how they felt after this debate? >> reporter: well, certainly. we saw trump's campaign manager, kelly an conway, making her way to the room right away feeling confident their team won the debate, and they were really excited to talk to us journalists and say they really felt like he hit it right out of thpa thank you so much. the republicans got a little ahead of themselves last night by prematurely declaring the winner of the debate. >> the official gop website announced mike pence was the clear winner more than an hour before the debate even started. >> oh. >> the site listed pence's top debate moments as well. the page was then taken down, but pence was later declared the

debate. >> i wonder moments they cited were actually what happened. the big question, of course, what does this debate mean for both campaigns? >> abc political director rick klein klein joins us. >> reporter: did not take the debate, coming for a fight, but mike pence much more disciplined,uc his demeanor and calmed nerves in republican circles going a long way towards that throughout the debate. mike pence showing why donald trump chose him, the anti-trump at the debate, and clearly tim kaine had a strategy, that strategy was to bait mike pence into a fight over donald trump's record. this was not a debate about issue. this was not a debate about the two men on stage. it was about the outside personalities of their running

mates spent a lot of time defending their respective person at the top of the ticket, and i think it was particularly notable in the way that tim kaine hit pence. pen pence, though, in deflection started a new story line. mike pence showed republicans that there is an answer, and starting some of the key arguments they hope to go against hillary clinton. diane, kendis? >> thanks, rick. only a handful of days out from the next presidential d by our own martha raddatz with full coverage here on abc. breaking news is the march of hurricane matthew as it spins northward, leaves catastrophic damage in haiti. >> left behind piles of trash to be cleaned up, and haitian officials call the aftermatt biggest humanitarian crisis in highty since that country's devastating 2010 earthquake.

eastern cuba. so far the storm's blamed for at least 11 deaths. >> anticipation of the arrival on the east coast is underway. residents are urged to line up three days of food, water, and medications. >> matthew right now is moving away from cuba, now spinning towards the bahamas with winds of at least 130 miles per hour. we're going to check the storm's track in a moment. first, how americans are getting >> reporter: from the florida keys to the carolina coast, worried residents get ready for the worst. >> able to leave early and go do that. don't take a chance. >> reporter: the governor joining north carolina, georgia, and florida calling for a state of emergency, ordering all coastal residents to begin e evacuating -- >> wherever you are on the coast, get a hundred miles away from that. >> this seems so big and it's headed our way. >> reporter: officials warning prepare now before it's too

prepared for tropical storm force winds on thursday. make sure you have food and water for three days. >> reporter: residents in florida taking that warning seriously. >> crazy. all the water gone. >> the destruction could be catastrophic. >> reporter: at this home depot in florida, these tables set up for hurricane supplies now empty. in hollywood, cars gas and plywood. it could be the biggest evacuation seen since floyd in th 1999. the last hurricane to land in florida was wilma in 2005, and a lot of people moved to the state in those 11 years and will be experiencing a hurricane for the first time. those are the residents the

>> thank you. let's get a sense of what to expect from the hurricane. >> we get that from accuweather's paul williams. good morning. >> good morning. we track all the models, all in agreement marching across nassau, skipping along the east coast, and causing problems there, but on the way there, it's going to impact the bahamas with power outages, dangerous storm surges, damaging winds, and that storm i g affect the northeast with heavy rain, winds, and flooding all the way up towards boston. the northwest corner is breezy and rainy for washington, oregon, idaho and montana, and a strong set of storms that's going to march in st. louis reaching up to the great lakes region. diane, kendis? >> thank you. coming up, we're going to have the rest of this morning's headlines. >> including tense moments in

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including at this police commission meeting. >> if you don't have a seat right now, you are, again, going to be the cause of this meeting ending for everyone. we're going to come back and try to continue the meeting. >> the meeting was closed to the public after protesters refused to stop chanting "black lives, they matter here." police in charlotte released the remaining video of the keith scott shooting that led to two violent nights of protests. the final steps shown before he was shot and killed, family's attorney says the tape created more questions than answers. stunning news about a popular e-mail service, word, yahoo! scanned customers incoming messages last year. the scans took place after a request from either the fbi or the national security agency. the report says yahoo! secretly built custom software for the job, but it's not known what information intelligence officials were searching for.

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reagan said something interesting about proliferation. he said the problem with nuclear proliferation is that some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event. i think that's who governor pence's running mate is, who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, senator, that's pretty low. >> well, that was one of the many intense exchanges last presidential debate, and it was one that was more endnergetic tn many expected. >> they pulled many punches. thank you so much for being here, and what did you make of the candidates' styles last night? because they seemed very different. >> they were so different. couldn't be more different. mike pence was a calm choice and demeanor, and tim kaine came to

effective. mike pence's top of the ticket is fooiesty, trying to reassure voters who are not with trump, but that he's a steady, calm choice, and kainement mewanted t remind remind viewers who was the candidate, and that's why he said the name over and over again. >> channelling debate, and pence channelled hillary clinton. how effective were the styles? >> i think they were effective. i think that there's a lot of voters out there worried about both choices, donald trump and hillary clinton. i think for mike pence, he really needed to assure voters that he can be the steady choice for that ticket, but for tim kaine, he sold hillary clinton to the voting public, but he brought the fight.

this morning is when asked about one of trump's comments on abortion, pence said donald trump is not a polished politician. given how many people distrust politicians, does that work for them or that comment come back to haunt him? >> they said this a lot through the past campaign, and i think a lot of voters like that. donald trump's voters are so loyal, but this quote, just over 30 days from the campaign, i think that the voters are worried about donald trump want more of politician comments as those other comments have been getting him in trouble even through last week. >> speaking of comments, there were so many interesting moments last night. what did you think stood out the most? >> well, one of the moments, i think, that we'll talk about and remembering is the back and forth over this insult-driven campaign. tim kaine and mike pence accused each other of an insult-driven campaign, and mike pence tried

interesting because insults have really been a hallmark of donald trump and his campaign, so much so that even during this debate, donald trump was retweeting insults on tim insults on tim kaine, and hillary clinton pointed it out by tweeting it out during the debate. it's a hard argument for pence to get away from. >> absolutely. >> quickly, how did this impact the race now that the debate is >> there's no clear winner from this. i think both came to do what they had to do. for tim kaine, hillary clinton had a bump from the last campaign, he wants to continue that momentum, and for mike pence, he wants to assure voters this is a steady choice for voters. >> it does set up excitement for sunday's big showdown, debate -- >> oh, absolutely. >> between the presidential candidates, and thank you for being here with us. >> any time.

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this mor this morning on "world news now," the have the issue candidates' big night, mike pence and tim kaine battled it out last night, so who did their running mate the best? matthew makes land fall again slamming into cuba hitting haiti. it threatened to hit the southeastern u.s. as millions prepare. the latest forecast just in. new this half hour, how the white house is weighing in on the scary clown craze gripping the country. >> gripping schools and college campuses and what officials call it a series of pranks gone awry. double elimination on "dancing with the stars," and

saw coming. that's on "the skinny" on this wednesday, october 5th. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> all right. coming up, we'll be talking about "dancing with the stars", but first, we have to get to the vice presidential debate. it was a little heated. >> it was heated. it was fight night. it was the clash of the running mates, you might say, each putting up a fight for the top of their ticket. >> bot tim kaine, have mild mannered personalities, but last night, they came out swinging, aiming at immigration to e-mails to taxes. your voice, your vote, abc's david wright has the highlights. >> reporter: in virginia, the jv debate, two men battling it out to be a heart beat away from the presidency made their case. >> six times tonight, i saidrnoe governor pence, i can't imagine how you defend your running may

after the next, and all six cases he's refused to defend. >> reporter: democrat tim kaine fashioned hip ed himself the atg forcing pence to defend trump. >> i can't imagine how he can defend the insult driven donald trump. >> senator, you and hillary clinton would know about an insult driven campaign. it really is remarkable. >> reporter: pence, poised and steady, deflected, paint democrats as mud slingers. >> the campaign of hillary clinton and tim kaine has been an avalanche of insults. >> reporter: put on the spot about taxes, and specifically, why hasn't he released returns? >> he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code the way it's supposed to be used brilliantly. >> how do you know that? >> he created a runway -- because he created a business worth billions of dollars today. >> reporter: kaine hitting back. >> donald trump started the campaign in 2014 saying if i run

release taxes. >> reporter: either one of the men could end up with the top job someday, and pence channelled ronald reagan. >> there they go and, and kaine tried to ronald reagan him right back. >> he said the problem with nuclear proliferation is that some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event, and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is, who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that's pretty low. >> reporter: one accusing trump as being the political equivalent of a super villain. >> donald trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons. >> reporter: donald trump said kaine looked like an evil crook out of the batman movies. >> absolutely false. >> governor -- >> reporter: for both men, it was a coming out party. the first time they've been tested on the national stage.

thankless job, but the outcome of the debate has huge implications. the one whose boss loses is waiting in the wings to run for the top job four years from now, and the other will be waiting in the wings much, much closer. david wright in new york. donald trump and hillary clinton tweeted throughout the debate as well. >> frump said pence won big, and called to congratulate him, and kaine celebrated at the debate watch party calling the experience intense >> lana zac is joining us from farmville, virginia, and kaine is getting slack about how he interrupted pence. is that a strategy? >> reporter: dianne, we knew headed into the debate, they wanted him to be on the attack, but even people within the clinton campaign now are second guessing that. we heard from david axelrod whoe

kaine throwing out as many punches as he could to see what landed opposed to being stra techniquics. it didn't seem to work for him. >> he was not happy how kaine looked, and he interrupted 60 times, pence 37 times, so that said, any sense that this debate will have an impact with undecided voters? >> reporter: well, heading into this, we also heard from some people that because of the very the two people at the top of the ticket, that undecided voters may look at the two candidates to help them decide who they should cast ballots for, but after this debate, i don't think it's going to be any easier for them to decide between hillary clinton and donald trump. instead, we hear a lot of people who are looking forward to the next debate and potentially even the one that follows it. >> what are campaigns saying now that it's all over?

they both said they won. >> yeah. >> reporter: but in all reality, we are hearing that immediately donald trump was out saying what a great job he thought his running mate did, and we saw the manager for the trump campaign out here glowing about what a great performance they had, and we didn't have the same enthusiasm coming from the clinton side, and i think that speaks volumes about what happened here tonight. >> all right. abc's v.p. debate. thank you. tune in sunday night for the second presidential debate, comoderated by our own martha raddatz, full coverage here, and monday morning, we'll be joining you. more breaking news we're following. millions of americans brace for the potential arrival of hurricane matthew. look at the scene here at plenty of gas stations from florida to

up after warnings for issued. residents cleared shelves of water and other essentials. >> right now, matthew is drenching cuba and haiti and roaring towards the bahamas with winds at 125 miles per hour. they'll see heavy rain and major storm surge today. >> matthew left behind severe flooding and severe damage in haiti and cuba, and at least 11 deaths are blamed on the storm, but the number is expect ed as the full extent of damage is realized. u.s. airlines cancelling flights and letting passengers change plans without penalty. elizabeth hur has more on the storm >> reporter: hurricane matthew first making land fall in haiti as the most powerful hurricane in decades pounding the region with torrential rain and dangerous storm surges is on the

the bahamas bracing for heavy wind and rain that could trigger massive mud slides and devastating floods. >> we pray everyone's safe, and it's not as bad as they are predicting. >> reporter: the american coast on alert, four states of emergency, and evacuations said to begin on wednesday in south carolina. >> wherever you are on the coast, we want you to get 100 miles away from that. >> reporter: take a look at these empty store shelves and long line outside a florida. residents are stocking up after warnings from officials in florida to the carolinas. elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. people on north carolina's coastal islands will e evacuate this morning as well. >> because the hurricane is expected to pass up the coast as we hear from accuweather's paul williams. good morning. >> good morning. matthew causes big time problems not just for the bahamas as a category 4, but along the east

and slide across the carolina coast, possibly as a category 2. now, this is a problem. as we go into the weekend, watching out for flooding rain, locally damaging winds, power outages along the coast, and coastal flooding. i'm going to show you something unique as far as the product is concerned. this is the wind associated with the projected forecasting models. watch this. as we go into 8:00 in the evening, 62 miles per hour winds, and center of the storm rides along portions of florida, will continue to stay strong as it approaches the georgia-florida border. kendis, diane? >> paul, thank you. the rest of baseball playoffs like last night's game, we are in for a few weeks of major excitement. >> what an exciting end. last night, the blue jays and orioles tied at two in the 11th when one pitch later, they were not tied anymore. >> a walkoff home run sent the

toronto takes it 5-2, and that victory sets toronto up for a division series battle with the texas rangers. that series starts tomorrow. >> and a lot of people are excited about that because the last time these two teams met up, talking about the rangers and toronto, let's just say they had some bad blood. >> a little bit. >> the jays taking one to the face. >> a lot of drama. brawling. >> yep. >> all right. >> somebody knocked to the grown. it's going to be an exciting post season. well, coming up, the scary crown craze that's sweeping the country lands at the white house. what officials there are saying as schools across more than two dozen states deal with a wave of threats on social media. later, why vice president joe biden went undercover at a college frat party.

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chan chanchant -- >> i got a balloon for you! ha-ha! don't you want a balloon? ha-ha! >> reporter: and do late night clown hunting. >> what do we want? >> clowns! >> reporter: rumor of clown sightings at penn state on social media created the clown mob, one saying clo to penn state, this is not okay. and the school newspaper shared this photo of a clown projected on campus apartments. clown phobia is sweeping campuses across the country on what authorities call a series of social media pranks gone a awry. in massachusetts, a campus on lockdown after reports of a clown in a dorm hall with a pitch fork. >> oh, there is a real term for

colophobia? this may be the first time that creepy clowns have come up in a white house press briefing. >> i wonder what the press secretary thought in drafting the statements. >> they asked him about it. he was unsure if the president has been briefed on the situation about clowns, saying that law enforcement should review any perceived threats. >> you have to wonder how many of these are just one person here who thinks it's a funny story, and repeats it, and how many are actually threat. >> it wou the wrong clown in a lineup, ho- do you -- all right. when we come back, double elimination on "dancing with the stars," and a surprise proposal. i'm still picturing the lineup, enter, and just, like --

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e ultra, and enjoy living well. >> so we've been hearing a lot about the tactics that donald trump may not have paid taxes over the last two decades. >> could a billionaire real estate mogul get away with paying less taxes than a middle class sanitation worker? nick watt asks, what's up with that? >> as a businessman and real estate developer, i have legally

>> reporter: according to the leaked returns in the times, donald trump declared a nearly billion dollar loss in 1995, so in theory, could have paid 0 in federal taxes for 18 years on a $50 million a year income. >> i have brilliantly used those laws. ? ? >> reporter: could i do the same as a tv reporter in the top 5% of earners who is also refusing to release tax returns, married, two kids? could this 78 grand a year, married, three kids? >> hi, david. >> firm handshake, expensive suit, tax wizard. >> half of the american population, give or take, are not paying any federal income taxes. >> how do they get away with that? including retired, disabled, and very wealthy like mr. trump. are the loopholes he legally uses open to us?

>> nay are open to you, but nothing to apply to you. as a real estate or business owner, the loopholes are put there for people making tons of money. >> i just want to make sure there's nothing else i can do, i mean -- >> reporter: opening an offshore account, can we do that? >> you can't. you'd end up in jail. >> reporter: other people don't end up in jail, rich people don't. >> they have millions of dollars to spend on attorneys and financial planners that probably wouldn't for you. >> reporter: no point for us to consult you for our taxes. nick watt for "nightline." >> i liked that introduction, a firm hand shake and tax wizard. i want wizard to appear somewhere in a description of me. >> and cool hair. interesting debate there on taxes.

making n making news in america this morning, two big stories right now. tracking hurricane matthew pounding cuba overnight and leaving behind destruction in haiti. the storm now setting its sights on florida where people are getting ready. >> this is very serious. and you need to prepare and protect you and your families. >> more than a mall people getting ready to evacuate. the lines getting longer at gas stations and grocery stores looking like this, cleaned out. the running mates hit the stage, mike pence and tim kaine set off on their first debate filled with quite a few clashes and interruptions. >> you are -- >> donald trump -- >> let me talk about this -- >> senator, i think i'm still on