congresswoman jane harmon who runs the woodrow institute. great friend of mine, i have a couple grandkids that notre dame, father john jenkins. president of university of notre dame. go irish but it hasn't good a good start. and let me say about the format. we made changes four years ago. the 90 minutes has been broken into six 15 minute segments of time. lester holt will start each of the six segments by asking a question to one of the candidates. that candidate has two minutes to answer. the other candidate has two minutes to respond and answers and for the next 10-12 minutes we want the candidates to actually talk to each other, challenge each other on the issues. the moderator is there to make sure they drill down on the issues and we get answers rather than the old two minute thing we used to see in the old debates. only lester holt knows the questions that will be asked. the commission does not know. we have no control and neither do the candidates. i have to be the public scold and by all estimations there could be as many as a hundre

jane harmon former congress woman from california and director of the woodrow center. antonio hernandez the president and ceo of the california community foundation. the president of notre dame. jim lair. former executive anchor of news hour. newton, a senior counsel at sydney austin and former head of the fcc under john f kennedy. and dorthy writing, former president of the league of women voters. olympia snow. and former president of princeton university. that is the board that makes up the commission on presidential debates. now the minneapolis star tribune has a secret history of the commission and did it sin graphic novel form. if you go to the startribune.com you can see their take on the secret history of the debates. the debate is taking place in the david s mack complex at hofstra university. well who is that? he was born in 1941 and he owns a real estate development company. he was appointed to the metropolitan transportation authority who george putacky was governor of new york and been a member of that ever since. that is a little bit about david mack who t

. >> jane harmon, president of the woodrow wilson center, also former democratic congressman from californian the presidential debate competition. we'll talk about that in just a moment. some pretty strong language there were secretary clinton, jane. what do you think about trump's intelligence briefing comments? >> of they didn't make sense to me. he said that he wasn't going to get into detail. that's good. not supposed to talk about classified briefings. but that he heard some things that were start willing in those briefings. maybe he did. but the impression he left the folks doing the briefings disagree with our president. the point is to communicate the assessments of the intelligence community, not policy recommendations. and i don't think he gets that. and i do agree with hillary clinton that no comment should have been made about these briefings. >> let's change subject a bit here. libertarian presidential candidate, gary johnson, appearing and asked about the situation in syria. here is that exchange. >> what would you do if you were elected about aleppo? >> about? >> aleppo. >> an

and i see congressman jane harmon, former congressman harmon of california who now runs the woodrow wilsonnstitute of scholars. great friend of mine. i've got a couple of grandkids at notre dame. father john jenkins, president of the university of notre dame. go irish but it's not been a good start, father john. and dorothy "dot" whiting. dot? the 90 minute has been broken into six 15-minute segments of time. lester holt will start each of those six segments by asking a question to one of the candidates. that candidate will have two minutes to answer. the other candidate will have two minutes to respond and answer and then for the next 10, 11 or 12 minutes depending on how things go, we want the candidates to actually debate, to talk to each other, to challenge each other on the issues. the moderator is also there to make sure that they drill down on the issues and we get some answers rather than the old thing that we used to see in the old debate. only lester holt knows the questions that will be asked. the commission does not know, we have no control over it and of course the candidates