it any longer, lester. lester holt: back to the question, though. how do you specifically bring jobs, american manufacturers, how do you make them bring the jobs back? donald trump: the first thing let the jobs 't leave. the companies are leaving. i could name -- there are thousands of them. leaving. and they're leaving in bigger numbers than ever. and what you do is you say, you want to go to mexico or some other country, good luck. we wish you a lot of luck. going you think you're to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong and once you tax you're going to have to them coming in -- and our politicians never do this, special they have interests and the special interests want those companies to leave because in many cases companies.the so what i'm saying is we can stop them from leaving. we have to stop them from that's a big, big factor. lester holt: let me let in. etary clinton hillary clinton: well, let's stop for a second and remember ago.re we were eight year

the moderator was lester holt of nbc news. lester holt: lester holt: good evening. i want to welcome you to the first presidential debate. the participants tonight are donald trump and hillary clinton. hillary clinton. this debate is sponsored by the presidential debates, a nonpartial nonpartisan organization. commissioner has drafted the format and the rules have been agreed to. dividedminute debate is into six segments, each 15 minutes long. topic areasre three tonight: achieving prosperity, america's direction, and securing america. start of each segment, i will ask the same lead-off question to both candidates, have up to ll each two minutes to respond. from that point until the end have an egment, we'll open discussion. the questions are mine, and have not been shared with the campaign's.or the the audience here in the room has agreed to remain silent so that we can focus on what the are saying. i will invite you to applaud, however, at this moment as we candidates, democratic nominee for president of the united states, hillary clinton, and republican nominee f

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[applause] lester: mr. trump, for five years you perpetuated the false claim that the first black president was not a natural born citizen. couple weeks, you acknowledge what most americans have accepted for years that the president was born in the united states. tell you whatill is simple to say. sidney blumenthal works for the campaign and is a close friend of secretary clinton. manager, patty doyle, during her campaign against president obama, you can look it up and check it out and if you look at cnn this past week, patty doyle was on wolf blitzer saying this happened. blumenthal sent a highly respected reporter to kenya to find out about it. they were pressing it very hard. she failed to get a birth certificate. when i got involved, i didn't fail. i got him to give the birth certificate so i'm satisfied with it. defeatingget onto isis, creating jobs, to having a strong border. i want to get onto things that are important to me and are very important to the country. theer: i just want to get answer here

lester holt: mr. trump? mr. trump: she talks about solar panels. we invested in a solar company, our country. that was a disaster. they lost plenty of money on that one. now, look, i'm a great believer in all forms of energy, but we're putting a lot of people out of work. our energy policies are a disaster. our country is losing so much in terms of energy, in terms of paying off our debt. you can't do what you're looking to do with $20 trillion in debt. the obama administration, from the time they've come in, is over 230 years' worth of debt, and he's topped it. he's doubled it in a course of almost eight years, seven-and-a-half years, to be semi-exact. so i will tell you this. we have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. and we have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it. and all you have to do is look at michigan and look at ohio and look at all of these places where so many of their jobs and their companies ar

lester: your time has expired. mr. trump: one thing i would like to say. lester: very quickly. mr. trump: hillary will tell you to go to her website and read about all how to defeat isis. which you could've defeated by never hiding it going in the first place. -- never having it going in the first place. they are in more and more states emanations. it is a big problem. as far as japan is concerned, i want to help all of our allies. your are losing -- we are losing billions of dollars. we cannot be the policeman of the worl we cannot protect countries all over the world where they are not paying us what we need. lester: just a few final questions. mr. trump: she has no business ability. n need hard, you need some -- eed heart, but you need some basic ability. all of the things she's talking about it have been taken care of in the last 10 years while she had great power. race, she ever wins this they won't be taken care of. lester: this year secretary clinton became the first woman nominated for a major party. you said "she does not have a presidential look." standing here right now,

lester: buena suerte.os cubrir todos los temas de esta campaÑa, pero les recuerdo que hay dos debates mÁs programados, y vamos a hablar de alguno de los temas que nos dicen los votantes que son los mÁs importantes. vamos a buscar respuestas especÍficas. esta noche le pertenece a los candidatos, y mÁs importante al pueblo estadounidense. artÍculo su visiÓn y sus valores. comencemos. le llamamos a este segmento es lograr la prosperidad, y central a esos son los empleos. hay dos realidades econÓmicas hoy. seis aÑos de crecimiento en los empleos, y los ingresos han aumentado a un nivel sin precedentes despuÉs de estancarse. sin embargo, casi la mitad de los estados veces viven de cheque a cheque. por quÉ es usted una mejor opciÓn que su oponente para crear el tipo de empleos que van a poner el dinero en los bolsillos a los trabajadores?? hillary clinton: muchÍsimas gracias. la pregunta principal de esta elecciones quÉ tipo de paÍs queremos generar y quÉ tipo de futuro esperamos para ese paÍs. hoy es el cumplea

>> well, lester holt was very biased, i mean, in reality.onald six tough questions and he asked hillary nothing about the clinton foundation, nothing about her server, so it wasn't fair. lou: and ted cruz and paul ryan, you know, complimenting donald trump on his debate performance, and talking about the party as a united organization. i mean, do you see this happening? are we seeing this party at this stage with 49 days to go until election, they seemed to be coming together? >> as jfk said victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. i think paul ryan and ted cruz can smell the fact that donald is going to win this election, and they're unifying around him, and he's going to win because he's presenting an alternative to the last 7 1/2 years, which have not been good. lou: a change election. people have various views who won the debate last night, but this debate is only one of three, it's not going to be determinate, we know that, because historically, they never are, no matter how the reaction settles. but we're seeing also thi

and trump said lester holt is a democrat.didn't know whether that was true or not but i said because i didn't. turns out lester holt is a republican. at least by some reports. i haven't seen his voter registration but i have seen the reports that he is a republican. i don't care what he is myself. but that's the difficulty i could have never expected donald trump so say lester holt was a democrat. if you don't know, the moderator has to go i didn't know that or how do you know that? you know, or get it back to them. >> right. let me just make one other point about this debate thing. i don't think the answer to any particular question is going to matter as much to the audience as, let's just call it some moment. you mentioned the rick lazio moment earlier in the program. >> right. >> that mattered. that's all i remember from that debate. >> that's all i remember. >> the only thing i remember from the bush/gore debate, the only thing i can remember is gore, like a dufus, wandering over to bush and sign and bush looking at him l

they are also going after lester. they are trying to intimidate lester. i think the world is going top watching that. >> he is not going to be intimidated. he is not like me obnoxious and he is not going to come back and debate you hike i kind of debate you and secretary clinton. he won't do that. >> i would say that, nobody is obnoxious like you. i would have to agree with that no, no. >> i think that's a bipartisan schroll but lester is not going to do that. i want to get. >> no, lester is a professional. we will see what happens. i think it's unfair. >> all right. now. >> i think it's unfair what they're doing, bill. >> you have two kind of partisan people though. the next debate martha raddatz at abc ohio worked with in boston. brilliant journalist. she is a democrat. and then anderson cooper, i think he does a dejent job over there is he a democrat. you have two democrat. are you showing up for that or what are you going to do? >> and by the way, lester is a democrat. >> i didn't know that. >> look, it's a phony system. lester is a democrat. i mean,

6'4", 275 pound lester jones. but many question the science of dog scent evidence. >> problem with the dog? you can't cross-examine him. >> reporter: and the rest of the case against jones is circumstantial. without paige's body, hautzinger is still reluctant to prosecute. >> we were all sure she was dead. we were sure she was murdered. but i was unwilling to file charges until i actually had a body and >> reporter: the case went cold until an afternoon in march of 2012. a hiker hiking not far from the highway, just a short distance from where paige's personal items were found, made an astonishing discovery. down in this gulch, in a dry streambed, amid all of these rocks and weeds and brush, were human remains, the daughter that frank and suzie had been searching for, for five long years. >> there's no soft tissue left. all she is, is a skeleton. >> reporter: unfortunately the her death. one clue that it was violent -- duct tape wrapped around the skull. >> sheriff's office arrested lester jones in connection with

new expressmax caplets. >>> donald trump praising lester holt after the debate. >> i thought lester didjob, okay, i thought, honestly, thought he did a great job. >> you thought the questions were fair. >> i thought he wallas great. >> this morning, a different response expressing disapproval. >> i thought it went really well. i mean, i had some hostile question also but that was okay. i thought it went really well. >> what grade do you give lester holt? >> i give him a "c," "c"-plus, i thought he was okay. >> let's talk about the whole thing with cnn's brian stelter with me now. everybody's -- before we dive into the lester holt issue, got to know about ratings because everybody wants to know, did we hit 100 million? >> i'll have more for you in about an hour. it looks like it was higher rated than the 2008 debates and 2012 debates. we'll have better numbers a little bit later in the day. >> let's delve into lester holt. he wallace a man who could not win. he just couldn't win no matter what he did, right? >> i think he's feeling good this morning. certainly his bosses at nbc are alrea

want to tell the people about lester holt's bioography. he is now the official anchor position after the departure of brian williams joining nbc in 2000. he moderatored a democratic debate. he worked in chicago and he is a graduate of cal state sacramento. there was a bit of a discussion on twitter about his politics. the trump campaign tweeted out that he was likely to be against him because he was a registered democrat. we found in that process that lester holt is actually a registered republican. >> guest: right. a new york republican which is rare. >> host: what can you tell us about his qualification and preparation going into the debate? >> lester has a good representation in terms of being an unbiased reporter and anchor. he has really had what a lot of people consider a good career. he came into his current position under a bit of a different circumstances. normally when you hand over an anchor position it has fanfare but he slipped into it on interim basis and them named the >> hos host. brian went on the late night shows and lest

listen to what donald trump said about lester holt after. >> i thought lester did a great job. >> you thought the questions were fair? >> i thought he was great. >> you heard from our friend john phillips, was there were many issues brought up that would be better for donald trump than clinton. benghazi or the e-mails or the clinton foundation. >> it will be interesting to see how he moves forward in future debates based on how lester holt moderated this debate. i saw people on social media not supportive of how he handled the situation. i was able to watch the event at the apollo town hall. the crowd was supportive of lester holt there. >> let's listen to the moment in the spin room with dana bash where trump hinted he had ammunition that he did not fire last night. listen. >> anything you wish you did differently? >> no, i'm very happy i was able to hold back on the indiscretions with respect to bill clinton because i have a lot of respect for chelsea clinton. i didn't want to say what i was going to say. >> which is? >> which is i'll tell you maybe at the next debate. we'll see. >>

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you don't need lester to save you.erator, you have a duty to say, all right, you were against the iraq war but you did tell howard stern -- right? if it's ten seconds or less, i think you can get in and out. if it's a clear lie. other than that, i wouldn't touch it. look what happened to candy crowley. i think -- my personal view on her was she made those comments in ernest. she wasn't trying to mislead on benghazi. she was trying to move him along. they had gotten bogged down in the conversation too long. in a good faith effort i think to wrap it up, she said something that wasn't right. mitt romney got scared, i think, that she had it right and she had it wrong. it chained t it changed the course of the election. >> he should have been ready. >> he wasn't ready to combat that. >> you are under enough pressure. lester is the one i feel the worst for. it's a privilege. but still, he has to be so nervous out there. it's a lose lose situation. i would ask tough questions, be fair to both sides and get out of there. >> yo

lester holt has a very tough job.damn if he is, damn if he doesn't if he fact checks any of the candidates. if he fact checks people will say why are you letting them go out with these falsehoods. again he's first so he's breaking ground. >> we should give lester holt some credit. he's an individual. he's a different person than matt lauer. i think we can say with a lot of confidence that lester holt has approached every scenario he's been in in the last year and a half with a high degree of humility. >> i'm not asking if he'll do a good job. my question is will he get hammered. in the "new york times" and the "l.a. times" and "the washington post" and politico there are pieces basically examining how in view of these reporters donald trump is a liar. politico headline, donald trump's week of misrepresentation, exaggerations and half truths. "new york times," whole page here. a week of whoppers from trump. i'll give this to you as you prepare your response. fine to hold candidates accountable but most is only at the r

lester? >> miguel, thank you. >>> turning now to nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. >> lester late today federal prosecutors filed bombing charges against ahmad khan rahami saying he began ordering his materiels to build his bombs in june. in court documents, the fbi says analysts found 12 of his fingerprints on the unexploded bomb left in new york. and his prints on materiels found with the bombs left near the commuter station in elizabeth, new jersey. late last week, the fbi says a family member recorded a cell phone video of rahami showing him lighting some kind of incendiary material in a backyard at or near his home. as for that notebook found when he was arrested -- the fbi says he wrote that the u.s. continues to slaughter the mujahadin in afghanistan, iraq, syria and palestine. the fbi says the notebook concludes with this line -- the sound of the bombs will be heard in the streets. gunshots to your police. death to your oppression. the government says some of those injured

lester? >> let's talk more about the suspect, ahmad rahami. authorities revealing new details about his past, including multiple trips to afghanistan and to search for a motive. we have more from nbc's richard engel. >> reporter: born in afghanistan, ahmad khan rahami lived in elizabeth city, outside of new york. he graduated from edison high school. classmates say he didn't make much of an impression there. went on to middlesex county college, studied criminal justice, but dropped out. the rahamis own a fried restaurant. >> when you say he looked mad, he just had an angry expression, or he was quick to get into fights or arguments? >> no, he just kind of had that face that he always looked mad. >> reporter: the restaurant was not popular with some neighbors who complained it was too loud, open too late. the police were often called in. the family filed a federal lawsuit five years ago, alleging they were being harassed. muslims make too much trouble in this country, they claimed a neighbor s

lester? >> tom, thank you. >>> tonight, condemnation and concern around the world as north korea claims it just conducted its most powerful nuclear test yet. moving toward its goal of developing a long range nuclear warhead, perhaps capable of hitting the u.s. nbc's bill neely has details on the test and the swift reaction. >> reporter: he's done it again. kim jong un has carried out his second nuclear test in eight months. this one the strongest ever, triggering a 5.3 earthquake, drawing global condemnation. there's anger at the u.n. >> i condemn in the strongest possible terms. >> reporter: and fear in the u.s. that he's edging towards a nuclear missile that can hit america. >> probably by the end of the first term of the person we're electing this november, they are going to have the ability to put nuclear warheads on missiles that can reach the west coast of the united states. >> reporter: so how can the u.s. respond? directly attacking the underground nuclear sites is risky and unlikely.

i'm not criticizing lester holt tonight.k donald trump did enough homework for this and that he wasn't ready? >> i think he was ready to expose hillary clinton as being a business as usual candidate. she really had no new ideas on how to move this economy. she wants more taxes, more regulation. neil: but was she simply more prepared tonight? >> you are talking about the details. that's what i'm arguing with you about. she knows the details more, she has been in government all her life. neil: do you think you should do the same for the next debate? >> if he these to make his own decision about that but i will tell you one thing would happen the last 10 days what she is been preparing and doing nothing his polling numbers have been going up. neil: but maybe she might benefit from good reviews and reverse that. what do you think? >> may be. i mean who knows? i would just say to you that while he has been out there some days at five different events a warrior taking his case with detailed speeches,. neil:ut do you think this mov

lester? andrea mitchell. thank you, andrea nbc news contributor dr. john torrez, an emergency room physician. john, you've seen that video and the statement from secretary clinton's doctor and what the campaign is saying. how serious is this condition, and how long does it take to recover? >> you know, lester, when it comes to pneumonia, i always treat it very seriously for a couple of reasons. number one, some people will recover on their own, with antibiotics, or if it's viral, their body will take care of it. but for some people, especially as we get older, if we have other health issues, it could actually prove fatal. disease and make sure it's treated appropriately. as far as recovery, that's going to depend on a few factors. number one, how big is the pneumonia. the number two, how long did it take to get treatment started? and number three, what's the person's own health condition? if it's a walking pneumonia like possibly happened here, that means they weren't hospitalized. it's a mil

lester holt said straight out is unconstitutional. lester holt is not a lawyer. he's wrong.arren. it is still the law of the land. every cop does stop and frisk in every part of america and she said the same thing. i'll give her an excuse because she failed the bar exam but i'm not going to allow him to play lawyer and contradict our candidate and when did a moderator become a fact-checker? a fact-checker, you better darn be right. you better go read the united states supreme court decision and you better talk to cavuto and hannity. >> about what? >> as to whether he was opposed to the iraq war. >> one of the reasons i was reluctant to support him was because he was against the iraq war. i happen to be in favor of the iraq war. i'm still in favor of the iraq war. >> what did you think about her performance last night? >> i thought it was okay. she was programmed hillary. everything you would expect and i thought donald's performance was excellent in the respect that he shows the american people he can be president and i thought his restraint at the end was absolutely remarka

lester? >> miguel, thank you. >>> turning now to nbc justice correspondent given what the fbi knew two years ago, why wasn't rahami on a watch list? >> the fbi insists tonight it did a thorough assessment two years ago, that it checked government databases, did interviews, but turned up no suggestion of any terror connection. ushd the government's rules for putting a u.s. citizen in the terror database there must be reasonable suspicion someone is a known or suspected areas where taliban influence is strong, he was questioned by u.s. border officials when he returned about the purpose of his travel there. american citizen aren't put in terrorism databases for traveling to trouble spots, though their travel plans are monitored. tonight federal officials are charging with the bombings and attempts in new york and seaside park, and elizabeth, new jersey. he'll be charged with using a weapons of mass destructi bombing public places. >> pete williams, thank you. >>> to presidential politics where

. >> lester, one thing. >> quickly. >> i will go quickly. hillary will tell to you go to her website and read all about how to defeat isis which she could have defeated by never having it get going in the first place. right now it's getting tougher and tougher to defeat them because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nigss and the a big problem. as far as japan is concerned i want to help all of our allies but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. we cannot be the policemen of the world. we cannot protect countries all over the world -- >> just a -- >> when they're not paying us what we need. >> just a few final questions here. >> and she doesn't say that because she has month business ability. we need heart, a lot of things but some basic ability and sadly she doesn't have that. of during the last ten years, let's say, while she had great care of, but they weren't taken care of. if she ever wins this ray they won't be taken care of. >> mrs. clinton is the first female nominated. recently you said

lester? >> rehema, thank you. >>> now to a major development in the samsung phones that the company says can spontaneously catch fire. the consumer product safety commission says the fire risk is so great, it is ordering an official recall of one million samsung galaxy note 7 smartphones. this turns up the pressure after the company previously issued a recall of its own. nbc's tom costello has late details. >> reporter: now under official recall, the phone blamed for dozens of fires, destroying a garage in south carolina, gutting a jeep in florida. >> they present a pretty serious risk of fire and especially if that phone ends up near something combustible, you can have death or serious injury. >> reporter: in the nation's skies -- >> it has been known to cause fires and we're trying to avoid any possibility of that happening on the aircraft. >> reporter: the recall means the faa will likely ban the use of the phones on board planes. it was two weeks ago samsung issued its own recall. which c

lester's defenders would say trump has so many.'s so many to pick from. >> here's something i want to put before your audience and you tell me which one is right. robby muck, the presidential campaign manager for hillary clinton was working this weekend call on lester holt to be the traffic cop, to be the fact checker. this is what janet brown also said. she's the executive director of the commission on presidential debates. which is what she said about fact checking this weekend. i don't think it's a good idea to get the moderator into essentially serving as the encyclopedia bra tan ka. who did lester holt listen to, her or hillary clinton's campaign manager. >> he pushed back on the iraq war. >> he was very restrained. >> i love to fact check. if you really wanted to do it, you could get up there. it's not -- especially in the general election, presidential debates when it's two on two, fade away, like i'm not even here. i'm gone. i'm out. the camera is following me. hard to do on your own show. i got to go. they can find me wher

. >> lester, one thing. >> quickly. >> i will go quickly. hillary will tell to you go to her website and read all about how to defeat isis which she could have defeated by never having it get going in the first place. right now it's getting tougher and tougher to defeat them because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nigss and the a big problem. as far as japan is concerned i want to help all of our allies but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. we cannot be the policemen of the world. we cannot protect countries all over the world -- >> just a -- >> when they're not paying us what we need. >> just a few final questions here. >> and she doesn't say that because she has month business ability. we need heart, a lot of things but some basic ability and sadly she doesn't have that. all of the things she's talking of during the last ten years, let's say, while she had great care of, but they weren't taken care of. if she ever wins this ray they won't be taken care of. >> mrs. clinton is the first fema

and i look forward to the next debate, and lester is the moderator.hink it's very tough for lester because frankly i thought matt lauer did a a fantastic job and they're trying to game the system by saying trump won the debate because matt lauer wasn't as tough on trump as he was on hillary clinton. and that wasn't it. i mean he was tough on me and he was tough on her. but they're trying to make it so that lester's going to come out and really be tough on me. and i think it's unfair. i mean they're trying to gain the system. so i said, let's not have a a moderator. remember the famous -- you wouldn't remember this, of course. abraham lincoln/douglas. remember the lincoln/douglass debates? >> jimmy: are you kidding me? i watch it all the time on youtube. [ laughter ] >> no moderator. no moderator. i would have like to have seen that. that was supposed to be quite the debate. >> jimmy: but who would go first? who would talk first. >> well i don't know. you know? >> jimmy: flip a coin? do you know what a coin is, by the way? [ laughter ] a coin is tiny,