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washington dc. we have jo malcolm vice president of the institute for constitutional government at the heritage foundation. he's also a former us federal prosecutor in brunswick. andrew language, he's thomas bracket, read profess of government, don't college. and the washington dc joy cheney political strategist and domestic legal policy x. but thank you all 3 of you for joining us today on the inside story . as we look at where the us election campaign stands, well, we know what donald trump trump says. he says he will not debate on tuesday. joy did he either be american. people have spoken. he definitely did not win. and if he had one he'd be having a 3rd debate. so pick it up for me. um andrew, um even trumps allies saying that he had a bad night. how bad was it? well i don't think there are many people outside the very inner trump circles who are saying that he won what they're telling him. i'm not sure, but it certainly was not a night where he took advantage of his us. the opportunity is to press home his main points on policies like immigration or the cost of living. he allowed the vice president t