ms. clinton: it does make it harder.encouraged that other nations are joining with the united states to push hard for the end of the conflict, both between israel and hamas, and now israel and hezbollah. this is a very dangerous situation that could tragically get out of control, spark a broader regional conflict. i think that everyone who has any influence with any of the parties -- and that's not just israel, hamas, and hezbollah -- it's also iran, which is the patron for both -- its neighbors in the region, everyone needs to exert the maximum diplomatic pressure to see if we can get cease-fires in both conflicts and try to turn our attention to rebuilding gaza, creating security there for the people, securing israel's borders, so that they don't live in fear of another october 7. there's a lot of hard work to be done, but it can't start until the war stops. amna: you know, secretary clinton, you write in the book about how you are reflecting differently at this chapter of your life on the decades of service and work b

ryan: you have worked very directly with three presidents, presidents clinton, obama, and biden. ms. rice: three great presidents to work for. i'm proud to have been able to do so, but three really different people. president clinton has or had and i believe has what i can only describe as a photographic memory. just an extraordinary ability to retain what he reads and perhaps also what he hears. very thoughtful, smart, probing intellect. i think he grew enormously over the years that i got to work with him, and yet, as people may recall, he also had this uncanny ability to make the people he was engaging with feel valued and seen and heard. president obama may be the smartest person i have ever had the privilege to work with. you would write a memo or present a briefing to him, you had better be ready -- as you know because you worked with him -- for the second and third and fourth order questions. and if you could make a persuasive case, an argument and defend it, he had this ability to probe and make sure he elicited the inputs and opinions of everybody who mattered, and to him,

york times reported over the weekend in terms of harris versus strategy that quote, ms harris has ditched, mrs. clinton's unsuccessful strategy of denouncing mr. trump as a racist and misogynist. the vice president's aides believe it's a waste of time to tell voters what a terrible person mr. trump is given how hard it is to find a voter who does not already have a fixed view of his character, good or bad, that clip was before that first debate, i think that would be a mistake for the harris team to base their trump kind of impression or characterization, basically, 2020 debate and less so on this last one we had with dana, where he was practiced, he knew ten let joe biden go and talk and interject, but do so on his own time. >> if you remember, i don't know what he did just said, i don't think he does either. he wasn't born. she wasn't interrupting. i think it's i would caution them to be very, very careful of which donald trump, they choose to have go against her. i think that's a very, very interesting you have to want sorry he also felt that he could take his foot off the gas there when he saw what w

when it comes to senator clinton and speaker pelosi, these are two very bright and intelligent women who have done remarkable things, absolutely remarkable things. ms. pelosi has demonstrated to us that it was not as easy as it looked when she was managing the house. it looked as though she could corral and get us to go in any given direction at any given time and she did it with such grace and poise and appears that something you should do that is commonplace and now we see that it is not. i will address specifically what you said, the tearing up of the speech. when she did that that was a form of peaceful protest in my opinion. i am a supporter of peaceful protest and i have people who have protested against me. i am a supporter of peaceful protest. i think there are times in the discourse of the country you want to make sure you don't say things and to do things later on you would find to be unacceptable because others will adopt those policies and habits. i would support peaceful protest. i think that was peaceful protest. i wouldn't have done it but i support her right to do it. host: let's go to the independent line in missouri city, texas, m

ms. harris has been hunkered down in pittsburgh preparing for extended mock debates for tuesday's 90-minute showdown. a former aide to hillary clintondly been playing the role of mr. trump the scenarios. for donald trump, preparations for the debate have been largely informal. congressman matt gaetz is among those helping mr. trump with debate prep. in an interview with fox news's sean hannity, mr. trump discussed his intention to improvise, saying, "you can go in with all the strategy you want, but you have to file doubt as the debate is taking -- feel it out as the debate is taking place." we speak to kevin madden, a republican strategist who served as an advisor for mitt romney's best oak campaign, and a democratic exte -- democratic strategist. i want to start with the description of how the camps bearing for this debate. what are you making of what you are seeing and hearing? kevin: it is perfectly in line with how donald trump has approached campaigning overall, not just debates. he is a very instinctual player, so to speak. he plays a little bit of freedom react. and in real time he tries to figure out what his opponents are

clinton in 2016, he loomed intimidatingly behind her. because you'd be injail. four years ago in the vice presidential debate, msce president, i'm speaking. i have to weigh in. i'm speaking. the manner in which both candidates are preparing for this debate tells you a great deal about them. kamala harris has been carefully practising for days on a purpose—built stage, while donald trump is discussing policy with some aides, but won't actually rehearse. he wants to rely on his gut reactions on the night. both candidates know what they cannot afford any mistakes. it could be this debate that decides who claims victory in eight weeks' time. sarah smith, bbc news, philadelphia. well, you can watch the debate here on the bbc — though it won't be until the early hours of tomorrow morning. the abc news presidential debate will be simulcast live here on bbc one and bbc news, with special coverage starting from 1am. the former leader of the democratic unionist party, sirjeffrey donaldson, will go on trial in march next year after pleading not guilty in court today to charges of historical sexual offences. the 61—year—old

mayor was close with the obama white house and a potential hillary clinton clinton member cabinet member? >> no, senator. >> ms. crenshaw, you dissented from the approval of the application for grayscale despite the fact that a federal court had struck down the prior disapproval and you continued to disagree with their approval of bitcoin --? >> to approve an etp you have to make a public interest finding on each individual one. to the degree the commission votes and we have only voted on that one and to make that public interest finding, you look at the facts in front of you and given the significant fraud in the underlying spot markets globally, -- >> the court looked at the facts and struck it down. i have been deeply disturbed by the posture that the commission and specifically yourself have taken with hostility in the crypto industry. it's a critical industry as far as innovation and tech knowledge he and i hate to see it being pushed overseas. let's come back to you, commisioner goldsmith romero, the current chairman grossly mishandled silicon valley bank and the other and what you think the biggest risk

clinton slashed the capital gains tax. revenues soared on the way to a balanced budget. speaking of the added tax burden, ms. harris may be in favor of a one-time deduction for start-ups, but, but, but, but, she favors an increase in the top tax rate to 39.6% which is what most owners of small companies will wind up paying, and any tax hike on cap gains is a huge penalty to the owners of successful start-ups and remember, her plan was significantly raising the state taxes that are so important to entrepreneurs and their heirs, and let's not forget her proposal for higher corporate tax which would make america less competitive globally. in fact, china would have a lower corporate tax and a lower cap gains tax than the us under kamala policies, and she still favors the wealth tax on unr unrealized capital gains. now she's sprinting toward the center, because internally, her people have to be worried about her lousy polls. nate silver's probability model now has trump as a 58% favorite. the pay-to-play betting market has trump up 52% to 47% and again even if you just say the whole race is a toss-up, nationwide,

ms. harris isn't bowing out because of her abortion stance and does not want to face a right to life audience? jimmy carter appeared it did not stop hilary clintonup in 2016. >> that is entirely possible maybe that is in the back of the mind of some of her planners. but i think probably more importantly is the fact that when you look at these numbers she pulled ahead a couple of points in the popular vote. you look at some of the swing states that she is pulled ahead thereto but just buy a couple of points. which really is within the margin of error. you are looking now at numbers of voter registrations. huge numbers showing great excitement. but what does that really mean? these voter registration numbers do not delineate whether it's democrats or republicans that are registering to vote or voting early in many cases. are they democrats as traditionally has been the case with early registration? are they republicans coming out very strongly with the base of donald trump. they have to be concerned about that. at this stage in the game with so many states still imply you can understand why they are going to be out campaigning. sue for the numbers

when it comes to senator clinton and speaker pelosi, these are two very bright and intelligent women who have done remarkable things, absolutely remarkable things. mspelosi has demonstrated to us that it was not as easy as it looked when she was managing the house. it looked as though she could corral and get us to go in any given direction at any given time and she did it with such grace and poise and appears that something you should do that is commonplace and now we see that it is not. i will address specifically what you said, the tearing up of the speech. when she did that that was a form of peaceful protest in my opinion. i am a supporter of peaceful protest and i have people who have protested against me. i am a supporter of peaceful protest. i think there are times in the discourse of the country you want to make sure you don't say things and to do things later on you would find to be unacceptable because others will adopt those policies and habits. i would support peaceful protest. i think that was peaceful protest. i wouldn't have done it but i support her right to do it. host: let's go to the independent line in missouri city, texas, mal

ms. harris. >> if you say it the way you said it, i am warning you. i am trying to help. >> given that i was in the clintonam worried with the discussion on tariffs. i am all for applying them to china in certain ways. >> punitively. >> yeah, because they cheat. i did the protocols for their session in the wgo, and they cheated on every sentence in the document every sentence doing it across the board will be inflationary. it takes it out sentence but doing it across the board is going to be inflationary it takes it out of companies' hides. >> and consumers >> i would like to see that -- >> they're not going to go into that detail at this debate, but at some point, i would like to hear how the staff and the president, if he gets elected, is going to implement -- >> so that sticks in your craw more than -- i don't even want to list it, i think it's kind of fun. price controls, taxing unrealized gains, 45% capital gains -- >> i'm about to be 76 years old -- >> any of those bother you >> yeah, price controls lead to -- >> okay, how about taxing unrealize d gains? >> i don't know how that can possibly be good