Transcripts For WHDH NBC News Special 2016 Vice Presidential Debate 20161005

Before between donald trump and Hillary Clinton. Now, their lesser known v. P. Picks mike pence and tim kaine face off in the most critical night of their political lives. Our team is here, chuck todd, savannah guthrie, tom brokaw. Traditionally the v. P. Debates dont rock the vote. This is not a traditional campaign. This is not a traditional campaign. Look, its the big moment, right . A v. P. Debate. Road block coverage. These candidates are under a spotlight like theyve never seen everyone at this teenage to name a v. P. Debate that changed the trajectory of any campaign we would all be silent and stumped because it isnt always a huge thing. I think both sides are going to be looking to land a punch. Theyre sitting around a table. First grade style. Will they be able to really do that. I was otherwise occupied at the president ial debate. I hear your words were that was not a normal debate. Will this be . Well, if its up to mike pence, yes, and thats the challenge tonight. Can mike pence normalize the debate . Normalize the conversation . Normalize donald make it as abnormal. They want a continuation of not only what that monday night created but also they would like to litigate the craziest eight days ive ever seen in the history of american president ial politics. Tom, do these things ever change the outcome . Well, they havent so far. Its unlikely they will tonight because after all, theyre the spare parts in the president ial race. I think the toughest assignment is for mike pence for the governor from indiana whos full of life is really governed by his faith and in tone specifics, hes had his differences with donald trump along the way but still supports him so thats the one we need to keep our eye on i think. A minute away from the start of the debate. Let me go to Longwood University, andrea mitchell, hallie jackson. Ill ask you both starting with you, hallie, what do the campaigns expect out of their guys tonight is. Listen, lester, if mike pence is able to reinforce the change versus status quo, im told that is what Donald Trumps campaign will consider a win. Republican national committee, by the way, already weighing in on pence. The rnc apparently accidentally publishing its postdebate spin before the debate even happened. Praising pence for his best moments, they say, on the economy, on highlighting Hillary Clintons scandals. Those will be talking points tonight. And in fact, tim kaines job is to make mike pence explain and defend everything that donald trump has been saying about the former Miss Universe, about his taxes. Also about soldiers who suffer from post traumatic stress. So that is a big job for him today. And also, of course, defend Hillary Clinton. All ri thanks to both of you. The candidates are about to come out. The debate about to get under way at Longwood University in farmville, virginia. The moderator is Elaine Quijano of cbs news. We will take you there now as the debate begins. Good evening from Longwood University in farmville, virginia, and welcome to the first and only Vice President ial debate of 2016. Sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. Im Elaine Quijano, anchor at cbsn and news. Its an honor to moderate this debate between senator tim kaine and governor mike pence. Both are longtime Public Servants who are also proud fathers of sons serving in the u. S. Marines. The campaigns have agreed to the rules of this the 90 minute debate. There will be nine different segments covering domestic and Foreign Policy issues. Each segment will begin with a question to both candidates who will each have two minutes to answer. Then ill ask followup questions to ci candidates. By coin toss, its been termed that senator kaine will be first to answer the opening question. We have an enthusiastic audience tonight. Theyve agreed to only express that enthusiasm once at the end of the debate, and right now as we welcome governor mike pence and senator tim good to be with you. Good to be with you, too. Thank you. An honor. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Thank you. Gentlemen, welcome. It truly is a privilege to be with both of you tonight. Id like to start with a topic of president ial leadership. 28 years ago, tomorrow night, lloyd benson said, the Vice President ial debate was not about the qualifications for the vice presidency but about how if tragedy should occur, the Vice President has to step in without any margin for error without time for preparation to take over the responsibility for the biggest job in the world. What about your qualities, your skills and your temperament equip you to step into that role at a moments notice . Senator kaine . Elaine, thank you for being here tonight. Governor pence, welcome. It is so great to be back at longwood 6 65 years ago a young courageous woman Barbara Johns led a walkout of her high school. She made history by protesting school segregation. She believed our nation was stronger together and that walkout let to the brown v. Board of education decision that moved us down the path toward equality. I am so proud to be running with another strong historymaking woman, Hillary Clinton, to be president of the vision of stronger together, building an economy that works for all, not just those at the top, being safe in the world, not only with the strong military, but also strong alliances to battle terrorism and climate change. And also to build a community of respect just like Barbara Johns tried to do 65 years ago. Hillary told me why she asked me to be her running mate. She said the test of a signing of a bill or passage of a bill, it will be whether we can make somebodys life better, whether we can make a classroom better learning environment for schoolkids or teachers, whether we can make a safer its going to be about results. And she said to me, youve been a missionary, and a civil rights lawyer, youve been a city councilman and mayor, youve been a Lieutenant Governor and governor, and now a u. S. Senator. I think you will help me figure out how to govern this nation so that we always keep in mind that the success of the administration is the differencee lives. And thats what i bring to the ticket. That experience having served at all levels of government. But my primary role is to be Hillary Clintons righthand person and strong supporter as she puts together the most historic administration possible. And i relish that role. Im so proud of her. Ill just say this. We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and i, we trust her with the most important thing in our life. We have a son deployed overseas in the marine corps right now. We trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander in chief. Trump as commander in chief scares us to death. Governor pence . Well, first off, thank you, elaine, and thank you to Longwood University for their wonderful hospitality, commission on president ial debates. Its deeply humbling for me to be here, be surrounded by my wonderful family and senator kaine, its an honor to be here with you as well, and i just, i also want to say thanks to everyone thats looking in tonight who understands what an enormously important for the last 7 1 2 years, weve seen americas place in the world weakened. Weve seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a Failing Health care reform come to be known as obamacare. The American People know that we need to make a change. And so i want to thank all of you for being with us tonight. I also want to thank donald trump for making that call and inviting us to be a part of this ticket. From a place not too different from farmville. I grew up with a cornfield in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my sons age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business and they raised a family. I dream someday of representing my hometown in washington, d. C. , but i, honestly, elaine, i never imagined, never imagined id have the opportunity to be governor t be sitting at a table like this in this kind of a position. So to answer your question, i would say, i would hope that if the responsibility ever fell to me in this role, that i would meet it with the way that im going to meet the responsibility should i be elected Vice President of the United States. And thats to bring a lifetime of experience. A lifetime growing up in a small town. A lifetime where ive that works in the great state of indiana. And whatever other responsibilities might follow from this, i would hope and frankly i would pray to be able to meet that moment with that lifetime of experience. Senator kaine, on the campaign trail, you praised secretary clintons character including her commitment to Public Service. Yet, 60 of voters dont think shes trustworthy. Why do so many people distrust her . Is it because they have questions about her emails and the Clinton Foundation . You why i trust Hillary Clinton. Heres what people should look at as they look at a Public Servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life . And have they held on to that passion throughout their life regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing . Hillary clinton has that passion. From the time as a kid in a Methodist Youth Group in the suburbs of chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families with the childrens defense fund, first lady of arkansas, and this country, secretary of state, its always been about putting others first. Thats a sharp contrast with donald trump. Donald trump always puts himself first. He built a Business Career in the words of one of his own campaign staffers, off the backs of the little guy. And as a candidate, he started his campaign with a speech where he called mexicans rapists and criminals and he has pursued the outrageous lie that president obama wasnt born in the United States. It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an africanamerican could not be a citizen of the United States, and i cant imagine how governor pence can defend the insultdriven selfish mefirst style of donald trump. Governor pence, let me ask you, you have said donald trump is, quote, thoughtful, compassionate and steady. Yet, 67 of voters feel he is a risky choice. Not have the right kind of temperament to be president. Why do so Many Americans think mr. Trump is simply too erratic . Let me say first and foremost that senator, you and Hillary Clinton would know a lot about an insultdriven campaign. It really is remarkable. At a time when literally in the wake of Hillary Clintons tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the obama administrations Foreign Policy. We see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider mi control. I mean, the situation were watching hour by hour in syria today is the result of the failed Foreign Policy and the weak Foreign Policy that Hillary Clinton helped lead in this administration and create. The newly emboldened, the aggression of russia, whether it was in ukraine or now their heavyhanded you both their heavyhanded add approach. You both said were going to get elaine, thank you. Thank you. These guys have praised Vladimir Putin as a great senator. Senator, we do have that coming up here, but in the meantime the questions were senator, i must have hit were about your running mates. I also hit a nerve here. Why the disconnect . In a time of great challenge in the life of this nation, where we weakened americas place in the world, stifled americans economy, the campaign of Hillary Clinton and tim kaine has been an avalanche of insults. To get to your question about trustworthiness, donald trump has built a business through hard times andou hes brought an extraordinary business acumen. Hes employed tens of thousands of people in this country. And paid few taxes and lost 1 billion a year. Why the disconnect with your running mates . But theres a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton and thats because theyre paying attention. I mean, the reality is when she was secretary of state, senator, come on, she had a Clinton Foundation accepting contributions from you are Donald Trumps apprentice. Let me talk about this senator, i think im still on my time. Isnt this a discussion . This is our open discussion. Lets talk about well, let me interrupt. Let me interrupt you and finish my sentence if i can. Finish your sentence. The Clinton Foundation accepted foreign contributions from foreign governments and foreign donors while she was secretary of state. Okay. Now i can weigh in. She had a private server i get to weigh in that was discovered senator the pay to play process. You have an governor pence doesnt think the worlds going so well and he, you know, is going to say its everybodys fault. Do you . Let me tell you this. When Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, governor pence, you know that Osama Bin Laden was alive . Yes. Do you know we had 175,000 troops deployed in the battlefield in iraq and afghanistan . Do you know that iran was racing toward a Nuclear Weapon and russia was expanding its stockpile . Under secretary clintons leadership, she was part of the National Team Public Safety team that went after and revived the bin laden and wiped him off the face of the earth. She worked a deal with the russians to reduce their chemical weapons stockpile. She worked a tough negotiation with nations around the world to eliminate the iranian Nuclear Weapons program without firing a shot. Eliminate the Iranian Nuclear absolutely, without firing a shot and instead of 175,000 american troops deployed overseas, we have 15,000. Right. These are very, very iraq has been overrun by isis. Because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate more american troops Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate a status of forces agreement. No, that is incorrect. Gentlemen we removed all of our troops from iraq and isis was able to be conjured up in that vacuum. Id like to and overrun vast areas of iraq. President bush said we would leave iraq at the end of 2011 and elaine, iraq didnt want our troops to stay and they wouldnt give us the protection for our troops and guess what, if a nation where our troops are serving does not want us to it was a failure of the secretary of state we need to move on to the next question. There are a lot of people wondering in this country about the economy. Right. Lets turn to the issue of the economy. Okay. According to the Nonpartisan Committee for a responsible federal budget, neither of your economic plans will reduce the growing 19 trillion Gross National debt. In fact, your plans would add even more to it. Both of you were governors who balanced state budgets. Are you concerned that adding more to the disastrous for the country . Governor pence . I think the fact that under this past administration of which Hillary Clinton was a part, weve almost doubled the national debt. Its atrocious. I mean, im very proud of the fact i come from a state that works. State of indiana has balanced budgets. We cut taxes. We made record investments in education and in infrastructure. And i still finished my term with 2 billion in the bank. Thats a little bit virginia. He actually he actually tried to raise taxes by about 4 billion. He left his state about 2 billion in the hole. State of indiana, weve cut unemployment in half, unemployment doubled when he was governor. I think hes a very fitting running mate for Hillary Clinton because in the wake of a season where American Families are struggling in this economy, under the weight of higher taxes and obamacare and the war on coal and the stifling avalanche of regulation coming out ofs Hillary Clinton and tim kaine want more of the same. It really is remarkable that they actually are advocating a trillion dollars in tax increases which i get that. You tried to raise taxes here in virginia. Were unsuccessful. But a trillion dollars in tax increases. More regulation. More of the same war on coal. And more of obamacare that now even former president bill clinton calls obamacare a crazy plan. But Hillary Clinton and tim kaine want to build on obamacare. They want to expand it program and for all the world, Hillary Clinton just thinks obamacare is a good start. Look, donald trump and i have a plan to get this economy moving again. Just the way that it worked in the 1980s, just the way it worked in the 1960s. That is by lowering taxes across the board for working families, Small Businesses and family farms, ending the war on coal, it is hurting jobs and hurting this economy even here in virginia. Repealing obamacare, lock stock and barrel. And repealing all of the executive orders th stifling Economic Growth in this economy. We can get america moving again. Put on top of that, the kind of trade deals that will put the American Worker first and you got a prescription for real growth and when you get the economy growing, elaine, thats when you can deal with the national debt. When we get back to 3. 5 to 4 growth with Donald Trumps plan will do, then were going to have the resources to meet our nations needs at home and abroad and were going to have the ability to bring down economy, theres a fundamental choice for the american electorate. Do you want a youre hired president in Hillary Clinton or a youre fired president in donald trump . I think thats not such a hard choice. Hillary and i have a plan thats on the table thats a youre hired plan. Five components. First thing we do is we invest in manufacturing, infrastructure and research in the Clean Energy Jobs of tomorrow. Second thing is we invest in our workforce. From prek education to great teachers, to debtfree tuitionfree college for families that make less than 125,000 a year. Third, we promote fairness by raising the minimum wage, so you cant work full time and be under the Poverty Level. And by paying Women Equal Pay for equal work. Fourth, we promote Small Business growth. Just as weve done in virginia to make it easier to start and grow Small Businesses. Hillary and i each grew up in Small Business families. My dad who ran an iron working and welding job is here tonight. And fifth, we have a tax plan that targets and ask those at the very top whove benefited as weve come out of recession to pay more. The trump plan is a different plan. Its a youre fired plan and theres two key elements to it. First, donald trump said wages are too high. And both donald trump and mike pence think we ought to eliminate the federal minimum wage. Mike pence when he was in congress voted against raising the minimum wage above 5. 15 and he has been a oneman bull work the second component of the plan is massive tax breaks for the very top. Trillions of dollars of tax breaks for people just like donald trump. The problem with this, elaine, is thats exactly what we did ten years ago, and it put the economy into the deepest recession, the deepest recession since the 1930s. Independent analysts say the clinton plan would grow the economy by 10. 5 million jobs. Basically helps him and if he ever met his promise, and he gave his tax returns to the American Public like he said he would, we would see just how much his economic plan is really a trumpfirst plan. On that point, governor pence, recently the New York Times released part of mr. Trumps 1995 tax return and reported he could have avoided paying federal income taxes for years. Yesterday, mr. Trump said he brilliantly used the laws to pay as little tax as you . Well, first, let me say, i appreciated the youre hired youre fired thing. Senator, you used that a whole lot. I think your running mate used a lot of predone lines. Look, what you all just heard out there is more taxes, 2 trillion in more spending, more deficits, more debt, more government. And if you think thats all working, then you look at the other side of the the matter is the policies of this administration, which Hillary Clinton and senator kaine want to economy have run this economy into a ditch. Were in the 15 million new jobs . Slowest economic recovery since the there are millions more People Living in poverty today than the day that barack obama with Hillary Clinton at his side and the Poverty Level stepped into the oval office. Improved dramatically between 2014 and 2015. Honestly, senator, you can roll out the numbers and sunny side, but i got to tell you people in scranton know different. People in ft. Wayne, indiana, know different. I mean, this economy is struggling. The answer to this economy is not more taxes. But its not to give away tax relief to the folks at the top. I am governor. Interested in hearing whether hell defend his running mate not releasing taxes. Absolutely i will. Governor, with all due respect, the question is whether it seems fair to you that mr. Trump said he brilliantly used the lawses to pay as little tax as legally donald trump and Hillary Clinton and senator kaine. I mean, Hillary Clinton and senator kaine and god bless you for it, career Public Servants, thats great. Donald trump is a businessman. Not a career politician. He actually built a business those tax returns that came out publicly this week showed that he faced some pretty tough times 20 years ago. But like virtually every other business including the New York Times not too long ago, he used whats called net senator, that actually is designed to encourage entrepreneurship why wont he release his tax returns . Were answering the question about the business thing. Is i do want to come back on this. His tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time but he used the tax code just the way its supposed to be used. He did it brilliantly. How do you know that . You havent seen his tax returns. Because hes created a business thats worth billions of dollars how do you know that . With regard to paying taxes, this whole riff about not didnt pay taxes for years, donald trump has created tens of thousands of jobs and hes paid payroll taxes let me talk about senator, im going to give you about 30 seconds to respo respond, the question on Social Security. Donald trump started this campaign in 2014. He said if i run for president , i will absolutely release my taxes. Hes broken his first he will. Hes broken his first promise. Second, he stood on the stage he hasnt broken stage last week, hillary said you havent been paying taxes, he said that makes me smart. So its smart not to pay for our military, smart not to pay for veterans, its smart not to pay for teachers and i guess all of us who do pay for those things i guess were stupid. The last thing ill say senator, do you take all the deductions youre entitled to . The last thing i want to ask i do. Governor pence 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 to show that hes breaking his promise. Elaine, i have to respond to this. You get very little time. Ill be 20 seconds. Ill be very respectful. Look, donald trump has filed over 100 pages of Financial Disclosure which is what the law requires. But he said he the American People can review that. Hes going senator all right, gentlemen. Hes going to release his tax returns. When the audit is over. I need to ask you about Social Security. Richard nixon released tax returns when he was under audit. If you cant gentlemen, the of you when you speak over each other. I would please ask you to wait until the other is finished. All right. Were having fun up here. The issue of Social Security. In 18 years when the Social Security trust funds run out of money, youll be 76. The committee for responsible federal budget estimates your benefits could be cut by as much as 7,500 per year. What would your administration do to prevent this cut . First, were going to protect Social Security which is one of the greatest has ever done. It happened at a time when you would work your whole life, your whole life raising your kids, working, being a Little League coach or a sunday school teacher, then you would retire into poverty. And Social Security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent and we will keep it solvent. And well look for strategies like adjusting the payroll tax cap upward in order to do that. Heres what hillary and i will not do. And i want to make this very engage in a risky scheme to privatize Social Security. Donald trump wrote a book and he said Social Security is a ponzi scheme and privatization would be good for all of us. And when congressman pence was in congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after president bush stopped pushing for it. Governor congressman pence kept pushing for it. Were going to stand up against efforts to privatize social forward, focusing primarily on the payroll tax cap. Governor pence, ill give you an opportunity to respond. Well, thanks, elaine. There they go again. Okay . All donald trump all donald trump and i have said about Social Security, were going to meet our obligations to our seniors. Thats it. Go read the book. We said were going to meet the obligations of medicare. Thats what this campaign is really about, senator. I get this is the old scare tactic that they roll out, scare the seniors. I get all of that. I just look i theres a question that you asked earlier i have to go back to. I cant believe you wont defend your own voting record. I have to go back to. Look, youre running with Hillary Clinton who wants to raise taxes by a trillion dollars, increase spending by 20 trillion. You say youre going to keep the promises of Social Security. Donald trump and i are going to cut taxes. Youre not going to cut tax. Youre going to raise taxes on the middle class. Meet the were going to be in a Mountain Range of debt and were going to face hard choices. Gentlemen, i want to move on. You did ask this question about debt and the debt explosion on the trump plan is much, much bigger than anything on the clint side. All right. Let me move on now. To the issue of Law Enforcement and race relations. Law enforcement and race relations. After the Dallas Police shooting, police chief david brown said, were asking cops to do too much in this country. Everyie cops to solve. Not enough Mental Health funding, not enough drug addiction funding. Schools fail. Lets give it to the cops. Do we ask too much of Police Officers in this country . And how would you specifically address the chiefs concerns . Senator kaine . Elaine, i think thats a very fair comment. I think we put a lot on police shoulders. This is something i got a lot of scar tissue and experience on. I was a city councilman and mayor in richmond and when i came in, we had one of the highest homicide hard over the course of my time in local office with our Police Department and we reduced our homicide rate nearly in half. And then when i was governor of virginia we worked hard, too, and we did something we had really wanted to do. For the First Time Ever we cracked the top ten, ten safest states because we worked together. Heres what i learned as a mayor and a governor. The way you make communities safer, and the way you make police safer, is through Community Policing. You build the bonds and the police force. Build bonds of understanding. And then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, its safer for the communities and its safer for the police. That model still works across our country, but there are some other models that dont work. An overly aggressive more militarized model. Donald trump recently said we need to do more stop and frisk around the country. That would be a big polarizes the relationship between the police and the community. So heres what well do. Well focus on Community Policing. We will focus on and Hillary Clinton has rolled out a really comprehensive Mental Health reform package that she worked on with Law Enforcement professionals. And we will also fight the scourge of gun violence in the United States. Im a gun owner. Im a strong 2nd amendment supporter. But i got a lot of scar tissue because when i was governor of virginia, there was a horrible shooting at Virginia Tech and we learned that through that painful situation that gaps in the background record check system should have been closed and could have prevented that crime. So were going to work to do things like close background record checks and if we do, we wont have the tragedies that we did. One of those killed at Virginia Tech was a guy named lebesku, a holocaust survivor. He survived the holocaust then he survived the soviet Union Takeover of his country then he was a visiting professor at scourge of gun violence. We can support the 2nd amendment and do things like background record checks that make us safer and that will make police safer, too. Governor pence . You know, my uncle is a cop. A career cop. On the beat in downtown chicago. He was my hero when i was growing up. We go up to visit my dads family in chicago, my three brothers and i would marvel at my uncle when he would come out in his uniform, side arm at his side. Police officers are the best of us. Men and women, white, africanamerican, asian, latino, hispanic. They put their lives on the line every single day. And let me say it you know, at the risk of agreeing with you, Community Policing is a great idea. Its worked in the hoosier state. And we fully support that. Donald trump and i are going to make sure that Law Enforcement have the resources and and order to the cities and communities in this nation. Its probably why the 330,000 members of the fraternal order of police endorse donald trump of the next president of the United States of america because they see his commitment to them. They see his commitment to law and order, but they also they also hear the bad mouthing. The bad mouthing that comes from people that seize upon tragedy in the wake of policeaction shooting to use a broad brush to accuse Law Enforcement of implicit bias or institutional racism and that really has got to stop. I mean, when an africanamerican Police Officer in charlotte named brently vinson, allstar Football Player who went to Liberty University here in the state, came home, followed his dad into Law Enforcement, joined the force in charlotte, joined the force in charlotte in policeaction shooting that claimed the life of keith lamont scott. There was a tragedy. I mean, we mourn with those who mourn. We grieve with those who grieve. Were saddened at the loss of life, but Hillary Clinton actually referred to that moment as an example of implicit bias in the police force where she used when she was asked in debate a week ago whether there was implicit bias in Law Enforcement, her only answer was that theres implicit bias in eve can i what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing on these moments of tragedy. We ought to assure the public that well have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever theres a loss of life because of police action. Senator, please, enough of this seeking every opportunity to demean Law Enforcement broadly by making the accusation of implicit bias every time tragedy occurs. Elaine, people youre afraid to have im not afraid to bring that up. If youre afraid to have the discussion, youll never solve it. And so heres an example. Heartbreaking. We would agree this is a heartbreaking example. The guy who was killed in st. Paul, who was a worker, a valued worker in a local school. And he was killed for no apparent reason in an incident that will be discussed and will be investigated. But when folks went and explored this situation, what found is that castillo, they called him mr. Rogers with dread locks in the school he worked. The kids loved him. He had been stopped by police 40 or 50 times before that fatal incident. And if you look at sentencing in this country, africanamericans and latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates. We need criminal Justice Reform. We do. Indiana has passed criminal justice de i just want to say, those who say thats not what were talking about. Able to bring up and talk about bias in the system senator. Governor pence, governor pence when africanamerican Police Officers involved in a policeaction shooting involving an africanamerican, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that africanamerican Police Officer of i guess i cant believe you are defending the position that theres no bias its a topic governor pence, i have a question on that point. I did not make that statement. Your fellow republican, governor pence, senator tim scott who is africanamerican, recently spoke on the senate floor. He said he was stopped year. A u. S. Senator. He said i have felt the anger, the frustration, the sadness and the humiliation that comes with feeling like youre being targeted for nothing more than being just yourself. What would you say to senator scott about his experiences . Well, i have the deepest respect for senator scott, and hes a close friend. What i would say is that we need to adopt criminal Justice Reform nationally. I signed criminal senator, and were very proud of it. I worked when i was in congress on the Second Chance act. We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect an institutional bias in criminal justice. But what donald trump and i are saying is lets not have the reflex of assuming the worst of men and women in Law Enforcement. We truly do believe is not what would you say to senator, governor . Law enforcement in this country is a force for good. They are the they truly are people that put their lives on the line every single day. But i would i would suggest to you what we need to do is assert a Stronger Leadership at the National Level to support Law Enforcement. You just heard senator kaine reject stop and frisk. Well, i would suggest to you that the are besieged by crime elaine, let me what would you tell senator scott . If i could jump in, ive heard senator scott make that eloquent plea, and look, criminal justice is about respecting the law, being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here. I just want to talk about the tone thats set from the top. Donald trump during this campaign has called mexicans rapists and criminals. Hes called women slobs, pigs, dogs, disgusting. I dont like saying that in front of my he attacked an indianaborn federal judge and said he was unqualified to hear a federal lawsuit because his parents were mexican. He went after john mccain, a p. O. W. And said he wasnt a hero because hed been captured. He said africanamericans are living in hell and he perpetrated this outrageous and bigoted lie that president obama is not a u. S. Citizen. If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect law, you cant have somebody at the group that he talks about and i just, again, i cannot believe that governor pence will defend the insultdriven campaign that donald trump has run. All right. I want to turn to our next segment now. Immigration. Your running mates have both said that undocumented immigrants who have committed Violent Crimes should be deported. What would you tell the millions of undocumented immigrants who have not committed Violent Crimes . Governor pence. Donald trumps laid out a plan to end illegal immigration once and for all in to death for 20 years. Hillary clinton and tim kaine want to continue the policies of open borders, amnesty, catch and release, sanctuary cities. All the things that are driving that are driving wages down in this country, senator. And also too often with criminal aliens in the country, its bringing heartbreak. I donald trump has a plan that he laid with illegal immigration beginning with border security, internal enforcement. Its probably why for the first time in the history of immigrations and Customs Enforcement, their union actually endorsed donald trump as the next president of the United States because they know they need help. To enforce the laws of this country. And donald trump has laid out a priority to remove criminal aliens, remove people who overstayed their visas. Once we have accomplished all of th economy, strengthen the rule of law in the country, make our communities safer once the criminal aliens are out, then well deal with those that remain. But i have to tell you, i just i was listening to the avalanche of insults coming out of senator kaine a minute ago. These were donald he says hold on a second. Its my time, senator. It is, in fact, the governors time. This is your two minutes. Thanks. I forgive you. He says ours is on insultdriven campaign . Did you just hear that . Ours is an to be honest, if donald trump said all the things you said he said in the way you said he said them, he still wouldnt have a fraction of the insults that Hillary Clinton leveled when she said that half of our supporters were a basket of deplorables. She said they were irredeemable. They were not america. I mean, its extraordinary. And then she labeled one after another ism on millions of americans who believe that we can have a home and abroad, who believe we can get this economy moving again, who believe we can end illegal immigration once and for all. So, senator, this insultdriven campaign, i mean governor. Thats small potatoes compared to Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trumps supporters a basket of deplorables. Hillary clinton said something on the campaign trail, she minutes. Were even. Look for donald trump apologizing to john mccain for saying he wasnt a hero. Did donald trump apologize for calling women dogs, pigs, slobs governor. Its his two minutes, please. Did donald trump apologize for taking after somebody in a twitter war and making fun of her weight . Did he apologize for saying africanamericans are living in hell . Did he apologize for saying president obama was not even a citizen of the United States . You will look in vain to see donald trump er responsibility for anybody and apologizing. Immigration. Theres two plans on the table. Hillary and i believe in comprehensive Immigration Reform. Donald trump believes in deportation nation. You got to pick your choice. Hillary and i want a bipartisan reform that will put keeping Families Together as the top goal. Second, that will help focus enforcement efforts on those who are violent. Third, that will do more Border Control and, fourth, it will provide a path to taxes, play by the rules and take criminal background record checks. Thats all proposal. Donald trump proposes to deport 16 million people. 11 million who are here without documents. And both donald trump and mike pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship. Is so if youre born here but your parents dont have document, they want to eliminate that. Thats another 4. 5 million people. Donald trump has said it. Deportation force. They want to go house to house, school to school, business to 16 million people. And i cannot thats nonsense. I cannot believe governor pence would sit here and defend his running mates claim we should create a Deportation Force so theyll all be gone. Senator, we have a Deportation Force. Its called immigrations and Customs Enforcement. And the union for immigrations and Customs Enforcement for the first time in their history endorsed donald trump to be the next president of the United States of america. You like the 16 million no, senator, thats plan for open borders, amnesty. Our plan is like Ronald Reagans plan from 1986. They call it comprehensive Immigration Reform on capitol hill. We all know the routine. Its amnesty. You heard one of the last things he mentioned was border security. Thats how washington always plays it. To. Governor were going to do this governor pence was against it. Governor, mr. Trump has said a nation without borders is not a nation. Donald trump is committed to restoring b nation. So governor, how would these millions of undocumented immigrants leave . Would they be forcibly removed . I think donald trump laid out a series of priorities that doesnt end with border security. It begins with border security. And after we secure the border, not only build a wall, but beneath the ground and in the air, we do internal enforcement. He said the focus has to be on criminal aliens. We just we just had a conversation about Law Enforcement. We just had a conversation about the theres heartbreak and tragedy that has struck American Families because people that came into this country illegally are now involved in criminal enterprise and activity and we dont have the resources or the will to deport them systemically. Donald trump has said were going to move those people out, people who have overstayed their visas. Were going to enforce the law of this country. Were going to strengthen immigrations and Customs Enforcements with more resources and more perso t then donald trump has made it clear, once weve done all of those things, were going to reform the immigration system that we have i just have to where people can come into this country. Thats the order that you should do it. Border security, removing criminal aliens, upholding the law. Senator, ill work with you when you go back to the senate, i promise you. Well work with you to reform the immigration system. I look forward to working together in whatever capacities we serve in, but i just very clear that hes trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said when donald trump spoke in phoenix, he looked the audience in the eye and he said, no, were building the wall and were deporting everybody. He said, they will all be gone. They will all be gone. This is one of these ones where you can just go to the tape on it and see what donald trump has said. And to add and to add to it, and to add to it, we are a nation of immigrants. Mike pence and i both are descended from immigrant families. Maybe werent said so great about the irish when they came, but weve done well bying a when donald trump say mexicans are rapists and criminals, mexican immigrants, donald trump says about your judge, a hoosier judge, he said judge curuiel was unqualified, up qualified to hear a case because his parents were mexican, i cant imagine how you can zee fend that. Gentlemen, id like to shift now to the theft of terrorism. Today is a safer or more dangerous place than it was eight years ago . Hows the terrorist threat increased or decreased . Senator kaine. The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways because bin laden is dead. The terrorist threat is decreased in some ways because an iranian Nuclear Weapons program has been stopped. The terrorist threat to United States troops has been decreased in some ways because theres not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. Theres only 15,000. But there are other parts of the world that are challenging. Let me tell you this. Theres only one candidate who can do it and its Hillary Clinton. Remember Hillary Clinton was the senator from new york on 9 11, she was there at the World Trade Center when they were still searching for victims and survivors. That seared onto her the need to beat terrorism. And shes got a plan to do it. She was part of the National Security team that wiped out bin laden. Heres her plan to defeat isil. First, we got to keep taking out their leaders on the battlefield. She was part of the team that got bin that will get abu bakr al baghdadi. Third, disrupt their ability to recruit on the internet, in their safe havens but fourth, we also have to work with allies to share intelligence. Thats the Hillary Clinton plan. Shes got the experience to do it. Donald trump cant start a twitter war with Miss Universe without shooting himself in the foot. Donald trump doesnt have a plan. He said i have a secret plan, he said i know more than all the generals about isil. Then he said im going to call the generals to help me figure out a plan. And finally he said, im going to fire all the generals. He doesnt have a plan. But he does have dangerous ideas. Heres four. He trash talks the military. The militarys a disaster, john mccains no hero, the generals need all to be fired and i know more than them. He wants to tear up alliance alliances. Nato is obsolete, will only Work Together dictators. Hes got kind of a personal mt. Rushmore. Vladimir putin, kim jongun, moammar gadhafi, and saddam hussein. Last and most dangerously, donald trump believes, donald trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have Nuclear Weapons. He said saudi arabia should get them, japan should get them, korea should get them. When he was confronted with this and told, wait a minute, terrorists could get those, proliferation could lead to nu donald trump said and i quote, go ahead, folks. Enjoy yourselves. Id like to hear governor pence say whats so enjoyable or comical about nuclear war. Governor pence. Did you work on that one a long time . That had a lot of really creative lines in it. Im going to see if you can defend any of it. I can defend i can make very clear to the American People after traveling millions of miles as our secretary of state, after being the architect of the Foreign Policy of this today than it was the day that barack obama became president of the United States. Its absolutely inarguable. Weve weakened americas place in the world. Its been a combination of factors, but mostly its been a lack of leadership. I mean, i will give you, and i was in washington, d. C. , on the 9 11. I saw the clouds of smoke rise from the pentagon. I was in virginia where the pentagon i know you were. We all lived through that day as a nation. It was heartbreaking. And i want to giv for bringing Osama Bin Laden to justice. But the truth is, Osama Bin Laden led al qaeda. A primary threat today is isis. Because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate a status of forces agreement that would have allowed some american combat troops to remain in iraq and secure the hardfought gains the american soldier had won by 2009, isis was able to and its overrun vast areas that the american soldiers had won in Operation Iraqi freedom. My heart breaks for the likes of Lance Corporal scott zimbowski. He fell in fallujah in 2005. He fought hard through some of the most difficult days in Operation Iraqi freedom. And he paid the ultimate sacrifice to defend our freedom and secure that nation. And that nation was secured in 2009, but clinton and barack obama failed to provide a status of forces agreement and leave sufficient troops in there, we are back at war. The president just ordered more troops on the ground. We are back at war in iraq and scott, whose mom would always come to memorial day events in new castle, indiana, to see me, and id always give her a hug and tell her were never going to forget her son and never will, scott and the sacrifices the administration created a vacuum in which isis was able to grow. Reference in the iranian deal, the iranian deal that Hillary Clinton initiated, 150 billion stopping a Nuclear Weapons program without firing a shot. You didnt stop the Nuclear Weapons program. Yes, we did. You essentially even the Israeli Military says it stopped. You essentially guaranteed iran will someday become a Nuclear Power because theres no limitations once the period of time of the treaty comes off. Governor pence, mr. Trump proposed extreme vetting of immigrants from parts of the world that expt does not address many of the recent terrorist attacks in the United States. Such as the orlando nightclub massacre and the recent bombings in new york and new jersey. Those were homegrown, committed by u. S. Citizens and legal residents. What specific tools would you use to prevent those kinds of attacks . Well, i think its a great question, elaine, but it really does begin with us reforming our immigration system and safety and security of the American People first. I mean, donald trump has called for extreme vetting for people coming into this country so we dont bring people into the United States who are hostile to our bill of rights freedomfreedoms. Hostile to the american way of life. Also donald trump and i are committed to suspending the Syrian Refugee Program and programs and immigration from areas of the world that have been compromised by terrorism. Hillary clinton and tim kaine want to increase theia Refugee Program by 500 i want to tell you about our plan. Asking about homegrown terrorists. First, lets make sure were putting the safety and security of the American People first instead of Hillary Clinton expanding the Syrian Refugee Program. Instead of you violating the constitution by blocking people based on their National Origin whether theyre dangerous. Thats not thats absolutely false. Thats what the 7th circuit decided heres the difference, elaine. The 7th circuit we have different views on refugee issues and on on are people dangerous . These guys say all mexicans are bad. Absolutely false. With respect to refugees, we want to keep people out if theyre dangerous. Donald trump said keep them out if theyre muslim. Mike pence put up a program in place to keep them out if theyre from syria. Yesterday an Appellate Court with three republican judges struck down the pence plan and said it was discriminatory. Those judges said we should focus upon danger, not upon discrimination. To your point, the because there wasnt any evidence yet that isis had infiltrated the United States. Well, germany just arrested three Syrian Refugees i know connected to isis. They told you theres a right way and wrong way to do it. Look, if youre going to be critical of me on that, thats fair game. I will tell you after two Syrian Refugees were involved in the attack in paris that is called paris 9 11, as governor of the state of indiana, i have no higher priority than the safety and security of you bet i suspended that program. I stand by that decision. If im Vice President of the United States or donald trump is president , were going to put the safety and security of the American People first. Can we just be clear, hillary and i will do Immigration Enforcement and well vet refugees based on whether theyre dangerous or not. We wont do it based on discriminating against you from the country you come from or the religion that you practice. The problem with that that is completely antithetical to the jeffersonian values elaine, the our Homeland Security said we cant know for certain who these people are coming from syria. Yes, we can. We dont let them know, we dont let them in. If we dont know who they are, we dont let them in. The fbi and Homeland Security said we cant know for certain. Err on the side of the safety and security of the American People, senator. By trashing all syrians, trashing all muslims . Senator kaine, let me ask you this, secretary clinton has talked act an intelligence surge. Yes. What exactly would an intelligence surge look like and how would that help with no operational connection to a Foreign Terrorist Organization . Intelligence surge is two things, elaine. Its two things. Its first dramatically expanding our intelligence capacities by hiring great professionals, but also weve got some of the best intel and cyber employees in the world right here in the United States working for many of our private sector companies. So it involves increasing our own workforce but striking great partnerships with some of our cyber and intel experts in the private sector so with constitutional principles gather more intelligence. But the second piece of this is really, really important. It also means creating stronger alliances because you gather intelligence and then you share your intelligence back and forth with allies and thats how you find out who may be trying to recruit, who may be trying to come from one country to the next. Alliances are critical. Thats why Donald Trumps claim that he wants to that nato is obsolete and that we need to get rid of nato is so dangerous. Is obsolete. Look, if you put aside push aside your alliances, who are you going to share intelligence with . Hillary clinton as the secretary of state who knows how to build alliances. She built the sanctions regime around the world that stopped the iranian Nuclear Weapons program. And thats what an intelligence surge means. Better skill and capacity. But also a better alliances. Id like to turn now to the tragedy in syria. Can i speak about the Cyber Security surge at all . You can have 30 seconds, governor. Quickly. Well, first, donald trump just spoke about this issue this week. We have got to bring together the best resources of this country to understand that cyber warfare is the new warfare of the asymmetrical enemies we face in this country. And i look forward if im privileged to be in this role of working you in the senate to make sure we resource that effort. We will Work Together in whatever roles we have. We have an intelligence i will also tell you that that Hillary Clinton had a private server in her home that had classified information all right, governor, 30 seconds is up. On it about drone strike, emails from the president of the United States of america were on there. Her private server was subject to being hacked id like to ask you about syria, governor. We can put Security First a full investigation concluded that not one reasonable prosecutor would take any additional step. You donet we have a Justice System that does that. And a republican fbi director did an investigation and concluded all right, we are moving on now. Senator, if your son or my son handled classified information the way Hillary Clinton did, theyd be courtmartialed. That is absolutely false. Its absolutely true. You know that, governor. Its absolutely true. Gentle hemen, please. The fbi did an investigation and concluded there was no reasonable prosecutor who would take it further. Senator kaine, governor pence, please. I want to turn now to 250,000 people, 100,000 of them children, are under siege in aleppo, syria. Bunker buster bombs, cluster munitions, incendiary weapons are dropped on them by russian and syrian militaries. Does the u. S. Have a responsibility to protect civilians and prevent mass casualties on this scale . Governor pence. The United States of America Needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to prott citizens and over 100,000 children in aleppo. Hillary clintons top priority when she became secretary of state was the russian reset. The russian reset. After the russian reset, the russians invaded ukraine and took over crimea and the small and bullying leader of russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of withdraws from talks about a ceasefire while Vladimir Putin puts a Missile Defense system in syria, while he marshals the forces and begins we have got to begin to lean into this with strong broad shouldered american leadership. It begins by rebuilding our military. And the russians and the chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the Smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the second world war. The congress and donald trump will to rebuild our military and project american strength in the world. But about aleppo, and about syria, i truly do believe that what america ought to do right now is immediately establish safe zones so families in vulnerable families with children can move out of those areas, work with our arab partners, realtime, right now, to make that happen. And secondly, i just have to tell you that with american strength. And if russia chooses to be involved and continue, i should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in aleppo, the United States of america should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the assad regime, to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in aleppo. Theres a broad range of other things we ought to do as well. We ought to deploy a Missile Defense shield Hillary Clinton and barack obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the russians back in 2009. Your two minutes are up. We have to have american strength on the world stage. When donald trump becomes president of the United States, the russians and other countries in the world will know theyre dealing with a strong american president. Senator hillary and i also agree that the britishment of humanitarian zone in northern syria, provision of International Human aid consistent with u. N. Security council idea. And hillary also has the ability to stand up to russia in a way this ticket does not. Donald trump again and again has praised Vladimir Putin and its clear he has business dealings with russian oligarchs who are very connected to putin. The Trump Campaign Management Team had to be fired a month or so ago because of those shadowy connections with proputin forces. Governor pence made the odd claim, he said inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better le Vladimir Putins run his economy into the ground. He persecutes lgbt folks and journalists. If you dont know the difference between dictatorship and leadership, then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class. I tell you what offends me, governor pence that offended any. Governor pence just said governor pence just said that donald trump will rebuild the military. No, he wont. Donald trump is avoiding paying taxes. The New York Times suggested that he probably didnt pay taxes for about 18 years starting in 1995. Those years included the years of 9 11. Get this. On 9 11 Hillary Clinton and Donald Trumps hometown was attacked by the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States. Young men and women, young men and women signed up to serve in the military to fight terrorism. Hillary clinton went to washington to get funds to rebuild her city and protect fir responders, but donald trump was fighting a very different fight. It was a fight to avoid paying taxes so that he wouldnt support the fight against terror. The question was about aleppo, senator. He wouldnt he wouldnt support this is important, elaine. When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, thats really important. Right. I said about aleppo, we do agree the notion is we have to create a humanitarian zone in northern syria. Its very important. Had mentioned nofly zone. Where would you propose setting up a safe zone specifically, how would you keep it safe . Well, first and foremost, donald trump supports our troops. Donald trump supports our veterans. He wont pay taxes. Donald trump has paid all the taxes that hes do you not take deductions . How does that work . This is about syria. Id like to ask honestly, senator, honestly, senator it is about our troops. I understand why how can you support the troops if you dont pay tax . I you want to change the subject. Let me be clear on this russian thing. The larger question. Gentlemen, were going to have time to get to russia. What were dealing with is the you know, theres an old proverb that says the russian bear never dies, it just hibernates. The truth of the matter is the weak and feckless Foreign Policy of Hillary Clinton and barack obama has awakened an aggression in russia that first appeared a few years ago with their move in georgia. Now their move into crimea, now their move while, all we do is fold our arms and say were not having talks anymore. To answer your question, we just need american strength. We need to we need to marshal the resources of our allies in the region and in the immediate, we need to act and act now to get people out of harms way. And exactly how would those safe zones work . How would they remain safe . The safe zones would have to be, as the senator said, theres already a framework for this thats been recognized by the inter. National community. Prepared to work with our allies in the region, to create a route for safe passage and then to protect people in those areas including with a newfly zone. Look, this is a very tough stuff. I served on the Foreign Affairs committee for a decade. I traveled in and out of the region for ten years. I saw what the american soldier won in Operation Iraqi freedom and to see the weak and feckless leadership that Hillary Clinton was the architect of in the Foreign Policy of and talk about is deeply troubling to me. Let me talk about the things governor pence doesnt want to acknowledge, elaine. He doesnt want to acknowledge that we stopped the iranian Nuclear Weapons program. He doesnt want to acknowledge you didnt. That hill rifs part of the team that got bin laden. He doesnt want to acknowledge i just did. That its a good thing, not a bad thing, that its a good thing, not a bad thing were down from 175,000 troops deployed overseas to 15,000. Let me tell you what will really make the middle east dangerous. Donald trumps idea that more n weapons. Saudi arabia, japan, south korea. Ronald reagan said something really interesting about Nuclear Proliferation back in the 1980s. He said the problem with Nuclear Proliferation is that some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event. And i think thats who governor pences running mate is. Come on. Exactly who president reagan senator. Senator. That was even beneath you and Hillary Clinton and thats pretty low. But do you do you think we should will make us safer . Senator, the thats what donald trump says. Ronald reagan also said nuclear war should never be fought because it can never be won. And the United States of America Needs to make investments in modernizing our nuclear can you defend Donald Trumps claim that more nations should get more let me go back to this iran thing. I mean, he keeps saying that they prevented that Hillary Clinton who started the deal with the iranians prevented iran from gng thats what they got israeli joint chiefs of staff is saying right now. Thats not what israel things. You can go check it. You wouldnt necessarily know that. I know you boycotted Prime Minister netanyahus speech. I visited him in his office. You boycotted the speech. The point is what this socalled iran deal did was essentially guarantee i mean, when i was in congress, i fought hard on a bipartisan to move forward the toughest sanctions. It literally in the history of the United States. Then hillary used them we were bringing them to heal, but the goal was always that we would only lift the sanctions if iran permanently renounced their nuclear elaine, let me just mention they have not elaine, let me finish the sentence. They have not renounced their nuclear ambitions. And when the deals period runs out, theres no limitation on them obtaining weapons. Elaine very quickly, senator. Ran ransom payment. We need to talk about russia. Astonishing to the American People. Six times tonight i have said to governor pence, i cant imagine how you can defend your running mates position on one issue after the next. And in all six cases hes refused to defend lets no, no, dont put words in my mouth. If hes going to do that, you have to give me time. Yet, hes asking everybody to vote for somebody that he cannot defend. And i just think that should be underlined. Gentlemen, lets talk about russia. Im very, very i will give you an opportunity to do that if he wants to take it one at a time, ill do it one at a time. More nations should get Nuclear Weapons. He never said that, senator. He absolutely just said it. Saudi arabia, south korea, japan. Gentlemen, russia. Russian president Vladimir Putin invaded ukraine, annexed crimea, provided crucial military support to the assad regime. What steps, if any, would your administration take to counter these actions . Senator kaine . You got to be tough on russia. Lets start with not praising v leader. Donald trump and mike pence have said hes a great leader. And donald trump has you know, we have business dealings, has business dealings with russia that he refuses to disclose. Hillary clinton has gone toe to toe with russia. She went toe to toe with russia as secretary of state to do the new s. T. A. R. T. Agreement to reduce russias nuclear stockpile. Shes had the experience doing it. Went toe to toe with went into georgia and did the same thing with ukraine, more than lodging protest, we put punishing economic sanctions on russia that we need to continue. Donald trump on the other hand didnt know that russia had invaded the crimea. That was nonsense. He was on a tv show a couple months back and said ill guarantee you this, russia is not going into the crew yan ukraine. He had to be reminded theyd gone into crimea before. Hillary clinton has gone toe to toe with russia to work on a s. T. A. R. T. , engaged to cap irans Nuclear Weapons program, yet stood up to them on issues such as syria and their invasion of georgia. Youve got to have the ability to do that and hillary does. On the other hand, in donald trump, you have somebody who praises Vladimir Putin all the time. America should really wonder about a President Trump who had a Campaign Manager with ties to putin. Proputin elements in the ukraine. Who had to be fired sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be americas bottom line or is going to be Donald Trumps bottom line that hes going to be worried about with all of his business dealings . This could be solved if donald trump would be willing to release tax returns as he told the American Public that he would do. I know hes laughing at this, but every president whats it got to do with russia . Every president since Richard Nixon has done it and donald trump said im doing business with russia. The only way the American Public will see whether he has that. Senator, your time is up. Governor . Well, thanks. Just trying to keep up with the insultdriven campaign on the other side of the table. You know, im just saying facts about your running mate. Yeah. I know you cant defend it. Senator, please. This is governors two minutes. I have to defend him, senator. Dont put words in my mouth that im not defending him. Youre not. Im happy to defend him. Most of what you said is completely false. Ill run through the list of things. Senator, please, pences two minutes. This is the alternative universe of washington, d. C. , versus reality. Hillary clinton said her numberone priority was a reset with russia. That reset resulted in the invasion of ukraine. After theyd infiltrated with what are called little green men. Russian soldiers that were dressing up like ukrainian dissidents. Then they moved all the way into crimea, took over the crimean peninsula. Donald trump knew that happened. He basically the truth of the matter is that what you have in the rise of aggressive russia, which has had increased its influence in iran, its now because of this deal is on a pathway in the future to obtain a nuclear the leading state sponsor of terror in the world in iran now has a closerworking relationship with russia because of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obamas foreign then, of course, syria, i mean, it really is extraordinary. This, syria is imploding. You just asked a very thoughtful question about the disaster in aleppo. Isis is headquartered in raqqah. It is isis from raqqah has overrun vast areas that a great sacrifice the american soldier won in Operation Iraqi freedom. Yet, senator kaine still sits here, loyal soldier, i get all that. Saying that the Foreign Policy of made the world more secure. It really is a stoni ish we we delivered 400 million in cash to, as a ransom payment for americans held by the radical mullahs in tehran. Governor, just today mr. Trump said, quote, putin has no respect for Hillary Clinton and no respect for obama. Why do you think hell plain and simple. Business donald trump thats nonsense. Donald trump Donald Trumps son says that the Trump Organization please, senator. Ill give you a chance to respond. Were going to rebuild our military. And let me this whole putin thing. Look. America is stronger than russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the russian economy. Americas political system is superior the crony, corrupt, capitalist system in russia in every way. When donald trump and i observe that as ive said in syria, in iran, in ukraine, that the small and bullying leader of russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, thats stating painful facts. Thats not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin. Thats an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of Hillary Clinton and to the tape on it. Governor pence said inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than president obama that is absolutely inaccurate. And i just think a guy said hes a stronger hes been stronger on the world stage. No, you said leader. And it ill just say this, governor. You just said better. If you mistake leadership for dictatorship and cant tell the difference, a country thats running its economy here we this is the grade school thing again . If you cant tell the difference, you shouldnt be commander in chief. Yeah. What Donald Trumps sons say they have all these business dealings with russia. Those could be disclosed with tax returns but they renews to do them. Americans need to worry about whether donald trump will be watching out for americas bottom line or his own bottom line. Senator kaine, what went wrong with the russia reset . Vladimir putin. Vladimir putin is a dictator. What would you do differently . Vladimir putin is a dictator. Otherwise doesnt know russian history and dont know Vladimir Putin. Hillary clinton knows exactly who this guy is. John mccain said i look at his eyes and i see kgb and hillary kind of has that same feeling. How do you deal with him . Youve got a we do have to deal with russia in a lot of different ways. There are areas where we can cooperate. So it was Hillary Clinton who worked with russia on the new s. T. A. R. T. Treaty to reduce the Nuclear Weapons stockpile. It was Hillary Clinton that worked with russia to get them engaged in a comty to stop the iranian Nuclear Weapons program without firing a shot. Shes not going around praising Vladimir Putin as a great guy, but she knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals. This is a very challenging part of the world and we ought to have a commander in chief who is prepared and done it rather than somebody who goes around praising Vladimir Putin as a great leader. All right. Id like to ask about north korea, iran and the threat of Nuclear Weapons. North korea recently nuclear test. Right. What specific steps would you take to prevent north korea from developing a nucleararmed missile capable of reaching the United States . Governor pence. Well, first, we need to make a commitment to rebuild our military including modernizing our nuclear forces. And we also need we also need an effective american diplomacy that will marshal the resources of nations in the rim to put pressure on north korea, on kim jongun, to abandon his nuclear ambitions. It has to remain the policy of the United States of america. The denuclearization of the korean peninsula. Plain and simple. And when donald trump is president of the United States, were not going to have the kind of posture in the world that has russia invading crimea and ukraine, that has the chinese building new islands in the south including north korea flouting american pour. Were going to go back to the days of peace through strength. I have to tell you that all this talk about tax returns and i get it, you know, you want to keep bringing it up. It must have but here Hillary Clinton and her husband set up a private foundation called the Clinton Foundation. While she was secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation accepted tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and foreign donors. Now, you all need to know out there, this is basic stuff. Foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the american political process. They cannot make financial contributions. The clintons figured out a way to create a foundation where foreign governments and foreign donors could donate millions of dollars and then we found, thanks to the good work of the when she was secretary of state were given to major donors of the Clinton Foundation. When you talk about all these baseless rumors about russia and the rest, Hillary Clinton you asked the trustworthy question at the very beginning. The reason governor, your two minutes trust Hillary Clinton is because theyre looking at the paytoplay politics she operated with the Clinton Foundation through her private server while she was secretary of state. Your two minutes are up, governor. Enough is enough. On the foundation, i am glad to talk about the foundation. The Clinton Foundation is one of the highest rated charities in the world. Provides aids drugs to about 11. 5 million people. It helps americans deal with opioid overdoses. It gets higher rankings for its charity than the American Red Cross does. The Clinton Foundation does an awful lot of good work. Hillary clinton as secretary of state took no action to did an investigation and they concluded that everything Hillary Clinton did as secretary of state was completely in the interest of the United States. So the foundation does good work and Hillary Clinton as secretary of state acted in the interest of the United States. But lets compare this now with the Trump Organization and the Trump Foundation. The Trump Organization is an octopuslike organization with tentacles all over the world whose conflict of interest could only be known if donald trump would release his tax returns. His sons have said that the organization has a lot of business dealings in russia and remember the Trump Organization is not a nonprofit. Its putting money into Donald Trumps pockets and into the pockets of his children, whereas the Clinton Foundation is a nonprofit and no Clinton Family member draws any salary. The Trump Foundation is a nonprofit. In addition, donald trump has a foundation. The foundation was just fined for illegally contributing of a Florida Attorney general. They made an illegal contribution and then they tried to hide it by disguising it as somebody else and the person they donated to was somebody whose office was charged with investigating trump university. This is the difference between a foundation that does good work and a secretary of state who acted in accord with american interests and somebody who is conflicted in doing work around the world and wont share with the American Public what hes doing and what those conflicts are. Give you 30 seconds to respond because i know you want to. Again, i would remind you both this was about north korea. Thank you. Thank you. The Trump Foundation is a private family foundation. They give virtually every cent in the Trump Foundation to charitable causes. Political contributions . Less than 10 cents on the dollar. The Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable causes. 20,000 portrait of donald trump . Less than 10 cents on the dollar, the Clinton Foundation has its been a platform for the clintons to travel the world, to have staff. But honestly, senator, we would know a lot more about it if Hillary Clinton would just turn over the 33,000 emails that she refuses to turn over that were in her private server. Wed have a much better picture of what the senator kaine, if you had intelligence that north korea was about to launch a missile, a nucleararmed missile, capable of reaching the United States, would you take preemptive action . F president should take action to defend the United States against imminent threat. You would have to determine what your intelligence was, how certain you were of that intelligence but you would have to take action. You asked the question about how do we deal with a north korea . Im on the Foreign Relations committee. We just did an extensive sanctions package against north korea and interestingly enough, i lain, the u. N. Followed and did virtually the same their veto in the Security Council to veto a package like that. Theyre starting to get worried about north korea, too. So they actually supported the sanctions package even though many of the sanctions are against chinese firms. Chinese financial institutions. So were working together with china and we knee to. China is another one of those relationships where its competitive, its also challenging, and in times like north korea, we have to be able to cooperate. Hillary understands that very well. She went once famously to china and stood up meeting and looked him in the eye and said, womens rights are human rights. They didnt want her to say that, but she did. But shes also worked on a lot of diplomatic and important diplomatic deals with china and thats what its going to take. The thing i would worry a little bit about is that donald trump owes about 650 million to banks including the bank of china. Im not sure he could stand up so tough to the people who have loaned him money. All right. Id like to turn to our next segment now. And in this id like issues. You have both been open about the role that faith has played in your lives. Can you discuss in detail a time when you struggled to balance your personal faith and a Public Policy position . Senator kaine. Yeah, thats an easy one for me, elaine. Its an easy one. Im really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great irishcatholic parents. My mom and dad are sitting right here. I was educated by jesuits at Rockhurst High School in kansas city. My 4 10 days. I worked with jesuit missionaries in honduras, now nearly 35 years ago. They were the heroes of my life. I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal life, but i dont believe in this nation of 1st amendment nation where we dont raise any religion over the other. And we allow people to worship as they please. That the doctrines of any one religion should be mandated for everyone. Church is against the Death Penalty and so am i, but i was governor of a state and the state law said that there was a Death Penalty for crimes if the jury determined them to be heinous. So i had to grapple with that. When i was running for governor, i was attacked pretty strongly because of my position on the Death Penalty, but i looked at voters of virginia in the eye and said, look, this is my religion, im not going to change my religious practice to get one vote, but i oath and uphold the law and if you elect me, i will uphold the law. And i was elected and i did. It was very, very difficult to allow executions to go forward, but in circumstances where i didnt feel like there was a case for clemency, i told virginia voters i would uphold the law and i did. That was a real struggle, but i think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives dont feel like we can just substitute our own views for everybody else in the society regardless of their well, its a wonderful question, and my Christian Faith is at the very heart of who i am. I was also raised in a wonderful family of faith. It was church on sunday morning and grace before dinner, but my Christian Faith became real for me when i made a personal decision for christ when i was a freshman in college, and ive tried to live that out however imperfectly er since. With my wife at my side, we followed a calling in the Public Service where weve tried to keep faith with values that we cherish. And with regard to when i struggle, i appreciate and and i have a great deal of respect for senator kaines sincere faith. I truly do. Thats shared. But for me, i would tell you that for me proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that where god says, before you were formed in the womb, i knew you. So from my first time in public life, ive sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life. State of indiana has also sought to make sure we expand alternatives in health Care Counseling for women, nonabortion im pleased with the fact were well on our way in indiana to becoming the most proadoption state in america. I think if youre going to be prolife, you should be proadoption. What i cant understand is with Hillary Clinton and now senator kaine at her side is to support a practice like partial birth abortion. I mean, to hold to the view i know senator kaine, you hold prolife views personally, but the very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could just an athema to me. I know you historically opposed taxpayer funding of abortion. But Hillary Clinton wants to repeal the longstanding provision in the law where we said we wouldnt use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. So for me, my faith informs my life. I try and spend a little time on my knees every day, but all for me begins with the value of every human life. Elaine, this is a fundamental question. A fundamental question. Hillary and i are both people out of religious backgrounds. Her Methodist Church experience was really formative of her as a Public Servant, but we really feel like you should live fully and with enthusiasm the commands of your faith. But it is not the role of the Public Servant to mandate that for everybody else. So lets talk about we support roe v. Wade. We support the constitutional right of american women to consult their own conscience, their own supportive partner, their own minister, but then make their own decision about pregnancy. Thats something we trust american women to do that. And we dont think that women should be punished as donald trump said they should for making the decision to have an governor pence wants to repeal roe v. Wade. He said he wants to put it on the ash heap of history. We have some young people in the audience who werent born when roe was decided. This is pretty important. Before roe v. Wade, states could pass criminal laws to do just that, to punish women if they made the choice to terminate a pregnancy. I think you should live your moral values but the last thing, the very last thing that government should make reproductive choices. And that is the fundamental difference between a Clinton Kaine ticket and a trump pence ticket that wants to punish women. No, its really not. Donald trump and i would never support legislation that punished women who made the heartbreaking choice to end a pregnancy. Why did donald trump say that . Why did he say that . Look, its hes not a polished politician like you and Hillary Clinton, and so, you know i would admit thats polished im telling you what the a great line from the gospel of matthew. Fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. Yeah. When donald trump says women should be punished, or mexicans are rapists and criminals, or john mccain is not a hero, hes showing you who he is. Senator, you whipped out that mexican thing again. Look can you defend it . There are criminal aliens in this perpetrating violence and taking you want to use a broad brush against mexicans on that . He also said and ma of them are good people. You keep leaving that out of your quote. If you want me to go there, ill go there. There is a choice here. It is a choice on life. I couldnt be more proud of standing with donald trump whos standing for the right to life. Its a principle that senator kaine and im very gentle about this because i really do respect you, its a principle that you that youve supported the hite amendment in the past but thats not Hillary Clintons view. People need to understand, we can come together as a nation, we can create a culture of life. More and more young people today are embracing life because we know we are were better for it. We can like Mother Teresa said at that famous National Prayer breakfast this is important. Lets welcome families around the country who cant have children. If we could improve the options so that families that cant have children can adopt more readily governor, why dont you trust women to make this choice for themselves . We can encourage people to support life, of course, we can. Why dont you trust women . Why doesnt Donald Trump Trust women to make this choice for themselves . Thats what we ought to be doing in public life. Living our lives of faith, our motivation excitement, convincing each other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day. On fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions. Because a society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable. The aged, the disabled and the unborn. I believe it with all my heart and i couldnt be more proud to be standing with a prolife candidate in donald trump. I do have one final question for you both tonight. It has been a divisive specifically are you going to do to unify the country and reassure the people who voted against you . Thats a really important one. That may be the 64,000 question because it has been a divisive campaign, and, again, hillarys running a campaign about stronger together, and donald trump and this is not directed at this man, except to the extent that he cant defend donald trump, donald trump has run a campaign thats been about one insult after the next. We do have to bring the country to so heres what well do. Hillary clinton was first lady then senator for eight years and secretary of state. And i serve in the senate, and im really amazed, elaine, as i talk to republican senators, how well they regard and respect Hillary Clinton. She was on the Armed Services committee. She was on other committees. She worked across the aisle when she was first lady to get the chip program passed so that 8 million lowincome kids have Health Insurance in this country including aisle after 9 11 to get Health Benefits for the First Responders who bravely went into the towers and into the pentagon. She worked to get tri care benefits from National Guard members including hoosiers and virginians in the National Guard. She has a track record of working across the aisle to make things happen. You know, elaine, i have the same track record. I was a governor of virginia with two republican houses, and in the senate, i have good working the aisle because, yeah, i think its nine to be a democrat or republican or independent, but after election day, the goal is Work Together. And Hillary Clinton has a track record of accomplishment across the aisle that will enable her to do just that when we work with the new congress in january. Governor, how will you unify the country if you win . Well, thank you, elaine. Thanks for a great discussion. Absolutely. Tonight. Thank you, senator. This is a very challenging time in the life of our weakened americas place in the world after the leadership of Hillary Clinton and barack obama on the world satage has been followed by an economy that is truly struggling. Stifled by an avalanche of more taxes, more regulation, obamacare, the war on coal and the kind of trade deals that have put American Workers in the back seat. I think the best way that we can bring people together is through change in washington, d. C. You know, i served in washington, d. C. , for 12 years in the states. And i served with many republicans and democrats, men and women of good will. The potential is there to really change the direction of this country but its going to take leadership to do it. The American People want to see our nation standing tall on the world stage again. They want to see us supporting our military. Rebuilding our military. Commanding the respect of the world and they want to see the American Economy off to the races again. Donald trumps entire career has been about building. Its been about its going through hardship just like a businessperson does and finding a way through smarts and ingenuity and resilience to fight forward. When donald trump becomes president of the United States, were going to have a stronger america. When you hear him say he wants to make America Great again, when we do that, i truly do believe the American People are going to be standing taller. Theyre going to see that real change can happen after decad it. And when that happens, the American People are going to stand tall, stand together, and well have the kind of unity thats been missing for way too long. All right, gentlemen, thank you so much. This concludes the Vice President ial debate. My thanks to the candidate, the commission and to you for watching. Please tune in this sunday for the second president ial debate at Washington University in st. Louis. And the final debate on october 19th at the university of nevada virginia, im Elaine Quijano of cbs news. Good night. And so concludes the 90 minute battle between the number twos. The Vice President ial candidates in a spirited exchange at times, seated unlike what we saw a week ago in the president ial debate. Im lester holt in new york. Governor senator kaine, if you will, being the aggressor in this case. And certainly mike sticking more to policy issues and defending trump policies. Im here with savannah guthrie, tom brokaw, chuck todd, and Nicolle Wallace joins us now. Nbc political analyst. Good to have you both here. Your first thoughts . You know, i thought it was very interesting. I mean, kaine is probably going to get dinged for interrupting and seeming overeager at points during the debate. He did land quite a few punches against pence, but i think the question will be whether or not with all of that overtalk, those zingers. Then you have pence who did an enabled job of talking about whats wrong with the Hillary Clinton ticket, but when asked at a pointbypoint level to kind of defend some of the things that donald trump said, he didnt do that. So i think this may just go down in the long and storied history of v. P. Deba debates that dont move the needle all that much when its all said and done. Chuck . If this were two professional politician, they both prep a debate as you could expect to see if we had a convention if you had conventional candidates at the top of the ticket. Mike pence did mike pence a lot of good tonight. Probably did more good for himself than tim kaine did for himself. But that isnt what tonight was about. It was about donald trump and Hillary Clinton. And kaine, and im with savannah here, his style might be offputting to some, but he was relentless and he was hitting trump left and right, probably used trumps name a heck of a lot more than pence ever mike pence defended as much as he could and then at times just sort of walked away. I think it came across well on television. The question is, does it hold up well postdebate . Because he let a lot of charges go unanswered tonight. Tom brokaw . I thought the two of them handled their briefs very well. I thought that the articulation of Vice President i mean, the Vice President ial candidate on the democratic side, senator kaine, he did interfere too mu defended her and went right after donald trump on the vulnerabilities, taxes, putin relationship that he keeps talking about and all those other areas that were getting so much attention. Pence i think we all agree did a remarkably good job given the circumstances he was under. He acted as if donald trump is a great champion of the republican party. I was thinking in my own mind all the republicans who have not endorsed donald trump. I thought that was a mishap. Including mike pence. Frankly, for senator kaine. My favorite line of the night was that somebody was tweeting, tim kaine was running for Vice President in 2016, mike pence was running for president in 2020. Yeah. Lets go to that point with Nicolle Wallace. At times kaine kept trying to bring it back to the provocative statements, the gaffes, the insults and calling on pence to defend and he didnt. Was that the game plan, you think, going in . Well, listen, i think we entered the water cooler phase of this campaign and we ab people we are, we watched every tick and every turn of the entire primary, so we know pence had chosen cruz over trump in the primary. If youre just tuning into this campaign, entered the phase, snl caricature and what happened get blurred into one and what happened tonight is pebs was the statesman on the stage. He was the inheriter of the reaganesque mantle. He sat there and what people saw, they tuned in, was a very able and very elegant a bit of a he interrupted the moderator who was a woman. Im not sure how thats going to play with stayathome moms, the first asianamerican to ever moderate a debate who was literally trampled over by tim kaine who didnt need to. Secretary clinton has a comfortable lead. Tim kaine went out there like a scrappy boxer trying to beat pences head in and that wasnt necessary and i dont think it will help the clinton cause. Lets go to the spin room right now. Kellyanne conway, the Campaign Manager for the Trump Campaign kellyanne, good to see you. Thanks for being with us. Hi, lester. Your initial thoughts. Each of the men clearly well prepared tonight. Each had a task to do. Did your guy do it . Well, pence clearly was the dominant performer tonight. For several of the reasons that have already been mentioned. And the other reason is very clear, he tried to stick to the issues and i have to agree completely with Nicolle Wallace. I think tonight the Clinton Campaign will regret saying words like unhinged or interrupting both mike pence and the female moderator. We lost count over there in the hold room on the trump pence campaign. I think you also see tonight the beginnings of what donald trump has promised as president , he said he will hire the best people. His very first choice showing his judgment, his leadership, mike pence as his running mate. I like the fact that mike pence tonight, sure, people wanted him to defend donald trump, and what their ticket stands for, lester, but he also was able to get in his record as indiana governor whi i really impressive. People always say they like chief executives and here weve got a businessman whos been a chief executive and his running mate who cut taxes for individuals and employers in indiana, whos cut the employment rate in half, whos expanded School Choice and charters there. Manufacturing jobs. And its been incredibly, incredibly robust record in indiana. So i think mike pence got the better of tim kaine tonight and i cant imagine after bill clinton stepped on Hillary Clintons tonight how shes feeling. Kellyanne, let me ask you, though, senator kaine continued to bring up the gaffes, the insults that donald trump has well documented has said before. And governor pence didnt defend. Why not . Well, he did, but sometimes the question that was asked by the moderator who respectfully i think should have been deferred to more by senator kaine, she would ask a question and senator kaine would deliver a response where he was trying to spill out alof and those socalled insults. If you actually look at the bottom of the screen, lester, im sure the people at home were, you saw the question and heard answers from senator kaine that had no relation whatsoever to the question asked. What i believe what mike pence, one of his finest moments tonight in answering that question, lester, is when governor pence said, excuse me, senator kaine, you and Hillary Clinton are going to talk about an insultridden campaign when youve insulted tens of millions of americans by calling irredeemable . I would add on to that her most recently revealed insult of the sanders support. Add together the tens of millions of support of trump and pence, the 22 States Bernie sanders beat her in, youre up to 30 , 35 of the country. Let me bring savannah into this. Kellyanne, to lesters point here, i think you just did the pence pivot very well, yourself, we saw him over and over again do that pivot to put it back onto Hillary Clinton, to talk about well is about basket of deplorables worse . When it came down to the pointbypoint issues that kaine raised such as did he not pay federal taxes, did he log an almost 1 billion loss in one year when he claims to be this businessman . Did he embrace putin . We didnt really hear a pointbypoint rebuttal from pence. Why not . Well, i did hear a i did hear governor pence say, savannah, that donald trump has paid a lot in taxes. Accountants and lawyers and confirmed he has paid hundreds and millions of dollars in taxes, property, real estate, excise, state, local, and federal payroll taxes, certainly. So the idea federal income tax. The idea that this of course, federal income taxes in the years that he had a profit. The one year that somebody gave to the New York Times, 1995, he claimed a loss. And you carry that forward. Its perfectly legal. Its been in the tax code since 1918. I dont remember controlled house and senate trying to change that when they owned washington a couple of years ago. So it wasnt a big priority to them. Half a million individuals in the United States of america did exactly what donald trump did in the year he did it in 19995, thats what we do. We appreciate entrepreneurs who want to Carry Forward the losses. In the case of donald trump end up becoming amazing job creators and successful businessmen. All right. Kellyanne, i know you got a lot of people that want to talk to you in that room. Well let you go. Thank you for having me. All right. Lester, i think the other thing we aught to keep our eye on during this discussion and everything that follows, this was effectively a kind of standoff between these two. Its not going to change the president ial race. The next two debates between the principals will really be what makes the difference in this president ial race. These two guys came in and defended beliefs extremely well. They didnt move, the big, big question whos going to be the next prede in my judgement, at least. Were going to take a break. Well come back. Were going to hear from the Clinton Campaign very shortly. . Amazing sleep stays with you all day and all night. With sleep number, you choose the exact firmness and comfort you want and so does your partner for the best sleep ever. The columbus day sale is on now with the queen c4 mattress set only 1399. 98. Plus 24month financing. Said to governor pence i cant imagine how you can defend your running mates position on one issue after the next. And in all six cases, hes refused to lets no, no, dont put words in my mouth. If hes going to do that, you got to give me time. Yet, hes asking everybody to vote for somebody that he cannot defend and i just think that should be underlined. Gentlemen, lets talk about russia. Im very, very happy to defend donald trump. If he wants to take this one at a time, ill take them one at a time. One of the moments weve witnessed in this debate a short while ago. Back with more of our coverage of the Vice President ial debate. The instant fallout and whats next in this wild campaign. Lets move right now Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman in the spin room. Mr. Podesta, good to see you. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me on, lester. Senator kaine clearly the aggressor, interrupting a lot. Judge his performance for us, if you will. Well, look, i think he did a great job. He both laid out the positive case for what hillary and he wanted to do for the country in terms of the economy, building an economy that was going to work for everyone, not just the people at the top. But he also forward and challenged mike pence to defend what donald trump has said during the course of this campaign over and over again. He asked him to defend it over and over again. Mike pence just ducked. He never really stood up and defended the statements that donald trump has made during this campaign. He made a kind of weak defense of his Business Practices and couldnt really explain why he wont release his tax policy positions of trump and didnt lose his cool to the extent that he came off as a reasonable person. How did you play against that . Yeah, look, i think he was smooth tonight but i think he was making up some policy positions or at least theyre new to the Trump Campaign. You know, his argument about russia when donald trump is basically praised putin, said that we need to reconsider our commitment to nato, that we should elat sanctions and mike pence came off as a kind of hawk on, with respect to russia. So that was new. The nofly zone in syria was a completely at odds with what donald trump has said previously. So he was kind of making it up but i think he, you know, i give him credit for a smooth performance, but, again, i think he came in with, you know, two things that he needed to get done. One was to change the trajectory of this campaign which he didnt do and the didnt do that, either. So i think he separated himself from the top of the ticket and you dont want to see your Vice President doing that. John, its savannah guthrie. One thing a lot of people noticed in this debate was how much tim kaine in style interrupted. He was incredibly aggressive. How do you think that will play . Because there was definitely a distinction between the two candidates on this issue of how they approach the debate. Look, i think tim came in both lay out the plans for the future that they have, but he also wanted to challenge mike pence and he did that. And i think he did it you know, i saw mike pence on the split screen keep shaking his head, but all tim was doing was repeating words that donald trump has uttered in this campaign. He never leveled an unfair charge. He really just kept quoting him and saying defend that, defend that. And mike pence just couldnt do it. All right. Good to talk to you. Thanks for having me on. Well bring in James Carville now, nbc news political analyst. Hes been watching all this. Give us your initial thoughts, james. My initial thoughts is that senator kaine, if youre a democrat, you liked what you saw. Enthusiast enthusiastic, defended the partys positions very well. I think that governor pence did if youre particular, like a fundamentalist christian, i think you could identify with him and trump has not excited these guys very much. I think he really excited them. Clinton. You know, i thought there was a lot of back and forth. It was also a lot of you said this i didnt say that. The Fact Checkers are going to be up all night. But i think both sides came away with something. I think the race is going pretty well for secretary clinton. I think it will continue to go well. 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And boy, tim kaine about those groups that seem to be less enthusiast enthusiastic. Getting people to the polls. Exactly. Thinking about africanamericans, thinking about latinos, thinking about younger voters. And i thought you could tell with different issues, they were both thinking about their political bases. Interesting, but what about the persuadable middle . I mean, that sliver of people who are open to either candidate . You dont think honestly, a v. P. Debate, no offense, but its partisans that are watching tonight. Both sides was what governor pence was saying were the agents of change. They kept coming back to that. Were going to change the way things have been done in washington. Its broken. We can fix that. Then on the other side senator kaine was saying were going to pix it from the bottom up, not just the top down. The two big messages theyve been trying to convey. I must Say Something on behalf of both of those gentlemen who have been Public Servants for a long, long time, they not only acqui honorable lives in both cases. Personally in their faith, and their commitment to their families and their commitment to their states and to their political philosophies. From time to time we have to say that about people who come into the public arena. It was a bit more spirited than i anticipated knowing theyd be sitting at a table together. Its a lot harder to get in their faces kaine created the tone of the debate. Antagonist antagonistic. Pence did not seem to attack. Early on, questions about judgment, it was Hillary Clinton, but for the most part the end it looked like kaine got under pences skin a little bit. Its interesting, though, because kaine obviously made that strategic decision and if theres anything thats bubbles ing up from this debate already its kaines demeanor which is funny because i remember your famous meet the press interview where you said, youre known as being boring. Hes like, boring is great. He wasnt boring i think thats what anything quotable tonight . Anything you know, pretty much played out the way i thought it would, but i must say i also thought it played out more effectively than i expected from both candidates points of view. They both made their brief extremely well i thought, and the question is did they move anybody to their side that wasnt there already . Effectively playing to their constituencies. All right. That is going to do it for our coverage of analysis continues right now on msnbc. Also on nbcnews. Com. And a full wrapup of all the overnightfallout tomorrow morning on today. 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