humanitarian crisis. and that s what governor pence was referring to. and mr. trump said and he said the united states might have to use force. governor pence the united states might he might have to. and donald trump said tonight i disagree with that. and i haven t spoken with him. about that particular aspect of it since the debate. that is true p they ve spoken many times this week. but let me be clear. on tv on your network today cnn s jake tapper took tim kaine to account because he couldn t answer a simple question about what hillary clinton said in the e-mails about having open borders. we know she s for open borders but the only way we know it now is because we saw it in her e-mails we did hear something extraordinary from donald trump today. he said if he s elected president he will ask the justice department to name a special prosecutor to go after hillary clinton. and then he went one step further and said he would arrest her and lock her up he would put he
essentially. and hillary clinton making the case as she said repeatedly, i keep telling you, he s not fit to be president. i think people will remember that just because it was so vivid and so tense. and you were kind of riveted. there are other times during the debate frankly when you were not riveted because they were kind of reverting to talking points or in the case of donald trump just kind of talking sometimes, right? because second thing i think people will take away is the i would put her in jail. if i m elected president, i m going to call a special prosecutor to look into your affairs. and you belong in jail. talk about banana republic. that s unprecedented in american politics. there s a reason why presidents don t weigh in on anybody else s legal cases let alone threatening to prosecute a person.
respect, members of this extended on-air family use the word dark, going into tonight, coming out of tonight, what a dark small debate this felt like. sure was. i felt as if i was living on another planet that planet sure was dark. and what was particularly different about tonight s debate from, you know, other nights in debate history, i think one was the obvious open hostility between the two candidates. they didn t even shake hands at the beginning. usually at least there is some pretense of friendliness or at least civility. this was devoid of humor from beginning to end. i think you can go through all the debates, back to 1960, you will not find that. and needless to say, you ve never seen a candidate before telling the other, if i were president, you would be in jail. and the irony is that 1976 for instance, president ford, there was a special prosecutor looking into that administration, same
remember during the convention lock her up. lock her up, lock her up. and he kind of tried to quiet it a little at the convention because he was in presidential mode. now this was a primary campaign debate to me tonight and what he was doing was rallying the base by saying lock her up effectively, which he did also, calling her a liar multiple times and the devil. multiple times. and saying he d put her in jail. and he said she had hate in her heart. i don t think that s going to play very well with voters. i think what happened was he said i m throwing out the playbook and i m going with, as you point out, i m going with the material that s worked for me when i go out there and speak to these rallies. this line of prosecuting hillary clinton is something he s used in his rallies. this is not a new idea. he just raised it to the level of a debate point here. and my guess is it will resonate well with his base and it will antagonize the people he needs
it was a good one. i think the post debate the next 48 hours are going to be awesome for her. it will be terrible for him. we do all agree that he s at 40. he didn t convince a single person that wasn t with him to be for him. now, i m sure that people see that and he says yeah, i m going to put her in jail and 35, 37.5% of the country say that s great. the problem is, you can t win an election with 40%. you can t win this presidential election with 40%. you can t carry these nervous republicans in the senate and house races with 40%. honestly, and i mean i really examination of conscience, altar boy, i honestly don t think he did very well tonight. and i think that she engaged with people. and he needed to move the needle. he didn t move the needle at all. that is my honest opinion. cluck, i think james is responding to actually mostly to your analysis here in terms of saying sort of how well overall