i really find it almost unimaginable that someone can stand and just tell, you know, a falsehood after a falsehood and, you know, you all remember politifact said that he was the most untruthful candidate they d ever evaluated. hillary clinton there talking to reporters on her plane last night after the debate. i m joined now by former michigan governor jennifer granholm, senior advisor to correct the record. it s a pro-hillary clinton super pac. good to see you. thank you for being with me. thank you so much. the new york times called it ugly. washington post bitter. l.a. times called it nasty. what do you call it? a victory for hillary clinton. i think that donald trump pulled the debate as hard as he could into the gutter and she attempted to keep it on the higher ground, not just citing michelle obama but not responding to the bait that he was continuing to throw out
with voters for the latest instai installment in the up for grabs series. it s like a ping-pong match for who should apologize. right now, donald trump is not hitting hillary clinton for the e-mails. they ve already gone through this sexual assault accusation against donald trump. who s winning at this point? nobody s answering any questions. i don t think either one of them is doing a very good job of debating anything. just mud slinging. kind of pointless. i mean, honestly, hillary clinton is probably winning because she s not. donald trump is having diarrhea of the mouth. i can t stand democrats, but donald trump is puking all over himself. you say this and you re a republican. absolutely. but it wouldn t change my vote at all. but yeah, he s just throwing up in his mouth. you a republican too?
mentioned of the 31 undecided voters in the room, seven walked away, still undecided. how can that be? at this point, 30 days out, people still haven t made up their mind yet. actually, it was more than 7. 7 thought were up decided in the debate. it was much more in terms of who were unsure of who they re going to vote for. they re torn by these two candidates flaws. they like trump s message of change. they understand it. there s attraction to it. they like hillary clinton s experience. but they have fundamental concerns and i think the challenge here is hillary clinton is in a strong position post that debate but got to start continuing, and did in that debate, got to continue to make that positive argument about how she s going to lead the country forward. let the republicans fight it out in the gutter. that s fine. it s going to rally his base but not moving moderates or independents. that s what she needs to focus
she was rattled at all. she didn t appear to be. she didn t appear to be to me. i thought she was clear and i m glad she didn t rise to the bait. i think she said when, quoting mrs. obama, when they go low, you go high. she kept trying to bring it back and was mostly successful in answering the people s questions about affordable college, wages, and i hope in the future, we see her speak with clarity and from a point of principle on immigration, on climate change, criminal justice reform. they were only a few miles from ferguson and i thought it would come up more. they didn t mention ferguson or civil unrest or what transpired in the city not one time, which you could argue that was more the fault of the moderators than the candidates. right. you had been on the receiving end of hillary clinton s attacks in a debate. there was a moment last night when i thought of you. this is the moment that she s talking about.
president, he would appoint a special prosecutor and investigator and put her in jail. this isn t the congo. that sounds like a third world dictator. i don t know what the fbi was considering doing six months ago sounds like that to you or any of your viewers. i heard that six months ago, officials at the fbi wanted to appoint a special prosecutor and begin an investigation into the clinton foundation and the obama administration shut him down. nbc s chief legal correspondent ari melber is here. we wanted to spend time talking about this. could a president, could a united states president direct the justice department to bring charges against hillary clinton? no. the president cannot order a specific criminal charge and what mike pence just said there is dangerous, especially coming after donald trump s pledge at the debate. mike pence just said, 6 months ago, the fbi was looking at this. exactly. non-partisan investigators and a republican fbi director, by the