about the rise of terrorism in the world, literally a foreign policy that s emboldened our enemies and abandoned our friends. people are struggling in this economy to make ends meet. they see in hillary clinton someone who wants to continue all of the same failed policies that have weakened america s place in the world and stifled our economy, and last night, donald trump foecused this debate, seemingly against all odds, focused this debate on the choice american people face four weeks from tomorrow. i m honored to be standing with him, and i m going to be fighting every day between now and election day to bring home a great victory for the american people. one of those tachks is to get the american people, not just to not want to vote for hillary clinton but to vote for donald trump. my mom is a lifetime republican and a catholic. before her party, she puts being treated as an equal and with respect. what she believes in before being a republican is she believes in me. and when i sa
is a sign, i m paraphrasing here, a sign of bias. that s how you know in her words that donald trump has won the debate. that said, it was certainly an inrstzing moment, something that hillary clinton herself addressed on the campaign plane right after the debate. i m going to move on then. kristen, i want to talk about the handshake that happened but didn t happen. no shake in the beginning. they shook at the end. what does this mean? you talk about the optics, and of course, you and hallie were talking about the fact that donald trump was sort of standing behind secretary clinton alt various moments. you could hear a gasp in the press file room when they didn t shake at the beginning of the debate. it s sort of unprecedented and it underscored the fact this was going to be an ugly debate. it certainly was. by the end, it ended on that question, when one of the people asked what did they admire about each other. so it sort of forced them to talk about the qualities that they admir
shape trump is in, the debate isn t about when we re analyzing this, the debate is never about can trump win the election. the standard has been reduced to, can trump make it through the next four weeks without getting removed from the ticket. over the weekend, everyone thought, oh, my gosh, he s not going to survive as the head of the ticket. and he didn t implode last night during the debate. so people are saying, okay, he may be able to survive as the head of the ticket. according to polling, 1 in 4 republicans still think he should not be head of the ticket. you cannot go into the general election with members of your own party believing you should not be the nominee, and win. he s not deg to win this election. but we just think it s a win for him because he still gets to be the nominee. i asked mike pence last night about donald trump s comments about jailing hillary. going after hillary around e-mails, people love that topic. but he took it to another level. check it out. h
joining me this morning. when we come back, last night s debate was either epic or an epic disaster. what does each campaign see as it best moments from the debate. first, you know what we do post debate. we re going to be fact checking. katie sanders joins me now. the first topic, how hillary clinton treated a child rape victim. one of the women who was a wonderful woman at 12 years old was raped. at 12. her client, she represented, got him off, and she s seen laughing on two separate occasions. laughing at the girl who was raped. katie, i have seen the trump ad on this, and it s brutal. is he telling the truth? his words are brutal, but this is not accurate. we rated his statement false. there is no audio of clinton laughing at that victim. he s referencing a recording where she did chuckle recalling
special prosecutor to investigate her and put her in jail. this isn t the congo. that sounds like a third-world dictator to me. i don t know what the fbi was considering doing six months ago sounds like that to you or any of your viewers. i thought that was one of the better moments of the debate last night. was that one of the better moments of the debate? i was actually shocked by it. it s unprecedented in american political history to have a major party nominee on stage declare that he will make sure that his opponent will go to jail. leave aside basic respect for due process and how our judicial system works. the idea that a president of the united states can just prejudge the outcome of a judicial process and say i m going to mete out a punishment, put you behind bars. that s what he said, we want to put this person in charge of the investigatory powers of this country, the proscuatoryial powers of the country, the