for people seated around them, and i didn t think hillary did a particularly good job of connecting with the audience as well. so i think the real losers last night in the debate was the town hall, the kind of different format that that debate brings, where an audience is a major component. and james, i mean, nine days is the final debate, assuming it takes place, and no reason to believe it won t. do you expect to see donald trump using the same strategy or i mean, this is obviously not a town hall format. chris wallace is a single moderator. i guess there s no way to really know. i mean, nine days in this election is a lifetime. it is true. we don t know whether he ll show up. we don t know whether he ll have a team of advisers. i will say, as i was saying last night online, i thought that actually the format last night, i thought the moderators did a good job of including the audience and being able, also, to persistently follow lines of argument. i thought they set a good exa
though the building s market value is going up. if trump can add up enough on-paper losses year by year, he can basically erase his taxable income from the property itself and even income from other trump operations, like licensing, leasing, and tv reality shows. money, money, money, money reporter: real estate expert richard lipton says it wouldn t be surprising if all these paper losses reduced donald trump s federal income tax to zero. so if you re running a tv show, call it the apprentice, and you have real estate and it s generating losses, the tax losses from the real estate can be used to offset the income from your tv show. reporter: and the losses can be huge, even when your income is huge. thus, in 1995, donald trump files a tax return with a $916 million loss, but still, apparently, lives like a king. don t blame trump, says tax
analyst and journalist lee shepard, blame the politicians who wrote the rules to benefit big developers. that s why we say that commercial real estate is self-sheltering. that s why we look at a guy like donald trump and we say, is he at zero? it s like, yeah, he s a zero. drew, so we know we had this huge write-off in 1995, and could have prevented him from paying any federal income tax or personal income tax for many, many years, it sounds like it s feasible that he could still not be paying federal income tax. yes, and that could be what s preventing donald trump from releasing these tax records, not that audit that he talks about. see, anderson, there could be a huge flow of income coming through the front door of trump s organizations, but because of all of those tax advantages and write-downs and depreciation he talks about, the end result could be zero in terms of his federal tax liability. these experts say nothing illegal about it. in fact, nothing particularly special a
of mail about this in the last 24 hours, from women, who felt that donald trump s looming up behind hillary clinton in this huge way was something that just was, for many female mainly female viewers, just this atavistically terrifying thing. i mentioned, we talked about jane goodell and a primate analogy, but this is something he may have done as a dominance display, but it did not go over well with female viewers. you ve said debates can t win elections, but they can lose them. how do you think each candidate handled the format last night? well, the real looursz night was the town hall audience. i mean, they didn t get to ask have many questions, and they were seemingly ignored and lost in the back and forth between trump and clinton. i thought trump got so intentionally personal that it probably was very uncomfortable