Stage. Mark as another colleague said, the trump they are emphasizing policy tonight. John they are going about it in a strange, not conventional way. Mark it is not an exaggeration to say that going into the debate before the video was released, the talk was he must win or his campaign and chance of winning are zero. Even his supporters. We now have the prospect of trump needing a big performance under extraordinary, unusual, peculiar conditions. To this moment previously, this thing that happened on friday with the videotape put him in a position where he already had to win the debate. The odds got longer against him, and in the context of what he has done today, many people are going to be looking at him, many republicans, saying, what are you doing . Mark if you cant get excited for this, if youre not interested in president ial politics but in humanity or in how people perform under pressure, i dont know what you are waiting for. Tonight will be an epic battle between who are clinton and donald trump here at washington university. You see their bill clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, who knows he is going to be discussed shortly in terms that will likely be vivid and personal. Will ask you this we have said it dozens of times, Hillary Clinton has been waiting for this, steeling herself for it. She prepares like crazy. Im sure all of these issues have been litigated in practice, but it is different when it is gametime and you have to get in front of 60 Million People. This isg to be going to feel not like a debate. This is going to be a different thing for her. Mark as meticulous and careful as her team is, certainly they have tried to dig up every possible way donald trump could broach these issues. They probably did not think of the press conference. Is this a situation in which all the preparation in the world can truly prepare . You see a vodka trump and eric and ivanka trumpdka and eric trump and melania trump. This is an unbreakable situation. John the second president ial debate is about to begin. We are going to be broadcasting that live on Bloomberg Television and on twitter. Is going to be on live on the stream all night long. We are going to be back afterwards. We are going to the debate hall now. Ms. Raddatz good evening, i am Arthur Raddatz from abc news i am Martha Raddatz from abc news. Mr. Cooper and im Anderson Cooper from cnn. We want to welcome you to the second debate. Tonights debate is a town hall format, which gives voters the chance to directly ask questions. Martha and i will ask followup questions, but the night belongs to people in this room and across the country who have submitted questions. Ms. Raddatz the people you see on this stage were chosen by the gallup organization. They are all from the st. Louis area and told gallup they have not committed to a candidate. Each of them came here with questions they want to ask, and we saw those questions for the first time this morning. Anderson and i and our team from abc and cnn are the only ones who have seen them. Both candidates will have two minutes to answer each question. We hope to get to as many questions as we can, so we have asked the audience not to slow things down with any applause. Except for now. Ladies and gentlemen, the republican nominee for president , donald j. Trump, and the democratic nominee for president , Hillary Clinton. [applause] mr. Cooper thank you very much for being here. We are going to begin with a question from one of the members in our town hall. Each of you will have two minutes to respond. Secretary clinton, you will go first. The first question comes from patrice. Thank you and good evening. The last president ial debate could have been rated as ma, mature audiences. Educators assign students to view as homework. Do you feel you are modeling appropriate behavior for todays youth . Ms. Clinton thank you. Are you a teacher . Yes. Ms. Clinton that is a very appropriate question, because i have heard from a lot of teachers concerns about things that are being done in this campaign. I think it is important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we are good. And we are going to respect one another, lift each other up. We are going to be looking for ways to celebrate our diversity. And we are going to try to reach out to every boy and girl, as well as every adult, to bring them in to working on behalf of our country. I have a very positive and optimistic view about what we can do together. That is why the slogan of my campaign is stronger together. I think if we work together, if we overcome the divisiveness that sometimes sets americans against one another and instead, we make some big goals i have set forth some big goals, getting the economy to work for everyone, making sure that we have the best Education System from preschool through college, and making it affordable and so much else. If we set those goals and go together to try to achieve them, there is nothing, in my opinion, that america cant do. That is why i hope that we will come together in this campaign. Obviously, im hoping to earn your vote. Im hoping to be elected in november. And i can promise you, i will work with every american. I want to be a president for all americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion. I want to heal our country and bring it together, because that is the best way for us to get the future that our children and grandchildren deserve. Mr. Cooper thank you. Mr. Trump, you have two minutes. Mr. Trump i actually agree with that, i agree with everything she said. I began this campaign because i was so tired of seeing such foolish things happen to our country. This is a great country. I have gotten to know the people of the country over the last year and a half that i have been doing this as a politician. I cannot believe im saying that about myself, but i guess i have been a politician. And my whole concept was to make America Great again. When i watch the deals being made, when i watch what is happening with some horrible things, like obamacare, where your health care is going up by numbers that are astronomical, 68 , 59 , 71 . When i look at the iran deal and how bad it is for us, a onesided transaction where we billion toback 150 the number one terrorist state. We have made them a strong country from a week country just three years ago. When i look at all the things i see and all the potential our country has, we have such tremendous potential. Whether it is in business and trade, where we are doing so badly. Last year, we had an almost 800 billion trade deficit. It is hard to believe. Inconceivable. You say, who is making these deals . Youre going to make great trade deals, have a strong border, bring back law and order. A policeman was just shot, and this is happening on a weekly basis. We have to bring back respect to law enforcement. At the same time, we have to take care of people on all sides. We need justice. I want to do things that have not been done, including fixing in making our inner cities better for the africanamerican citizens that are so great, and for the latinos and hispanics. That, it isrd to called make America Great again. Mr. Cooper the question from patrice was about, are you both modeling positive and appropriate behaviors from todays youth. Ofhave received a lot questions online about the tape that was released on friday. You called what you said locker room banter. You describe kissing women without consent and grabbing their genitals. That is sexual assault. You grab you brad that you aggedsexually you br that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that . Mr. Trump that is not what happened. This is locker room talk. I have apologized, and im not proud of it, but this is locker room talk. In a world where you have isis chopping off heads, wars and horrible sites all over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like Medieval Times we have not seen anything like this, carnage all over the world. Can you imagine the people that are frankly doing so well against us with isis, and they look at our country and see what is going on . Im very embarrassed by it, i hate it, but it is locker room talk, and it is one of those things. I will knock the hell out of isis. We are going to defeat isis. Isis happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left because of bad judgment. And i will tell you, i will take care of isis. Mr. Cooper mr. Trump mr. Trump we will get on to more important and bigger things. Mr. Cooper just for the record, are you saying that you did not actually kiss women or grope women without consent . Mr. Trump nobody has more respect for women than i do. You hear these things are said. And i was embarrassed by it, but i have tremendous respect for women and women have respect for me. No, i havee not. Not. And i will tell you, i will make our country safe. We will have borders around our country. They are coming in for the middle east and other places. We are going to make America Great again and safe again. And we are going to make america wealthy again, because if you dont do that, it sounds harsh to say, but we have to build up the wealth of our nation other nations mr. Cooper thank you, mr. Trump. Secretary clinton, do you want to respond . Ms. Clinton like everybody else, i have spent a lot of time thinking over the last 48 hours about what we heard and saw. With prior republican nominees, i disagreed with them on politics, policies, principles, i never questioned their fitness to serve. Donald trump is different. I said starting back in june that he was not fit to be president and commander in chief. And many republicans and independents have said the same thing. Ont we all saw and heard friday was donald talking about women, what he thinks about women, what he does to women, and he has said that the video does not represent who he is. But i think it is clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is. Because we have seen this throughout the campaign. We have seen him insult women. Rate women onim their appearance, ranking them from one to 10. We have seen him and there is women on tv and on twitter. They saw him after the first debate spent nearly a week denigrating a former Miss Universe in the harshest, most personal terms. So yes, this is who donald trump is. But it is not only women and it is not only this video that raises questions about his fitness to be our president. Because he has also targeted immigrants, africanamericans, latinos, people with , muslims, andpows so many others. This is who donald trump is. The question our country must this is not who we are. That is why, to go back to your question, i want to send a message we all should to every boy and girl and the entire world that america already is great, but we are great because we are good. And we will respect one another, and we will work with one another, and we will celebrate our diversity. These are very important values to me, because this is the america that i know and love. And i can pledge to you tonight that this is the america that i will serve if im fortunate enough to become your president. Ms. Raddatz we want to get to some questions from online. Ms. Clinton . Mr. Trump can i respond to that . It is just words, it is just words. Ive been hearing them for many years. I heard them when they were running for the senate in new york when hillary was going to bring back jobs to upstate new york, and she failed. Where hillaryhem is constantly talking about the inner cities of our country, which are disaster education wise and job wise, safety wise, in every way possible. Im going to help the africanamericans, latinos, hispanics. Im going to help with the inner cities. She has done a terrible job for the africanamericans. She wants your vote and she does nothing. We saw that firsthand when she was the United States senator. She campaigned ms. Raddatz mr. Trump i want to get to audience questions. Mr. Trump so she is allowed to do that, but im not allowed to respond . Sounds fair. Ms. Raddatz this tape is generating intense interest. That has become the single most talked about story of the entire facebook, withn millions and millions of people discussing it on the social network. As we set a moment ago, we do want to bring in questions from voters around the country via social media. Our first question on this topic is, trump says the campaign has changed him. When did that happen . Mr. Trump, let me add to that. When you walked off the bus at the age of 59, were you a different man, or did that behavior continue until just recently . You have two minutes. Mr. Trump i just told you, that was locker room talk. Im not proud of it. I am a person who has Great Respect for people, my family, the people of this country. Certainly i am not proud of it, but that was something that happened if you look at bill clinton, far worse. Mine are words, and his was action. There has never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that has been so abusive to women. So you can say anyway you want to say it, but bill clinton was abusive to women. Hillary clinton attacked those same women and attacked them viciously. Four of them are here tonight. One of the women, a wonderful woman, at 12 years old, was raped at 12. Her client she represented got him off, and she is seen laughing at two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped. Kathy sheldon, that young woman, is here with us tonight. Dont tell me about words. Absolutely, i apologize for those words. But it is things that people say. But what president clinton did he was impeached, he lost his license to practice law, he had to pay an 850,000 fine one of the women, pol a jones, who is also here tonight pollock paula jones, who is also here tonight. When hillary talks about words that i said years ago, i think she should be ashamed of herself. [applause] ms. Raddatz please hold the applause. Secretary clinton, you have two minutes. Ms. Clinton first, let me start by saying that so much of what he just said is not right, but he gets to run his campaign anyway he chooses. He gets to decide what he wants to talk about and set of answering peoples questions, talking about our agenda, laying out the plans that we have that we think can make a better life and better country. That is his choice. When i hear Something Like that, i am reminded of what my friend, Michelle Obama am a advised us all when they go low, you go high. [applause] [cheers] ms. Clinton if this were just about one video, maybe what he is saying tonight would be understandable. That everyone can draw their own conclusions at this point, about whether or not the man on the video or the man on the stage respects women. But he never apologizes for anything or to anyone. He never apologized to mr. And , the gold star family whose son died in the line of duty in iraq. And donald insulted and attacked them for weeks over their religion. He never apologized to the distinguished federal judge who , but donaldindiana said he could not be trusted to be a judge because his parents were mexican. He never apologized to the reporter that he mimicked and mocked on national television, and our children were watching. And he never apologized for the racist lie that president obama was not born in the United States of america. He owes the president an apology, he owes our country and to take and he needs responsibility for his actions and his words. The president owe and apology, because as you know very well, your campaign sidney blumenthal, another real winner that you have he is the one who got this started. They were on television saying exactly that. You really owe him an apology. You are the one who sent the pictures around with president obama and a certain garb. That was long before i was involved, so you actually owe him an apology. Number two, Michelle Obama. Have gone to see the commercials that they have done on you, and i have gone to see some of the most vicious commercials i have ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, hillary. You talked about a friend go back and take a look at those commercials. A race you lost fair and square, unlike the Bernie Sanders race, where you won but not fair and square, in my opinion. All you have to do is take a look at wikileaks and see what they said about Bernie Sanders and see what Deborah Wasserman schultz had in mind, because between superdelegates and her, he never had a chance. I was so surprised to see him sign on with the devil. But when you talk about apology, i think the one you should really be apologizing for our the 33,000 emails that you deleted and that you acid washed. And then the two boxes of emails and other things last week that were taken from an office and are now missing. What, i didell you not think i would say this, but im going to say it, and i hate to say it. But if i win, im going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception, there has never been anything like it. And we are going to have a special prosecutor. When i go out and speak, the people of this country are furious. That opinion, the people are the longterm workers at the fbi are furious. There has never been anything like this were emails and you get a sabena you get a subpoena, and after getting a subpoena, you delete 33,000 emails and then you bleach them, as you would say, a variant expensive process. So we are going to get a special prosecutor in look into it. Because peoples lives have been destroyed for doing 1 5 of what you have done, and you should be ashamed of yourself. Everything he just said is absolutely false, but im not surprised. Ms. Raddatz the audience needs to calm down here. Ms. Clinton in the first debate, i told people it would be impossible to fact check on it all the time. Fact check donald all the time. I would not be able to talk about everything i want to do to make lives better people. Go to my website, you can fact check him in realtime. At the first debate, we had millions of people Fact Checking , so i expect we will have millions more. It is it is just awfully good that someone with a temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law and our country. Mr. Trump because you would be in jail. [cheers] mr. Cooper we want to remind the audie