Disaster. Donald says he knows more about isis than the generals. No, he doesnt. People like her, we have a divided nation. She has tremendous hate in her heart. Right. As i recall, that was something i said about Abraham Lincoln. And she lied. Now shes blaming the lie on the late great Abraham Lincoln. Thats one that i havent okay. Honest abe. Never lies. He wants to start, he can start. Go ahead, donald. No. Im a gentleman, hillary. Go ahead. I feel terrible. Was the debate last night . I thought it was tonight. Brian is joking. He was texting throughout the debate saying what did you think of that and that . Steve is live in st. Louis covering from pa that perspective. Thats right. The party is over. Everybody is sleeping in except lee. We have one guy, lee. Take a bow. Only trump will beat isis. Slowbuilding crowd. Its so funny when youre out there covering it the day of, theres tight security, the campus, all the kids are out there. All the college students. Believe me, there is tight security. There are 75 guys looking at lee right now. Afraid to pat him down. Good to know. You cant get too close to steve doocy. We have so many different angles to talk about. What a show. The show. The 95minute show, went a little bit over with two moderators, the town hall format. Donald trump who had his prepress conference with the four accusers of bill clinton there. The tension was extremely high. Yes. The debate lasted seven minutes past the hour and a half it was supposed to last. Many people werent sure if donald trump could recover. Personally, i thought he did a great job. What did you think, steve . Well, i thought donald trump won. After he had a couple of bad weeks out and about and it didnt look that way going in, because if you noticed as soon as they met on the stage, they didnt really meet on the stage. They were just on the same stage. They never shook hands. You could tell the tension was absolutely there. Because donald trump, everybody knew he was going to apologize. How big an apology was it going to be. Not only did he apologize and address the issue about the hot mike with billy bush, who by the way, apparently has been suspended by nbc. He went on to talk about Hillary Clintons husband who raped a woman. Heres all that in 1 26. This was locker room talk. Im not proud of it. I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American People. Certainly, im not proud of it. But this is locker room talk. Like everyone else, i spent a lot of time thinking over the last 48 hours about what we heard and saw. You know, with prior republican nominees for president , i disagreed with them on politics, policies, principles. But 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. If you look at bill clinton, far worse, minor words an his was action. His was what hes done to women. Theres never been anybody in the history of politics and this nation thats been so abusive to women. So you can say anyway you want to say it, but bill clinton was abusive to women. Hillary clinton a takttacked th same women. Four of them here tonight. I will tell you that when hillary brings up a point like that and she talks about words that i said 11 years ago, i think its disgraceful and i think she should be ashamed of herself if you want to know the truth. That was the moment everyone was wondering how after the taped piece where he apologized how he was going to handle it. The moderators got to it right away. I thought he was calm. His delivery was even throughout the 95 minutes. I thought if you could handle that question, bring on taxes. Thats pretty much made it clear, i think everybody else made it clear, he was not going to snap and implode. It was game on. Steve, we also talked about the technique of taking a question in and then ending with how you wanted to end it. He also showed he had that skill. He didnt really demonstrate that at hofstra at all. He did it in the first question there. It was very good. He was listening to his debate coach and it sounds like he had a bunch of them. Whatever the question was, he would answer it in 20 seconds and spend the next 1 40 redirecting to talk about something he wanted to talk about. He said right out of the gate, first question, i hope he apologizes and addresses that hot mike issue. He started, though, talking about policy and what he wants to do differently. He talked about obamacare the iran deal, trade, stronger borders, law and order. He said i want to make America Great again. After that, thats when he apologized. He said it was wrong, it was locker room talk, we heard it. I apologize to my family. Its embarrassing. What was telling to me, they never brought it up again. Its almost like america has already moved on from this in many ways. I know it was an awful comment. All my women friends are appalled by that. Maybe he can bounce back from this because it was very telling that they never brought it up again later in the debate. As long as theres no more tapes. Any more tapes, theres rumors this was a rumor before it happened, ainsley. The other thing, the stuff that were seeing about mark burnett saying anyone who says show me 8 million bucks. David brock saying ill give you millions of dollars if you give us some of these tapes. So if there are more tapes or in howard stern shows, it will be a fascinating 29 days. I thought the moment that meant the most was after the debate when mike pence tweeted his full support. Because you know the indiana newspaper had that story that he was ready to drop out. If he had dropped out, i dont care what happened in the debate. It was over. Hell be joining us later in the show. The abe lincoln comment, too, we havent talked about that this morning. Well be talking about that for the next three hours. She was pretty clever because that was not planned. He didnt know that. Came back with abe lincoln was honest abe and youre lying. Sure. Listen, weve got two honest guys on the set with us. John roberts and mike emanuel. Listen, it was tense with the trump people over the last couple of days. Ill tell you. How are they reacting . Worst nightmare come true leading into this debate. You want Bad Information to get out there, damage a candidate, get it out there a couple of days before a very important debate. You wonder how the debate would have gone if that was not an issue. Donald trump seemed far more, if not prepared, more ready to use his preparations on the debate stage. Didnt miss many opportunities. Maybe one when Hillary Clinton was talking about energy independence. He could have gone after her to say the reason why is because of the fracking revolution. Youd like to reign that back in. In the overall, once he got past that horribly messy beginning and all the questions that he needed to come up with an answer for, i thought he did much better here than back at hofstra. On the other side, Hillary Clinton did not have a good night. She was on the defensive for a lot of things. Had to answer about obamacare. Had the accusers, her husbands accusers in the audience and her campaign. I think that was designed to rattle her. They said it didnt rattle her. They were ready for that. She told reporters on the flight back to new york it was about what she expected in terms of the debate. She was asked about the roaming donald trump. There was a lot of buzz about that. She said it was a small stage. She was aware he was moving around. It was a challenging night. So you think her campaign is going to look ahead to the Chris Wallace debate to see if they can turn it around. You mentioned the buzz. Did they talk about the fact that a fly landed on her head for a little bit . I saw that picture. Ive not heard feedback about that. Youve never had a fly land on your forehead . Were out in the woods for two days. I there. Ainsley and brian, you have questions for john and mike. I thought it was interesting before the debate, i got all these messages on my phone. Fox news alert, donald trump was having a press conference with all the ladies accusing bill clinton. He did that to remind everyone who is watching that the open mike thing is one thing. These were women he paid one woman 850,000. Kathleen wily was whether who he allegedly groped in the oval office and another one he who accused him of rape. She was ape raped at 12 years old and Hillary Clinton represented as a defense attorney the rapist. They were all sitting in the debate hall watching this debate. Then i the camera pans over, theres bill clinton and their daughter chelsea. That had to rattle her if shes up on stage and sees these women. Not as much as it would have ainsley if the initial plan gone through. The initial plan was to seat them in the family box on the trump side of things. The folks who were in charge of the commission on president ial debates said thats not going to happen. They sat in the audience. You know, you got to wonder, how is this going to play with independent women. They look at this and say, you know what, donald trump is right. We should hold Hillary Clinton accountable for what her husband did in the 830s and 90s or will they say he overplayed his hand here. Another cliche, that remains to be seen in the days ahead. Whether or not it will work go ahead. Uncomfortable moments for both families. Youre hearing about his video with billy bush and so im sure that was uncomfortable for his daughter and for his wife. Right. And then for former president clinton, it must have been very uncomfortable to see the women in the room. Uhoh. What are they doing here . The campaign did complain. You cant let them in the front row. Oh, yeah, they were seated. They were initially going to try to shake bill clintons hand when he came in. Whoa, what a photoop. We pretty much covered it. Well change topics for the rest of the show. Thanks a lot. All right. Guys, stay right there. When we come back from st. Louis and new york, let me tell you whats straight ahead. Donald trump taking on Hillary Clinton last night over who needs to apologize more. And rattled not only Hillary Clinton but her staffers who took things a little too personally. Wait until you see the tweet making headlines. Oh, its bad. Tucker carlson weighs in. Hes never heard words like this before. He might be rattled. What if one piece of kale could protect you from diabetes . crunch what if one situp could prevent Heart Disease . One. Wishful thinking, right . But there is one step you can take to help prevent another serious disease, pneumococcal pneumonia. 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This is what youve seen from the very beginning. Everyone who runs against trump goes crazy in the end and loses control and starts babbling and saying things like that. They dont understand why hes not losing. Why is he still in the race . Im representing the most qualified person ever to breathe air against mentally deficient fascist, why are we in the polls. They dont understand its not about trump. Its about the frustrations of the american middle class. Because they dont get it, its inexplicab inexplicable. Steve, and tucker, as you know, he quickly apologized saying that doesnt represent us, they apologized. The other question was, after donald trump tried to get past the hot mike moment, which i think he effectively did, could hillary get past the email moment and would donald trump be prepared to take her on . I think the answer is yes. Listen. The thing that you should be apologizing for are the 33,000 emails that you deleted. If i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Its just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. Because youd be in jail. Pretty good at sniping. At that moment, they told tucker and everyone not to clap. The only time you could clap is when the candidates came out. The crowd went crazy. Anderson cooper was like, stop yelling. They liked that comment. Heres what you need to know. We went into the debate last night with the presumption that donald trump should be ashamed. His running mate and his wife among man others issued statements denouncing him. Shouldnt Hillary Clinton be ashamed . The merits of it all, you can decide for yourself. He changed the topic of the debate. Whenever youre in control of what we talk about, you are winning the conversation. Period. So his campaign, which was supposed to end during the debate, is still going, its a victory. Going to vegas, he put all his chips on red. If he did a bad job yesterday, it was going to be it was over. It was over. Even his campaign, even people who ho worked for him said this is the final stop of the trump train unless he can change tucker, what did he do differently in this debate that he didnt do in the first debate . He dominated it. He took a series of questions and answered them quite literally and got into the weeds. Better preparation. But also mentally. Leaving aside the details, he decided im going to talk about what im going to talk about. You win when you do that. Tucker, before you leave, say goodbye to lee. Lee and i are having a cup of coffee together. If it makes you feel any better, its one more than we have. Although, no one is about to get its early. Thanks, guys. The debate is done. Let the spin begin. We sent pete hegseth through the crowd to see what both sides are saying. Our assignment editor, ainsley. 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A few quick headlines right now. A Massive International terror plot targeting busy airports packed with travelers stopped overnight. After a threeday manhunt, the authorities in germany arresting the syrian refugee that they believe is behind that deadly plot. Police raiding his apartment where they found an arsenal of explosives and links to isis. Also breaking overnight, the u. S. Under attack possibly, again, by iran and international waters. Two rockets nearly taking out the u. S. S. Mason in the red sea. Our army says both were held missed their intended target. The rebels backed by iran and they denied carrying out that missile attack. It appears to be the latest form of intimidation by iran following this embarrassing time when they forced our sailors to their knees before making our men and women apologize and also you recall this, when their ships became dangerously close to our american ships. And finally, matthew marching out to sea but the storm is still wreaking havoc along the southeast. The death toll rising with at least 18 people dead in the United States as lifethreatening flooding remains a major threat here. Hundreds much rescues intensifying for people still stranded. Like this man being pulled out of a window up to the roof on his house. Its all water on the ground. Scenes like this are common. One from Central Florida up to virginia as matthew leaves behind a trail of destruction. Those are your headlines. See you back here. Ainsley . Thank you so much, heather. Donald trump facing tough questions about his hot mike moment right out of the gate. Watch. You called what you said locker room banter. You describe kissing women without consent, grabbing their genitals. You bragged that youve sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that . I didnt say that at all. I dont think you understood what you heard. This was locker room talk. Im not proud of it. I apologized to my family and to the American People. Certainly, im not proud of it. But this is locker room talk. How did you think he handled it . Here to break it down, amy hoechls and caitlin hugh i burns with real clear politics and brian benjamin. Thanks for being with us. How did you think he handled it . Ive been to locker rooms. Talking about grabbing womens genitals without their consent is what he needs to explain