Between donald trump and Hillary Clinton and if anyone thought donald trump was going to be con triet tonight, they were dead wrong. Wrong big time t started with a bombshell. Remember, friday, 4 00 eastern time, two days ago when 11 year old video surfaced of trumpru making vulgar remarks about women. He has since apologized by that apology left so many people unsatisfied, even makers much tictacs felt they had to releases statement. Now he is on the offensive. A political stunner, trump gathered three women w misconduct by former president bill clinton. He also invited those women, they are here inside the debate hall. Hillary clinton is facingg questions too about hacked pass ages that were released to her speaking to wall street. She it talks about the necessity to have those public and private positions on contentious issues. John dickerson, nobody thought this night would start like this. No matter how crazy a a debate night it forces decoror up on the mesesiness but we are now going to have a reality show debate. Donald trump, people wondered what kind of donald trump would show up. Rudy geul yani start giuliani compared him to st. Augustine, he would have that conversion, that has not happened at all. He brought this kowrsness. With this latee revelation i hope voters have seatbelts. Where when your mom said take the high road t is the road less memo today. Major garrett covers the Trump Campaign. What are you expecting . Well, gayle, senior trump advisors know the republican r nominee is in the middle of what they regard the riskiest act of defleks in modern president ialde history. Essentially telling the country that bill clinton sordid sexuala past is as important, fobly more important than what the country heard in that leaked video on friday about Donald Trumps attitude toward women. The risks are threefold. Ee it might raise questions about this election and deepen the divide between the Republican Party, nominated and trump himself. Nancy cordes is covering the Clinton Campaign. Nancy, how will Hillary Clinton deal with this. Well, she will weigh in on trumps comments at the start of the debate. Her campaign delibly chose not to have her say anything over the weekend to heighten the impact tonight standing there on stage next to donald trump. After the last debate i asked her what she would do if donald trump brought up her husba ba fast infidelity in this debate, he said he can run his campaign however he wants but her campaign insist this is a strategy that will back fire. Lets go now down to the stage for this debate. Good evening. Im Martha Raddatz from abc news. Im Anderson Cooper from cnn. He want to welcome you to washton university in vaint louis for the second president ial debate sponsored by the commission on president ialsi debates. Tonights debate is a townhallnh wants to directly ask the candidates questions, martha and i will ask followup questions but the night really belongs to the people in this room and to people across the country who have submitted questions online. 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 havent committed to a candidate. Each of them came here with questions they wanted to ask. And we saw those questions for the first time this morning. Anderson and i and our team from abc and cnn who have seen them. Both candidates will have two minutes to answer each audiencee and online question. We hope to get to as many questions as we can. So we have asked the audience here 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. Hello, hello. Hello. Thank you very much for being here, were going to begin with a question from one of the members in our townhall, each of you will have two minutes to respond to this coin toss so will you go first. T our first question comes from patrice brock. Patrice . Thank you, and good evening. The last president ial debate could have been rated as ma, mature audiences per tv parental guide lines. Knowing the educators viewing the president ial debate for students homework, do you feel you are modeling appropriate and positive behavior for todays youth. Well, thank you. I think that that is a very good question because ive heard from lots of teachers and parents about some of their concerns about some of the things that are being said and done in this campaign. And i think it is very important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because were good. And we are going to respect one another, lift each other up. We are going to b ways to celebrate our diversity. And were going to try to reach out to every boy and girl, as a 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. Thats why the slogan of my campaign is stronger together. Because i think if we work together, if we overcome the deviciveness that sometimes sets and instead we make some big goals. And i have set forth some big goals getting the economy to work for everyone, not just those at the top. 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 we go together to try to achieve them, theres nothing in my opinion that america cant do. So thats 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 the president for all americans. Regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion. I want us to heal our country and bring it together. Because that is, i think, the best way for us to get the future that our children and grand children deserve. Secretary clinton, thank you. Mr. Trump, you have two minutes. 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, this is a great land. Ive 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 made, when i watch whats happening with some horrible things like obamacare where your Health Insurance and health care is going up by numbers that are astronomical, 68 , 59 , 71 . When i look at the iran deal and how bad a deal it is for us. It is a onesided transaction, where were giving back 150 billion dollars to a terrorist state, really, the number one terrorist state. We have made them a strong country just three years ago. When i look at all of the things that i see and all of the potential that our country has, we have such tremendous potential, whether its in business and trade where we are doing so badly. Last year we had an almost 800 billion dollar trade deficit. In other words, trading with other countries. We had an 800 billion deficit. Its hard to believe, inconceivable. You say who is making these deals . Were going to make great trade were going to have a strong border. Were going to bring back law and order. Just today policemen from shot, two killed. 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. Ti but i want to do things that havent been done including fixing and making our inner cities better for the africanamerican citizens that and i look forward to doing it, its called make America Great again. Thank you, mr. Trump. The question from patrice was about are you both modod elevatorring positive and appropriate behaviors for todays youth. We received a lot of questions online, mr. Trump, about the tape that was released on friday. As you can imagine. You called what you said locker room banter. You described kissing women without consent, grabbing their again genitals, that is sexual assault. You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that . No, i didnt say that at all. What was said. This was locker room talk. Im not proud of it. I apologized to my family, apologized to the American People. Certainly im not proud of it. But this is locker room talk. You know, when we have a world where you have isis chopping off heads, where you have and frankly drowning people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible, horrible sights all over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like anything like this. The carnage all around the world. And they look and they see. Can you imagine the people that are, frankly, doing so well against us with isis. And they look at our country and they see what is going on. Yes, im very embarrassed by it, i hate it. But its locker room talk. And its one of those things. I will knock the hell out of isis. Were going to defeat isis. Isis happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left because of bad judgement. And i will tell so mr. Trump. And we should get on to much more important things and much bigger things. Just for the record, though, are you saying that what you said on that bus 11 years ago, that you did not actually kiss women without consent or grope women without consent. I have Great Respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than i do. Do so for the record are you saying you never did that. I said things that, frankly, you hear these things. Theyre said. And i was embarrassed by it. But i have tremendous respect for women. Me. And i will tell you. No, i have not. And i will tell you that im going to make our country safe. Were going to have borders from our country which we dont have now. People are pouring into our country. And theyre coming in from the middle east and other places. Were going to make america safe again. Were going to make America Great again, but were going to make america safe again. And were going to make america wealthy again, because if you dont do that, it just it sounds harsh to say, but we have to build up the wealth. Other nations are taking our wealth. Thank you, mr. Trump. Thats what i want to talk about. Secretary clinton, do you want to respond . Well, like everyone else, i have spebt 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,ie principles. But i never questioned their 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. What we all saw and heard on friday was done ald talking about women, what he thinksnk about women, what he does to women, and he has said that the video doesntse 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. Weve seen him rate women on their appearance, ranking them from one to ten. Weve seen him embarrass women on tv and on twitter. Grading a former Miss Universe in the harshest, most personal terms. So yes, this is who donald trump is. But its not only women, and its not only this video that raises questions about his fitness to be our president. Because he has also targeted immigrants, africanamericans, latinos, people with disabilities, pows, muslims and so many others. So this is without donald trump is. And the question for us, the question our country must answer is that 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 indeed to the entireir world. That america already is great good. And we will work with one another, and we will celebrateeb 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 so fortunate enough to become your president. And we want to get to some questions online. Am i allow todz respond to yes, you can respond to that. Its just words, folks. Its just words. Ds those words, i have been hearing for many words. I heard them when they were running for the senate in new york where hillary was going to bring back jobs to upstate new york and she failed. I have heard them where hillary is constantly talking about the inner cities of our country, which are a disaster, educationwise, jobwise, africanamericans, im going to help the latinos, hispanics, im going to help the inner cities. Shes done a terrible job for the africanamericans. She wants their vote and she does nothing. And then she comes back four years later. We saw that first hand when she was United States senator. She campaigned where the. Mr. Trump, 34r trump, i want to get to audience questions and online questions. So she is allowed to do that but im not allowed to respond. Youre going to get respond right now. Sounds fair. This tape is generating intense interest, in just 48t hours its become the single most talked about story of the entire 2016 election on facebook. With millions and millions of people discussing it on the social network. As we said a moment ago, we do want to bring in questions from voters around the country via social media and our first on this topic, jeff from ohio asks on facebook, trump says the so mr. Trump, let me add to that, when you walked off that bus at age 59, were you a different man or did that behavior continue until just recently . And you have two minutes for this. That was locker room talk, i told you. That was locker room talk. Im not proud of it. I am a person who has Great Respect for people, for my family, for the people of this country. And certainly im 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. Hi was what he has done toto women, 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 who is a old, was raped, at 12. Her client, she represented, got him off and shes seen laughing on two separate occasions laughing at the girl who was raped. Kathy shelton that young woman is here with us tonight. So dont tell me about words. I am absolutely, i apologizedlo for those words. But it is things that people say. But what president clinton did, he was license to practice law. He had to pay an 850,000 dollar fine to one of the women. En paula jones, who is also here tonight. And 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. applause applause. Secretary clinton, you have two minutes. Well, 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. Instead of answering peoples questions, talking about our agenda, laying out the plans that we have, that we think can make a better life and a better country. Thats his choice. When i hear Something Like that, i am reminde Michelle Obama advised us all. When they go low, you go high. cheers and applause us and look, if this were just about one video, maybe what he is saying tonight, would be understandable. But everyone can draw their own conclusions at this point about whether or not the man in the respects women. But he never apologizes for anything to anyone. He never apologized to mr. And mrs. Khan the gold star family whose son captain khan 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 whos said he couldnt be trusted to be a judge because his parents were, quote, 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 and he needs to take responsibility for his actions and his words. Well, you owe the president an apology because as you know very well, your campaign sydney blumenthal, he is another real winner that you have, and he is the one that got this started along with your campaign manager. And they were on Television Just two weeks ago, saying exactly that. So you really owe him an apology. You are the one that sent the pictro sent the pictures around with president obama in a search garb, that was long before i was ever involved so you actually know an apology. Number two, Michelle Obama, ive gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And i got to see some of the most vicious commercials ive ever seen of michele Michelle Obama talking about, hillary. So you talk about friend, go back and take a look at those commercials. Square, unlike the Bernie Sanders race where you won but not fair and square, in my opinion. And all you have to do is take a look at wikileaks and just see what they said about Bernie Sanders. And see what deborah wassermanschultz had in mind. Because Bernie Sanders between superdelegates and deborah wassermanschultz never had a chance. And i was so surprised to see him sign on with the devil. But when you talk about apology, i think the one that you shouldl really be apologizin a the thing that you should be apologizing for are the 3 3,000 emails that you deleted, and that you assad acid washed. And then the two boxes of emaill and other things last week that were taken from an office and are now missing. And i will tell you what, i didnt think i would say this, but