Trump says will support Hillary if she wins; accuses Clinton, Obama of creating a vacuum for ISIS

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• 27 Sep 2016, 08:12 AM

  Host:

  Last question - will you accept the outcome of the election? 

  Clinton: I will. Clinton asks for support.

  Trump:  I want to make America great again. We are a nation seriously troubled. 

  Trump says if Clinton wins, I will absolutely support her.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 08:07 AM

  Trump:

  To be the president. You need to have stamina.. you have to be able to negotiate trade deals. You have to be able to do too many different things. I don't think Hillary has a stamina.

  She (Clinton) has got experience, but bad experience.

  Clinton: Trump 'can talk to me about stamina' once he matches her diplomatic experience.

  Clinton: This is a man who has called women "pigs, slobs and dogs". Women don't deserve equal pay. One of the worst thing he said to a women in a beauty contest...He loves beauty contest. He calls her Piggy...

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 07:58 AM

  Clinton:

  Assure Japan, South Korea that US will honor mutual Defense Treaties

  Trump: Nuclear weapons are the greatest threat to the world, not global warming. China needs to deal with North Korea nuclear threat.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 07:50 AM

  On ISIS and homegrown terror cases​

  Trump: Islamic state "beating us at our own game" on internet. US should focus on taking out Islamic State leadership. Obama and Clinton created a 'vacuum' with the way US got out of Iraq.

  Clinton: We need intelligent surge in looking for every scrap of information in homegrown terror cases. We need to intensify US air strikes against Islamic state, work with Turkish and Kurdish forces. We need to work more closely with allies on counterterrorism, We need to work with Muslim communities at home and abroad, not alienate them.

  Trump: Working with middle east for many years, and it's still 'a total mess'. NATO started focusing on counterterrorism because of my criticis. Clinton was there when Islamic State organization was 'a little infant' and is not going to stop them now.

  Trump says he has much better judgment, 'a much better temperament' than Clinton

  "Whoo - ok", Clinton responds on temperament claim.

  Clinton: Iran nuclear deal shows her strengths in diplomacy

  Trump: The deal with Iran will lead to nuclear problem.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 07:46 AM

  Clinton on cybersecurity:

   There's no doubt Russia has used cyber attacks on all sorts of US organizations. Was shocked when trump 'invited' Putin to hack into Americans. US will not sit idly by and let hackers go after information.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 07:29 AM

  Clinton:

   Trump's 'racist birther lie' cannot be dismissed so easily. Trump 'has long record of engaging in racist behavior.' 

  Trump: Settled racial discrimination lawsuit 'with no admission of guilt,' it's just one of those things.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 07:26 AM

  I want to get on defeating ISIS, I want to get on to creating Jobs:

  Trump

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 07:12 AM

  Clinton and Trump on Race and Violence

  Clinton: Unfortunately, race often determines too much. Race remains a significant challenge in your country. We have to restore trust between police and community. Everyone should respect the law and everyone should be respected by the law. We have to recognise the challenges we are facing due to policing. We have to tackle the plague of Gun violence.

  Trump: Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use couple of words - "Law and Order." Citing charlotte, Tulsa incidents, Trump says we need to have law and order.

  Inner cities - African Americans and Hispanics - are 'living in hell' because it's so dangerous, "you walk down the street you get shot". You need better police. You need good community relations. We have gangs roaming the streets, many are illegal immigrants.

  Clinton: Too many young African American, Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent crime. systemic racism needs to be addressed. We have got too many military-style weapons on the streets. We need to keep guns out of the hands of those who would do harm. We can’t just say ‘law and order’. We need to come up with a plan.

  We need comprehensive background check.

  Clinton: Implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I would spend more money to retrain police officers on racial bias. 

  Trump: Agrees that people on watch list or no-fly list should not be allowed to buy guns.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 07:10 AM

  Trump:

  US doesn't have money for roads and schools because money has been "squandered" by politicians like Clinton

  Clinton: I have met a lot of people who have been 'stiffed' by trump.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 07:06 AM

  Trump:

   "I have a tremendous income," it's about time someone running the country knows something about money.

  Trump: "Illegal" Clinton private email server done purposefully.

  Clinton on private email server: I am not going to make any excuses, it was a mistake.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:57 AM

  Trump says

  Typical politician. All talks no work, doesn't going to work. Our secretary has made worst decisions in terms of jobs.

  The only thing looks good is stock market. but that will also go bad if you raise taxes. The day Obama leaves...when they raise interest rate. You are going to see bad things.

  Clinton says 

  Report shows Trump owes million to wall street and foreign banks. May be he is not rich as he claims. May be we don't know all his business dealing. May be he doesn't' want Americans watching tonight to know how little he has paid in taxes.

  There is something he is hiding.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:50 AM

  Trump:  

  Secretary Clinton you have no plans! You are going to drive business out. Your regulations are disasters. You are going to regulate businesses. You have regulations on top of regulations. I am going to cut taxes bigly. you are going to raise taxes bigly.

  Clinton:  We have turned my website HillaryClinton.com into fact checker. You should go and check it.

  Trump: You should check mine too

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:47 AM

  Trump:

  Clinton and Obama policies increased debt by $9 trillion over the last 8 years.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:43 AM

  Clinton:

  Let’s stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago. The recession was owing to 'tax policies that slashed taxes on Wall Street. In fact Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis.

  Trump: That’s called business, by the way.

  Clinton: 9 million people lost their jobs. The last thing we need to do is to go back to policies that failed us.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:42 AM

  Clinton says trump stands for "trumped up" trickle.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:34 AM

  Host:

   Why are you a better choice to create jobs that will put more money in workers pocket?

  Clinton: We have to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. “I want to invest in you. I want to invest in the future. We also have to make the economy fairer.” 

  Finally we tonight are on the stage tonight, Donald Trump and I. Donald it’s good to be with you..

  We have to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. #DebateNight https://t.co/XPTvh4Dovf

  — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 27, 2016

  Trump in opening statement at presidential debate, blames china for currency devaluation and US job losses

  Trump:  Our jobs are fleeing the country. They are going to Mexico. You look at what China is doing. They’re using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:31 AM

  Host Lester Holt welcomes presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:25 AM

  .@realDonaldTrump will pass the test of being adequately competent & will get a big boost in acceptability. https://t.co/IjwV9chPax #debates pic.twitter.com/PzJT2ToIcP

  — Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) September 27, 2016

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:24 AM

  Moderator Lester Holt arrives on the stage.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:24 AM

  Debate to start in few minutes.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:20 AM

  Melania Trump and Bill Clinton are welcomed to the hall.

  
• 27 Sep 2016, 06:20 AM

  .@GOP Warroom with @TeamTrump #Debates2016 #MAGA pic.twitter.com/n4pJD5lxK1

  — Brad Parscale (@parscale) September 27, 2016