Chris Wallace, moderator, steps up 
Chris Wallace admonishes audience to not cheer or "make noise." "Just remember, you're not a participant here. You're a guest."
Presidential debate begins in Las
Moderator Chris Wallace explains the debate rules as the two presidential candidates take the stage. They didn't shake hands.
Supreme Court questions start
Asked
about how they would nominate justices and what role the U.S.
Constitution should play, the candidates’ differences came out.Clinton said: “I feel strongly that the Supreme court needs to stand on the side of the American people not on the side of the powerful corporations and the wealthy.”
She said the Supreme Court should “not reverse marriage equality” and “not reverse Roe vs. Wade,” the decision that legalized abortion.
Trump said the “justices that I’m going to appoint will be pro-life.” He said the 2nd Amendment, which he called “under siege,” must be protected.
The people he would nominate are “great scholars in all cases.”
“They will interpret the Constitution the way the founders wanted it interpreted and I believe that’s very, very important.”
The Second Amendment
Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton emphasized she supports the
Second Amendment and “understands and respects the tradition of gun
ownership.” Clinton doesn’t think comprehensive background checks and
closing online and gun show “loopholes” for gun purchases, which she
called “reasonable” reforms, are in conflict with the Second Amendment,
she said.GOP candidate Donald Trump, meanwhile referenced the “tremendous gun violence” in Chicago and said he would plan to appoint Supreme Court justices that “feel very strongly” about the Second Amendment and would uphold it.
Trump vs. Clinton on abortion
The two sharply disagreed about abortion, particularly the role government should play in late-term abortions.Trump said Roe vs. Wade, if overturned would send the issue to the states. When pressed if he wants the decision overturned, he said if he put two or three justices on the court “that will happen automatically in my opinion because I’m putting pro-life justices on the court.”
Clinton said Roe vs. Wade must be preserved, noting that many states are putting “stringent regulations” that hinder them. She also criticized Trump for wanted to defund Planned Parenthood and saying women should be punished for having abortions.
Asked about late-term abortions, Clinton said those kind of decisions women face are “often the most heartbreaking painful decisions” to make.
“I do not think the United States government should be stepping in and making those most personal of decisions.”
Trump said late term abortions, including those at the final days of a pregnancy are “terrible.”
He described as it as something that will “rip the baby out of the womb.”
Trump and Clinton spar over immigration stances
Donald
Trump continued to take a hard line approach on immigration at
Wednesday’s debate, saying drugs are “pouring” into the country through
the southern border.“We have to have strong borders. We have to keep the drugs out of our country,” Trump said.
Trump said there were several mothers in the audience at the debate whose children were “brutally” killed by people who were in the country illegally.
“We have some bad hombres here and we’re going to get them out,” Trump said.
He continued to call for a border wall along the Mexican border, and charged that his opponent wants “open borders.”
Hillary Clinton said her plan is for secure borders alongside immigration reform.
“I don’t want to rip families apart,” Clinton said. “I don’t want to see the deportation force Donald has talked about in action in our country.”
That would require law enforcement officers to “round up” undocumented people, which would “rip our country apart,” Clinton said.
Clinton said she would propose comprehensive immigration reform “with a path to citizenship” during the first 100 days of her presidency.
Clinton vs. Trump on Putin, Russia and hacking
The
two also sparred over Russian President Vladimir Putin and the
Wikileaks hacks, suspected to be from the Russians, that have revealed
details about the inner workings of the Clinton campaign.Putin, Clinton said, “would rather have a puppet.”
Trump fired back: “You’re the puppet.”
Asked if condemns any possible efforts by Putin and the Russians to interfere with the election’s outcome, Trump said: “Of course I condemn” adding that extends to anyone else too.
“This is not my best friend,” Trump said.
“Putin has outsmarted her and Obama at every step of the way.”
Trump and Clinton criticize each other's economic strategies
Hillary
Clinton called for the “biggest jobs program since World War II,” doing
more to help small business, raising the minimum wage and making
college debt-free.“What I am proposing is we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down,” Clinton said.
Clinton bashed Trump’s plan, which she charged would lose 3.5 million jobs and give tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy.
“It will truly be trickle-down economics on steroids,” she said.
Trump countered that Clinton’s economic plan will “raise and even double your taxes.” Trump will renegotiate or terminate NAFTA, which he continued to emphasize has been “a disaster.”
“Let me translate that if I can, Chris,” Clinton said.
“You can’t,” Trump shot back.
Trump called the most recent jobs report “anemic,” and the economy “stagnant.”
“Is that the last jobs report before the election? Because if so, I should win easily,” Trump said.
Trump International gets a mention
Trump
International hotel in Las Vegas got a brief mention in the debate as
they debated about the role of trade with other nations.Clinton charged that “Donald has bought Chinese steel and aluminum. In fact, the Trump hotel here was made with Chinese steel.”
Trump said: “The problem is you talk … but you don’t get anything done, Hillary.”
Trump mentioned “$6 billion missing from the State Department” when Clinton oversaw the agency as secretary of state.
“If you become president, this country is going to be in some mess believe me,” Trump said.
Clinton said that accusation about the $6 billion is “not only untrue, it’s been debunked numerous times.”
Trump addresses recently-released recording of his comments about women
Donald
Trump suggested Hillary Clinton’s campaign was behind the several women
who have come forward in recent weeks who said he made unwanted
physical advances toward them. Those cases have been “largely debunked,”
Trump said.“Those stories are all totally false and I didn’t even apologize to my wife who is sitting right here because I didn’t do anything,” Trump said.
“I think they either want fame or her campaign did it,” Trump said.
He called Clinton’s campaign “crooked” and “sleazy.”
“Nobody has more respect for women than I do,” Trump said.
Clinton, Trump foundation and tax debate
Wallace
asked Clinton about her dealings with the Clinton Foundation, noting
that emails show donors got special access, including government
contracts, and if it’s “pay to play.”Clinton pivoted away from that topic, focusing instead on the foundation’s achievements, including helping 11 million people around the world get treatment for HIV.
Trump called it a “criminal enterprise” and blasted Clinton for taking money from Middle East nations that “push gays” off buildings and don’t respect women rights.
“Why don’t you give back the money because I think it would be a great gesture,” Trump said.
After Trump talked of his foundation’s work, Clinton hammered Trump for not releasing his tax returns, noting he’s the first to not do so in four decades. She also criticized Trump for not having paid taxes and taking a loss on returns that have been reported about.
Trump said: “if you don’t like what I did, you should have changed the law.”
Trump and Clinton address accepting the outcome of the Nov. 8 election
When
asked if he would make a commitment today to accept the outcome of the
presidential election, Donald Trump said he will “look at it at the
time.”His running mate Mike Pence and his daughter Ivanka have said recently the campaign will accept the election results.
“I’m not looking at anything right now,” Trump said.
He also continued to rail against the media as “so dishonest and so corrupt and the pile-on is amazing."
“They’ve poisoned the minds of the voters,” Trump said. “I think the voters are going to see through it.”
Clinton called Trump’s response “horrifying,” and contended any time Trump thinks something isn’t going his way, he says it’s rigged against him. She referenced specifically a claim about a past Emmy Awards nomination.
“I should have gotten it,” Trump quipped.
“It’s funny, but it’s also troubling,” Clinton said.
Trump, Clinton on Iraq
Trump
took aim at Clinton on Iraq, saying the country “shouldn’t have been in
Iraq, but you did vote for Iraq,” a reference to her vote in Senate
supporting the invasion of Iraq.Clinton said: “I said that was a mistake. I said that years ago.”
Before the invasion, Clinton said, Trump supported it as well.
“Wrong,” Trump said.
She continued speaking.
“Google ‘Donald Trump Iraq,’” Clinton instructed the nation.
Trump and Clinton weigh in on Syria
Moderator
Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump about his past statement that Aleppo
has fallen while people are still living there and “being slaughtered.”Trump continued to contend Aleppo has fallen and called it a “humanitarian nightmare.”
“What do you need, a signed document?” Trump said. “Take a look at Aleppo.”
Trump claimed under Clinton’s plan, “ISIS-aligned refugees” from Syria will infiltrate the United States.
Clinton countered that she will push “careful and thorough vetting,” and working with American Muslim communities “who are on the front line in preventing attacks,” she said.
“I am not going to shut the door on women and children,” Clinton said.
“I am going to defeat ISIS,” Clinton said.
Trump bashes Obamacare
Donald Trump continued to emphasize that “Obamacare has got to go.”“It’s destroyed our economy, our businesses, our small and our big businesses,” Trump said.
“She wants to keep Obamacare and she wants to make it even worse. And it can’t get any worse,” Trump continued.
Clinton countered that the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, “extended the solvency of the Medicare trust fund.”
“Your husband disagrees with you,” Trump said.
“We will have created a tremendous economic machine again,” Trump said.
He said the country is using “political hacks” to negotiate trade deals.
“We will create an economic machine the likes of which we haven’t seen in many decades,” Trump said.
Clinton criticized Trump for taking out a $100,000 ad in the New York Times in 1987, when Ronald Reagan was president, complaining then about U.S. policies.
“He was criticizing President Reagan,” she said.
She said her plan will “not add a penny to the national debt.”
“We’ve got to get back to rebuilding the middle class,” she said.
Closing statements
Clinton said she’s reaching out to everyone to grow the economy and make it fair and work for everyone.Trump said we have to rebuild the nation and take care of veterans and respect police. The country cannot take four more years of President Barack Obama, Trump said.
So everyone, now is the time. You've seen all 3 debates you now know they're stances. Now you are the decider. Who will you pick, are you better off with a liar, a misogynist and a rapist as a commander in chief or do you want somebody who tells the truth? The choice is yours.
