CNN Presidential Debate: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump

[0:07] We're live from Georgia, a key battleground state in the race for the White House. [0:11] In just moments, the current U.S. president will debate the former U.S. president [0:16] as their party's presumptive nominees, a first in American history. [0:22] We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world to our studios in Atlanta. [0:28] This is the CNN Presidential Debate. [0:30] This debate is being produced by CNN and is coming to you live on CNN, CNN International, CNN.com, CNN Max, and CNN Español. [0:43] This is a pivotal moment between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump [0:47] in their rematch for the nation's highest office. [0:51] Each will make his case to the American people with just over four months until Election Day. [0:56] Good evening, I'm Dana Bash, anchor of CNN's Inside Politics and co-anchor of CNN. [1:02] I'm Jake Tapper, anchor of CNN's The Lead and co-anchor of State of the Union. [1:07] Dana and I will co-moderate this evening. [1:09] Our job is to facilitate a debate between the two candidates tonight. [1:15] Before we introduce them, we want to share the rules of the debate with the audience at home. [1:19] Former President Trump will be on the left side of the screen. [1:22] President Biden will be appearing on the right. [1:24] A coin toss determines their positions. [1:27] Each candidate will have two minutes to answer a question [1:30] and one minute each for response. [1:32] There will be two minutes for responses and rebuttals. [1:34] An additional minute for follow-up, clarification, or response is at the moderator's discretion. [1:40] When it's time for a candidate to speak, his microphone will be turned on [1:44] and his opponent's microphone will be turned off. [1:47] Should a candidate interrupt when his microphone is muted, [1:50] he will be difficult to understand for viewers at home. [1:54] At the end of the debate, each candidate will get two minutes for closing statements. [1:59] There is no studio audience tonight. [2:02] Pre-written notes. [2:03] Props. [2:04] Or contact with campaign staff are not permitted during the debate. [2:08] By accepting our invitation to debate, both candidates and their campaigns agreed to accept these rules. [2:15] Now, please welcome the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden. [2:29] And please welcome the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. [2:48] Gentlemen, thanks so much for being here. [2:49] Let's begin the debate and let's start with the issue that voters consistently say, [2:53] is their top concern, the economy. [2:56] President Biden, inflation has slowed, but prices remain high. [3:01] Since you took office, the price of essentials has increased. [3:04] For example, a basket of groceries that cost $100 then now costs more than $120. [3:11] And typical home prices have jumped more than 30%. [3:14] What do you say to voters who feel they are worse off under your presidency than they were under President Trump? [3:20] We got to take a look at what I was left when I became president. [3:22] What Mr. Trump left me. [3:25] We had an economy that was in free fall. [3:27] The pandemic was so badly handled. [3:29] Many people were dying. [3:31] All he said was, it's not that serious. [3:33] Just inject a little bleach into your arm. [3:35] You'll be all right. [3:36] The economy collapsed. [3:37] There were no jobs. [3:39] Unemployment rate rose to 15%. [3:41] It was terrible. [3:42] And so what we had to do was try to put things back together again. [3:45] And that's exactly what we began to do. [3:47] We created 15,000 new jobs. [3:50] We brought out another position where we had a lot of jobs. [3:52] We have 800,000 new manufacturing jobs. [3:54] But there's more to be done. [3:56] There's more to be done. [3:57] Working class people are still in trouble. [3:59] I come from Scranton, Pennsylvania. [4:01] I come from a household where the kitchen tables and things weren't able to be met during the month. [4:05] It was a problem. [4:06] The price of eggs, the price of gas, the price of housing, the price of a whole range of things. [4:10] That's why I'm working so hard to make sure I deal with those problems. [4:14] And we're going to make sure that we reduce the price of housing. [4:17] We're going to make sure we build 2 million new units. [4:20] We're going to make sure we cap rent. [4:22] So corporate greed can't take over. [4:24] The combination of what I was left with and corporate greed is the reason why we're in this problem right now. [4:28] In addition to that, we're in a situation where if you take a look at all that was done in his administration, he didn't do much at all. [4:37] By the time he left, things were in chaos. [4:39] Literally chaos. [4:41] And so we put things back together. [4:43] We created, I said, those jobs. [4:45] We made sure we had a situation where we now brought down the price of prescription drugs, which is a major issue for many people. [4:51] To $15 for an insulin shot as opposed to $400. [4:57] No senior has to pay more than $200 for any drug, all the drugs they can include beginning next year. [5:04] And the situation is making, and we're going to make that available to everybody, to all Americans. [5:08] So we're working to bring down the price around the kitchen table. [5:11] And that's what we're going to get done. [5:13] Thank you. [5:14] President Trump? [5:16] We have the greatest economy in the history of our country. [5:19] We have never done so well. [5:21] Everybody was amazed by it. [5:23] Other countries were copying us. [5:25] We got hit with COVID. [5:27] And when we did, we spent the money necessary so we wouldn't end up in a Great Depression, the likes of which we had in 1929. [5:35] By the time we finished, we did a great job. [5:37] We got a lot of credit for the economy, a lot of credit for the military and no wars and so many other things. [5:42] Everything was rocking good. [5:44] But the thing we never got the credit for and we should have is getting us out of that COVID mess. [5:49] He created mandates. [5:51] It was a disaster for our country. [5:53] But other than that, we had given them back a country where the stock market actually was higher than pre-COVID. [6:01] And nobody thought that was even possible. [6:03] The only jobs he created are for illegal immigrants and bounce-back jobs, a bounce-back from the COVID. [6:09] He has not done a good job. [6:10] He's done a poor job. [6:11] And inflation is killing our country. [6:13] It is absolutely killing us. [6:15] Thank you. [6:16] President Biden? [6:17] Well, look, the greatest economy in the world. [6:19] He's the only one who thinks that, I think. [6:20] I don't know anybody else who thinks he has the greatest economy in the world. [6:23] And, you know, the fact of the matter is that we find ourselves in a situation where his economy, he rewarded the wealthy. [6:32] He had the largest tax cut in American history, $2 trillion. [6:36] He raised a deficit larger than any president has in any one term. [6:39] He's the only president other than Herbert Hoover who's lost more jobs than he had when he began, since Herbert Hoover. [6:45] The idea that he did something that was significant. [6:48] And the military. [6:49] You know, when he was president, they were still killing people in Afghanistan. [6:53] He didn't do anything about that. [6:55] When he was president, we still found ourselves in a position where you had a notion that we were this safe country. [7:02] The truth is, I'm the only president this century that doesn't have any, this decade, that doesn't have any troops dying anywhere in the world like he did. [7:12] President Trump, I want to follow up, if I can. [7:16] Am I allowed to respond to him? [7:18] Well, I'm going to ask you to follow up. [7:19] You can do whatever you want with the minute that we give you. [7:21] I want to follow up. [7:22] You want to impose a 10% tariff on all goods coming into the U.S. [7:26] How will you ensure that that doesn't drive prices even higher? [7:29] It's not going to drive them higher. [7:31] It's just going to cost countries that have been ripping us off for years, like China and many others, in all fairness to China. [7:36] It's going to just force them to pay us a lot of money, reduce our deficit tremendously, and give us a lot of power for other things. [7:43] But he made a statement. [7:45] The only thing he was right about is I gave you the largest tax cut in history. [7:48] I also gave you the largest regulation cut in history. [7:51] That's why we had all the jobs. [7:53] And the jobs went down, and then they bounced back. [7:55] And he's taking credit for bounced back jobs. [7:57] You can't do that. [7:58] He also said he inherited 9% inflation. [8:01] Now, he inherited almost no inflation, and it stayed that way for 14 months. [8:05] And then it blew up under his leadership because they spent money like a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doing. [8:11] And they don't know what they were doing. [8:13] It was the worst, probably the worst administration in history. [8:16] There's never been. [8:17] And as far as Afghanistan is concerned, I was getting out of Afghanistan, but we were getting out with dignity, with strength, with power. [8:25] He got out. [8:26] It was the most embarrassing day in the history of our country's life. [8:30] President Trump, over the last eight years, under both of your administrations, the national debt soared to record highs. [8:36] And according to a new nonpartisan analysis, President Trump, your administration approved $8.4 trillion in new debt, [8:42] while so far, President Biden, you've approved $4.3 trillion in new debt. [8:47] So, former President Trump, many of the tax cuts that you signed into law are set to expire next year. [8:52] You want to extend them and go even further, you say. [8:55] With the U.S. facing trillion-dollar deficits and record debt, why should top earners and corporations pay even less in taxes than they do now? [9:04] Because the tax cuts spurred the greatest economy that we've ever seen just prior to COVID. [9:08] And even after COVID, it was so strong that we were able to get through COVID much better than just about any other country. [9:14] But we spurred, that tax spurred. [9:16] Now, when we cut the taxes, as an example, the corporate tax was cut down to 21 percent from 39 percent, plus beyond that. [9:25] We took in more revenue with much less tax, and companies were bringing back trillions of dollars back into our country. [9:32] The country was going like never before. [9:35] And we were ready to start paying down debt. [9:37] We were ready to start using the liquid gold right under our feet, the oil and gas right under our feet. [9:42] We were going to have something that nobody else has had. [9:45] We got hit with COVID. [9:47] We did a lot to fix it. [9:49] I gave him an unbelievable situation with all of the therapeutics and all of the things that we came up with. [9:55] We gave him something great. [9:57] Remember, more people died under his administration, even though we had largely fixed it. [10:03] More people died under his administration than our administration, and we were right in the middle of it, something which a lot of people don't like to talk about. [10:11] But he had far more people dying in his administration. [10:15] It was a disaster, mandating it. [10:17] The vaccine went out. [10:19] He did a mandate on the vaccine, which is the thing that people most objected to about the vaccine. [10:24] And he did a very poor job, just a very poor job. [10:27] And I will tell you, not only poor there, but throughout the entire world, we're no longer respected as a country. [10:33] They don't respect our leadership. [10:35] They don't respect the United States anymore. [10:37] We're like a third-world nation between weaponization of his election, trying to go after his political opponent. [10:43] All of the things he's done. [10:45] He's a third-world nation, and it's a shame. [10:48] The damage he's done to our country, and I'd love to ask him and Will why he allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails, and mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country. [11:00] President Trump, we will get to immigration later in this block. [11:03] President Biden, I want to give you an opportunity to respond to this question about the national debt. [11:08] He had the largest national debt of any president in a four-year period, number one. [11:12] Number two, he got $2 trillion tax cut. [11:14] The $2 trillion tax cut benefited the very wealthy. [11:17] What I'm going to do is fix the tax system. [11:20] For example, we have 1,000 trillionaires in America, I mean billionaires in America. [11:24] And what's happening? [11:26] They're in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2% in taxes. [11:30] If they just paid 24% or 25%, either one of those numbers, they'd raise $500 million, billion dollars, I should say, in a 10-year period. [11:40] We'd be able to wipe out his debt. [11:42] We'd be able to make sure that all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with. [12:04] Look, if we finally beat Medicare. [12:12] Thank you, President Biden. [12:13] President Trump? [12:14] Well, he's right. [12:15] He did beat Medicare. [12:16] He was right on the death. [12:17] And he's destroying Medicare. [12:18] Because all of these people are coming in. [12:20] They're putting them on Medicare. [12:22] They're putting them on Social Security. [12:24] They're going to destroy Social Security. [12:26] This man is going to single-handedly destroy Social Security. [12:30] These millions and millions of people coming in, they're trying to put them on Social Security. [12:34] He will wipe out Social Security. [12:36] He will wipe out Medicare. [12:38] So he was right in the way he finished that sentence. [12:41] And it's a shame. [12:42] What's happened to our country in the last four years is not to be belittled. [12:45] is not to be believed. [12:47] Foreign countries, I'm friends with a lot of people, [12:50] they cannot believe what happened [12:51] to the United States of America. [12:53] We're no longer respected. [12:54] They don't like us. [12:56] We give them everything they want [12:58] and they think we're stupid. [13:00] They think we're very stupid people. [13:02] What we're doing for other countries [13:03] and they do nothing for us. [13:05] What this man has done is absolutely criminal. [13:09] Thank you, President Trump. [13:11] Dana. [13:11] This is the first presidential election [13:14] since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. [13:17] This morning, the court ruled on yet another abortion case, [13:21] temporarily allowing emergency abortions [13:24] to continue in Idaho, despite that state's restrictive ban. [13:28] Former President Trump, you take credit [13:30] for the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, [13:33] which returned the issue of abortion to the states. [13:36] Correct. [13:37] However, the federal government still plays a role [13:40] in whether or not women have access to abortion pills. [13:45] They're used in- [13:46] In about two thirds of all abortions. [13:49] As president, would you block abortion medication? [13:53] First of all, the Supreme Court [13:54] just approved the abortion pill. [13:57] And I agree with their decision to have done that. [13:59] And I will not block it. [14:01] And if you look at this whole question that you're asking, [14:04] a complex, but not really complex. [14:06] 51 years ago, you had Roe v. Wade [14:09] and everybody wanted to get it back to the states. [14:12] Everybody, without exception. [14:13] Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, [14:16] everybody wanted it back. [14:17] Religious leaders. [14:19] And what I did is I put three great Supreme Court justices [14:22] on the court, and they happened to vote [14:25] in favor of killing Roe v. Wade and moving it back [14:28] to the states. [14:29] This is something that everybody wanted. [14:32] Now, 10 years ago or so, they started [14:33] talking about how many weeks and how many of this, [14:35] getting into other things. [14:37] But every legal scholar throughout the world, [14:40] the most respected, wanted it brought back to the states. [14:43] I did that. [14:44] Now the states are working it out. [14:46] If you look at Ohio, it was a decision that was, [14:48] it was an end result. [14:49] It was a little bit more liberal than you would have thought. [14:52] Kansas, I would say the same thing. [14:54] Texas is different. [14:55] Florida is different. [14:57] But they're all making their own decisions right now. [14:59] And right now, the states control it. [15:02] That's the vote of the people. [15:04] Like Ronald Reagan, I believe in the exceptions. [15:06] I am a person that believes. [15:08] And frankly, I think it's important to believe [15:11] in the exceptions. [15:11] Some people, you have to follow your heart. [15:13] Some people don't believe in that. [15:15] But I believe in the exceptions. [15:15] I believe in the exceptions. [15:16] I believe in the exceptions. [15:16] I believe in the exceptions for rape, incest, [15:18] and the life of the mother. [15:19] I think it's very important. [15:21] Some people don't. [15:22] Follow your heart. [15:22] But you have to get elected also. [15:24] And because that has to do with other things. [15:27] You've got to get elected. [15:28] The problem they have is they're radical, [15:30] because they will take the life of a child [15:33] in the eighth month, the ninth month, and even after birth. [15:35] After birth, if you look at the former governor of Virginia, [15:39] he was willing to do this. [15:40] He said, we'll put the baby aside, [15:42] and we'll determine what we do with the baby, [15:44] meaning we'll kill the baby. [15:46] What happened is we brought it back to the states, [15:49] and the country is now coming together on this issue. [15:52] It's been a great thing. [15:54] Thank you. [15:54] President Biden? [15:55] It's been a terrible thing, what you've done. [15:57] The fact is that the vast majority [15:59] of constitutional scholars supported Roe [16:01] when it was decided, supported Roe. [16:04] And that's this idea that they're all against it. [16:07] It's just ridiculous. [16:08] And this is the guy who says the state should be able to have it. [16:11] We're in a state where in six weeks, [16:13] you don't even know whether you're pregnant or not, [16:15] but you cannot see it. [16:16] You need a doctor and have him decide [16:18] on what your circumstances are, whether you need help. [16:22] The idea that states are able to do this is a little like saying, [16:25] we're going to turn civil rights back to the states, [16:27] that each state have a different rule. [16:29] Look, there's so many young women who have been, [16:31] including a young woman who just was murdered, [16:34] and he went to the funeral. [16:37] The idea that she was murdered by an immigrant coming in, [16:42] they talk about that, but here's the deal. [16:45] There's a lot of young women [16:46] who are being raped by their in-laws, [16:48] by their spouses, brothers and sisters, [16:52] by just, it's just ridiculous. [16:55] And they can do nothing about it. [16:56] And they try to arrest them when they cross state lines. [16:58] Thank you. [17:00] There have been many young women murdered [17:03] by the same people he allows to come across our border. [17:06] We have a border that's the most dangerous place [17:08] anywhere in the world. [17:09] Consider the most dangerous place anywhere in the world. [17:12] And he opened it up, [17:13] and these killers are coming into our country, [17:16] and they are raping, [17:17] and killing women. [17:18] And it's a terrible thing. [17:20] As far as the abortion's concerned, [17:21] it is now back with the states. [17:22] The states are voting. [17:24] In many cases, it's frankly a very liberal decision. [17:28] In many cases, it's the opposite. [17:30] But they're voting, [17:31] and it's bringing it back to the vote of the people, [17:32] which is what everybody wanted, [17:34] including the founders if they knew about this issue, [17:37] which, frankly, they didn't. [17:39] But everybody wanted it brought back. [17:42] Ronald Reagan wanted it brought back. [17:43] He wasn't able to get it. [17:45] Everybody wanted it brought back, [17:47] and many presidents had tried to get it back. [17:50] I was the one to do it. [17:51] And again, this gives it the vote of the people, [17:54] and that's where they wanted it. [17:55] Every legal scholar wanted it that way. [17:58] Staying on the topic of abortion, President Biden, [18:01] seven states, I'll let you do that. [18:04] This is the same topic. [18:05] Seven states have no legal restrictions [18:08] on how far into a pregnancy a woman can obtain an abortion. [18:12] Do you support any legal limits [18:14] on how late a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy? [18:17] I support Roe v. Wade, which had three trimesters. [18:21] The first time is between the woman and the doctor. [18:24] Second time is between the doctor and an extreme situation. [18:28] The third time is between the doctor, [18:31] I mean, between the woman and the state. [18:33] The idea that the politicians, [18:36] that the founders wanted the politicians [18:38] to be the ones making decisions about a woman's health [18:40] is ridiculous. [18:41] That's the last. [18:42] No politician should be making that decision. [18:44] A doctor should be making those decisions. [18:46] That's how it should be run. [18:47] That's what you're going to do. [18:49] And if I'm elected, I'm going to restore Roe v. Wade. [18:52] So that means he can take the life of the baby [18:55] in the ninth month and even after birth, [18:57] because some states, Democrat run, take it after birth. [19:01] Again, the governor, former governor of Virginia, [19:03] put the baby down, then we decide what to do with it. [19:06] So he's willing to, as we say, rip the baby out of the womb [19:10] in the ninth month and kill the baby. [19:13] Nobody wants that to happen, Democrat or Republican. [19:15] Nobody wants it to happen. [19:18] That is simply not true. [19:20] That Roe v. Wade does not provide for that. [19:23] That's not the circumstance. [19:24] Only if a woman's life is in danger, she's going to die. [19:27] That's the only circumstance in which that can happen. [19:29] But we are not for late-term abortion, period. [19:32] Period, period. [19:33] Under Roe v. Wade, you have late-term abortion. [19:36] You can do whatever you want, depending on the state. [19:38] You can do whatever you want. [19:40] We don't think that's a good thing. [19:41] We think it's a radical thing. [19:43] We think the Democrats are the radicals, not the Republicans. [19:46] For 51 years, that was the law. [19:48] 51 years. [19:48] 51 years, Constance's Scholarship said it was the right way to go. [19:51] 51 years, and it was taken away because this guy put very conservative members on the Supreme [19:56] Court. [19:57] He takes credit for taking it away. [19:59] What's he going to do? [20:00] What's he going to do, in fact, if the MAGA Republicans, he gets elected and the MAGA [20:05] Republicans control the Congress and they pass a universal ban on abortion, period, [20:11] across the board at six weeks or seven or eight or ten weeks, something very, very conservative? [20:15] Is he going to sign that bill? [20:17] I'll veto it. [20:18] He'll sign it. [20:19] Thank you. [20:20] Let's turn now to the issue of immigration and border security. [20:23] President Biden, a record number of migrants have illegally crossed the southern border [20:27] on your watch, overwhelming border states and overburdening cities such as New York [20:32] and Chicago, and in some cases causing real safety and security concerns. [20:36] Given that, why should voters trust you to solve this crisis? [20:40] Because we worked very hard to get a bipartisan agreement that not only changed all of that, [20:45] but made sure that we are in a situation where U.S. and U.S. citizens are safe and secure. [20:45] And that's what we're doing. [20:45] And that's what we're doing. [20:46] And that's what we're doing. [20:46] And that's what we're doing. [20:46] And that's what we're doing. [20:46] And that's what we're doing. [20:46] And that's what we're doing. [20:46] And that's what we're doing. [20:46] We are in a situation where you had no circumstance where they could come across the border with [20:52] the number of border police there are now. [20:54] We significantly increased the number of asylum officers, significantly. [20:57] By the way, the Border Patrol endorsed me, endorsed my position. [21:02] In addition to that, we found ourselves in a situation where when he was president, he [21:05] was taking, separating babies from their mothers, putting them in cages, making sure the families [21:12] were separated. [21:13] That's not the right way to go. [21:14] What I've done since I've changed. [21:16] I've changed the law, what's happened, I've changed it in a way that now you're in a situation [21:21] where there are 40% fewer people coming across the border illegally, that's better than when [21:26] he left office. [21:27] And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative [21:33] relative to what we're going to do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers. [21:39] President Trump? [21:40] I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. [21:42] I don't think he knows what he said either. [21:44] Look. [21:45] We had the safest border in the history of America. [21:46] We had the safest border in the history of our country. [21:47] The border. [21:48] All he had to do was leave it. [21:49] All he had to do was leave it. [21:51] He decided to open up our border, open up our country to people that are from prisons, [21:58] people that are from mental institutions, insane asylum, terrorists. [22:01] We have the largest number of terrorists coming into our country right now, all terrorists [22:06] all over the world, not just in South America, all over the world. [22:09] They come from the Middle East, everywhere, all over the world. [22:11] They're pouring in. [22:13] And this guy just left it open. [22:15] And he didn't need legislation. [22:17] Because I didn't have legislation. [22:18] I said, close the border. [22:19] We had the safest border in history. [22:21] In that final couple of months of my presidency, we had, according to Border Patrol, who is [22:26] great, and by the way, who endorsed me for president, but I won't say that, but they [22:30] endorsed me for president, Brandon, just speak to him. [22:34] But look, we had the safest border in history. [22:37] Now we have the worst border in history. [22:38] There's never been anything like it. [22:40] And people are dying all over the place, including the people that are coming up in caravans. [22:44] Thank you, President Trump. [22:45] President Biden? [22:46] No. [22:47] The only terrorist who's done anything crossing the border is one who came along and killed [22:51] three under his administration, killed an al-Qaeda person, come in here, and his administration, [22:57] killed three American soldiers, killed three American soldiers. [23:01] That's the only terrorist that's there. [23:03] I'm not saying that no terrorist ever got through, but the idea that they're emptying [23:06] their prisons, we're welcoming these people, that's simply not true. [23:10] There's no data to support what he said. [23:12] Once again, he's exaggerating. [23:14] He's lying. [23:16] President Trump? [23:17] Yeah. [23:18] Do you think, when you talk about the topic of immigration, you've said that you're going [23:19] to carry out, quote, the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, [23:23] unquote? [23:24] Does that mean that you will deport every undocumented immigrant in America, including [23:28] those who have jobs, including those whose spouses are citizens, and including those [23:32] who have lived here for decades? [23:34] And if so, how will you do it? [23:36] Just one second. [23:37] He said we killed three people. [23:39] The people we killed are al-Baghdadi and Soleimani, the two greatest terrorists, biggest terrorists [23:45] anywhere in the world. [23:46] And it had a huge impact on everything, not just border, on everything. [23:51] He's the one that killed people with the bad water, including hundreds of thousands of people dying [23:56] and also killing our citizens when they come in. [24:00] We are living right now in a rat's nest. [24:02] They're killing our people in New York, in California, in every state in the union [24:08] because we don't have borders anymore. [24:09] Every state is now a border. [24:11] And because of his ridiculous, insane, and very stupid policies, [24:16] people are coming in and they're killing our citizens at a level that we've never seen. [24:21] We call it migrant crime. [24:22] I call it Biden migrant crime. [24:25] They're killing our citizens at a level that we've never seen before. [24:28] And you're reading it like these three incredible young girls over the last few days. [24:33] One of them, I just spoke to the mother, and he just had the funeral for this girl, 12 years old. [24:39] This is horrible what's taken place, what's taken place in our country. [24:44] We're literally an uncivilized country. [24:47] Now, he doesn't want it to be. [24:48] He just doesn't know he opened the borders. [24:51] Nobody's ever seen anything like and we have to get a lot of these people out. [24:54] And we have to get them out fast because they're going to destroy our country. [24:58] Just take a look at where they're living. [25:00] They're living in luxury hotels in New York City and other places. [25:04] Our veterans are on the street. [25:06] They're dying because he doesn't care about our veterans. [25:08] He doesn't care. [25:08] He doesn't like the military at all. [25:10] And he doesn't care about our veterans. [25:12] Nobody been worse. [25:13] I had the highest approval rating for veterans taking care of the V.A. [25:17] He has the worst. [25:18] He's gotten rid of all the things that I approved choice that I got through Congress. [25:22] All of the different things I approved, they abandoned. [25:26] We had by far the highest. [25:27] And now it's down in less than half because he's done all these great things that we did. [25:32] And I think he did it just because I approved it, which is crazy. [25:35] But he has killed so many people at our border by allowing all of these people to come in. [25:40] But it's a very sad day in America. [25:42] President Biden, you have the mic. [25:43] Every single thing he said is a lie. [25:45] Every single one. [25:46] For example. [25:47] Veterans are a hell of a lot better off since I passed the PACT Act. [25:51] One million of them now have insurance and their families have it. [25:54] Their families have it because what happened, whether it was Agent Orange or burn pits, they're all being covered now. [26:01] And his group opposed that. [26:03] We're also in a situation where we have great respect for veterans. [26:06] My son spent a year in Iraq living next to one of those burn pits. [26:10] Came back with stage four glioblastoma. [26:13] I was recently in France. [26:16] For D-Day and I spoke to all about those heroes that died. [26:20] I went to the World War Two cemetery, World War One cemetery he refused to go to. [26:25] He was standing with his four star general and he told me, he said, I don't want to go in there because they're a bunch of losers and suckers. [26:31] My son was not a loser, was not a sucker. [26:33] You're the sucker. [26:34] You're the loser. [26:35] President Trump. [26:36] First of all, that was a made up quote. [26:39] Suckers and losers. [26:40] They made it up. [26:41] It was in a third rate magazine that's failing like many of these magazines. [26:44] He made that up. [26:46] He put it in commercial. [26:47] We've notified him. [26:48] We had 19 people that said I didn't say it. [26:51] And think of this. [26:52] Who would say I'm at a cemetery or I'm talking about our veterans because nobody's taking better care. [26:57] I'm so glad this came up and he brought it up. [27:00] There's nobody that's taken better care of our soldiers than I have to think that I would in front of generals and others say suckers and losers. [27:08] We have 19 people that said it was never said by me. [27:12] It was made up by him. [27:13] Just like Russia, Russia, Russia was made up. [27:16] Just like the fifth. [27:17] 51 intelligence agents are made up. [27:20] Just like the new thing with the 16 economists are talking. [27:23] It's the same thing. [27:24] 51 intelligence agents said that the laptop was Russia disinformation. [27:29] It wasn't. [27:30] That came from his son, Hunter. [27:32] It wasn't Russia disinformation. [27:34] He made up the suckers and losers. [27:36] So he should apologize to be right now. [27:38] War star General Sanders side was on your staff who said you said it. [27:44] Period. [27:45] That's number one. [27:46] And number two, the idea. [27:47] The idea that I have to apologize to you for anything along the line. [27:51] We've done more for veterans than any president has in American history. [27:55] American history. [27:56] And they now are in their family. [27:58] The only sacred obligation we have as a country is to care for our veterans when they come home and their families and equip them when they go to war. [28:05] That's what we're doing. [28:06] That's what the VA is doing now. [28:08] They're doing more for veterans than ever before in our history. [28:11] All right. [28:12] Thank you so much. [28:13] Topic of foreign policy. [28:14] I want to begin with Russia's war. [28:16] Russia's war against Ukraine, which is now in its third year. [28:21] Former President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin says he'll only end this war if Russia keeps the Ukrainian territory it has already claimed and Ukraine abandons its bid to join NATO. [28:36] Are Putin's terms acceptable to you? [28:38] First of all, our veterans and our soldiers can't stand this guy. [28:43] They can't stand him. [28:44] They think he's the worst commander in chief. [28:46] That's what you call him that we've ever had. [28:48] They can't stand him. [28:49] So let's get that straight. [28:51] And they like me more than just about any of them. [28:53] And that's based on every single bit of information. [28:56] As far as Russia and Ukraine, if we had a real president, the president that knew that was respected by Putin, he would have never he would have never invaded Ukraine. [29:07] A lot of people are dead right now, much more than people know. [29:10] You know, they talk about numbers. [29:11] You can double those numbers, maybe triple those numbers. [29:14] He did nothing to stop it. [29:15] In fact, I think he encouraged Russia from going in. [29:18] I'll tell you what happened. [29:19] He was so bad with Afghanistan. [29:21] It was such a horrible embarrassment. [29:23] Most embarrassing moment in the history of our country that when Putin watched that and he saw the incompetence that he should he should have fired those generals like I fired the one that you mentioned. [29:33] And so he's got no love lost, but he should have fired those generals. [29:36] No general got fired for the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. [29:42] Afghanistan, where we left billions of dollars. [29:44] We left billions of dollars of equipment behind. [29:46] We lost 13 beautiful soldiers and 38 soldiers were obliterated. [29:51] And by the way, we left people behind, too. [29:53] We left American citizens behind. [29:55] When Putin saw that, he said, you know what? [29:57] I think we're going to go in and maybe take my. [30:00] This is his dream. [30:01] I talked to him about his dream. [30:03] The difference is he never would have invaded Ukraine. [30:07] Never. [30:08] Just like Israel would have never been invaded in a million years by Hamas. [30:14] You know why? [30:15] Because Iran was broke with me. [30:17] I wouldn't let anybody do business with them. [30:19] They ran out of money. [30:20] They were broke. [30:21] They had no money for Hamas. [30:22] They had no money for anything. [30:24] No money for terror. [30:25] That's why you had no terror at all during my administration. [30:29] This place, the whole world is blowing up under him. [30:32] President Biden. [30:34] I've never heard so much malarkey in my whole life. [30:37] Look, the fact of the matter is that we're in a situation where let's take the last point first. [30:41] Iran attacked American troops. [30:44] Kill caused brain damage. [30:46] Brain damage for a number of these troops. [30:49] And he did nothing about it recently when he was president. [30:52] Here they attacked. [30:53] He said they're just having headaches. [30:55] That's all it is. [30:56] He didn't do a thing when the attack took place. [30:59] Number one. [31:00] Number two. [31:01] We got over 100,000 Americans and others out of Afghanistan during that airlift. [31:08] Number three. [31:09] We found ourselves in a situation where if you take a look at what Trump did in Ukraine, [31:15] he told Ukraine, he told Trump, do whatever you want and do whatever you want. [31:20] And that's exactly what Trump did to Putin. [31:23] Encourage him. [31:24] Do whatever you want. [31:25] And he went in. [31:26] Listen to what he said when he went in. [31:27] He was going to take Kiev in five days. [31:29] Remember? [31:30] Because it's part of the old Soviet Union. [31:31] That's what he wanted to reestablish. [31:33] Kiev. [31:34] And he, in fact, didn't do it at all. [31:36] He didn't. [31:37] Wasn't able to get it done. [31:38] And they've lost over. [31:39] They've lost thousands and thousands of troops. [31:42] 500,000 troops. [31:43] President Trump. [31:45] I never said that. [31:46] For one minute. [31:47] I just want to go back to my original question, which is, are Putin's terms acceptable to [31:52] you? [31:53] Keeping the territory in Ukraine? [31:54] No, they're not acceptable. [31:55] No, they're not acceptable. [31:56] But look, this is a war that never should have started. [31:59] If we had a leader in this war, he led everybody along. [32:02] He's given $200 billion now or more to Ukraine. [32:06] He's given $200 billion. [32:08] That's a lot of money. [32:09] I don't think there's ever been anything like it. [32:11] Every time that Zelensky comes to this country, he walks away with $60 billion. [32:14] He's the greatest salesman ever. [32:16] And I'm not knocking him. [32:17] I'm not knocking anything. [32:19] I'm only saying the money that we're spending on this war, and we shouldn't be spending [32:26] it, should have never happened. [32:28] I will have that war settled between Putin and Zelensky as president-elect before I take [32:34] office on January 20th. [32:36] I'll have that war settled people being killed so needlessly, so stupidly, and I will get [32:42] it settled. [32:43] And I'll get it settle fast before it ends. [32:44] Okay? [32:45] take office? President Biden, you have a minute. The fact is that Putin is a war criminal. He's [32:52] killed thousands and thousands of people. And he has made one thing clear. He wants to reestablish [32:58] what was part of the Soviet empire, not just a peace. He wants all of Ukraine. That's what he [33:04] wants. And then do you think he'll stop there? Do you think he'll stop when he, if he takes Ukraine? [33:10] What do you think happens to Poland? What do you think of Belarus? What do you think happens to [33:13] those NATO countries? And so if you want a war, you ought to find out what he's going to do, [33:18] because if in fact he does what he says and walks away, by the way, all that money we give Ukraine [33:24] and from weapons we make here in the United States, we give them the weapons, not the money [33:28] at this point. And our NATO allies have produced as much funding for Ukraine as we have. That's [33:36] why we're strong. Thank you. Moving on to the Middle East. In October, Hamas attacked Israel, [33:43] killing more than 1,000 people. And that's why we're strong. [33:44] more than 1,000 people and taking hundreds of hostages. Among those held and thought to still [33:49] be alive are five Americans. Israel's response has killed thousands of Palestinians and created [33:55] a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. President Biden, you've put forward a proposal to resolve this [34:03] conflict. But so far, Hamas has not released the remaining hostages, and Israel is continuing its [34:09] military offensive in Gaza. So what additional leverage will you use? [34:14] To get Hamas and Israel to end the war? You have two minutes. [34:19] Number one, everyone from the United Nations Security Council straight through the G7 to [34:26] the Israelis and Netanyahu himself have endorsed the plan I put forward, endorsed the plan I put [34:31] forward, which has three stages to it. The first stage is treat the hostages for a ceasefire. [34:38] Second phase is a ceasefire with additional conditions. The third phase is the end of the [34:44] war. The only one who wants the war to continue is Hamas, number one. They're the only ones standing [34:49] out. We're still pushing hard to get them to accept. In the meantime, what's happened? In [34:55] Israel, the only thing I've denied Israel was 2,000-pound bombs. They don't work very well in [35:02] populated areas. They kill a lot of innocent people. We're providing Israel with all the [35:06] weapons they need and when they need them. And by the way, I'm the guy that organized the world [35:11] against Iran when they had a full-blown intercontinental war. I'm the guy that organized the [35:14] on a ballistic missile attack on Israel. [35:17] No one was hurt. [35:19] No one Israeli was accidentally killed, and it stopped. [35:24] We saved Israel. [35:25] We are the biggest producer of support for Israel of anyone in the world. [35:30] And so there are two different things. [35:32] Hamas cannot be allowed to be continued. [35:35] We continue to send our experts and our intelligence people [35:38] as to how they can get Hamas like we did bin Laden. [35:41] You don't have to do it. [35:42] And by the way, they've been greatly weakened, Hamas, greatly weakened, [35:46] and they should be. [35:47] They should be eliminated. [35:48] But you've got to be careful for using certain weapons among population centers. [35:54] Just going back to Ukraine for one second. [35:59] We have an ocean separating us. [36:01] The European nations together have spent $100 billion [36:05] or maybe more than that, less than us. [36:09] Why doesn't he call them so you've got to put up your money like I did with NATO? [36:12] I got them to put up hundreds of billions of dollars. [36:14] As the secretary general of NATO said, [36:17] Trump did the most incredible job I've ever seen. [36:19] They wouldn't have any. [36:20] They were going out of business. [36:21] We were spending almost 100% of the money that was paid by us. [36:26] He didn't do that. [36:27] He's getting all. [36:28] You've got to ask these people to put up the money. [36:31] We're over $100 billion more spent, [36:33] and it has a bigger impact on them because of location, [36:36] because we have an ocean in between. [36:38] You've got to ask them. [36:39] As far as Israel and Hamas, Israel is the one that wants to go. [36:44] He said. [36:45] The only one who wants to keep going is Hamas. [36:47] Actually, Israel is the one, and you should let him go and let him finish the job. [36:51] He doesn't want to do it. [36:52] He's become like a Palestinian, but they don't like him because he's a very bad Palestinian. [36:56] He's a weak one. [36:58] President Biden, you have a minute. [37:00] I've never heard so much foolishness. [37:02] This is a guy who wants to get out of NATO. [37:04] You're going to stay in NATO. [37:05] He's going to pull out of NATO. [37:07] The idea that we have our strength lies in our alliances as well. [37:12] It may be a big ocean, but we're ever able to avoid a war in Europe, a major war in Europe. [37:16] What happens if, in fact, you have Putin continue to go into NATO? [37:21] We have an Article 5 agreement. [37:23] Attack on one is attack on all. [37:24] You want to start the nuclear war he keeps talking about. [37:27] Go ahead. [37:28] Let Putin go in and control Ukraine and then move on to Poland and other places. [37:33] We'll see what happens then. [37:35] He has no idea what the hell he's talking about. [37:37] And by the way, I've got 50 other nations around the world to support Ukraine, including Japan and South Korea, [37:43] because they understand that this was this. [37:46] This kind of dislocation has a serious threat to the whole world peace. [37:50] No, no major war in Europe has ever been able to be contained just to Europe. [37:55] President Trump, just to follow up, would you support the creation of an independent Palestinian state in order to achieve peace in the region? [38:02] I'd have to see. [38:03] But before we do that, the problem we have is that we spend all the money so they kill us on trade. [38:09] I made great trade deals with the European nations because if you add them up, they're about the same size economically. [38:16] Their economy is about the same. [38:17] They're about the same size as the United States, and they were no cars. [38:21] No, they don't want anything that we have, but we're supposed to take their cars, their food, their everything, their agriculture. [38:28] I changed that. [38:29] But the big thing I change is they don't want to pay. [38:31] And the only reason that he can play games with NATO is because I got them to put up hundreds of billions of dollars. [38:38] I said and he's right about this. [38:40] I said, no, I'm not going to support NATO if you don't pay. [38:44] They asked me that question. [38:45] Would you guard us against Russia? [38:48] I said, no. [38:48] There is a secret meeting of the 28 states at that time, nations at that time. [38:53] And I said, no, if you don't pay, I won't do that. [38:56] And you know what happened? [38:57] Billions and billions of dollars came flowing in the next day and the next months. [39:02] But now we're in the same position. [39:04] We're paying everybody's bills. [39:06] Let's turn to the issue of democracy. [39:08] Former President Trump, I want to ask you about January 6th, 2021. [39:12] After you rallied your supporters that day, some of them stormed the Capitol to stop the constitutionally mandated debate. [39:15] Thank you. [39:15] There's been a lot going on in the United States and in the United States since the end of the war. [39:15] You talked about the Donald Trump campaign. [39:15] There's been a lot going on in the United States and in the United States since the end of the war. [39:15] the Capitol to stop the constitutionally mandated counting of electoral votes. [39:20] As president, you swore an oath to, quote, preserve, protect and defend, unquote, the [39:25] Constitution. [39:26] What do you say to voters who believe that you violated that oath through your actions [39:30] and inaction on January 6th and worry that you'll do it again? [39:32] Well, I don't think too many believe that. [39:34] And let me tell you about January 6th. [39:37] On January 6th, we had a great border, nobody coming through, very few. [39:42] On January 6th, we were energy independent. [39:44] On January 6th, we had the lowest taxes ever. [39:47] We had the lowest regulations ever. [39:49] On January 6th, we were respected all over the world. [39:52] All over the world, we were respected. [39:54] And then he comes in, and we're now left at, we're like a bunch of stupid people. [40:00] What happened to the United States' reputation under this man's leadership is horrible, including [40:07] weaponization, which I'm sure at some point you'll be talking about, where he goes after [40:10] his political opponent because he can't beat him fair and square. [40:14] You have 80 seconds left. [40:15] My question was, what do you say to those voters who believe that you violated your [40:20] constitutional oath through your actions and inaction on January 6th, 2021, and worry that [40:25] you'll do it again? [40:26] Well, I didn't say that to anybody. [40:28] I said peacefully and patriotically. [40:30] And Nancy Pelosi, if you just watched the news from two days ago, on tape to her daughter, [40:36] who is a documentary filmmaker, they say, but she's saying, oh, no, it's my responsibility. [40:42] I was responsible for this. [40:44] Because I offered her 10,000 soldiers or National Guard, and she turned them down. [40:48] And the mayor of, in writing, by the way, the mayor, in writing, turned it down, the [40:53] mayor of D.C. [40:55] They turned it down. [40:56] I offered 10,000 because I could see. [40:59] I had virtually nothing to do. [41:01] They asked me to go make a speech. [41:02] I could see what was happening. [41:04] Everybody was saying they're going to be there on January 6th, they're going to be there. [41:07] And I said, you know what? [41:08] There's a lot of people coming. [41:09] You could feel it. [41:10] You could feel it, too. [41:11] And you could feel it. [41:12] And I said, they ought to have some knowledge. [41:13] They're going to be there. [41:14] National Guard or whatever. [41:16] And I offered it to her. [41:17] And she now admits that she turned it down. [41:20] And it was the same day she was, I don't know, he can't be very happy with her daughter [41:25] because it made her into a liar. [41:26] She said, I take full responsibility for January 6th. [41:31] President Biden? [41:33] Look, he encouraged those folks to go up on Capitol Hill, number one. [41:37] I sat in the dining room off the Oval Office. [41:40] He sat there for three hours, three hours watching, begging, being begged by his vice [41:45] president. [41:46] And a number of his colleagues on the Republican side, as well, to do something, to call for [41:50] a stop, to end it. [41:52] Instead, he talked about these people being patriots and great patrons of America. [41:58] In fact, he says he'll now forgive them for what they've done. [42:02] They've been convicted. [42:03] He says he wants to commute their sentences and say that, no, he went to every single [42:09] court in the nation, I don't know how many cases, scores of cases, including the Supreme [42:15] Court. [42:16] They said, no, no, this guy, this guy is responsible for doing what is being done. [42:21] He did do a damn thing. [42:24] And these people should be in jail and they should be the ones who are being held accountable. [42:29] And he wants to let them all out. [42:31] And now he says if he loses again, such a whiner that he is, that it could be a bloodbath. [42:35] Thank you, President Biden. [42:37] President Trump? [42:38] What they've done to some people that are so innocent, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. [42:43] What you have done, how you've destroyed the lives of so many people. [42:46] When they ripped down Portland, when they ripped down many other cities, you go to [42:53] Minnesota, Minneapolis, what they've done there with the fires all over the city, if [42:57] I didn't bring in the National Guard, that city would have been destroyed. [43:01] When you look at all of the they took over big chunks of Seattle, I was all set to bring [43:06] in the National Guard. [43:07] They heard that they saw them coming and they left immediately. [43:11] What he said about this whole subject is so off peacefully patriotic. [43:16] One other thing. [43:17] The unselect committee, which is basically two horrible Republicans that are all gone [43:24] now out of office and Democrats, all Democrats, they destroyed and deleted all of the information [43:31] they found because they found out we were right. [43:33] We were right. [43:34] And they deleted and destroyed all of the information. [43:37] They should go to jail for that. [43:38] If a Republican did that, they go to thank you, President Trump, President Biden. [43:42] I want to give you a minute. [43:43] The only person in this stage is a convicted felon is the man I'm looking at right now. [43:47] And the fact of the matter is he is what he's telling you is simply not true. [43:52] The fact is that there was no effort on his part to stop what was going on up in Capitol [43:58] Hill. [43:59] And all those people, every one of those who were convicted, discerned over desk, turned [44:03] them over statutes. [44:04] The idea that those people are patriots. [44:08] Come on. [44:09] When I asked him the first two debates we had, the debates we had first time around, [44:13] I said, will you denounce the proud boy? [44:16] He said, no. [44:17] I'll tell them to stand by. [44:19] The idea he's refusing to denounce these guys, we denounce the people we're talking about [44:24] now. [44:25] We denounce the people who attacked that Capitol. [44:28] What are you going to do? [44:30] I'm going to give you a minute, President Trump, for a follow up question I have. [44:36] After a jury convicted you of 34 felonies last month, you said if reelected, you would, [44:41] quote, have every right to go after, unquote, your political opponents. [44:45] You just talked about members of the Select Committee on January 6th going to jail. [44:49] Your main political opponent is standing on stage with you tonight. [44:52] Can you clarify exactly what it means about you feeling you have every right to go after [44:56] your political opponents? [44:57] Well, I said my retribution is going to be success. [45:00] We're going to make this country successful again because right now it's a failing nation. [45:04] My retribution is going to be success. [45:07] But when he talks about a convicted felon, his son is a convicted felon at a very high [45:11] level. [45:12] His son is convicted, going to be convicted probably numerous other times, should have [45:15] been convicted before. [45:17] But his Justice Department let him. [45:18] They let the statute of limitations lapse on the most important things. [45:22] But he could be a convicted felon as soon as he gets out of office. [45:25] Joe could be a convicted felon with all of the things that he's done. [45:28] He's done horrible things. [45:30] All of the death caused at the border, telling the Ukrainian people that we're going to want [45:35] a billion dollars or you change the prosecutor, otherwise you're not getting a billion dollars. [45:40] If I ever said that, that's quid pro quo, that we're not going to do anything. [45:45] We're not going to give you a billion dollars unless you change your prosecutor. [45:48] And you're not going to change a few things. [45:49] You're not going to give me that money, that kind of stuff. [45:52] I'm always going to change. [45:53] It's so easy to judge. [45:54] You don't have to change. [45:55] You're going to challenge. [45:56] It's so easy to judge if it's just a criminal act, a criminal act that's not having to do [45:57] with the son. [45:58] This man is a criminal. [45:59] This man. [46:00] You're lucky. [46:01] You're lucky. [46:02] I did nothing wrong. [46:03] We have a system that was rigged and disgusting. [46:04] I did nothing wrong. [46:05] Thank you, President Trump. [46:06] President Biden, you have said I'm coming right to you, sir. [46:07] You. [46:08] Well, you want to respond. [46:09] Go ahead. [46:10] I'll give you a minute to respond. [46:11] The idea that I did anything wrong relative to what you're talking about is outrageous. [46:13] Number two, the idea that you have a right to seek retribution against any American [46:17] just because you're president is wrong, is simply wrong. [46:21] No president's ever spoken like that before. [46:23] No president in our history has spoken like that before. [46:26] Number three, the crimes that you are still charged with. [46:29] And think of all the civil penalties you have. [46:31] How many billions of dollars do you owe in civil penalties for molesting a woman in public, [46:36] for doing a whole range of things, of having sex with a porn star on the night while your wife was pregnant? [46:44] I mean, what are you talking about? [46:47] You have the morals on Alley Cat. [46:50] Give me a minute, sir. [46:51] I didn't have sex with a porn star, number one. [46:53] Number two, that was a case that was started and moved. [46:57] They moved a high-ranking official, a DOJ, into the Manhattan DA's office to start that case. [47:03] That case is going to be appealed and won. [47:05] We had a very terrible judge. [47:08] A horrible judge, Democrat. [47:10] The prosecutor, we're all high-ranking Democrats, appointed people, [47:14] and both the civil and the criminal. [47:17] He basically went after his political opponent because he thought it was going to damage me. [47:22] But when the public found out about these cases, because they understand it better than he does. [47:26] He has no idea what these cases are. [47:28] But when they found out about these cases, you know what they did? [47:31] My poll numbers went up way up. [47:33] You know that because you're reporting it. [47:34] And we took in more money in the last two weeks [47:37] than we've ever taken in in the history of any campaign. [47:40] I don't think any campaign has ever taken. [47:42] Hundreds of millions of dollars came pouring in because the public knows it's a scam. [47:48] And it's a guy that's after his political opponent because he can't win fair and square. [47:52] Thank you, President Trump. [47:53] President Biden, you have said, quote, Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy. [48:00] Do you believe that the tens of millions of Americans who are likely to vote for President Trump will be voting against him? [48:06] The more they know about what he's done, yes, the more they know about what he's done and there's a lot more coming. [48:15] He's got a lot of cases down the road coming out. [48:17] He's got he's got a whole range of issues he has to face. [48:21] I don't know what the juries will do, but I do. [48:23] I do know he has a real problem. [48:25] And so the fact that could you ever think you heard any president say that I'm going to seek retribution? [48:31] Do you ever hear any president say that I thought Hitler had some good ideas, what got me involved to run? [48:36] The. [48:37] First place after my son had died, I decided in Iraq because of Iraq, I said I wasn't going to run again until I saw what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia. [48:45] People coming out of the woods, carrying swastikas on torches, torches and and singing the same anti-Semitic bio they sang when back in Germany. [48:55] And what did and the young woman got killed. [48:57] I spoke to the mother and she asked him, they said, what what do you think of those people? [49:02] The people who the ones got killed, the one who tried to stop it and the ones he said, I think. [49:07] They're fine people on both sides. [49:09] What American president would ever say? [49:12] Nazis coming out of fields, carrying torches, singing the same anti-Semitic bio, carrying swastikas or fine people. [49:21] This is a guy who says Hitler's done some good things. [49:24] I'd like to know what they are. [49:25] Good things. [49:26] Hitler's done. [49:26] That's what he said. [49:27] This guy has no sense of American democracy. [49:31] President Trump. [49:32] Jake, both of you know that Sir has been totally wiped out because when you see the sentence, it said. [49:38] A hundred percent exoneration on this. [49:40] So he just keeps it going. [49:41] He says he ran because of Charlottesville. [49:43] He didn't run because of Charlottesville. [49:45] He ran because it was his last chance. [49:48] He's not equipped to be president. [49:49] You know it and I know it. [49:50] It's ridiculous. [49:51] We have a debate. [49:52] We're trying to justify his presidency. [49:55] His presidency is without question the worst president, the worst presidency in the history of our country. [50:02] We shouldn't be having a debate about it. [50:04] There's nothing to debate. [50:05] He made up the Charlottesville story and you'll see it. [50:08] It's debunked all over the place. [50:10] Every anchor has every reasonable actor has debunked it. [50:14] And just the other day it came out where it was fully debunked. [50:17] It's a nonsense story. [50:19] He knows that. [50:20] And he didn't run because of Charlottesville. [50:22] He used that as an excuse to run. [50:25] President Biden and debunk. [50:26] It happened. [50:27] All you have to do is listen to what was said at the time and the idea that somehow that's the only reason I ran. [50:33] I ran because I was worried a guy like this guy could get elected if he thought they were good people coming out of that. [50:39] All the forest carrying those woods carrying those torches that he didn't deserve to be president didn't deserve to be president at all. [50:46] And the idea that he's talking about all this being fabricated we saw with our own eyes we saw what happened on January 6th. [50:53] We saw the people breaking through the windows. [50:56] We saw people occupying his own vice president. [50:59] Look there's a reason why 40 of his 44 top cabinet officers refused to endorse him this time as vice president hasn't endorsed him this time. [51:08] So why. [51:09] Why they know him well they serve with him. [51:11] Why are they not endorsing him. [51:13] Thank you President Biden. [51:14] We're going to be right back with more from the CNN presidential debate. [51:17] Georgia let's talk about persistent challenges you both faced in your first terms and you'd certainly face again in a second term. [55:15] President Biden while black unemployment dropped to a record low under your presidency black families still earn far less than white families. [55:25] Black mothers are still three times more likely to die from pregnancy. [55:29] Related causes and black Americans are imprisoned at five times the rate of white Americans. [55:36] What do you say to black voters who are disappointed that you haven't made more progress. [55:41] They acknowledge they made a lot of progress. [55:43] Number one the facts of matters are more small black businesses that have been started at any time in history. [55:49] Number two the wages of black black unemployment is the lowest level spend in a long long time. [55:55] Number three we find him trying to find housing for black. [55:59] Black Americans and dealing with segregation that exists among these corporate these corporate ratiations that collude to keep people out of their houses. [56:10] And in addition to that we find that the impact of on the the choice that black families have to make relative to child care is incredibly difficult. [56:25] When we did the first major piece of legislation in the past I was able to reduce black. [56:30] Child care costs cut them in half in half. [56:34] We're going to make sure we provide for child care costs. [56:37] We've got to make sure because when you provide those child care protections you increase economic growth because more people can be in the job market. [56:45] So there's more to be done considerably more to be done but we've done a great deal so far and I'm not letting up and they know it. [56:53] You have forty nine seconds left. [56:55] What do you say to black voters who are disappointed with the progress so far. [57:00] I say I don't blame them for being disappointed inflation is still hurting them badly. [57:04] For example I provided for the idea that any black family first time homebuyer should get a ten thousand dollar tax credit to be able to buy their first home so they can get started. [57:15] I made sure that we're in a situation where all those black families and those black individuals provided to have to take out student loans that were ballooning that if they were engaged in nursing doctor and anything. [57:30] Having to do with volunteerism if they paid their bills for 10 years and their student debt all the rest was forgiven after 10 years. [57:37] Millions have benefited from that and we're going to do a whole lot more for black families. [57:43] Thank you President Trump and he caused the inflation he's blaming inflation and he's right it's been very bad. [57:50] He caused the inflation and it's killing black families and Hispanic families and just about everybody it's killing people they can't buy groceries anymore they can't you look at the. [58:00] Cost of food where it's doubled and tripled and quadrupled they can't live they're not living anymore he causes inflation I gave him a country with no essentially no inflation it was perfect it was so good all you had to do is leave it alone he destroyed it with his green new scam and all of the other all this money that's being thrown out the window he caused inflation as sure as you're sitting there. [58:24] The fact is that his big kill on the black people. [58:30] Is the millions of people that he's allowed to come in through the border they're taking black jobs now and it could be 18 it could be 19 and even 20 million people they're taking black jobs and they're taking Hispanic jobs and you haven't seen it yet but you're going to see something that's going to be the worst in our history thank you President Biden. [58:49] There was no inflation when I became president you know why the economy was flat on its back 50% unemployment he decimated the economy absolutely decimated the economy. [59:01] That's why there's no inflation at the time there were no jobs we provided thousands of millions of jobs for individuals who are involved communities including minority communities we made sure that they have health insurance we have covered with the ACA has increased I made sure that they're $8000 per person in the family to get written off in health care but this guy wants to eliminate that they tried 50 times he wants to get rid of the ACA again and they're going to try again if they win you find ourselves in a position where. [59:31] The idea that we're not doing it I put more we put more police on the street and any administration has he wants to cut the cops we're providing for equity equity and making sure people have a shot to make it there's a lot going on but an inflation he caused it by his tremendous amount seasons in the way handle the pandemic thank you another persistent challenge is the climate crisis 2023 was the hottest year in recorded history. [1:00:01] And communities across the country are confronting the devastating effects of extreme heat intensifying wildfires stronger hurricanes and rising sea levels former president Trump you've vowed to end your opponents climate initiatives but will you take any action as president to slow the climate crisis let me just go back to what he said about the police how close the police are to him almost every police group in the nation from every state is supporting the climate crisis. [1:00:31] Donald J. Trump almost every police group and what he's done to the black population is horrible including the fact that for 10 years he called them super predators weekend in the 1990s we can't forget that super predators was his name and he called it to him for 10 and they've taken great offense at it and now they see it happening but when they see what I did for criminal justice reform and for the historically black colleges and universities where I funded them and got them all funded and the opportunity zones with. [1:01:01] With Tim as you know Tim Scott was incredibly did a great job great senator from South Carolina he came to me with the idea and it was a great idea is one of the most successful economic development acts ever in the country opportunity zones and the biggest beneficiary are blacks and that's why we have the best numbers with them in maybe ever they're saying ever I read this morning where ever the best numbers he's lost much of the black population because he's done a horrible job. [1:01:32] for black people he's also done a horrible job for hispanics but what you see these millions of people pouring into our country and they're going to take the jobs and it's already started and you haven't seen anything yet it's a disaster you 38 seconds left president Trump will you take any action as president to slow the climate crisis so I want absolutely immaculate clean water and I want absolutely clean air and we had it we had h2o we had the best [1:02:02] numbers ever and we did we were using all forms of energy all forms everything [1:02:08] and yet during my four years I had the best environmental numbers ever and my [1:02:15] top environmental people gave me that statistic just before I walked on the [1:02:18] stage actually I don't know where the hell he's been the idea that anything he [1:02:25] said is true I passed the most extensive it was extensive climate change [1:02:30] legislation in history in history we find ourselves and by the way black [1:02:35] colleges I came up with 15 billion dollars for HBC use historic black [1:02:40] universities and colleges because they don't have those they don't have the [1:02:44] kind of contributors that they have to build these laboratories and all like [1:02:49] any black student is capable in college you're doing any white student can do [1:02:52] you just have the money but now they'll be able to get those jobs in high-tech [1:02:56] we're in a situation where the idea that he is [1:03:00] concrete [1:03:00] claim to have done something that had the cleanest water cleanest water and [1:03:06] not a damn thing very environment he got the Paris peace accord climate accord I [1:03:12] immediately joined it because if we reach 1.5 degrees Celsius and anyone [1:03:17] there's no way back [1:03:18] the only existential threat to humanity is climate change and he didn't do a [1:03:22] damn thing about it [1:03:23] he must undo all that I've done the paris accord was going to cost us a [1:03:28] trillion dollars and China nothing and Russia nothing [1:03:32] And India nothing. It was a rip off of the United States. And I ended it because I didn't want to waste that money because they treat us horribly. We were the only ones who was costing us money. Nobody else was paying into it. And it was it was a disaster. But everything that he said just now I'll give you an example. I heard him say before insulin. I'm the one that got the insulin down for the seniors. I took care of the seniors. What he's doing is destroying all of our medical programs because the migrants coming in. They want everybody. And look I have [1:04:02] the I have the biggest heart in the stage. I guarantee you that. And I want to take care of people. But we're destroying our country. They're taking over our schools our hospitals and they're going to be taking over Social Security. He is destroying Social Security Medicare and Medicaid. The idea is that we in fact we were the only ones of consequence. We're not we're not members of the Paris Accord. How can we do anything. We're not able to. The United States can't get us under control. One of the [1:04:35] largest polluters in the world. Number one we're making significant progress by 2035. We will have cut pollution in half. We have made we have made significant progress and we continue to make progress. We set up a climate corps for thousands of young people will learn how to deal with just like the Peace Corps. And we're going to we're moving in directions that are going to significantly change the elements of cause of pollution. But the idea that he claims that he has the biggest heart up here and he's really concerned about [1:05:05] about pollution and about climate. I've not seen any indication of that. And by the way with regard to prescription drugs one company agreed that they would reduce the price to thirty five dollars which I was calling for one voluntarily. I made sure every company in the world every pharmaceutical company cannot have to pay. And by the way. So every day millions of Americans struggle just to make ends meet for many older Americans. Social Security provides [1:05:37] a critical lifeline. President Biden if nothing is done to Social Security seniors will see their benefits cut in just over 10 years. Will you name tonight one specific step that you're willing to take to keep Social Security solvent. Yes. Make a very wealthy began to pay their fair share. Right now everybody making under one hundred seventy thousand dollars pay six percent of their income of their paycheck. Every single time they get a paycheck from the time the first one they get when they're 18 years old. The [1:06:06] idea that they're going to. I'm not proposing that everybody they pay. The millionaires pay one percent one percent. So no one after I would not raise the cost of Social Security for anybody under four hundred thousand dollars. After that I began to make the wealthy began to pay their fair share by increasing from one percent beyond to be able to guarantee the program for life. So you still have 82 seconds left. Are there any other measures that you think that would be able to help keep Social Security solvent or is just is that [1:06:37] a. [1:06:37] That one enough. Well that one enough will keep it solvent. But the biggest thing I'll do if we defeat this man because he wants to get rid of Social Security. He thinks there's plenty to cut Social Security. He's wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare both times. And that's what. And if you look at the program put forward by the House Republican caucus that he supports is in fact want to cut it as well. The idea that we don't need to protect our seniors is ridiculous. We put. And by the way [1:07:07] American public has greater health care coverage today than ever before. And on the ACA as I said you're in a circumstance where four hundred thousand people foreign I'm referring to 40 million people would not have insurance because they have a preexisting condition only allows them to have that insurance is the fact that they in fact are part of the ACA. And by the way the other thing is we're in a situation where I talk about education for black communities. I've raised the number. [1:07:37] The amount of money for Pell grants another eight thousand dollars. Anybody making under seventy thousand dollars a year can be able to get fifteen thousand dollars towards the tuition. He just doesn't know what he's talking about. Thank you President Biden President Trump. So I've dealt with politicians all my life. I've been on this side of the equation for the last eight years. I've never seen anybody lie like this guy. He lies. I've never seen if he could look you in the face. So about so many other things too. [1:08:07] And we mentioned the laptop. We mentioned Russia Russia Russia Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine. Everything he does is a lie. It's misinformation and disinformation. The losers and suckers story that he made up is a total lie on the military. It's a disgrace. But Social Security he's destroying it because millions of people are pouring into our country and they're putting them onto Social Security. They're putting them onto Medicare Medicaid. They're putting them in our hospitals. They're taking the place of our citizens there. What [1:08:38] they're doing to the V.A. to our veterans is unbelievable. Our veterans are living in the street and these people are living in luxury hotels. He doesn't know what he's doing. And it's really coming back. I've never seen such anger in our country before. President Biden. The idea of veterans are not being taken care of. I told you before. By the way when I said suckers and losers he said he acknowledged after that he fired that general. That general got fired because he's the one that acknowledged that that's what he said. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. He was the one standing up. [1:09:09] with Trump when he said it, number one. Number two, the idea that we're going to be in a situation [1:09:14] where all these millions and millions, the way he talks about it, illegal aliens are coming into [1:09:20] the country and taking away our jobs. There's a reason why we have the fastest growing economy [1:09:25] in the world, the reason why we have the most successful economy in the world. We're doing [1:09:30] better than any other nation in the world. And by the way, those 15 Nobel laureates he talked about [1:09:35] being phony, those 15 Nobel laureates, economists, they all said that if Trump is reelected, we're [1:09:41] likely to have a recession and inflation is going to increase and go up. And by the way, worst [1:09:46] president in history, 159 presidential scholars voted him the worst president in the history of [1:09:52] the United States of America. President Biden, thank you so much. Let's turn to the cost of [1:09:55] child care, which many American families struggle to afford. President Trump, both you and President [1:10:00] Biden have tried to address this issue, but the average cost of child care in this country is [1:10:05] risen to more than $11,000 a year per child. For many families, the cost of child care for two [1:10:11] children is more than their rent. In your second term, what would you do to make child care more [1:10:17] affordable? Just to go back, the general got fired because he was no good. And if he said that, [1:10:24] that's why he made it up. But we have 19 people that said I didn't say it. And they're very highly [1:10:28] respected, much more so than him. The other thing is he doesn't fire people. He never fired people. [1:10:35] I've never seen him fire anybody. [1:10:37] I did fire a lot. I fired Comey because he was no good. I fired a lot of the top people at the FBI, [1:10:41] drained the swamp. They were no good. Not easy to fire people. You'd pay a price for it. But they [1:10:46] were no good. I inherited these people. I didn't put him there. I didn't put Comey there. He was [1:10:50] no good. I fired him. This guy hasn't fired anybody. He never fires. He should have fired [1:10:55] every military man that was involved with that Afghan, the Afghanistan horror show, [1:11:02] the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. He didn't fire. Did you fire [1:11:07] anybody? Did you fire anybody that's on the border that's allowed us to have the worst border in the [1:11:11] history of the world? Did anybody get fired for allowing 18 million people, many from prisons, [1:11:17] many from from mental institutions? Did you fire anybody that allowed our country to be destroyed? [1:11:23] Joe, our country is being destroyed as you and I sit up here and waste a lot of time on this debate. [1:11:29] This shouldn't be a debate. He is the worst president. He just said about me because I said [1:11:37] he doesn't care what the history of our country. He's destroyed our country now. All of a sudden, [1:11:41] he's trying to get a little tough on the border. He come out, came out with a nothing, a nothing deal, [1:11:47] and it reduced it a little bit, a little bit like this much. It's insignificant. He wants open [1:11:52] borders. He wants our country to either be destroyed or he wants to pick up those people as [1:11:57] voters. And I don't think we just can't let it happen if he wins this election. Our country doesn't have a [1:12:05] chance, not even a chance, [1:12:06] coming out of this rut, we probably won't have a country left anymore. That's how bad it is. [1:12:11] He is the worst in history by far. Thank you, President Trump. President Biden? [1:12:15] We're the most admired country in the world. We're the United States of America. There's [1:12:20] nothing beyond our capacity. We have the finest military in the history of the world, [1:12:24] the finest in the history of the world. No one thinks we're weak. No one wants to screw around [1:12:30] with us. Nobody. Number one. Number two, the idea that we're talking about worst presidents. [1:12:35] I wasn't joking. Look it up. Go online. 159 or 58, don't hold me to the exact number, [1:12:43] presidential historians, they've had meetings and they voted who's the worst president in [1:12:47] American history. One through best to worst. They said he was the worst in all of American history. [1:12:53] That's a fact. That's not conjecture. You can argue they're wrong, but that's what they voted. [1:12:59] The idea that he is knowing, doing anything to deal with child care. He did very, [1:13:04] virtually nothing to child care. [1:13:05] We should significantly increase the child care tax credit. We should significantly increase the [1:13:10] availability of women and men or single parents to be able to go back to work. And we should [1:13:16] encourage businesses to hold, to have. Thank you, President Biden. President Trump, the question was [1:13:21] about what would you do to make child care more affordable? If you want to take your minute. [1:13:25] Just you understand, we have polling. We have other things that they rate him the worst because [1:13:31] what he's done is so bad. And they rate me. I'll show you. I will show you. And they rate me one of [1:13:36] the best. I'll show you. I'll show you. I'll show you. I'll show you. I'll show you. I'll show you. [1:13:36] Okay. And if I'm given another four years, I will be the best. I think I'll be the best. [1:13:42] Nobody's ever created an economy like us. Nobody ever cut taxes like us. He's the only one I know. [1:13:48] He wants to raise your taxes by four times. He wants to raise everybody's taxes by four times. [1:13:54] He wants the Trump tax cuts to expire. So everybody, including the two of you, are going to [1:13:59] pay four to five times. Nobody ever heard of this before. All my life, I'd grow up and I see [1:14:04] politicians talking about cutting taxes. When we cut taxes, we're going to pay four to five times. [1:14:06] Cut taxes, as I said, we did more business. Apple and all these companies, they were bringing [1:14:12] money back into our country. The worst president in history by far, and everybody knows it. [1:14:18] President Biden? Look, the fact of the matter is that he's dead wrong about, [1:14:22] he's increased the tariff. He's increased, he will increase the taxes on middle-class people. [1:14:28] I said I'd never raise a tax upon anybody making less than $400,000. I didn't. But this tariff, [1:14:34] it's 10% tariffs. Everything coming into the country, you know, [1:14:37] what the economists say, that's going to cost the average American $2,500 a year more because [1:14:43] they're going to have to pay the difference in food and all the things that are very important. [1:14:49] Number two, he's in a situation where he talks about how he has not raised, he's somehow helped [1:14:56] the middle class. The middle class has been devastated by you. Now you want a new tax cut [1:15:02] of $5 trillion over the next 10 years, which is going to fundamentally bankrupt the country. [1:15:06] You want a new tax cut of $5 trillion over the next 10 years, which is going to fundamentally bankrupt the country. [1:15:07] You want a new tax cut of $5 trillion over the next 10 years, which is going to fundamentally bankrupt the country. [1:15:07] You had the largest deficit of any president in American history, number one. Number two, [1:15:12] you have not, in fact, made any contact, any progress with China. We are the lowest trade [1:15:19] deficit with China since 2010. Thank you, President Biden. Let's discuss an epidemic [1:15:26] impacting millions of Americans that both of you have made a top priority in your first term, [1:15:30] the opioid crisis. And for both of you, the number of overdose deaths in this country, [1:15:37] has gone up. Under your term, it went up. Under your term, it has gone up. Former President Trump, [1:15:43] despite the efforts that both of you have made, more than 100,000 Americans are dying from [1:15:47] overdoses every year, primarily from fentanyl and other opioids. What will you do to help [1:15:52] Americans right now in the throes of addiction who are struggling to get the treatment they need? [1:15:57] To finish up, we now have the largest deficit in the history of our country under this guy. [1:16:04] We have the largest deficit with China. He gets paid by China. He's a man. [1:16:08] He's a Manchurian candidate. He gets money from China. We have, so I think he's afraid to deal with [1:16:12] it or something. But do you notice he never took out my tariffs because we bring in so much money [1:16:17] with the tariffs that I imposed on China. He never took them away. He can't because it's too much [1:16:22] money. It's tremendous. And we saved our steel industries and there was more to come, but he [1:16:27] hasn't done that. But he hasn't cut the tariffs because he can't, because it's too much money. [1:16:32] But he's got the largest deficit in the history of our country. And he's got the worst, [1:16:37] the worst situation. [1:16:38] With China, China is going to own us if you keep allowing them to do what they're doing to us as a [1:16:44] country. They are killing us as a country, Joe. And you can't let that happen. You're destroying [1:16:49] our country. [1:16:50] So, President Trump, you have 67 seconds left. The question was, what are you going to do to help [1:16:55] Americans in the throes of addiction right now who are struggling to get the treatment they need? [1:16:59] Jake, we're doing very well at addiction until the COVID came along. We had the two and a half, [1:17:04] almost three years of like nobody's ever had before any country in every way. [1:17:09] And then we had to get tough. And it was the drugs pouring across the border where it started to increase. [1:17:16] We got great equipment. We bought the certain dog. That's the most incredible thing that you've ever seen. [1:17:21] The way they can spot it. We did a lot. And we had we were getting very low numbers, very, very low numbers. [1:17:28] Then he came along. The numbers. Have you seen the numbers now? It's not only the 18 million people that I believe is even low because they got aways. [1:17:36] They don't even talk about gotaways. [1:17:39] The numbers of the amount of drugs and human trafficking in women coming across our border. [1:17:45] The worst thing I've ever seen at numbers that nobody's ever seen under him because the border is so bad. [1:17:52] But the number of drugs coming across our border now is is the largest we've ever had by far. [1:17:58] President Trump, thank you. President Biden, fentanyl and the byproducts, fentanyl went down for a while. [1:18:04] And I wanted to make sure we use the machinery that can detect fentanyl. [1:18:08] These big machines that roll over everything that comes across the border. [1:18:10] And it costs a lot of money. [1:18:12] That was part of this deal we put together. [1:18:14] It's bipartisan deal. [1:18:16] More fentanyl machines. [1:18:18] More be able to detect drugs. [1:18:20] More, more numbers of of agents, more numbers of all people at the border. [1:18:24] And when we had that deal done, he went he called his Republican colleagues and don't do it. [1:18:31] It's going to hurt me politically. [1:18:33] He never argued it's not a good bill. [1:18:35] It's a really good bill. [1:18:37] We need those machines. We need those machines. [1:18:40] And we're coming down very hard in every country in Asia in terms of precursors for fentanyl. [1:18:45] And Mexico is working with us to make sure they don't have the technology to be able to put it together. [1:18:50] That's what we have to do. We need those machines. [1:18:53] Thank you, President Biden. President Trump. [1:18:55] And again, the question is about Americans in the throes of addiction right now struggling to get the treatment they need. [1:19:01] This because this does pertain to it. He ended remain in Mexico. [1:19:05] He ended catch and release. I made a catch and release in Mexico, not catch and release here. [1:19:10] We had so many things that we had done, hard negotiations with Mexico, and I got it all for nothing. [1:19:17] It's just like when you have a hostage. We always pay six billion dollars for every time we say is a hostage. [1:19:22] Now we have a hostage, a Wall Street Journal reporter, I think a good guy. [1:19:27] And he's over there because Putin is laughing at this guy, probably asking for billions of dollars for the reporter. [1:19:34] I will have him out very quickly as soon as I take office. [1:19:39] Before I take office, I said by. [1:19:41] Literally, as soon as I win the election, I will have that reporter out. [1:19:45] He should have had him out a long time ago. [1:19:47] But Putin's probably asking for billions and billions of dollars because this guy pays it every time. [1:19:52] We had two cases. We paid six billion dollars for five people. [1:19:56] I got 58 people out and I paid essentially nothing. [1:20:00] Thank you, President Trump. Dan, let's turn to concerns that voters have about each of you. [1:20:05] President Biden, you would be 86 at the end of your second term. [1:20:11] How do you address concerns? [1:20:12] How do you address concerns about your capability to handle the toughest job in the world well into your 80s? [1:20:19] Well, first of all, I spent half my career being being criticized, being the youngest person in politics. [1:20:26] I was the second youngest person ever elected to the United States Senate. [1:20:29] And now I'm the oldest. This guy's three years younger and a lot less competent. [1:20:34] I think that just look at the record. Look at what I've done. [1:20:36] Look, I've turned around the horrible situation. [1:20:38] He left me, as I said, 15 million new jobs. [1:20:41] Eight hundred thousand manufacturing jobs. [1:20:43] I've got more investment in America, more investment in America, over a million billions of dollars in private investment in enterprises that we are growing. [1:20:52] We've by the way, we brought off a lot of people. [1:20:55] The whole idea of computer chips reached 40 percent of the market. [1:20:59] We invented those chips and we lost it because he was sending people to find the cheapest jobs overseas and to bring home a product. [1:21:08] So I went I went to South Korea. [1:21:10] I convinced Samsung to invest billions of dollars. [1:21:13] Here in the United States. [1:21:15] And there. Guess what? [1:21:16] Those fabs they call that to build these chips. [1:21:21] Those fabs pay over one hundred thousand dollars. [1:21:23] You don't need a college degree for them. [1:21:25] And there's billions, about 40 billion dollars already being invested and being built right now in the United States, creating significant jobs for Americans all over from all over the world. [1:21:36] President Biden, you have 40 seconds left. [1:21:38] Would you like to add anything? [1:21:39] Yeah, I would. The idea that somehow we are. [1:21:43] This failing country, I never heard a president talk like this before we were the envy of the world made me a single major country president wouldn't trade places with the United States of America for all our problems and all our opportunities were the most progressive country in the world and getting things done with the strongest country in the world where a country in the world who keeps our word and everybody trusts us, all of our allies and our and our and our those who he calls up from Kim Jong Un. [1:22:13] We send love letters. [1:22:14] There's two of Putin, et cetera. [1:22:16] They don't want to screw around with us. [1:22:18] Thank you. Former President Trump to follow up. [1:22:21] You would be 82 at the end of your second term. [1:22:24] What do you say to voters who have concerns about your capabilities to serve? [1:22:29] Well, I took two tests, cognitive tests. [1:22:30] I used them, both of them. [1:22:32] As you know, we made it public. [1:22:34] He took none. I'd like to see him take one. [1:22:36] Just one. A real easy one. [1:22:38] Like go through the first five questions. [1:22:39] You couldn't do it. But I took two cognitive tests. [1:22:42] I took physical exams every year. [1:22:45] And, you know, we knock on wood wherever we may have wood that I'm in very good health. [1:22:49] I just won two club championships, not even senior, two regular club championships. [1:22:54] To do that, you have to be quite smart and you have to be able to hit the ball a long way. [1:22:59] And I do it. He doesn't do it. [1:23:00] He can't hit a ball 50 yards. [1:23:02] He challenged me to a golf match. [1:23:03] He can't hit a ball 50 yards. [1:23:06] I think I'm in very good shape. [1:23:07] I feel that I'm in good shape as I was 25, 30 years ago. [1:23:11] Actually, I'm probably a little bit lighter. [1:23:13] But I'm in. [1:23:14] As good a shape as I was years ago. [1:23:17] I feel very good. I feel the same. [1:23:19] But I took I was willing to take a cognitive test. [1:23:21] And you know what? If I didn't do well, I aced him. [1:23:24] Dr. Ronny Jackson, who's a great guy when he was White House doctor. [1:23:28] And then I took another one, a similar one. [1:23:30] And both one of them said they'd never seen anybody ace him. [1:23:33] Thank you. President Biden. [1:23:36] You can see he is six foot five and only two hundred twenty three pounds or twenty thirty five pounds. [1:23:42] Well, you said six four two hundred. [1:23:45] Well, anyway, that's what you're anyway, just take a look at what he says he is and take a look at what he is. [1:23:51] Look, I'd be happy to have a driving contest with him. [1:23:54] I got my handicap, which when I was vice president, down to a six. [1:24:00] And by the way, I told you before, I'm happy to play golf. [1:24:03] If you carry your own bag, think you can do it. [1:24:07] That's the biggest lie that he's a six handicap of all. [1:24:10] I was eight handicapped. [1:24:11] Yeah, he said, you know how many I've seen this week. [1:24:16] I know you swing. [1:24:17] Let's not act like children, President Trump. [1:24:19] We're going to let's not act like children. [1:24:22] You are a specific concern that voters have about you. [1:24:26] Will you pledge tonight that once all legal challenges have been exhausted, that you will accept the results of this election, regardless of who wins? [1:24:36] And you will say right now that political violence in any form is unacceptable. [1:24:42] Well, I shouldn't have to say that. [1:24:43] But of course, I believe that it's totally unacceptable. [1:24:47] And if you would see my statements. [1:24:48] That I made on Twitter at the time and also my statement that I made in the Rose Garden, you would say is one of the strongest statements you've ever seen. [1:24:55] In addition to the speech I made in front of, I believe, the largest crowd I've ever spoken to. [1:25:00] And I will tell you, nobody ever talks about that. [1:25:02] They talk about a relatively small number of people that went to the Capitol and in many cases were ushered in by the police. [1:25:09] And as Nancy Pelosi said, it was her responsibility, not mine. [1:25:13] She said that loud and clear. [1:25:14] But the answer is if the election is fair, free. [1:25:18] And I want that. [1:25:18] I want that more than anybody. [1:25:20] And I'll tell you something. [1:25:22] I wish he was a great president because I wouldn't be here right now. [1:25:25] I'd be at one of my many places enjoying myself. [1:25:29] I wouldn't be under indictment because I wouldn't have been his political appointment, you know, opponent because he indicted me because I was his opponent. [1:25:37] I wish he was a great president. [1:25:39] I would rather have that. [1:25:41] I wouldn't be here. [1:25:42] I don't mind being here. [1:25:43] The only reason I'm here is he's so bad as a president that I'm going to make America great again. [1:25:49] Make America great again. [1:25:51] We're a failing nation right now. [1:25:52] We're a seriously failing nation. [1:25:54] And we're a failing nation because of him. [1:25:56] His policies are so bad. [1:25:59] His military policies are insane. [1:26:03] They're insane. [1:26:04] These are wars that will never end with him. [1:26:07] He will drive us into World War III. [1:26:08] And we're closer to World War III than anybody can imagine. [1:26:12] We are very, very close to World War III. [1:26:15] And he's driving us there. [1:26:16] And Kim Jong-un. [1:26:18] And President. [1:26:19] And Xi of China. [1:26:20] Kim Jong-un of North Korea. [1:26:21] All of these. [1:26:22] Putin. [1:26:23] They don't respect him. [1:26:24] They don't fear him. [1:26:25] They have nothing going with this gentleman. [1:26:28] And he's going to drive us into World War III. [1:26:31] You want a World War III, let him follow and win and let Putin say, do what you want, NATO. [1:26:38] Just do what you want. [1:26:40] There's a thing called Article 5. [1:26:42] An attack on one is an attack on all. [1:26:44] A required response. [1:26:46] The idea. [1:26:47] The idea. [1:26:48] I can't think of a single major leader in the world. [1:26:51] I can't think of a single major leader in the world. [1:26:51] I can't think of a single major leader in the world who wouldn't trade places with the job I've done and what they've done. [1:26:55] Because we are a powerful nation. [1:26:57] We have wonderful peace. [1:26:58] Because of the people. [1:26:59] Not me. [1:26:59] It's because of the American people. [1:27:01] They're capable of anything. [1:27:02] And they step up when they're needed. [1:27:03] And right now, we're needed. [1:27:05] We're needed to protect the world because our own safety is at stake. [1:27:09] And again, you want to have a war, just let Putin go ahead and take Kiev. [1:27:13] Make sure they move on. [1:27:15] See what happens in Poland, Hungary, and other places along that border. [1:27:19] Then you have a war. [1:27:20] President Trump. [1:27:22] As I come back to you for a follow-up, the question was, will you accept the results of this election, regardless of who wins? [1:27:30] Just to finish what he said, if I might. [1:27:34] Russia. [1:27:35] They took a lot of land from Bush. [1:27:37] They took a lot of land from Obama and Biden. [1:27:41] They took no land, nothing from Trump. [1:27:44] Nothing. [1:27:44] He knew not to do it. [1:27:46] He's not going to play games with me. [1:27:47] He knew that. [1:27:48] I got along with him very well, but he knew not to play games. [1:27:51] He took nothing from me. [1:27:52] But now he's going to take the whole thing. [1:27:55] From this man, right here. [1:27:58] That's a war that should have never started. [1:27:59] It would have never started, ever, with me. [1:28:03] And he's going to take Ukraine. [1:28:05] And, you know, you asked me a question before. [1:28:07] Would you do this with... [1:28:08] He's got us in such a bad position right now with Ukraine and Russia. [1:28:13] Because Ukraine's not winning that war. [1:28:15] He said, I will never settle until such time. [1:28:18] They're running out of people. [1:28:19] They're running out of soldiers. [1:28:20] They've lost so many people. [1:28:21] It's so sad. [1:28:23] They've lost so many people. [1:28:24] And they've lost those gorgeous cities with the golden domes. [1:28:27] That are a thousand years old. [1:28:29] All because of him and stupid decisions. [1:28:32] Russia would have never attacked if I were president. [1:28:34] President Trump, the question was, will you accept the results of the election? [1:28:37] Regardless of who wins. [1:28:39] Yes or no, please. [1:28:40] If it's a fair and legal and good election, absolutely. [1:28:45] I would have much rather accepted these. [1:28:48] But the fraud and everything else was ridiculous. [1:28:52] And if you want, we'll have a news conference on it in a week. [1:28:55] Or we'll have another one of these in a week. [1:28:57] But I will absolutely. [1:29:00] There's nothing I'd rather do. [1:29:01] It would be much easier for me to do that. [1:29:04] Then I'm running again. [1:29:06] I wasn't really going to run until I saw the horrible job he did. [1:29:11] He's destroying our country. [1:29:12] I would be very happy to be someplace else in a nice location someplace. [1:29:17] And again, no indictments, no political opponents stuff because it's the only way he thinks he can win. [1:29:23] But unfortunately, it's driven up by numbers and driven up to a very high level. [1:29:27] Because the people understand it. [1:29:30] Let's see what your numbers are. [1:29:31] And this election is over. [1:29:33] Let's see your whiner. [1:29:35] When you lost the first time, you said you continued your appealed and appealed the courts all across the country. [1:29:41] Not one single court in America said any of your claims had any merit, state or local. [1:29:48] None. [1:29:49] But you continue to provoke this lie about somehow there's all this misrepresentation, all this stealing. [1:29:57] There is no evidence of that at all. [1:29:59] And I tell you what, I doubt whether you'll accept it because you're such a whiner. [1:30:03] The idea if you lose again, you accepted anything, you can't stand the loss. [1:30:07] Something snapped in you when you lost the last time. [1:30:11] We'll be right back with more from the CNN presidential debate live from Georgia to deliver their closing statements as predetermined by a coin toss. [1:34:02] We're going to begin with you, President Biden. [1:34:04] You have two minutes. [1:34:08] We've made significant progress from the debacle that was left by President Trump. [1:34:14] We've made significant progress from the debacle that was left by President Trump. [1:34:14] And it is the last term. [1:34:17] We find ourselves in a situation where, number one, we have to make sure that we have a fair tax system. [1:34:23] I ask anyone out there in the audience or anyone out watching this debate, do you think the tax system is fair? [1:34:29] The fact is that I said nobody would make it under $400,000 had a single penny increase in their taxes. [1:34:37] And if I'm reelected, that will be the case again. [1:34:40] But this guy has increased your taxes because of the deficit, number one. [1:34:45] He's increased. [1:34:46] He's increased inflation because of the debacle he left after the way he handled the pandemic. [1:34:51] And he finds himself in a position where he now wants to tax you more by putting a 10% tariff on everything that comes into the United States of America. [1:34:59] What I did, for example, he wants to get rid of the ability of Medicare for the ability for us to be able to negotiate drug prices with the big pharma companies. [1:35:13] Well, guess what? [1:35:14] We got it. [1:35:15] We got it. [1:35:17] We got it. [1:35:17] We got it. [1:35:17] We got it. [1:35:17] We got it. [1:35:17] We got it. [1:35:17] We got it. [1:35:17] We got it. [1:35:18] We got it. [1:35:18] We got it. [1:35:18] We got it. [1:35:18] We got it. [1:35:18] We got it. [1:35:18] We got it. [1:35:18] We got it. [1:35:18] Excuse me, $35 for insulin instead of $400. [1:35:21] No more than $2,000 for every senior, no matter how much prescription they need. [1:35:28] You know what that did? [1:35:29] That reduced the federal debt by $160 billion over 10 years because the government doesn't have to pay the exorbitant prices. [1:35:38] I'm going to make that available to every senior, all along, and it's happening now, and everybody in America. [1:35:46] He wants to get rid of that. [1:35:47] We have I'm going to make sure that we have child care. We're going to significantly increase the [1:35:52] credit people have for child care. I'm going to make sure we do something about what we're doing [1:35:56] on lead pipes and all the things that are causing health problems for people across the country. [1:36:03] We're going to continue to fight to bring down inflation and give people a break. [1:36:07] Thank you, President Biden. President Trump, you now have two minutes for your closing statement. [1:36:11] Like so many politicians, this man is just a complainer. He said we want to do this. We want [1:36:16] to do that. We want to get rid of this tax, that tax. But he doesn't do anything. He doesn't do [1:36:21] all he does is make our country unsafe by allowing millions and millions of people to pour in. [1:36:27] Our military doesn't respect him. We look like fools in Afghanistan. We didn't stop Israel. It [1:36:33] was such a horrible thing that would have never happened. It should have never happened. Iran was [1:36:37] broke. Anybody that did business with Iran, including China, they couldn't do business [1:36:41] with the United States. They all passed. Iran was broke. They had no money for Hamas or Hezbollah. [1:36:46] For terror, no money whatsoever. Again, Ukraine should have never happened. He talks about all [1:36:52] this stuff, but he didn't do it. For three and a half years, we're living in hell. We have the [1:36:57] Palestinians and we have everybody else rioting all over the place. You talk about Charlottesville. [1:37:02] This is 100 times Charlottesville, a thousand times. The whole country is exploding because of [1:37:07] you, because they don't respect you and they have to respect their president and they don't respect [1:37:12] you throughout the world. What we did was incredible. We rebuilt the military. [1:37:17] We got the largest tax cut in history, the largest regulation cut in history. The reason he's got [1:37:22] jobs is because I cut the regulations that gave jobs. But he's putting a lot of those regulations [1:37:27] back on all of the things that we've done. Nobody's ever never seen anything like even [1:37:32] from a medical standpoint, right to try where we can try space age materials instead of going to [1:37:37] Asia or going to Europe and trying to get when you're terminally ill. Now you can go and you [1:37:43] can get something. You sign a document. They've been trying to get it for 42 years. [1:37:47] But you know what we did for the military was incredible choice for our soldiers were our [1:37:51] soldiers instead of waiting for three months to see a doctor can go out and get themselves fixed [1:37:58] up and readied up and take care of themselves and they're living. And that's why I had the highest [1:38:03] approval rating in the history of the V. A. So all of these things were in a failing nation, but [1:38:08] it's not going to be failing anymore. We're going to make it great again. Thank you, former [1:38:13] President Trump, President Biden. Stay with us because we have full [1:38:18] analysis of this debate. Anderson Cooper and Aaron Burnett starts now on CNN.