as a young lawyer working against discrimination against african-american children in
schools and in the criminal justice system i work to make sure that kids with disabilities could get
a public education something that i care very much about i have worked with latinos one of my
first jobs in politics was down in south texas registering latino citizens to be able to vote
so i have a deep devotion to use your absolutely correct word to making sure that every american
feels like he or she has a place in our country and i think when you look at the letters that i
get a lot of people are worried that maybe they wouldn't have a place in donald trump's america
they write me and one woman wrote me about her son felix she adopted him from ethiopia when he was
a toddler he's 10 years old now this is the only country he's ever known and he listens to donald
on tv and he said to his mother one day will he send me back to ethiopia if he gets elected
you know children listen to what is being said to go back to the very very first question and
there's a lot of fear that in fact teachers and parents are calling it the trump effect
bullying is up a lot of people are feeling you know uneasy a lot of kids are expressing their
concerns so first and foremost i will do everything i can to reach out to everybody
democrats republicans independents people across our country if you don't vote for me i still
want to be your president i want to be the best president i can be for every american secretary
clinton your two minutes is up i want to follow up on something that donald trump actually said
to you uh a comment you made last month you said that half of donald trump supporters are quote
deplorables racist sexist homophobic xenophobic islamophobic you later said you regretted saying
half you didn't express regret for using the term deplorable deplorables to mr carter's question
how can you unite a country if you've written off tens of millions of americans well within hours i
i said that i was sorry about the way i i talked about that because my argument is not with his
supporters it's with him and with the hateful and divisive campaign that he has run and the inciting
of violence at his rallies and the very uh brutal kinds of comments about not just women but all
americans all kinds of americans and what he has said about african americans and latinos about
muslims about pows about immigrants about people with disabilities he's never apologized for
and so i do think that a lot of the tone and tenor that he has said i'm proud of the campaign that
bernie sanders and i ran we ran a campaign based on issues not insults and he is supporting me
a hundred percent because we talked about what we wanted to do we might have had some differences
and we had a lot of debates but we believed that we could make the country better and i
was proud of that i'll give you a minute we have a divided nation we have a very divided nation
you look at charlotte you look at baltimore you look at the violence that's taking place in the
inner cities chicago you take a look at washington d.c we have a increase in murder within our cities
the biggest in 45 years we have a divided nation because people like her and believe me
she has tremendous hate in her heart and when she said deplorables she meant it and when she said
irredeemable they're irredeemable you didn't mention that but when she said they're
irredeemable to me that might have been even worse she said some of them she's got tremendous hatred
and this country cannot take another four years of barack obama and that's what you're getting with
her mr trump let me follow up with you in 2008 you wrote in one of your books that the most important
characteristic of a good leader is discipline you said if a leader doesn't have it quote he or she
won't be one for very long in the days after the first debate you sent out a series of tweets from
3 a.m to 5 a.m including one that told people to check out his sex tape is that the discipline of
good news there wasn't check out a sex tape it was just take a look at the person that she built up
to be this wonderful uh girl scout who was no girl scout by the way just so you understand
when she said three o'clock in the morning take a look at benghazi she said who's going to answer
the call at three o'clock in the morning guess what she didn't answer because when ambassador
stevens the question is 600 times well she said she was awake at three o'clock in the morning
and she also sent a tweet out at three o'clock in the morning but i won't even mention that but she
said she'll be awake who's got the famous thing we're gonna answer our call at three o'clock in
the morning guess what happened ambassador stevens ambassador stevens sent 600 requests for help and
the only one she talked to was sydney blumenthal who's her friend and not a good guy by the way
so you know she shouldn't be talking about that now tweeting happens to be a modern day form of
communication i mean you can like it or not like it i have between facebook and twitter i have
almost 25 million people it's a very effective way of communication so you can put it down but
it is a very effective form of communication i'm not unproud of it to be honest with you secretary
clinton does mr trump have the discipline to be a good leader no i'm shocked to hear that
well it's it's it's not only my opinion it's the opinion of many others
national security experts republicans former republican members of congress
but it's in part because those of us who have had the great privilege of seeing this job up close
and know how difficult it is and it's not just because i watched my husband take a 300
billion dollar deficit and turn it into a 200 billion dollar surplus and 23 million new jobs
were created and incomes went up for everybody everybody african-american incomes went up 33
and it's not just because i worked with george w bush after 9 11.
and i was very proud that when i told him what the city needed what we needed to recover he said
you've got it and he never wavered he stuck with me and i have worked and i admire president obama
he inherited the worst financial crisis since the great depression that was a terrible time for our
country we have to move along nine million people secretary clinton five million homes
were lost secretary clinton in family wealth was wiped out we are back on the right track
he would send us back into recession with his tax plans secretary clinton we are moving to
an audience question we're almost out of time we have another mr trump moving 19 29 it is mr trump
thank you very much both of you
we have another audience question beth miller has a question for both candidates um good evening
perhaps the most important aspect of this election is a supreme court justice
what would you prioritize as the most important aspect of selecting a supreme court justice
we begin with your two minutes secretary clinton thank you well you're right this is one of the
most important issues in this election um i want to appoint supreme court justices who understand
the way the world really works who have real-life experience who have not just been in a big law
firm and maybe clerked for a judge and then gotten on the bench but you know maybe they
tried some more cases they actually understand what people are up against because i think the
current court has gone in the wrong direction and so i would want to see the supreme court
reverse citizens united and get dark unaccountable money out of our politics donald doesn't agree
with that i would like the supreme court to understand that voting rights are still a big
problem in many parts of our country that we don't always do everything we can to make it possible
for people of color and older people and young people to be able to exercise their franchise
i want a supreme court that will stick with roe v wade and a woman's right to choose and i want
a supreme court that will stick with marriage equality now donald has put forth the names of
some people that he would consider and among the ones that he has suggested are people who would
reverse roe v wade and reverse marriage equality i think that would be a terrible mistake and would
take us backwards i want a supreme court that doesn't always side with corporate interests
i want a supreme court that understands because you're wealthy and you can give more money to
something doesn't mean you have any more rights or should have any more rights than anybody else
so i have very clear views about what i want to see to tend to change the balance on the supreme
court and i regret deeply that the senate has not done its job and they have not permitted a vote on
the person that president obama a highly qualified person they've not given him a vote to be able to
have the full complement of nine supreme court justices i think that was a dereliction of duty
i hope that they will see their way to doing it but if i am so fortunate enough as to be
president i will immediately uh move to make sure that we fill that we have nine thank you secretary
clinton work on behalf of our people thank you you're out of time mr trump justice scalia great
judge died recently and we have a vacancy i am looking to appoint judges very much in the mold of
justice scalia i'm looking for judges and i've actually picked 20 of them
so that people would see highly respected highly thought of and actually
very beautifully reviewed by just about everybody but people that will respect the constitution
of the united states and i think that this is so important also the second amendment which is
totally under siege by people like hillary clinton they'll respect the second amendment and what it
stands for what it represents so important to me now hillary mentioned something about
uh contributions just so you understand so i will have in my race more than 100 million dollars put
in of my money meaning i'm not taking all of this big money from all of these different corporations
like she's doing what i ask is this so i'm putting in more than by the time it's finished i'll have
more than 100 million dollars invested pretty much self-funding mind we're raising money for
the republican party and we're doing tremendously on the small donation 61 average or so i asked
hillary why doesn't she made 250 million dollars by being in office she used the power of her
office to make a lot of money why isn't she funding not for 100 million but why don't
you put 10 or 20 or 25 or 30 million dollars into your own campaign it's 30 million dollars less for
special interest that will tell you exactly what to do and it would really i think be a nice sign
to the american public why aren't you putting some money in you have a lot of it you've made a lot of
it because of the fact that you've been in office you made a lot of it while you were secretary
of state actually so why aren't you putting money into your own campaign i'm just curious
well thank you very much thank you we're going to get on to one more question the question was
about the supreme court and i just want to quickly say very quickly i respect the second amendment
but i believe there should be comprehensive background checks and we should close the
gun show loophole and close the online loophole we have we have one more question
as we possibly can we have one more question from ken bone about uh energy policy ken
what steps will your energy policy take to meet our energy needs while at the same time remaining
environmentally friendly and minimizing job loss for fossil power plant workers mr trump too
absolutely i think it's such a great question because energy is under siege by the obama
administration under absolute siege the epa environmental protection agency is killing
these energy companies and foreign companies are now coming in buying our buying so many of our
different plants and then rejiggering the plant so that they can take care of their oil we are
killing absolutely killing our energy business in this country now i'm all for alternative
forms of energy including wind including solar etc but we need much more than wind and solar
and you look at our miners hillary clinton wants to put all the miners out of business
there is a thing called clean coal coal will last for a thousand years in this country
now we have natural gas and so many other things because of technology we have unbelievable we have
found over the last seven years we have found tremendous wealth right under our feet so good
especially when you have 20 trillion in debt i will bring our energy companies back they'll be
able to compete they'll make money they'll pay off our national debt they'll pay off our tremendous
budget deficits which are are tremendous but we are putting our energy companies out of business
we have to bring back our workers you take a look at what's happening to steel and the cost of steel
and china dumping vast amounts of steel all over the united states which essentially is killing
our steel workers and our steel companies we have to guard our energy companies we have to make it
possible the epa is so restrictive that they are putting our energy companies
out of business and all you have to do is go to a great place like west virginia or
places like ohio which is phenomenal or places like pennsylvania and you see what they're doing
to the people miners and others in the energy business it's a disgrace your time is up thank you
absolute disgrace secretary clinton two minutes well that was very interesting um first of all
china is illegally dumping steel in the united states and donald trump is buying it
to build his buildings putting steel workers and american steel plants
out of business that's something that i fought against as a senator and that i would have a
a trade prosecutor to make sure that we don't get taken advantage of by china and steel or anything
else you know because it sounds like you're in the business or you're aware of people in the
business you know that we are now for the first time ever energy independent we are not dependent
upon the middle east but the middle east still controls a lot of the prices so the price of oil
has been way down and that has had a damaging effect on a lot of the oil companies right
we are however producing a lot of natural gas which serves as a bridge to more renewable fuels
and i think that's an important uh transition we've got to remain energy independent it
gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the middle east we
have enough worries over there without having to worry about that so i have a comprehensive energy
policy but it really does include fighting climate change because i think that is a serious problem
and i support moving toward more clean renewable energy as quickly as we can because i think we
can be the 21st century clean energy superpower and create millions of new jobs and businesses
but i also want to be sure that we don't leave people behind that's why i'm the only candidate
from the very beginning of this campaign who had a plan to help us revitalize coal country
because those coal miners and their fathers and their grandfathers they dug that coal out a lot
of them lost their lives they were injured but they turned the lights on and they powered our
factories i don't want to walk away from them so we've got to do something for them
but the price of coal is down worldwide so we have to look at this comprehensively
that's exactly what i have proposed i hope you will go to hillary clinton.com my entire policy
one more audience question we've sneaked in one more question and it comes from carl becker
good evening my question to both of you is regardless of the current rhetoric
would either of you name one positive thing that you respect in one another
mr trump would you like to go first
well i i certainly will because i think that's a very fair and important question look i respect
his children his children are incredibly able and devoted and i think that says a lot about donald
i don't agree with nearly anything else he says or does but i do respect that and i
think that is something uh that as a mother and a grandmother is very important to me
so i believe that this election has become in part so um so conflict-oriented so intense
because there's a lot at stake this is not an ordinary time and this is not
an ordinary election we are going to be choosing a president who will set policy for not just four or
eight years but because of some of the important decisions we have to make here at home and around
the world from the supreme court to energy and so much else and so there is a lot at stake it's one
of the most consequential elections that we've had and that's why i've tried to put forth specific
policies and plans trying to get it off of the personal and put it on to what it is i want to do
as president and that's why i hope people will check on that for themselves so that they can
see that yes i've spent 30 years actually maybe a little more working to help kids and families
and i want to take all that experience to the white house and do that every single day mr trump
well i consider her statement about my children to be a very nice compliment i don't know if
it was meant to be a compliment but it is a great i'm very proud of my children and
they've done a wonderful job and they've been wonderful wonderful kids so i consider that
a compliment i will say this about hillary she doesn't quit she doesn't give up i respect that
i tell it like it is she's a fighter i disagree with much of what she's fighting for
i do disagree with her judgment in many cases but she does fight hard and she doesn't quit
and she doesn't give up and i consider that to be a very good trait thanks to both of you
i want to thank both the uh the candidates want to thank the uh the university here this
concludes the town hall meeting our thanks to the candidates the commission washington university
and to everybody who watched please tune in on october 19th for the final presidential debate
that will take place at the university of nevada las vegas good night everyone
you