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good evening i'm martha raddatz from abc news and i'm anderson cooper from cnn we want to welcome
you to washington university in st louis for the second presidential debate between hillary clinton
and donald trump sponsored by the commission on presidential debates tonight's debate is a
town hall format which gives voters a chance to directly ask the candidates questions martha and
i will ask follow-up questions but the night really belongs to the people in this room and
to people across the country who have submitted questions online the people you see on this stage
were chosen by the gallup organization they are all from the saint louis area and told gallup they
haven't committed to a candidate each of them came here with questions they want to ask and we saw
those questions for the first time this morning anderson and i and our team from abc and cnn are
the only ones who have seen them both candidates will have two minutes to answer each audience
and online question we hope to get to as many questions as we can so we've asked the audience
here not to slow things down with any applause except for now ladies and gentlemen the republican
nominee for president donald j trump and the democratic nominee for president hillary clinton
thank you very much for being here we're going to begin with a question from one of the members in
our town hall uh each of you will have two minutes to respond to this question secretary clinton you
won the coin toss and you'll go first our first question comes from patrice brock the trees
thank you and good evening the last presidential debate could have been rated as m.a mature
audiences per tv parental guidelines knowing that educators design viewing the presidential debates
as students homework do you feel you are modeling appropriate and positive behavior for today's
youth well thank you are you a teacher um yes i think that that's a very good question because
i've heard from lots of teachers and parents about some of their concerns about some of the things
that are being said and done in this campaign and i think it is very important for us to make clear
to our children that our country really is great because we're good and we are going to respect
one another lift each other up we are going to be looking for ways to celebrate our diversity
and we are going to try to reach out to every boy and girl as well as every adult to bring them in
to working on behalf of our country i have a very positive and optimistic view about what we can do
together that's why the slogan of my campaign is stronger together because i think if we work
together if we overcome the divisiveness that sometimes sets americans against one another
and instead we make some big goals and i've set forth some big goals getting the economy to work
for everyone not just those at the top making sure that we have the best education system from
preschool through college and making it affordable and so much else if we set those goals and we go
together to try to achieve them there's nothing in my opinion that america can't do so that's why
i hope that we will come together in this campaign obviously i'm hoping to earn your vote
i'm hoping to be elected in november and i can promise you i will work with every american i
want to be the president for all americans regardless of your political beliefs where
you come from what you look like your religion i want us to heal our country and bring it together
because that's i think the best way for us to get the future that our children and our grandchildren
deserve secretary clinton thank you mr trump you have two minutes well i actually agree with that
i agree with everything she said i began this campaign because i was so tired of seeing such
foolish things happen to our country this is a great country this is a great land i've gotten
to know the people of the country over the last year and a half that i've been doing this
as a politician i cannot believe i'm saying that about myself but i guess i have been a politician
and my whole concept was to make america great again when i watch
the deals being made when i watch what's happening with some horrible things like obamacare where
your health insurance and health care is going up by numbers that are astronomical 68 59 71
when i look at the iran deal and how bad a deal it is for us it's a one-sided transaction
where we're giving back 150 billion dollars to a terrorist state really the number one terrorist
state we've made them a strong country from really a very weak country just three years ago
when i look at all of the things that i see and all of the potential that our country has
we have such tremendous potential whether it's in business and trade where we're doing so badly
last year we had an almost 800 billion dollar trade deficit in other words
trading with other countries we had an 800 billion dollar deficit it's hard to believe inconceivable
you say who's making these deals we're going to make great trade deals we're going to have a
strong border we're going to bring back law and order just today policeman was shot two killed
and this is happening on a weekly basis we have to bring back respect to law enforcement at the
same time we have to take care of people on all sides we need justice but i want to do things
that haven't been done including fixing and making our inner cities better for the african-american
citizens that are so great and for the latinos hispanics and i look forward to doing it's called
make america great again thank you mr trump the question from patrice was about are you
both modeling positive and appropriate behaviors for today's youth we received a lot of questions
online mr trump about the tape that was released on fridays you can imagine you called what you
said locker room banter you described kissing women without consent grabbing their genitals
that is sexual assault you brag that you have sexually assaulted women do you understand
that no i didn't say that at all i don't think you understood what was said this was locker room talk
i'm not proud of it i apologize to my family i apologize to the american people certainly
i'm not proud of it but this is locker room talk you know when we have a world where you have isis
chopping off heads where you have and frankly drowning people in steel cages where you have
wars and and horrible horrible sights all over where you have so many bad things happening
this is like medieval times we haven't seen anything like this the carnage all over the world
and they look and they see can you imagine the people that are frankly doing so well against us
with isis and they look at our country and they see what's going on yes i'm very embarrassed by it
i hate it but it's locker room talk and it's one of those things i will knock the hell out of isis
we're going to defeat isis isis happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left so because
of bad judgment and i will tell you i will take care of isis from the center you should get onto
much more important things and much bigger things just for the record though are you saying that
what you said on that bus 11 years ago that you did not actually kiss women without consent or
grope women without consent i have great respect for women nobody has more respect for women than
i do so for the record you're saying you've never done things that frankly you you hear these things
they said and i was embarrassed by it but i have tremendous respect for women have you ever done
those things have respect for me and i will tell you no i have not and i will tell you that i'm
going to make our country safe we're going to have borders in our country which we don't have now
people are pouring into our country and they're coming in from the middle east and other places
we're going to make america safe again we're going to make america great again but we're going
to make america safe again and we're going to make america wealthy again because if you don't do that
it just and it sounds harsh to say but we have to build up the wealth of our nation right now
other nations are taking our jobs and they're taking our wealth thank you mr
that's what i want to talk about secretary clinton do you want to respond
well like everyone else i've spent a lot of time thinking over the last 48 hours about what
we heard and saw you know with prior republican nominees for president i disagreed with them on
politics policies principles but i never questioned their fitness to serve
donald trump is different i said starting back in june that he was not fit to be president
and commander-in-chief and many republicans and independents have said the same thing
what we all saw and heard on friday was donald talking about women what he thinks
about women what he does to women and he has said that the video doesn't represent who he is
but i think it's clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is because we've seen
this throughout the campaign we have seen him insult women we've seen him rate women on their
appearance ranking them from one to ten we've seen him embarrass women on tv and on twitter
we saw him after the first debate spend nearly a week denigrating a former miss
universe in the harshest most personal terms so yes this is who donald trump is
but it's not only women and it's not only this video that raises questions about his
fitness to be our president because he has also targeted immigrants african-americans latinos
people with disabilities pows muslims and so many others so this is who donald trump
is and the question for us the question our country must answer
is that this is not who we are that's why to go back to your question
i want to send a message we all should to every boy and girl and indeed to the entire world
that america already is great but we are great because we are good
and we will respect one another and we will work with one another and we will celebrate our
diversity these are very important values to me because this is the america that i know and love
and i can pledge to you tonight that this is the america that i will serve if i'm so fortunate
enough to become your president and we want to get to some questions from online i assume i am