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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