Here are several of the key moments from debates since that will surely be in the minds of commentators looking for comparisons to what transpires between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as well as Tim Kaine and Mike Pence tonight and in October:. Carter-Ford : Then-President Gerald Ford made a serious gaffe when he stated there was "no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe," which would have come as news to countries living behind the Iron Curtain.
What Ford later characterized as an inarticulate moment wound up causing a major stir. Mondale-Reagan : Ronald Reagan's age he was 73 had become an issue, especially after he performed poorly in his first debate with Walter Mondale, including a rambling closing statement.
Reagan defused the matter with a well-delivered joke during their next encounter, saying, "I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. Bush-Dukakis : Moderator Bernard Shaw hit Michael Dukakis with what was, by any measure, a tough question, asking if he would maintain his opposition to the death penalty if his own wife, Kitty, were raped and murdered. Dukakis flubbed the response, betraying not a hint of emotion at the hypothetical and going straight into a wonky policy explanation.
A writer for Time derided Dukakis' response as sounding like "a time-and-temperature recording. Bentsen-Quayle : The vice presidential debates seldom make the cut in these discussions, but Lloyd Bentsen was clearly waiting for Dan Quayle, George H.
We were seven and five struggling a little bit, as the president alluded to, but we found our rhythm, we got on a roll, not a lot of people, you know, think that we could have won. Brady, who noted he was a bit older than many of his teammates, also had a zinger about the former president's preferred nickname for Biden. I lost track of one down in 21 years of playing, and they started calling me 'Sleepy Tom. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest?
Comments 0. Because you're the one that takes the money from Wall Street, not me. I could blow away your records like you wouldn't believe. We don't need money. We have plenty of money. In fact, we beat Hillary Clinton with a tiny fraction of the money that she was able to get. And I do want to start with the security of our elections and some breaking news from overnight. Just last night, top intelligence officials confirmed again that both Russia and Iran are working to influence this election.
Both countries have obtained U. This question goes to you, Mr. Vice President, what would you do to put an end to this threat? You have two minutes, uninterrupted. And I asked everyone else to take the pledge.
I made it clear that any country, no matter who it is, that interferes in American elections will pay a price. They will pay the price. It has been overwhelmingly clear in this election — I won't even get into the last one — this election, that Russia has been involved. China has been involved to some degree, and now we learned that, that Iran is involved.
They will pay a price if I'm elected. Interfering with American sovereignty. That's what's going on right now. They're interfering with American sovereignty. And to the best of my knowledge, I don't think the President said anything to Putin about it. I don't think he's talking a lot. I don't think he said a word. I don't know why he hasn't said a word to Putin about it. And I don't know what he has recently said, if anything, to the Iranians.
But the point is this, folks. We are in a situation where we have foreign countries trying to interfere in the outcome of our election. His own national security advisor told him that what is happening with his buddy — well, I won't, I shouldn't — I will — his buddy Rudy Giuliani. He's being used as a Russian pawn. He's being fed information that is Russian, that is not true. And then what happens?
Nothing happens. And then you find out that everything is going on here about Russia is wanting to make sure that I do not get elected the next President of the United States because they know I know them, and they know me. I don't understand why this President is unwilling to take on Putin when he's actually paying bounties to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan, when he's engaged in activities that are trying to destabilize all of NATO. I don't know why he doesn't do it but it's worth asking the question.
Why isn't that being done? Any country that interferes with us will, in fact, pay a price because they're affecting our sovereignty. Let me, let me ask the question. You're gonna have two minutes to respond for two elections in a row now there has been substantial interference from foreign adversaries. What would you do in your next term to put an end to this? Joe got three and a half million dollars from Russia. He got three and a half million dollars.
Your family got three and a half million dollars and you know someday, you're gonna have to explain — why did you get three and a half? I never got any money from Russia. I don't get money from Russia. Now, about your thing last night, I knew all about that, and through John — who is John Radcliffe, who is a fantastic DNI — he said, the one thing that's common to both of them, they both want you to lose.
Because there has been nobody tougher to Russia. Between the sanctions, nobody tougher than me on Russia. I sold — while he was selling pillows and sheets — I sold tank busters to Ukraine. There has been nobody tougher on Russia than Donald Trump. And I'll tell you, they were so bad. They took over the, the submarine port. You remember that very well during your term, during you and Barack Obama. They took over a big part of what should have been Ukraine. You handed it to them.
But you were getting a lot of money from Russia. They were paying you a lot of money and they probably still are, but now, with what came out today, it's even worse. All of the emails, the emails are horrible. The emails of the kind of money that you were raking in, you and your family.
And Joe, you were vice president when some of this was happening. And it should have never happened. And I think you owe an explanation to the American people. Why is it, somebody just had a news conference a little while ago, who was essentially supposed to work with you and your family, but what he said was damning. And regardless of me, I think you have to clean it up and talk to the American people.
Maybe you can do it right now. We learn that this President paid 50 times the tax in China, as a secret bank account with China, does business in China, and in fact, is talking about me taking money?
I have not taken a single penny from any country whatsoever, ever, number one. Number two, this is a president — I have released all of my tax returns.
Go look at them. You have not released a single solitary year of your tax return. What are you hiding? Why are you unwilling? The foreign countries are paying you a lot.
Russia is paying you a lot. China is paying a lot. And your hotels and all your businesses all around the country, all around the world. So what's going on here?
Why don't you release your tax return or stop talking about corruption? I'm going to release them as soon as we can. I want to do it, and it will show how successful, how great this company is.
I asked them a week ago, I said, what did I pay? They said, sir, you pre-paid tens of millions of dollars. I prepaid my tax. Over the last number of years. Tens of millions of dollars, I prepaid, because at some point, they think, it's an estimate.
They think I may have to pay tax. So, I already prepaid it. Nobody told me that. And it wasn't written whenever they write this. But let me just tell you, I prepaid millions and millions of dollars in taxes, number one. Number two, I don't make money from China, you do. I don't make money from Ukraine, you do.
I don't make money from Russia. You made three and a half million dollars, Joe, and your son gave you. You're the big man, I think. I don't know, maybe you're not. But you're the big man, I think. Joe, what's that all about? It's terrible. I'm gonna let you both respond, very quickly. You just said you spoke to your accountant about potentially releasing your taxes.
Did he tell you when you can release them? Do you have a deadline for when you're going to release them to the American people? A lot of people in there, deep down in the IRS, they treat me horribly. We made a deal, it was all settled, until I decided to run for president. I get treated very badly by the IRS, very unfairly, but we had a deal all done. As soon as we're completed with the deal, I want to release it.
But I have paid millions and millions of dollars. And it's worse than paying. I paid in advance. It's called prepaying your taxes. I paid. Show us. Just show us. Stop playing around. Nobody knows, Mr. President, they do know is you're not paying your taxes or you're paying taxes that are so low. I know how to game the system. It started before I even got elected. They spied on my campaign. No president should ever have to go through what I went through. Let me just say this. They went through everything I had, including my tax returns, and they found absolutely no collusion and nothing wrong.
I guarantee you, if I spent 1 million on you Joe, I could find plenty wrong, because the kind of things that you've done and the kind of monies that your family has taken — I mean, your brother made money in Iraq, millions of dollars. Your other brother made a fortune, and it's all through you, Joe. And they say you get some of it. And you do live very well. You have houses all over the place.
You live very well. Vice President Biden, there have been questions about the work your son has done in China, and for Ukrainian energy company when you were Vice President. In retrospect, was anything about those relationships inappropriate or unethical? Here's what the deal. With regard to Ukraine, we had this whole question about whether or not, because he was on the board, I later learned, of Burisma, a company, that somehow I had done something wrong.
Yet every single solitary person, when he was going through his impeachment, testifying under oath who worked for him, said I did my job impeccably. I carried out US policy. Not one, single, solitary thing was out of line. Not a single thing, number one. Number two, the guy who got in trouble in Ukraine was this guy, trying to bribe the Ukrainian government to say something negative about me, which they would not do, and did not do, because it never, ever, ever happened.
My son has not made money in terms of this thing about — what are you talking about — China. I have not had it. The only guy that made money from China is this guy.
Nobody else has made money from China. And he didn't have a job. As soon as he became vice president, Burisma — not the best, not the best reputation in the world — I hear they paid him , a month. Everybody investigated that, no one said anything he did was wrong in Ukraine. Since you took office, you've never divested from your business. You've personally promoted your properties abroad. A report this week, which was referenced, does indicate that your company has a bank account in China.
So how can voters know that you don't have any foreign conflicts of interest? I mean, I was a businessman doing business. The bank account you're referring to — which is, everybody knows about it, it's listed — the bank account was in That's what it was. It was opened. It was closed in , I believe, and then I decided, because I was going to do, I was thinking about doing a deal in China, like millions of other people, I was thinking about it.
And I decided I'm not going to do it, didn't like it, I decided not to do it, had an account open and I closed it. That was before. So I closed it before I even ran for president, let alone became president, big difference.
He is the Vice President of the United States, and his son, his brother and his other brother are getting rich, they're like a vacuum cleaner, there's something —. I do want to ask you, Vice President Biden, about China. Let's talk about China more broadly. There have, of course, President Trump has said that they should pay for not being fully transparent in regards to the coronavirus.
If you were president, would you make China pay and please be specific, what would that look like? He has caused the deficit in China to go up not down — with China, go up not down. We are making sure that in order to do business in China, you have to give all your intellectual property. We would not do that at all, number one.
Number two, we're in a situation where China would have to play by the rules internationally as well. We're not going to pay attention. He embraces guys like the thugs like in North Korea, and, and, and the Chinese president and Putin and others, and he pokes his finger in the eye of all our friends, all of our allies. We need to be having the rest of our friends with us, saying to China, these are the rules. You play by them or you're going to pay the price for not paying by them, economically.
That's the way I will run it. And that's what we did and upholding steel tariffs and a range of other things when we were president and vice president.
What are you gonna do? What specifically are you going to do to make China pay? They devalued their currency and they also paid up, and you know who got the money? Our farmers. Our great farmers, because they would target it. You never charge them anything. We were not going to have a steel, and now we have a steel industry.
There's a reason why he's bringing up all this malarkey. There's a reason for it. He doesn't want to talk about the substantive issues. It's not about his family and my family. It's about your family, and your family's hurting badly. If you're making less than, if you're a middle class family, you're getting hurt badly right now. Or, so are we going to be able to pay the mortgage? Who's going to tell her, she can't go back to community college?
They're the decisions you're making in the middle class families like I grew up in Scranton and Claymot. They're in trouble. We should be talking about your families but that's the last thing he wants to talk about. Let's get off this China thing, and then he looks — the family, around the table, everything. Just a typical politician when I see that. Come on, Joe, you can do better. You've talked about your beautiful letters with him, you've touted the fact that there hasn't been a war or a long range missile test, and yet North Korea recently rolled out its biggest ever intercontinental ballistic missile and continues to develop its nuclear arsenal.
Do you see that as a betrayal of the relationship? Just 30 seconds here because we need to get on to the next topic. He said the biggest problem we have is North Korea. He indicated we will be in a war with North Korea. Guess what, it would be a nuclear war, and he does have plenty of nuclear capability.
In the meantime, I have a very good relationship with him, different kind of a guy but he probably thinks the same thing about me. We have a different kind of relationship. We have a very good relationship, and there's no war. And you know, about two months ago, he broke into a certain area. Because he's not going to do that. Why do you think you would be able to rein in this persistent threat?
Why are you moving more forces? Why are you continuing to do military maneuvers with South Korea? And we're going to continue to do it so we can control them. We're going to make sure we can control them and make sure they can not hurt us.
And so if you want to do something about it, step up. And help if not, it's going to continue. He's legitimized North Korea, he's talked about his good buddy who's a thug, a thug, and he talks about how we're better off, and they have much more capable missiles, able to reach U. Are there any conditions under which you would meet with him? The Korean Peninsula should be a nuclear free zone.
We have a good relationship. We have a lot of questions to get through. They left me a mess. North Korea was a mess. There was a very dangerous period in my first three months, before we sort of worked things out a little bit.
They left us a mess, and Obama would be — I think, the first to say — it was the single biggest problem, he thought, that our country had. One of the issues that's most important to them is health care, as you both know.
Today, there was a key vote on a new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and healthcare is at the center of her confirmation fight. Over 20 million Americans get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. It's headed to the Supreme Court, and your administration, Mr.
President, is advocating for the court to overturn it. If the supreme court does overturn that law, those 20 million Americans could lose their health insurance almost overnight. So what would you do if those people have their health insurance taken away?
Trump: First of all, I've already done something that nobody thought was possible. Through the legislature, I terminated the individual mandate. That is the worst part of Obamacare, as we call it. The individual mandate -- we have to pay a fortune for the privilege of not having to pay for bad health insurance. I terminate it; it's gone.
Now it's in court, because Obamacare is no good. They ran it. Premiums are down, everything's down. Here's the problem. No matter how well you run it, it's no good. What we'd like to do is terminate it. We have the individual mandate done. I don't know that it's going to work. If we don't win, we will have to run it and we'll have Obamacare, but it will be better run.
But it no longer is Obamacare. Because without the individual mandate, it is much different. Pre-existing conditions will always stay. What I would like to do is a much better health care, much better. The Democrats will do it because there'll be tremendous pressure on them.
And we might even have the House at that time. And I think we're going to win the House, okay? You'll see, but I think we're gonna win the House. But come up with a better health care, always protecting people with pre existing conditions -- and one thing very important.
We have million people out there that have great private health care, far more than we're talking about with Obamacare. Joe Biden is going to terminate all of those policies. These are people that love the health care, people that have been successful -- middle income people -- been successful. They have million plans, million people, families under what he wants to do, which will basically be socialized medicine.
He won't even have a choice. They want to terminate million plans. We have done an incredible job with health care. And we're going to do even better. Vice President Biden, yes, this is for you. Your health care plan calls for building on Obamacare. So my question is, what is your plan if the law is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court? Biden: What I'm going to do is pass Obamacare with a public option -- become Bidencare.
Public option is an option that says that if you, in fact, do not have the wherewithal to be -- if you qualify for Medicaid, and you do not have the wherewithal in your state to get Medicaid, you automatically are enrolled, providing competition for insurance companies. That's what's going to happen.
Secondly, we're going to make sure we reduce the premiums and reduce drug prices by making sure that there's competition that doesn't exist now by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices with the insurance companies. Thirdly, the idea that I want to eliminate private insurance -- the reason why I had such a fight for, with 20 candidates for the nomination, was I support private insurance.
That's why I did not -- not one single person, private insurance, would lose their insurance under my plan, nor did they under Obamacare. They did not lose their insurance, unless they chose they wanted to go to something else. Lastly, we're going to make sure we're in a situation that we've actually protect pre existing -- there's no way he can protect pre existing conditions. None, zero, you can't do it in the ether. He's been talking about this for a long time. There is no -- he's never come up with a plan.
I guess we're gonna get the pre existing condition plan the same time we get the infrastructure plan that we waited since 17, 18, 19, What are they going to do? He's accusing you of wanting socialized medicine. What do you say to people who have concerns that your health care plan, which includes a government insurance option, takes the country one step closer to a health care system run entirely by the government?
Look, the difference between the president -- I think health care is not a privilege, it's a right. Everyone should have the right to have affordable health care. And I am very proud of my plan. It's gotten endorsed by all the major labor unions as well as, as well as a whole range of other people who in fact, are concerned in the medical field.
This is something that's going to save people's lives. And this is going to give some people an opportunity, an opportunity to have health care for their children, how many of you home are worried and rolling around in bed at night wondering what in God's name are you going to do if you get sick? Because you've lost your home insurance, your health insurance, your company's gone under. We have to provide health insurance for people at an affordable rate, and that's what I do.
Trump: Excuse me, he was there for 47 years -- he didn't do it. He was now there as Vice President for eight years. And it's not like it was 25 years ago, it was three and three quarters.
It was just a little while ago, right? Less than four years ago. He didn't do anything. He didn't do it. He wants socialized medicine. And it's not that he wants it, his vice president -- I mean, she is more liberal than Bernie Sanders and wants it even more, Bernie Sanders wants it, the Democrats want it. You're going to have socialized medicine. And by the way, so far, I respect very much the way you're handling this, I have to say.
But by the way, somebody should ask the question. He goes for a year Biden: My response is people deserve to have affordable health care -- period. Period, period, period. And the Bidencare proposal will, in fact, provide for that affordable health care, lower premiums. And they're going to have lower premiums, you can buy into the better plans, the cheaper plans, lower your premiums, deal with unexpected billing, and have your drug prices drop significantly. He keeps talking about it. He hasn't done a thing for anybody on health care, not a thing.
And this whole country will come down. You know, Bernie Sanders tried it in his state. His governor was a very liberal governor, they wanted to make it work He's running against Joe Biden. I beat all those other people because I disagreed with them. Joe Biden, he's running against. This is a guy who's tried to cut Medicare. So I don't know. Welker: Vice Presiden, Mr. Trump: -- he tried to hurt Social Security years ago, years ago.
Go back and look at the records. He tried to hurt Social Security you've got If he's elected, the stock market will crash. Where I come from, in Scranton and Claymont, the people don't live off of the stock market. Because that's his only measure. What happens to the ordinary people out there? What happens to them? And he doesn't come from Scranton. That's like, what -- he lived there for a short period of time before he even knew Welker: -- to my next question, gentlemen.
As of tonight, more than 12 million people are out of work. And as of tonight, 8 million more homes have fallen into poverty, and more families are going hungry every day. Those hit hardest are women and people of color. They see Washington fighting over a relief bill.
President, why haven't you been able to get them the help they need?
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