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Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast here with a preview of the third and final presidential

debate Wednesday night between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I'm Scott Deshero,

campaign reporter. I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress, and I'm Domenico Montenar, a political editor.

So Sam and Tam are both on the road. They'll be back later this week, but we're here,

and it's barely three weeks until Election Day, the final debate Wednesday night at the

University of Nevada in Las Vegas moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox News. We are going to talk

about that, but since our last episode, a few things have happened to put it mildly.

So we're going to catch up on that stuff, then we're going to get to the debate. First, Donald Trump.

You guys ready? Ready. Let's do it. Let's do it. We're going to walk through all this. It's going

to be a lot. Donald Trump, this is Friday, said this about Jessica Leeds, one of the women who

claimed that Trump sexually assaulted her. Believe me, she would not be my first choice that I can tell you.

You don't know, that would not be my first choice. And also last week, he suggested that Hillary

Clinton is at the center of a global conspiracy of bankers bent on destroying America. Hillary Clinton

meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of US sovereignty in order to

enrich these global financial powers, her special interests friends and her donors. That's a sentence.

We should say what that was there was Trump's spin of Clinton's leak speeches to big banks,

which are being posted on wiki leaks in which he advocated, quote, a hemispheric common market

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