The Debates Dissected

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🗓️ 23 October 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After three US presidential debates which have attracted some of the biggest viewing audiences in modern American political memory, what have we learned from these televised clashes? In one of the most bitter and polarised presidential campaigns, how much have Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton actually revealed about themselves, their policies and what they could bring to the White House?

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary O'Donohue in New York City and welcome to the debates
0:04.4	dissected on the BBC World Service.
0:07.0	America, this great nation, is founded on a noble vision of democracy, a people empowered
0:19.6	to choose the finest citizens to lead, assessing their wisdom through civil, considered, reason, debate.
0:27.1	And then there's this.
0:28.3	He has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black
0:36.1	president was not an American citizen. Well I have much better judgment than she
0:41.8	does there's no question about that I also have have much better judgment than she does. There's no question about that.
0:43.6	I also have a much better temperament than she has. You know?
0:47.5	We have seen him insult women. We've seen him rate women on their appearance, ranking them from 1 to 10.
0:58.0	We've seen him embarrass women on TV and on Twitter.
1:02.0	She doesn't have the look, she doesn't have the stamina.
1:05.0	I said she doesn't have the stamina and I don't believe she does have the stamina.
1:11.0	It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of
1:13.8	Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country because you'd be in
1:18.2	jail secretary Clinton if I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation
1:32.0	because there has never been so many lies, so much
1:35.3	deception. So we've seen probably the bitterest most rancorous series of
1:40.8	presidential debates in American political history and one which has
1:44.7	attracted record audiences and furious arguments. This election matters
1:49.7	to the whole world not just to the US.
1:52.6	And it's one which has polarized both the world
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