Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast here with a recap of the first presidential debate

which took place Monday night at Hofstra University in New York.

And here it is, in a nutshell.

Donald supported the invasion of Iraq.

That is absolutely proved over and over again.

We actually had to.

Okay, we're going to talk a bit more about the whole thing and what comes next, I'm Sam

Sanders, campaign reporter.

I'm Danielle Kertzleven, political reporter.

And I'm Ron Helping, Editor-Corespondent.

Okay, it's 11, what, 44 PM right now as a recording this?

Nevertheless, we're here and we're going to go.

Ron, what should we take away?

Can't remember seeing Hillary Clinton smile this much.

In a very long time, she came out smiling from the very beginning.

She kept smiling except in those moments when she was being attacked and lifting her chin

and looking very seriously over at Donald Trump.

She seemed to have a strategy for the evening and I believe that both candidates did.

But her strategy seemed to be executed and stay on trajectory through the full 90 minutes,

whereas the Donald Trump more presidential person that he began with for the first 20

minutes or so to speak about policy, to speak substantively, to be controlled and measured

and seem what people generally describe as presidential began to deteriorate when she

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