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your body language, though.

[Halperin] I'm smiling,

but which is it?

Did you foster that or not?

Did that play the way

you wanted it to?

Look, I mean, I think

the delegates

were very disappointed.

ominous music

I still don't actually--

don't know what happened.

[indistinct chatter]

[crowd cheering]

[crowd chanting]

USA! USA! USA!

[crowd cheering]

[Trump] When I take

the oath of office

next year,

I will restore

law and order

to our country.

[crowd cheering]

I am your voice!

Hillary Clinton's message

is that things

will never change,

never ever.

My message is that

things have to change,

and they have to change

right now.

[crowd cheering]

God bless you, and good night.

I love you.

[crowd cheering]

[plane engine roars]

I think the convention

was a tremendous success.

There was love in that room,

I'll tell you what.

There was tremendous love

in the room.

Uh, you look at the unity.

I mean, take a look

at Ted Cruz.

He got booed off the stage.

I've never seen

anything like it.

- To tweak him?

- Yeah.

I would never do a thing

like that.

- But yes.

- [Halperin] Yeah, yeah, so...

- Well, I understand television.

- [Halperin] Yeah.

But nobody's a great producer

'cause there's always

an element of luck.

[Halperin] Right,

I think this:

I walk in,

and the arena went crazy.

[Halperin] Right.

Because there's great unity

in the Republican Party,

and people don't know it.

Had I not walked in,

I think that audience would have

ripped him off the stage.

You know, this "Never Trump"

was-was fiction.

That was in somebody's mind,

mostly the media's mind.

It never had a chance.

No, I-I think it's gonna be

a very boring convention.

ambient music

[crowd cheering]

[man] In an electric night

here at the DNC,

the crowd seems more unified...

[Clinton] ...with the bigotry

and the bombast.

America is great

because America is good.

[woman] Hillary Clinton

makes history

becoming the first woman

U.S. presidential nominee ever,

shattering a new glass ceiling.

But can she break through

the public's image of her?

[man] Hillary Clinton has had

a difficult relationship

with the truth.

Perhaps not more than

conventional politicians,

but there now is

30 years of baggage.

[woman] Republican presidential

nominee Donald Trump

hired Stephen Bannon

of Breitbart News as CEO.

[man] But Bannon has a special

zeal for the Clintons.

Breitbart News has taken

every available shot

to complicate her candidacy...

[traffic honking]

[buzzer sounds]

The mailbox says,

"Fox News, Stone"

right here.

This is it.

[Stone] I have an excellent

rapport with Steve Bannon.

[Halperin] Yeah.

[Stone] And Bannon

is my kind of guy.

He's a bomb thrower.

He thinks outside the box.

If Donald Trump runs

a conventional

Republican campaign,

he will lose.

[Halperin] Right.

What is Steve Bannon

doing in the campaign?

- Laying low.

- Yeah.

He never worked

on a campaign, right?

No, but, uh, John Mitchell

never ran a campaign either,

but he elected

Richard Nixon president.

I've never seen the voters

this angry or this sour

- or this distrustful.

- Right.

What's different

about this cycle is,

they've caught on to the role

of the mainstream media,

echoing, magnifying,

and distorting,

uh, facts on behalf of

the political establishment.

So just because

something's on TV now--

CNN, CBS, whatever--

they don't necessarily

believe it.

Bannon, he brings, uh,

a much better sense

of the new media

and the importance

of the new media.

Uh, and he knows the ent--

the entire Clinton oeuvre

in terms of research.

Right.

- You have three, uh, debates.

- Right.

He could come at her

anywhere.

Will one of her husband's

rape victims be in the audience?

Is that a possibility?

Are you just throwing that

out there, or is that a...

Just a--well, I mean,

I-I--

I don't know that

that's going to happen.

- Yeah.

- But--but it certainly could.

I mean, the worst thing

in politics

than being wrong

is to be worried.

Right.

[helicopter rotors whirring]

[man] The stakes could not

be any higher for this debate.

Ninety minutes that

could change the race.

[woman] New poll shows

Hillary Clinton

and Donald Trump

in a near dead heat.

Clinton is leading

by just two percentage points

in the latest...

[crowd shouting]

[woman]

Welcome to the media circus!

I'm a metaphor!

[instrumental version

of "Thriller" playing]

- Ready?

- [man] Yeah, I'm ready.

Okay.

[scanner beeps]

Thanks.

How are you?

[Kelly] There's a beer

trailer out there.

I don't know--

did you see that?

It's--I--people are

pre-partying

at the presidential debate.

Who gets drunk

at the presidential debate?

[McKinnon]

Everybody but us, I guess.

It's like a tailgate

out there.

What are we,

like, a couple of losers?

It's hard to imagine

that nothing's gonna happen

in this debate, right,

that people are gonna go,

"Oh, that was a dud."

But it could happen,

I guess.

I don't know.

Here's the reason why

I question that just a little.

When I asked him

that first question

at the first presidential debate

Fox News hosted about the women.

You've called women

you don't like

"fat pigs," "dogs," "slobs"...

Trump thought he could

dismiss it with a laugh

about Rosie O'Donnell.

- Right.

- And I kept pressing.

And that's when he got mad.

If you don't like it,

I'm sorry.

I've been very nice to you,

although I could probably

maybe not be based on the way

you have treated me.

And I know he's been told

by everybody

to keep it together

and not let her bait him.

And Trump's not stupid.

- You know, I mean...

- Yeah, yeah.

He wants this.

He likes to win.

So that's if it could be...

So if he--if he's convinced

that that's the way to win,

I mean, I think he can keep

his powder dry for 90 minutes.

And if he does,

it might be boring.

- Either way, we're gonna win...

- Yeah.

...'cause boring

or electric...

There's gonna be

a lot of people watching.

- Everyone's gonna watch.

- You're right. Yes.

He's gonna give us

a ton of stuff to talk about.

And if it's electric,

so much the better

'cause that'll keep us

fueled for weeks.

[Trump] We have so many things

that we have to do better,

Lester.

We have no leadership.

And honestly, that starts

with Secretary Clinton.

I have a feeling,

by the end of this evening,

I'm to be blamed for everything

that's ever happened.

Why not?

Why not? Yeah.

- [laughter]

- [Clinton] Why not?

[Trump] I've been

all over the place.

You decided to stay home,

and that's okay.

I think Donald

just criticized me

for preparing for this debate.

And you know what else

I prepared for?

I prepared to be president,

and I think that's

a good thing.

[applause]

[Holt] Mr. Trump, this year,

Secretary Clinton became

the first woman nominated

for president by a major party.

Earlier this month, you said

she doesn't have

"a presidential look."

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