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That drubbing is similar to Mitt Romney's dominant performance over President Barack Obama in the first 2012 presidential debate.

Voters who watched said Clinton expressed her views more clearly than Trump and had a better understanding of the issues by a margin of more than 2-to-1. Clinton also was seen as having done a better job addressing concerns voters might have about her potential presidency by a 57% to 35% margin, and as the stronger leader by a 56% to 39% margin.

The gap was smaller on which candidate appeared more sincere and authentic, though still broke in Clinton's favor, with 53% saying she was more sincere vs. 40% who felt Trump did better on that score. Trump topped Clinton 56% to 33% as the debater who spent more time attacking their opponent.

Although the survey suggested debate watchers were more apt to describe themselves as Democrats than the overall pool of voters, even independents who watched deemed Clinton the winner, 54% vs. 33% who thought Trump did the best job in the debate.

And the survey suggests Clinton outperformed the expectations of those who watched. While pre-debate interviews indicated these watchers expected Clinton to win by a 26-point margin, that grew to 35 points in the post-debate survey.

About half in the poll say the debate did not have an effect on their voting plans, 47% said it didn't make a difference, but those who say they were moved by it tilted in Clinton's direction, 34% said the debate made them more apt to vote for Clinton, 18% more likely to back Trump.

On the issues, voters who watched broadly say Clinton would do a better job handling foreign policy, 62% to 35%, and most think she would be the better candidate to handle terrorism, 54% to 43% who prefer Trump. But on the economy, the split is much closer, with 51% saying they favor Clinton's approach vs. 47% who prefer Trump.

Most debate watchers came away from Monday's face-off with doubts about Trump's ability to handle the presidency. Overall, 55% say they didn't think Trump would be able to handle the job of president, 43% said they thought he would. Among political independents who watched the debate, it's a near-even split, 50% say he can handle it, 49% that he can't.

And voters who watched were more apt to see Trump's attacks on Clinton as unfair than they were to see her critiques that way. About two-thirds of debate viewers, 67%, said Clinton's critiques of Trump were fair, while just 51% said the same of Trump.

Assessments of Trump's attacks on Clinton were sharply split by gender, with 58% of men seeing them as fair compared with 44% of women who watched on Monday. There was almost no gender divide in perceptions of whether Clinton's attacks were fair.

The CNN/ORC post-debate poll includes interviews with 521 registered voters who watched the September 26 debate. Results among debate-watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. Respondents were originally interviewed as part of a September 23-25 telephone survey of a random sample of Americans, and indicated they planned to watch the debate and would be willing to be re-interviewed when it was over.

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By Gerard J. Gianoli, M.D.-

I've encountered some interesting responses to my several articles on Hillary's health. While I am a physician, Ive never proclaimed a diagnosis in her case. I have simply asked if two of her known diagnosesher concussion of 2012 and the left transverse sinus thrombosis (blood clot in the brain)have been assessed for long-term consequences. What I have asked for, and I am still waiting for, is some medical records reporting on whether she has any of the well-known, long-term sequelae of these two potentially life-threatening disorders with well-known, often permanent cognitive impairments.

Most of the responses to my editorials have been favorable. However, the negative responses are actually more helpful, and they reveal a lot about those who write them. There are basically five different themes.

First: It's nothing. She's completely normal and healthy. This is just a right-wing conspiracy.

This remark cant even be made with a straight face by the Clinton campaign since her collapse after spending 90 minutes hanging out at the 9/11 memorial ceremony. It is an even harder sell since last Mondays speech at Temple University where Mrs. Clinton had to be helped up a few steps to the dais and then, during her speech, displayed crazy eye movements that are most consistent with a lateral rectus palsyweakness of one of the eye muscles. Even if we ignore the recurring medical episodes she has had frequently (according to her husband), the concussion, the transverse sinus thrombosis, the deep vein thromboses, or the fact that a healthy patient does not have to take Coumadin the rest of their life, the eye movements are potentially ominous on their own. Im still waiting for a serious physician (not paid by the Clintons and not ideologically blind) to put his reputation on the line by sayingshes completely normal and healthy.

Second: Privacy laws are such that it is unethical for a physician to say anything about Hillary's health.

Mrs. Clinton is not my patient and therefore I am not obligated to Mrs. Clinton is any way regarding discussion of her health. However, Dr. Lisa Bardack is Mrs. Clintons private physician. Consequently, Dr. Bardack cannot make any comments about Mrs. Clintons health without Mrs. Clintons consent. If Mrs. Clinton wants Dr. Bardack to make a statement about pneumonia but not about any neurocognitive testing she may have undergone, then Dr. Bardack has an ethical and legal requirement to not discuss any of the neurocognitive testing. If Mrs. Clinton were to tell untruths about her medical problems, Dr. Bardack cannot legally speak out to correct the record. Dr. Bardacks letters are approved directly by Mrs. Clinton.

Third: A doctor should never speculate about a diagnosis of someone he's never seen or examined personally.

This is utter nonsense. Ive never speculated about her diagnoses. Theyve been given to us by Mrs. Clinton and her doctor. Ive only asked what are the consequences of these diagnoses. Both concussion and transverse sinus thrombosis have known long-term negative consequences for cognitive function. It is not out of place to ask whether Mrs. Clinton has any residual cognitive dysfunction from these problems.

I contend, however, that it is more than acceptable to speculate about Mrs. Clintons medical diagnosis. I think it is important for physicians to speak out about this. Mrs. Clinton has been less than forthcoming about her medical problems, and her reticence to a full release of her medical records suggests to the public that she is hiding something. For a private individual, this would be fine. But she is applying for the job of Commander-in-Chief. If she will not disclose the problem, we need physicians to let the public know what are the possibilities of her disability.

Fourth: This is a non-issue. The public doesnt care about it.

The media has reported on polls that claim the majority of the voting public think Mrs. Clinton is healthy enough to do the job of president. Of course, those polls ignore the fact that the majority of the voting public does not even know Mrs. Clinton has any medical problems. In a recent poll, when registered voters were asked if they knew Mrs. Clinton had any medical problems, roughly half did not. However, if they did know, most would be less likely to vote for herand that concern crossed party lines.

Fifth: You're exactly right and I agree with you, but I don't want to speak out and get harassed by the Trump-haters.

That one says it all, doesnt it? Physicians have been bullied into silence.

My final diagnosis of Mrs. Clintons health problems can be summed up in her own quote: What difference, at this point, does it make? We know that she has medical episodes that are frequent (Bill Clinton), not frequent, rare (Bill Clinton), or a couple of times, I cant remember how many (Hillary Clinton) that leave her completely incapacitated for a period of time. They are frequent enough that she travels with a nurse and the Secret Service does not rush her to the hospital when they occuras after the 9/11 event. Should we elect a candidate that we know will not be responsive to the needs of the presidency on a regular basis? I think not.

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About the author/contributor:

Gerard Gianoli, M.D., F.A.C.S. specializes in Neuro-otology and Skull Base Surgery. He is in private practice at The Ear and Balance Institute, located in Covington, Louisiana but is also a Clinical Associate Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics at Tulane University School of Medicine. He pioneered treatments for Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence and other vestibular disorders. His private practice has a worldwide reach, with patient referrals coming from all over the United States and from around the world. His research interests include the diagnosis of increased intracranial pressure and was co-investigator in aNASA study, which led the use of a non-invasive device for intracranial pressure monitoring on the international space station.

Dr. Gianoli opted out of Medicare in 2001 and has had a 100% third-party-free practice since 2005. Hes lectured and written extensively (as well as had numerous media interviews) on third party free medical practices and free market medicine. His editorials have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investors Business Daily, The Hill and other popular periodicals.

He has received numerous awards, including the American Academy of Otolaryngologys Honor Award, and has been named in Americas Top Doctors and Americas Top Physicians every year since their inception in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Dr. Gianoli practices all aspects of neuro-otology but has a special interest in vestibular (balance) disorders. He has researched, lectured and published extensively on the topic of vestibular disorders. Website: http://www.earandbalance.net

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Bill and Hillary Clinton have been plagued by conspiracy theories throughout most of their life in the public eye, perhaps more than any other politicians in history. The Clinton BS Files are aweekly in-depth look at the stories behind some of these conspiracy theories.Readlast weeks post.

From the moment she stepped into the national spotlight during her husbands 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Clintons body has been an object of widespread scorn. Even though she was younger than her predecessor, Barbara Bush, and wore boring preppy clothes, the press was absolutely obsessed with policing the way she presented herself and generally judging her to be a failure at meeting its standards of femininity.

Hillarys hair bands: Zippy or just dippy? read a USA Today headline in February 1992. In the article, writer Elizabeth Snead negatively compared the headstrong bands to Nancys red suits or Barbaras classy pearls.

Clinton changed her hair, as many women do, repeatedly. Her critics were never satisfied. But as Sneads odd use of the word headstrong suggests, perhaps theobjection wasnt really to her hair but to the head underneath it, filled with all sorts of unwomanly impulses, such as ambition and feminism.

In the same year, Lois Romano of The Washington Post described Clinton in her early days in Arkansas as looking like an overweight, underdressed policy wonk who hadnt seen daylight for a while and said her 90s-era Talbots wife look caused some to wonder aloud if she had had plastic surgery.

And thats just the nicer things you can find. Clintonslegs were endlessly dissected, especially in the right-wing press. Even in 2008, Rush Limbaugh was blathering on about how Clinton supposedly could not cross her legs.

Denigrating womens looks is a tried-and-true way to attack them for being smart, outspoken or ambitious.

This is the context of the numerous conspiracy theories on the right about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clintons heath. Claiming to believe a woman is unhealthy isa way todemean her looks under the guise of concern.

This is something fat women who put themselves in the public eye see all the time. Photos of a fat woman having fun, modeling fashionable clothes or doing important work anything, really, except hiding in their homes in shame will draw out a chorus of voices expressing concern for her health. As if she would somehow be healthier if she hid her body away where you cant see it!

You see this pattern enough and it becomes clear that these folks arent really that worried about a strangers health. Rather, they are looking for a socially acceptable way to express displeasure at women who think they have a right to exist in the world as something other than decorative but silent objects.

Something similar is going on with the supposed concerns about Clintons health. Conservatives have become aware that in todays environment open sexism can backfire on them in electoral terms. So instead of calling Clinton ugly, they have resorted torattling onabout her health.

Whats funny is that the current rumors that Clinton is sick started out as another kind of sexist urban legend that Clinton was actually faking illness.

(The stereotype about women frequently faking or exaggerating illnessis so widespreadthat it actually affects the level of medical care women get. Doctors tend to neglect women out of a belief they are faking their symptoms.)

In 2012, Clinton had to postpone her testimony before a congressional committee on Benghazi because she got dehydrated from the flu, fainted and suffered a head injury that led to concussion. Sherecovered, but the right-wing noise machine was already off with the crazed accusations abouther faking her illness. Fox News and Glenn Beck both helped push the rumors that Clintons concussion was just a little lady getting the vapors rather than facing the supposed Benghazi watchdogs.

But leave it to Karl Rove to see that there was a greater opportunity here: achance to create a conspiracy theory about Clintons health, which taps into an even darker vein of cultural misogyny.

Rove floated the idea that Clinton was suffering brain damage on Fox News shortly after her concussion. He immediately walked it back but not until the damage was done and the idea had started to burn through right-wing land. No longer did conservativesneed to carry on about her having thick legs or bad hair. Now they can just say she looks tired and claim that they are just,you know, concerned.

The ridiculous conspiracy theories floating around about Clintons health are too numerous to recount here, but heres a sampling: Clinton comically faking a double take was really her having a seizure. Or there are leaked medical records showing that Clinton has brain damage. Or she has Parkinsons disease.

Oodles of right-wing bloggers are obsessed with a Secret Service agentwho works with Clinton a lot and who they claim is a secret health care worker there to rush in with a shot if she has a seizure.

The biggest proponent of that last one isMike Cernovich, who helped organize the anti-feminist harassment campaign known as Gamergate and is one of thosebizarre self-help gurus pushing a chest-thumping, woman-hating version of masculinity. (Tom Cruises character in Magnolia is a dead-on parody of the subculture, which includes the self-styled pick-up artists as well.)

It is not a coincidence that someone so immersed in misogyny and toxic masculinity is obsessed with the Clinton health conspiracy theory. Its just furtherproofthat concerns about womens health are a coded way to attack women for being ambitious and in the public eye.

In the United States, powerful women who make bids for education, status and position have long been seen as sick: weak, sterile, overweight, ugly or broken, Rebecca Onion recently wrote in Slate. For instance, she said, in the 19th century, opponents of college education for women argued that it would damage womens health and fertility.

In early 20th-century American and English debates over womens suffrage, anti-suffrage propaganda depicted suffragists as overweight, ugly and mannish their bodies and faces physically reflecting their own unnatural sentiments, Onion continues.

That strategy continues today.

Does Feminism Make Women Ugly? asked a 2015 headline at Breitbart.

The author,Milo Yiannopoulos, believes the answer is yes: Merely embracing feminism has the power to distort a womans body, he argued, and somehow damages her health and femininity.

So the research suggests that relentlessly assertive women, particularlywomen in positions of authority, are unwittingly throwing their hormones out of whack, Yiannopoulos wrote.

His link supposedly proving this goes toa story about how adopting a confident posture can make both men and womenfeel temporarily more confident. There is not a single word in there about permanent changes to physiology or even any indication that its unnatural for women to feel confident.

Higher testosterone levels can producedramatic changes, most noticeablyto a womans face.Muscle mass and distribution can shift and hair grows faster and more thickly, Yiannopoulos wrote, with a confidence that is inversely proportional to the actual evidence he has for this malarkey.

High on the smell of his own bullshit, Yiannopoulos even ventured to speculate that feminism can change a womans bone structure.

(Full disclosure: Im one of the women whose hormone levels Yiannopoulos, uh, diagnoses, with a photo from 2009.)

This isnt just nut picking, unfortunately. The misogynist trope equating feminism with ill health has percolated into mainstream discourse, through the great orange conduit known as Donald Trump. The notoriously misogynist Republican presidential nomineehas been hitting this conspiracy theoryhard on the campaign trail, accusing Clinton of not having stamina and letting peoples ability to use Google do the rest.

Because the mainstream media all too often lets Trump lead them by the nose, these accusations have caused journalists to swarm like locusts at the smallest hint that Clinton isunder the weather. It turned out she had a mild case of pneumoniaand rather than own up to the shame of letting paranoid misogynists shape your coverage, many journalists have tried to blame Clinton for the whole episode, accusing her of hiding stuff from them because she didnt publicize her initial diagnosis.

Watching self-evidently silly right-wing nonsense gain traction in the mainstream media is depressing, but this history of obsessing over the bodies of feminists and over Hillary Clintons especially shows why conservative propagandists like Rove were right in thinking this could take off. The belief that ambition is unnatural and therefore unhealthy for women runs deep. It didnt take much tickling for the sexistimpulses lurking under our countrys veneer of decency to come erupting out.

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11:28 p.m.Donald Trump claims that NATO countriesalong with Japan and South Koreadont pay enough to the United States for the defense our country provides them.

TRUMP STATEMENT: We defend Japan. We defend Germany. We defend South Korea. We defend Saudi Arabia. We defend countries. They do not pay us what they should be paying us because we are providing a tremendous service. And were losing a fortune. Thats why were losing. We lose on everything. All I said is that it is very possible that if they dont pay us, because this isnt 40 years ago they may have to defend themselves or they have to help us out.

FACT CHECK: According to the Wall Street Journal, South Korea paid about $866.6 million in 2014 to the U.S. for the American military presence in the country (which is meant to deter North Korea). Thats about 40 percent of the total cost.

For Japan this year, the country actually covers 90 percent of the cost of Japanese nationals employed by U.S. military bases, including most of the utility costs, rent, and noise abatement. Altogether, the Japanese pay $4 billion of U.S. base-related expenses.

On the whole, Trumps comment about the U.S. shouldering an undue burden under NATO in defense expenditures is not entirely off base. U.S. expenditures as a share of GDP is 3.61 percent, whereas the next closest contributor is Greeces share (2.38 percent of Greeces GDP). Most of the partner nations pay quite a bit less than the suggested two percent of GDP that NATO puts in its guidelines.

--CBS News Donald Judd

11:19 p.m.Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads against him and that he is now winning or tied in the polls after spending practically nothing.

TRUMP STATEMENT: She spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue, theyre untrue and theyre misrepresentations and I will tell you this, Lester, its not nice and I dont deserve that. But its certainly not a nice thing that shes done. Its hundreds of millions of ads and the only gratifying thing is, I saw the the polls come in today and with all of that money over $200 million spent and Im either winning or tied and Ive spent practically nothing.

FACT CHECK: This is partially false. Clinton has not yet spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising she has spent just about $100 million overall. Clinton spent $109.4 million on ads through Sept. 13, according to Bloomberg, compared to Trumps $18.7 million. A Politico article from Aug. 23 cited data from Advertising Analytics as saying that 55 percent of Clintons ads were attacks on Trump and 45 percent were positive spots.

However, he is correct in saying that he has spent practically nothing on ads compared to Clinton (so far although his campaign said hes preparing a $140 million investment) and he is tied in many polls (though not winning in most).

--CBS News Rebecca Kaplan

Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump shakes hands with Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the conclusion of their first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, U.S., September 26, 2016.

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10:55 p.m. Hillary Clinton claims Donald Trump would not rent apartments to African-Americans.

CLINTON STATEMENT:Donald Trump started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood the policy. He was actually sued twice by the Justice Department. So he has a long record of engaging in racist behavior.

FACT CHECK:The Justice Departmentfiled a lawsuit in 1973 against Trump Management, a company led by Trump, who was its president, alleging they used tactics to discriminate against black tenants, according to an August investigation by the Los Angeles Times.A 1973 New York Times story said that the Justice Department charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available. In what was the first quote from Trump ever published by the Times, he said of the charges They are absolutely ridiculous ... we have never discriminated ... and we never would. And he counter-sued.

Trump and DOJ came to an agreementtwo years laterin which Trump Management promised not to discriminateagainst blacks, Puerto Ricans and other minorities, according to a June 11, 1975 New York Times story.

--CBS NewsRebecca Kaplan

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10:53 p.m.Donald Trump claims 800 immigrants who should have been deported became citizens.

TRUMP STATEMENT: The other day we were deporting eight hundred people and perhaps they pressed the wrong button --they pressed the wrong button-- or perhaps worse than that it was corruption. But these people we were going to deport for good reason ended up becoming citizens--ended up becoming citizens. And it was eight hundred and now it turns out, it might be fifteen hundred and they dont even know.

FACT CHECK: Trump was referring to a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released on Sept. 19, which explained that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) granted citizenship to at least 858 people from special interest countries who had been ordered to be deported under a different name. This happened because federal government agencies databases do not have all old fingerprint records of people who have been previously deported.

--CBS News Caroline Horn

10:49 p.m.Donald Trump claims that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) controls a lot of the oil in Libya.

TRUMP STATEMENT: ISIS has oil all over the place, including the oil, a lot of the oil, in Libya.

FACT CHECK: According to a Bloomberg analysis, Libyan oil fields and pipelines are controlled by a combination of the Government of National Accord, allies of the Tripoli Petroleum Facilities Guard, and the Libyan National Army (and groups aligned with them).

Claudia Gazzini, a Tripoli-based senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, told the Washington Post that it was simply not true that the Islamic State has control of any Libyan oil.

While it is true that ISIS has attacked oil fields in the Sirte basin area and destroyed key equipment there, they have not sought to keep control of the oil fields, Gazzini said.

--CBS News Rebecca Kaplan

10:44 p.m.Donald Trump claimsstop and frisk policies in New York City worked well and brought the crime rate way down.

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump explain how they will mend the racial divide in the United States during their first debate at Hofstra Universit...

TRUMP STATEMENT: Debate moderator Lester Holt said, Stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men

Trump replied: No, youre wrong. It went before a judge who was a very against police judge. It was taken away from her and our mayor, our new mayor, refused to go forward with the case. They would have won an appeal.

FACT CHECK: In Floyd v. City of New York, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin a Bill Clinton appointee found stop and frisk policies in New York City violated the Constitutions Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. Scheindlin ordered the city to reform the policies.

Mayor Michael Bloombergs administration appealed the ruling, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals suspended the order. The court sent it back to be tried under a new judge.Ultimately, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio decided not to pursue the appeal upon election in 2014, meaning Scheindlins ruling was held and the appeal was dropped.

Trump said murder is up in New York City, but murder is actually down 4.3 percent this year-to-date. The murder rate, however, is up 7.9 percent over the last two years which is probably what Trump means since 2014 is the last time stop and frisk was implemented in New York.

--CBS News Donald Judd

10:41 p.m.Hillary Clinton says Donald Trumps variousbusinesses have filed for bankruptcysix times.

CLINTON STATEMENT: When we talk about your business, youve taken business bankruptcy six times. There are a lot of great business people who havent taken bankruptcy once.

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FACT CHECK: Clinton is correct. When Politifact looked into this issue, they found six times that Trump has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection: The Trump Taj Mahal in 1991; Trump Castle in 1992; Trump Plaza and Casino in 1992; the Plaza Hotel in 1992; Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts in 2004; and Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009.

--CBS News Jillian Hughes

10:36 p.m.Donald Trump claims that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement.

TRUMP STATEMENT: Well, its very simple to say. Sidney Blumenthal works for the campaign and a very close friend of Secretary Clinton, and her campaign manager, Patty Doyle, went tothey were in the campaign, her campaign against President Obama, fought very hard, and you can go look it up and you can check it out, and if you look at CNN this past week, Patty Solis Doyle was on Wolf Blitzer saying that this happened. Blumenthal sent McClatchy, a highly respected reporter at McClatchy, to Kenya to find out about it, they were pressing it very hard, she failed to get the birth certificate. When I got involved, I didnt fail, I got him to give the birth certificate.

FACT CHECK: This has been Trumps line since the birther issue resurfaced this fall, but Clintons campaign has repeatedly denied being involved. Patti Solis Doyle, Clintons 2008 campaign manager, told Wolf Blitzer a volunteer forwarded an email promoting birtherism and that that person was fired. The campaign nor Hillary did not start the birther movement, period, end of story, Solis Doyle told CNN, saying the volunteers actions were beyond the pale and that Clinton called Obama campaign manager David Plouffe to apologize.

Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton confidante but not a current campaign staffer, denies ever contacting McClatchy; the formerMcClatchy bureau chief, James Asher, recentlysaid he clearly recalled the conversation with Blumenthal.

--CBS News DonaldJudd

10:28p.m. Hillary Clinton says DonaldTrump supported the invasion of Iraq.

CLINTON STATEMENT: Donald supported the invasion of Iraq. (Trump replied: I did not support the war in Iraq.)

FACT CHECK: Donald Trump supported the invasion of Iraq.Howard Stern interview interviewed Donald Trump on Sept. 11, 2002, notedBuzzFeed.Are you for invading Iraq? Howard Stern asked him, and Trump answered, Yeah, I guess so.

--CBS NewsRebecca Kaplan

Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton walk away from their podiums at the conclusion of their first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, U.S., September 26, 2016.

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10:17 p.m. Hillary Clinton claims Donald Trump did not pay workers what he owed them.

CLINTON STATEMENT: Your campaign manager said that you built a lot of businesses on the backs of other people. I have met a lot of the people who are stiffed by your business. Ive met gardeners, dishwashers, architects, glass installers, drapery installers, like my dad was who you refused to pay when they finished the work you asked them to do. We have one of the architects in the audience who designed one of the clubhouses of your golf course. Its a beautiful facility. It was immediately put to use, and you wouldnt pay what you said you would pay him.

FACT CHECK:Clinton was referring toarchitect Andrew Tesoro, who is featured in aClinton campaign videosaying thatTrump didnt pay his firm thousands of dollars. But Tesoro was alsointerviewed by Forbes in Julyand said despite being shorted a huge amount of money, he thinks Trump is basically a nice guy. Im fond of him.

USA Today did a further analysis of worker payments and found Trump, has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades anda large number ofthose involve ordinary Americanswho say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them

--CBS NewsJillian Hughes

10:14p.m.Donald Trump says national debt has doubled under Obama.

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TRUMP STATEMENT: The Obama administration from the time theyve come in is over two hundred thirty years worth of debt. And hes topped it. Hes doubled it in a course of almost eight yearsseven and a half years to be semi-exact.

FACT CHECK: Not quite. Its increased 83.7 percent. On the day President Obama took office, the national debt was $10,626 trillion; as of today, its $19,526 trillion.

--CBS News Mark Knoller

10:10 p.m.Hillary Clinton says the gun epidemic is the top cause of death among African Americans.

CLINTON STATEMENT:The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African American men, more than the next nine causes put together.

FACT CHECK:This is true: 2014 CDC data shows that 1,505 black males age 20-24 died of homicide by firearm.The next nine leading causes of death together totaled 1,424.

--CBS NewsRebecca Kaplan

10:07 p.m.Donald Trump claims that his lawyers have told him not torelease his tax returns.

TRUMP STATEMENT: My lawyers say dont do it. In fact watching the shows, reading the papersalmost every lawyer says you dont release your returns until the audit is complete. When the audit is complete Ill do it.

FACT CHECK: In the letter from Trumps lawyers released by his campaign, they do NOT say the taxes should not be released. Trumps tax returns from 2002 through 2008 are closed administratively by agreement with the IRS. Audits for years 2009 and forward are ongoing.

An IRS spokesperson also told the Washington Post that nothingincluding an audit prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information.

--CBS News Rebecca Kaplan

10:05 p.m.Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump thinks climate change is a hoax.

CLINTON STATEMENT: Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think its real. (Trump replied: I did not. I did not. I do not say that.)

FACT CHECK: On Nov. 6, 2012, Trump tweeted this: The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

--CBS News Caroline Horn

10:01 p.m.Hillary Clinton claims her tax plan would create 10 million jobs.

CLINTON STATEMENT: Independent experts have looked at what Ive proposed andlooked at what Donalds proposed Theyve looked at my plans and theyve said, OK, if we can do this, and I intend to get it done, we will have 10 million more new jobs, because we will be making investments where we can grow the economy.

FACT CHECK: Clinton is citing a Moodys analytics report as her independent expert, saying that During her presidency, the economy would create 10.4 million jobs, 3.2 million more than under current ;aw. The unemployment rate would also be lower under Clintons proposals, falling to as low as 3.7 percent in the middle of Clintons term. At the end of her presidency in 2020, the unemployment rate would be at 4.4 percent. The report, however puts a caveat on the 10 million jobs, noting that Congress would put up roadblocks to her proposals.Mark Zandi of Moodys has contributed to the Clinton campaign.

--CBS News Kate Rydell

9:59 p.m. DonaldTrump says HillaryClinton supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

TRUMP STATEMENT: You want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership. You were totally in favor of it.

FACTCHECK: Clinton has said she no longer supports TPP.During a Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas last October, Clinton said that as secretary of State shed hoped it would be the gold standard, but that when the full details of the deal became available it didnt meet [her] standards.

My standards for more new, good jobs for Americans, for raising wages for Americans. And I want to make sure that I can look into the eyes of any middle-class American and say, this will help raise your wages, she said. And I concluded I could not.

--CBS News Kate Rydell

Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during her first presidential debate against Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump (not shown) at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, U.S., September 26, 2016.

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9:54 p.m. DonaldTrump says Ford is thousands of jobs are leaving Michigan and Ohio.

TRUMP STATEMENT:So Ford is leaving. Their small car division is leaving. Thousands of jobs leaving Michigan. Leaving Ohio. Theyre all leaving, and we cant allow it to happen anymore.

FACT CHECK:Their small car division is leaving This part is true, but Ford says it will affect zero U.S. jobs.

Over the next two to three years, we will have migrated all of our small-car production to Mexico and out of the United States, said Ford Motors CEO Mark Fields, at a daylonginvestorconference in Dearborn, Michigan,according to the Detroit Free Press.

But this will, according to Fields, not result in any job loss in the U.S. Earlier this month, on Sept. 15, 2016, CNNs Poppy Harlow asked Fields, So it is not true that Ford will be, quote, firing all of its employees in the United States? Will Ford cut any U.S. jobs as a result of this move? One? Any single one?

Absolutely not. Zero, Fields responded.

--CBS News Jillian Hughes

9:50 p.m.Hillary Clinton claims that Donald Trumps tax plans would cause a spike in the national debt.

CLINTON STATEMENT: Independent experts have looked at what Ive proposed and looked at what Donald has proposed and basically theyve said this: That if his tax plan which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle class families compared to the wealthy were to go into effect, we would lose three and a half million jobs and maybe have another recession.

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Hillary Clinton appears on Between Two Ferns.

Hillary Clinton appeared in aBetween Two Ferns online interview with Zach Galifianakis, roasting her opponent Donald Trump and taking some awkward questions posed by her Funny Or Die host.

In one jab at Trump, Clinton responded to a question posed by Galifianakis n preparation for the first general election debate this Monday. The comedian first asked Clinton what she would be wearing on the New York stage.

I have no idea, so if youve got suggestions, Im open to them, she responded, but not before noting the double standard of women forced to ponder their wardrobe choices ahead of a presidential debate.

Galifianakis then asked what she thought Trump might wear to their face-off.

I assume hell wear that red power tie, she said.

Or maybe like a white power tie? Galifianakis quipped.

Clinton, who has criticized Trump for his racially-tinged comments on the campaign trail, responded: Thats even more appropriate.

The former secretary of state also vowed that if Trump ever did win the White House, she wouldnt try to flee the country.

I would stay in the United States, Clinton said. I would try to prevent him from destroying the United States.

Clinton didnt get off tooeasy in the interview, with Galifianakis making irreverentremarks about Clinton as the first girl president and alluding to her email controversy and previous friendlyrelationship with the Trump family. He also asked her how many words per minute she types and how the president likes his coffee.

You were saying before we were rolling you wanted to take away everyones guns? Cool, Cool, cool, Galafianakis said to Clinton at one point.I really regret doing this, Clinton deadpanned in response.

You can watch the full interview here:

Clinton, who taped the interview earlier this month on the day she was diagnosed with pneumonia, isnt the first politician to sit down between two ferns. President Obama did so in 2014 to push the Affordable Care Act.

CBS News Hannah Fraser-Chanpong contributed to this story.

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