GOOD TO SEE YOU, NICOLE. >> GOOD TO TALK TO YOU ON AND OFF TV. >> THANKS TO NICOLE WALLACE. OUR TOP STORY IS KAMALA HARRIS AT THE DEBATE, TAKING CONTROL AND THE VISUALS AND THE ATMOSPHERE, AND IT ALL SHOWED TRUMP UNMOORED AND HE WAS INACCURATE AND SOMETIMES UNHINGED AND THE COLLECTIVE RESULT IS A DISPLAY WHERE HARRIS PUT TRUMP ON DEFENSE. THAT'S "THE WASHINGTON POST" HEADLINE. THE REALITY WAS PALPABLE. THE SPLIT SCREENS THAT OFTEN CONTRASTED TRUMP'S SEETHING ANGER WITH HARRIS' MORE COMPOSED APPROACH, THE SMILES AND HER REJOINEDERS AND NO CANDIDATE WANTS TO BE ON DEFENSE IN THE DEBATE, ESPECIALLY NOT TRUMP, A POLITICIAN, WHO STAKES HIS WHOLE CAREER OF HIS SUPPOSED VERSION OF DOMINANCE, OF GOING ON OFFENSE. THAT'S MORE ABOUT WHAT TRUMP IS ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLOWERS, WHAT THEY SAY THEY LIKE ABOUT HIM THAN ANY PARTICULAR POLICY OR PROMISE. SO THIS WAS UNCOMFORTABLE TURF FOR HIM AND PEOPLE SAW IT LIVE. WE CAN TELL YOU TONIGHT, 67 MILLION PEOPLE WATCHING, A HIGHER NUMBER, FOR EXAMPLE, THAN THE BIDEN-TRUMP DEBATE. WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT MATTERS BECAUSE IT REACHED SO MANY MORE VOTERS THAN ANY OTHER POLITICAL EVENT THIS YEAR, MORE THAN THE CONVENTIONS OR PRESIDENT BIDEN'S BIG ADDRESS ANNOUNCING HIS EXIT AND WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY, WE'RE SEEING, IS BEING BURNED INTO THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION. THE IDEA, THE VIEW, THE CONCLUSION THAT HARRIS WON, AND WINNING BUILDS MOMENTUM, AND PEOPLE FAMOUSLY DITCH LOSERS. ONE DAY OUT I CAN SHOW YOU THE TRUMP LOSS WAS ON "TIME'S" COVER, AND THE COVERAGE HAS BASICALLY SAID HARRIS BESTED TRUMP AND HE WAS OFF BALANCE AND OUT OF CONTROL. >> I THINK YOUR ADJECTIVE, I WOULD GO WITH FIERY TO BEGIN. >> YOU HAD ONE CANDIDATE THAT WAS COMPLETELY UNHINGED, JUST COMPLETELY OFF HIS ROCKER. >> KAMALA HARRIS PITCHED A SHOT. >> THE REPUBLICAN WHO CALLED FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WILD AND UNCONTROLLED. >> VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS HAD A PLAN. SHE STUCK TO HER PLAN. >> CLEARLY VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS KICKED SOME BUTT. >> I'VE NEVER SEEN A STARKER CONTRAST IN PRESENTATION FROM TWO CANDIDATES IN ANY DEBATE IN ANY TYPE OF CONTEST IN ANY POLITICAL RACE. >> THAT'S THE INTERPRETATION. HERE'S WHAT THEY WERE INTERPRETING. >> DONALD TRUMP WAS FIRED BY 81 MILLION PEOPLE. PEOPLE START LEAVING HIS RALLIES EARLY OUT OF EXHAUSTION AND BOREDOM. >> PEOPLE DON'T LEAVE MY RALLIES. WE HAVE THE BIGGEST RALLIES, THE MOST INCREDIBLE RALLIES IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICS. THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS! AND USED FOR FOOD. >> SPRINGFIELD CITY MANAGER SAYS THERE'S NO EVIDENCE. >> WE'LL FIND OUT. >> THEY SAY YOU'RE A DISGRACE. YOU ARE A DISGRACE. IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT HE ADMIRES DICTATORS. >> VIKTOR ORBAN, ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED MEN, THEY CALL HIM A STRONG MAN. I KNOW PUTIN VERY WELL. >> A DICTATOR WHO WOULD EAT YOU FOR LUNCH. >> ARE YOU NOW ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YOU LOST IN 2020. >> NO, I DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE IT AT ALL. WE LOST BY A WHISKER AND THAT WAS SAID SARCASTICALLY. >> I DIDN'T DETECT THE SARCASM. >> CLEARLY, HE IS HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME PROCESSING THAT. >> HARRIS SET THE TONE FROM THE START. IN A MOMENT WE'LL SHOW YOU, TRUMP WAS GOING STRAIGHT FOR HIS LECTERN APPARENTLY TRYING TO AVOID THE TRADITIONAL -- SHE CROSSED OVER INTO HIS AREA FORCING HIM INTO THE HANDSHAKE. HE FOUND HIMSELF RE-LITIGATING HIS RECORD RATHER THAN PICKING APART HARRIS' AND YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THE COVERAGE AND WATCHED THE DEBATE, OF COURSE, HE HAS A LOT TO DEFEND, BUT REMEMBER, THAT'S NOT AUTOMATIC. HARRIS IS STILL IN THE INCUMBENT ADMINISTRATION, AND TRUMP HAS PREVIOUSLY TURNED MANY DEBATES AND OTHER TV MOMENTS INTO ATTACKS OF HIS RIVALS AND IT IS A FUNCTION OF HOW SHE PERFORMED AND PERHAPS ALSO WHERE WE ARE NOW AFTER HAVING DEALT WITH TRUMP FOR SO LONG THAT HE WASN'T ABLE TO PULL OFF THOSE TRICKS LAST NIGHT EVEN IF HE DIDN'T STEAL OR TAKE MORE OF THE TALK TIME. THAT SAME THEME OF DEFENSE WAS BLASTED IN HEADLINES IN SWING STATES. HERE'S LAS VEGAS "LAS VEGAS SUN." THE NATIONAL PAPERS REPORTED THE SAME. HARRIS KNOCKING HIM OFF COURSE, TRUMP IN THE SPOTLIGHT IN THE WORST WAY. THOSE ARE REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS. THERE WERE ALSO OTHER INDICATIONS ABOUT TRUMP'S POOR PERFORMANCE FROM HIM. IN CONTRAST TO THE BIDEN DEBATE WHICH WE ALL LIVED THROUGH RECENTLY, DONALD TRUMP GOT OFF THE STAGE AND BEGAN COMPLAINING ABOUT THE ABC MODERATORS, COMPLAINING THE NETWORK SHOULD HAVE ITS WHOLE LICENSE REVOKED WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING YOU SAY WHEN YOU ARE WINNING IF YOU THOUGHT OR WON OR DID VERY WELL YOU WOULD WANT TO BUCK UP THE DEBATE, NOT DISCREDIT IT. AND THEN THERE'S THE ODD, BUT VERY AMERICANA TRADITION OF THE SPIN ROOMS. WE'VE SHOWN YOU HERE FILE FOOTAGE FROM BACK IN THE DAY. I'M SURE YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE CUSTOM, THE CAMPAIGN STAFF AND THE ALLIES GO INTO THESE SO-CALLED SPIN ROOMS AND YOU SAY YOUR SIDE WON NO MATTER WHAT. IT'S KIND OF AN ODD TRADITION WELL, TRUMP WAS THE FIRST DEBATE PARTICIPANT TO EVER DROP IN ON ONE OF THE SPIN ROOMS HIMSELF IN 2016 AND HE HADN'T DONE IT SINCE THEN UNTIL LAST NIGHT. THE POST REPORTING DONALD TRUMP SHOWED UP IN THE SPIN ROOM AFTER THE DEBATE, A RARITY AND OBVIOUS SIGN OF HIS NEED TO TRY TO MAKE THE CASE TO REPORTERS THAT HE HAD FAILED TO MAKE ON THE DEBATE STAGE. YOU CAN SEE TRUMP IN LAST NIGHT'S SPIN ROOM, AGAIN, THIS IS UNUSUAL AND IT HASN'T HAPPENED IN A LONG TIME AND THAT SAME POST ARTICLE AS YOU LOOK AT THIS VISUAL SAID TRUMP MAY HAVE RECOGNIZED HE FELL SHORT AND HE TRIED TO TELL A MUCH SMALLER AUDIENCE IN THAT ROOM SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT A MUCH LARGER AUDIENCE JUST SAW ON THE STAGE, THAT HE WAS ON DEFENSE, THAT HE LOST THE NIGHT. TRUMP'S AIDES, THEY DID THE SPINNING, AND SOME OF HIS ALLIES WOULD ALSO SPIN AGAIN, SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY PAID TO SAY HE WON, BUT I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING REALLY INTERESTING HERE. EVEN HIS OWN ALLIES CONCEDING IT WAS A BAD NIGHT FOR TRUMP. SENATOR LINDSAY GRAHAM SAID AS MUCH, CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATORS WHO MIGHT HAVE A BIT MORE DAYLIGHT BETWEEN THEIR CAREERS AND THE FUTURE OF TRUMPISM WENT FURTHER. THESE ARE DAMNING STATEMENTS YOU'RE ABOUT TO HEAR. I'LL SHOW THEM TO YOU IN A SECOND. BIG PICTURE, THE CONSENSUS IS NOT ONLY THAT HARRIS WON THE DEBATE, BUT SHE WON IT AT THIS CRITICAL TIME. THAT'S THE BEST THING A CANDIDATE CAN AIM FOR IN ANY DEBATE AND SOME YEARS WE KNOW THERE ARE MANY AND THEY ALL HAPPEN, BUT WHEN YOU WIN THE ONLY DEBATE SCHEDULED RIGHT NOW BETWEEN TODAY AND THE REST OF THE ELECTION, YOU HAVE A CRUCIAL EDGE. HER ALLIES, THOUGH, AT THE SAME TIME AMIDST ALL OF THIS ADMIT NOTHING LAST NIGHT TELLS YOU WHO WILL WIN THE ELECTION, AS FOR THE VIDEO I PROMISED YOU WE HAVE THE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS FROM FOX TO VOTER PANELS, ADMITTING, CONCEDING, SAYING TRUMP HAD A BAD NIGHT OR LOST. FOX'S SISTER PUBLICATION "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL" PUBLISHED A PIECE TODAY SAYING HARRIS CLEARLY WON THE DEBATE. AND NOW I WANT TO BRING YOU A LITTLE BEAT VIDEO SPECIAL. PULLED TOGETHER IF YOU WERE WATCHING ON ANOTHER CHANNEL, WE MAY NOT HAVE SEEN THIS, SOME OF THE REPUBLICAN AND CONSERVATIVE VOICES THAT HAVE BEEN MUCH OF THIS PRESENTED TO VIEWERS. >> THINK ABOUT IT. >> THE DEBATE PREP FOR DONALD TRUMP SHOULD BE FIRED. >> THIS IS PRETTY MUCH HER NIGHT. >> YOU'RE SAYING SHE HAD A GOOD NIGHT. >> I'M SAYING SHE CERTAINLY DID. >> TALKING ABOUT MIGRANTS WERE EATING DOGS AND CATS, THAT'S SOMETHING "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" WOULD DO. >> HE WAS AWFUL TONIGHT. SHE, ON THE OTHER HAND, WAS VERY WELL PREPARED. >> HE WAS TERRIBLE TONIGHT. >> FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP DID TAKE A LOT OF THE BAIT. >> HE TOOK ALL OF THE BAIT AND NONE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES. SHE PIVOTED BETTER. >> SHE BATED A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO CHASE EVERY RABBIT DOWN EVERY HOLE. >> HE WAS CHILDISH. HE WAS CREEPY. HE WAS CRINGY. >> WE HEARD SO MANY OF THE OLD GRIEVANCES THAT WE'D LONG THOUGHT THAT TRUMP HAD LEARNED WERE NOT WINNERS POLITICALLY. >> HE WAS WHOLLY UNPREPARED. >> VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS WAS CLEARLY WELL PREPARED, PRACTICED, ON THE OFFENSIVE MUCH OF THE NIGHT. >> HE WENT DOWN A FEW CAT AND DOG HOLES RATHER THAN RABBIT HOLES TONIGHT. >> I GUESS THERE ARE AVENUES WORSE THAN