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she wants it because she lost do you have an answer well I don't know I have to think about it but if you won the debate I sort of think maybe I shouldn't do it why should I do another debate and Trump National press secretary Karen levit is with us now and Carolyn just so you know uh Trump just went on Fox a short time ago and once again expressed doubt that he would do another debate he said I don't know that I want another debate why what is he worried about well I haven't talked to the president since he made those remarks John as you know he's at the 911 Ground Zero Ceremony this morning commemorating the anniversary in the lives lost in that terrorist attack uh however what I will say is that all of the debates that we have announced on this campaign and there have been many of them have come from president Trump directly so I will let him make an announcement on that front uh what I can also say is last night was a big success for president Trump he was able to highlight his record of success in his first term with the failures of the last four year of Kam haris uh and kamla Harris needs to do a sit down interview John president Trump I can assure you one thing I can say this morning is he will absolutely continue to do media interviews sit Downs with local stations like we do in every Battleground State we travel to hours long podcast interviews and press conferences kala Harris is going on day 52 of not doing any of that and she has to because after last night the American people still have a lot of unanswered questions about her record and where she stands on the issues uh in the CNN snap poll after the debate a majority pretty large majority said they believed that kamla Harris turned in the better performance you call it a success for Donald Trump 63% she had said that she had the better performance 37% say Donald Trump you know what this is actually a republican audience here four points more Republican than actually registered voters so what do you make of that well you know what that audience also said is they said that they trust president Trump more to handle the economy than they do Kam Harris and his support on the econ on the issue of the economy actually increased after last night's debate because he outlined the problems that people are experiencing at home the 50% increase in mortgage rates the 50% increase in gas prices since kamla Harris has been vice president and how those were not an issue in Americans lives under his leadership and so uh voters trust president Trump on the issues that matter to them that was proven in CNN's poll and I think the debate was summarized best by a woman in one of your focus groups last night from Erie Pennsylvania and she said when facts come to facts my life was better under President Trump that is the main question in this election are you better off today than you were four years ago KLA Harris refused to answer that question on the debate stage last night because she knows the answer is no Americans are not better off today than they were under President Trump and the American people know that too because they feel it in their lives and in their pocketbooks every day did Donald Trump prepare enough for this debate I mean everyone seems to think think that she got under his skin how is it that he let her get under his skin well I don't think that happened at all in fact I think president Trump was defending himself from attacks and lies from kamla Harris that unfortunately were not fact checked by the moderators in this debate they fact checked president Trump five times they didn't fact check kamla Harris once even though she repeatedly lied about President Trump and his positions on the issue she said he supports a federal ban on abortion that is unequivocally false he has said repeated he does not support a ban on abortion last night on the debate stage last night on the debate stage I will say this it was a position I had not heard before from him which he refused to say that he would veto a national ban on on abortion he was given a chance multiple times to say he would veto a national ban and he wouldn't do it well he has said multiple times as well that he will not sign a a ban on abortion and it's because it's a state's right issue now and KLA Harris also refused to say if she supports a ban on late T term abortions in the eth and nth month of pregnancy president Trump pointed that question at her directly twice she refused to answer it and she laughed it off and voters deserve an answer to that question let me let me just say one thing I just want to read a Tim Alberta tweet Tim writes for the Atlantic now used to write for the conservative National Review he said one way to look at it ABC moderators fact check Trump two to three times and Harris zero times another way to look at it ABC moderators fact check Trump two to three times instead of 500 times um I do want to ask you about his concept of a plan on health care he said you'll be hearing about it in the not too distant future when are we going to be hearing about that concept of a plan well as he said in the not too distant future and president Trump's healthare plan can be summarized best by but I don't have a date for you this morning John but I'll definitely get back to you with one as soon as I can um what I will say is that President Trump's plan to drive down healthc care costs which have increased 30% under KLA Harris's leadership as vice president is to let the free market Thrive to increase competition in the HealthCare Marketplace to give Americans more options for health care that is the opposite of what kamla Harris wants to do in healthcare she was the co-sponsor of Bernie Sanders socialist Medicare for all plan she said last night she doesn't support that anymore that was also a lie that wasn't fact checked by the moderators kamla Harris's radical health healthc care plan will eventually Force every American off of their private health insurance that is socialism we've seen this happen in other countries it does not work that's why people in Europe and other nations around this world come to the United States of America for health care because we have better care here and president Trump wants to drive down costs and increase the quality of care here at home and you do not do that by forcing people off of their private health insurance plans like KLA Harris wants to do all right she said that is not her plan last night Caroline L thank you so much for being with us appreciate your time Sarah all right she