Race Has Been A Big Issue In

Mr. [donald] Trump, For Five Years, You Perpetuated A False Claim That The Nation's First Black President Was Not A Natural-born Citizen. You Questioned His Legitimacy. In The Last Couple Of Weeks, You Acknowledged What Most Americans Have Accepted For Years: The President Was Born In The United States.

You Look At The Middle East, You Started The Iran Deal, That's Another Beauty Where You Have A Country That Was Ready To Fall, I Mean, They Were Doing So Badly. They Were Choking On The Sanctions. And Now They're Going To Be Actually Probably A Major Power At Some Point Pretty Soon, The Way They're Going.

I Think We're More Relevant Than Ever Because It Is Such A Noisy Environment Out There. What's A Journalist Now? It's Anybody With A Way To Get Information Out And You're Sitting There With Your Smartphone In Front Of You. That's What We're Up Against Now. There's A Lot Of Unfiltered Information. Some Of It Is Accurate, Some Of It Way Off Base. We're That Safe Port In The Storm.

I Don't Expect Us To Cover All The Issues Of This Campaign [2016] Tonight, But I Remind Everyone, There Are Two More Presidential Debates Scheduled. We Are Going To Focus On Many Of The Issues That Voters Tell Us Are Most Important, And We're Going To Press For Specifics.

You Look At The Middle East, It's A Total Mess.