'Trump got destroyed': See Maddow and MSNBC panel instantly react to historic debate

CONSTITUTION CENTER. I AM LINSEY DAVIS. >> AND I AM DAVID MUIR. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING AND FROM ALL OF US AT ABC NEWS, GOOD NIGHT. >> LINSEY DAVIS AND DAVID MUIR, WRAPPING UP THIS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, KAMALA HARRIS. YOU COULD NOT HAVE TWO MORE DIFFERENT CANDIDATES WITH TWO MORE DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO THE TASK AT HAND. I HAD A TELEVISION EXECUTIVE ONCE TELL ME THAT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT A LIVE EVENT ON TELEVISION, YOU CAN TELL WITH THE SOUND OFF AND IF YOU HAVE THE SOUND OFF FOR THIS DEBATE, WHICH I'M SURE NOBODY DID, WHAT YOU WOULD'VE SEEN HIS TRUMP LOOKING PHYSICALLY HUNCHED, ANGRY, SQUINTING. I NEVER SAW THE WHITES OF HIS EYES THE ENTIRE DEBATE. SHOUTING. CONSTANTLY INTERRUPTING HIMSELF. NOT JUST GOING ON TANGENTS, BUT BEING UNABLE TO FINISH A THOUGHT. SEEMING VERY FRUSTRATED, VERY ANGRY, VERY NEGATIVE AND VERY TIRED. IN CONTRAST, KAMALA HARRIS APPEARED TO BE LIGHT ON HER FEET. QUITE PUZZLED BY HIM. THE SHOT OF HIM SQUINTING AND HUNCHING AND SEEMING TO BE HAVING PHYSICAL TROUBLE SQUEEZING THE WORDS OUT. CERTAINLY SQUEEZING THE SENTENCES OUT. SHE JUST LOOKED AT HIM ABSOLUTELY PUZZLED BY WHERE WAS HE WAS GOING. I THINK THAT VISUAL MAY BE AS MUCH OF A TAKE AWAY IS ANYTHING THAT WAS SAID. THAT SAID, BOY, WHAT WAS SAID? TRUMP REPEATEDLY COMING BACK TO THE SAME LINES OVER AND OVER AGAIN ABOUT WORLD CRIME RATES BEING LOW AND THAT BEING THE EXPLANATION FOR AMERICA HAVING HIGH CRIME RATES. HE SAID STRANGE THINGS LIKE ALL DEMOCRATS WANT ROE VERSUS WADE OVERTURNED. HE SAID IT IS LEGAL TO KILL CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES. HE INSISTED THAT HE SAW SOMETHING ON TELEVISION ABOUT EATING DOGS. THAT WAS ONE OF THE WEIRD MOMENTS ON THE DEBATE THAT HE SAW IT ON TELEVISION AND KNOWS IT IS TRUE AND THEREFORE WHAT THE POLICE SAY CANNOT BE TRUE. KAMALA HARRIS KEPT GOING BACK TO THE PLAN, THE CAMPAIGN, BUT ALSO GOING DIRECTLY AT HIM. SHE TOLD HIM THAT MILITARY LEADERS WHO WORKED WITH HIM HAVE TOLD HER THAT DONALD TRUMP IS A DISGRACE. SHE SAID TO HIM, YOU ARE A DISGRACE. SHE DESCRIBED HIM AS CONFUSED AND UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE LOST THE ELECTION. SHE SAID HE WAS FIRED BY 81 MILLION PEOPLE AND HE'S HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME PROCESSING THAT. SHE SAID HE WAS HANDED $400 MILLION ON A SILVER PLATTER AND FILED BANKRUPTCY SIX TIMES. SHE SAID PEOPLE LEAVE HIS RALLIES EARLY DUE TO EXHAUSTION AND BOREDOM. TALKING ABOUT THE RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR, SHE SAID PUTIN WOULD BE SITTING IN KYIV IF HE WERE PRESIDENT WITH HIS EYES ON THE REST OF EUROPE, STARTING WITH POLAND AND WHY DON'T YOU TELL THE 800,000 POLISH AMERICANS IN PENNSYLVANIA HOW QUICKLY YOU WOULD GIVE UP FOR THE SAKE OF FAVOR AND WHAT YOU THINK IS A FRIENDSHIP WITH WHAT IS KNOWN TO BE A DICTATOR WHO WOULD EAT YOU FOR LUNCH? I'VE NEVER SEEN A STARKER CONTRAST AND PRESENTATION FROM TWO CANDIDATES IN ANY DEBATE, IN ANY TYPE OF CONTEST, IN ANY POLITICAL RACE. >> WE DO NOT KNOW THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION, BUT IF THESE MATTER AT ALL IN THE OUTCOME OF SAID ELECTIONS, IT SHOULD BE OVER. SHE DIDN'T JUST PREVAIL IN EVERY EXCHANGE, SHE PREVAILED AT BEING HUMAN. QUESTIONS THAT WERE DEEPLY PERSONAL SHE TURNED INTO QUESTIONS NOT ABOUT HERSELF, NOT ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN, NOT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND NOT EVEN DONALD TRUMP, BUT ABOUT THE WHOLE COUNTRY. THE BEGINNING, I DON'T KNOW IF HE NOTICED, THE SYNAPSES DID NOT SEEM TO BE FIRING BUT SHE GOT OUT HER ENTIRE ECONOMIC AGENDA. THE THING CHRIS CHRISTIE SUGGESTED SHE DO. SHE DID IT IN ABOUT THE FIRST EIGHT MINUTES. IT WAS ALL OUT THERE. YOU KNOW, TO THE DEGREE THAT TRUMP HAS SUPPORT BECAUSE SUPPORTERS ARE SCARED OR NOSTALGIC ABOUT AN AMERICA THAT IS SLIPPING AWAY, I SUPPOSE THAT WAS SOMEWHERE IN THERE. FOR WHAT IT WAS WORTH THE DRUDGE REPORT HAS A PICTURE OF HIM WITH A CAP SAYING IT IS OVER. TO THE DEGREE THAT IT IS A JOB TO COVER WHAT THE CAMPAIGNS DO AND THE POLITICAL APPARATUS, THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS GOING TO PLAN B, C, AND D. THEY ARE DARK AND DIRTY -- >> WHAT DO YOU MEAN? >> THE THREATS, THE RETRIBUTION, THE PLACEMENT OF ALLIES ON ELECTION BOARDS AS THEY HAVE DONE IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA. BECAUSE THIS DID NOT WIN TRUMP ANY NEW VOTERS. >> LAWRENCE. >> WE ARE NOW SEEING MAYBE THE SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN AMERICAN HISTORY WHERE POLAND MIGHT BE THE DECIDING ISSUE. THE POINT YOU ISOLATED, 800,000 POLISH PEOPLE IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. KAMALA HARRIS REACHED OUT DIRECTLY TO THOSE VOTERS. IF SHE GOT 10,000 OF THEM TO FOCUS ON THE THREAT TO POLAND THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN REPRESENTS, SHE MAY HAVE WON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND THAT PARTICULAR RESPONSE. LET'S START AT THE BEGINNING. WHEN THEY ENTERED I WAS WONDERING WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. WOULD THERE BE A HANDSHAKE? WE WILL SEE THAT VIDEO MORE THAN ONCE. IT IS DONALD TRUMP RUNNING AWAY FROM HER. IT IS DONALD TRUMP TRYING TO TURN AWAY AS THE ADULT IN THE ROOM APPROACHES AND CROSSES TO DO WHAT EVERY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BEFORE HER HAS DONE IN THAT SITUATION, WHICH IS TO EXTEND HER HAND TO THE OTHER CANDIDATE AND DONALD TRUMP RUNS AWAY UNTIL HE CAN'T. SHE LITERALLY HAS TO CORNER HIM TO SHAKE HIS HAND AND SHE DOES IT. TWO THINGS I WOULD POINT OUT QUICKLY ABOUT IT. YOU HEARD HIM SAY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, I WASN'T RESPONSIBLE FOR SECURITY. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IS WHAT THIS JOB IS ABOUT AND HE IS SAYING WHEN THEY WERE ATTACKING THE CAPITAL AND I'M DOING NOTHING FOR TWO HOURS, I WASN'T RESPONSIBLE FOR SECURITY. ANOTHER THING YOU ISOLATED IS WHERE HE SAID PEOPLE WANTED ROE V. WADE OVERTURNED. THIS WAS HIS WORST LIE OF THE NIGHT BECAUSE HE WAS LYING TO THE VOTERS ABOUT THE VOTERS. HE WAS LYING ABOUT YOU AND YOU KNOW IT. MORE THAN 60% OF THE COUNTRY WAS SAYING HE IS LYING ABOUT ME. I AM A REPUBLICAN. HE ACTUALLY LIED DIRECTLY TO THE VOTERS ABOUT THE VOTERS. >> JOY. >> I THINK THE MOMENT THE DEBATE WENT SIDEWAYS FOR DONALD TRUMP WAS THE MOMENT WHEN VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS WAS VERY SMART. THIS WAS THE ANSWER ABOUT IMMIGRATION. DAVID MUIR ASKED ABOUT ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS. WE KNEW THAT WAS COMING, THAT THEY WOULD TALK ABOUT IT BEING HIGH-END NUMBERS DROPPED. SHE SAID I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO PROSECUTED TRANSNATIONAL GANGS, TRAFFICKING OF HUMAN BEINGS. SHE TALKED ABOUT THE BILL ON THE TABLE THAT DONALD TRUMP CALLED REPUBLICANS AND HE DID NOT WANT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, HE WANTED THE ISSUE FOR THE ELECTION AND THEN SHE DID WHAT I THINK WAS THE SMARTEST THING OF THE NIGHT AND THE THING WE GOT FROM HILLARY CLINTON THAT SHE WAS BEING ADVISED TO DO. GET HIM WITH THE ONE THING THAT WILL DESTABILIZE HIM FOR THE REST OF THE DEBATE AND IT DID. YOU NAMED IT BEFORE. ESSENTIALLY SHE SAID THAT WE NEED A LEADER WHO FOCUSES ON SOLUTIONS. HE'S GOING TO TALK ABOUT IMMIGRATION WHEN IT IS NOT EVEN THE SUBJECT, BECAUSE HE KEPT GOING BACK TO THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND THEY ARE ALL CRIMINALS. HE KEPT DOING IT AND SHE CALLED HIM ON IT. HE WILL TALK ABOUT IMMIGRATION WHEN IT IS NOT THE QUESTION AND I INVITE YOU TO ATTEND ONE OF HIS RALLIES WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT HANNIBAL LECTER AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT PEOPLE AT THESE RALLIES START LEAVING EARLY. WHAT YOU WON'T HEAR HIM TALK ABOUT IS YOU. THAT ENDED DONALD TRUMP, THE CHEESE BEING FIRMLY AFFIXED TO THE CRACKER. HE LITERALLY AFTER THAT COULD NOT STOP INTERRUPTING. HE COULD NOT STOP GOING RIGHT BACK TO HIS SPECIAL PLACE WHERE HE WENT ON ABOUT IMMIGRATION. HE ARGUED AND TURNED AROUND AND INTERRUPTED AND TRIED TO KEEP ARGUING ABOUT CROWD SIZE. HE TRIED TO SAY WE ARE GOING TO WORLD WAR III. HE SAID MULTIPLE TIMES THEY ARE EATING DOGS AND CATS. AFTER THAT HE WENT INTO DOGS AND CATS. DAVID MUIR BREAKS IN AND SAYS NO SIR, THERE IS NO CREDIBLE REPORTING ABOUT THAT. HE KEPT RAMBLING. I THINK WHAT VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS MANAGED TO DO WAS WHAT EVERYONE BEFORE SAID THEY WANTED HER TO DO. SHE GOT HER POLICY POINTS OUT. WHEN PEOPLE THINK ABOUT VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, $25,000 FOR BUILDING A FIRST HOME. $50,000 FOR A NEW BUSINESS. THE TAX CREDIT. BECAUSE SHE KEPT SAYING IT AND WHAT HE KEPT SAYING WAS RAMBLING, BIZARRE NONSENSE THAT MADE HIM LOOK OLD. IT MADE HIM LOOK UNSTABLE. IT MADE HIM LOOK NOT JUST UNPRESIDENTIAL, BUT THE LOOK ON HER FACE. THE LOOK SAID PITY. SHE LOOKED LIKE SHE PITIED HIM AND KEPT LOOKING AT HIM LIKE ARE YOU OKAY? SHE FINALLY SAID I THINK YOU ARE HAVING A HARD TIME CONNECTING WITH REALITY. DONALD TRUMP GOT DESTROYED IN THIS DEBATE BECAUSE HE CAN'T CONTROL HIS MIND AND YOU DON'T WANT A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT IS NOT IN FULL CONTROL OF HIS MIND. >> IT WAS BY FAR THE BEST DEBATE PERFORMANCE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP BY ANYONE, I THINK. >> IT MAY VERY WELL BE THE BEST TELEVISED DEBATE PERFORMANCE EVER. I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER ONE. >> I AGREE. >> I THOUGHT IT WAS THE BEST ANYONE HAS EVER DONE. PRIMARIES AND THOSE BIG BRAWLS AND ONE-ON-ONE, ALTHOUGH BIDEN AND HILLARY ACQUITTED THEMSELVES WELL AGAINST HIM. THE THING THAT ALMOST BECAME LIKE COMICAL -- >> EVERY SINGLE TIME. HE WOULD SWIM UP TO THE BAIT AND ALWAYS A THING THAT DONALD TRUMP IS OBSESSED WITH ABOUT HIMSELF. A GRIEVANCE, A THING OF THE PAST. THINGS WE'VE HEARD HIM GO ON AND ON ABOUT. NANCY PELOSI WAS THE REASON JANUARY 6 GOT ATTACKED, YADA YADA YADA, AND EVERYONE EMPHASIZED THAT THE GUY IS OLD AND OBSESSED WITH OLD GRIEVANCES. I HAVE NO IDEA, LIKE YOU COULD COME OUT OF THIS AND YOU COULD TELL ME THAT SOME GROUP OF SWING VOTERS WAS LIKE -- I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW. I AM HUMBLE ON THAT. >> I THINK THAT WE HAVE ALL BEEN TOUGH AND CRITICAL OF THE PRESS. ABC DID A FINE JOB. THEY DID REPORTING ON THE EATING OF PETS. >> WHICH IS IMPORTANT, YOU HAVE GOT TO SAY IT. >> I THINK SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE RELUCTANT TO PUT THEMSELVES IN THE STORY. DAVID MUIR DIDN'T HESITATE TO SAY I WENT BACK AND WATCHED THE TAPE AND YOU DID NOT SOUND SARCASTIC TO ME WHEN YOU SAID -- AND THEN HE SAID, I SAID SARCASTICALLY -- SO WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HEARD WAS THREE SIDES OF THE OUTCOME OF 2020 AND DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS -- >> KUDOS TO THEM, BECAUSE THEY DID JUST ENOUGH FACT CHECKING TO BE PART OF THE DEBATE, BUT TO MAKE SURE REALLY EGREGIOUS LIES WERE SHUT DOWN. THE ONE THING I WOULD ASK -- VERY SMART. >> THAT SHE HAS INTERACTED WITH HIM. THAT PUTS HER AT A STATURE SO FAR ABOVE HIM. SHE SAID I'M NOT SAYING YOU ARE A DISGRACE, I'M SAYING THAT THE MILITARY LEADERS WHO HAVE WORKED WITH YOU, WHO ATTACKED ME, THAT YOU ARE A DISGRACE. HE CAN'T BEAR IT. >> THEN IN HIS OWN DEFENSE HE GOES TO VIKTOR ORBAN AND YOU COULD ALMOST HEAR THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE LAUGHING, LIKE YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING. HIS OTHER GOOD ONE WHEN HE TRIED TO EXPLAIN HOW IT WAS HIS IDEA TO GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN AND A TERRIBLE IDEA, HE SAYS, YOU KNOW, HE NAMES A RANDOM NAME AND SAYS THAT GOD LOVES ME. HE DIDN'T HAVE ANYONE HE COULD .2. >> HE ALSO INVENTED A HEAD OF THE TALIBAN NAMED ABDUL. HE JUST RANDOMLY NAMED HIM. ONE MORE THING AND ON THE ABORTION ANSWER, WHICH WAS, TO ME, WAS LIKE THE WORST MOMENT IN THE DEBATE. HE JUST DID NOT DELIVER THE ANSWER THAT IS RIGHT THERE. SHE DESTROYED HIM ON THE ABORTION ANSWER. SHE TALKED ABOUT WHY WE ARE HERE. SHE TALKED ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF WOMEN BLEEDING OUT IN A PARKING LOT WAITING TO GET CARE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A MISCARRIAGE AND CANNOT BE TREATED. SHE DESTROYED HIM ON IT. SHE SORT OF GAVE HIM NO TERRITORY TO WIGGLE AWAY FROM IT AND ALSO HE REFUSED TO SAY HE WOULD VETO A NATIONAL BAN, WHICH HE COULD. J.D. VANCE SAID THEY >> IT IS NO 11:00 ON THE EAST COAST. YOU ARE WATCHING OUR COVERAGE OF THE SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. THE FIRST DEBATE BETWEEN VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, WHICH CONCLUDED A FEW MINUTES AGO IN PHILADELPHIA. TO YOUR POINT ABOUT NEWS BEING MADE HERE, TRUMP REFUSED TO SAY HE WOULD VETO A NATIONAL ABORTION BAN. TRUMP ALSO REPEATEDLY REFUSED TO SAY THAT HE THINKS OR WANTS, THINKS THAT IT WOULD BE GOOD OR WANTS FOR UKRAINE TO WIN THE WAR. >> GIVEN HALF A DOZEN OPPORTUNITIES. >> HE WOULD NOT SAY IT AND HE TALKS ABOUT HOW HE IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE NUMBER OF TROOPS RUSSIA HAS LOST AFTER THEY INVADED ANOTHER SOVEREIGN COUNTRY. IT WAS STUNNING. JOY, TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THE WAY THAT KAMALA HARRIS TURNED IT TO HIM DIRECTLY. I WANT TO READ FROM THE TRANSCRIPT. KAMALA HARRIS SAYS, DONALD TRUMP WAS FIRED BY 81 MILLION PEOPLE, SO LET'S BE CLEAR. CLEARLY HE IS HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME PROCESSING THAT, BUT WE CANNOT AFFORD TO HAVE A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO UP WELL -- I HAVE TRAVELED THE WORLD AS VICE PRESIDENT. WORLD LEADERS ARE LAUGHING AT DONALD TRUMP. I HAVE TALKED WITH MILITARY LEADERS. WITH YOU. AND THEY SAY YOU ARE A DISGRACE AND WHEN YOU THEN TALK THIS WAY IN A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE OVER AND OVER ABOUT COURT CASES AND YOU LOST BECAUSE YOU DID LOSE THE ELECTION, LEADS ONE TO BELIEVE THAT PERHAPS WE DO NOT HAVE IN THE CANDIDATE TO MY RIGHT THE TEMPERAMENT OR ABILITY TO NOT BE CONFUSED ABOUT THAT FACT AND THAT IS DEEPLY TROUBLING AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE