Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both went on the attack in their high-stakes showdown ahead of the US elections in November. Here are a few of the key moments from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Vision courtesy: ABC News
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00:00They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets of the people that live there.
00:19They have abortion in the ninth month.
00:22They even have, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia,
00:27not the current governor who's doing an excellent job, but the governor before,
00:31he said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby.
00:35In other words, we'll execute the baby.
00:37There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born.
00:42Madam Vice President, I want to get your response to President Trump.
00:45Well, as I said, you're going to hear a bunch of lies, and that's not actually a surprising fact.
00:49The government, and Donald Trump certainly, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.
00:56I have talked with women around our country.
00:59You want to talk about this is what people wanted?
01:02Pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term, suffering from a miscarriage,
01:08being denied care in an emergency room because the health care providers are afraid they might go to jail,
01:14and she's bleeding out in a car in the parking lot?
01:17She didn't want that? Her husband didn't want that?
01:20A 12- or 13-year-old survivor of incest being forced to carry a pregnancy to term?
01:27They don't want that?
01:29How would you deport 11 million undocumented immigrants?
01:32I know you believe that number is much higher.
01:35Take us through this. What does this look like?
01:37Will authorities be going door to door in this country?
01:39Yeah, it is much higher because of them.
01:42They allowed criminals, many, many millions of criminals.
01:46They allowed terrorists. They allowed common street criminals.
01:50They allowed people to come in, drug dealers, to come into our country,
01:53and they're now in the United States and told by their countries, like Venezuela,
01:59don't ever come back or we're going to kill you.
02:02Do you know that crime in Venezuela and crime in countries all over the world is way down?
02:08You know why? Because they've taken their criminals off the street
02:11and they've given them to her to put into our country.
02:14She was big on defund the police.
02:16In Minnesota, she went out.
02:18Wait a minute. I'm talking now.
02:20If you don't mind, please.
02:22Does that sound familiar?
02:25She went out.
02:27She went out.
02:29Crime is down all over the world except here.
02:31Crime here is up and through the roof.
02:34Despite their fraudulent statements that they made,
02:36crime in this country is through the roof.
02:39And we have a new form of crime. It's called migrant crime.
02:42And it's happening at levels that nobody thought possible.
02:45President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country.
02:49I'll let you respond, Vice President Harris.
02:51Well, I think this is so rich, coming from someone who has been prosecuted
02:56for national security crimes, economic crimes, election interference,
03:03has been found liable for sexual assault,
03:07and his next big court appearance is in November at his own criminal sentencing.
03:13And let's be clear.
03:15Where each person stands on the issue of what is important about respect for the rule of law
03:21and respect for law enforcement,
03:23the former vice president called for defunding federal law enforcement,
03:2845,000 agents, get this, on the day after he was arraigned on 34 felony counts.
03:35And I want to ask you a very simple question tonight.
03:37Do you want Ukraine to win this war?
03:40I want the war to stop. I want to save lives that are being uselessly,
03:45people being killed by the millions.
03:47It's the millions. It's so much worse than the numbers that you're getting, which are fake numbers.
03:52I actually met with Zelensky a few days before Russia invaded,
03:58tried through force to change territorial boundaries,
04:02to defy one of the most important international rules and norms,
04:06which is the importance of sovereignty and territorial integrity.
04:09And I met with President Zelensky.
04:11I shared with him American intelligence about how he could defend himself.
04:15You said she went to negotiate with Vladimir Putin.
04:17Vice President Harris, have you ever met Vladimir Putin? Can you clarify tonight?
04:21Yet again, I said it at the beginning of this debate.
04:23You're going to hear a bunch of lies coming from this fellow.
04:25And that is another one.
04:27When I went to meet with President Zelensky, I've now met with him over five times.
04:32The reality is it has been about standing as America always should,
04:37as a leader upholding international rules and norms,
04:42as a leader who shows strength,
04:45understanding that the alliances we have around the world
04:49are dependent on our ability to look out for our friends
04:53and not favor our enemies because you adore strongmen
04:58instead of caring about democracy.
05:01So I think you've heard tonight two very different visions for our country,
05:07one that is focused on the future and the other that is focused on the past
05:12and an attempt to take us backward.
05:15But we're not going back.
05:18And I do believe that the American people know
05:21we all have so much more in common than what separates us,
05:24and we can chart a new way forward.
05:27And a vision of that includes having a plan,
05:31understanding the aspirations, the dreams, the hopes,
05:35the ambition of the American people,
05:38which is why I intend to create an opportunity economy,
05:42investing in small businesses, in new families,
05:46in what we can do around protecting seniors,
05:49what we can do that is about giving hardworking folks a break
05:53and bringing down the cost of living.
05:56I believe in what we can do together
05:59that is about sustaining America's standing in the world
06:03and ensuring that we have the respect that we so rightly deserve,
06:07including respecting our military
06:10and ensuring we have the most lethal fighting force in the world.
06:14I will be a president that will protect our fundamental rights and freedoms,
06:17including the right of a woman to make decisions about her own body
06:21and not have her government tell her what to do.
06:24I'll tell you, I started my career as a prosecutor.
06:27I was a DA, I was an attorney general,
06:30a United States senator, and now vice president.
06:33I've only had one client, the people.
06:36And I'll tell you, as a prosecutor, I never asked a victim or a witness,
06:39are you a Republican or a Democrat?
06:42The only thing I ever asked them, are you okay?
06:45And that's the kind of president we need right now,
06:48someone who cares about you and is not putting themselves first.
06:53I intend to be a president for all Americans
06:56and focus on what we can do over the next 10 and 20 years
07:01to build back up our country by investing right now in you, the American people.
07:07So she just started by saying she's going to do this, she's going to do that,
07:10she's going to do all these wonderful things.
07:13Why hasn't she done it?
07:15She's been there for three and a half years.
07:17They've had three and a half years to fix the border.
07:20They've had three and a half years to create jobs and all the things we talked about.
07:25Why hasn't she done it?
07:27She should leave right now, go down to that beautiful White House,
07:31go to the Capitol, get everyone together and do the things you want to do,
07:35but you haven't done it and you won't do it
07:37because you believe in things that the American people don't believe in.
07:41You believe in things like we're not going to frack,
07:44we're not going to take fossil fuel, we're not going to do things
07:47that are going to make this country strong whether you like it or not.
07:51Germany tried that and within one year they were back to building normal energy plants.
07:58We're not ready for it.
07:59We can't sacrifice our country for the sake of bad vision.
08:04But I just ask one simple question.
08:06Why didn't she do it?
08:08We're a failing nation.
08:10We're a nation that's in serious decline.
08:13We're being laughed at all over the world.
08:15All over the world they laugh.
08:16I know the leaders very well.
08:18They're coming to see me.
08:19They call me.
08:20We're laughed at all over the world.
08:22They don't understand what happened to us as a nation.
08:25We're not a leader.
08:26We don't have any idea what's going on.
08:29We have wars going on in the Middle East.
08:31We have wars going on with Russia and Ukraine.
08:35We're going to end up in a third world war
08:37and it'll be a war like no other because of nuclear weapons, the power of weaponry.
08:42I rebuilt our entire military.
08:45She gave a lot of it away to the Taliban.
08:49She gave it to Afghanistan.
08:51What these people have done to our country
08:54and maybe toughest of all is allowing millions of people to come into our country.
08:59Many of them are criminals and they're destroying our country.
09:02The worst president, the worst vice president in the history of our country.
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