As it happened - pivotal Obama and Trump speeches

Summary

Donald Trump is facing a slew of claims of sexual misconduct from women
In Florida on Thursday, he fought back by strongly dismissing the accusations
First Lady Michelle Obama decried his actions as "intolerable"
Last week a video tape emerged in which Mr Trump boasted of groping women
A series of recent polls suggest a fall in his support to rival Hillary Clinton

Live Reporting

Courtney Subramanian and Max Matza

Clinton campaign reactspublished at 02:46 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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About those emails...published at 02:43 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Clinton responds to Trump's attack about her use of a private email server while at the State Department.
She admits she "made a mistake".
"I'm not going to make any excuses," she says, adding: "I take responsibility for it".
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'Stiffed' by Trumppublished at 02:42 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
"Maybe because you haven’t paid any federal income tax for a number of years," says Clinton, prompting spontaneous cheers from the audience. “I’ve met a lot of people who were stiffed by your business, Donald… who you refused to pay." She says there’s an architect in the audience who wasn’t paid by Trump. "Maybe he didn’t do a good job," says Trump.
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Watch both candidates' opening remarkspublished at 02:37 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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Trump: 'Stop these countries from stealing our companies and our jobs'
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'Support to balance family and work'
Taxes and emailspublished at 02:36 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Trump on his taxes: "I will release my tax returns - against my lawyer's wishes - when she releases her 33,000 emails that have been deleted."
The crowd erupts into cheer, which is prohibited at tonight's debate.
Clinton theorises that he’s not as rich or as charitable as he says he is, or that he maybe paid nothing in federal taxes. "What is he hiding?" she says.
Watch: Candidates walk on stagepublished at 02:33 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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The debate begins
Reality Check: Clinton's economic planpublished at 02:32 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Claim: Hillary Clinton's economic plans would create 10 million jobs, according to independent experts.
Reality Check Verdict: Moody's Analytics said most of the jobs Clinton promised would be created would happen under current laws. If all of Clinton's plans are enacted, which the report said was unlikely, another 3.2 million jobs would be created. Most likely the economy under Clinton would be "similar" to that under current law, it said.
Heating up...published at 02:30 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Following Trump's opening remarks about reducing taxes, Holt asks Clinton to defend her plan to increase taxes.
Clinton quips she has a feeling she will be blamed for everything by the end of the night.
Trump interrupts: "Why not?"
She responds: "Just join the debate by saying more crazy things."
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'Crazy things'published at 02:30 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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Postpublished at 02:27 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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Climate change 'hoax'published at 02:25 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Clinton calls out Trump for saying that "climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese".
Trump fires back, "I did not, I do not say that.”
Here's a 2012 tweet where he does in fact say that.
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Trade deal clashpublished at 02:25 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Clinton and Trump clash over the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was signed by her husband, Bill Clinton.
Trump: "Your husband signed Nafta and it was the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere ... and now you want to sign Trans-Pacific Partnership ... that will be almost as bad as Nafta."
Clinton: "Donald, I know you live in your own reality…"
Trump: "Secretary, you have no plan!"
Clinton on housing crisispublished at 02:20 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Clinton says: "Donald is one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis."
She continues that nine million people lost their jobs, five million people lost their homes and $13 trillion was wiped out in the crisis.
"That’s called business by the way," Trump says while interrupting her.
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Is Trump unwell?published at 02:17 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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Postpublished at 02:13 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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First bloodpublished at 02:13 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Clinton took a shot at Trump by referring to him receiving cash from his father when he first began his business while describing her own background as middle class.
“Donald is very fortunate in his life, and that’s all to his benefit", she said. "He borrowed $40m from his father, he really believes the more you help wealthy people, the better off you’ll be.”
Trump fired back, saying "my father gave me a very small loan in 1975 and I built it into a company", now worth billions of dollars.
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Postpublished at 02:11 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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'Donald'published at 02:09 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Is Clinton trying to get under Trump's skin by calling him Donald? He responds with a stiff smile.
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Trump and Clinton
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Debate kicks off with handshakepublished at 02:07 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
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The first presidential debate kicked off as Clinton and Trump took the stage, greeting each other with a handshake before walking to their respective lecterns.
Clinton asked Trump: "How are you, Donald?" as the crowd cheered.
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Lady in Redpublished at 02:05 British Summer Time 27 September 2016
Clinton arrives in a scarlet pantsuit
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Hillary Clinton lady in red