Final Presidential Debate Focuses On Violence, Gun Laws, Wikileaks
(CBS) -- The presidential candidates spent much of their time criticizing each other, rather than talking about their own platforms.
CBS 2 Political Reporter Derrick Blakley breaks down the debate.
Maybe it's because we've seen most of this show before, but this was probably the most restrained and relatively civil debate of the three.
Still, there were plenty of pointed disagreements, with Chicago at the center of an exchange about the Supreme Court and gun violence.
Early on, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed over whether their Supreme Court appointments
would allow more restrictions on gun use.
"In Chicago, with the toughest gun laws in the U.S., they have more gun violence than anywhere else. I'm a strong supporter of the Second Amendment," Trump said during the debate.
Clinton says she is too, but wants reasonable restrictions.
"We need background checks so we can close gun loophole doesn't conflict with supporting the Second Amendment," Clinton said.
Trump said Wikileaks revelations showed the Clinton campaign arranged agitators that shut down his Chicago rally.
"In Chicago, people could have been killed," Trump said.
And the two clashed over U.S. intelligence reports that those Wikileaks revelations were manufactured by the Russian government. Clinton accused Trump of cozying up to Vladimir Putin. And Trump bristled when Clinton said she he advocates spreading nuclear weapons to countries that don't have them.
