Here is a list of every word Holt said during the debate, and below is a link to the entire transcript. Maybe someone can explain why they think the debate was fixed, looking at the actual words.
Mostly it's Holt trying to keep Trump from dominating like a runaway train.
HOLT: Beginning with you, Secretary Clinton, why are you a better choice than your opponent to create the kinds of jobs that will put more money into the pockets of American works?
HOLT: Mr. Trump, the same question to you. It’s about putting money — more money into the pockets of American workers. You have up to two minutes.
HOLT: Secretary Clinton, would you like to respond?
HOLT: Let me follow up with Mr. Trump, if you can. You’ve talked about creating 25 million jobs, and you’ve promised to bring back millions of jobs for Americans. How are you going to bring back the industries that have left this country for cheaper labor overseas? How, specifically, are you going to tell American manufacturers that you have to come back?
HOLT: Let me interrupt just a moment, but...
HOLT: Back to the question, though. How do you bring back — specifically bring back jobs, American manufacturers? How do you make them bring the jobs back?
HOLT: Let me let Secretary Clinton get in here.
HOLT: Mr. Trump?
HOLT: Very quickly...
HOLT: Folks, we’re going to...
HOLT: We’re going to move to...
HOLT: Let me get you to pause right there, because we’re going to move into — we’re going to move into the next segment. We’re going to talk taxes...
HOLT: Well, you just opened the next segment.
HOLT: I’m going to give you a chance right here...
HOLT: ... with a new 15-minute segment...
HOLT: Mr. Trump, I’m going to...
HOLT: The next segment, we’re continuing...
HOLT: ... achieving prosperity...
HOLT: OK, you are unpacking a lot here. And we’re still on the issue of achieving prosperity. And I want to talk about taxes. The fundamental difference between the two of you concerns the wealthy. Secretary Clinton, you’re calling for a tax increase on the wealthiest Americans. I’d like you to further defend that. And, Mr. Trump, you’re calling for tax cuts for the wealthy. I’d like you to defend that. And this next two-minute answer goes to you, Mr. Trump.
HOLT: All right. You have two minutes of the same question to defend tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, Secretary Clinton
HOLT: This is — this is Secretary Clinton’s two minutes, please.
HOLT: Mr. Trump, this is Secretary Clinton’s two minutes.
HOLT: Mr. Trump, we’re...
HOLT: Mr. Trump, we’re talking about the burden that Americans have to pay, yet you have not released your tax returns. And the reason nominees have released their returns for decades is so that voters will know if their potential president owes money to — who he owes it to and any business conflicts. Don’t Americans have a right to know if there are any conflicts of interest?
HOLT: The IRS says an audit...
HOLT: ... of your taxes — you’re perfectly free to release your taxes during an audit. And so the question, does the public’s right to know outweigh your personal...
HOLT: So it’s negotiable?
HOLT: Well, I’ll let her answer that. But let me just admonish the audience one more time. There was an agreement. We did ask you to be silent, so it would be helpful for us. Secretary Clinton?
HOLT: He also — he also raised the issue of your e-mails. Do you want to respond to that?
HOLT: Mr. Trump?
HOLT: We’ll let you respond and we’ll move on to the next segment.
HOLT: Let’s let Mr. Trump...
HOLT: Well, we’re well behind schedule, so I want to move to our next segment. We move into our next segment talking about America’s direction. And let’s start by talking about race.
The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it’s been in decades, much of it amplified by shootings of African-Americans by police, as we’ve seen recently in Charlotte and Tulsa. Race has been a big issue in this campaign, and one of you is going to have to bridge a very wide and bitter gap. So how do you heal the divide? Secretary Clinton, you get two minutes on this.
HOLT: Secretary Clinton...
HOLT: Secretary Clinton, last week, you said we’ve got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias. Do you believe that police are implicitly biased against black people?
HOLT: Mr. Trump...
HOLT: Please.
HOLT: This conversation is about race. And so, Mr. Trump, I have to ask you for five..
HOLT: Please — 20 seconds.
HOLT: Please respond, then I’ve got a quick follow-up for you.
HOLT: Mr. Trump, let me...
HOLT: Mr. Trump, I...
HOLT: Mr. 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. Can you tell us what took you so long?
HOLT: That was...
HOLT: I will let you respond. It’s important. But I just want to get the answer here. The birth certificate was produced in 2011. You’ve continued to tell the story and question the president’s legitimacy in 2012, ’13, ’14, ’15...
HOLT: .... as recently as January. So the question is, what changed your mind?
HOLT: I’m sorry. I’m just going to follow up — and I will let you respond to that, because there’s a lot there. But we’re talking about racial healing in this segment. What do you say to Americans, people of color who...
HOLT: Secretary Clinton?
HOLT: Mr. Trump, you can respond and we’re going to move on to the next segment.
HOLT: Our next segment is called “Securing America.” We want to start with a 21st century war happening every day in this country. Our institutions are under cyber attack, and our secrets are being stolen. So my question is, who’s behind it? And how do we fight it?
HOLT: Your two minutes have expired.
HOLT: Mr. Trump, you have two minutes and the same question. Who’s behind it? And how do we fight it?
HOLT: Secretary Clinton?
HOLT: You mention ISIS, and we think of ISIS certainly as over there, but there are American citizens who have been inspired to commit acts of terror on American soil, the latest incident, of course, the bombings we just saw in New York and New Jersey, the knife attack at a mall in Minnesota, in the last year, deadly attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando. I’ll ask this to both of you. Tell us specifically how you would prevent homegrown attacks by American citizens, Mr. Trump?
HOLT: Secretary Clinton?
HOLT: Mr. Trump...
HOLT: Please respond.
HOLT: Mr. Trump, a lot of these are judgment questions. You had supported the war in Iraq before the invasion. What makes your...
HOLT: In 2002...
HOLT: My question is, since you supported it...
HOLT: ... why is your — why is your judgment...
HOLT: The record shows otherwise, but why — why was...
HOLT: Why was — is your judgment any...
HOLT: Why is your judgment better than...
HOLT: My reference was to what you had said in 2002, and my question was...
HOLT: Why is your judgment — why is your judgment any different than Mrs. Clinton’s judgment?
HOLT: Secretary Clinton?
HOLT: Secretary Clinton?
HOLT: We need to move on.
HOLT: Our last...
HOLT: Which leads to my next question, as we enter our last segment here (inaudible) the subject of securing America. On nuclear weapons, President Obama reportedly considered changing the nation’s longstanding policy on first use. Do you support the current policy? Mr. Trump, you have two minutes on that.
HOLT: Your two minutes is expired.
HOLT: All right. Mrs. Clinton, Secretary Clinton, you have two minutes.
HOLT: Your two minutes is...
HOLT: ... is expired.
HOLT: Very quickly. Twenty seconds.
HOLT: Mr. Trump...
HOLT: We have just...
HOLT: We have just a few final questions...
HOLT: Mr. Trump, this year Secretary Clinton became the first woman nominated for president by a major party. Earlier this month, you said she doesn’t have, quote, “a presidential look.” She’s standing here right now. What did you mean by that?
HOLT: The quote was, “I just don’t think she has the presidential look.”
HOLT: Let’s let her respond.
HOLT: We are at — we are at the final question.
HOLT: Very quickly, because we’re at the final question now.
HOLT: Mr. Trump, could we just take 10 seconds and then we ask the final question...
HOLT: Please very quickly.
HOLT: We have to move on to the final question.
HOLT: One of you will not win this election. So my final question to you tonight, are you willing to accept the outcome as the will of the voters? Secretary Clinton?
HOLT: Mr. Trump, very quickly, same question. Will you accept the outcome as the will of the voters?
HOLT: Will you accept the outcome of the election?
HOLT: All right. Well, that is going to do it for us. That concludes our debate for this evening, a spirit one. We covered a lot of ground, not everything as I suspected we would. The next presidential debates are scheduled for October 9th at Washington University in St. Louis and October 19th at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The conversation will continue.
A reminder. The vice presidential debate is scheduled for October 4th at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. My thanks to Hillary Clinton and to Donald Trump and to Hofstra University for hosting us tonight. Good night, everyone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/us/politics/transcript-debate.html
