Anderson Cooper made history on Sunday (9 October) at the presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
The CNN anchor became the first openly gay journalist to moderate a debate between Democratic and Republican candidates.
Cooper shared the moderating duties with Martha Radditz of ABC News.
One
of Cooper’s more memorable exchanges came with the embattled Trump
whose campaign has been crippled by an 11-year-old audio tape from
Access Hollywood in which the candidate can be heard talking about
behaving in a sexually predatory way towards women he finds attractive.
‘You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women — do you understand that?’ Cooper asked. When Trump dismissed the comments as ‘locker room-talk, Cooper asked: ‘Have you ever done those things?’
After being asked three times, Trump finally said that he had not.
Trump had said on Fox News last month that he was unhappy about Cooper being chosen as one of the debate moderators:
‘I’m
not okay with Anderson Cooper because I think he treats me very
unfairly at CNN. I think he is very unfair on CNN. I think CNN, they
call it the Clinton News Network that’s why the ratings aren’t doing
very well.’
Cooper and Radditz are being credited with sharp
questioning and keeping the debate moving along far more than the
moderators had managed to in the first Clinton-Trump debate last month
and last week’s vice presidential debate between Republican Mike Pence
and Democrat Tim Kaine.
Anderson Cooper grills Donald Trump on
Billy Bush/sexual assault - Presidential Debate
Published on Oct 9, 2016
Donald
Trump denied any allegations of any sexual misconduct at the second
presidential debate Sunday night. Anderson Cooper pressed the issue
stemming from a 'hot-mic' incident recorded while Trump was filming a
segment for Access Hollywood with Billy Bush
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