PRESIDENTIAL RACE | The gun and birther issues

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on the first of three presidential debates between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump:

10:10 p.m.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are coming to rare agreement about a contentious gun issue.

Trump tells Clinton, "I agree with you" when it comes to not allowing people "on a watch list or a no-fly list" from buying guns.

He says, "We have to look very strongly at no-fly lists and watch lists."

Some gun rights activists have made the case that people can be placed on such lists accidentally.

But Trump says if people are on lists and shouldn't be "we'll help them, we'll help them legally, we'll help them get off."

Clinton had said earlier that she believes, "If you're too dangerous to fly, you're too dangerous to buy a gun."

10:08 p.m.

Donald Trump is blaming Hillary Clinton for starting the false claim that President Barack Obama was born outside of the United States.

Trump says Sidney Blumenthal worked for the Clinton campaign in 2008 and pushed the belief that Obama was born in Kenya. Blumenthal did not work for the campaign.

The Republican nominee also says former Clinton staffer Patti Solis Doyle admitted that a member of the Democrat's team tried to push the same falsehood. Doyle said the campaign fired a low-level staffer who tried to spread other rumors about Obama's religion.

Trump said Clinton "failed to get the birth certificate." He then said, "When I got involved, I didn't fail."

10:05 p.m.

Hillary Clinton says she doesn't have to apologize for being prepared.

Donald Trump got in a dig at Clinton's absence from the campaign trail. He said he's seen troubles in inner cities while she's stayed home.

Clinton responded that there was nothing wrong with spending time preparing for the debate. "You know what else I did?" she asked. "I prepared to be president."

9:57 p.m.

Donald Trump is talking about the importance of "law and order" in response to the moderator's question on how to heal racial divides.

He says if we don't have it, "we're not going to have a country." He says that in inner cities, African-American and Hispanic communities "are living in hell because it's so dangerous."

Trump says that if you walk down the streets in places like Chicago, "you get shot."

He goes on to cite the controversial "stop-and-frisk" policing tactic as a way to bring down crime. "Right now our police are afraid of doing anything," he says.

A federal judge ruled "stop-and-frisk" unconstitutional.