I missed the Shrillary Clinton part, I did see the Trump part and thought Lauer took some hard swipes at Trump and that Trump politely, professionally and in a Presidential manner turned those swipes around effectively and got his message out.
In short, Trump did a great job, IMO. He helped himself last night.
All that is happening is that the Libs in the talking class (so called elites) are working the refs for the debates.
#1 don’t ask certain question to HC
#2 have questions with gotchas to DT