i want to he can in with our cnn political director david chalen and nia-malika henderson, kirsten powers and former mayor of one of the greatest cities in the world, new orleans, okay, i had to say. i'm a new yorker, but i do love new orleans. mayor mitch landrieu. senior cnn political commentator jennifer granholm. i didn't write it. i knew you would say it. she actually helped prep joe biden for this debate. and special adviser to bohm, cnn political commentator van jones. dave, let's start with you. how much of the folks tonight do you expect to be on joe biden? >> when you're the front-runner, you've got the target on your back. that's just a reality in politics. and he has felt that the last couple of debates. and that time he'll get to feel it with all of the top tier folks on stage with him. how he handles it informs us about the state of his mind and how he turns some of that energy coming his way and pushes it back out, as you were hearing, if indeed joe biden delivers on what his campaign has sort of been foreshadowing, this really drawing a contrast with warren in some way. th