who is a spokesman for bernie sanders. . >> that's right. m here in the spin room with sim i don't know sanders from the sanders campaign - no relation. i'm shurp you say it all the -- sure you say it all the time. talk about the way your candidate addressed the issues of black lives matter. and where you want to go. >> pablo sandoval gave by far the strongest performance, he set the agenda not just for the debate, but the election, we saw that where the others talked about their resumes, who they were. bernie sanders went in and talked about issues affecting the american people. problems facing americans. he stood up and said black lives matter. it's important. he gave concrete positions and a one liner on, yeah, we are tired of hearing about your damn emails, that was a winner. yes. >> black voters and bernie sanders. tonight one of the things we didn't here was anyone talking about voting rights. i thought it was an opportunity. connecting with black voters. that seems difficult or has been, do you think you overcame any of that. i don't t

>> bernie sanders. >> you have it right. >> he praised bernie sanders.ve to bernie sanders after bernie sanders said, let's remember where we were when bush left office. we were losing 800,000 jobs a month, and i know my republican friends seem to have some am nearby ya -- amnesia. cnn owns these clips, since they own the debate right now. we'll show them to you after the debate. big spreeurprise, bernie sander gets the acknowledgment from trump. >> trump is obsessed with twitter. when the rest of us are -- >> to put it mildly. >> watching baseball or leading our lives, he's tweeting. he has two reasons to tweet favorably for bernie sanders. he believes he's going to be the republican nominee, and he knows that bernie sanders would be the easiest democratic nominee to beat. of course, he wants bernie sanders to win the nomination. he's going to try to pump him any way he can. he also is fighting jeb bush for the republican nomination, and so anybody who takes a shot at george w. bush, he'll tweet favorably about that person. he wants to remind republican

>> i think bernie sanders did everything he could to appeal to bernie sander's voters. my question is, did he appeal to one person who is not bernie sanders? >> what about the black lives matter? >> you know what, i think it wasn't a big subject over the course of the night. they talked about it once and moved on. >> at the beginning and not to those two demographic groups he is struggling withtive. he never found a moment to connect with those voters in the way hillary clinton has. >> and in his introduction to the country because there was in some ways an introduction to the country. they also found out about party which is not democrat, it's an independent. he's a democratic socialist. he needed to explain that to america in and it's a tough word. he talked about denmark, hillary clinton said bernie we are not denmark so that is now a part of the bernie sanders american speech. >> was that effective when bernie sanders said here's what i mean? >> no, i don't think you can explain that in that short of a moment there. i think he struggled to explain. that i think mart

bernie sanders did very well. governor o'malley certainly made a mark and for a lot of people who had no idea who he is. i think senator webb struggled somewhat and governor chafee as well. but i think, you know, i'm happy with how the debate turned out. i mean, i think for me the whole thing is being fair, being tough and being prepared and when you have people like dana bash and juan carlos and don lemon, it was a great team. >> it was really well done. i think the viewers, the voters out there who were watching know a little bit more about these candidates now than they did a couple hours ago. that was the main purpose, get them educated who they are. you had an interesting exchange with lincoln chafee, the former governor of rhode island >> governor chafee, you've attacked secretary clinton for being too close to wall street backs. in 1999, you voted for the very bill that made banks bigger. >> i just arrived in office, my dad just died. >> are you saying you don't know what you voted for? >> it was 92-5. >> w

issues, but the goal tonight, democratic primary, they're very happy. >> chris cuomo is with bernie sanders. if you can hear me, talk to the vermont senator. >> senator sanders, how are you? i saw you back stage right before the closing statements. you seed like you were in a quiet moment, getting your thoughts together. where was your head in that moment? >> i head was trying to make the case in the short period of time that we have, that if the middle class of this country is going to survive, if we're going to deal with income and health inequality, we need some very profound changes about the way we do business in this country. >> there was a lot of substance tonight but the line of the night came from you and probably a gift to hillary clinton, "enough with your damn e-mail." what did that? >> what motivated is i think the american people want substantive discussion on substantive issues. the middle class in this country is disappearing. we have 27 million people living in poverty. a finance system that's corrupt. the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. those are the

it was bernie sanders on this question of capitalism, it was bernie sanders on guns.bernie sanders actually did her the biggest favor of the night when the subject of e-mails came up. he rallied to her defense he basically said this is not an issue anybody should really care that much about. so bernie sanders ended up defending her. >> we were on with bernie sanders's campaign manager. the second debate not very far away. do you think we'll see a change in tone from senator bernie sanders? >> yeah, i wouldn't be surprised. part of the story here, too, i think is the sanders campaign was putting out the word that he had not done much formal debate preparation heading into this. hillary clinton was in 20 of these things back in 2008. she knows how to handle presidential debates. bernie sanders has done some debates in vermont before but never on a stage like this before. i think there was an assumption on his part that, hey, i do media interviews all the time, i give these speeches all the time. i don't have to worry about what i'm going to say. where it really showed i

>> bernie sanders by far. he explained how we got to the situation we are in today and how obama coursed through the economic collapse and what we need to do to change it. he's the only candidate on stage who could explain this in the clearest terms. >> bernie sanders. he put it in personal terms and t tapped in. >> what about -- who was the loser when it comes to the economy? >> hillary. he can't get away from wall street. of all of the candidates on the republican and democratic side there is no candidate that has accepted more money from wall street than hillary clinton. she will not be able to get away from this. this will be the key issue that will probably lose her the election. >> this is a kumbaya moment. hillary said something that will be used against her in attack ad after attack ad. i represented wall street. i started salivating waiting for the general election because i am running attack ads against her and she shot herself in the foot. >> what about immigration? that's a hot topic this election

why is bernie sanders to effective? >> he is bringing up topics that are pertinent that will not outlast this presidency but in the following presidency. >> he's a socialist. >> do you have an issue with that? >> we're a socialist country in many ways. >> how many of you think america -- raise your hand if you think america is a socialist country. >> we don't like our police and firefighters. >> just want to know. megyn? this is a chance for fox news viewers to see people they otherwise don't see. they're going to choose the democratic nominee. and based on tonight they like bernie sanders. >> we shall see how that gets reflected. frank great to see you. thank you to your guests. i just heard from our panel of voters during the debate, you'll see debbie wasserman-shultz will join us and share her take on the debate when one test >>> joining me now with her reaction is debbie wasserman-shultz. great to see you tonight, madam. >> thank you, megyn. >> the vice chairman of the dnc decided she was disinvited after calling fo

over the last 24 hours bernie sanders has been talking about to his supporters, hillary clinton was in favor of the iraq war in 2002. senator sanders reminding supporters he was against the iraq war. sounds like how barack obama campaigned for the vote in 2008. on the issue of trade, hillary clinton when she was secretary of state supported the transpacific trade deal, the deal that the president is trying to get through congress right now. now she's against it. bernie sanders will obviously call attention to that. on gun control, even though bernie sanders is seen as a big-time progressive, he's more moderate on gun control than some of the candidates on stage. perhaps a martin o'malley looking for a breakthrough moment might go after bernie sanders on the issue of gun control. martin o'malley much more in favor of gun control than bernie sanders. wolf, a lot of potential battle lines, flash points we might see coming up on tuesday night. it's going to be fascinating political television to watch. vice president joe biden we should mention, he's not definitively said one way or anothe

bernie sanders has been opposed to than sanders, though, wants to arm only kurdish peshmerga forces sayingorce the u.s. could trust. air strikes, both of them are in favor of u.s. air strikes against isis. both of them are opposed to u.s. boots on the ground in the fis against isis. but sanders seems more apt to favor middle east countries, especially wealthy ones like turkey, saudi arabia, should do the lion's share of the fighting on the ground. what he had to say not long ago on that. >> we have got to be supportive, air attacks, special forces, and so forth. but the bulk of fighting must be done by turkey, saudi arabia, countries in the region. >> when he talks about that, he's talking about those countries putting troops on the ground. sanders has said countries like saudi arabia and turkey, quote, need to get their hands dirty in the fight against isis. >> there are differences on the candidates on the sensitive >> that's right. take a look at this. hillary clinton has consistently said she does favor a no-fly zone. she says it would make it more difficult for bashar al assad's force

>> bernie sanders. >> bernie sanders. >> i agree. >> burning. -- bernie. >> brian, who has been best?rnie sanders. >> i think bernie has the edge on that one. >> i can't think of any other candidate that is talking about it. >> bernie sanders? >> knowledgeable and experienced. >> exciting. >> forward thinking. >> hope. >> interesting. >> game changer. >> he is not classically looking as a candidate. how does he overcome that? >> i think people are just listening to his words, and not focusing on appearance. says are things of that i think a lot of people are thinking. it is charismatic. it is funny when you look at them. he is hunched over. he looks old, but the stuff he says is in touch with a lot of the things that we are thinking about. >> his appearance>> good or bad is genuine. he's not trying to get a stylish haircut. he is genuine. >> are you concerned about his age? >> a little. my concern would be having a president by midterm. kane -- not like john john mccain because of his age. >> his age does not bother me. >> i think he seems in good health. he is willing to go after it,

debate, hillary clinton is the candidate to beat in two starts that could be key to slowing a bernie sanders surge. a new cnn orc poll shows her besting sanders by 16 points. the spread is even bigger in south carolina. clinton leads sanders by 31 points and the vermont senator sees opportunity. >> i don't get into personal attacks, you know that but differences of opinion should be discussed. that's what that election is about. >> sunday on nbc sanders tried out a main debating point, clinton is late to positions he supported like her opposition to a trade deal she backed as secretary of state. >> people have to contrast my consistency and willingness to stand up to washington corporations, big corporations. >> sanders trails clinton nationally in the polls but his lead in the all important first primary state of new hampshire makes him tough competition. in 2008 she came from behind to win the new hampshire primary after this moment went viral. >> i don't want to see us go backwar backwards. >> when it was over, i just felt drained. i didn't feel anything other than that. i didn't realize

so two members backing bernie sanders. of course the clinton team says they have more than 100 members of congress backing her. wolf. >> all right. thanks very much, john berman with that report. republican hopefuls may take some time out from their constant attacks on one another to watch the democrats go at it. let's go to our political reporter sara murray. sara, donald trump is already sounding off about this showdown tomorrow night. what's he saying? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. all eyes will be on the democrats tomorrow. and that includes donald trump's. he says he's going to be tuning in for the debate. here's what he had to say. >> i'm not rooting for anybody. i just want to see what they have to say. there are a lot of bad ideas out there, but i want to see what they have to say. i think it's going to be interesting to see. you have three of them that are, you know, registered very low. but i think it's going to be interesting for at least the first ten minutes. >> now, trump said he'd be willing to go up agai

bernie sanders at 18%.ekend the dnc chair, debbie wasserman schultz will be here for the debate as well over the next couple of days, she was asked, what happens if vice president decided at the very last minute he wanted to show up? all the indications are, he won't, but what if he did want to participate in this debate? here's what the chair of the dnc had to say about that? >> we do know he's been carefully considering whether he wants to run for president of the united states. of course, in the democratic primary, we would always have room and welcome the sitting vice president. >> reporter: just to give you another look inside this debate hall, carol, it's very impressive. our cnn crews have been working very hard, day and night over the last few days. you can see the chairs are in here. we didn't see this yesterday, so the seating is almost set in here. on the far side to my left, you see this giant screen over here. done lemon, who is helping host this, he'll be finding questions from facebook users

hillary clinton and bernie sanders going head to head. ng to restore voter trust, sanders, though, getting the loudest reaction of the night when he called hillary's e-mail scandal her damn e-mails. >> loudest reaction of the night but it was an endorsement for hillary. it was a mixed bag when he made that line. they're all trying to make an impression on the american people. the question is could last night have spelled the end for one of them? can't stay five forever, right in let's begin our comprehensive analysis of the big debate with mr. john berman. >> those five candidates combined had a total of 25 presidential primary debates before, hillary clinton accounted for all 25 of them. to an xen, last night it really showed. it may have been the first democratic debate but it was clear it was not hillary clinton's first rodeo. running down a debate checklist with surgical precision. >> i would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. >> her name, check. her appeal to the grass roots and pragmatic wings of the party, check, c

one thing bernie sanders hates is talking about himself. he doesn't like answering personal questions when reporters ask him. he's got a lifetime in civil rights. he's got a lifetime in politics. he needs to share a little bit more of who he is with democratic voters. and also let them know why somebody who is a democratic socialist can actually be elected president of the united states. he has to look presidential and lift the veil a little bit on who he is. >> martin o'malley, jim webb, lincoln chafee, the other three candidates who will be on the stage, they've got a tough assignment tonight. >> they do. because they see the recent example of carly fiorina on the republican side. it was in an undercard debate. they saw somebody low on the polls can make themselves for relevant in the race. she's still in the middle of the pack, but she went from nowhere to the middle of the pack. they're thinking what's my breakthrough, how do i make a connection? the question is, do i go after hillary clinton because there's a risk in doing that if you'

these people who love bernie sanders, love bernie sanders. anybody who goes after bernie sanders on that stage is going to risk alienating those voters. they don't want to do that. >> i'll say this. carson has not been an attack dog of the debates and he's at the top of the polls. fiorina was not an attack dog in the debate. she had her moments where she had to respond to attacks and she's at the top of the republican polls. i don't think necessarily being on the attack is what gets you and i would say hillary clinton still has -- democrats have great feelings for hillary clinton. if someone thinks they're going to make their mark tonight attacking hillary clinton in a democratic primary where she has so much democratic support, i think they're barking up the wrong team. >> thanks so much for coming. appreciate it. and i think you endorsed ben carson. >> brad also said he was going to jump in this pond. just saying. >> do not miss a minute of the action, the cnn debate, the very first democratic debate. begins at 8:30 p.m. eastern time only o

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caller: i'm leaning towards bernie sanders. what bernie sanders is saying. like hillary clinton but not that, uh, yeah, i just like bernie sanders better. i think your clinton is -- -- hillary clinton is, her -- i mean, i would vote for the democrats. i'm voting for pretty much the democrat. and bernie is an independent, too. i would vote for him. the one thing i can't do is vote for a republican. i voted for bush twice. mes going to take a lot for to vote republican again because the way that they have been acting. host: take a look at reaction from donald trump tweeting this. biden made the correct decision for him and his family. personally, i would rather run against tiller because her record is so bad." james gilmore. "biden decision means dems are left with clinton, sanders. socialist's policies would hurt those they claim they want to help." then you have rinse previous -- reince priebus saying that the vp's decision is a major blow for dems. strongest candidate gone. party now saddled with scandal ridden clinton. we divided the lines by clinton suppo

>> i like bernie sanders.real and does a good job explaining his positions and doing a good job. >> do you like hillary clinton? >> hillary clinton, she's -- too much about e-mails and not about the american public and our future. >> her husband is bill. >> oh. yeah. clinton, hillary? >> yes. >> if you were to gamble on the election who do you like so far to be our next president of the news. >> i would go with hillary. hillary? >> yes. >> tell me why. >> just because i feel like i know more about her just based off of her being president before and the presidential election prior to. >> okay. we all hillary people here or somewhere else? >> all hill. >> i do you know there's a debate here tomorrow night? >> all right. thanks, everyone, including elvis, for hanging out with me here in vegas. i'm brooke baldwin. it's been fun. do not move a muscle. tonight is the big night, big debate, 8:30 eastern on cnn. my colleague, jake tapper is up next. "the lead" starts right now. >>> welcome to "the lead." we are live

democratic front-runner hillary clinton and the self-described democratic socialist bernie sanders will go head to head tonight. most of the candidates toured the debate stage a short time ago. otherwise, sanders, clinton, martin o'malley, lincoln chafee and jim webb have been hunkered down and who knows what they do in the final minutes before the debate. the stakes are high. clinton must not stumble and they need to deliver a death blow to steal the show. we go to brianna keilar behind me. we have seen a few of the candidates come in, check things out. what's going on where you are right now? >> yeah, that's right, erin. as you can see behind me we have some stand-ins here for the candidates. as a lot of the photographers from the myriad of cameras that we have here in the debate hall are making sure they're ready to go. 90 minutes from now. all of the candidates with the exception of hillary clinton have done walk throughs. they have come up on the set they'll be on for this evening. they have stood behind the lectern. some of them have done sound checks angoten reminder -- and gotte

i later asked bernie sanders why he said it. his response and a lot more coming up next. >>> full house. i also spoke with hillary clinton's campaign chairman late last night about the shadow non-candidate joe biden. >> if there's going to be the next debate, then there are going to be six candidates, then he should announce his intentions and get in. >> and do it now as you said. >> well, at some point he needs to make a decision. >>> and trump's take. after live tweeting during the debate, donald trump talks exclusively to nbc's katy tur how he thought hillary clinton did last night. >> i think he did her job. i think she got through the debate. i personally thought she won the debate. i thought bernie was off. he was not doing so well. i thought that the other people shouldn't even be up there, to be honest with you. >>> hello, everyone. the day after the big debate here in las vegas where hillary clinton scienced some doubters and may have ended any draft biden readers, she hopes. the debate shows why democrats think the for

two, three, four, five, six, seven -- so is looks like the young millennial voters here said bernie sandersebate with a few votes out there for hillary clinton. >> the former senior adviser to president obama made this observation on twitter, clinton had a great night of sanders winning the focus group and old line polls but the pundits saying he lost. alex wagner, who won? i give up. >> this is what we were realized about this campaign season, there is someone that the media thinks is winning or losing and then there is the reality like the grass roots or the voters. ben carson is on the right and had more facebook fans than hillary clinton and bernie sanders combined, right? he is the darling of the grass roots. bernie sanders obviously has some appeal that we in the media are not picking up on to the degree that the headlines yesterday all touted exactly the same thing, which is hillary clinton won and by and large all the grass roots, the polling, the donations, what have you, all out there in the world points to the bernie sanders. >> and with focus groups and people changing their min

whatever the case, bernie sanders' campaign says they earned $1.3 million in the four hours after thet, there was onstage friction between sanders and martin o'malley on gun control. >> we were able to pass this and still respect the hunting traditions of people who live in our rural areas. and we did it by leading with principle. not by pandering to the nra. and backing down to the nra. >> -- voting record, i don't think i am pandering but you have not been in the united states congress. >> well, maybe that's a healthy thing. >> -- check it out. >> martin o'malley talked to msnbc's chris matthews about that exchange after the debate was over. >> we are the only nation on the planet that buries as many of our people from gun violence as we do every year. and this -- this sickness has to be addressed. and there's comprehensive, commonsense things we can do. and i was hoping that on the stand tonight, maybe we did. i think we can forge a new consensus to get it done. >> as for hillary clinton, twitter exploded at her misuse of the word literally. >> when we met in copenhagen in 2009, an

>> i feel like bernie sanders. >> the same bernie sanders. , >> bernie. >> i would agree. >> brian, whoeen best? >> bernie sanders. >> i think bernie has the edge on that one. >> i can't think of any other candidate that is talking about it. >> bernie sanders? three words or fewer. >> knowledgeable and experienced. >> exciting. >> forward thinking. >> hope. >> visionary. >> interesting. >> game changer. >> i don't mean to disparage senator sanders, but he is not classically looking as a candidate. how does he overcome that? >> i think people are just listening to his words, and not focusing on appearance. >> the things he says are things i think a lot of people are thinking. it is charismatic. it is funny when you look at them. he is hunched over. he looks like an old dude. but the stuff he says is in touch with a lot of the things that we are thinking about. >> his appearance good or bad is very genuine. he's not trying to get a stylish haircut. he is genuine. >> are you concerned about his age? >> a little. my concern would be having a president just croak mid-term. >> i did not like

bernie sanders will be prepared for that. u know, that's their -- i think they do that at their own peril as well. >> we know you support hillary. give bernie advice. >> he has the easiest strategic path tonight. he has something -- >> look at you setting up the false expectation. >> he's a good debater, hillary's a good debater. he has something that's working but everybody hasn't heard it yet. he takes that same message that's working, he's drawing tens of thousands of people. he needs to stay on course, repeat that. if i were advising him, i would say, there are millions of people who will love your message but haven't heard it yet. but don't get distracted by the pomp of the event. same thing that hillary has had to do. >> i think bernie, you know, has a little bit of the grumpy old grandpa problem in some ways. he's very didactic in the way he comes across, pushy about his ideas in a way. paul's right. those ideas are things that really appeal to democratic voters what he's go the to do is stand there and act a little mor

what about bernie sanders? his people overnight were telling cnn they will not go after hillary clinton at all unless she goes after him first. he may not even mention her name. >> what he will do, and he pre-viewed some of this, compare where he has been on the issues for many years, versus where she has come to be on the issues more recently. that will be a contrast he will make. it is a fair contrast for him to make. it is a fair issue to explain. the keystone pipeline and the tpp on trade. i think for her it is an opportunity to explain more broadly and more deeply to voters where she is and where the division is in terms of what she will do if she is given the task of president. >> and bernie sanders has to find a way to extend the momentum beyond new hampshire. what about the three other guys? martin o'malley and lincoln chaffee and jim webb. >> martin o'malley, for example, needs a breakout moment. he has a tremendous resume that is understated. he hasn't been able to breakout from the bottom of the poll

bernie sanders gets 34%. biden gets 12%. t, clinton gets 58% and sanders gets 36%. in south carolina, the numbers are even more dramatic. hillary clinton there, if biden does not run, gets 70%. bernie sanders gets 20%. maria, i mean, what has she been doing right in south carolina that she has not been doing right in new hampshire? >> i think there's a couple things here. first of all, nevada and south carolina are much more representative of what this country looks like today. demographically speaking. it's not what she's been doing lately in nevada or south carolina. it's her relationship with the demographic groups who are going to be an important part of the election in nevada and south carolina. in nevada, for example, the latino vote is a quarter of the vote. she has had more than three decades of experience and having a nurturing relationship with the hispanic vote. in the '70s, she was in texas, registering voters before it was cool to register voters. the latino vote here, latinos across the country, see that she is

she opened up bernie sanders like a pinata on gun control. on the other hand i think bernie went in and reinforced his base. a lot of people donated. $1.3 million was raised last night. if you make your 25% base harder that's not necessarily a win. >> i disagree with you. 11 million people watching him for the first time not in his base. my bet is that a lot of people will recruit with this guy in the next couple of weeks. >> the polls will tell us who improved their position. hillary clinton had a good night. people are no longer saying can she win a general election. i think the calculus for joe biden is different. i think he has a reasonable opportunity here but the door is closing and he will have to put his hand or foot in it pretty soon or it is going to close all the way. >> what do you say if you are joe biden and you decide you want to get in? what does she not have that you have? >> i think the argument for joe biden is the same as last week which is if you are concerned about whether or not hillary clinton can win a general election

bernie sanders. our panel play fact or fix and i hit streets of new york to find out how popular is soci kennedy: the best way to learn is to play, that is why i asked my friends to buckle up for a game of fact or fiction, bernie. sanders, edition. >> let's go here question number one. bernie sanders fact or fiction, bernie sanders believes cable tv price are too damn high, and has asked ftc to investigate. >> that is a fact. kennedy: you would be right. question two, bernie sanders, hugo chavez, recognized bernie sanders as the legitimate government of united states, until 2010, and referred to hip as quote, elel presidente. >> so true. kennedy: i wish it was true. that means president messy hair. number 3, bernie sanders recorded folk album we shall overcome in 1987, that is true. here is a clip.s i saw below me that golden valley ♪ this lap land was made for you d me ♪ this land is your land ♪ this land is my land ♪ kennedy: i love socialism ♪ , the question, bernie of ment to sing but the produc

it's not bernie sanders.onald trump we're hearing this reprettied refray eied -- repea >> to that immigrant bashing, carnival marker donald trump, let us stand together and say that the enduring symbol of our nation is not the barbed wire fence. it is the statute of liberty! >> you're going after the republicans is typically we see from the frontrunner in a race. she's in the single digits. did martin o'malley do anything to change the standing? >> he had a strong message, without question. i'm a hillary clinton supporter but i respect what former governor o'malley was trying to do. he's hoping that donald trump is going to put out a hate tweet against him and then get some mileage out of it. that's what, you know, when you're in that position single digits you want to try to galvanize some attention around yourself. he's hoping that donald trump will play into that and donald trump as you know is comfortable sending out midnight hate tweets to his opponents. o'malley's challenge is to galvanize the left whic

dems favor hillary clinton by a 16-point margin over bernie sanders. clinton is supported by half the likely caucusgoers. sanders by roughly a third and joe biden if he runs by 12%. without biden, clinton's number swells to 58%, sanders inches up to 36%. no one else gets more than 3%. and south carolina, take a look, noncandidate biden claims second place with a quart he of the likely vote and clinton still dominates. without biden it's not even a contest. clinton's support surges to 70% versus 20% for sanders. we'll talk more about all of that in just a moment, first, i bring in jim acosta in the wynn hotel in the las vegas strip. set the stage for us, so to speak. what are the topics and the format? >> hi, pam, you can see the debate stage is almost set. we've had cnn crews in this auditorium for the last 48 hours working day and night, putting the pieces to the puzzle together. you can see the podiums behind me. we have photographs on all these podiums. lincoln chafee, the former governor of rhode island, martin o'malley, the former governor of mary

bernie sanders, i love bernie sanders, i always have.s aroblem with bernie, democrat, we have to win this race, and i think it best chance is with hillary. i would love for trump and hurried to have a debate. , just likerush him she did with the committee. people have to realize, when president clinton was in office, and how well we were doing. remember this, when you get hillary, you also get him. you get a two-for-one deal. that is really all i have to say . host: when you go to the ballot in oklahoma city, and you have a choice between senator sanders and secretary clinton, which ballot will you cast? caller: i will cast for hillary. host: thanks for the call. larry has this point, saying, hillary was all lawyered up for the hearing, the first will appoint, don't let them make you mad or authentic. rumble -- ready to grumble. ryan better prepare for prom tr? hillary's e-mails will not look fake anymore. that is from this morning in "the weekly standard." mark joining us from minnesota, welcome to the program. caller: i always find tha

i think bernie sanders did well, too, but i think she outpitched bernie sanders, and bernie sanders let her off the hook a little bit on the e-mail issue but hillary clinton was very strong and i thought anderson cooper's questions were great, direct and aggressive. she handled them very well. >> let me ask you this. as i said, by most accounts hillary clinton won the night and if you look at social media which many times tend to be younger people though facebook the average age is like 45, but younger people would be voting. in our live voting, not an official poll, just some results from last night, bernie sanders was the clear winner, like 75% to 18 or 20% over hill hi. where's the disconnect there? >> that's interesting. that's the level of excitement, especially for a new candidate, a candidate that's been around. he's been in the house and senate, but america is just getting to know bernie sanders, and he has an attraction like ron paul did, rand paul's father, where he attracted a lot of younger voters, so i think that those younger voters are going to the online poll. same thing

bernie sanders nor hointhoipt didn't say a word. dan: that is a perception as to the value of those issues. they believe that the foreign policies is the main vulnerability. and i remember being up in brooklyn talking to the team and asked them about this notion. and one of them broke out laughing, saying if they think this is going to be a national security election, big surprise. going to be about domestic issues. gwen: the president's plan is to keep 5,5,000 troops in 9,800 tan, we now have troops there. it is reducing the withdrawal date. what are those 5,500 troops supposed to do in afghanistan? are they supposed to be engaged in battle? alexis: excellent question. one of the elements that the administration was trying to emphasize is that in no way does this change the united states posture. the united states is not in a combat mission, not now and not with the retention of these troops. what the u.s. forces are supposed to do is to stand out at the bases around afghanistan to continue to be advising and training and assisting

>> i think what people like about bernie sanders, he's very authentic. r you had on earlier today was saying that, you know, bernie outdid hillary. and i think that there's a big difference between what the rest of the american public wants to see, which is is she being honest and trustworthy? what else is in those e-mails? why did she have a set of rules for herself? what happened in benghazi? there's a lot of questions she's not answering. >> definitely democrats in the room agree that they were done with talking about the damn e-mails, though. we'll see how much more. and got the big damn investigation into her testify later this month. >> we had a fun week. >> potty mouth. >> i do have a potty mouth. thank you for pointing that out. great to see you, sean. >>> we also have some new details, we want to make a big turn back overseas to israel and breaking news we're following out of israel. israel police, they shot and killed a man who attempted to stab a private bodyguard at the damascus gate in jerusalem. >> tensions have been so high in recent weeks.

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senator clinton does not -- dynamic let's go to hillary and bernie sanders sparring over their plan toaddress abuses on wall street. >> senator sanders wants to break up the wall street banks. you don't. you say continue to monitor them. why is your plan better? >> my plan is tougher because of course we have to deal with the problem that the banks are still too big to fail. we can never let the american taxpayer and middle-class families ever have to bailout the kind of speculative behavior that we saw, but we also have to worry about some of the other players -- aig, the insurance company, lehman brothers, investment bank. there's this whole area called shadow banking. that is where the experts tell me the next potential problem could come from. >> she said hurt policy is tougher than yours. >> not true. the greed andr recklessness and illegal behavior of wall street, where fraud is a business model, helped to destroy this economy and the lives of millions of people. check the record. in the 1990's -- and all the respect -- in the 1990's, when i had the republican leadership and wall

and bernie sanders is no madonna.not start re inveinventi yourself after decades of politicses a socialist. >> i would say, though, hillary clinton has reinvented herself a number of times. >> it hasn't gone all that well. that's why she's tried it so many times. >> one thing that's so interesting about bernie sanders is, you think if you say you're a socialist, you're out. look at the polling data, 50% of americans say they would never vote for a socialist. >> 47% say they would. >> they all live in california. >> they're americans, too. >> the youngest voters are split even. i think the labels from the last century don't matter. if people like your ideas and your heart, they'll go with you. >> we have a couple of seconds left. if she is attacked, how does she defend herself? >> all right. you know what that is, right? >> i think what you were thinking. >> this is one time that if i told you what i would do, smack them down. smack them back, smack them hard and make them cry for even looking at me. >> she has to show

bernie sanders and martin o'malley have the most to gain, particularly bernie sanders.hing well so far but this is a different task. bigger audience, face-to-face with hillary clinton and an ability to try to explain to people in the strict format of a debate, not in the long speech, what he's all about. >> to that point, he can say i'm not attacking her personally, then jab her on being a flip-flopper but when it's face-to-face she's going to come back. >> she's going to come back. interesting, you think about one of the biggest contrasts tonight is the level of experience debating. she of course -- he of course, not only has he not debated at the presidential level but barely debated at the senatorial level. he's done four or five in his whole life. she did 25 and she was pretty good at it. so he's got a lot to gain as mark said, but he's wandering into unfamiliar territory. we have seen a lot of candidates in the past first time out have a hard time. it takes one debate to get with the program. >> flip-flop's not as good for him as just he's with the base. obamacare

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>> yes. >> bernie sanders? >> yes. >> martin o'malley? >> no. >> lincoln chaffee? trust me that went on and on and on and it was actually comical. i want to get beyond the hillary and the bernie conversation, and talk about the others, martin o'malley and lincoln chaffee and jim webb. let's start with martin om o'malley, 52 years old, and born in d.c. and former mayor of baltimore and governor of maryland and the front man of the celtic rock band o'malley's march since 1988. the guy rocks out. and jim webb is 69 years old and form er virginia senator, and former secretary of defense and secretary of the navy, and also an emmy award winning author and journalist, and author of ten books. lincoln chafee is the former independent governor of rhode island and independent senator, and he joined the group in 1975 as a graj of brown university and he is a republican, democrat and independent support. >> and when you look -- welcome in michael smerconish. when you see what allison kam rcam raw ta did out there on the stage, what happened to you? >> and it reminds me of "but

bernie sanders will be standing to her right. martin o'malley to her left, jim web and lincoln chafey on the ends. it starts tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. and cheryl crow will sing the anthem and she's excited to be there for the debate and we are, as well. we are talking about the candidates' road to las vegas, what they need to do tomorrow night and how they are getting ready tonight. i want to start with brianna keilar. what does hillary clinton, brianna, been doing in the last couple of days and what message has she been trying to get across? >> she's been down as we say in the last couple of days here. last few days, actually, anderson, she was campaigns last week in new hampshire and iowa and met with black lives matter activists in d.c. on thursday and then she went down on friday, saturday, sunday and so she's had some time to prep in ea earnest. her message here is to try to cut through the politics. she's spent so much of this early part of her campaign dealing with this e-mail controversy about her practicing on e-mail while s

that's what brings me to bernie sanders. i don't understand the appeal of bernie sanders. he is not an outsider. i hear a lot of pundits talk about -- he has the same appeal as donald trump. but i don't see that. i perceive them as being president obama 2.0. a bunch of promises that he can't deliver. he talks about the banks -- big banks. he talks about free college tuition. the cost of college is constantly going up and he doesn't talk about bringing the cost down. he talks about giving everyone free tuition. we understand that you are not a supporter of bernie sanders. who do you support in this race so far? caller: i admire ben carson. but it will probably be john kasich or marco rubio when it's all over. that's who i wil believe will be the republican nominee. host: dan tuohy, what do you think? i think a lot of people are looking -- it is still early. let's face it. 24/7. all in this toy fo democrats, bernie sanders -- some of his methods -- people may not like it or be critical of it or curious of it. but he has been running on some of these messages for 25 years. th