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Into in our 2020 lead, were just hours away from biden, sanders, harris and buttigieg facing off. what do they and the other six need to do this evening? joining me is david axelrod, former chief strategist for barack obamas presidential campaign. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> whats the main thing youre looking for? >> obviously all eyes will be on biden. there is some expectation that bernie sanders will try to engage him. i think thats probably true, not so much to upsit bidens suppo...

They dont like, and theyre obsessed with it. and then when somebody who they like comes into power, they suddenly arent interested. and what it shows, they were really never serious about it. >> thanks for being here. follow me on facebook and twitter at jake tapper. tweet the show at the lead cnn. our coverage continues right now. thanks for watching. happening now, breaking news. smiles and denials. secretary of state mike pompeo and saudi rulers flash smiles during meetings in the disappear...

Built-in group in washington, the intelligence community, media, some politicians all of whom did not want him to get elected, worked against it and are continuing to try to undermine his presidency. this makes sense to him, though i would argue the facts dont bear it out. >> what about kim jong un? on again, off again, conciliatory, not so conciliatory. we have a commemorative coin thats ready to be distributed. >> so this is the coin obviously that was prepressed prior to the cancellation. as ...

Amazing. >> it might be better than donald trump. >> its such a good point that donald trump rushed to bill oreillys defense last week, saying among other things he didnt think oreilly had done anything wrong. and i think thats probably true. >> its true. >> of course trump doesnt think there is anything wrong in what we read. >> you are a star and you get to grab people, and you get to harass them. not harass them. they are probably happy that you are doing it. i think its interesting that its ...

Anything wrong. and i think thats probably true. >> its true. >> of course trump doesnt think there is anything wrong in what we read. >> you are a star and you get to grab people, and you get to harass them. not harass them. they are probably happy that you are doing it. i think its interesting that its ailes and oreilly and trump would we now have done these hideous things. facing off against hillary clinton. >> all best buddies. >> facing off, destroying this women, the trauma for so many ame...

Have to do something, but my preference would be to amplify the folks who live there. saudi arabia need to step up. saudi arabia has been essentially an arsonist over there. how do you think it went last night? how did you do? >> i think very good. we are pleased with the performance. we think the characters will reshuffle and i think you will be surprised within about a week there will be a whole new ballgame going on. im not saying im going to be top. but there will be a whole new ballgame in ...

Side of this with russia saying maybe it could deal without doing business with the united states if this all escalates further. and neil, i was in davos in january, and i dont get the sense that the russians would like to be further economically isolated than they already are. theres talk of some of the western countries boycotting the g-8 summit that putin is holding in sochi in june. he said today thats fine if they dont want to show up, hell hold it anyway. this is the war of words escalatin...

All right. time for some sports. monday night football in d.c. niners visiting washington. rg3, colin kaepernick facing off. kaepernick got it done last night, three touchdown passes including a couple to bolden. rg3 managing 127 yards, sacked four times. the redskins did not score a touchdown last night. san francisco wins in a blow-out 27-6. washington has now dropped three consecutive games. a lot of frustration down there. im telling you watching that game, he gets hit on every play. he drop...

Yourself, bill oreilly and jon stewart facing off. >> president first year, deficit. he held the deficit steady. how much debt has the president run up? >> $6 trillion. >> very good. $6 trillion. >> yes. and let me ask you this. what is... is that -- is that all bushs fault? >> no. what is the debt bush ran up? >> bush? okay. >> well, well... >> look. >> no. no. >> bush is gone. >> im not defending bush. >> bush is gone. this isnt a question of defending bush. >> sure sit. >> its a question of p...

Yourself, bill oreilly and jon stewart facing off. >> president first year, deficit. he held the deficit steady. how much debt has the president run up? >> $6 trillion. >> very good. $6 trillion. >> yes. and let me ask you this. what is... is that -- is that all bushs fault? >> no. what is the debt bush ran up? >> bush? okay. >> well, well... >> look. >> no. no. >> bush is gone. >> im not defending bush. >> bush is gone. this isnt a question of defending bush. >> sure sit. >> its a question of p...