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Getting back to the candidates who were definitely going to be on the stage tuesday night. carol, potential flash points, i think, to look forward to. on the iraq war, bernie sanders has been reminding voters that he voted against the iraq war in 2002 and hillary clinton voted in favor of it. those are ek kochoes of 2008 an obama and clinton. he went after clinton, making gains inside the liberal base of the democratic party because of that key vote. well be looking for other flash points. berni...

To see more gun control. hes been moderate. martin omalley said he may go after bernie sanders on that issue. a couple of potential flash points to be looking forward to in the debate coming up on tuesday night. and hillary clinton, you know, she has not been involved in a debate since 2008. how are her debate skills? how prepared is she going to be? because obviously all the attention is going to be on her in just about 36 hours from now. should be fascinating political television. pam? >> abso...

>> you can see it unfolding behind me right now. our cnn team is hard at work setting the stage for tuesday nights debate, the first democratic debate of this presidential season. theres the lecterns up on stage right now. the one in the middle, that will be for former secretary of state hillary clinton who is the obvious democratic front-runner but to her right bernie sanders. he will be on stage. that will be one of the big flash points that everybody will be watching tuesday night. bernie san...

>> reporter: its going great. john, what were seeing is sort of debate prep, debate setup in action. you can see all the scores of cnn employees behind me setting the stage for tuesdays debate, the first democratic debate of this season. you can see the fill-ins for candidates standing at the lecterns on stage right now. theres a lady standing where hillary clinton will be standing in that middle lectern position. shes obviously the front runner this campaign. you talked about the other candidat...

Books from his strategists holding calls with policy experts and taking pains to avoid getting personal. >> when youre looking at a candidate who does not go about attacking people personally, what i think debates are about is in fact differentiating the differences of opinions that we have. >> and his laundry list ready. flash points over tpp, the keystone pipeline and wall street. >> if hes attacked, i can tell you hes not someone that will stand there and take attacks, you know. he will defen...

Pope francis has called two on the family, one that met last october and another that will meet this october. theyre sort of like the congress of the catholic church, although they dont have any decisionmaking authority. they simply make recommendations to the pope. the idea is to come up with creative ways the catholic church can support families. now, last october this senate became a major news event because there were interesting flashpoints that emerged, among them, whether the catholic chu...

Thats the easiest way to explain it. >> how many shots the suspect fired at the officers? >> i dont have any idea. there are shell casings on both sides of west florissant. its a number of shell casings at this point. >> you dont have a sense of how many guns were used? >> i would think that probably -- and again, please understand i dont have the benefit of some information im going to have later but there were probably six shooters on the other side of the street. from what i was told, we look...

As an opportunity saying this is where we differ and where the republican party needs to go. you could have heard it from rubio, bush or cruz. >> bush has done this others more cautious. for them to come out, of course they could challenge him and should challenge him on the rapists and murderers. the issue is if they are giving a path for legal status or citizenship, they are angering their base. this will be without a doubt, one of the major flash points. the first debate on fox, then cnn in a...

Analyst bob sexton is with me in new york. peter bergen is with me from washington. pretty astounding whats happening. there is so much news yesterday. this didnt get as much news as it perhaps did globally but in a span of just a few hours, terror attacks unfolding in europe north africa the middle east and you say these three attacks represent different flash points now in this conflict against isis. how so? >> really the choice of targets shows you the different conflicts that are playing out...

Flash points and o, this is key night. saturday night here as we finish off this week and move into sunday tomorrow and then monday folks wanting to get back to work, but as you were just showing the tape, the police commissioner saying we have to be careful. >> it seems like demonstrators and people out there in the community are really antsy to get their community back. either theyve had this curfew in place, this will be the fifth night. businesses have been hurting. we understand when it cam...