i would say anybody who moderates a debate, there was nothing wrong with the questions and nothing wrong with what megyn kelly asked her. there s interview questions that belong in a one on one interview because maybe you re trying to draw somebody out and there s questions that belong in a debate and they re different. debates with not interviews. i think sometimes that s always the challenge. by the way, this isn t easy. it s not easy, i ve moderated debates and john has moderated plenty of great debates. i think everybody has it s not easy. it s certainly not easy. i quake in my boots every morning i come out here. it s hard. we re all living on one viral moment. you ve got a one on one with a guy who this is the guy of the
days. let s put up the clock. on tuesday the democrats take the stage in the democratic presidential debate. here is a live look at the debate hall in las vegas. preparations under way. tuesday will be the first time the candidates will go head to head. for many americans it s the first time they are seeing sanders and especially the other three. what kind of debate will this be. i caught up with moderator anderson cooper right before he left for vegas. thank you for previewing the debate with us. sure. we ve seen two gop debates so far. the fox debate was all about interview questions, probing questions of the candidates. cnn s debate was more about face off questions. getting the candidates to talk with each other. what s your style on tuesday? i don t think this is a debate where you ll have candidates attack each other. we ve not seen this on the campaign trail. going to the republican debates you knew there were a number of cans looking to do that. some lower candidates want
making sure everybody gets a fair amount of questions and we prompt debate. it s not a series of 11 interview questions, or 15 as the case may be if you include undercard debate. that it s not a forum where they all can extrapolate and give talking point we want debate about policy, politics, leadership, different things they bring, different things they have said about each other. we have been very, very hard at work, me and team, who are incredible. you ve asked four questions from everyone on twitter. you have a sense of what most people want to hear? no, because we ve actually heard from literally tens of thousands of people and there are questions varied as one from a very passionate woman who feels strongly the candidates should be doing more to make sure that people at football games when they get evacuation notice on their cell phones should not believe it and she s against the potential stampeding that could happen. this is a woman who is active on that. then questions abo
robbins when you were 15 years old. everybody you ve ever known is submitting questions, many of them great questions. i bet! a lot of them are interview questions. a lot are interview questions that would be good on a one on one but are not necessarily debate questions. that s what we ve been crafting. we ve been pouring over the questions that have been submitted to cnn via social media, facebook, twitter, however. we keep every day refining and refining. and we ll see if it works on wednesday. i asked viewers on twitter questions for you. jana asked what s your strategy or corralling the donald and limiting his bullying tactics? is there a strategy or a plan in case he goes off the reservation so to speak? i don t have a plan for donald trump any more than i have a plan for anyone else, which is to say, if somebody if there are interruptions or if there is debate, you know, i think in some cases you want to
republican? it was all as lindsey graham said, somebody being harshly critical of donald trump, it did seem like an inquisition to trump while marco rubio is getting questions about what is the best way to make daffodils bloom in a spring time? he talked about it with command, like using peat moss and making sure the flowers grow. there are different philosophies. you and mika have done it. i ve done it. there are interview questions. you come up with questions. you can come up with greats questions. is this an interview question for a specific candidate or is this a question that allows for actual debate between multiple people on stage? and you have to make that decision as a moderator how you go. you saw really good interview questions. sometime interview questions are not the best debate questions. they don t spark actual