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Sunday jeff zeleny are all in houston with me tonight. dana, look, their drama, biden and warren have never been on a debate stage. here they are. they have a long, and complicated ristory and we know biden is going to say its not just about plan, its about execution. so, is she going to return the fire? >> its hard to imagine that she will. >> that certainly has not been her m.o. to date. her whole campaign is based on the fact that she has plan, she has ideas, lets get out and fight and work f...

Harris and she said ask joe biden about that. the other candidates are hoping that gravity takes hold. you saw harris out there on a five-day bus tour. senator warren going like. this youre watching warren do this and thinking, whoa, shes well organized in iowa. if she can somehow win or be in the top one or two in iowa and move on to home territory, new hampshire next to massachusetts, thats the most interesting dynamic in the democratic race right now. >> yeah. its very interesting that we sta...

Closed doors. >> i dont think so, erin. listen, ted cruz has been right to welcome donald trump to the republican party. i mean, the establishment hates him but they are always the ones talking about growing the party and heres donald trump, a lifelong democrat, a liberal whos given more money than anyone watching. we should be welcoming him to the republican party with open arms. at this late arm, hes finally decided to adopt conservatism and im happy to hear that. >> well, if he could bring de...

Fight with trump, as katy was just walking us through, cruz has not shied away from publicly engaging with marco rubio, especially on this issue. they have really gone at each other as rubio has tried to get to cruzs right on an issue. this is a place where in some ways cruz may have made the wrong bet for the way events are turning out over the course of this campaign. of course, he had stood many times with rand paul in the senate playing to some of those -- the liberty movement conservatives,...

>> he doesnt alienate people and he seems to be more surrounding of the audience that he is talking to. >> what about kim, the people who lets assume trump does fall and theres no guarantee that that happens, but if it does who is there to peck up some of the voters? >> ted cruz. you know you saw that on the stage last night that that was, in fact something cruz was aiming for. overall, i did not think senator cruz really extinguished himself. and he is meant to be a master debater, and he is me...

Most recent "fox news poll." >> he was there last night. >> depending when people talk about leadership, they talk about kasich. i dont know if he will be the master debater that is required on that stage thursday night. >> speaking of which, this thursday, august 6th. this is the debate day that we team up with facebook to bring you the first republican presidential primary debate of 2016, of the 2016 race. live from cleveland. it all starts at 5:00 eastern. we want you to be a part of it. subm...

Zingers. >> barack obama is an extremely gifted speaker. you might even say hes a master debater. thats what she said? zing. youve got zing. >> captured the reaction to president obamas debate performance, we now turn the program to over to our good friend chris matthews. >> where was obama tonight? romney, i love the split screen, staring at obama, addressing him like the prey. he did it just right. im coming at an indumb bent. ive got to beat him. youve got to beat the champ, and im going to b...

Ha, ha, ha. ha, ha, ha, ha. ive also been working on some thats what she said zingers. for instance, when obama is talking during the debate, ill just interrupt him and say, thats what she said? ha, ha, ha. gets them every time. ha, ha. now, last week my campaign leaked a memo telling everyone to lower their expectations for my performance in these debates because as we all know, barack obama is an extremely gifted speaker. he might even say hes a master debater. thats what she said? ha, ha, ha....

Our guests are back to tell us what we should know as the news unfolds this week. what should folks know? >> i am going to the huntsman-gingrich debate in new hampshire. huntsman will have a longer forum, and can he hold up against newt, who is a master debater as he emerged. and i would like to see huntsman rise from earlier. >> and lincoln douglas, its three hours or -- >> yeah, three. he challenged and promised to do eight of them if he is the nominee. >> this is a huge part, i think, of the ...

Performance. why dent he highlight his strengths? he is a border governor. >> his campaign admitted he was tired. this is not like another rotary club dinner. get a five hour energy drink, this is a national audience, possibly the biggest he has spoken to, not just the follow audience, but a google audience, the youtube audience, people around the world could log on, the biggest audience. >>alisyn: maybe he is not a master debater. sorry, you brought up the immigration thing and this is a philos...