Preparations are now underway. Good morning, jim. Reporter good morning, carol. Im inciside the wynn hotel on e las vegas strip, where the debate set is already ready to go. You can see the five paid yum behind me. Clinton, the front runner, has the middle podium. To her right will be sanders. He has been the insurgent candidate, firing up the liberal base of the Democratic Party. These new polls show, as you mentioned, carol, that clinton has a Comfortable Lead in the battleground states, including nevada. Well put that on screen, according to the new cnn orc poll. Clinton has 50 with sanders, 34 and the undeclared joe biden at 12 . If you take biden out, it helps clinton. She rises to a bigger lead. 58 for Hillary Clinton. 36 for Bernie Sanders. We want to throw this in, as well. South carolina is an interesting state if joe biden jumps into this race. He has a lot of support in south carolina. He vaults ahead of Bernie Sanders in that poll. Hillary clinton with 49 . Biden, 24 . Sand
Now less than eight hours a wwa and the stakes are very high. How will Hillary Clinton answer questions about the emails and the flipflops, and can selfdescribed socialist Bernie Sanders deliver a mainstream message and will martin oomalley get a breakout moment, and what about jim webb . Is this the last chance for lincoln cha feffechaffee. This is the last time we will see them shoulder to shoulder and toe to toe. And jim acosta is there and what are the ground rules for the twohour debate . Well, wolf, ground rules one minute for each question to be answered by the candidates and 30 second to respond if one of the candidates makes mention of one of the candidates on stage. I was talking to tad devine, an adviser for Bernie Sanders. And he said, look, Bernie Sanders is not coming out here to attack people, but in the words of tad devine, you cannot tame this tiger, and he was talking about the positioning of the lecterns, and he said that Bernie Sanders is going to be to the left of
It did have two things in it you may not like at all. One was anger, practiced or inability to deal with the teleprompter, i think that was the latter. Inability to continue through with the cadence. Ivanka, her elocution was speech school. Every word was pronounced beautifully and exquisitely. She understood the flow of the words, the paragraphing and she worked it as a professional. I again will go back to john voigts reading. They should use him in their commercials. His voice was spectacular, calm, incredible. Trump spoke with such anger you have to wonder was it purposeful or was it something he was doing to try to avoid getting out of cadence. Ill tell you one thing, if anybody talks about Hillary Clintons yelling, they have to talk about trump. If you go after hill try for yelling, you have to go after trump. Chris matheus in cleveland. Steves here with us trying to monitor and Pay Attention to some of the reaction tonight. One of the thick that gets a lot of reaction on social
I again go back to jon voights reading. They should use him in all their future commercials. His looping of those commercials was spectacular. It was confident. It was calm. It was credible. Trump spoke with such anger, you have to wonder was it purposeful or was it something he was doing to try to avoid getting out of cadence. If anybody yells about Hillary Clintons yelling again, they got to defend trumps yelling. Because that was the speech of yelling. And it had no charm most of its way through. You can go after hillary for being charmless and yelling too much. Always think if youre a republican or trump guy, youve got to defend trump. Because he was yelling. The whole time. Chris matthews in cleveland. Steve schmidt here with us, just looking, monitoring, paying attention to some of the reaction tonight. One thing thats getting a lot of traction on social media is the response to Donald Trumps speech from david duke, the former klan leader who is thinking about running for congres
This deal represents the same failed approach of the past that brought us to the current imminent threat we face from north korea. Secretary tillerson stating that the Iran Nuclear Deal negotiated under president obamas, quote, failed approach. But his own state Department Just confirmed that iran is complying with the terms of the obama negotiated deal. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell asked the secretary about that today. Mr. Secretary, by your own letter to the speaker of the house, iran is complying with the terms of the nuclear deal. If you break out of that deal, wont that send a signal to north korea and other rogue nations that the u. S. Cant be trusted to keep its end of the bargain . I think its important in any conversation on jcpoa and i think this was one of the mistakes in how that agreement was put together, is that it completely ignored all of the other serious threats that iran poses. It is another example of buying off a power who has nuclear ambitions. We buy them off for a shor