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with top advisers, cnn reporting that biden's personal attorney, bob bauer, likely playing the role of trump during mock debates, bauer performed the same role in 2020. here's what he said about that experience. just last week any debate prep involves immersing yourself in whatever the candidate who you are playing. immersing yourself in whatever they have said videos of their interviews, videos of their speeches, speeches, so that you can really, seriously. i mean, not by way of doing some sort of comic impression, but seriously model out what the experience of debating will be like trump spent the past few days on the campaign trail, which he says is the best way to prepare for the debate i'm preparing by taking questions from you and others if you think about it, we had a great meeting just now and philadelphia with the at the shop but i'm preparing by dealing with you. >> you're tougher than all of them it will be a historic night. >> the first time a sitting president will face off against a former president. try me now axios, senior contributor, margaret talla of margaret. good morning to you. you've covered so many any of these debates and so many presidential campaigns. and in many ways, we are seeing both men really embody comes away. they approach campaigning, governing as well. but especially campaigning as biden has basically sequestered himself behind closed doors. i mean, republicans are quick to criticize him for that. i would just say, i've covered a number of republicans who did the same thing. >> it's called that's called debate prep. >> usually they pick a very nice location. it's great for us campaign reporters to spend a week there. >> but what for donald trump? he has been out there in a way that oftentimes we don't see candidates being out there talking to the press at talking to the public, how do you view these two strategies as we head into thursday for both kc really fitting of the two personalities. and i guess what it boils down to is it really going to matter? is this debate going to end up being about policies president biden's doing a lot of prep on the issues and the arguments or is it going to end up being about the sort of intangible character things like does the either of the respective rivals convey authority or command or charisma, right? and a lot of times, that's what debates end up being about. but i think with both men, with the current president, with the former president, there is a the audience interests is really driven by kind of what's going to happen in terms of like are either of them going to meet or defy the expectations that are baked into the media narrative around them. and will that give you more confidence or less confidence? it's not like a normal debate where it's like, i really want to find out about what they believe in or what's two of them are like or who appear stronger on the stage like americans know both men very well to well, you might say, to l is i mean, look, the strength piece of this, right i mean, the for biden all of the stuff that's tied up in his age a lot of it's about weakness. at the end of the de, right? i mean, isn't some of this for biden about not showing weakness the kind of media machine that has been more aligned with donald trump or critical of joe biden has certainly portrayed him showing clubs of him tripping, climbing the stairs, or having a moment referring forgot what he was going to say. and so there has been a big expectations game around. you talked to a lot of voters who are kind of low to moderate news consumers. and their view of joe biden is not really based on watching him give full speeches, are watching them interact for long periods of time. it's built on snippets and clips on social media. that's metastasize there are actually people who think that he can't walk to the podium by himself and that sort of thing. so this is going to be for president biden rejecting those expectations and proving that's not where he's at. but you know, there are a lot of americans who aren't quite an extreme category who are just he seems older than he was when he took office does he still have what it takes? and i think on the other side with donald trump, the democratic argument round, donald trump has been that he's chaos machine and all this sort of stuff. row will he conduct himself on the stage? will he seem presidential and serious for the people who? maybe we're concerned about that in 20 2016 or 2020 is that more concerned error less concerning now, right i mean, it looked to that 0.1 of the things i think we've seen, some of the trump team tried to do here is lower expectations for the former president. >> and by essentially trying to raise some for president biden, because as she pointed out there is there they have gone pretty far in saying, well, joe biden is so far gone that he doesn't seem to have to do very much to disprove some of that. as you say, the latest thing from trump, he posted this on truth social, is that you want to drug test for joe biden of course, this around this idea that in mean he said this out loud at his rally in philadelphia get a congressman ronny jackson wrote a letter, of course, jackson was i suppose, infamous, i would say is as trump's physician, this whole seems to add up to the trump campaign nervous about thursday it seems like sort of a throw everything at the wall strategy right now that on the one hand, the message, early messaging was like joe biden can't even talk whatever. >> now it's like trump saying he thinks so, be very strong debater and should be taken seriously. this has been certainly about an expectations game but we've, seen the former president put other leinz in the water to like if it ends up being tough, questioning your who doesn't do well, it'll be because the moderators are against him or biden. if biden does well, it'll be because he was always strong. if biden does poorly, it will be because he's two decrepit to serve an office, so they're like three or four multiple strategies in this completely unfounded insinuation that president biden is getting some sort of energy shots or something like that when donald trump, of course, fell asleep, been quarter or ahead, his eyes closed and people thought he was asleep. so yeah, there's been all this sort of messaging in multiple directions so that his bases are covered no matter what i'm not really sure any of that's going to matter. there aren't that many americans who were undecided at this point. this is always been about turnout in november, but i think there are some americans on the margin. who are either sort of inclined to go with trump or stay with trump, but they're worried about january 6 or inclined to stay with biden, but they want to make sure that he has the energy that is up to the job. so i think for those people, it could be decisive for many americans. there's just a jury periodicity about the return to the stage of these two men. i hope we can learn something from this debate. >> very i agree with you. i hope we can as well. i'm i'm not sure if i'm optimistic or not. i guess we'll have to see thank you so much for it. >> starting us off this morning are coming up nice here. >> julian assange is out of prison. the plea deal that the wikileaks founder just signed plus never before seen photos of classified documents on the floor. and stacked and boxes at mar-a-lago and for the first time, the florida panthers are stanley cup champions. highlights from game seven, it was a thriller. that's ahead 2024, champion could shuck family to beit like in america as biden and trump meet and only cnn has complete coverage with unrivaled access exclusive pre and post a beat analysis, follow cnn for every countless moment, followed debate night in america, thursday, at 7:00 p.m. when life spills, heartburn how do you spell relief or elleithee ids, rolaids, dual active formula begins to neutralize acids on contact rolaids spills relief i 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about? >> extraordinary isn't there after all these years as one of the longest running stories in media in us and uk history as well. obviously drawing in australia as well and other countries. but there's an image of him on a plane out of the uk. so he is heading towards the mariana islands, which are us territory. he'll go into court i'm that plea deal will be settled. you'll have to agree to plead guilty on a charge. it's not clear. i was talking to one of his campaigners today. it's not entirely clear what that charge will be to them, but it must have been agreed. and what it will mean is that he will be served a sentence, but we don't know expected to serve a prison sentence because he's already pre preserved as it were so many years whilst in prison here in the uk. but he won't be touching us soil away from this territory we're expecting inventor go to australia working with the journalists who has really supported him over the years. she's expecting to speak to them a bit later on, she expects him to get back to australia to really recuperate his sophomore of mental health issues here's obviously a very divisive figure. many journalists holding him up as someone that really represents them and protect sources and should be allowed to stand up to a big powers like the us government others pointing out that actually he, the public service is limited because he sent out this list of names which were unredacted. people that were under severe threat as a result of that list going out. so some debate there about the journalism but certainly a lot of supporters celebrating today yeah, the followed here in us. >> i'm interested to see what kind of criticism if fannie, the biden administration comes in for over this. but max, while i have you, i want to ask you about this just recently released israeli supreme court ruling. they say that ultra-orthodox fox israeli jews can and should be drafted into the military. now, this is something that really threatens to 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