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Is keeping them alive. plus, as the amazon burns, president trump wants to open for business the largest national forest in the united states. why chopping away at this natural wonder could affect all of us. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with the 2020 lead after the third democratic presidential debate last night in houston, today democrats and observers are asking a number of crucial questions. starting with how solid is the front-runner status of former vice president joe biden? one attack on biden in particular from former hud secretary julian castro about whether bid...

While millions along the east coast keep an eye on hurricane dorian, we're watching a disaster already in the making, that's the fires tearing through the amazon rain forest. brazil's president is refuse to go allow burning for land clearing anywhere in the country. critics believe his openness to that practice helped lead to the amazon emergency. cnn's nick paton walsh takes us to the front lines of the fire with a rare look at the people directly impacted by this disaster. >> reporter: dusk isn't when you rest as the amazon burns, it's when the day cools enough to give firefighters a chance....

Matters into their own hands and becoming firefighters, leaders have agreed to meet on policies, but these raging wildfires are devouring chunks of the rainforest every hour. nick payton walsh just returned from the front lines. tell us about these indigenous tribes and how they're battling the fires? >> this is what they call mother, the earth, where they've lived for centuries, increasingly depleted by government. we heard today the president issuing a wide federal ban on people using fire to clear their land. something considered to be part of the problem, in starting these fires, you have ...

Electrical infrastructure. we have a fiscal control board that is really working for wall street rather than working for the puerto rican people. and it's almost the perfect storm, so to speak. so there are a lot of challenges that have taken place. and president donald trump continues to remind us of how awful it is to have a person who calls himself a leader that sees himself as having the responsibility to belittle, to lie, to distort information, and to try to make a group of people invisible, while those people are trying to literally fight for their lives. >> mayor carmen yulin cruz in s...

Electrical infrastructure. we have a fiscal control board that is really working for wall street rather than working for the puerto rican people. and it's almost the perfect storm, so to speak. so there are a lot of challenges that have taken place. and president donald trump continues to remind us of how awful it is to have a person who calls himself a leader that sees himself as having the responsibility to belittle, to lie, to distort information, and to try to make a group of people invisible, while those people are trying to literally fight for their lives. >> mayor carmen yulin cruz in s...