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today. i'll see you back here next saturday at adm. eastern smerconish is up next setting the bar i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia, thursday here on cnn is the first of two scheduled debates between president biden and trump. >> jake tapper and dana bash will moderate the debate will last 90 minutes with no live audience. there will be no opening statements, answers will be two minutes rebuttals will be one-minute closing statements will be two minutes based on a coin toss, trump will go last. >> there will be two commercial breaks and perhaps the biggest wrinkle microphones wi...

Apology last night issued was significant for many reasons. not the least of which was the way it closed. here's what trump said. >> i've said some foolish things but there's a big difference between the words and actions of other people. bill clinton has actually abused women and hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed, and intimidated his victims. we will discuss this more in the coming days. see you at the debate on sunday. >> that sounds like he intends to defend his own misconduct by discussing bill. is that a winning debate strategy or will it backfire? two stellar debate experts. john d...

John don van, a preliminary question. this has to be confronted at the start of this debate tomorrow night. wouldn't you agree? they don't have opening statements but if you were moderating like you do in intelligence square, wouldn't you deal with it initially? >> i think it's absolutely top of mind. i think, in fact, probably it's possible that more people will watch this debate even than the first one which would be unprecedented and no way that either anderson cooper or martha radditz is not able to put it to donald trump but the question to hillary clinton. >> todd, donald trump suggested...

Very awkward. you have moments like al gore when he tried to man up against w. and didn't work out and mccain when he wandered around and spun around like he was looking for a missing toddler. you honestly have to practice this. you can't expect you'll be good at it. >> you say it yourself, i'm john don van. congrats on your book. "in a different key, the story of autism." i appreciate both of you being here. keep your tweets coming to you @smerconish. a timely question about donald trump's treatment of women. so good that some thought it was a little too timely and wondered if hillary set the...