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Number comes higher stakes. kristen is in iowa. good to see you. reporter: secretary clinton tries to match that strong first debate performance she had. she ll do that tomorrow night when she faces off against her democratic challengers and this comes as secretary clinton has a 19-point national lead over her closest challenger, bernie sanders, 33% to 52%. that s down slightly from the lead in october but it s still commanding. clinton has been off the campaign trail preparing. meanwhile, her rivals, sanders and martin o malley, are looking to ramp up their performances. aides say that during the first debate they stuck to their own policy positions, expect them to be more aggressive. this time they are going to draw on sharp distinctions with the front-runner on issues including the economy and immigration. ....
Create sharper contrasts with hillary clinton. even when he was here for the jefferson jackson dinner a couple weeks ago, he talked about gun control and he also talked about, you know, issues like gay marriage, where hillary clinton he thought was a late adopter of a position. so, there is a risk, though, for bernie sanders to go too hard and too aggressive at this debate. one of the things that bernie sanders supporters liked about him in the first debate was that he was civil, that he actually defended hillary clinton. so, i think he has to be careful about alienating his supporters and also undecided people that he s trying to attract. yes, civil, and that s sort of been the tone of his political career. and of course, at that first debate, he went out of his way to say he s sick and tired of her damn e-mails being in the news, so it would be interesting if he goes down that road. i want to ask you, too, about hillary clinton s position in iowa right now. we all remember the la ....
While not commenting has pushed back really hard about a lot of foreign policy experts who have questioned a statement he made during the debate when he was asked about syria and i m going to quote him. he said the chinese are there as well as the russians in spite of the fact that there s no indication that the chinese are indeed there. listen to susan rice, the national security adviser for the white house, about this. i can t really speak to what he was referring to. but, you know, unless you re talking about having a diplomatic preference, i m not sure what you re referring to. i have not seen any evidence of chine chinese military involvement in syria. well, in fact, they did say the campaign in sending out reams of documents this morning that there was a misinterpretation of what dr. carson said that, in fact, he was referring to chinese influence and chinese weapons. that s another ongoing story ....
Class that has been buried for the past four years. how in the lord s name can they justify? andrea: whose campaign is he working for there? if i had a keg party, eric, joe biden is the one person i d look to, to help me save it if it was going down and no one would attend. i don t know about rescuing the democratic party with a debate. eric: i don t know if it will change things a lot. give biden credit. he has been studying. he s been holed up in undisclosed bunker. he will be prepared. he will know the numbers. paul ryan understands numbers. biden will know the numbers. paul ryan understands them. no comparison when you put people together that know a topic. one knows it and one understands it. ryan will teach him about the budget and the economy come thursday night. andrea: he should know the numbers. he has been in office longer than we have been alive. he has an advantage, because ....
Meanie, now he doesn t like puppets. liar, liar, pants on fire, you don t like my puppet. you re not a serious president. he lacks maturity. brian: he is going to sit down with democrats about republicans and work it out. is that a conference call in the morning? i watched the debate. dana: we don t have a conference call. maybe we d be more organized and have the same line. coming up, we have a preview of the v.p. showdown coming up thursday. later, stacy dash, the african-american actress in the movie clueless supports mitt romney. now she is a victim of racially charged attack. brian has that story when we come right back. ....