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At snip cnn's democratic presidential debate. i want to talk about with this keith boykin, david swerdlick. she got some criticism from tuls ov tulsi gabbard over her record. was she ready? >> i don't think that she was. i think that she had to know it was coming. this had been telegraphed by the campaign for several days prior to the debates. so going into it, i was expecting her to have a better, quicker, sharper response. i don't think she had it. and she makes a good point afterwards that tulsi gabbard is really a nonfigure in the campaign. she is at 1% in the polls. but she is going to ha...

>> reporter: gabbard had indeed met with bashar al assad, the syrian president in 2017, and that was after he had already used chemical weapons against his own people. at a cnn town hall last march, she declined to call him a war criminal, and it was only after she was pressed repeatedly on cnn that she said she would not dispute that assad is indeed a war criminal and a torturer. >> kyung lah, thank you for that. are those questions fair game? we're going to dig into that with keith boykin, david swerdlick, next. mopping? know what's betn anything! at the end of a long day, it's the last thin...