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The united states. this memo that one of our cnn contributors just received saying that the way to beat hillary clinton was to go after her top vulnerability, character issues. you've seen the memo. i don't know if you -- >> i don't recall putting ryan's name on it. >> it was confidential. >> look, i don't think anything in that memo should be surprising to anyone. you saw the strategy executed by the campaign and the contrasts that barack obama drew. i would point out those were different times, those were different issues. the iraq war this particular was very much in front and center in tha...

Again, hillary clinton did vote in 2002 when she was a senator to authorize use of force against iraq. bernie sanders was a congressman and voted against it. again, drawing on the barack obama theme from 2008, barack obama was not a senator at the time. he did not vote. but he has made it clear all along and he made it clear in 2008 when he was debating hillary clinton that he was opposed to the iraq war from the word go. and he just pounded on that theme when will he was in debates with hillary clinton. bernie sanders could kind of draw on that tonight to question hillary clinton's judgment o...

Main focus is here in the debate hall. also keeping a close eye on the spin room, top representatives of the campaigns, perhaps candidates themselves, mingling with reporters. cnn's kate bolduan in the spin room what happen do we expect tonight? >> this is where after the debate the action begins, wolf. yes, a lot is said in this two-hour debate. right afterward, this is what you're going to see. through these doors, you're going to see surrogates from the campaigns or candidates, as we saw with the last republican debate, fronting into the room to speak to you and make their case to the more ...

Watch what's going to happen here. i'm going to turn my dial. it will track men and women moment by moment. i'm the yellow line as a female. so if i like something, now watch on the computer. i turn it up, because i may like what a candidate says at that moment. you see the yellow line going up. we don't have any men playing with us so the blue line is staying static. if our viewers don't like something in the focus group it goes back down. so all of these people had to answer some questions before hand. they were asked about whether or not they think the country is going in the right directio...

That. >> and both parties this, is enormous pressure to conform. donald trump has changed a lot of positions. h marco rubio has changed his big position. on the tpp moving away from where she had been, it's a kind of a bipartisan problem at this point. >> guys, stand by. cnn has partnered with a political prediction market to see if the odds for winning the democratic nomination change during tonight's democratic presidential debate. right now hillary clinton is the odds-on favorite to win the nomination even though she's up to 2% since last week. joe biden's odds have dropped 4% in the last w...