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Tell us more, jim. One thing we should point out, it is not in the cards for Vice President joe biden. The white house says the Vice President will be in washington and not here in las vegas for tonights democratic debate. As for the candidates who will be on stage think about Hillary Clinton for a moment. As soon as she arrived here in las vegas she wasnt focused on her rivals. She was firing off on donald trump. Democratic debate day is here. What happens in vegas should shake up the next stage of the race for five president ial hopefuls. Seasoned debater Hillary Clinton backed by solid numb...

Preparations are now underway. Good morning, jim. Reporter good morning, carol. Im inciside the wynn hotel on e las vegas strip, where the debate set is already ready to go. You can see the five paid yum behind me. Clinton, the front runner, has the middle podium. To her right will be sanders. He has been the insurgent candidate, firing up the liberal base of the Democratic Party. These new polls show, as you mentioned, carol, that clinton has a Comfortable Lead in the battleground states, including nevada. Well put that on screen, according to the new cnn orc poll. Clinton has 50 with sanders...

where as we saw it play out in the first two debates with 17 and now 15 candidates, they spent the entire debate sniping at one another trying to out right wing one another, trying to out-trump donald trump, talking about kicking immigrants out of the country, taking health care away from americans. our debate tonight, our five candidates are really going to be talking about their different approaches to the same goal which is to help more americans reach the middle class -- >> they disagree on some issues, on guns, for instance. bernie sanders has been against gun laws. hillary clin...

You've got a hillary clinton dominating the polling and bernie sanders drawing the biggest crowds? >> only five of us so far so that's at least better than the republican side where there are 16. and that's the challenge, exactly. you've got secretary clinton who has the money and the organization and then senator sanders got on to a good issue, income inequality something he's lived with for his whole life so he's got that anti-clinton, if you will traction. the other candidates webb chafee, and oh ma'amo'malley have to keep plugging away. >> hillary clinton is going to spend millions and mil...

but i can't. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. mike huckabee is taking a page from the donald trump playbook defending a controversial comment in front of a national audience on "today." >> i would say we don't trust people who threatened to kill israel threatened to wipe them off the map, who have said that they are glad that they're con fre gated because it makes it an easy target. >> as president of the united states -- as president of the united states would you use the words march the israels to the door of the oven? >> yes i would. let me tell you why. because i ha...