way, now is the chance to get the idea of america back. did you do anything exciting or interesting this morning to prepare? i had a great breakfast of cold pizza and diet coke. i m happy to be here. campaign breakfast. that sounds like a square meal. so interesting how they ve all been how does he stay so thin? diet coke! i m sorry. you were going to say something. make your point about him. my point is i think i would rather be bobby jindal tonight than be rand paul or chris christie. because? because they re getting a lot of attention, four of them, for 90 minutes on that stage. there is a carly fiorina opportunity. who will have the fiorina moment. by the way, if he says something outrageous about trump, you know, it could bleed into the next debate. absolutely. it certainly could become fodder for that. but on the stage, this is what i was talking about, is that it s intimate. these are not sort of people who are going to stand up and go,
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it. yeah. you ve got to have your game face on. it s just really interesting the way these sort of insider candidates as they ve been classified are sliding down and you see fiorina and carson rising up there with trump. and perhaps overtaking trump at some point soon. perhaps. we don t know yet. also in the same poll eight out of tin americans want change in washington. it s a theme we ve heard before. for you two who have been on the inside for these candidates, four hours out, what are they doing right now? well, you know, speaking for govern governor romney, this was a time when he really just sort of looked to decompress and spend time with his family. he wasn t trying to cram his brain full of more information. he was really just trying to kind of not think about the debate. but to athena s comments, you know, the campaign isn t going to be decided tonight, but in some cases this is when candidates fall. this is when rick perry really
there, i understand. but they even try to relate to him. the democrats do. every one of the republicans will try to. knowing the president as you did, what do you think he would think of this crop ofñi candidates? oh, i think he because he was mr. optimism. oh, yeah. i think he would like it. i think he would. he would especially like it because it s here at the reagan library. you know, this is the number one library, presidential library. it s the only place with a president air force one. the executive director is phenomenal. we have to talk about your man who you jumped in and endorsed. i m ready. before he even jumped in the race, jeb bush. we talked about the polls. how does he bring the fire tonight to change the way the direction the polls have been going? well, he s i m always with the bushes. how many have there been? there have been a few. i don t know if america wants
and here we go. we re back live and we have cameras everywhere, including on that debate stage. you see them there. the governor of new jersey chris christie as we ve seen candidates preceding him, seeing where he ll be standing behind the podiums. each podium has a different head shot. he ll see how intimate this is, how different this debate will be. this is by no means a basketball arena. this is an intimate setting here. couple of hours away from the initial debate. then of course the biggy with all 11 candidates on stage happens at 8:00 eastern. let me bring in cnn s john berman and dylan meyer, cnn senior media and politics reporter. welcome to the team, by the way. thank you. great to have you. i m going to bypass you for a second and go straight to dylan. just pretend i m not here. the strategy for tapper. we ve heard him over and over, i