our new national poll on the 2020 race has former vice president joe biden leading the democratic field with 28%. senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are battling for second, and pete buttigieg on the rise now in double digits. let s discuss with cnn political contributor and democratic aisha and new york times columnist frank bruney. it s one of the headlines, the durability of joe biden. i just don t think that s the actual headline. there were a lot of headlines that came out of this poll. it s not just about joe biden. we still have at least like 58% of the people polled who aren t quite set on a candidate. that s not insignificant. it means, yeah, the people who are saying i really like someone like joe biden but there are still a lot of folks movable in this. we also need to be talking about them. the second thing i found really interesting is that while we keep having this progressive
we ve got the fourth democratic debate tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., right here on cnn. it is the biggest primary in history, with 12 candidates on the stage. the first debate since the impeachment inquiry began. now, joe biden says if he s elected, his family will stay away from work for foreign companies like the arrangement that brought scrutiny to his son, hunter. joining us now to talk about that and much more, aisha moodie-mills, democratic strategist, cnn political contributor, and mark mckinnon, senior former adviser to george w. bush and a cnn political commentator. great to have you all here. aisha, let s start with you. you ve got an elizabeth warren who seems to be surging. you ve got joe biden trying to tamp that down, at the center of the impeachment inquiry, whether he likes it or not. what do they need to do to resist the incoming they re going to get from the other ten folks on stage. it will be interesting to see if they get the incoming.
lane. of course there s an important thing to remind everyone about here, and that is that for many of these candidates, this is going to be their last chance to make their case. the stakes are very very high for those candidates because the qualifications for the september debates get much tougher and so tonight is a big night. we ll see who else is able to make a memorable moment on the stage so they can get a boost in the polls and fundraising to make sure they have another chance in september. john! athena, i ll take it. thank you so much for giving us a preview of how it s going down tonight. joining us to discuss is joe lockhart, cnn political contributor, hilary rosen. cnn commentator, karen finny. i ll start with you. you have been here before. you have experience prepping hillary clinton and tim kaine for debates. tell us what you will be watching tonight. i will be watching a couple of things. number one are we going to have a fight about capitalism and
his team said manafort told a person to talk to a trump administration official just this past may and had contact with administration officials including a senior administration official in february and may of this year. so this new and damaging information for the white house comes at a time when every move by mueller appears to bring his investigation leaper into the white house and trump s inner circle, and it shows it has expanded well beyond what may or may not have happened in the 2016 campaign. the revelations and mueller s filing raises questions about why paul manafort may have been lying about these contacts and who the contacts were made with. sarah sanders, press secretary, leased a statement in response released a statement in response saying it has nothing to do with the president and that the media is making up a story. pamela brown, cnn, washington. and joining us now is talk more about what this means for the russia investigation, errol lewis, cnn political contri