significant political assets. she s smart, she s tough, she s experienced and we ll see some of that, i think, tonight. does she still face the same and she s just arriving we re told any minute here at the hall. does she still face some of those questions about obviously about trust, about her political convictions? sniemts although she faces them more among independent and republican voters than among democrats. who give her high ratings on those characteristics. with whom she s very popular. i think the other candidates have to tread lightly in raising those issues at this debate. lest they incur the ire of the crowd? not just the crowd but democrats in the country. these are questions that will be raise ds, no question about it. she has to overcome that. i don t think they re a huge impediment in the democratic primary. gloria, you ve been reporting on bernie sanders debate strategy. he says from what your reporting and others is that they re not going to go after hillary
candidates on this stage others say martin o malley had a good night. nobody thinks his poll numbers will necessarily change as a result, wolf. all right. standby over there in the spin room. we will get right back to you. i want to bring if bernie sander s campaign manager, jeff weaver here with us inside the debate hall. thanks, very much for joining us. i will play the entire exchange. a lot of people are talking about how your candidate, bernie sanders, responded to whole uproosh over hillary clinton s e-mail problem. let s listen to it and we ll discuss. but this committee is basically an arm of the republican national committee. it is a partisan vehicle as admitted by the house republican majority leader, mr. mccarthy, to drive down my poll numbers, a big surprise, and that s what they have attempted to do. i am still standing. i am hoep happy to be a part of
supreme court which we hope it will and soon, will be declared unconstitutional. and that s what a lot of that exchange was over last night. i just wanted to make it crystal clear to people who are watching. and sitting in that debate hall in las vegas watching those five candidates on stage, i know you were invited by governor o malley, but who in your opinion is strongest on gun reform? well, out of the group, governor o malley is. and i think he s been successful in pushing the other two to at least discuss the issue. that s what we re thrilled about because it s never been discussed before on a national stage. so, you know, the republicans have the nra agenda as part of their platform so this is really great to be able to say the democrats are on the side of gun violence prevention in this country. and that s important for the american people to hear. it s not about taking guns. it s not about banning guns. it s about having safety measures in place so the wrong
we re joined now on the floor from brianna. hi there anderson. i want to give you a look at the stage behind me me. you can see where dana bash and juan carlos will be. you ll be asking questions of the candidates. their five lecterns stand ready for them. they re not far from the debate hall. they re in their green room trailers. we were just out behind the hotel. martin o malley has a guitar in his trailer. lincoln chafee, jim webb, we saw them out there. also, as we await hillary clinton and bernie sanders at their trailers, it s really interesting as we await for them certainly to come through what really is sort of the back of the hotel here and eventually make their entrance on to the stage. they did, at least a couple of them get a welcome from senator harry reid who came to their trailers to say hello.
gingrich? because it is people like you he knows his stuff. and a snap sho of bernie sanders in the debates gone by, but tonight, the stakes could not be higher, and what is going to be the most important debate e yet, a nd as you look inside of the debate hall, 9:26 a.m., and join joining us is republican mike rogers our national security commentator and republican adviser hilary rosen, who would you say that well, almost everybody knows hillary clinton, and almost everybody knows bernie sanders and the other three, i willt get to that, but what about bernie sanders and the fact that some people know him and not everybody does, so how does he change that tonight and then change the people who don t know him to be voters for