reporter: it s going great. john, what we re seeing is sort of debate prep, debate setup in action. you can see all the scores of cnn employees behind me setting the stage for tuesday s debate, the first democratic debate of this season. you can see the fill-ins for candidates standing at the lecterns on stage right now. there s a lady standing where hillary clinton will be standing in that middle lectern position. she s obviously the front runner this campaign. you talked about the other candidates who are in this race and where they ll be positioned on stage. the candidate obviously that everybody is talking about right now is really giving hillary clinton a run for her money is vermont senator bernie sanders, the self-described socialist who s lit up the progressive base of the democratic party, filling up stadiums and arenas and auditoriums. over the weekend he had 9,000 people in colorado. in the last 24 hours we ve heard one of the potential flashpoints in tuesday night s debat
their most beautiful and most comfortable in their own skin and so we chose kerry for our september issue because she is kerry washington, because she handles everything, because she has an amazing hit show that millions of viewers watch and because she takes care of herself and makes time to be the person she wants to be. but, of course, as a person of who grew up, it s in the back of my mind we want to reflect the world that we live in and i think as the world becomes increasingly multicultural, we want to make sure we give platform to a wide array of when these issues particularly hit all at the same time particularly for this month, i was shocked because i grew up with i grew up in a magazine/journalism, that s what i studied. that was my masters degree and i heard the myths that usually black girls go on january or june and july, which tend to be the fill-ins. i wonder what it is about this
once you have the fill-ins and the questions. you have jeb bush marco rubio, et al deciding whether or not and preparing to try to pull off a bents sen/quayle moment that will take donald trump down. he s very resilient and he ll come right back at them. go ahead ed. i just want to remind our listeners, our viewers of that that it was that moment when he said, i knew jack kennedy and you re no jack kennedy. and i remember quayle just looking at him. i don t think donald trump would look i think donald trump would fire right back at any one of these guys verbally and might even trip his trigger. interesting you bring that up. but they re going to have gamed that out. they re going to look for that moment. one guy who isn t looking for that moment is cruz. because if trump falls off the buckboard of bigotry, cruz wants
fellow fill-ins. if somebody asks if it s a good call or a bad call, it depends on where you live. reporter: with regulars on the field in full force, they re still at the mercy of the players, coaches, and fans. number 29, defense. first down. reporter: after all, all referees are still only human. as for the regular refs, they re certainly used to fans second-guessing their calls on the field. but their decision to hold out has resulted in a new eight-year deal, earning them more money and a bigger pension. john schifrin, abc news, new york. never say never. the refs, high-fiving fans down the down the field. you don t see that ever. first and last time ever. yeah. i think the honeymoon s already over. and they botched a call in green bay. almost cost the packers a game if not for botched a call today. botched a call, the saints kicker missing the field goal. maybe it s a conspiracy. yes. paula, you would never do something like that if you were a refer