and conclusion not the chairman of the house benghazi committee, congressman trey gowdy declined our many offers to visit the lead to give his side of the story. in his statement gowdy also falsely claimed that cnn did not contact his committee before we, quote, rushed to air podliska s claims. again, that is not true. we contacted the committee before reporting any word of this. and then we included their statement in our very first cnn.com story on saturday. we also included their statement in our first broadcast of the interview on tv the next day on state of the union. and we invited chairman gowdy on air. that invitation remains open. aside from who will say what tomorrow s debate has won huge unknown factor looming over it. will vice president joe biden rock the world of politics, jump into this race and join the other candidates on stage? we ll look at the chances of that happening. plus, the congresswoman who says
he s going to do it tomorrow would be an exciting moment to do it. it would knock hillary clinton off her game a little bit potentially. there would be excitement in the crowd. something new, something different for a debate that, you know, i don t know how riveting every moment of it s necessarily going to be. i agree. although everybody should watch it of course. i agree. but i think up until the point when hillary clinton was you know, when congressman mccarthy came out and basically admitted on national television that the benghazi committee had a political aim and that was to damage hillary clinton. there was a rationale political rationale for joe biden to get into this race. once that happened, you know, the rationale for joe biden getting into this race is becoming less and less of a dramatic factor. yeah. if hillary clinton is having democrats rally around here because of this benghazi e-mail controversy, then perhaps there s not that same rationale, that same pu
neon oasis in the desert at the wynn resort in las vegas, nevada, which will elect delegates february 20th after iowa and new hampshire. nevada hosts the first democratic debate tomorrow night in sin city. five candidates will pony up to the stage. is it possible that vice president joe biden will join the show? we have a lectern for him, but how realistic is a biden appearan appearance? let s bring in cnn senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, there will not be a better moment for the vice president to enter the race than tomorrow. excitement in the air. he goes out there, does his little thing with the you know, shoots his guns to the people in the audience. i can see it now. takes off the stage. i agree. fire up air force two, point it in this direction but. all indications at this point he s not going to run for president. he may run for president but not show up at this debate tomorrow night. he is the x factor looming over
vegas tomorrow, that meebs he s running for president and that changes everything. that would be very exciting but you don t think it s going to happen. i think in the grand scheme of thing there s a joe biden market right now. there are bears and bulls and i ll be honest i m more of a bear at this point. he s articulated every time he s been on television why he s more likely not to run. there are a lot of people say no he is running. i talked to a top democratic official in the last couple of days who said she s talked to two people very close to joe biden. one says, oh, yeah, he s in, he s running. the other person said, no, he s not feeling it so much. this is being kept so close to the vest. and the vice president met with some of his advisers other the weekend, talked with them over the weekend, but there s still no clear indication coming from that camp as to whether or not he s going to run for president. at this point indications are he s not going to be here in nevada tom
by default, but nobody has made a case that they can do better. if biden gets in he might be able to make that case. but bernie sanders has so much room to grow with the black vote he should take the opportunity tomorrow to make his case why a white guy from vermont should get the support of a party with that much black participation. hugh hewitt, if you were advising bernie sanders or martin o malley, a very unlikely scenario, but if that were to happen, how would you advise to go after hillary clinton whom you ve been critical of for a long time? how would you advise to do it in such a way that you don t risk coming across as a mean guy beating up on, you know, a trail blazer? i do two things. one, bring up the russian reset button because i believe that is the most vulnerable part of her catastrophic tenure as department of state. and secretary clinton can be counted onto try to avoid the libya fi i can t say koe. and also try to get jim webb in the conversation. you used an ext