making note of it and the final preparations, of how to best take advantage of that and avoid the mistakes to turn in a bad debate moment. if greg craig, donald trump called you up, and i know he won t, but if he said, one piece of advice going into the debate tomorrow night, what would you say? i would say do what you are doing, and the people are expecting that, and you are batting 1,000 so far in the public appearance, a sound would say, keep it up, and do the same thing. and the difficult thing is to take him on from the outside, and these other candidates and getting some traction with their positions. the point i would make and you would tell donald trump just be yourself, you are right. and the point i would make with the other candidatesk it is very hard for them to win it. what they can do if they don t perform correct cannily or adequately, they could lose it. thank you, greg craig and
and this is the joining us his communications director alex conan, and how is the senator getting ready for the debate tomorrow, because the stakes for him, and the other candidates are enormous. yes, and great opportunity, and we felt great how he did in cleveland and the preparations are similar to that one, and he has the benefit for the last five years actively engaged in foreign policy issues around the world, and traveling the world on the senate intelligent committee, and the foreign relations committee, and he comes in with the understanding that the jake and dan and hugh are going to want to talk to. and does he go through the dress rehearsals that somebody plays trump? no, he does not need that, and he is ready to go. as you saw in cleveland, he wants to talk about the agenda about a new american century, and as he did in cleveland, and so this is going to be similar. and how hard does he hit t m
and it is 10:00 a.m. here at the ronald reagan presidential library here in simi valley, california and it 18:00 p.m. in jerusalem, and 1:00 a.m. in london, and thank you for watching wherever you are watching us from. and donald trump is leading, but dr. ben carson is gaining on him. and that is on the eve of the big republican debate hosted by cnn. while most of the candidates are preparing for the debate, trump is going to be holding a rally on national security. and last night in texas, he shrugged off the possibility that his rivals are going to attack him. and so, the debate. i hear they are all going to go after me. whatever. whatever. no, i hear it. and now to the correspondent athena jones, and she is live at the ronald reagan presidential
preparation manager for president barack obama and also kevin madden who was the debate manager for mitt romney, and so, tell us, now, what do you see going into the debate tomorrow night? well, with the primary debate where there are many, many debates and many, many propositions, and i think that when senator obama was running in 2007, he found that getting ready for the multiple candidates debates one of the most frustrating and difficult things in the experience, and participating was more frustrating, and you have a a two opportunities, and grand total of four minutes, and you don t know how it is going to go and what the flow is going to b
and presumably all of them, and going to make a point of going after president obama. i am sure that is the case, and true in every republican debate and discussion meeting in the last eight years, and the mistake for them to do that, and it is going to be the good lines to use, and that will appeal to the base, pu the challenge for the republican party is what alex points out that it has been largely a pessimistic view of the kcountry, and backwards looking, and the candidates that win, and reagan for example, the opt m optimistic and forward looking, and incumbent on the republicans to do that. they will link president obama to hillary clinton. and let s not forget hillary clinto clinton. and what about bernie sanders beating her now in the polls in new hampshire and iowa. and maybe a line or two about bernie sanders, but hillary better or worse, she is the leading candidate, and managed to keep herself in the news for not the best of reasons, and particularly for carly fio