fact he s largely avoided sitdown interviews and he s given some long speeches but again, this is a much different situation. i think he s advantaged by what jen was talking about. this is cable tv interview where you have a minute, minute and a half and work your way in rather than a formal debate that you will see in the general election. i think he will focus on trump as i think a lot of candidates will be. he has to pick out a couple of issues he wants to hone in on but i think the format, the amount of people allows him to stand out just because people know who he is. jen, do you think other candidates, how will they deal with biden? do you expect them to kind of, you know, play nice, ignore him or go after him? i think they will each have a different approach. so if you re buernie sanders, you re thrilled you re not on
but i think the format, the amount of people allows him to stand out just because people know who he is. jen, do you think other candidates, how will they deal with biden? do you expect them to kind of, you know, play nice, ignore him or go after him? i think they will each have a different approach. so if you re bernie sanders, you re thrilled you re not on the same night as elizabeth warren because she has been positioning herself as the progressive alternative to biden. so he has to figure out how to position himself effectively that way. now he doesn t want to appear nasty but he also wants to appear strong so he has to find a way to balance that. if you re some of the other candidates on the stage, you know, like a beto o rourke or amy klobuchar, you want to make a move into the top tier. how do you do that? you leave an impression on an issue and have a good moment with another candidate. people love the commitment to work together and if you re some candidates like kirsten g
firm and consistent about what impression you want to leave with voters. so is it about immigration? is it about abortion rights? is it about income inequality? they have to be disciplined, i think many of them will be and really think about what they want to get out of the debate. they have little time have to make their impression. joe, for vice president biden, how big of a test do you think this will be given the fact he s largely avoided sitdown interviews and he s given some long speeches but again, this is a much different situation. i think he s advantaged by what jen was talking about. this is cable tv interview where you have a minute, minute and a half and work your way in rather than a formal debate that you will see in the general election. i think he will focus on trump as i think a lot of candidates will be. he has to pick out a couple of issues he wants to hone in on
20 candidates will face-off in miami looking ahead for us tonight is jen, the former communications director for president obama and joe lockhart, the former press secretary for president clinton and cnn political commentators. debates are tough enough in general when there are nine other candidates on the stage, that s a really difficult thing for candidates to navigate because they don t get much time that can often because of debate rules just end up kind of ping-ponging between one or two or three candidates. that s exactly right. i mean, they have 60 seconds to give their answers and 30 seconds to respond. that s a very small amount of time. each candidate might have a couple of minutes over the course of two hours. so, you know, they will have different strategies depending where they are in the lineup right now or where they are in the polls but for most of them, it s not about having a viral moment, that s actually really hard to do and it rarely is from a prepared line or pr
about the difference between new ideas and old ideas. but i never thought i would disagree with jen but the one thing i do disagree with is that most of the great moments in these debates were practiced before the debates. the where is the beef line that ronald reagan, i won t let your my youthful inexperience of my opponent, all of those. they are all practicing one liners, the question of executing though is really getting it at the right time with the right emphasis behind it. they have all got them. we have to wait and see which works. that s totally fair. there is nothing worse than when they practiced a one-liner and it doesn t work and falls flat. we have to leave it there. thanks very much. thank you. the emotional testimony of 9/11 first responders and john stewart may have gotten some results. next, and also the lobbying of first responders from 9/11 for