he s boasting about the fact that he that he canceled roe v. wade. i think joining us thank you to our viewers. thanks very much for watching our special coverage of debate night in america continues right here, right now on cnn with anderson cooper and erin burnett good evening from cnn headquarters in atlanta. we re just two hours from now. history will be made joe biden and donald trump s squaring off on the stage. we are showing you in the earliest ever presidential debate, the first ever between the president and ex-president the first in which one of the candidates is also convicted felon awaiting three other criminal trials and so much sets this debate apart from others, including rules tailored just for this occasion in and agreed to by both candidates. but there are so many unknowns about what will happen tonight. anderson, can president biden overcome the difficulties that so many incumbent presidents have faced in their first debates, can donald trump do what
seven-point lead over former massachusetts governor, mitt romney. and among tea party supporters in the hawkeye state, gingrich is now the runaway favorite. now the question did gingrich put all of that at risk last night when he walked into the wiquick sand of republican politics. how to treat millions of illegal immigrants. i m prepared to take the heat for saying, let s be humane and enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so that they are not separated from their families. not a new position. here s gingrich this week in new hampshire explaining his position in more detail. if you ve been here 20 or 30 years, you ve been paying your taxes, you ve been obeying the law, belong to a local church, you re married, three kids, two grandkids, a program which would allow you to pay penalty, allow you to be legal but not a citizen. to become a citizen you have to join at the end of the line the people who are not currently