today. i ll see you back here next saturday at adm. eastern smerconish is up next setting the bar i m michael smerconish in philadelphia, thursday here on cnn is the first of two scheduled debates between president biden and trump. jake tapper and dana bash will moderate the debate will last 90 minutes with no live audience. there will be no opening statements, answers will be two minutes rebuttals will be one-minute closing statements will be two minutes based on a coin toss, trump will go last. there will be two commercial breaks and perhaps the biggest wrinkle microphones will be muted when it s not someone s turn the stakes are high. the racist tight weather measured in national surveys or by battleground states. so the debate is a very big deal and opinions as to who won will no longer be influenced by expectations advantage joe biden. and here s why call it, be careful what you wish for in the last two weeks, president biden traveled overseas to participate in a
democrats, will have for the next decade. no hope of a governing majority. the coming year they still control the house, the senate and the white house is their best chance to alter course. if they fail, they will not get another chance, not any time soon. let s talk about this now with david axelrod, cnn senior commentator and the host of the axe files podcast. what do you think? do you agree with what he s saying there? first of all, let me say on my own behalf here that it was a late baseball night here in chicago. but, look, i don t think what he said is particularly startling because when you think at history, democrats have a marginal advantage in both the senate and the house. five votes in the house, tied in