Hello from Detroit and the beautiful and historic Fox Theater.

I'm Wolf Blitzer.

Just hours from now, CNN's Democratic presidential debate gets underway.

Ten candidates will line up and tonight.

Front runner Joe Biden will be center stage flanked by Kamala Harris and

Corey Booker.

There is every indication this second CNN debate

will be just as dramatic as last night's showed up.

A hundred percent Wolf.

I'm Chris Cuomo.

It's great to be with the captain.

Welcome to a special edition of the lead.

Of course, Anchor Jake Tapper, getting ready to moderate yet another debate tonight alongside

Dana Bash and Don Lemon. Now, the benefit of tonight is they got to go to school

on what happened with the rules and the interplay and what worked and didn't work last night.

So let's see you got to look at it through a little bit of a different lens.

And one of the questions is, will we see the more liberal candidates tonight going after

Biden?

Remember that axiom.

You want poise from the front runners and we have to see who makes noise on the fringes and

for Biden it's is he going to be hiding Biden or is he going to come out and fight?

We'll see let's get our coverage started let's go straight inside.

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