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And I'm Jake Sherman, Cross Talk. There was a lot of it last night, a lot of interrupting, a lot of shouting, few moments worth clipping and saving.

Drubbed reports headline was CBS messy.

Here's how Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns summed it up in The New York Times.

The forum plunged repeatedly into an unsightly spectacle of flailing hands

and raise voices and even outright chaos with candidates talking over one another

and moderators struggling and failing at times to direct an orderly argument.

Mike Grinbaum of the time said over two hours, the CBS moderating team, which featured

Gail King and Nora O'Donnell, and three other network journalists struggled to keep control,

calling for order as drawboning candidates talked over their questioners and each other.

The first mention of the coronavirus, one of the biggest public health threats to the U.S. mainland,

came more than 80 minutes into the 120-minute debate.

The conversation among television and political insiders last night during and after the debate

was that this debate was a disaster.

We're not going to go that far.

These are very difficult affairs to

manage and keep under control. But eke. Our colleague John Harris summed it up like this. The Democrats

needed a good debate but got a bad one. The AP had a look at how Bernie Sanders, now the leading

Democratic candidate in the 2020 field, faced an onslaught from his

opponents. Here's the headline from the Washington Post's Dan Ball's analysis piece.

Sanders takes fire in an unruly debate that left no candidate truly enhanced.

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