It is the biggest night of the 2024 presidential campaign so far, President Joe Biden, and former President Donald Trump will square off in Atlanta for their first debate of the year.

We've got a full table here in the studio. Hello to everybody. of the

fate of the year.

Hello to everybody for reporting on how the candidates are preparing an analysis of what's at stake.

Larbarone Lopez covers the Biden campaign

and Lisa Desjardan covers the Trump campaign for us.

And of course our panel of political analysts Amy Walter of the Cook political report,

Democratic strategist Guy Cecil and Republican strategist Kevin Madden.

But let's start with you first, Lisa and Laura.

Laura, how has President Biden been preparing for this debate tonight?

What is this campaign telling you?

President Biden has been at Camp David for most of the week, preparing in a very traditional

manner.

He has a lot of his close aides, senior aides around him.

They've held mock debates.

Some of them have played Donald Trump and he has been trying

they've been trying to prepare him for whatever version of Donald Trump may show up

at the debate whether it's a calm one or a more aggressive one. They really feel the

campaign does is that this is a big moment for the president and that they will

get a larger audience than they typically would. The president really wants to

strike a strong contrast with Donald Trump and really

prove the point that unlike in 2020 when they didn't pick Donald Trump that time, there's even

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