Morning Glory: The Biden versus Trump debates, part one

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Opinions on what questions should or should not be asked on Thursday night are everywhere. Hundreds of pundits have already spoken and written quite a lot on this, including me.

There are subjects which ought to be asked and some that ought not to be asked, by CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper and by this election cycle’s future debate moderators. I’ll deal with the latter category of question Thursday. First, the "should be asked" queries.

I’ve worked with both of CNN’s hosts on GOP presidential primary debates and have a good understanding of the process they are undertaking based on that experience. But my understanding is imperfect because the CNN of 2015-2016 is very different from that of today. Both Bash and Tapper are professionals but CNN executives, producers, and directors as well as its "newsroom culture" have all changed in the past eight years, just as has the country, and I’m not privy to those changes inside the network.

I am also not a prophet or the son of a prophet, and don’t have a crystal ball, so I have no idea what the many rehearsals and inputs and the news business blender of a legion of CNN employees and the hosts will come up with for Thursday night.

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But the stakes are so high for the network that it must weigh carefully the urgent need to fairly conduct