Watch George Allen's Situation Room interview.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — In this video clip, former Sen. George Allen of Virginia speaks with CNN’S Wolf Blitzer about Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson.

Allen, a co-chairman of Thompson’s presidential campaign, discusses Thompson’s performance during Wednesday’s CNN/YouTube Republican presidential debate and a Thompson ad targeting GOP rivals Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney that the Thompson campaign submitted to CNN for the YouTube debate.

Allen, whose 2006 Senate re-election bid was undone by his "macaca" video moment distributed via YouTube, tells Blitzer he thinks the Internet’s impact on politics is good for American democracy. “The more that people are informed and have access to information and ideas, the better,” says Allen, likening the Internet to the printing press. Allen also talks with Blitzer about whether he will ever run for political office again. Watch Allen’s Situation Room interview.

–CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

Watch the candidates debate immigration.

(CNN) – Former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee jumped into the immigration showdown with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, saying that although immigrants are part of what makes the United States a great nation, "It's our home. We now get to decide who comes into our home. To place somebody above [those waiting for legal immigration] or in front of them in line is the wrong thing to do."

Thompson said federal funding should be cut off to cities that provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants.

Thompson also took a jab at Giuliani, who bashed Romney for employing illegal immigrants, and defended his own record of employee scandals.

"I think we've all had people probably that we've hired that in retrospect probably was a bad decision," Thompson said, referring to a campaign fundraiser and personal friend who resigned from the Thompson campaign because of drug-related crimes and issues with the IRS.

– CNN Associate Producer Natalie Apsell

In these questions, location matters.

(CNN) — Watch Anderson Cooper show you some highlights of the more interesting CNN/YouTube debate questions that have been submitted so far.  In this compilation, the theme is location — questions shot in unusual places.

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The GOP CNN/YouTube debate happens Wednesday, Nov. 28. 

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CNN is moving its presidential debate production operation to Florida for the Republican CNN/YouTube debate.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) — Last night, it was the center of the political universe. But today it’s back to normal.

CNN and the Nevada Democratic Party held their presidential debate last night at the Cox Pavilion on the campus of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Inside the pavilion a crowd of some two thousand watched the seven Democratic White House hopefuls spar as they answered questions from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, John Roberts and audience members.

Today the inside of the pavilion is filled with workers breaking down the debate set. The set is being packed up and will be moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. That’s where CNN and YouTube will hold a Republican presidential debate on November 28.

– CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser

(CNN) - Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York, touted her ability to unify voters across party lines early on in the debate, but recent poll numbers have suggested otherwise.

In fact, according to a recent Mason-Dixon poll, Sen. Clinton chalked up some of the highest unfavorable ratings, with 42%. She was the only candidate in the poll to receive higher negatives than positives.

(CNN) – Rep. Dennis Kucinich said he supports same-sex marriages, but two other Democrats in Monday night's CNN/YouTube debate said they would only go as far as backing civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.

In response to a lesbian couple from New York, Kucinich, of Ohio, said he would allow gay couples to be married because "if our Constitution really means what it says, that all are created equal."

"Our brothers and sisters who happen to be gay, lesbian or bisexual or transgendered should have the same rights accorded to them and that includes the ability to have a civil marriage ceremony," he said.

Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson they would support civil unions — but not marriage.

Dodd supported the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that denied federal recognition to same-sex marriages and allows states to disregard same-sex marriages licensed in other states. But he said he takes the issue "very seriously."

"I would ask, how would I want my two daughters treated if they had a different sexual orientation from their parents? Better jobs, equal opportunities, to retire, to be with each other," said Dodd, whose daughters are 5 and 2.

Richardson said he supported what is "achievable," which would be "full civil unions with full marriage rights." He said he would not tolerate any discrimination in his administration and would eliminate the current "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that bars gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military.

– CNN Associate Producer Natalie Apsell

(CNN) — Sen. Joseph Biden said he would reach out to his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee if he had to pick a Republican as his running mate.

"At the risk of hurting his reputation — and it will hurt him — but I would pick Chuck Hagel," Biden said. "And I'd consider asking Dick Lugar to be secretary of state."

Hagel, of Nebraska, is an outspoken Republican critic of the war in Iraq and a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee. Lugar, of Indiana, is the committee's ranking Republican and served as chairman before Biden took over in January.

Hagel joined Senate Democrats last week in supporting a call for the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq by next spring. Lugar has called on the Bush administration to change its strategy in the four-year-old war, but has opposed legislation that would set a date for withdrawal.

The question was submitted by YouTube user Saheed Badmus, of Brentwood, Maryland.

– CNN News Editor Matt Smith

Clinton is asking her supporters for help making a YouTube video.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is asking its more tech-savvy supporters for help with a mandatory 30-second campaign video in the upcoming CNN/You Tube Democratic presidential debate.

The supporters will submit their proposals to the Clinton campaign Website.

"My job in the campaign is to make the videos and the ads, and I have a great team of really creative people helping me," Mandy Grunwald, media adviser/director of advertising for the campaign, wrote in an e-mail Tuesday morning. "But when we sat down to figure out what our 30-second video for the debate should be, we decided pretty quickly to give you the assignment instead."

In a statement, the campaign called the request the "latest groundbreaking effort" to engage voters in "new and innovative ways."

As part of the upcoming CNN/You Tube debate, to be held July 23 in South Carolina, all the candidates are asked to submit a 30-second video relating to their presidential campaign.

– CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

Watch CNN's Anderson Cooper explain the upcoming CNN/YouTube debate.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Get your first glimpse at some of the YouTube submissions for July’s CNN-YouTube Democratic presidential debate – the first in history to be driven by user-generated video questions.

Click here to view the latest submissions and add yours.

CNN and YouTube’s live forum will feature video questions submitted to YouTube and answered by Democratic and Republican candidates live on CNN. CNN’s Anderson Cooper will moderate the two two-hour debates and pose follow-up questions.

The Democratic debate, the first Democratic National Committee-sanctioned presidential forum of the 2008 election cycle, will be held at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, July 23, at and will air live on CNN. The Republican presidential forum hosted by CNN and YouTube will take place on Monday, Sept 17, in Florida.

Questions for the Democratic Debate can be submitted until July 22.