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Those voters can get an up close and personal look. we have candidate forums scheduled with media partners. theres one coming up on october 6th that all the candidates are participating in. the bottom line, we need to make sure that the candidates are not pulled off the campaign trail, you know, for, you know, 20-some odd debates like they were in 2008. that was too much. and we need a variety of opportunities for folks to get a look at our candidates. and theyll have that. again, its unfortunat...

Debates yet. and theres criticism from two of your vice chairs that you are disadvantaging everyone but the presumed frontrunner, at least hillary clinton, by not agreeing to more democratic party sanction debates. >> well, you know, its important that our candidates be seen in a wide variety of formats and venues. we have six debates and there will be many other opportunities for our candidates to be seen in candidate forums. and our initial focus in the early primary states is on making sure t...

Outlets. a lot of diversity, we are hosting six debates which is what we hosted in 2004 and 2008. a debate is not the only way in which you can reach a voter, in fact, its really important as i started to say, that especially in the early primary states, the candidates have time to get out and campaign in a retail way. you can already see the enthusiasm that is building, bernie sanders has drawn huge crowds. >> and he wants more debates? >> there are a lot -- >> martin omalley. >> were glad that...

Oh how i can do the job and why i can do the job. >> were going to put up the college national polls that shows you were tied for 13. at 1.3%. and even campaigned in iowa and new hampshire, you had 2%. i think its fair to say, you had stood out at candidate forums, various events before. but it hasnt translated into voter support, why is this going to be different? >> well i disagree with the premise of your question. i started my campaign on may 4th from a standing support. im not a professiona...

Happens, there will have been 28 candidate forums around the country for all these folks to talk to voters directly from cpac to the sirius xm. there are 25 of these from new hampshire, south carolina florida, where people have been able to sit down talk to the candidates directly one-on-one get tons of free media coverage. a lot of interaction with voters leading up to this first debate. >> for sure. these network debates do matter most. i wonder what you think of this. is it the partys fault t...

>> theres a big push in the democratic party around three issues -- the idea that you should go to college and pay no tuition and be debt-free. so debt-free college increase in social security benefits and making the minimum wage $12 or higher. i suspect that bernie sanders will push those three issues in debates and other candidate forums. so his role will be to some extent to try to push hillary clinton and make sure she at least thinks about these ideas and alex has reported shes already talk...

Candidate forums and i dont think that all of them think that there. looking at candidates and look at them for what theyre saying messaging, in the way they want to move forward. >> do you think thats going to be healthier? if you have a more diversion council in or will it be dependent on what that diversity brings in terms of what the candidates and ultimate victors stand for and represent on the council?

Television advertising, candidate forums, and gets out the vote initiatives. republicans criticized the plan saying it was an attack on americans rights. during the 2012 election cycle tax exempt groups spent more than $300 million of the so-called dark money in federal electrics in 2006. in comparison, that number was $5.2 million. meanwhile, new polling suggests control from congress may be up for grabs. according to cnn, opinion research poll, americans now say they are sense aing split bet...

A price. >> theres a disconnect in washington, some republicans who had a previous shutdown and got blamed for it. i know we met with a congressional candidate who is running in a competitive republican primary. defund was a big message point. im sure its a big applause line. back when they did these candidate forums. there is a potential this will be a deciding issue in republican primaries where theres little distinction between the candidates. defund or not -- they dont care. shutdown, there ...

Under the law as passed by congress and court rulings since 1913 to investigate anyone who wants this tax exempt status to make sure they arent partisan, they arent primarily political and they are not to benefit an individual. well, they suddenly get flooded with a doubling of requests and many of them come from groups who have now put out the letters they were sent asking for more information and those letters revealed that they said, well, we want to influence legislation. we are holding cand...