what they do every day. can you imagine it was a crap sandwich. that was chairman reince priebus. his thoughts were echoed by many on the stage. and prompted the campaigns to lay out demands for the debates from here on out. reince i know you have talked to the president of nbc. have they repaired the relationship and seen another debate. we have time for that. that debate is not until the end of february. we don t have to be in a hur toe deal with that. we ll work with the candidates on on that and get through tonight and it will be a great debate which can t come soon enough as you know. and then we ll deal with nbc issue in the months to come.
february. he called the cnbc debate a crap sandwich. those were his actual words. ben carson complained about got ya questions. carson, ted cruz and most of the candidates took turns blasting the moderators and media and to be sure there have been ample critiques from left, right and center of how the questioning was done, that said some of the same voices from across the spectrum have concluded that many of the questions were legitimate serious, tough and fair. here is a small sampling. you re skipping more votes than any senator to run for president. why not slow down, get a few more things done first or at least finish what you ve started. given the problems we ve been discussing, why would you tax labor at a higher rate. your board fired you. i just wondered why you think we should hire you now? you ve said that you would like to replace medicare with a system of individual family savings accounts. explain how that would work,
bad day for journalism. now they are looking at the upcoming debate with parent company nbc and demanding new assurances that next time the candidates will be treated fairly. watch. the truth is is that we were betrayed. i think the candidates were betrayed by cnbc and we need to look out for the candidates in the future debates. if questions. reporter: argumentative, patty, put downs in in cases, purposefully pitting candidates against each other. everything they promised not to do from the beginning to the end. so, look, cnbc is an arm of nbc. i am not going to allow us to move forward until we communicate with the candidates. obviously we had assurances that it was going to be straight up finance which is what they do every day. and what was delivered was just nothing but a crap sandwich. meantime the republican
delivered was just nothing but a crap sandwich. priebus followed up with an unprecedented move. suspending nbc s co-partnership of the upcoming gop debate in february while retaining debate co-party, national review. in a letter to nbc news chairman andrew lack, priebus accused the network of quote gotcha questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone and designed to embarrass our candidates. but left some wiggle room. quote i ll be working with the candidates to discuss how to move forward and will be in touch. in a pointed response, nbc reminded rnc of its coveted demographic and saying along with our debate broadcast partner telemundo we ll work it in good faith to resolve this matter. fox news has learned that representatives of several gop candidates will meet sunday to find ways to alter future debate formats, including insisting on an opening statement at minimum. then give everybody two or three or four minutes to answer a question and have some rebuttals and some clarifying
as quote, crap sandwich. we have more. reporter: the leading gop candidates outraged over wednesday s debate, meeting to where he write the ground rules. among those calling for change, ben carson. it is supposed to be established to help the people get to know the candidates, and get to know what is behind them and what their thinking process is, what their philosophy is. what it s turned into is a gotcha. reporter: sunday s meeting is an unheard of gathering of rivals. the campaign s ewe united the board fired you. why should we hire you now? is this a comic book version? reporter: complaining moments after it ended. it was one gotcha question,