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With substance, chris, at some point either on what he doesnt know, on the fact that hes flip-flopped if not lied on issues. on the fact that he doesnt understand the depth of things. i dont know who is going to do it. a debate format with 11 people is not the place to do that. hugh hewitt, the conservative radio guy did it because he had him on the stage alone. >> joyce behar, she wont need my help, shes an aggressive person. when will you start talking about womens brains instead of their look...

Debate format meets that about oive. cnn announcing this sudden, last-minute change tonight is going to have a substantiative, large impact on the course of the republican presidential primary process. but to be clear, cnn did not fix the problem in that process tonight. they just broke their own rules to alleviate some of the pressure that they were feeling about this problem that they did not create, but that they are perpetuating for no good reason, and theyre still perpetuating by doing a ki...

I would add that i advise cnn to change their debate to allow all the candidates in. the american people are best served with an open and active and transparent project and all debate format meets that about oive. cnn announcing this sudden, last-minute change tonight is going to have a substantiative, large impact on the course of the republican presidential primary process. but to be clear, cnn did not fix the problem in that process tonight. they just broke their own rules to alleviate some o...

Bush. but it wasnt a particularly strong one either. he showed them it takes a little while to warm up to the stage. whether its getting comfortable delivering speeches. it took him a little while to sort of get into practice on that. or the debate format. i suspect youll see a better jeb bush in the second debate and future debates after that. >> and it will be interesting to see what the reaction is in the coming days to what we saw this evening. eric bradner, thank you so much for your report...

Lost last time, someone whos afraid fight. >> yeah. jeb did not impress me at all particularly on the education questions. i think he pivoted off common core as much as he could. he was talking about education reform without using the words common core because we all know thats not a great point for him. but he looks nervous, somebody be that i would be worried about putting into a debate format with a hillary clinton. i want to put somebody in there who i dont have to worry about, and for me, m...

In college he was masterful at that. he might be an interesting presence at that. >> youve got a few people up on stage who are fairly talented and experienced debaters. this isnt your standard debate format. theyve probably never been in a debate with ten other candidates. its not as much a debate as a sound bite war. youre going to get 60 second to say something. and we all know what you say during the debate isnt as important as whats reported that you said at the debate the next day. youre g...

Business, as you know. im not looking to hurt anybody, im not looking to embarrass anybody. if i have to bring up deficiency, ill bring up deficiencies, but id rather go straight down the middle but you dont know whats going to happen. >> hes spoken, jeff, in a lot of generalizations at this point. do you think we are going to see specifics coming from donald trump tomorrow? >> who knows if there will be time for specifics with all those superlatives. we know hes going to say hes terrific, we kn...

The politicians, all they do is debate. >> you wont have trouble with that. you will have the answers. i know you will. >> joining us now e.j. dion from the washington post and msnbc political analyst april ryan and washington bureau chief for urban american networks and josh pero new york times reporter and msnbc contributor. april ryan, there is bill oreilly giving donald hint about how to handle this. it seems to me no one has to give donald trump suggestions about how to handle this. it will...

The washington post and msnbc political analyst april ryan and washington bureau chief for urban american networks and josh pero new york times reporter and msnbc contributor. april ryan, there is bill oreilly giving donald hint about how to handle this. it seems to me no one has to give donald trump suggestions about how to handle this. it will be up to the moderators to try to force him into the debate format. >> well, thats interesting you would say that, lawrence. i talked to dr. ben carson,...

Mr. trump is averaging more than 23% support in the polls among republicans. next is jeb bush 12.8% followed by scott walker 10.6%. all the rest of the contenders are far back. so the upcoming debate is all about donald trump and how he will handle his frontrunner status. it is likely many will tune in simply to see my drama will trump go after his competitors or will he become a statesman trying to demonstrate that he has the political finesse to run the country? talking points does not know ho...