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He took that opportunity to harp on the character attacks. >> he was waiting for his moments. >> it worked. >> he was. >> and donald trump has built-in boo lines. look at all of you up there, he looks at the cameras focused on him. its so funny. >> television networks spend lots of money on these debates. we go to great lengths to promote the debates. were holding the debates so people can learn more about trump and the other candidates. its easy to criticize and attack. lets keep in mind the be...

From debate to debate to debate, it really has not been clear which candidates would qualify for either the main stage debate or for this weird innovation weve come up with this year, which is the kids table debate, the so-called undercard debate. from debate to debate to debate, its never been clear, oftentimes until the very last second, who gets in and who doesnt. but with all of that. with all of the consternation and criticism and ad hoc suspense of this years debate process, there is one w...

See something potentially similar tonight. >> why are we getting the word ahead of time of every punch that bush is about to throw at rubio. is that a mole somewhere in the bush campaign? is it stupid p.r.? youre supposed to surprise people, to dry gulch them. youre not supposed to say, guess what im going to do to you tomorrow night? >> i think theres a strategy youre seeing among some campaigns that theyre not revealing that line of attack. like, youre not hearing what theyre going to come out...

Good for him to be there and talk about what people in this state would like to see presidential candidates talk about. >> theres a certain extra level of angst or drama about it because it does seem sort of arbitrary in terms of whether or not he was let in or whether he wasnt. this debate process on the republican side has been so big and so chaotic, it seems like it was a little bit of just luck of the dice. >> well, if youre going to have eight at the adult table, four or six at the kids tab...

And yet hes knocked out of a debate where i mean no disrespect to rand paul but you have rand paul, who has literally sold 500 books in the first two weeks of his publication. mark halperin, this debate process just got stranger. everybody assumed that the hottest guy in new hampshire and one of the hottest guys in social media this week would also get in. this is a decision that is flabbergasting. >> mark. >> well, i mean, in a normal cycle this would be maybe not a death nell but close to it f...

Primary. so the people who are voting for these guys want to note real issues. they want to know the answers to the real issues. and what makes these guys different from one another. >> but some people would say its kind of whiny. even in the gop, the fight to reform this, theres a fight to reform the debate process. but chris christie, john kasich, carly fiorina, they say stop complaining. >> so does ted cruz and bobby jindal. >> should it be a different format? >> nobodys complaining about the...

Really want to stick together on this. with this many candidates peeling off from that group effort, it looks like that group effort is not necessarily going to go forward. what does that mean for the debate process going forward? i dont know. we still dont know how thats going to resolve. but there is one other big development today and its on the republican side. it concerns a candidate whos already teetering on the brink of not even making the next debate. the last date for national polls to ...

Own debate process on their own terps that, does sort of appear to be falling apart now as the candidates decide they dont really want to stick together on this. with this many candidates peeling off from that group effort, it looks like that group effort is not necessarily going to go forward. what does that mean for the debate process going forward? i dont know. we still dont know how thats going to resolve. but there is one other big development today and its on the republican side. it concer...

In terms of the smaller stuff, first is the news that the effort by all the republican presidential campaigns to join together to negotiate debate terms directly themselves instead of going through the republican party that effort which formed late last week after the cnbc debate and crested over the weekend, that appears to have crashed and fallen apart today when jeb bushs campaign today announced that they would join the campaigns of carly fiorina and chris christie and john kasich and arguab...

On the republican side of the race today, there are a couple of small developments. and one development that i think might be a really big one i think you probably have not heard about yet. in terms of the smaller stuff, first is the news that the effort by all the republican presidential campaigns to join together to negotiate debate terms directly themselves instead of going through the republican party that effort which formed late last week after the cnbc debate and crested over the weekend,...