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Cnns sara murray has the latest from washington, d.c. >> reporter: good morning, alison and miguel. it is not donald trump leading nationwide anymore. ben carson is the frontrunner in the nbc news poll. he leads 29% to donald trumps 23%. trump still has bragging rights. he leads in a poll in new hampshire. he is ahead of ben carson by ten points. if these polls sound chaotic to you, it is nothing compared to what is going on with the republican debate process. after all those campaigns got toget...

Means. blah, blah, blah i get. it means blah, blah, blah. the whoot is just like im excited. but this was just like howling at the moon. >> whooooo. >> whooooo. >> whooooo. >> in what other circumstance does he use this noise? does this mean specifically too many people are talking to me at once? does this mean happy halloween? what does this mean? do it again. so thats one of the things that happened in todays politics news. we also got a new nbc/"wall street journal" poll. it has ben carson in...

But he didnt make the rules, this is the landscape we play in, so right now i would say its not as bad as the self-fulfilling mechanism indicates, but it could be in another week. >> hes going hard after marco rubio, that presentation he made to supporters in houston, including 112-page power point presentation who was about rubio, those who looked into his past have been concerned. >> i talked to people over the weekend, and theyre second-guessing themselves. its just not jebs nature to be that...

Of isis. so they say they are mad as hell and they are not going to take it anymore. operatives of the 15 presidential campaigns meeting behind closed doors sunday. many want to get control of the debate process and take it away from the rnc. dr. carson says he simply wants higher standard for the debates. >> i would like to see us have a substantial opening statement and substantial closing statement, at least a minute. and i would like to see tighter guidelines in terms of people when they res...

Somehow equalization of the questions asked to all the candidates. so you cant just, dont invite somebody on the stage and ignore them for two hours. sandra: meantime rnc chair reince priebus has not been silent in all of this saying in an interview this morning that the committee is still in control of the debate process. peter, i have got to get your take on this first. >> yes. sandra: do you think candidates have good points here? dr. carson, for example, saying he wants tighter guidelines. h...

>> there has to be consequence when the debate process is abused in the way that cnbc did it. >> among the proposals ton table, a two-hour time limit, equal speaking time for each candidate, all 14 of them, and a 30 second limit on opening and closing statements. lets bring in mark for more. >> we saw the 14 candidates -- campaigns meet last night in old town alexandria outside of washington, d.c. to try to get some common cause for the changing of the debate process. as youre right, they are an...

Revolt -- candidates against the press demanding changes be made to future debates. the backlash comes after angry candidates complained about so called gotcha questions at the cnbc debate. >> that debate was a really weird debate because you didnt get a chance to continue on. i literally got cut off by three -- all three of them saying, you know, next question, next question. >> we have too many people on one stage and too few on the other. i dont mind being asked hard questions and challenging...

Dispatched their negotiators to this private meeting. the idea was to pressure news organizations who sponsor any future debates. working with a top republican lawyer, those negotiators drafted a set of questions and requests which range from the conventional like having opening statements from candidates, sure, you guys. to the unusual like requesting that the politicians not reporters have final sign-off on what goes on the screen during debates. dr. ben carson whose team spearheaded last nigh...

His grandchildren. an abominable snowman, the witch from lion, witch, and the wardrobe. and hillary clinton has the signature pant suit and senators briefcase. and the man in the mitt romney mask in this picture, new speaker of the house paul ryan. they all had a pretty good time there, jonathan. >> it looked like they had fun. do you think bernie sanders went as larry david? >> i dont know. but he should have if he didnt. >> that does it for me and "way too early". coming up on "morning joe", g...

To collectively negotiate. at the end of the day, the rnc did something that had never. been done before. they took control of the debate process. if you look at the last three presidential cycle, both the democratic field and republican field where there were open primaries had over 20 debates. the parties had tried to have some control but didnt. it was entirely left up to the networks. for the first time, the rnc devises a strategy to actually take control of this and the networks bought into...