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>> well, thats a good point, but also you have to think that now its going to be talk about double or triple that. now i think youll see even more political engagement in terms of whats happening around this race? does jeb bush have the opportunity to change the narrative? all he had to do was go forward and stop the bullying tactics. donald trump has effectively been able to dominate the media. hes calling in to shows all the time, and its something that has been working for him. >> to your poi...

America. >> change in the criteria could land fiorina in the prime time spotlight. peter doocy is live in washington with the latest. good morning, peter. >> the big star of the under card debate was carly fiorina. there hasnt been a whole lot of national polling done since her headline grabbing performance. now cnn changing their criteria. the early states will be reflected and in all likelihood in the prime time show. something she is crediting some of her competition p saying thank you to rea...

Strategic challenges posed by the fact that the fields really big. but, it should have been clear from the beginning that the solution to that big field problem was never going to be wishing it away, right? just deciding that the field really isnt as big as it is. but that is whats happened. thats what the republican party and the fox news channel and, yes, cnn, as well, decided to do. they just decided that they would deal with all the challenges of this big republican field by just establishin...

Make that it seems like the party is protecting hillary clinton. >> al hunt, are they rigging the debate process for hillary clinton? >> yeah, sure they are. >> see, thats why we love al. thats why we love al. go ahead. >> joe, i think, by the way, that omalley exaggerates the importance. the problem democrats has is they should have a different chairperson. debbie wasserman shultz is not doing anything the democrats need to do, organizationally and shes not an effective chairperson. debates are...

Not have them. >> governor martin omalley tore in to the democratic national committee on friday, as you know, accusing the party of rigging the debate process to favor hillary clinton. do you agree with governor omalley? i think rigging is a strong word. i think that at a time when so many of our people have given up on the political process. when 80% of young people did not vote in the last election, 63% of all americans did not vote, i think debates are a good thing. i think love debates. s...

I think we covered a lot of territory. and were starting to see people being able to make choices. >> let me ask you about this issue. it is an internal intramural battle in the republican party. you stood to defund and get rid of obamacare and you were kind of excoriated by members of your own party i supported you. in effort. i want to be straight up with my audience here. and i was surprised others didnt support you. so do you think this is an intramural squabble? will this be resolved in thi...

Were at 1% now were up to 5%. its the early states that determine this campaign. so we have good stuff on the ground in iowa and we have a good organization but voters cant be informed by a limited debate process. so lets ask the people if they think its right that party bosses limit the debates for a vote that we cast thats personal as president of the united states. this process has shown time and time again the candidates that the rest of the country perhaps had never heard of emerge in the e...

Were to guess i would suggest it happened this way, the republican national committee wants that field winnowed. they know its too big and the longer it goes on with 15 or 16 or 17 candidates, the more negative attacks youll have candidate against candidates. why did they want to reduce the number of debates? they believe mitt romney was weakened by the debate process in 2012 when many of those candidates survived for a long time and attacked romney pretty intensely for months and months. they w...

Negative attacks youll have candidate against candidates. why did they want to reduce the number of debates? they believe mitt romney was weakened by the debate process in 2012 when many of those candidates survived for a long time and attacked romney pretty intensely for months and months. they wanted to prevent that this time. they wanted to winnow the field but they didnt want to do it because the committee would get the blame for excluding candidates, so instead they said to the networks, yo...

I dont think that it hurts. i think that donald trump and the trum name isdonald trump name is a national brand name. its fair to say that donald trump speaks for donald trump. i dont think that it has anything to do with the republican party. i think that all of them speak for themselves. when we get a nominee, i know that were analyzing week by week but were going to have a nominee by the end of march and april. you have it in april, may, june, july and i just think that those months are like ...