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speaker told reporters that theyre not close to a deal at this point. are you concerned about timing at this point in. >> look, i think everybody needs to relax. regardless of what may be said about the talks on a day-to-day basis, the president and the speaker will reach an agreement, it will be passed on a bipartisan vote in both the house and the gnat. live look at capitol hill, its 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. and that was senate minority leader mitch mcconnell trying to calm fea...

Significantly fewer candidates making it on to the stage, more like roughly half. i mentioned the acuteness of the funneling angle and thou ithow starting to pinch this field and part of the way you can see as the number of candidates goes from this big to this big is the candidates who are losing out and being squeezed out as a result of these stricter rule, theyre mad about it, as you might imagine, but theyre not just stewing on it, they are publicly saying so. >> i am proud to be a democrat,...

Thing. >> moulton says that he will run for re-election to congress and campaign for whoever gets the democratic nomination. one of the other democratic candidates is slamming his own party for its debate rules. that is colorado senator michael bennett who says that the rules will likely keep half of the field out of the next debate. listen. >> the dnc process is stifling debate at a time when we need it most. were rewarding celebrity candidates with millions of twitter followers, billionaires...

Our country to victory next november. but i gotta be honest. i say it with love. the d nc process is stifling debate at a time when we need it most. were rewarding celebrity candidates with millions of twitter followers, billionaires who buy their way on the debate stage and candidates who have been running for president for years. it forces campaigns to force over millions of dollars to facebook, the same platform that let the russians interfere in 2016 instead of harnessing the resources to ta...

New tonight, a 2020 candidate slamming the dnc for its debate rules, which will likely keep half the field off the next debate stage. >> the dnc process is stiechlg debate at a time when we need it most. were -- were rewarding celebrity candidates with millions of twitter followers, billionaires who buy their way onto the debate stage, and candidates who have been running for president for years. >> remember one of the people senator ben set talking about. outfront now candidate for 2020 tom ste...

Wasnt pleased about it. >> the dnc process is stifling debate at a time when we need it most. were rewarding celebrity candidates with millions of twitter followers, billionaires who buy their way onto the debate stage and candidates who have been running for president for years. these rules have created exactly the wrong outcomes, and they will not help us beat donald trump. im not going to be on the debate stage next month, but i am going to be out in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina ...

Race. what kind of reaction is that type of comment getting? >> reporter: look, i think that seth moulton presents a point that were hearing here which is at some point the field does have to winnow. it seems like the democratic party is united on the front that they want to beat trump, they are excited about early investment in states that they may have struggled with or not had as much outreach in 2016. but that doesnt mean there isnt some descension in the race. we heard it from senator micha...

Hes got complaints about the dnc process. remember, that process was to try to get more people on the debate stage. they have thresholds that theyre trying to meet. but tom stier, the billionaire is asceuzing him of buying his way on to the debate stage. jason chaffetz is on the panel as well disblp. >.>> we have just had a week whe a lot of those in the media pointed to this inverted u curve saying that the market is in a recession. >> right. raise your hand if you think that anybody understood...

So its really important for those low dollar donors to be part of the dnc process. but the dnc came to our campaign and said we need help. you know, were not prepared for the general election. we created the memo of understanding that was there. it wasnt about the primary election. and as breeiana said we were very frustrated with the dnc many fiems. the idea that we had any control over there is laughable. we simply put guard rails in about how the money that we raised needed to be focused on t...