radiators actually came prepared. ralph wrote they got roasted. burke road tons of talent but prescripted questions sopathic. vicki, journalism 101. the rnc chair agrees. i was proud of our candidates for standing up to a pretty hostile environment. i was very disappointed in the moderators. i m disappointed in cnbc. i thought maybe they would bring forward a pretty fair forum here tonight. but i think it was one gotcha question, one personal low blow after the other. with me now cnn senior media correspondent and host of reliable sources brian stelter. first question to be fair. are we being too tough on cnbc? well there is always some very personal competition that happens between television networks. but i have to say i think in
for standing up to a pretty hostile environment. i was very disappointed in the moderators. i m disappointed at cnbc. i thought maybe they would bring forward a pretty fair forum here tonight, but i think it was one gotcha question, one personal low blow after the other. it s almost like they tried to design a rubik s cube for every question to take the worst element i think of what moderators and what the media should bring to the table, and all i can tell you is that while i m proud of our candidates for pretty much sticking together, i m very disappointed in the moderators, and i m very disappointed with cnbc. thank you. dana, that is the last thing as a network or as a moderator you want to hear from the head of the rnc and it goes to amanda carpenter s point which is that tomorrow people will be talking about this. reince priebus is talking about it tonight. i ve never seen that.
$7 million, paid $7 million for deceptive advertising yet his videos have shown up on their website. he says they never paid him for any endorsements, but they paid him for a series of speeches. the most recent speech he was paid more than $40,000. but he asked today is that a gotcha question, he said it s absolutely a gotcha question. the media already knows the answer to that. they know that they can find out that i wasn t paid for any of those endorsements. these are the kind of issues they ll be dealing with. and two big hurdles ahead. one is they ll be reaching out to campaigns. we heard from reince priebus complaining after the debate last night. clearly he ll get behind some sort of changes, but the clock is ticking. the next debate is on the 10th. as you have pointed out that s less than two weeks away. when it came to that question
headed to new hampshire, where he slammed the debate process. the debate last night was a good example of it. there wasn t any substantive question where people talk about the questions around their kitchen table. very few things that were real. it was all about the horse race, all about trying to figure out the gotcha question to make people look bad. meantime, marco rubio, who got a lot of positive headlines today, took a bit of a victory lap on all the morning shows this morning. in colorado, ben carson also slammed what he called the gotcha politics of last night s debate. he called for a change to the debate format moving forward. we have all of this covered. we ll begin with the trump campaign rally in nevada. and nbc s hallie jackson is out there. a lot of talk about trump not being as central a figure as he was in previous debates. how is the campaign reacting to that? reporter: right, he wasn t, kate. the last couple of debates w we
think we ll have that and stick around with that and then we ll talk with our panel. let s play what reince priebus said, the head of the rnc, said a few moments ago. i was proud of our candidates for standing up to a pretty hostile environment. i was very disappointed in the moderators. i m disappointed at cnbc. i thought maybe they would bring forward a pretty fair forum here tonight, but i think it was one gotcha question, one personal low blow after the other. it s almost like they tried to design a rubik s cube for every question to take the worst element i think of what moderators and what the media should bring to the table, and all i can tell you is that while i m proud of our candidates for pretty much sticking together, i m very disappointed in the moderators, and i m very disappointed with cnbc. thank you. dana, that is the last thing as a network or as a moderator