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That you were the only nonwhite candidate on the stage. obviously we havent had an historic field of candidates. what do you make of where we are right now? >> well, i said it on the debate stage, our politics reflects the disposable income of our citizens. and if you have disposable income, you are in the less than 5% that donate to a campaign. so that influences the kind of people that make to the debate stage in the later months. but we expect to be the lone candidate of color unless cory joi...

And not one campaign objected 37 they say that they are trying to make it as fair as possible. >> and ive had absolutely no issue with the dncs thresholds throughout. they have actually been very fair and transparent like they said. i was still surprised that they elevated it for january because i thought that they wanted to give cory a path back to the stage to have more representation on the stage and the only concern i have is that they havent been running many polls in part because of the ho...

Primaries, it is not winner take all with delegates. so on it does become a math game in terms of collecting delegates. >> of course. >> you do have to hit a certain percentage though. and that next debate in iowa is in january. why not is going to host it along with the "des moines register." and now at this point you have not qualified under the dncs tougher criteria. if you dont make it in, this will be the first time you wont have been on the debate stage, what will that mean for your campai...

>> no, cory and i are friends. i was eager to have cory on the stage. im eager to have cory rejoin us on the stage in january. and so i cant speak for the other campaigns, but our communication has been sincere. >> and i want to turn -- you were here when we were talking about joe biden. this afternoon he clarified his position on what he said to the "des moines register" yesterday. he had said yesterday that he wouldnt participate in a subpoena to testify, and today he said that he will do what...

Rhetorical fight sitting at snar stage. >> all the people that donald trump has said that can profess his innocence, he hasnt let come before congress and shes trying to make sure that they can testify before the senate. >> reporter: and to some degree, a clear democratic strategy to get under the presidents skin. something sources tell cnn is exactly what is happening. >> they are playing games. they are ridiculous, phony fraudulent articles. >> reporter: but more importantly to the united stat...