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Forum of its top two candidates. the issue. the length of the debate. and cnn agreed the debate will be two hours, fantastic news for all especially the millions who will be watching. dylan byers has more on this. good morning. >> good morning carol. how are you? >> im good. so cnbc, what, broke? >> yeah. basically what happened is donald trump and ben carson and some others in the campaign sort of forced their hand. they all got on conference call earlier this week and campaign managers and spo...

>> i thought we were going to the joe biden bite again. we dont have that. jim acosta, reporting live from washington. on the republican side, donald trump is claiming vick over to other the cnbc network. trump along with ben carson threatening to boycott the debate if it was more than two hours in late. this morning cnbc agreed to limit the debate to two hours. trump tweeting about his triumph, saying in part that it was fantastic news for all, especially the millions of people who will be wa...

Stage. so obviously it wasnt their first choice. but by the time, you know, within last few hours cnbc did agree to limit the debate to two hours. they have spoken to the rnc. and now with the rnc, the republican national committee, is doing is making phone calls to these campaigns to make sure all of these campaigns are on board with the decision to limit it to two hours. as for the decision regarding opening and closing statements that remains to be determined. >> dylan byers, thanks so much. ...

They were told by the regulators, you have the neighborhood. now, whats the neighborhood? well, were on cnn right now. >> so cnbc, bloomberg, fox news should all be around us? >> it should be, shouldnt it? bloomberg isnt. cnn -- sorry -- comcast agreed to neighborhood, so agreed to put cnn next to fox next to msnbc next to cnbc. 24-hour cable news, and in the case of cnbc, which comcast owns the financial network. what is bloomberg? its a financial news network. so it should be next to cnbc so t...

Cnbc. >> you spent more time on the camera than anyone. you rarely do interviews, why is that? >> basically, i won, by 312 votes, i think, the people of minnesota wanted to know that i was going to focus on them and on the job, and thats what i wanted to do. >> would you go on the new late show with steven colbert next year? what do you think of that announcement? >> i think steven is just brilliant, and i think every comedian and every satirist feels the same way. i think its a great choice. it...