You how you would change the president ial debates. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Ndependence, 202 7488002 you can also post your comments on facebook, or send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Good morning. Mentioned, republicans met yesterday in the Nations Capital about the way forward on the debate. Here is the headline in usa today. Gop candidates say debates must change. Seeking to address candidate complaints, the rnc made staff changes designed to and thehief counsel parties do debate negotiator, an organizer according to an email sent to campaigns from rnc chief of staff. I want to show you the story of politicos eisenstadt, reporting about last nights meeting, his headline, gop campaigns push to take more control of debates. Phone ands on the covers politics for politico. Tell us about this meeting yesterday. What was the motivation for republicans to meet . Guest the meeting was summed up pretty well, which is that the the debate last week in colorado was considered a total debacle. They have not been happy with the way republican president ial campaigns have been going. On theame the debates rnc. Why . On negotiatingen format and content and moderators in 2012, so to a large degree, some of these campaigns the rnc has not been effective in negotiating on their have. On their behalf. Things a lot to happen fairly soon, just to remind viewers of the schedule of Republican Debates, a week from tomorrow is the next debate in foxbusinesssted by and by the wall street journal. By cnn in5, hosted salem. Guest the changes were agreed upon yesterday evening at this meeting which was held in alexandria in old town. It will take effect after the next debate. It will begin to impact debates after that and that will be in december. Host we are asking viewers how they would change the gop debates and going forward, what do we know of how the candidates would like to change their debates . Guest every candidate want something a little bit different for the most part. There is agreement upon the campaigns, these of the things of the agreedupon. All debates should be no longer than two hours. All candidates should get an equal number of questions. All candidates should get the opportunity to give opening and closing statements. There are some things that some candidates want and others dont. Wars g that came up was that these undercard candidates who have been relegated to debates earlier in the evening want there to be just one debate. They want everybody to be on the same stage. Host isnt that a bit of a problem . There are more candidates, perhaps more than we have ever seen, in a president ial race. Guest that is the problem with the process, and thats partly why the rnc have lost so much control. You have so many different theydates and campaigns, kind of want Different Things and its hard to accommodate all of them on one stage. That is part of the problem, which is the Republican Party has lost control of the process, because they are dealing with some erick wright so many primary candidates. Host what will we hear next . The rnc is ok with a lot of the changes that were agreed to last night. One of the most amount of changes is the campaigns will be in charge of negotiating format andes directly with the rnc the networks broadcasting the debates. The rnc is going to be relegated to focusing more on mystical issues. The most part, they are ok with that, but they will be taking on a smaller role of a have in the past. Host alex eisenstadt, political reporter for political for politico, thanks for the update. Let us hear from you. What are your thoughts on changing the debates . Frank in ohio on the democrat side, good morning. I am watching this whole thing and im a little bit baffled by it. Its the Republican Debate and the public and cap National Committee and the candidates and they dont seem to like each other very much. They dont seem to be a will to run their own show. This is an example of why they cant run congress, they are a bunch of goofballs. They follow donald trump who has no information. If they wanted to get something done, they should hire the democratic National Committee and the people are smart, they will vote democrats into congress, that is my opinion. Host mike in arizona, republican line. I think whats missing in the debates is that moderators are not asking each of the candidates difficult questions. Aboute not asking president bushs invasion of iraq or the factual information that came out of that. What about i have a thing the execution of it, besides him being murdered, i am one person that would argue against any kind of torture, but think in bin ladens case i would have made an example and find out from that man everything that he knew. Killing him, the library and the database went with it. I dont want to take anything away from the brave soldiers that went in, im just saying the order to kill him on of the investigated. Who was pushing the president to hard the hardest to execute bin laden . Judy whos hear from is in hawaii, democrat line. I was floored by the debate. It was insulting to the American People. You have candidates who want to dedicate their lives to taking care of our country and president s dont make a lot of money, lets put it that way. These moderators to ask questions like they did, it is insulting. It seems more what they wanted to do was dig up past scandals and destroy these people, rather than get to the heart of the matter on how they will help this country. Host do you think the format itself, with the number of the candidates, are there too many moderators or people asking questions . Caller its not too many moderators. Moderators, there is enough time for them to ask questions. Moderator, youer give them more time for more questions. With the three of them, they could continue to ask questions, but their questions were not questions that were helping the American People understand who we would choose for the president. What they were trying to do was destroy these candidates and it is insulting to be calling donald trump a cartoon character. I could not believe it. Donald trump has laid out a plan, and its a good plan. Host but remind you of the debate schedule we showed you earlier. The republican schedule looks like this the remainder of 2015. Tuesday a debate next posted by foxbusiness and the wall street journal. December 15, the debate hosted by salem radio and the wall street journal cnn, rather. In january, there is a foxnews debate schedule. February 6, abc news and the ij review. February 10, salem radio with cnn. Cbs news debate on february 13. Up in the air is the one on february 26 with telemundo. They scheduled democratic debates, the primary debates, the next debate is coming up on november 14 posted by cbs news and the des moines register. News and w andc you are in New Hampshire. January 17, nbc news again and the congressional black caucus. There were 11 posted by pbs and univision and Washington Post with march 9. Asking you how you would change the debates. In manassas, virginia and report republican line. Caller i think the primaries should not be in iowa, New Hampshire and south carolina. They should be in california, texas, and florida. Diverse economies, 100 Million People. These three states are one third of the population with a diverse economy. Was defeated as Vice President and now became speaker of the house, come on. The democrats have no debates. You cant have a woman as a president at this time, the democrats have become a joke. The question for them is, other going to be anybody in left in your party after next years election . The first voting states should be california, texas and florida. Host we welcome your comments on twitter. You cannot have so many candidates, nothing but 32nd town soundbites. Should run the democratic debates and democrats should run the Republican Debates. Facey forget that complained that the liberal media ask stupid questions, but they forget that fox asked stupid questions first. Next up is williamsburg, virginia, republican, josh. Caller first comment about the debates, it is going to be different typical for these early debates to be successful and satisfy everybodys expectation of what a debate is because there are some any candidates. Down the road when some of the lower polling candidates start dismantling their campaigns in getting out of the race, i think things will fall into line. There are so many candidates and so much time left, the could make these early debates a little more equitable and have a couple of debates and spread them out, say more than five people, a random sampling. E respond to a previous caller who said that republicans were goofballs. That is absurd to suggest that these candidates are goofballs, and i would challenge people that are lining up behind Hillary Clinton to look at themselves in the mirror and ask themselves why am i voting for someone who is absolutely morally bankrupt and devoid of camp character. Not since Richard Nixon have we had a president ial candidate so lacking in dignity and character and poise and grace. Host we appreciate your comment. A number of for the candidates on the sundays shows, including ben carson on abc this week we talked about some of the changes he would like to see in the debate format. We have to ask ourselves, what is the purpose of a debate . The real purpose is to allow the voters to have an opportunity to see what is behind each of the candidates. What do they actually think about the various policies that are affecting the lives of Everyday Americans . If you make that the goal, that will help you define how debates should go, and some of the things we have seen recently, that certainly was not the goal. What would you like changed specifically, the number of participants, the moderators . I would like to see us be able to have a substantial opening statement, at least a minute, a substantial closing statement, and i would like to guidelines in terms of people, when they respond to questions. Ignore the time constraints, others are very careful to stay within them. I think that creates inequality. We need to tighten it up a little bit and do it more like a professional type of debate. There have been a lot of criticism, what do you think the criteria should be for moderators . We should have moderators who are interested in disseminating the information about the , youdates, as opposed to know, gotcha. Defend yourself on that, you know. Host ben carson, yesterday on abcs this week yesterday. We are asking you how you would change the president ial debates after a debate among republican candidates following the cnbc debate last week. There is the front page of the Washington Times. Republican Campaign Aides to meet on changes for debates. They say that president ial Campaign Aides huddled at the Washington Hotel to discuss frustration with the televised debates as the rnc shuffled its staff to insert more senior oversight into the process. Lead piece inthe the Washington Times on another issue, their headline about the debt when the president leaves office in 2017. Ma to end term with 2020 20 trillion debt. Signs into law the new two year budget deal, itll bring into focus a part of a lady he does not like to talk about. His been a agreement with congress will suspend the nations debt limit and allow the treasury tomorrow another 1. 5 trillion by the end of his presidency in 2017. Back to your calls and comments on changing the debate process. Democrats line, randy and in texas. Caller the way i would change the debates is to make it available to all americans, either through cspan or public television. Right now, because of by budget, i cannot afford the expanded expanded Satellite Program that would give me the 24hour news this is, and because something important, we are choosing the next president , i think they should be available to all people. There are some constraints butuse of fox news or cnn, being that it is somewhat of a Public Service announcement, i think it should be available to all americans regardless of their income level. Host some of those debates are scheduled with the broadcast network, with cbs and nbc. North carolina, democrat line, good morning. Caller i would like to say a few things about this. The moderators should be able to ask these people anything they want. Complainingans are because they got asked tough questions. Look what theyve done to obama since he became president. They asked things that the great hymn, everyday. About donald trump making a deferment to avoid deployment. These things the to be asked of all of these people for the American People know who we are trying to get as a president. They need to stop complaining. Donald trump did not run america and people need to set him straight. Host thank you, here is ashley in texas. Democrat line. Caller good morning. I think the debate should be broken into smaller debates with fewer people. I do not think its possible to have a debate when you have that many people on stage. Petty things that they are talking about. It is ridiculous if you want me to be honest, and as far as ben carson is concerned, i understand that he is supposed to be the answer to barack obama, in the minority communities, he will never be. He does not understand what he is talking about. Not understood 10 things he has said since he has been running, and break them into smaller groups so you can get some understanding of what they are talking about. It is just one big mess as far as im concerned. Host asking you how you would change the president ial debates, 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488002 for independents. Warroad to the white house coverage coming today on cspan. Jeb bush begins a chevy can fix it to her tour. His first stop is tampa, florida. The new speaker of the house begins his first full week in fiveosition and was on all Television Talk shows on sunday. He was on a number of programs, yesterday. Headlines in the Washington Post, republicans told fox and other networks that he will put forth a more robust gop agenda that will serve as a blueprint for republicans going into the 2016 residential and congressional elections. To have anhave alternative to those country so that if we see the chance the chance to lead, this is what it will look like, this is how we will fix the problems, working families are facing. That is what congressman ryan said on fox news. In usa today wall street journal, ryan makes good on immigration pledge and this is what he said yesterday about working with the president on immigration. You said that you want to tackle issues head on. First order of business, Immigration Reform . Nice. I think it would be a ridiculous notion to try and work on an issue like this with the president we cannot trust on this issue. A tried to circumvent legislative process with his executive orders. If we reach consensus on how best to achieve border and interior enforcement security, thats fine, but we have taken plenty of tactical risks in congress. I think its time we take some policy risks are showing the people what we believe, who we are, and how we can the prop how we can fix the countrys problems. Host paul ryan on one of five tv talk shows. Asking you this morning how you would fix the debate process. Tennessee, larry on the democrat line. I would like to see the get the questions to the candidates ahead of time and give them an opportunity to get a detailed answer prepared. I would like to see the debates open, where you would not have to have cable news to be able to see the debates. Hink the idea of [inaudible] i think it would help if they had the questions ahead of time so they had time to prepare and then had a time limit on answering them. Prepare andy can have a sustained answer with succin a sustained t answer with details. Host should a moderator or other candidate should be able to follow up on that response . Caller they should all have a chance to answer the same question. The moderator should be able to point out let the American People decide on whether a person has answered a question or not. Lets let them decide, they will no. Having the American People want what is best for this country, they want somebody [inaudible] as long as can still vote, would it seems like its getting harder to happen now as long as we can still vote, the American People should have a say in this. Host lets move to the independent line, this is mississippi michigan and maxine. Caller good morning. In respect to the president ial debates, 15 candidates is just too many. They should break it up into fives. They could have three separate debates with five candidates. They should not list them by their poll numbers, they should go alphabetically. I think that would be better. Also, if a question is asked and theres a snarky remark in it, the candidate should be able to refuse to answer it, and i think that would help keep it civil. I hope that would make a difference and i hope they take my advice. You have too many people on the stage and on the other debate you have too many you dont have enough. Lets them alphabetically, not by poll numbers, thank you. Host border calls coming up on how to change the debate process. Congress returns to a full agenda of items. Theing us this morning, as new speaker begins his first full week, what will it look like on the house side in terms of his first agenda . Guest all eyes will be on paul ryan. This is his first week as speaker and he hit five talk shows yesterday and made it very clear what his priorities are. He wants to change the way the house is run, and he wants to layout table division. People will be watching him to see what steps he takes on both those fronts this week. His first big test in the house will be the highway bill, which comes up for consideration this week. It is facing a november 20 deadline, and a little patch was passed recently to give lawmakers extra time to work out a compromise. The bills do differ, but the senate has alre