to determine who makes it on the debate stages and who does not. otherwise, you have a debate stage with a thousand of people with prank kancandidate is. there always has to be some criteria. that's always the case in every campaign. there will always be some controversy that ateptends to tt in terms of constraining of who gets in that debate. the next debate that's coming up, this is also you know it is po obviously shaking the democrats who are not going to make on the debate. it has an effect of shining a spotlight and directing scrutiny into smaller candidates that's making into that funnel. that's going to be in contention on that soon to be much smaller stage. so tonight i want to take a look at the strength of that field.