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Lot of notes like michael smerconish was and just taking the checks of what they were saying and how they were saying it and addressing various complex issues having to do with national security. i know it's a debate format and they have a limited amount of time to answer it but on both sides of the aisle, so far, they have not shown me they truly understand the issues in this very complex campaign that we're attempting to wage with other people which is going to be a generational fight. >> do you think donald trump had a handle on the nuclear triad and if not is he ready to be commander-in-ch...

When he said they can kill us but we can't kill them. he doubled down an banning muslims and mass deportation, and he also gave a crowd pleasers and bashed cnn for the way they talked. >> he seems more comfortable in the debate format now, and, again, and he said this after to chris cuomo, that he hadn't done this before. he's getting kind of used to it. tonight i thought he seemed to enjoy the process and seemed a lot more comfortable. he's always relatively comfortable, but i thought tonight was probably one of his better debates. >> no. no. i mean, not so much. >> i should have gone to andy...

So, the next democratic debate is this saturday, in iowa. the next republican debate is not until next month, middle of next month, in nevada. but as yet, we have no idea what the criteria will be for republican candidates being eligible to get into the next debate. if they pick that 4 or 5% cutoff, it's going to be a much smaller stageful of main candidates. the republican party held this closed-door meeting yesterday about making the qualifying criteria that much more strict. so far, they're not saying what, if anything, was agreed to. and so far, we don't know if the campaigns are even goin...

Bob dole and george bush decided they were going to go for it. and so bob dole, again, he'd been the running mate from the previous election. he thought he might have a good leg up on the 1980 republican primary. much to the shock and chagrin of both him and george bush, though, they both ended up getting walloped in 1980 by a guy named ronald reagan. not before, though, there was some particularly vicious out loud and on-camera fighting between the two of them, including that famous moment in nashua, new hampshire, in 1980, when ronald reagan shoved his way through a debate format that he had...

>> tamron, i think most people realize that this is the what happens when you're in the debate format and have a minute to answer or sometimes 30 seconds for rebuttal. it is unfair for any of the candidates to try and put their policies in a concise statement where people will really understand. all you try to do is hit the major points. on the point dr. carson was speaking about as it relates to special ops, we saw in iraq early on when special ops were involved they were doing an incredible job and especially in dealing with a lot of the ground forces and these sort of snipers that were on t...