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Wu we're starting to roll out our factor words of the day. again, thanks for watching us tonight. ms. megyn is next. remember, the spin stops here. we're definitely looking out for you. >> breaking tonight, big headline from the campaign trail as a brawl breaks out at one rally. reports bubble up of republicans getting out and the two clear front runners in the gop race for the white house band together and threaten to boycott the big debate. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone, i'm megyn kelly. in a joint letter to the network hosting the next debate. if it does not change the debate forma...

You know, being president is hard. anyway. now today's news is that donald trump, presidential front-runner, is threatening to not participate in the next republican debate unless cnbc and the republican party accede to his demand that the debate not take so long, that it be shorter. and that is a weird thing to demand. it's a weird hill to die on in terms of participating in the presidential debates. but that's his demand. and what is even weirder about it is that he has joined forces with one of the other top candidates. he's joined forces with the guy who's running second to him, ben carson...

Say, no, we're against it. they were on a conference call, told this is the debate format, so this is pretty normal. >> it's supposed to be 120 minutes of talk time with some commercials. nobody ever said this was going to be a three h hour debate. might be two hours and change so they can get paid by some advertisers, but just to be clear about those details. i want to ask you both about another headline. this is the house benghazi committee, the chair just fired back at these comments earlier from richard hannah. that we played earlier today. goudy said the following. there are seven members...

Is? when will we get some kind of signals? >> so there are a couple of key things to keep in mind. one, frankly, he's aware the democrats are getting a little bit tired of this. two, there are some filing deadlines coming up at the end of october. he's been huddling with his family over the weekend, the early part of this week. he's going to go back to washington and watch the debate. his aides and allies say that's not going to be a key factor in his decision. >> i've heard that. i just don't believe that. >> fair enough. fair enough. tough to argue with that. but we're expecting something re...

Did you think that was too much said about that? >> that's ridiculous and that's why i refused to get into it. some said it was a weak debate perform eps. i wasn't going to fall for that bait. that's what they did the last time around. we have to be smarter than to fall for that. >> not in a million years are you going to get involved in that. i can't see you. so in that sense, i don't think the debate format is particularly helpful to you even though you keep surging in follows. are you convinced now with your poll numbers that you can win the presidency? >> i absolutely believe that, but you...