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Future republican primary debates. he would like candidates to have more time for opening and closing statements. and here's what else he would like to see changed in the debate format. >> some people just pretty much ignore what the time constraints are. others are very careful to stay within them. and i think that creates inequality. so we need to just tighten it up a little bit and do it more like a professional type of debate. >> after last week's contentious cnbc debate, the republican national committee was suspending the partnership with nbc news for an upcoming february debate. a good ...

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 going to give the party their blessing to proceed with this new rather draconian plan. so, i mean, with the giant republican candidate field this year, there are, undoubtedly, some unique challenges in ter...

I think, impatient. we know that ted cruz would be out for ted cruz. and ted cruz's reelection in the fifth, sixth, and seventh and eighth years of his presidency. i think -- i think the answers are useful if we're trying to find a meaningful point for them. i think it's important to hear how they would try and present their ideas. i mean, at the end of the day, part of being president is communicating. and i think in some way, we learn something about how they can convince the american public of their grand ideas to lead the nation in the debate format, because there's certainly no other area...

Of those questions, you're going to have ten guys yelling at each other, ten guys and one woman yelling at each other for who knows how long. >> i want to say, though, i think donald trump's idea that you should have republican moderators for a republican debate is not crazy, or at least that should be done in addition to this sort of debate format. because i don't think that the moderators were unfair at all last night but i do think the media comes at this from a perspective of trying to represent the electorate overall. and i think there's something to be said for the idea that this is the ...

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. o both him and george bush, though, they both ended up getting walloped in 1980 by a guy named ronald reagan.not bef 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 just blown up by saying he had paid for that microphone and he would do with it what he wanted. >> it is only three ...