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He took that opportunity to harp on the character attacks. >> he was waiting for his moments. >> it worked. >> he was. >> and donald trump has built-in boo lines. look at all of you up there, he looks at the cameras focused on him. it's so funny. >> television networks spend lots of money on these debates. we go to great lengths to promote the debates. we're holding the debates so people can learn more about trump and the other candidates. it's easy to criticize and attack. let's keep in mind the beneficial relationship that also exists between trump and the press. >> also tonight, you got the...

From debate to debate to debate, it really has not been clear which candidates would qualify for either the main stage debate or for this weird innovation we've come up with this year, which is the kids' table debate, the so-called undercard debate. from debate to debate to debate, it's never been clear, oftentimes until the very last second, who gets in and who doesn't. but with all of that. with all of the consternation and criticism and ad hoc suspense of this year's debate process, there is one way in which this republican debate season has been a huge, unqualified success. and that is the...

See something potentially similar tonight. >> why are we getting the word ahead of time of every punch that bush is about to throw at rubio. is that a mole somewhere in the bush campaign? is it stupid p.r.? you're supposed to surprise people, to dry gulch them. you're not supposed to say, guess what i'm going to do to you tomorrow night? >> i think there's a strategy you're seeing among some campaigns that they're not revealing that line of attack. like, you're not hearing what they're going to come out with in the debates, but what they're going to do moving forward. it seems to be something ...

Good for him to be there and talk about what people in this state would like to see presidential candidates talk about. >> there's a certain extra level of angst or drama about it because it does seem sort of arbitrary in terms of whether or not he was let in or whether he wasn't. this debate process on the republican side has been so big and so chaotic, it seems like it was a little bit of just luck of the dice. >> well, if you're going to have eight at the adult table, four or six at the kids' table, what's the difference? >> you are the only democrat in south carolina's congressional delega...

And yet he's knocked out of a debate where i mean no disrespect to rand paul but you have rand paul, who has literally sold 500 books in the first two weeks of his publication. mark halperin, this debate process just got stranger. everybody assumed that the hottest guy in new hampshire and one of the hottest guys in social media this week would also get in. this is a decision that is flabbergasting. >> mark. >> well, i mean, in a normal cycle this would be maybe not a death nell but close to it for kriscris christie. he does have a fund raising problem. i think right now while it's unfortunate...