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Decision about whether he or she wants to come to the debates, based on the information that they get back. >> now the rnc had proposed delegate penalties for, say, going rogue on this debate process. is that now null and void? what's going on here? >> i'm not sure it was ever -- it was never put in the rules and would have had to have been put in the rules by now. so i think it became null and void as an idea last august when the deadline for rules change passed. >> so the rnc doesn't have a role anymore? or help me out. do you believe the candidates are going to essentially say, fine, they'r...

Specific details about what each debate would look like including a pledge to keep the temperature of the debate venue below 67 degrees. the less than 24 hours later donald trump already seems to have changed his mind about the new republican alliance. "washington post" reporting trump and his advisers are planning to negotiate directly with the tv networks about debate format and to reject the joint letter to the networks drafted at yesterday's meeting. speaking with nbc news, trump's campaign manager wouldn't say one way or the other what they're doing about the letter. but now spokespeople ...

Statement. nic robertson, thank you. this morning, republican presidential candidates big plans to put up a united front with more control of the future debates falling apart. this as a pair of new polls paint a confusing picture of the gop race. cnn's sara murray has the latest. >> reporter: good morning, alison and miguel. it is not donald trump leading nationwide. instead ben carson is the frontrunner in the nbc news/wall street journal poll. he leads 28% to 23%. trump has bragging rights. he leads in a monmouth university poll in new hampshire. it is a wide lead. he is ahead of carson by...

They'd say yes. instead we've got a bunch of people who are fighting among themselves and also don't even have a coherent set of demands. i think the real winner here may be donald trump because he's the only one who actually knows something about television in this whole group. he'll get terms favorable to whatever it is he wants to do. it will be every man for himself. but in the end the networks will win anyway and do whatever they want. >> if this sort of plays out to the conclusion that is implied but not overtly threatened and the candidates, at least some number of them, say we won't pa...

Instead we've got a bunch of people who are fighting among themselves and also don't even have a coherent set of demands. i think the real winner here may be donald trump because he's the only one who actually knows something about television in this whole group. he'll get terms favorable to whatever the hell he wants to do. it will be every man for himself. but in the end the networks will win anyway and do whatever they want. >> if this sort of plays out to the conclusion that is implied but not overtly threatened and the candidates, at least some number of them, say we won't participate unl...