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I think we covered a lot of territory. and we're starting to see people being able to make choices. >> let me ask you about this issue. it is an internal intramural battle in the republican party. you stood to defund and get rid of obamacare and you were kind of excoriated by members of your own party i supported you. in effort. i want to be straight up with my audience here. and i was surprised others didn't support you. so do you think this is an intramural squabble? will this be resolved in this presidential race? >> i think the really divide is whether we'll have republicans that actually ...

Were at 1% now we're up to 5%. it's the early states that determine this campaign. so we have good stuff on the ground in iowa and we have a good organization but voters can't be informed by a limited debate process. so let's ask the people if they think it's right that party bosses limit the debates for a vote that we cast that's personal as president of the united states. this process has shown time and time again the candidates that the rest of the country perhaps had never heard of emerge in the early states. why? because that's the -- those are the places where the voters had the opportun...

Were to guess i would suggest it happened this way, the republican national committee wants that field winnowed. they know it's too big and the longer it goes on with 15 or 16 or 17 candidates, the more negative attacks you'll have candidate against candidates. why did they want to reduce the number of debates? they believe mitt romney was weakened by the debate process in 2012 when many of those candidates survived for a long time and attacked romney pretty intensely for months and months. they wanted to prevent that this time. they wanted to winnow the field but they didn't want to do it bec...

Negative attacks you'll have candidate against candidates. why did they want to reduce the number of debates? they believe mitt romney was weakened by the debate process in 2012 when many of those candidates survived for a long time and attacked romney pretty intensely for months and months. they wanted to prevent that this time. they wanted to winnow the field but they didn't want to do it because the committee would get the blame for excluding candidates, so instead they said to the networks, you come up with a process. it's okay. whatever you do we'll rubber stamp, it's all right. the netwo...

I don't think that it hurts. i think that donald trump and the trum name isdonald trump name is a national brand name. it's fair to say that donald trump speaks for donald trump. i don't think that it has anything to do with the republican party. i think that all of them speak for themselves. when we get a nominee, i know that we're analyzing week by week but we're going to have a nominee by the end of march and april. you have it in april, may, june, july and i just think that those months are like years, and i just don't see it. i think that both sides are going to have nominees that are goi...