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Since the nuclear deal, the iranians have test-fired a missile in violation of the sanctions. they have put troops on the ground in iran to hurt our interest and have jailed the fourth american business person. is this the change we are hoping for? iran is just slapping obama and kerry in the face. we have about 30 seconds left. i do want to talk about the debate. there's a big meeting in northern virginia, talking about changes in debates going forward after the debacle on wednesday. what changes do you want to see? >> i want smaller groups on the stage, better questions, and let us all be ...

>> i have asked my staff to reach out to all these staffs at all the other candidates and let's talk about a different type of format, perhaps something where you have two, three, four, five minutes to talk about your policies, tax policies and other kinds of things and then be questioned about them. >> in response to republican national committee took major action announcing it was suspending its relationship with nbc news for its scheduled february 26th debate in houston. nbc replied by saying it expected to resolve the matter in further discussions with the rnc. joining us now with reaction...

We have now. the people need to be able to find out what is the thing that distinguishes each one of us. >> i want smaller groups on the stage, better questions and let us all be heard from equally. reince priebus is a good man. he's rebuilt a republican party that was pretty much in tatters and this debate structure is not leading to the best candidate coming out of the debate. >> molly is live in washington, d.c. for us and we heard from the campaign staff going into this meeting this evening, and i know you've got that for us. what are they saying? >> hi. the republican national committee o...

A little traveling. were you one of the winners last night by all accounts on social media and i across the board. was that moment a planned moment for you or something that evolved. >> it wasn't planned, as i listened to the questions rolling out, they each became more and more egregious and it became apparent that the moderators, they weren't there trying to actually help primary voters decide who to vote for. their object was to belittle, to insult each of the candidates and to get them fighting as much as possible. and you know, i just think that's ridiculous and it's not beneficial. you k...

Great deal of angst about the debates, setting aside what we have seen with trump for quite some time. we do have a very wide field. we have a debate structure that was set up to address problem in the 2012 cycles. it does not address the problem we are dealing with in this juncture, and there are a lot of qualified candidates who are not polling where they will make it into the debate. that's problems for the campaigns, but frankly it's of concern to a lot of people in the water at large and the rnc itself, because if these people don't make it in, we're actually failing to give an accurate p...