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"washington post" opinion writer also an msnbc contributor. mr. kornacki, let's start with you. run us through the numbers. give it to us on your big board. how do the candidates stand? >> a very suspenseful morning. here's the bottom line. these ten candidates who are highlighted here amidst this field of more than 20 democratic candidates, these ten candidates qualified for the debate in september. what does that mean? you had to hit a donor threshold, 130,000 or more dough nations. plus 2% in at least four polls. these candidates did it. the success spespense this morne were two candidates ...

You're accept dough nations? >> i'm turning down millions of dollars for the campaign. everybody's offering me money and i don't want it. so i'm turning down millions of dollars and no interest. [ cheers and applause ] >> okay, so he's disavowed fund-raising since the beginning of his campaign. how important is it for him being this megamillionaire billionaire. how important is it for him to stick to this and show he's not taking money from anybody. >> he's making a huge mistake here. there's nothing wrong with taking $100 contributions and it could have been used to his advantage. he could sa...

You throw into that tapran the mix of a ted cruz and rand paul and mike huckabee and others this is going to create and add to the tension between the two of them i think. >> absolutely. and, michael let me bring you back in on what we've learned about this fundraising strategy with hillary clinton. according to the associated press advisors have set a modest goal of raising $100 million for the primary campaign and will not initially accept dough nations for the general election. using that small donor energy when she does talk about the support she can use that line that we heard often from ...