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Decisions if you let up to ten candidates on the stage at once. i think that's the biggest primary debate we've had, about ten candidates. when this historically enormous field evolved on the republican side and it looked like we'd have 16 or 17 candidates with a reasonable chance at being viable, does it make sense that the rnc didn't insist on a more inclusive criteria? there's a weird dynamic between a republican party and a media outlet being given much say in the process, isn't there? >> of course. remember they gave the same flexibility to cnn and they're having something similar in sept...

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...

Seems totally reasonable you wouldn't want more than ten candidates on the stage at once. maybe you wouldn't even expect you'd have to make hard decisions if you let up to ten candidates on the stage at once. i think that's the biggest primary debate we've had, about ten candidates. when this historically enormous field evolved on the republican side and it looked like we'd have 16 or 17 candidates with a reasonable chance at being viable, does it make sense that the rnc didn't insist on a more inclusive criteria? there's a weird dynamic between a republican party and a media outlet being give...

>> it's a filter, the filter the media, there's mean, template. there's narrative. it three or four buzz words we use here. >> jon: as we head for the iowa caucuses what's the media mean for the caucuses? >> oh, we have to wait and see about that. i still just totally focus on romney and the fact that most republicans say that they have not yet made up their minds, so, this could go in any one of a number one-- >> the media like news max did a story how anybody could beat obama basically and it was a politico gw poll and they choose and pick the polls going into their mean to write about. >> j...

>> jon: could that be a media mean? >> it's a filter, the filter the media, there's mean, template. there's narrative. it three or four buzz words we use here. >> jon: as we head for the iowa caucuses what's the media mean for the caucuses? >> oh, we have to wait and see about that. i still just totally focus on romney and the fact that most republicans say that they have not yet made up their minds, so, this could go in any one of a number one-- >> the media like news max did a story how anybody could beat obama basically and it was a politico gw poll and they choose and pick the polls going ...