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Forum of its top two candidates. the issue. the length of the debate. and cnn agreed the debate will be two hours, fantastic news for all especially the millions who will be watching. dylan byers has more on this. good morning. >> good morning carol. how are you? >> i'm good. so cnbc, what, broke? >> yeah. basically what happened is donald trump and ben carson and some others in the campaign sort of forced their hand. they all got on conference call earlier this week and campaign managers and spokespeople said look, we're not comfortable with another debate that runs to three hours. and we als...

>> i thought we were going to the joe biden bite again. we don't have that. jim acosta, reporting live from washington. on the republican side, donald trump is claiming vick over to other the cnbc network. trump along with ben carson threatening to boycott the debate if it was more than two hours in late. this morning cnbc agreed to limit the debate to two hours. trump tweeting about his triumph, saying in part that it was fantastic news for all, especially the millions of people who will be watching it. joining me now to talk about this and more, robert zimmerman, a democratic strategist an...

Stage. so obviously it wasn't their first choice. but by the time, you know, within last few hours cnbc did agree to limit the debate to two hours. they have spoken to the rnc. and now with the rnc, the republican national committee, is doing is making phone calls to these campaigns to make sure all of these campaigns are on board with the decision to limit it to two hours. as for the decision regarding opening and closing statements that remains to be determined. >> dylan byers, thanks so much. trump says cnbc caved and biden looks like he just might throw his head into the wring. so it is ...

They were told by the regulators, you have the neighborhood. now, what's the neighborhood? well, we're on cnn right now. >> so cnbc, bloomberg, fox news should all be around us? >> it should be, shouldn't it? bloomberg isn't. cnn -- sorry -- comcast agreed to neighborhood, so agreed to put cnn next to fox next to msnbc next to cnbc. 24-hour cable news, and in the case of cnbc, which comcast owns the financial network. what is bloomberg? it's a financial news network. so it should be next to cnbc so that people see bloomberg and say, oh, i'm curious about bloomberg. >> this wound up in litigati...

Cnbc. >> you spent more time on the camera than anyone. you rarely do interviews, why is that? >> basically, i won, by 312 votes, i think, the people of minnesota wanted to know that i was going to focus on them and on the job, and that's what i wanted to do. >> would you go on the new late show with steven colbert next year? what do you think of that announcement? >> i think steven is just brilliant, and i think every comedian and every satirist feels the same way. i think it's a great choice. it's going to be interesting to see him do it as himself. i mean, this is not in character. >> he's ...