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Temperature from having to face his critics at his ankles all the time. martha: there were opening statements and closing statements which i think some people snoozed through. >> the opening statement are a total waste of time. if you want to hear gaffes, you can go and test them. you know it's a collaborative process. you go back and forth with these campaigns. what's interesting and unusual in trump and carson's case, they thought they could go public and try to force cnbc's hands in public. martha: it looks like they did. there are new numbers on the

Disgust with what is going on in washington and both of these guys are tapping into it. you know, i was listening to marc thiessen, a colleague of mine at american enterprise institute earlier on the show. he was talking about trumping carson and outsiders all together. i think people are taking that analysis a bit too far. carson's support is very different than donald trump's support. what unites them, they both, that everybody just doesn't like washington right now and doesn't like the two major parties. martha: they are looking for someone who is brash, who is willing to say it like it is....

In a war with cnbc, threatening to boycott the network. >> they want to thick this an extra hour. i think it's unfair to the viewers, and they are doing it because they want to make more money. we agreed to two hours and yesterday they came up with this additional long period of time. the networks are making a fortune off this stuff. they never made money, they always lost money with it, now they are making a fortune, i wonder why. martha: cnbc tweeted that they have agreed to the two-hour debate he and carson wanted.

Gregg: as president obama announces an about-face on defense policy former defense secretary robert gates is slamming the white house saying the interference he experienced from the white house was unprecedented. >> it was the operational micromanager of white house staffers calling senior commanders on the field of asking them questions of second guessing. that's the kind of thing that made me cratey. gregg: we'll be talking with general jack keane in just a few minutes. martha gregg: trumping carson, getting