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And it's no disrespect to lindsey graham, but people are make different choices. >> sam, it's struck me, we've ended up in kind of a winnowing process as katie just said that no one actually designed. right? what happened was a ton of people ran for president. there was a bunch of debates. networks cannot run debates with 16 people. right? >> right. >> so they have to make some decisions. the decisions started getting made around national polling averages, which seems like a totally decent way of doing it. >> yeah. >> but now you've got this situation where you're running in this totally diffe...

August. if the general election were held today the same polling finds ben carson would be the person to beat hillary clinton. carson leader head to head by 50-39%, better than any other republican candidate. did you ever think it would come down to a former neurosurgeon up against a billionaire real-estate mogul like donald trump? bill: no one could have predicted that but i caution everyone in these polls, until the next debate which is in two weeks, two week from tonight the next republican debate. there will be of winnowing process because people have started to walk in. these polls are ok...

They'd come to your wedding. that was my reaction to it. bruce bartlett, thank you very much. >> thank you. as we've been discussing, the republican presidential field absolutely huge, huge. 17 major candidates fighting for meade why attention, most of them losing badly to trump. there's still 452 days until the general election, 171 days until the iowa caucuses, which is a pretty long time. but it appears the winnowing process may have begun. consider rick perry. perry has unable to get traction in the race, despite spending 14 years as texas governor. last week despite some incredibly hars...

Hillary clinton was to come to his wedding, but be that as it may. >> there was something deeply sad of giving someone money so they'd come to your wedding. that was my reaction to it. bruce bartlett, thank you very much. >> thank you. as we've been discussing, the republican presidential field absolutely huge, huge. 17 major candidates fighting for meade why attention, most of them losing badly to trump. there's still 452 days until the general election, 171 days until the iowa caucuses, which is a pretty long time. but it appears the winnowing process may have begun. consider rick perry. p...

>> well, prior to this year, before the last revision of the rules, they could just keep this logjam going for 21 days, and then it moved to a simple majority. and that doesn't happen now. pope benedict changed the rule to say it has to be a two-thirds majority. so there really has to be support and consensus among the body, which makes good sense. the only difference will be if they get through the end of this week and take the day off, he they return, only the top two names from the last ballot appear on the ballots from then on. >> so it's a winnowing process? >> right now it happens as the...