tonight's republican presidential debate continues right now. i'm abby philip in new york >> and i'm laura coates right here in washington, d.c.. for republicans will want to be the president of the united states took the stage in alabama tonight, took a lot of potshots at one of, from everything from the hamas israel war to immigration to the economy. >> but the candidate that you did not see on the stage was the front runner donald trump and he sparked the most explosive moments tonight. >> they've had these three acting as if the race is between the four of us. the fifth guy who doesn't have the guts to show up and stand here, he's the one who is way ahead in the polls, and yet i have these three guys were all sitting into compete with voldemort. he who shall not be named. they don't want to talk about him. the fact is when you go and say the truth about somebody who is a dictator, a bully, who has taken shots at everybody, whether they've given him great service or not overtime, who dares to disagree with him, then i understand why these three are timid to say anything about it. the fact of the matter is, he is unfit to be president and there is no bigger issue in this race. >> i want to bring in our all-star political panel. political pirated karen finney, former lieutenant georgia corn and jeff duncan, adam kinzinger, and senior political analyst and anchor john avalon. what kind of debate wooded this have been without chris christie? it feels to me like he really added a full special sauce to the conversation not just by putting trump on the debate stage but also forcing some of these candidates to answer some questions? >> this was chris christie's night i think. he was on fire from the very beginning. he was telling the truth. when he gets booed, this is what i love about him, he's not intimidated to get food. and i'll tell you buy a politician we don't like to get food. it's not a fun thing. boom all yet want, tom i'm telling you the truth. i think he did a service to the party. most of only disservice to the country. and i think he cleaned it up tonight. we'll make a difference that are now? but i think you did. amazing >> he also did a favor for the moderators frankly, because a lot of times people not and set you're not answering the question, a lot. >> let me go ahead and play that by of christy. >> i want to question, the question was very direct. is he fit to be president or isn't isn't he? the rest of the question answer is very interesting but not responsible, we are in a courtroom they strike the answer and say, you're a smart man desantis. >> normally wouldn't. chris >> it was strike the. answer >> no they wouldn't chris. >> is he fit? no it's not my thing. you're talking about him -- is he fit? >> governor desantis all right. >> we'll lincoln douglass debates stuff. you know, but again he's calling him out for not answering the question. if you're saying he's too old to be president, he's lost something on his fastball, just say it. the problem is this tiptoeing around because christie said they are timid. they are playing politics rather than simply telling the truth. >> lost his zip on his fastball is so euphemistic. you might almost miss it. and i think that there is something that christie was trying to say here that is just come out and say it. you have a lot of folks who are claiming to be the anti politician onstage, but doing a lot of. >> chris christie had a good nine, i applaud him for what he did tonight but also he's laid important work, he's laid the groundwork for what truly needs to be the direction of the republican party. we have to call balls and strikes to stay on the baseball team here. but he is playing to something that is really flawed with republicans right now. we keep allowing ourselves to get tricked with what we want to hear, and somebody doesn't actually follow through with reality in the loudest of half truths. what ron desantis did was not answer a question. he honestly doesn't believe donald trump is fit, but he didn't doesn't want to answer. it's not being honest with himself or the voters in a dozen potus us in a good position. even if he was the nominee, and he goes head to head with biden, he hasn't answered that question authentically. i applaud chris christie for his efforts. >> watching it, it was a very good night for democrats because when you heard chris christie being booed for telling the truth, i kept thinking that's an ad right there. the base of the republican party was boone chris christie for saying the truth. he was like a fourth moderator basically, and is trying to give ramaswamy the marco rubio treatment a couple of times and trying to get him implode, which he didn't quite do. but he just looked like such a buffoon and it really looked like he did not belong in the stage. a seemly be chris christie's other goal there was to try to swipe into the side and keep it focused. the other thing christie did i thought was interesting was when he tried to defend nikki haley. i want to say, she did not need him to do it because she held her own quite beautifully. but that was a nice play for a moderate republican actually. >> what do we make of how nikki haley handled herself tonight? she has been very aggressive in pretty much every debate which is gotten her to this point. tonight, it seemed to me that she was perhaps a little less, but she was taking so much incoming. how do think she? did >> i think she did find. i don't think if you would put her performance to debate performance and make some up and say which one was the best, this probably wouldn't be the best. but i think she did a really good service to herself by refusing to engage vivek in the one whatever he hitter on. she said it's not even worth my time. she took the jobs coming her way we'll. nothing in my mind stood out so i don't know if you're gonna see a massive nikki surge from tonight. nobody's gonna surge from tonight. it's donald trump, he's in the league. but i didn't think she did herself any, arma 3 she looked like she was a front runner there. >> she was taking the incoming she refused to take the bag i think there's something presidential about that. puts vacant a bit of a box. he's going after her with a canned sign that he had written and she just said no, i'm not gonna play ball. >> tonight, i she didn't need to get more points than board she needed to not damage yourself. clearly, she has some momentum with daughter, she has some momentum in the polls and she actually had a couple of really good solid answers wants the fellows were done interrupting each other and insulting each other she did make good use of her time. one of the things that we have to look at, as a woman candidate, women have to demonstrate toughness and compassion in very different ways and male candidates. and they are punished by my voters in very different ways. she continued to a very good job of, she was talking tough on china, and she made some good comments that of her time at the u.n.. she made good use of that expertise. but she also spoke with compassion where it was appropriate. again i think, she is threaded the needle better than amended. >> i am curious just as someone who is really focused as you both are on the future of the republican party. he is young, he is trying to mold him self in the mold of donald trump. what do you make of what he was doing and saying today. the 9/11 conspiracy theories, the january six conspiracy theories, the great replacement theory. there's so much there? >> what he is saying is taking us in the wrong direction. it's dangerous, it's reckless and to me it's selfish. it felt to me like he was trying to be donald trump's press secretary if donald trump wins the white house again. it's reckless and it's populism at its worst. had to watch him flip fly positions and what the chris christie did. but it's so disingenuous to watch this, but it is tricking the republican voters. people walking away from him thinking that he owned won that debate, because he threw enough barbs. >> as someone who lived through 9/11 up close, i was downtown three blocks from the towers when they fell. to hear him resuscitate 9/11, truth or conspiracy theories and then segue to january 6th and then segue to the great replacement theory. and then segue to 2020 election lies was so disgusting, it was pandering, it was pathetic and it was disqualifying. that's all we ever need to hear from ramaswamy ever again. and the january six they, throw the stuff on the wall. the police were opening the door for the rioters. i was there. the police were trying to settle the situation down because they had to retreat into the capitol while d.c. metro would defend the outside. that they were trying to de-escalate, and it takes little snippets of a police officer opening the door and saying it's a conspiracy. >> the same thing to do and that january 6th video is a thing they did to these video in atlanta with the votes. >> a little kernel of truth becomes a seed for -- stick around with. this >> so much happened, you think about the kernels of truth and then you think about the explosion of all the things that were just plain wrong. forget the term misinformation, just wrong. current mention that moment with christiane ramaswamy and we're gonna listen to really understand that particular defense. >> if you want to disagree on issues that's fine. and nikki and i disagree and some issues. but i'll tell you this. i've known her for 12 years, which is longer and he's even started the vote in the republican primary [applause] eyewall we disagree about finishes and we disagree about who should be the president of the united states, what we don't agree disagree on is this is a smart, accomplish woman and you should start stop insulting. her >> one or bring in can we please talk podcast. contributor john coast in, and political commentator chris salty's anderson. cami maybe cynical in this world whenever i see someone defend another in a context like this, i have to wonder, is chris christie defending nikki haley. does that help nikki haley, does that help chris christie? what was the goal? >> i think it felt like a genuine moment. >> the optimist! >> but sure, of course there is always motives behind any moment like that. it felt a bit genuine. he has known heresy said frequent long timing clearly he was very frustrated by vivek ramaswamy and, what he felt were unjustified attacks and someone like he said is not always voted consistently and election cycles. has not voted in a republican primary and is now trying to run for the presidency. whether or not, look there are all running for second place right now. they are not anywhere near their double digits behind the front runner right now, so this is not gonna make some substantial impact and sustainability. >> these are for people who have something in common with all of us, that they're not gonna be president of the united states. but i think it was also a moment we saw clear divide in who people were trying to talk to. vivek ramaswamy is not a populist, he's online. he's talking to us online audience, who were's use words like base. and responded to his great replacement theory, mention somebody got excited that somebody brought it on. he's not talking about industrial policy, he's not talking about the working for, he's talking to an online audience. chris christie and nikki haley are least talking to people who are not online. people who respect them for having gubernatorial experience. i think that was a moment of solidarity, looking at someone who is representative of an on real coalition. >> but where is the party going? is it the antiestablishment, is it online, as a people were gonna be receptive to what haley and kristi sent? >> well first of, it's ladies night, i don't know how i got into the studio. that's first, but laura mentioned this and james said to second place. felt like i was watching an nba preseason game. star is not playing in the game, about some backups, or give us some subs, i've got a rookie doesn't know anything in vague. he clearly show that throughout this entire debate. and by the way, in the preseason analogy, and waiting for the regular season, which is january 15th with the iowa primer. vivek tonight said he did not understand how private companies work. you know this better than anyone or. he shall to me they don't know what people do after they leave public office which is they either join tv, they write about, they teach at a law school or professor something like that, but he had no basic understanding of what people do after they leave d.c.. for him to attack nikki haley for some of these boards that she's been on. there was a washington post article about how transparent she's been with the money she's got and she disclosed all of the stuff. i thought that christy stood up for her, i like that he did that, because they had a bit some tepid responses from him when he called trump a dictator and people were booing him in the crowd. but they're all vying for second place. we're all watching something that i don't know if it means anything. i want to mean something. >> the shame of it all feeling like they are all fighting for second place is there were moments it was about 90 minutes in ron desantis had this relatively incisive sort of explanation of why me and why not donald trump? and then nikki haley's closing remarks, she had a great case for why me and why not donald trump? the problem is, that was the first question they were asked. they could've got that out in the first five minutes of that debate. instead they waited for the last quarter of it. when people have already tuned out. this needed to be the message they were delivering from day one with strength. because at this point, you've almost run out of -- >> snow who's your favorite president? >> i have a quote. tonight is that famous saying orienting a what second places. the first to lose. but here it is second place, to the vice presidency. are you suggesting that nikki haley, the vague ramaswamy, chris christie or rhonda satisfying to be vice president. they will never be, i don't know who might. be think half of them on the stage, christina desantis or vivek ramaswamy are likely to be vice president, nikki haley has very directly gone after trump, calling the most part unpopular politician in america. he called her bird brain response. and chris christie at this debate and at the prior debates made very clear that he is no longer in line with the republican party that has been molded under trump. he has called him a liar, called him a dictator tonight, a said that he's a threat to this country in the constitution. i think maybe two out of the four on that stage might be looking at a vp post. >> so what's the value of second? place >> i think the value of second places that we all know these people are. we all know vivek ramaswamy. we all know who these people are. i'm just struck by how much the republican party is changed, in that it is been a contest between vivek and desantis and others to sound like trump but better than trump but still like trump. because everybody likes trump but why can't trumpy president if everybody likes trump? it's his endless question that they seem unable to answer. that if you want to sound like trump and you think that trump is a great president, and why shouldn't i just feel for him. it's like trying to explain why you want caffeine free coke. no one wants caffeine free coke. >> and our latest zone can please check it. at the throw that in. we >> we are decaffeinated. >> but we had washington post national politics reporter rodriguez and both of us went to the third debate in miami. i've got family members, i'm cumin, i love around the trump flags and let's go branded trees shirts. you could tell from her reporting and what she did with reporters and something stuff that i've done, internal focus groups with my own family. we like desantis but trump is here. he's not going anywhere. i could go for nikki haley but trump is here. so they are all going i could, i could, when trump is still here. he is still here, is still not going anywhere. mitch mcconnell had a chance to wipe this olive we all know and he didn't do it and that we are dealing with this. it's way different from 2015. i don't think any of these folks are vying for any cabinet positions or anything with donald trump. vivek maybe. i'll give him half of one. >> it's think desantis wouldn't take a cabinet post. he would if he was offered one. >> the blind taste test somewhere and all of this. zero cope, talk to pepper, everybody stick around because up next, i watched this debate with callers tunes. hear what they think. plus university presidents are under intense pressure tonight over how antisemitism and some of their testimony. as republican candidates go after them. this is cnn special live coverage. well tonight, candidates making their final pitch for american people before the primary season officially begins. our next guest watching tonight's debate with us, a few university students. frank joins us right now good to see you. what are the some of the students who are with you saying what about what they heard tonight? >> well, first they thought it was a little rougher, they were entertain. i thought the exchanges were little rougher than what they were hoping for in the presidential contest. second they, felt that there was too many soundbites witches obvious for those of us consultants who help in situations like this and not enough policies. i thought the chris christie one. and the reason why they felt he was the most direct, he answered the questions honestly and candidly that he held other candidates feet the fire. we have been waiting for this performance for sometime. chris christie proved that he is not just a -- but he knows how to hold the other candidates accountable. >> that's a perfect segue for what i was about to ask you about. want to play one of those examples. it's actually an example of two things. one, christy answering a direct question but also calling out his opponents for not answering the question. listen. >> would you send american troops into -- >> i would absolutely, if they had a plan which showed me and we could get them out safely or dam right i would send the american army in there to get our people home and home now, and i'll answer that question directly. >> what did you and your students think about that moment both from a policy perspective in the style of it? >> they thought that it wasn't important like a question of when do you send troops is not esoteric. that if you are talking to students from a military academy for example that this is an exam decision means their life or death so, they take it very seriously. and they appreciated the fact that chris christie looked straight into the camera and answered a clearly. and they were annoyed at governor desantis for not doing the same particularly as christy challenged in. it was a lesson for candidates. when you take people on and you ask them a direct question, you're gonna hurt yourself with a debate audience if you don't give a direct answer. >> frank, you get of yes or no answers especially if you are going to be decisive commander-in-chief and had the executive branch. i'll give everyone a happy. taking a step back in the big picture here. will this race produce an establishment alternative to trump more of a just vying for the elusive second place that might not translate to anything? >> that's an important question. at this point, let's give donald trump is due. his lead is significant. it may be insurmountable, and it's in every state, it's not just iowa, not just new hampshire, not just south carolina. but across the country. that said, we have seen situations where candidates who are front runners suffer a surprise, not in iowa, or new hampshire. what is needs to happen is that one of these candidates will hold trump to a victory of less than doubled inches. and if they can't and he's two states, fully donald trump's to lose. i want to make one point. the people that want you were so disappointed that they actually thought joe biden might have been a winner simply by not proceed to submitting by not being part of this because it did not reflect well on the republican party. >> joe biden may have been a winner, some people say trump may have been a winner by not being on that debate stage for months. frank thank you for joining us is always. the president the university of pennsylvania walking out remarks after comments that she and other ivy league presidents made about campus happy antisemitism sparked outrage. more on that next. the power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. and that's a good thing? great in my book! who are you? no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. you've been subjected to hatred for centuries and were the victims of mass genocide in the holocaust. and my view it would be harassment or intimidation. >> tonight's republican debate, nikki haley blasted the testimony of mcgill and by the way the presidents of harvard and m.i.t.. >> it was disgusting to see what happened. you know, if this had been the that was doing protests on those campuses, every one of those college presidents would be up in arms. this is just as bad. the idea that they would go and allow the kind of pro hamas protest or agree with the genocide of and try to say that they needed context on that, there is no context to that. >> back at the table on this one, this was a pretty clear fumble by the university presidents in addition to the ten university putting out that video, it was also statement from harvard's president basically walking back her comments and saying that calls for genocide against the jewish people have no place in harvard. but she did not say in her testimony, yyz this happening? >> why did they give the answers they gave the testimony? this wasn't a problem of tough questions or grill rubbing under fire. being asked of you think the calls for genocide against the jewish people violets or campuses code of harassment and bullying, come on! it's not even a free speech question, it's a campus coat. for all the amount of energy that the collagen ministration's place in micro aggressions, i'd say calling on genocide is in aggression. you've gotta clean it up. it's frankly too little, too late. >> i think that's the important point, because unfortunately i have personally been shocked at how poorly college campuses and administrators have handled this situation from the very beginning. i drop actually is to keep your students on your campus safe, and to ensure that freedom of speech is not infringing on people's ability to feel safe, to feel like they can go to class safely, feel like they can live their lives safely. and when we pay attention to the tone and the tenor of the language that is being used. when we look at the horrendous defensive october 7th, we saw collagen minutes traders scrambling to figure out, again i think if they would've come up with an affirmative here's what we stand for, here's our values, and try to set a baseline. and find a place to go back to, now they're all trying to catch up. >> but they can all do that because it seems in part the students. the students, the young people on these campuses are so far to the left on this issue, backed up by some of their professors the, faculty. it's hard. it's a tough situation. >> it's not a false choice to say that we are against hamas but you are for the palestinian people. you are for the people of israel and against antisemitism and against islamophobia. >> in the wake of a horrific terror x-ed attack. >> this is a complicated scenario but an easy answer and it just amazes me how many smart people continue to follow us not to the right thing. just because the students maybe support of or left leaning on this issue doesn't mean you do the right thing in that position. you've got to lead. i think nikki's example she is during the debate was incredibly sobering level set. if that was the, this is an absolute no-brainer. nobody would even remotely split hairs on the issue. they would be straightforward, upfront, at the steps of their office making that statement. there is something deeply, deeply broken in the campuses around this country. that first off campus presidents would even show pressure the shows sympathy to hamas or to allow antisemitism. that means there is a failure, it's supposed to be colleges and universities that help shape young people. i get it, we all want to go, there we all want to be free. we all did that when we were in college. but it's a colleges job, it's a schools drop to help shape the populace to beat with citizens. what they are shaping now are antisemites and people have no idea how evil hamas is i hope because i would hate to think they know how evil hamas's and they still sympathize with them over a religion that has been persecuted from the beginning of time. >> one of the things i hear, the question asked about the students is you here on the left, when you demand that i condemn hamas, that is racist, because i don't answer for hamas. i think they feel like these university presidents when they are being forced to condemn hamas, it is sort of like feeding into this idea that palestinians are hamas. this is the argument >> here right >> here right this is the argument i'm giving. >> and i think that conflation between palestinians and hamas is fundamentally wrong, insulting and dehumanizing. but the context that gave rise to these protests is that the amicus terrorist attack so horrific in his details that for people to say that i can't defend, i'm being asked to condemn terrorists is somehow putting me in a defensive crouch is actually showing your cards. it's in the wake of a terrorist attack. nobody's equating hamas and the palestinian people. >> you can condemn terrorism and also say that you want fewer civilians to die in gaza. >> absolutely. >> in the early days, some of these folks had gotten out there and set an affirmation values, we are for protecting innocent human life. what we saw on october 7th was disgusting, despicable all of that. and i will just say it because i know some people think we're not seeing it enough, the use of as a weapon of war is disgusting. and we do have to stand up and speak out about it. it's also hard to see what has been happening to the palestinian people. those two things can be true and to your point, just as we have denounced ices, we can denounce hamas. that is not racist. because the palestinian people, i don't look at palestine people i think hamas. i don't want people looking at me and thinking that i'm some kind of you know, uber revolutionary just because my skin is dark. i don't look at what people would say you must be a clansmen because your white. the last thing i will say in this. part of the problem in this country, we don't have these hard conversations. we shy away from these conversations when we are divided around all kinds of lines. and instead of having those conversations, we just and we >> and we don't understand warfare by the way. >> that is a whole other word. very important conversation but a whole other conversation. everybody stick around for the former speaker kevin mccarthy announcing that he's leaving congress at the end of the year, which means a shrinking majority in the house for republicans. we will discuss that. dear moms and dads, what you have achieved here today is going to help us and our futures. it is why we're coming up on stage to collect your diplomas. mom, love you always. vo: when you graduate, they graduate. visit finishyourdiploma.org to find free and supportive adult education centers near you. house republicans are now in a very precarious position tonight as their grip on power is shrinking. kevin harvey announcing he is retiring. joining a long list of other members of congress. cnn senior data reporter harry enten has more on all of this. harry? >> abby, the house gop come january will leave no margin for error. their majority will be just seven seats, that is their smallest majority since 1954. that is the shape covenant garcias left them in. in terms of their exact margin for error, how many defections can they have and still hold the democrats vote against them, just three. three defections assuming all members vote. get this, though if just one gop members, absent they can afford just two defections, just two defections. this is part of what is going on here, is why, why republicans have had such a tough time passing bills. so busy interest illusions that have become law this congress, just 22. that is the lowest, the lowest in any congress through this point in the congress in the last, get, this 50 years. one thing that is really driving, this is the in the divisiveness during the gop caucus. i decide to take a look at the house gop caucus in their voting record, get, this the house gop caucus is the most ideologically diverse since 1992. you get folks on the center like mike lawler, you get folks on the far-right like matt gaetz, and that just makes it extremely difficult for republicans, and that is only going to become more difficult to come january where the margin for error will be quite small. abby, back to you. >> it certainly will, be area, thank you. laura? >> really important data point, my panelist is back with me right now. i want to take a step back, because you heard -- say, this one-two punch coming, you have the presidential election, 300 days, away you have a slimming majority that is really almost obsolete in terms of majority now. they are going to have to tow the line to hold on to their place, and also getting the president in the oval office as a republican, can they do it? so the irony is, we are in this polarizing moment where we think everybody is in either camp, red or camp blue, and when harry said that last little factoid there was so interesting. i think it explains a lot about the angsty we are seeing as we head to the presidential election. nadia that republicans are not actually all unified, or all in lockstep. as we see over the last few weeks with the flare-ups around israel versus hamas, the -- we have in our country, you can have five or six parties living under the service of this two party system. so that is how we are having these primaries, where we will wind up with as trump biden rematch that most americans go, i cannot believe this is who we are stuck with. our system is such a strange fit for the incredible ideological diversity, we actually have in this country. >> i just want to mention one thing, because echoed as you are saying in my head, is representative chip roy if you weeks ago on the house floor, yelling profusely. we played at the top of the show recently. give me one thing that we have passed legislatively, that can take back to my district. we all remember that. if you think about that, that soundbite is resonating. 26 states that are potentially in play, mike lawler has mentioned this a bunch to monteiro and other congressional folks, hey, i administering, district i have to go back, this is -- he said, i have to go back. what am i taking back to them? and 22 pieces of legislation, the lowest amount. again, what are we taking back? this is why maybe their debate matters a little bit, because it will have a trickle effect down the ballot. >> some people are taking back the district themselves that kevin mccarthy who is saying, look, i'm out at the end of the year. there are other mchenry's out now. the majority slimming. not just people who are the unknown, these are very consequential figures in washington d.c.. the says a lot. >> what a stunning, as they are in the majority. they have the majority in the house. and normally, the party that is in the majority does not see this many people saying i'm going to pack it in, i'm going to resign, i'm not actually going to finish my full term. but look, mccarthy is upset that he got ousted, and i think this speaks to what we have seen since he became speaker. subsequently he was ousted. you heard from republicans, as republicans over and over again, which is they say they are not governable. they are not interested in governing. and i think they have demonstrated that this year with their inability to pass any type of unwillingness to even want to get on board and pass bipartisan bills. when some of them, do they decide to oust their speaker. mccarthy was ousted because he put a bill on the floor that got bipartisan support. and -- >> clutcher pearls. that was the biggest thing in the world. >> right, it got more democratic support than republican support, but they get a significant number of republicans and he got arrested for that. now we may not even be able to see any type of national security supplemental package reach the floor that would send more money to ukraine, or to israel, or even to border security because republicans can't come to an assessment on this. >> right, when i spoke with don bacon, he compared members of his own party to the know nothing party of the 1840s. these are people who suppose to be working with. he's talking about when he sees matt gaetz, he avoids them. it does not want to talk to him. these are people who are supposedly, for your point, they are technically in the same party. they are not able to get along out anything, especially because i think they have become so stuck on the idea of politics as the point. politics is not the point of what they do. politics is how they get it done, but they are supposed to be governing. but there are a lot of people who are part of this caucus who don't want to govern. they want to get a lot of attention, they want to get on tv, they want you to know their names. but they don't actually care if anything gets passed. then you have a bunch of her president is who we don't know their names, who are in swing districts, who are like hey, my district is asking, can we get some flood insurance, can we do something about infrastructure? can we do something about actual issues? and they are like aha, no, no we can't. we can't get anything done in this congress. >> because the economy, a really important, point everyone stick around. i love having this conversation with all of you. donald trump may not have attended the debate, but he will attend a court trial tomorrow. that is next. i want you all to picture here election day, you will be heading to the polls to vote, and that is something that donald trump will not be able to do, because he will be convicted of felonies before then, and his right to vote will be taken away. >> chris christie not mincing orchids as he often did tonight. this debate is actually just happening hours before trump is supposed to attend his civil fraud trial. now that, one, laura is not about penalty, is about the other ones are. now we have the, system we have to contemplate what might happen if there is a convicted felon on the ballot. >> it is true, the constitution is nosing disqualifying things about someone who might not have charges against him as we farewell may, no better new york, that is a civil fraud trial, abby. the criminal ones haven't begun yet. people are already trying to take him off the ballot in places like colorado, michigan, and beyond. they have not been successful. this florida law, it is you for even vote if you have been convicted of a felony -- -- some poll of three movie can't be on the ballot, all of this is coming into focus in a novel way. we have never been here talk about uncharted territory for sure i think we will have to contemplate at all. thank you so much for watching our special live coverage tonight of the republican primary debates. >> we are going to see you all tomorrow night at ten and 11. more post debate analysis is next.

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