santorum, who in all fairness showed a certain degree of courage. >> so the question is will all of these candidates go right back into the debate if newsmax gets a new moderator? five days ago the chairman of the republican party, reince priebus, said the candidates were free to go to the trump debate if they wanted to. >> i think that these are programs that etch aof these candidates have to decide for themselves whether they're going to compete in. there's strategy involved, competing and not competing. those are things those candidates -- >> and just a day later karl rove flipped out. >> what the heck are the republican candidates doing showing up at a debate with a guy who says i may run for president next year as an independent? i mean, i think the republican national chairman ought to step in and say we strongly discourage every candidate from appearing in a debate mod raitt by somebody who's going to run for president. >> so when karl rove tells the republican national committee chairman what to do, the chairman listens. fox news put reince priebus on