president obama was appearing at a fund raise in new york where he turned republican outrage over the last debate into a pretty effective punch line. >> every one of these candidates say, you know, obama's weak. putin's kicking sand in his face. when i talk to putin, he's going to straighten out. just looking at him, he's going to be -- and then it turns out they can't handle a bunch of cnbc moderators at a debate. if you can't handle those guys, you know, then i don't think the chinese and the russians are going to be too worried about you. >> even megyn kelly was ridiculing the gop candidates mocking the demands in their letter to the networks. >> they want all the candidates to receive similarly substantive questions.