From the first gop debate with donald trump versus the rest of the party. Check out this brand new cnn orc pol poll out this morning showing trump in first place among republicans with 18 support, jeb bush following with 15 . Well so much for the predictions made here on this program and everywhere else last weekend that trumps kban would implode after he insulted john mccain. It seems like hes doing better than ever. The new poll also shows trump is the gops most wanted the candidate voters most want to see at the debate. He is guaranteed a spot on the stage. But what about the rest of the pack . Fox news is holding the debate on august 6th and fogs is only going to invite the top ten candidates top ten in the polls. That means six will not make the cut. Its decision thats angered a lot of people including some of the candidates. They say fox is basically hoeing its own primary whittling down the field of candidates. Fox says it has no choice. Cnn is doing similar for its debate in se
seeing the operations firsthand right now. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, thank you. the coverage starts at 3:00 p.m. today with brian williamses here on msnbc. we shift to politics and dr. ben carson continuing to answer questions about his comments of islam and the presidency. today the candidate is not backing down. in two separate appearances in ohio and including a moment ago, he took questions from the media on this controversy and said the comments were in no way improper and accused the media looking for a juicy story that simply wasn t there. it was just a short time ago carson asked why none of the fellow republican candidates came to his defense. here s his response. probably because they re being political and people like to do what s politically expedient. not necessarily when s right. and they sort of put the finger up in the air and what can i say that won t get me in
you might be uncomfortable about donald trump because he keeps the name calling going on on twitter, the press conferences and speeches? what s wrong with candidates attacking each other? that s what politics is. any sense that this is not the history why not let the attacks continue? i think we can remind people of what it takes to win. %-pournumberwurngoalis to take the white house back. you can do what you want it s a free country. there s a part of the country where candidates debate why their policy positions are better than the other. i understand that. i think we have to remember that calling each other names is not exactly helpful and the long-term goal. you re looking ahead past all these debates, looking past these primaries and looking to the general election? i am as hard as that is some days that s always where the prize is. absolutely. sean thanks for being here. you bet, brian. thank you. here is a postscript to all
morning. somewhat the lesson we should learn from this times screw up. mike or res ski used to be a deeply managing editor at the times and now the head of news at mpr. i used to work at the times as well. we both know how the newsroom works. this went on late in the evening. presumably the clinton campaign started complaining about it. the changes were made in the middle of the night without a correction. what s your reaction to this dust-up? first of all, brian, it s important to put on the record what s right here before we get into all the things that went wrong. the democracy must have journalism organizations that are aggressive about trying to hold public officials to account. i m convinced the editors and reporters at the times were honestly trying to do that. it s very important. it s very important in the process of fixing what went wrong here we not defanning journalists who want to hold public officials to account. that needs to be said because we don t want to throw away