threatening to boycott the next gop debate, which is on cnbc. basically, a conference call happened today. you ve got to love the fact they re now throwing their weight around as front-runners saying they don t want to sit around for more than two hours, they re frustrated with the cnn debate. do you think they basically have cnbc over the barrel, betsy? look, it s totally plausible if donald trump and ben carson actually pull out, what happens to their ratings? it s kind of boring. i mean, let s be very honest, very candid here. do we want to watch a republican primary debate that doesn t have donald trump? i don t know. i don t know if i m tired of it yet. and trump was so bright pink by the end of the last one that i understand him not wanting to stand up there for three hours. so yeah, i think they have a lot of leverage. i think the rnc is going to be pulling for them too because it has to. and it will be interesting to see if cnbc blinks or not. cnbc of course our sister netw
bill and all these kinds of things. i think the people who give money kind of know, that especially if they re rich. so my second favorite campaign story of the day is ben carson and donald trump threatening to boycott the next gop debate, which is on cnbc. basically, a conference call happened today. you ve got to love the fact they re now throwing their weight around as front-runners saying they don t want to sit around for more than two hours, they re frustrated with the cnn debate. do you think they basically have cnbc over the barrel, betsy? look, it s totally plausible if donald trump and ben carson actually pull out, what happens to their ratings? it s kind of boring. i mean, let s be very honest, very candid here. do we want to watch a republican primary debate that doesn t have donald trump? i don t know. i don t know if i m tired of it yet. and trump was so bright pink by the end of the last one that i understand him not wanting to stand up there for three hours. so yeah,