on how many debates that we will have in the first place debbie wasserman schultz has ruled from above we are not going to have more even though there is strong appetite for more even if it s just hillary and bernie talking all night. i think we should have a debate. mostly i wish journalist wouldn t have a bias when asking questions that would be nice and if we could stick to the appropriate topic. as you say the republicans shouldn t complain don t whine i think you said. the media research center did a study, 43 unique questions two thirds of them were either negative or add homonym attacks during the candidates. i m a candidate. i m not sure i want that. candidates whining isn t a good stance. the candidates themselves should be on the offense, not the defense. let their surrogates complain. cnbc was exposed looked nasty and unprepared. candidates should be focus canned on their message not poor little me. if you can t handle those
people are saying he needs to be fired. eric, what did they expect? it s nbc, it s cnbc. you know what you going going to get with them. look, i don t think it s a good stance for the g.o.p. to be whining. the party is so bogged down with this message they were mean to us. i don t think it it s a winning message. they do have to do something to fix this because it is a disaster. i will say, this eric. the candidates really did benefit the other night. they benefited because they were able to shine with those questions. ted cruz never looked better. same with rubio. they had a very viable energy. they exposed media bias and they united the party. the ones that can think on their feet quickly they did shine they took shots at the media jessica, i looked at the dnc debate schedule coming forward. i see cnn, cbs, univision and pbs. do you know what s missing from the democrat debates? fox? look what happens, on the left the democrats won t come to fox to do a debate. we put ridiculous
succeed in marginalizing this emand after that it was like these people are not even professional enough to run this operation whether you like them or not. they earned it. i didn t do it to them. they did it to themselves. i heard you say on fox and friends in your own very shy manner that the moderators were quote, unquote awful. not only was harwood incredibly bias and he was, but all of them did not control the debate in any way. it turned into a free for all. did you and your advisers, did you think they were going to be biased against you and the other republicans? we were hoping not, but listen, this is nbc and i ve had my history with nbc, msnbc. msnbc is a different animal and everybody knows that s a liberal network, but nbc news is supposed to be objective and so is cnbc. uh-huh. okay. i ve been looking at your tax plan and your flat tax plan. i want smaller government. i want more money in the pockets of american workers very, very badly, but your plan i
campaigns. always in the past it s been directly with the campaigns. this year it has been with the rnc as well. i think the campaigns now see their best path forward individually for them is to try and do it themselves. let s look at those conditions. we just put some up on the screen. this is what the campaigns want, the two-hour time limit. 30-second opening staples. that s something many press for. here s one that i don t know how you regulate. equal speaking time, editorial control of the graphics. jeb bush didn t like a graphic up during the cnbc debate. is there precedent for this? are they reasonable? yes, they re reasonable and sort of modest in scope. we know the ben carson campaign was looking for some pretty extreme demands heading into that debate, demands that would have turned the debates into something more like forums. asking for time limits, a certain amount of time to answer
thought the first debate was good. they didn t ask me any questions that were beneath me or i felt were below the belt. let me tell you this, i told sean hannity and i ll tell you, i rather come on with you and spend 15 minutes with you asking me any tough question you want to and people can find out who i am. harry truman could not be elected president on a 30-second response. what s your biggest weakness? which other candidate is crazy. one about the import/export banks, student loans and marijuana. those aren t tough questions. how do you explain to the voters and the gop that we re against everything obamacare and yet you took money from obamacare and how do you handle the obamacare subsidy in ohio. how do where you answer that? first of all, medicare is a program for the poor, okay? and i took the growth of it from 10% to 2.5% and we didn t cut one benefit nor did we take anybody off the roles and what we learned from that is health