trump has, whatever inflated number he may or may not put on him, means he can go to the country with tens of millions of dollars worth of paid media to make his case. so i think ruling him out, saying he s finished why don t we wait and see what happens. i don t know how to tell you what happens. by the way i m told the debate criteria they are set, not changing. as of the moment he will be on that stage. jeff thanks for being here this morning. pleasure. in a moment rupert murdock turning against trump. i have two voices you have to hear from hollywood actor say morales. the intense press conference did cbs s major garrett insult president obama? all that after this.
nomination. who gets to get into the debates. and according to the debate criteria established by the fox news channel though there will probably be 17 major republican candidates declared by the time of the first debate they are only going to let 10 of the 17 compete based purely on national polling. well, the latest national poll has donald trump in first place. fox apparently says they are going to average the most five national polls to decide and who is not allowed. by our calculations here is where that average of the last five polls stands right now. averaging at the last five by our calculation there are basically seven podiums on fox news s stage for the debate. seven of the ten podiums that are pretty safe. unless something happens to change the next couple weeks these seven guys and all guys will make the stage. jeb bush scott walk e ben car soon rand paul mike huckabee.
nothing. we don t have a national election until the general. if national poll results meant anything at this point in the process, we d all be talking about the legacy of herman cain or giuliani. but this year this far out, still six months before the iowa caucuses national polling will be determinative. national polling will determine whos gets to compete. who gets to get into the debates. according to the debate criteria even though there will probably be 17 major republican candidates declared by the time of the first debate next month they ll only allow 10 of those 17 to compete based purely on national polling. fox will average the five most recent national polls to see who gets into the debate.
excluded how you perform in iowa, south carolina, new hampshire, where all 16 of us go. so nationalizing the terms of entry into the debate, marginalizes the effect of the early prime ary states. we have polling based on iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. it s one place we can compare to each other. so the nationalization by the rnc and fox network is going to basically over time erode the early primaries. if i have a choice i have to bump up my numbers. i look at focusing on getting the numbers up, coming to new hampshire. if i have a choice i have to bump my numbers up. where do i spend money, time. i will focus on getting the numbers up. i will be in new hampshire less. that s lindsey graham speaking with a new hampshire radio station saying fox news and their debate criteria mean et s no longer nationaler for presidential candidates to keep going to iowa and new hampshire,
early primaries. if i have a choice i have to bump up my numbers. i look at focusing on getting the numbers up, coming to new hampshire. if i have a choice i have to bump my numbers up. where do i spend money, time. i will focus on getting the numbers up. i will be in new hampshire less. that s lindsey graham speaking with a new hampshire radio station saying fox news and their debate criteria mean et s no longer nationaler for presidential candidates to keep going to iowa and new hampshire, the early voting states if the thing that determines whether they can compete for the nomination is votes in the early voting states and just national poll numbers. he then in the same radio interview went on to bring up brad pitt again. if the goal to get into the debate is to have are a fascialle polling number, number