specific details about what each debate would look like including a pledge to keep the temperature of the debate venue below 67 degrees. the less than 24 hours later donald trump already seems to have changed his mind about the new republican alliance. washington post reporting trump and his advisers are planning to negotiate directly with the tv networks about debate format and to reject the joint letter to the networks drafted at yesterday s meeting. speaking with nbc news, trump s campaign manager wouldn t say one way or the other what they re doing about the letter, but now spokespeople for chris christie, john kasich, and carly fiorina all say they won t sign it. amid increasing defections, the way forward through the debate process is once again in doubt. and the two issues at the heart of the candidates mutiny are even further from being resolved. first, the fate of the field s least popular candidates, who want an opportunity to debate on the main stage, not just at the so-c
the effort to put up a united front demanding more control of the future debates. this is painting a picture in the gop race. cnn s sara murray has the latest from washington, d.c. reporter: good morning, alison and miguel. a new poll shows it is not donald trump that is leading nationwide anymore. ben carson the frontrunner in the nbc news poll. he leads 29% to trump s 23%. trump has bragging rights. he leads in the monmouth university poll in new hampshire. if these polls sound chaotic to you, it is nothing compared to what is going on with the republican debate process. after all of the campaigns got together and agreed to debate rules and requiring opening statements to how cool it had to be in the arenas. now it seems the agreement is
decision about whether he or she wants to come to the debates, based on the information that they get back. now the rnc had proposed delegate penalties for, say, going rogue on this debate process. is that now null and void? what s going on here? i m not sure it was ever it was never put in the rules and would have had to have been put in the rules by now. so i think it became null and void as an idea last august when the deadline for rules change passed. so the rnc doesn t have a role anymore? or help me out. do you believe the candidates are going to essentially say, fine, they re going to want to be more involved in the operations of how the debate s being put on, but they re not going to tell the rnc yes or no on who does debates? there are three levels. first of all, there s the candidates. they want to debate. then there s the staff. and it s the staff s
specific details about what each debate would look like including a pledge to keep the temperature of the debate venue below 67 degrees. the less than 24 hours later donald trump already seems to have changed his mind about the new republican alliance. washington post reporting trump and his advisers are planning to negotiate directly with the tv networks about debate format and to reject the joint letter to the networks drafted at yesterday s meeting. speaking with nbc news, trump s campaign manager wouldn t say one way or the other what they re doing about the letter. but now spokespeople for chris christie, john kasich, and carly fiorina all say they won t sign it. amid increasing defections, the way forward through the debate process is once again in doubt. and the two issues at the heart of the candidates mutiny are even further from being resolved. first, the fate of the field s least popular candidates, who want an opportunity to debate on the main stage, not just at the so-c
statement. nic robertson, thank you. this morning, republican presidential candidates big plans to put up a united front with more control of the future debates falling apart. this as a pair of new polls paint a confusing picture of the gop race. cnn s sara murray has the latest. reporter: good morning, alison and miguel. it is not donald trump leading nationwide. instead ben carson is the frontrunner in the nbc news/wall street journal poll. he leads 28% to 23%. trump has bragging rights. he leads in a monmouth university poll in new hampshire. it is a wide lead. he is ahead of carson by ten points. if these polls sound chaotic to you, it is nothing compared to the republican debate process. after the campaigns got together and agreed to debate rules from requiring opening statements and