public than almost anything anybody has ever done so far. an extraordinary tribute there. joining me are the emmy winning stars, debra messing and eric. great to have you. thank you. what a moment. were you watching that live or did you hear about it? did you see it live? did. i started to cry. i mean, i think it was like the proudest moment of my life besides the birth of my son. really? yeah. and it was gradual because we never wanted to take that credit during the show. right. we just wanted to be a funny show and not take it seriously. nice to know we planted seeds. i mean, not just planted seeds but a pivotal moment really when vice president biden made that comment. a pivotal moment in the whole debate in america about gay marriage. he was the one that actually went faster than the president. that s right. and took the president with him. and to think to get a name check to a comedy show on television as being in his eyes a fundamental part of the debate
as being in his eyes a fundamental part of the debate process really extraordinary. particularly when it s off the air for sometime. there was no cultural cash shay at the moment to bring us up except to give for me there was a lot of criticism early on about my character that perhaps he wasn t gay enough or neutered or safe for america. we said instead of running around and sleeping with guys he was looking for one man to love turns out is a much more dangerous idea to americans than we realize. 15 years ago, can you believe that? no, no, i can t. i mean, we ve seen a lot of little clips today and one of them was from the pilot, and i honestly, had a flash back, and in my body i felt like it could have been five years ago. let s look at the moment where will tells grace that he s gay, key moment. see, there is this one tincey
script and the direction of it? no. gregg, i think the point in this is that someone is getting an advantage that other candidates aren t getting, and that s the point. it s not let s wait and let s see. again, it s not just about hillary. she s not the only one on the democratic side and, frankly, it s not about picking winners and losers on the republican side. every candidate should have an equal access to air time and opportunity to go out there and tell their story. like i said, piece after piece that s coming out about this documentary, the odds of it being anything but a massive puff piece that puts, tells the hillary clinton story, the challenges and tribulations that she has faced and overcome is somewhere between 0 and .1 because it s that s just the reality of everything that we ve seen so far. gregg: look instead of waiting and seeing, we re taking the preemptive action. and what we ve done is the first step. this is literally just the first step in the republican p
going to expand our base. well, by taking nbc and cnn work the very respected networks, out of the debate process, if you could do that, how are you expanding the base? and worse still, both those networks hispanic affiliates which are also covered by this resolution. there will be no debates carried on those hispanic affiliates. it is ludicrous. that and the party s affiliation, that s a great way to expand your vote with hispanic voters. this is silliness and they don t get it. you can have all the nice sounding rhetoric. all the apps in the world. if your policies don t reflect something that is conducive to making people in different interest groups or different ethnic groups look at what you re doing in a favorable way, it doesn t matter how many apps you have. that s exactly right. reince ruled out his autopsy of the party back in march. let s remind folks of the findings. the republican party needs to stop talking to itself.
and run-up to 2016 and primary debates, nor would sanction any primary debates because of planned documentaries about hillary clinton. according to rnc communications director sean spicer, they simply don t want news organizations tipping the scales in the upcoming election. take a listen. it is about time the republican party started taking control of the debate process. we need to create a system that puts the party, the best interests of our candidates at stake. reporter: and that vote is expected to take place this morning. martha? martha: well, republicans had a lot to think over after the last election. they tried to cover a lot of ground in the past few days. have they? reporter: absolutely. that is essentially what this is. this is a big business meeting. the representatives, the committee men and women from all over the country come here to cover all the details and trying to really reach out, expand their ground game, particularly among young people all across the count