letter. they say that at some point they will take the candidates views about the format into consideration as they finalize the debate structure. mr. williams, how serious are you guys about boycotting this debate over what appears to about 50 minutes of time here. i m not a part of the carson campaign, never have been. i m his business manager. i can tell you that, how do you negotiate a presidential debate and not once pick up the phone and call the candidates, anyone on their team, that you put rules and guidelines in place and not consult them? how do you not try to work together as a team to collaborate to make it work for not only cnbc but make it work for the presidential candidates who are participating through this process? to me, to them, it s common sense that you would include them in the negotiations. when you don t include them in negotiations, you see the results that you re talking
format into consideration as we finalize the debate structure. my thought to this is stay tuned we will see if trump wins or cnbc on this one. former secretary of state hillary clinton read president obama s new trade deal it looks like the white house may be throwing the secretary under the bus on that one. benjamin netanyahu is very upset with the obama state department. you will hear from the state department. we are live in jerusalem coming up. i built my business with passion.
she says there should be more than six debates. we are a big tent party and welcome those opinions, but this debate and every debate going forward is about the issues. she is continuing to focus on process which she s entitled to do but we asked her if she could focus on those issues and she chose not to come because i get she can t. she says that you said she can t come. that is simply not the case. democratic chair debbie wasserman schultz earlier this hour. joining me here in las vegas now, hawaii congresswoman and democratic vice chair, tulsi gabbard joins me. congresswoman, what happened here? she says that it s not the case that you were not told you couldn t come, that she simply wanted you to stop discussing the debate structure and discuss the issues. good morning, andrea.
the criticism that what fox is doing with this debate structure is worthy of criticism and that that is a part of the story of how this debate is happening tonight, who isn t there, how it was done and the manipulation of it, is that as relevant as what happens tonight? not as relevant but it is important. let s keep in mind, it is not just fox news, this is something that the rnc decided. they decided to front-load this and sort of push everybody into one news organization. that news organization then outsourced its decision making to pollsters. i mean, what everybody expected was that there was going to be a fairly orderly kind of sort of shoveling together of the traditional candidates. then donald trump steps in, not so much donald trump, but there s an anchor out there he represents and that s representative of him rising in the polls. now they have to contain that and that s the thing to watch. how much of the real populist anger that s out there, that accounts for the rise in
think the sense of insecurity people have with the economy and our politics. so donald trump is doing well by doing exactly what he does best. you want he probably shouldn t do much different. eventually he s going to have to put meat on the bones. eventually people will want to know are you really for a single payer tax system like in canada? are you really for raising taxes on the wealthy and are you really for an intense protectionist economy? those are things he s for but nobody is asking him that yet. didn t show up at that forum last night, so those questions weren t posed then. that s what thursday is going to be about, maybe really getting those answers. mike, a lot has been made of the debate structure and how it s ten on the main stage and the other candidates will have time before hand, a couple hours before that. if they don t make it on the debate stage, what then does the second tier candidate do after thursday? is that the death sentence that some have made it