joseph built the pyramids to store grain. hillary clinton s coming for your wallet. don t worry about huckabee or jindal. worry about her. all in starts now. good evening. from new york i m chris hayes. an hour from now eight republican presidential candidates take the stage for their fourth debate, hosted by fox business. two weeks after the cnbc debate widely viewed within the republican party as a disaster, this one similarly focus on economic issues is being seen as a do-over though the campaign declined to impose their specific demands on tonight s network, a sister to fox news. candidates are likely to get more speaking time. for the first time the main debate field is down from ten to the eight most popular in national polls. chris christie and mike huckabee having been demoted to the under card debate wrapping up now. the second tier shed lindsey graham and george pitaki whose
get into the debates we have the flame throwing that s dragging the candidates to the right, dragging them to the bottom. comments like the president leading of israel to the ovens and questioning the president s christianity the kind of things i think over the long term both nationalize the primary process where it s better off if it s localized and brings it to the extremes. george? thoughts on the stage? i think a lot of people are probably disappointed that carly fiorina isn t on the stage. a because she s a woman and goes against the democrat s recycled narrative this time about the war on women. and also because she s quite articulate and quite good. the person who has the toughest job it seems to me is bret baier. because you ve got 120 minutes. if you take out ten minutes for housekeeping welcome to cleveland, thanks for watching here are the candidates and the time it takes to hand off the questions one to another, you re down at least to 110 minutes. now, i m not a math m
happens on thursday night yes i mean i don t care whether you re wearing a red or blue jersey. you re so tired of the leadership we re getting right now, you re hungry for something better. and look what this 5:00 debate shows just how deep this republican field is. if i m counting right there s four governors or former governors all accomplished. there s two current or former senators. a very accomplished ceo in ms. fiorina. i would like to think these men and women live up to their accomplishments and don t pander to the least common denominator. george. the question hovering over all this will mr. trump play nicely with others. a veteran republican consultant now working for governor kasich said it s like 16 stock car racers entering a race where they know the 17th driver is going to be drunk. which is to say you don t quite know what you re dealing with in mr. trump. you know but george you say
congress. the president is going to un what still considers a heavy artillery of his persuasive powers which are not in five years succeeded in making the affordable care ability popular. the republicans are counting on getting the 13 senators that they need from the democratic side because they expect when they go home the polls will be ratified by the behavior of the people who show up at the members town meetings. the republicans also say that democrats are much more critical of the agreement when they are in the secret briefings on the side protocols and other matters than they are when they come out and deal with the press. and perhaps the most vulnerable part of this is the fact that the president believes like woodrow wilson open covenant openly arrived at, is going to have to make all of these open. george, ron charles as always thanks a lot. brady bunch style from washington. that s it for the panel. but stay tuned to see why
flame throwing that s dragging the candidates to the right, dragging them to the bottom. comments like the president leading of israel to the ovens and questioning the president s christianity the kind of things i think over the long term both nationalize the primary process where it s better off if it s localized and brings it to the extremes. george? thoughts on the stage? i think a lot of people are probably disappointed that carly fiorina isn t on the stage. a because she s a woman and goes against the democrat s recycled narrative this time about the war on women. and also because she s quite articulate and quite good. the person who has the toughest job it seems to me is bret baier. because you ve got 120 minutes. if you take out ten minutes for housekeeping welcome to cleveland, thanks for watching here are the candidates and the time it takes to hand off the questions one to another, you re down at least to 110 minutes. now, i m not a math major.