candidates want. the rules were established and they lost control over the entire process last time. i know that harry truman couldn t get elected president with explaining the united states of america s health care plan in 30 seconds. reporter: while those competing for more conservative voters want to see different moderators. if you have never voted in a republican primary in your life, you don t get to moderate a republican primary debate. reporter: and some are already sick of the grumbling saying they think the debate format is just fine. we re here in iowa talking to voters instead of being in d.c. talking about debates. we ve had no trouble negotiating with the networks. and my policy remains what it s always been, i ll debate anyone, any time, anywhere. stop complaining. you know, do me a favor. set up a stage, put podiums up there and let s just go. now, just when you thought all the campaigns were going to get together present a united front and come up with th
nationwide dr. ben carson has taken the lead, donald trump in second place. very interesting a very interesting take and, of course, dr. ben carson is african-american. yeah. and at this rate, he could end up being the nominee. if that does happen, there will be a general election. there s still a long way to go until then. it s interesting because i remember back to the beginning of this presidency, wolf, both of you and covered this. we covered both inaugurations together and when people would say president obama is not doing enough to help african-americans, some people still say that, he s not doing enough, i think the president said i represent all americans. but now i think he is concerned with legacy and i think he is, as he said, a new person and he s more competent in his second administration and i think part of his legacy, he wants to deal with riacial
community leaders, business leaders welcome back to the lead. we re looking at live pictures right now president obama at t rutge rutgers, university. laying out plans a bit controversial to help inmates get out and stay out of prison. as many as 6,000 inmates were granted early release over the weekend. today the president is calling on congress to, quote, ban the box. meaning banning employers from asking about jail time on initial job applications. here s some of what he just said. from all these conversations i have at times despaired about the magnitude of the problem. i ve asked myself how do we break the cycle that has young
prisons. well, here s the thing you got to be clear about. these 6,000 that are coming out, you can t have 6,000 people at a baseball game without somebody doing something stupid. so somebody in that group is going to do something bad. we need to get ready for that. but the reality is that people when they are given an opportunity and if you spend the money the right way they tend to do better. right now you spend so much money on people when they re locked up. you talk to the average grandma in oakland, she ll say, listen, i knew my 10-year-old was in trouble when he was 10. i couldn t get any help for tutoring, i couldn t get help for counselling, i couldn t get any dollars to help the kid when he was little. then he turns 16 and gets in trouble. now they spend $100,000 a year locking him up. and when he comes home there s no more money. hold on a second, if you gave me the $100,000, i could have kept him out of trouble or help him now. you only spend the money when you have them l
amendments come to the process and have regular order where we have conference committees, yes. by not controlling the process, so tightly held here the speakership, by letting it go forward i don t know what the outcome s going to be you told members of the freedom caucus that you were not going to touch immigration reform, something that you worked really hard on. you went out and campaigned with one of the most liberal democrats in congress talking about it. do you see any future for actually getting that done? and why did you make that promise if you want to because this president tried to write the law himself. this president went beyond his separation of powers to try and write the law. presidents don t write laws. congress writes laws. this president tried to go around congress to unilaterally write immigration law so specifically on this issue you cannot trust this president on this issue so why would we want to pass legislation on a very divisive issue with a president