i ll tell you, if the polls don t move in favor of christie, rubio, and cruz after this debate, i think we should stop doing debates. when you look at the numbers people don t care. the economists, rubio was at 11% compared to trump s 32%. the room for movement there and growth was there for rubio. most people feeling unless people shut him off. unless people shut him off because they re mainstream more politicians. listen, the winners were for the most part the candidates on the stage who called out the blatant media bias. it s one thing for a moderator at a debate to ask a hard question. we want that. but when the candidate is answering you don t argue with him and that went on yesterday. listen to this as we watch the candidates come out last night in boulder, colorado. here they are, the moderators. they took their bets. they were trying to sand bag to kneecap the republicans. did they do it? well, they tried their best but
raises the question whether you have maturity and the wisdom to lead a $17 trillion economy. is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign? that actually happened. we re not making that up. did we actually learn a thing or two, or not, about the candidate s vision for the economy? joining me are stewart carney and deidre. that was aggravating. did we learn anything about the plan and vision of the candidates as we were told we would? cnbc lost this. this is not how to handle a political debate. the questions were snarky, they were gotcha questions and frankly at one point they were downright insulting. rubio was asked he liquidated his pension fund. was he capable of handling the nation s finances. what an insult. this is how he handled it. watch this. the tax foundation which was alluded to earlier scored your tax plan and concluded that you
has replaced a real sense of the free market. where people feel like there s a totally different set of rules for people like gets away going through an 11-hour hearing admitting she lied about benghazi, lied to the very people whose family members were killed, and the press says she had a great day and she won. when is it that a person wins with the media, because they admitted, on camera, in front of a congressional committee, that they outright repeatedly lied about the murder of four americans? only, only in the media is that a win. earlier you responded to a question and said, look at donald trump. he s the leader. because he is the moral authority to be president of the united states and you chose not to answer that question, carried it around and said officially i m going to talk more about myself, not about donald trump. now somebody who is not a political professional would say why wouldn t you if you want to be number one why wouldn t you go after the number one guy? well
talking donald trump and the clintons and ties. we re going to give our viewers a glimpse of that now. i love donald trump. he is a good man. i m wearing a trump tie tonight. get over that one, okay? such a nasty question. but thank you, governor. you re welcome. i am the only guy, the only guy that has consistently fought the clinton machine every election i was ever in over the past 26 years. and not only did i fight them and win, i lived to tell about it. and i m standing on this stage tonight as evidence of that. and i think that ought to be worth something. so governor, we heard that last night. the part you know, you were wearing a trump tie, and donald trump, thank you. the whole thing was a question about donald trump to you. but you did talk about how you had beaten the clintons for years. how did you do that? well, first of all, you had to go after the people that really felt like they d been run over by the political machine of the state. the same kind of peopl
country needs to elect leaders that understand what life is like for real people in the world today. this disconnect that exists today between washington, and the american people, is enormous. and i wish i could say it was just democrats. it s republicans, too. and embedded in that question is that thought process. that well, you need to rate around for 30 years or 20 years before you can join us and be a part of what we re doing here. it s outrageous and i quite frankly don t understand it. maybe look at what governor christie s going through now when he didn t run earlier. maybe that was a lesson that you only have one opportunity at it. the debates that you lived through. here s something you didn t live through, that s a focus group. we put that sound bite to them, or frank did, and here s their reaction. i know you can t see, but listen. he called out hillary for being a liar. i was really tired of hearing the mainstream media say what a great week she had last week. she w