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clintons may actually be a part of a bigger strategy. i think this is not about hillary. i think trump is not firing off the first shot in the general election. this is all aimed at the republican nominating process by taking her on as the foil. plays the presumptive nominee. this is all about him rising above the other candidates on the republican side. it s not anen engagement in a real general election campaign yet. he is using her as a foil and i must say effectively. joining us with analysis fox news contributor leslie marshall and with me here in new york. boston herald columnist adrianna cohen. leslie, let s start with you. yes or no. has expresident bill clinton abused women? [sigh] i think your silence says a lot. no.
competing for the republican presidential nomination this year. it was a strange decision in the first place when fox announced in may they would not allow all the candidates to debate. they would pick ten who would be allowed into the debate based on one metric only, based on national poll numbers even though national poll numbers at this point in a presidential primary are basically totally meaningless numbers. in years past they have had no predictive value at this point in the process in terms of who is going to go on to win the early states or who is ultimately going to win the nomination. it was a strange decision anyway for them to try to winnow down the field themselves using only national polls fully half a year more than half a year before the iowa caucuses, before any actual republican voters get to have their say. it was weird enough. fox news has face add lot of pressure over this decision and the republican party has faced a lot of pressure for letting fox do this to th
disconcluded from the debates. that would look terrible for them so they made sure that would never happen. if i were a republican in particular, i would be so mad about this. it would be one thing if this was a fight about tv ratings or the perception of somebody s approval ratings or something, but this really is who is allowed to compete for president of the united states. it is amazing that the republican party is letting this happen to that process, to the process of choosing who will compete to be president. but they gave it to the fox news channel and this is what they got. we just got one of the responses to fox s decision on who will be allowed to debate in the republican presidential debate this thursday.