his supporters have tremendous intensity and enthusiasm. we d love to have him. it s his decision obviously whether or not to ultimately be here. he has been making the case that he deserves to be on the main stage. you re saying right now there s just no chance, it s not going to happen. you ve listened to his arguments, the answer is no, no way. well, look, as you ve seen, some of these candidates go up and down. the criteria is announced you either make it or you don t. there s always been a place in the debates for all of these amazing candidates and there is a place for senator paul today. that decision what the criteria was was fox s. they announced what it was and they announced who would be on the debate stage and that s what we re moving forward with tonight. so among the big questions that no doubt will be asked tonight on the main stage and the undercard debate, the question of ted cruz. the fact that his citizenship, his eligibility to be president that that has been
separate bill to stop the justice department from going after medical marijuana. candy crow she anchor of state of the union, and our chief political correspondent. candy, you interviewed senator paul today. what s two bills getting passed? let me take the last one first and that is that as controversial as it might sound, to give rehabilitated ex-felons who did not commit a violent ability give their voting rights back to them is not all that unusual, many, many states do it. this would apply to federal races, that is, u.s. senate race, the presidential race. so it s not all that controversial having said that. it s a midterm election. i think it s a pretty uphill climb at this point to expect it would be passed this year, but rarely do things get passed quickly in congress. as far as what s behind it, rand paul, you may recall, has done a lot of outreach to