conservative cable network great latitude in determining the participants? after all, there are differences among the pollsters. and some of the candidates make for better tv than others. now, of course cnn will host the second debate and my same critique might apply here. the point is a widowing role historically played by early voting states has arguably been left to television much like ales predicted. joining me is the chief communications specialist for the republican national committee, shawn, as things stand now, it would appear that donald trump is dead center on that stage next thursday flanked by jeb bush and scott walker with the outer flanks yet to be determined. is that a fair way to sum it up? yes, that seems to be the case but we still have a little ways to go. so tuesday at 5:00 p.m. is the cutoff for the polls that will be used to determine who the participants will be? that s right. that s what fox has announced the cutoff will be yes.
and it s a detailed report. i want to show shawn spicer one statement from it and ask you to react. she wrote conservative media helped push the party so far to the anti-government, anti-compromise ideological right attacks republican leaders for taking the smallest step toward the moderate middle. do you worry so much emphasis on fox s role in this first debate has that intended or unintended effect? it pushes candidates to a rightward position that becomes untellable in a general election? not at all. with all due respect to jackie and harvard and the new york times where she writes i think that the problem is that for so long the left wing mainstream media has taken people to the left and only focused us on issues that a lot of conservative activists and republican voters haven t cared about. that they are sending sort of a shockwave through the mainstream media when they recognize how the issues and the concerns that