welcome back to hardball. in two days, the republican presidential field will take the stage for their first debate of 2016. and this time the stage will feature fewer candidates. fox business is hosting thursday night s debate in north charleston, south carolina, and the network determined the lineup by selecting the top six candidates in national polls along with anyone placing in the top five in iowa or new hampshire. and among the candidates who made the cut for the prime-time debate, donald trump will take center stage, flanked by marco rubio, ted cruz, ben carson, chris christie, jeb bush, and jeff kasich. but these new criteria sent rand paul and carly fiorina down to the undercard debate, along with mike huckabee and rick santorum. rand paul has vowed to sit out the jrnd card debate and joins me now. you represent libertarianism and
election. look, i haven t started on her though yet. but last week i did a little bit. we haven t even started. reporter: claiming his other asset could give him a boost along the way. perfect. tell me about yourself. i m an extraordinarily handsome person. i have a beautiful head of hair. i know, i noticed that. yeah. reporter: meanwhile the other gop candidates are honing their jabs ahead of the next gop debate where the main stage shrinks to just seven candidates. trump will be at center stage, flanked by cruz and marco rubio. then chris christie and ben carson. and jeb bush and john kasich at either end. that leaves rand paul, carly fiorina, rick santorum and mike huckabee for the undercard debate. paul tells cnn s he s going to pass. anything that s not first tier. we have a first tier campaign.
crimes, hillary clinton slamming him on that again today and touting the fact she s getting a big endorsement from the brady campaign. you re really seeing her try to draw sharp lines here as she competes with him in this must-win state of iowa. i also want to point out, jose, it is all hands on deck, the clinton surrogates out in force, former president bill clinton and today chelsea clinton in new hampshire. jose? and, kasie, we re just two days away from the sixth gop debate and it includes fewer candidates than before, right? it does, jose. that s left some people a little bit unhappy, notably rand paul, who has been relegated to the earlier what we ve jokingly called the happy hour debate, being left out of primetime, paul saying he s not going to participate at all in the undercard debate, saying he has a first year campaign and deserves to be on that stage. but two people that we were worried about potentially or potentially not making the
senator marco rubio, dr. ben carson, governor chris christie, governor jeb bush and governor john kasich. in the undercard debate senator rand paul, carlie foreignna, governor mike huckabee and senator rick santorum and governor jim gilmore. failing to qualify for either debate stage is gilmore and that prime time dethursday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on the fox business network and republican committee chair reince priebus is standing by i to go on the record in just moments to talk about the big debate. and from the g.o.p. debate from the democratic race, and now it might be uh-oh for secretary clinton. a newly released hillary rodham clinton email raising more questions for hillary clinton. catherine herridge is here. catherine? the information we have, greta, that comes through three separate intelligence sources is that, in fact, the fbi investigation has expanded. the first line or the first track is about the classified information that was found on her personal server that sh
donald trump, senators ted cruz and marco rubio, dr. ben carson, governor chris christie, former governor jeb bush and governor john kasich will be on the primetime debate stage. and then there was seven. relegated to the undercard debate, rand paul, carly fiorina, mike huckabee and rick santorum. senator paul responded saying he won t be going. we are a contender. we think we have a national campaign that can contend for victory and we can t accept an artificial designation by anybody. so you won t attend this debate? you won t be in the undercard? absolutely. we have a first tier campaign. you have notified fox of that? we have. steve hayes and mark hanna join me now. good to see you both. and then he gave an interview which he said, it won t take