concerns. do you think bloomberg is out of touch with those people? i wouldn t say that. but i do think that there are a lot of us who have been out talking to people over the last six to ten months to a year, and that s a lot of conversations to catch up to. he would have a self-funded campaign, he says. he wouldn t be accepting any money so he wouldn t be beholdin to any powerful person or group. that being said, he wouldn t necessarily have to qualify for the debates in order to get a national presidency, because he paid for advertisements all around the country. do you think that s fair to you ask other candidates? what i think is not fair is the rules on national debates. dnc should not have been excluding people as early as they did. it awarded celebrity candidates who have since left the race who couldn t stay in the race. i said earlier, i m the only guy who has won two races in the swing state, and it s been tough not being on the debate stage,
significantly fewer candidates making it on to the stage, more like roughly half. i mentioned the acuteness of the funneling angle and thou ithow starting to pinch this field and part of the way you can see as the number of candidates goes from this big to this big is the candidates who are losing out and being squeezed out as a result of these stricter rule, they re mad about it, as you might imagine, but they re not just stewing on it, they are publicly saying so. i am proud to be a democrat, and i stand here grateful for the work you do day in and day out to strengthen our party. i m ready to lead our party and our country to victory next november, but i ve got to be honest, and i say it with love, the dnc process is stifling debate at a time when we need it most. we re we re rewarding celebrity candidates with
thing. moulton says that he will run for re-election to congress and campaign for whoever gets the democratic nomination. one of the other democratic candidates is slamming his own party for its debate rules. that is colorado senator michael bennett who says that the rules will likely keep half of the field out of the next debate. listen. the dnc process is stifling debate at a time when we need it most. we re rewarding celebrity candidates with millions of twitter followers, billionaires who buy their way on to the debate stage and candidates who have been running for president for years. to qualify, candidates must get at least 2% in at least four qualifying polls and have 130,000 unique donors. bennet has not yet qualified for the debate. influential conservative billionaire david koch has dade.
out as a result of these rules, they re mad about it. as you may imagine, they re not just stewing on it, they are publicly saying so. i am proud to be a democrat, i stand here grateful for the work you do day in and day out to strengthen our party. i am ready to lead your party next november. i got to be honest and i say it with love. the dnc process is stifling deba debate at a time when we need it most. we are alerting celebrity candidates with millions of twitter followers and billionaires who buy their way onto the debate stage and candidates who have been running for president for years. it forces campaign to force over millions of dollars to facebook the same platform that led the russians interfered in 2016
emergency powers act i think was invoked then. yes, we will see if there is something there that they are talking about and if there is something there they will try to invoke other than a presidential tweet. that s the to be continued aspect of this among others. thank you-all for being with us. coming up, a new health scare you heard from the president. a new health scare for supreme court justice ruth baiter and another has sharp words for celebrity candidates. the 11th hour just getting started on a friday night.