complaining about what it calls gotcha questions and a mean spirited tone in wednesday night s cnbc debate. this was cnbc s response to the initial post debate criticism. quote, people who want to be president of the united states, should be able to answer tough questions. next news released say statement about the rnc s debate decision, saying, quote, this is a disappointing development. however, along with our debate broadcast partners at tell mundo, we will work in good faith to resolve this matter with the republican party. i m joined by nbc s chris jansing. specifically, what do the candidates want to see overhauled? they want some control. start with that. they feel like they ve been left out of the process largely. although the rnc would tell you
show. these ten candidates would be on the stage. we re hering more criticism of the debate criticism. he is polling pretty well. he is concerned about his rivals whose voices won t be heard as loudly. he s joining me now to talk about this. dr. carson thanks for being here. my pleasure. thanks for having me. tell me what it s like to be a candidate in the days leading up to the first debate. are you checking and rechecking the polls every day, making sure you re still in the top ten that will be invited to the prime-time debate on thursday? i have plenty of people who are doing that so i don t have to do it quite frankly. you know i m i m not obsessing over it excessively. everybody tells me you re going to be there, so not to worry about it. looks like in cnn poll of polls has you with 5% support, firmly in the middle of the pack. i wonder how you feel about the
the american people. that is the real percent people care about. not 99% versus 1%. not 47%. i m president for 100% of the people and demonstrated that throughout my life. within hours of the vice president remark in the state of the middle class in four years, ryan took him to task. vice president biden just today said that the middle class over the last four years has been, buried. we agree. they re being buried by regulations, buried by taxes. buried by borrowing. they re being buried by the obama administration economic failures. romney rallied a crowd of 5,000 upon alive denver last knight and showed a bit of his planned debate criticism of the president s record. we know where the president s pathway leads because we re on it. we have seen it for four year years. one out of six americans now in pos post poverty. 23 million americans looking for a job. it s further amplify