so i would expect that they ll be more of these accesses by iranian hard-liners to say that it s not things have not really changed. one other theory in addition to that, that they re arresting more americans potentially to hold as some sort of swap bea think want iranians held in american jails to be released. they want to do a prisoner swap if they think they can get more americans under their, in their prison system, maybe they can publicly spoken about some sort of swap like this. maybe one of their intentions as well. we ll see what happens on that. reporter: right. worrisome development. thanks, elise for that. more on all of this. joining us is the democratic congressman, john gare mendy of california, key member of the house armed services committee. thanks for joining us. good to be with you, wolf. very, very interesting day today. an important day and several significant changes unfolding. your sense of whats going on. first the decision to send up to 50 u.s.
now, nbc has responded tonight. they say they are disappointed and that they will work in good faith to try to resolve this, but all of this, also, comes at the same time this weekend on sunday, many of the campaigns will gather in washington to discuss how they can really join forces to push for changes in the next debate up. that s in just two weeks, wolf, on the fox business channel. there s another development. you re out there on the campaign trail right now with marco rubio. after being criticized. now, criticized for missing lots of senates votes and changed his campaign schedule showing up for an important vote overnight. what s the late effort ast on t? reporter: right, wolf. marco rubio just arrived in sioux city but cancelled and earlier event to show up for that 3:00 a.m. vote in washington against the budget deal. of course, in the midst of the scrutiny in him as a senator, hasn t showed up for many votes while running for president.
was conduct in bad faith. in the letter it says the moderators engaged in a series of got ya questions, petty and mean spirited and designed to embarrass candidates. the move comes after days of fierce and relentless criticism. what it s turned into is a got ya. that s silly. was about figuring out the got ya question. you would think in a debate with cnbc they would talk about the economy. i don t like the questions, so they are a little tough. among the complaints about the debate, the moderators targeted specific candidates. is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign? it s not a comic book campaign and that s not a nice question. a hand full of campaigners will meet in washington sunday to make changes to the next debate hosted by the fox business channel in two weeks. this as candidates try to get back on the trail and handle the
mentioned with a little more specificity. answered it before, talked about it in his memoir, didn t have great bookkeeping skills. not enough to say this is the biased media throwing op-ed research at me. what do you hear about reince priebus suspending the upcoming republican presidential debate that nbc was going to host? they have a few considerations now from the rnc s per spespectivperspective. had to send a message to media out letts holding debates, they did putting nbc on notice and needed to send a message to the campaigns they re doing something about this. the campaigns obviously cmored publicly for changes after the cnbc debate but differ is they re also making these points privately to the rnc and putting a lot of pressure on the rnc to try to push the networks, rein them in, and make sure that the questions are going to be more appropriate moving forward. that s exactly what they did. stand by. more to discuss including