cnbc east really bad debate night. quote assaying cnbc should be ashamed of their debate handling. now you want to make sure to tune in tuesday november 10, we are going to have the real debate, fox business wall street journal republican debate here on the fox business network. >> nicole: indeed. now turn back to economic news that's out today. economists expect to department to say that the economy growth slowed in the third quarter. domestic products at 1.6% seasonally adjusted rate, that's not a good number. that would be a slow down from 3.9% growth that we saw in the second quarter. they'll be looking at housing, global market, strong u.s. dollar and how that factors in as well. >> cheryl: drug makers, two huge names in the drug industry with a possible merger in what could be the biggest takeover deal this year. however, newspapers says talk is at an early talcses second attempt to acquire a european rival after it failed to purchase last year. pfizer u.s. large maker. >> nicole: this would be a big one if it actually goes through and happens. coming up, reviews are in of ap

it didn't bode well for the left or cnbc. for me it was an opportunity for the gop to look like the heros of the night. >> can you imagine if they ended hands clasped. >> on wednesday marco rubio suggested that hillary clinton lied about benghazi and the media critics have been hammering him since. greg gutfeld and allen combs are next on this. >> the democrats have the ultimate super pac. they're called the mainstream they're called the mainstream media who every single day -- my credit score for free, right? and then you're gonna ask me for my credit card so you can charge me on the down low two weeks later. look, credit karma - oh, are you talking to websites again? it's sayin' 'free credit score.' credit karma? yeah, it's actually free. look, you don't have to put in your credit card information. credit karma. really free credit scores. really. free. fist bump. it takes a lot of work... but i really love it.s. i'm on the move all day long... and sometimes, i just don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost® to get the n

get attention for cnbc. introduce -- >> it worked, then. >> i don't know if it worked, melissa, i don't think more of them, i think less of them. >> cnbc is called don't see nbc. >> let me make one last point. they essentially from my perspective, let the candidates off the hook, because the candidates, take cruz for example, cruz is able to, instead of answering questions -- >> they're swimming in the political pool. they don't know that stroke, they know the money stroke. they're swimming in the money stroke, they would have had the upper hand. >> they didn't take it. they did a disservice to everybody who cares about the issues and wants to hear what they have to say about the economy. wants to hear what they have to say about their ideas for taxes. to be substantive. all of these candidates have been attacked and said hey, listen we want to know some substance. what is your specific plan. not floating, loose rhetoric about what you think you're going to do, making cuts, get specific. >> to your point abo

so, look, cnbc is an arm of nbc. i am not going to allow us to move forward until we communicate with the candidates. obviously we had assurances that it was going to be straight up finance which is what they do every day. and what was delivered was just nothing but a crap sandwich. >> meantime the republican presidential campaigns may be taking things into their own hands. they are meeting this sunday but the rnc is not invited to the meeting and now the candidates are taking their complaints public. >> i've seen things that are so bad with the press. they were really asking questions that were bad but what else is new? >> be ready to hear that the campaigns are going to not allow the networks to control this process. >> i've asked my staff to reach out to the other campaigns to talk about a change in format. moderators who are interested in actually getting the facts and not in gotcha questions in zblcht change of network is not going to matter. we need a structural change. what i would suggest, allow all of us to

they were angry with the rnc and angry at the cnbc. we have three groups director ire at cnbc. here is what the chairman of the republican national convention reince priebus said after the debate. >> one gotcha question. one low blow after the other. they tried to design a rubik's cube after every question to take the worst element of what moderators and media should bring to the table. all i can tell you you is that while i'm proud of our candidates for pretty much sticking together. i'm very disappointed in the moderators and very disappointed with cnbc. >> the fox news debate with personal and tough questions, cnbc had tough and personal questions. the difference is the moderators did not have as much control over the debate stage and moderators. this is cnbc. a niche news channel where there is more for economic and substantive questions. we heard personal questions off the bat trying to create tension and debate. that set a very bad tone and got worse. >> the stakes are high for the candidates. they are running out of time to show they are good debaters and have substantiv

cnbc does with cnbc does and we know who john harwood is. why even let them be involved? why open the door? that was weird to me. mark: to call a candidate a clown or comic look is totally disrespectful. mike: i was going to say maria and neal are going to do a fantastic job on november 10. lou: -- mark: when people contrast it's going to be night and day. lou: as it always was. irrespective of bad manners. anyway let's turn to the senate passing a budget at 3:00 a.m.. mike, and ryan is the new speaker and he supposed to be great but this does look like an auspicious beginning to me. what do you think? mike: speaking the debate, i will bring it back. the moderators were all about -- lou: you are so slick i'll tell you. mike: i will bring it around that promise. remember they weren't criticizing the candidate's tax plan because it would increase the deficit. all of a sudden they don't care but the budget deficit will increase the deficit. they don't care. these liberals these progressives in the media don't care either when it benefits them. mark: it's the arts five days b

on cnbc. david? >> thanks, sara. now want to get to some breaking news for you exclusive to cnbc and to me. hyatt hotels is in advance negotiations to acquire starwood hotels and resorts in a cash and stock transaction. the talks between the two companies have been ongoing for weeks and a deal could be announced within the next week or two. the transaction under consideration would have the smaller hyatt buying starwood and having its management take control over what would be a sprawling owner of upscale lodging properties the world over. hyatt owns the park hyatt, hyatt reregency, starwood brands include w, sheraton, which contributes as much as 50% of its profits and westin. yesterday shares of starwood soared on reports that three chinese companies were considering making a bid for starwood. people close to the situation tell me that while there has been some interest from the chinese, none of the companies have made an offer. and it remains unclear whether any will. the price being contemplated by hyatt in the n

people saw cnbc doing the debate. this is the business channel, the economy channel, the jobs channel. they promised a real focus. there was an opportunity to focus. it didn't happen. second of all, a number of questions lacked followups. i too looked back at transcripts of the previous debates. if you look at how anderson cooper ran the democrat debate, the first thing that comes to mind is, one, this was no free pass for liberals, and secondly, he followed up. when one candidate teed up with going the other candidate disagreed with, he tried to generate real discussion and debate. that didn't happen in the cnbc debate. finally, the whole spectacle of trying to ask snarky questions with a screaming audience behind them, six people asking questions, led to what i call a format meltdown. there was a structure to the debate that could have, should have, happened there. there were real issues, differences among the candidates to have debated. just what kasich said. does medicare get ended? do we ban the irs? do we raised

cnbc's debate tomorrow night. we begin with the countdown to apple earnings, though, and whether those results after the bell tonight can jump-start the stock. apple shares have lagged. other big techs like amazon, facebook, and google this year leaving investors to wonder what's been going on with the most valuable company in the world. pete, to you first. is this the day that apple gets its mojo back? >> i'm starting to blaef that it is. we started to see some of the folks bringing some of the numbers now. we see some of the estimates down and the price targets down. stocks around 115. can they execute, though? when you go back to a year ago or even last quarter, some of the concerns last quarter was, well, look at some of the i phones. they slipped down to -- doesn't seem like such a bad number. how has the transition really performed in terms of the latest and greatest from apple and are they buying into that? if they are, i think yesterday's read was an overread. we ran all the way up. we were pushing right u

joining me now former cnbc ted david. frank cesno, and molly hemingway at the conservative website the federalist. let me briegin with you, frank. that was the man you say won the debate. but you also say the debate was a mess, why? >> because it was. it suffered from a lot of things, cnbc, this is the business channel, the economy channel, they promised a focused debate and it did not happen. if you look at the way aerngdson ran the democratic debate. two things came to mind, this is no free pass for liberals. and secondly, he fold up. when one teed it up, he asked that candidate to comment. he tried to generate a real discussion and debate. that didn't happen in the cnbc debate. the whole kind of spectrum of trying to ask snarky questions with a screaming audience behind them. ten candidates, six different people asking debates led to what i would call a format meltdown. there simply wasn't the structure to the debate that could have, should have happened there. and there were real issues, differences between the candid

cnbc's debate tomorrow night. we begin with the countdown to apple earnings, though, and whether those results after the bell tonight can jump-start the stock. apple shares have lagged. other big techs like amazon, facebook, and google this year leaving investors to wonder what's been going on with the most valuable company in the world. pete, to you

here are my issues with what cnbc did. didn't think they were asking right -- neil: was on cnbc the next day doing interviews. he let bygones be bygones, right? >> i am ready to take tough questions. republicans say i want tough questions. i just want relevant questions. neil: that's very good, i want tough questions but i want relevant questions. that is very good. glad they didn't see you competing for me for this next gig. thank you very much, my friend. >> you bet. neil: maybe they can patch this up. time being they have not. reading into between lines and some statements they're getting. hope they can, they have in the past. we shall see. with fidelity's new active trader pro investing platform, the information that's important to you is all in one place, so finding more insight is easier. it's your idea powered by active trader pro. another way fidelity gives you a more powerful investing experience. call our specialists today to get up and running. it's more than tit's security - and flexibility. it's where great id

i'm disappointed at cnbc. i thought maybe they would bring forward a pretty fair forum here tonight, but i think it was one gotcha question, one personal low blow after the other. it's almost like they tried to design a rubik's cube for every question to take the worst element i think of what moderators and what the media should bring to the table, and all i can tell you is that while i'm proud of our candidates for pretty much sticking together, i'm very disappointed in the moderators, and i'm very disappointed with cnbc. thank you. >> dana, that is the last thing as a network or as a moderator you want to hear from the head of the rnc and it goes to amanda carpenter's point which is that tomorrow people will be talking about this. reince priebus is talking about it tonight. i've never seen that. >> reporter: i've never seen it either. he was getting right in front of me when he said that, and he did not look happy in attorney, and i'm sure that came across through the camera. you know, it's very unusual, and

that's the cnbc news update this hour. back to "squawk alley" and kayla. >> a screen for the steering wheel. sounds a little distracting. >> i think it's -- yeah. i'm not sure if i would feel comfortable with that. i'm a creature of habit. i need the steering wheel. anyway -- >> likewise. sue herrera. our thanks to you. >> thank you. >>> founded by tech leaders like mark zuckerberg, bill gates, and rob conway, former.u.s. is on a mission to mobilize the tech community in a bid for immigration reform. let's talk to that organization ahead of tonight's debate. todd schulte. the tech industry has been notoriously vocal or at least before other industries. what issues are front and center for you and for forward going into tonight's debate? >> we are focussing solely on immigration reform, and we have three things we're looking for. first and foremost, we believe immigration reform should fix our broken immigration system. it would make sense for the tech community, and other industries like manufacturing. second, we should ha

tonight,ajor backlash over cnbc's handling of the third gop debate. first, there was some big moments last night in boulder, colorado, including this exchange between governor jeb bush and senator marco rubio. >> marco, when you signed up for this, this was a six-year term. and you should be showing up to work. literally, the senate -- what is it like a french workweek? you can campaign or just resign and let someone else take the job. >> you're modelling your campaign after john mccain. that you're going to launch a furious comeback the way he did. you know how many votes john mccain missed when he was carrying out that furious comeback? i don't remember you ever complaining about john mccain's vote record. the obviously reason you're doing it now is because we're running for the same position. >> that back and fort may have turned some heads, but senator rubio is now playing what happened on the debate stage last night. he was a guest on my radio program earlier today. here's what he told me about that exchange. >> someone's obviously convinced him,

they didn't have to okay a cnbc debate, did they? >> well, you know, fortunately, this was so bad that i think even the chc will recognize that was a mistake and maybe we need to be looking for a better way to do this. a way that will advantage us rather than advantaging the other party. >> what was the tipping point for you in the debate last night where you just went you know, this is absurd? what was that? >> well, it was the launch of the cruz missile. when senator cruz really chastised them and, you know, specifically pointed out what they were doing to each one of the candidates. >> brilliant move. >> i think that was very telling. >> it was a brilliant move. >> i agree with you that everything kind of ground to a halt then now, i have been looking at your tax plan, your flat tax plan. look, i want smaller government. i want more money in the pox of american workers very, very badly. your plan is not going to work unless you raise it up to 22%. you get it at 15 you to the to be 22. because we have commitments to the military. w

wow. >> so charlie, to you first, obviously cnbc did a bad job. they put john harwood on television, which is insane just to begin with. wasn't the debate pretty interesting, a, pretty instructive, you didn't even learn anything about the candidates and was it a total failure? >> absolutely. you had nurse rachet and the other two revealing all of their politics wearing everything on the sleeve and asking ridiculous questions. absolutely tucker. i thought it was fascinating and so entertaining. somebody who likes to see the media get beat up, my goodness, this was just are a slug fest. even jeb bush was able to land a couple of punches on them. it was absolutely delightful and i think in a very important way it revealed some very good things about a lot of the candidates, some strengths we had not seen before. >> that's exactly right. it's nice, jonah, isn't it, to see the media live down to the stereotype, their horribleness. let's talk about the reaction to that. you often see republican candidates attack the press but, from my perspective, ted c

saying he thought it was unfair and cnbc should be ashamed. that is fairly unique. i haven't heard of that any democratic chair speaking out like that. one of the winners was the fox news bell. it's again, a debate where you try to get off the rails sometimes, it's tough to get candidates on track. some questions, they were fact check issues. some of them didn't pan out. >> give me an example. >> john harwood asked a question that he corrected his own story a week and a half earlier and rubio called him on it. and the premise is about the tax structure and whether it's helping poor people or rich people more than poor people. he corrected that story a week and a half before. he is usually on top of his game. >> yes. i don't know the guy. i don't know. i don't know any of those people. i do know that there is a culture that they work in. i know the culture over there. and they're probably getting that from people above them. the next debate is fox business network debate, november 10th, i understand. neil cavuto will be a moderator, as far as t

overall cnbc did a poor job man ablging the debate. that's why cnbc should be ashamed of how they were doing it. the whole presentation and how they were going back and forth. at thats like they wanted it to be about them rather than the candidates. >> which you should never do you should strive not to do that as a journalist. >> thank you so much. appreciate it as always you getting up early with us. >>> now worry about the fire jets scrambling when a military blimp breaks free knocking out power to thousands and causing chaos for hours. derek tiny is live with what is being done now. >> a specialized military team is on the ground in northeast pennsylvania to recover the 180 million piece of equipment and try to figure out how it got lose. shortly after news the tethered blimp about the length of a football field somehow became detached from the ground in narld for four hours it drifted northwest across maryland and pennsylvania dragging the cable on the way damaging buildings and knocking out power lines leaving nearly 30,000 people

eastern time on cnbc. back to you. i'm sorry about jumping in on you. >> i'm glad you did that so that people would not be confused that i'm jeb bush. if you'd leerk to write me in for president, that would be fine. here's the thing, brian. the debate now is what is good enough when it comes to jobs. 200,000 is probably more the anomaly. 100 to 150 is something fed officials have mentioned. one thing worth considering. this is rear-view mirror. this statement today is a tacit admission that the fed went too far in over emphasizing global economic developments, that it made a mistake. two things, one, take it off the table for october. i think that was okay. certainly the fed felt like it had lost the flexibility to hike in december. we want to be very careful here not to overdo it. just because of what happened here today, that it's a foregone conclusion. the notion of raising the odds of a december hike where it was practically off the table, perhaps the market went too far. i'll get you the videotape of the last seve

a lot of earnings and the cnbc republican debate tonight. let's check in on futures and what they're telling us ahead of the market open. we have been down each and every day. the implied open is telling us we'll see a bit of recovery today. we're up some six points for the s&p. dow jones industrial is higher by 38.5 points and nasdaq in advance of 16 points or so. >> let's have a look at european markets. also positive as you can see to the tune of about three quarter of a percent for most of continental europe. we have france just below that. germany at 0.7% of gains and ftse 100 at 0.3%. it's partly a little bit of a bounce back from a soft start to the week and also consumer confidence data out earlier today. >> apple beat the street with earnings per share of 1.$9. shares struggle to find direction in extended trade as ceo tim cook said there was no signs of a slow down in one of its biggest markets, china. but overall iphone and ipad sales came in just below expectations. now the other tech giant reporting was twitter and it had a toug

i'm disappointed in cnbc. i thought maybe they was bring forward a pretty fair forum here tonight, but i think it was one gotcha question, one personal low flow after another. it's almost as if they tried to take the worst element, i think, of what moderators and what the media should bring to the table and all i can tell you is that while i'm proud of our candidates for pretty much sticking together, i'm very disappointed in the moderators and i'm very disappointed with cnbc. >> gror yeah borger, have you ever seen the rnc react like that after a debate? >> no, but if i was reic reice preibus i would be okay with all of this. the debate had the effect of uniting all the republicans against the media, which is something that works really, really well with the base. that's one of the reasons why donald trump didn't come out and blast the debate, even though he called some of the questions nasty during the debate. he didn't have to. it was already -- all the other candidates were doing it. rei in fce priebus was

saying he thought it was unfair and cnbc should be ashamed. that is fairly unique. i haven't heard of that any democratic chair speaking out like that. one of the winners was the fox news bell. it's again, a debate where you try to get off the rails sometimes, it's tough to get candidates on track. some questions, they were fact check issues. some of them didn't pan out. >> give me an example. >> john harwood asked a question that he corrected his own story a week and a half earlier and rubio called him on it. and the premise is about the tax structure and whether it's helping poor people or rich people more than poor people. he corrected that story a week and a half before. he is usually on top of his game. >> yes. i don't know the guy. i don't know. i don't know any of those people. i do know that there is a culture that they work in. i know the culture over there. and they're probably getting that from people above them. the next debate is fox business network debate, november 10th, i understand. neil cavuto will be a moderator, as far as t

peter is also a cnbc contributor. i want to start with you peter because in the journal today, there was another piece about how, you know, staying at zero causes companies to do things they wouldn't necessarily do and buy backs and doing those instead of doing what companies normally do is definitely held back economic activity. larry sommers was on last week or the week before. i said something about the slightest negative effects for staying at zero, he told me i was engaging in flatter economics and that the demand has been so weak around the world. that's why we needed the fed to stay where it is. nothing that the fed has done or that the government has done has caused this. it was just weak demand. >> right. >> is that true? >> no, it's the money -- >> everybody calls flat -- whenever you say anything they disagree with they call you a flat earther or denying now. >> their models are simplistic. low rates are good. high rates are nout. but that's not how it works. a bank wants to make 300 bases points. they pay

quote, cnbc just agreed debate will be two hours. fantastic news for all especially millions of people who will be watching. however cnbc is not commenting on the matter at this very moment. this all started yesterday when trump and dr. ben carson had sent a letter to cnbc saying they would not participate in their debate in two weeks if it were longer than two hours. and did not contain opening and closing statements. trump then expressed his disappointment last night when he spoke with greta van susteren. >> they want to make this an extra hour and i think it is unfair to the viewers because it's too much. it's too much to watch and they're doing it because they want to make more money. reporter: that letter also came, sandra, campaign managers of several presidential contenders complained to cnbc over its desire to scrap traditional opening and closing statements. so far no comment on the trump tweet. sandra: blake burman, thank you. we have new numbers out for presidentialal candidates fund-raising. let's bring in fund-raiser noe

and so, look, cnbc is an arm of nbc. i'm not going to allow us to move forward until we communicate with the candidates. getting obviously some serious conversations of what it is that all of the candidates can agree on. and then take those suggestions back to the networks to make sure that what happened two days ago doesn't happen again. >> well, in all candor i thought the first question your weakness was a silly one to begin with at the very least i sort of expected since it was cnbc it was a business debate and it would have been at least what's your business weakness? why do you think they strayed off business into other topics? >> if you look at their release go online and look at the letter. we spell out clearly what cnbc themselves promised. in this debate. we have contracts. this is not like we move forward willy-nilly and see whatever happens and, you know, move on. these are things that have been agreed to. when you make agreements and they are not followed, obviously,. >> so what does nbc do? i mean, how does

they said yes o to cnbc. shouldn't the rnc shoulder some of the responsibility for what happened last night? >> well, that's why he's such a veracious and strong statement there. i think he's under a lot of pressure from people in the party for choosing this outlet. i think he thought that cnbc would be kind of a straight business news approach to things. what i don't know is whether he selects the individual moderators. he might have been expecting a different line up than the one he got in those particular people who decided to be aggressive and not to do too much on the economic side. >> buck, to this moment. we have this teed up. during the democratic debate donald trump was tweeting. during this debate hillary clinton was tweeting. here's the gif. brushing it off her shoulder. you could say if you're a democrat, that's really clever. marco rubio pounced on that saying it was outrageous they would use an image of that from the benghazi hearing. i imagine you agree with the florida senator. >> i think that

cnbc knew her record. when you're sitting there and losing 60% of stock and you sit there and you take the biggest severance package ever and claim it was success. >> when you're ceo of a large corporation, you have a board to report to. you can't just blame her. again, there's politics in the board. >> oh, we're just getting fired up. but we have to go because we have another segment coming up next. there are calls for jeb bush to get out of this race after he was edged out by his former protege at last night's debate. those two had a moment. we're going to talk about it and then we're going to talk about some of these other guys next. woman: it's been a journey to get where i am. and i didn't get here alone. there were people who listened along the way. people who gave me options. kept me on track. and through it all, my retirement never got left behind. so today, i'm prepared for anything we may want tomorrow to be. every someday needs a plan. let's talk about your old 401(k) today. the wolf was huffing

tweeting out, cnbc should be ashamed of how this debate was handled. i will fight to ensure future debates allow for a more robust exchange. the rnc also put out an official statement saying in part the performance by the cnbc moderators was extremely disappointing and disa disservice to their network, our candidates and voters. cnbc has responded to the critics and saying people who want to be president of the united states should be able to answer tough questions. democratic front-runner hillary clinton, she was pretty direct about her feelings about the debate, tweeting out #gopdebate. >>> this weekend in a sunday exclusive, "meet the press" moderator chuck todd will speak with former governor, now presidential candidate, jeb bush. >>> a runaway military surveillance blimp is back on solid ground this morning. it was a strange sight over pennsylvania yesterday as the blimp traveled 120 miles. it reached an altitude of nearly 16,000 feet. nbc's dan schenamen has the report. >> reporter: the unmanned military surveillance blimp floated over pennsylvan

to compare msnbc to cnbc, i think it's not fair to them. honestly, cnbc is straight down the middle on most of this stuff. >> the moderators certainly didn't do a good job. >> i let you talk. i let you talk. they've been straight. i don't think it's fair to say that cnbc is in the same category as fox or msnbc is very partisan and i think beating up on the refs, you're not winning the game. >> they are winning the republican base over this because they are angry. they are angry with mou they have treated republicans. >> another time. thank you. it's not just the republicans upset about the questions. liberals can, too. we'll get into that when we come back. has three cold symptom fighters to relieve your tough symptoms. [deep breath] stay unstoppable. alka-seltzer plus. selling 18 homes? easy. building them all in four and a half months? now that was a leap. i was calling in every favor i could, to track down enough lumber to get the job done. and i knew i could rely on american express to help me buy those building materials. there are alw

that's what many of the republican campaigns are telling cnbc. but the party's two front runners are the only ones threatening to not show up if changes aren't made. together, donald trump and ben carson wrote a letter to cnbc after they shared its debate plans. that letter reads in part, neither dr. carson or donald trump will participate in your debate if it's longer than 120 minutes including customers and does not include opening and closing statements. last night, trump said cnbc was only extending the debate to make money. >> i spoke to the rnc and vo have other people, actually, and they don't like the idea because it's unfair. it's unfair to the viewers. i don't care. i could stand for five hours, for ten hours. but it's unfair to the viewers. it's too long. >> but carly fiorina says with ten candidates on stage, the more time they have to answer questions, the better. >> they also apparently asked for prepared statements. you know, prepared statements are what politicians do. honestly, here are two outsiders, supposedly, donald trump and

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that's the cnbc news update. simon, together with me, awe. >> you can't beat panda pictures. >> you can't. >> why are they always born twins. interesting. >> thank you, sue. >> you're welcome. >> yes. apple is reporting its latest quarterly earnings after the bell tonight. the stock is up slightly today, had a rough day yesterday in anticipation. a lot of focus is going to be on iphone, growth in china and indeed software updates. let's meet the hardware analyst at rbc capital markets. he's optimistic on apple. welcome. >> thanks. >> the main thrust of what everybody seems to be focusing on here is the idea to whether or not iphone sales which is the bulk of the profitability and the bulk of the business, whether we'll see a sequential downturn in sales. do you think that's possible? do you think we'll see that on the fourth quarter projection tonight? >> yeah. you're right. all that matters is what iphone units do. we're more optimistic, we think you'll see flat to low single digit growth out of the iphones in t

>> well, look, the fox debate was not as bad as cnbc. i know a lot of people survived rollovers on the highway and this was ironically out of that car that rolled over on wednesday night, marco rubio, ted cruz and chris christie sprinted unharmed but none of the moderators got out. the first debate everybody got banged up. the cnn debate with dana bash and me, i think university well-regarded and 23 million people agreed. so there is a happy medium with a strong moderator, with well-prepared professionals. mark preston basically lived in my head for four weeks before that debate working, working, working. so it takes practice and preparation and i just didn't see that this week. i saw -- even the sound guys were off, don. >> yeah, mark is very experienced politically and been here at cnn for quite sometime. i know mark preston. wow. just kidding, mark. >> no, i can speak a second language now which is profanity. >> and the accent, the new england accent. first, they complain about the length of the debate, when it was here on cnn and say

i don't think cnbc as quote/unquote mainstream media. it is a economics platform. >> with many conservative com n commonators. >> that is not what it normally is. i think the moderators could have pushed back more on it and expected it more. >> cnbc's one line statement. people who want to be president of the united states should be able to answer tough questions. that is the one line response to the criticism. the criticism is beyond tough questions, but the management of the stage and pushback. >> becky quick, she asked a question to donald trump about his position on h-1b visas and he criticized mark zuckerberg and marco rubio. he completely disavowed his platform and she not push him on it. >> she said i'm not sure where i read that. instead of pushing and showing the evidence that she was right and right to ask the question. it goes to show that being on the stage and moderating debates is difficult. frankly, i came away having more respect for the jake tappers and megyn kellys of the world. we will see changes in the future debates

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trish: .rnc cutting ties with cnbc. suspending its partnership. the handling of the debate was conducted in "bad faith. peter barnes joining me right now. moving anything like this ever before? >> i have been covering these debates and politics for 30 plus years. there are always extensive negotiations between the party and the candidates themselves over lots of details involving the debates. the height of the podiums to where they are placed and where the candidates are placed. it is not unusual for these kinds of negotiations. trish: maybe they had talked to donald trump and he was telling them a bit about leverage. news organizations in difficult spots as well. keeping all the parties happy. liz: this is a tough one. for now, the only gop debate with spanish language network cosponsor. the national review is in there. it is going to have a big impact over there on nbc. and nbc all facial e-mail me the morning after the debate to say that that was a train wreck. inside nbc there is a feeling itself that they are not happy with the way cnbc handl

reince priebus slamming cnbc. tweeting cnbc should be ashamed of how this debate was handled. >> there is a continues between tough question and gotcha questions. the debate is supposed to be about letting the candidate express their visions for america. not just pit them against past statement. this was suppose to be a financial debate. it wasn't. bill: howard kurtz, our media analyst joins us today on whether this criticism is deserved. on line a lot of people felt lindsey graham won that debate. we'll talk about that. next hour, ohio governor john kasich, he needed a big night. did he get it? martha: we'll ask him what he thinks about that. a reminder about the next gop presidential debate. this one will be moderated by fox business network. the "wall street journal" will be involved in that in a big way. that's in milwaukee tuesday, november 10. so the economy was the big theme for last night. but it was. listen to this. >> we'll all talk about reforms for future generations. my mother is on medicare and socia

it was cnbc and moody's analytics. steve liesman, we'll hear from you throughout the rest of the day, for certain. after this quick break, our desk debates what stock should be top candidate for your own portfolio, and go pro is down more than 50% this year. in tonight's earnings report open a parachute for investors? we're going extreme investing next. >>> less than six hours to go now until the kickoff to the battle in boulder. john harwood is one of the moderators for cnbc's republican presidential debate. he joins us live from inside the center where all of the action will be happening this evening. john. >> scott, we have just been doing a little rehearsing, getting used to the places at the table. it's going to be a great debate. there's such fluidity in this race. we've seen ben carson move ahead of donald trump in the state of iowa. that introduces a new dynamic. of course, we've had the outsiders. trump and carson, who are leading the polls nationally. you have the traditional candidates governor bush, governo

. >> that's right. >> cnbc. peter johnson jr. joining us. >>> is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign? >> now you're skipping more votes than any senator to run for president. why not slow down, get a few more things done first, or at least finish what you started? >> i just wonder, in terms of all of that, you know, we look back, your board fired you. i just wondered why you think we should hire you now? >> the leading republican candidate, when you look at the average of national polls right now is donald trump. when you look at him, do you see someone with the moral authority to unite the country? >> after questions like that, from the big debate last night, the losers, cnbc. and the moderators. they're the losers. but the republican candidates didn't just sit back and take their attacks. here to discuss, fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. peter? >> good morning. they didn't sit back and take it. let's hear how they responded to this barrage of attacks by cnbc's version of statler, waldo

cnbc knew her record. when you're sitting there and losing 60% of stock and you sit there and you take the biggest severance package ever and claim it was success. >> when you're ceo of a large corporation, you have a board to report to. you can't just blame her. again, there's politics in the board. >> oh, we're just getting fired up. but we have to go because we have another segment coming up next. there are calls for jeb bush to get out of this race after he was edged out by his former protege at last night's debate. those two had a moment. we're going to talk about it and then we're going to talk about some of these other guys when y, this was a six-year term. and you should be showing up for work. really, the senate, is it a french workweek? you have three days you have to show up? you can campaign. or just resign. someone has convinced him that attacking me is going to help him. my campaign is going to be about the future of america. >> i'm not running against governor bush. >> the weekly standard, j