ANDREA MITCHELL (HOST): Now one of the things that you've done in trying to pressure the Republican Party and Fox Business, the other debate sponsors, to put you on the main stage, is you were on the air with Alex Jones, the conservative talk show host. Let me play a little bit of that.

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MITCHELL: Do you have any problem with going on, I guess you didn't, with Alex Jones, someone who's a conspiracy theorist, who said that Sandy Hook didn't happen, 9/11 didn't happen? Why would you go on the air with someone of his -- with his background?

RAND PAUL: You know, I think I've been pretty ecumenical. I go on the air with people from the far right to the far left. This morning I'm on MSNBC, which is not a conservative network or not thought to be a conservative network, so I don't think anybody accuses me of being afraid of going on with the right or the left. And the job of a candidate is try to get your message out. Get it out to anyone who's listening and try to change the direction of the country.