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Thanks for posting all the transcripts every week, as well as starting the thread. A long day!

For the record, here are some of the remarks of the RNC Chair:

SCHIEFFER: Let me ask you this. I understand that you’re also planning some very significant schedule changes for example, the scheduling of your convention. You want it earlier now, as I understand?

PRIEBUS: Absolutely. I mean, these candidates are not taking public financing any more, and I don’t want to bore our listeners on campaign finance but here’s what I’ll tell you, one of the reasons why Mitt Romney was a sitting duck for two months over the summer was that under the campaign finance laws, he couldn’t use money he had already raised until after he received nomination for president in August. I believe that our primary process is way too long. I think our calendar needs to be looked at. I think our debate calendar needs to be shrunk. I think we had way too many debates with our candidates slicing and dicing each other. And I think they had to wait too long to get to the convention. I’m calling for a convention in June or July. We’re going to set up a commission that’s going to make that decision. I’m going to be a part of that. I’m going to chair that commission, but no more August conventions.

SCHIEFFER: And as I understand it, then, fewer debates the year before the presidential year. You’ll start them — when would you like to start them? They started what, in February?

PRIEBUS: If it was up to me I wouldn’t start a debate until September if it was up to me.