Obama’s Plouffe Comments on Clinton Debate Plan to TIME’s Jay Newton-Small

“Well, we’ve done 18 debates and we did one last week,” Plouffe said. “We’re obviously going to set our schedule including debates and we’ll do more debates but our schedule is not going to be dictated by the Clinton campaign. So we’ll figure out what we’re going to do and, hopefully, we’ll continue to debate.

Is four too many?

“You know honestly, we haven’t thought about it yet. You know it is kind of the tactic out of the second tier congressional campaign playbook so I’m a little surprised that we’ve spent so much time talking about it today.”