do this vetting and how he expects people to how about a question to the president or to the candidates? is the president just marking time until the next, you know, to the next administration? you know the answer will be there no, he s fully engaged. and on foreign policy, there aren t easy answers, that is true. once you commit ground troops, will you staying there no nation building? butti the job of the president and national figures running for president to navigate the schizophrenia of the american public. it s our responsibility to get to those answers. that s what i was going to say. thank you both. it was good to see you. why did the media slack off until the horror of the carnage in paris? and later charlie sheen says he paid millions to cover up the fact he was hiv-positive. why he was compelled to
president obama took a slightly tougher tone. we re going to get it done, we re going to pursue it, but a lot of people were surprised tows white house correspondents as aggressive as they were with the president, because that handle always been the hallmark during this administration. and it was refreshing to see a bit of that. i think there s better ways to phrase some of these questions, and i think somehow they are trying to tweak hem a bit, so he reacts, but this again is the central question. but to say to the president, why can t we get these bastards? it was a question really to make the highlight reels? no, i think it s a question people are wondering. but that s not a question a quous correspondent shouldn t
sweepstak sweepstakes, that s not a prize you want. more than 4 out of 5 as he ballotsed question about his knowledge of foreign policy. marco rubio 70%, and then jeb no change, 66%, and ted cruz, you might call him the winner. his coverage was only 61% negative, a nine-point improvement. bottom line, paris changed the equation, but trump pretty much impervious to the news of the week and rising in the latest poll today. coming up, trump trying to talk his way out of the trouble, some saying he suggested a database for a muslims. he says it was a reporter s idea. and should television be airing isis propaganda videos.
that. cars many is a great target the only target for some. and reporters need to when they ask a question of a candidate, reporters have to get when they get an answer and it s a newsmaking answer, reporters should say, would you repeat that again? make sure they get the candidate on the record. so the candidate can t then go back and say i was it was ambiguous and all of that. exactly. hillary clinton in one way perhaps has an advantage as a former secretary of state. in another way are the media doing enough as her report on terror, on libya, and all that? i would, of course, love to see more aggressive questioning of secretary clinton on the trail. she doesn t allow for that very often. bernie sanders could take a shot, but he s not been willing
it was strange to see one of his own advisers to talk about him that way in new york times. what is this guy doing? but i think new york times article did even more so was expos the atypical campaign that ben carson is running. he does not have a huge stable of foreign policy divorce like jeb bush or president obama did when he ran in 2008. he s got a real skeleton crew helping him run for president, and it is atypical. so far the public is lapping it up. he ssh but foreign policy is a problem for him. let me zero in on this question. is it an affront to good journalistic practices new york times says that armstrong williams, a friend of ben carson, speaking for him on tv, about you is not part of the referred the paper claridge, and gave them the number.