forces, the iranian revolutionary guards, the qods forces, the bad guys. do you expect his behavior to change i thought you said kurds. i m sorry. i thought you said kurds. trying to explain the mix-up later in an interview on msnbc s morning joe. when you say qods versus kurds. he was a third rate radio announcer. every question was do i know this one, do i know that one? he worked hard on that. meanwhile, the latest poll by monmouth university shows 30% of likely republican voters are backing donald trump but ben carson is gaining on him. he came in second at 18% in that list. as hillary clinton hits more stops on her campaign trail, she faces more questions about the use of her private e-mail server when she was u.s. secretary of state. the democratic presidential
i will know more about it than you know and believe me, it won t take me long. reporter: trump at one point confusing an ethnic group, the iraqi kurds with the qods. are you familiar with general soleimani. yes. go ahead, tell me. he runs the qods forces. yes, okay. right. i think the kurds by the way have been horribly mistreated by us. not the kurds, the qods forces. saying today he misheard the question. i thought he said kurds, the third rate radio announcer. reporter: the conservative radio host late iter asking the same questions to a trump opponent. i don t think they re gotcha questions at all. i think that this is at the heart the questions you re asking are at the heart of the threat that we face.
welcome back to cnn newsroom, i m george howell. hillary clinton main republican rival is face something problems of his own right now. donald trump stumbled on a foreign policy question with a conservative radio host and he calls it a gotcha question. the presidential candidate fumbled when asked if he recognized the names of leaders of isis and other islamic militant groups. he also said he misheard a question from radio host hugh hewitt about the head of iran s elite qods forces. are you familiar with general soleimani. yes. he runs the qods forces. right. i think the kurds by the way have been horribly mistreated by not the kurds, the qods
no will to fight. i m surprised why he said that. i mean he was very supportive of iraq. i m sure as he was fed the wrong information. the white house says vice president biden called the iraqi prime minister today. they say, quote the vice president recognized the enormous sacrifice and bravery of iraqi forces over the past 18 months in ramadi and elsewhere. meanwhile, an iranian newspaper reported the head of the elite qods forces accused the u.s. of having no will to stop isis and failing to stop the fall of the iraqi city of ramadi. general sul he moaneny said this mr. obama, how far are your bases from all ramadi. you established a presence in iraq on the pretense of supporting that nation but did not do a thing. that is a quote. let s get perspective. i m joined by military analyst, major general james spider
develop the will to fight because only if they fight, can isil remain defeated. a lot of people in washington that you deal with on the other side of the aisle, are saying look putting ground troops putting air strikes are not working. what do you foresee, what is your view on this? air strikes are effective, but er they nor really anything we do can substitute for the iraqi forces will to fight. they re the ones that have to beat isil and then keep them beat. we can participate in the defeat of isil but we can t make iraq run as a decent place for people to live. we can t sustain the victory. only the iraqis can do that and in particular in this case the sunni tribes to the west if there comes a time when we need