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Jimmy miller and emily distinction joins us. good to see you both. does megyn kelly have a good point in the face of severe criticism that youre just giving a conspiracy theorist a platform by saying, we may not agree with the things he says, but he has a pretty substantial audience. he says controversial things, he needs to be confronted about those things. >> i dont think thats her intention. if you look at the tape that alex jones released on thursday night about their schmoozing before the i...

All of this goes back to president trump saying ill work with any and all world leaders to defeat isis and keep the world safe and that could include russia and china and then the press pushes and pushes and it is what it is. >> so that was a gotcha interview by bill oreilly. >> theres a gotcha piece in every interview that the press has more or less with president trump to push him in. he speaks off the cuff. >> he does speak his mind. so on his mind he feels that there are killers in the u.s. ...

>> absolutely. what we saw from cbs tonight was not a discussion, it was a gotcha interview over and over again. that was a disappointment. we really thought this would focus on the acadeeconomy, heal care reform and pocketbook issues j it became more of a snarky interview. >> in our defense, dont we as journalists get paid to ask tough questions, really tough questions especially for people who want to be president. >> absolutely. theres a difference between tough questions and gotcha questions...

>> absolutely. what we saw from cbs tonight was not a discussion, it was a gotcha interview over and over again. that was a disappointment. we really thought this would focus on the acadeeconomy, heal care reform and pocketbook issues j it became more of a snarky interview. >> in our defense, dont we as journalists get paid to ask tough questions, really tough questions especially for people who want to be president. >> absolutely. theres a difference between tough questions and gotcha questions...

>> i think they has been. >> not the kurds. >> the kuds forces. >> that was not the most gotcha like. he rattled through a list of names. >> he rattled through a list of names and said do you know who these people are. >> so you think this was a gotcha interview? >> its very legitimate subject matter, but the way it was done is problematic. you asked a question something along the lines of who will it matter to? not to the average voter in a primary. thats what matters to trump and the other 16 ...

A new direction. i think what theyre -- biden would not be the answer to this. we have tremendous research on his positions, on his past statements. i feel very confident about our ability to beat everybody, including hillary. >> okay. lets talk about the hue hewitt interview, sean. was this a gotcha interview or might it have been a fair exposure of gaps in trumps knowledge? >> look, ive said it before. i think all of our candidates -- i dont think its a gotcha. its a fair question to ask someb...

Maintain the server. so does the argument hold water for you? >> no, it doesnt and i believe that its important for her to deal with this once and for all, apologize, show contrition and move on. this is the stumbling block, if youre a democrat like myself, this is one of the major issues. you worry because shes a slow campaigner shes wasting time on something she could put behind her if shed just level with the american people "i made a mistake, i shouldnt have done it, i wont do it again. lets...

The public doesnt know whats on them and homeland security is looking at them? >> we dont know what happened to that first video that supposedly went to homeland security three days ago and no ones heard of it since. the officers that have been doing the press conferences say they havent seen it. their investigators havent seen it. whos got it? what are they doing with it? this is not -- you want to put out descriptive data. thats why we have amber alerts, thats why police put out be on the look...

Weekend, as well as reporters. suzanne, whats going on? >> reporter: absolutely, brianna. there are a lot of folks here throughout the weekend. as you mentioned, the front-runners donald trump as well as hillary clinton, both of them trying to clarify themselves. what he sees as a gotcha interview, and clinton in response to the ongoing controversy over her e-mails. donald trump suddenly on defense, getting hit with specific foreign policy questions. >> so the difference between hezbollah and ha...

>> no scratching whatsoever, that is for sure. every journalist has to make a choice. if you want the interview you sometimes have to take the terms that the interviewee wants whether the termser explicit or implicit. when oprah winfrey be began to interview lance armstrong. was tough question, tough question, tough question, a tough interview at least the first half. steve croft has set himself up for puff tee interviews with the obama administration. it was quite striking. ron forneau of the n...