you ve got it. that is what war can you be as ruthless as churchill was in prosecuting the war against the nazis? ruthless is not necessarily the word i would use, but tough, resolute. all right. so the audience thought that was a gotcha question. was it, general? well, it really was because, again, the type of operation that we re conducting right now, whether it s effective or ineffective, is significantly restricted by the rules of engagement and the collateral damage estimations. that doesn t necessarily tie the hands of our commanders on the ground, but it restricts them significantly. and if there is a chance of civilian population on the target or nearby the target, it could well be that the decision is to pull away from that target today and hope to get them tomorrow because what we don t want to do is not just kill the enemy but also isolate and get the population to hate us and turn against us for killing
and they all want to as mr. trump said bomb the poop out of isis, but how, why, where. who will be sub stand tastantiu. i would ask mr. trump there are five countries that border syria. name them. you re going to bomb it, you should know where to send the planes. as you know, you do that and then you get attacked for a gotcha question. i d know the answer. all five? sure. let me think. turkey, iraq, lebanon, jordan and a tiny slice of israel. wrong. no, that s right. i d have my client do it then. one of his opponents. ted cruz probably has greater mastery of the substance. marco rubio, chris christie. even though they re trailing mr. trump. why not christie who is trying to get in the game, let him turn to him and say i can name the states, but himself he i can name the states that border syria. if it was one of the other
gotcha question but donald trump hit it out of the park. i m looking at a number i would say a gigantic majority of people watching right now and have responded to the e-mail machine are saying, why not? he makes a great point about considering they re chopping off heads and we are waterboarding, this enhanced interrogation technique, they think waterboarding is a great deter rent. it s interesting. when he s comparing, they do this i don t think that s the argument that should be made. it should be made, if this is a means to say millions of lives, particularly lives here, then you can make that argument. you just think saying, they do this, we should do that in reality, cia will never do it because they got excoriated.
able to raise $1 million in the following 24 hours. i would expect to see a similar line from carson. adolfo, i think that s the biggest wild card tonight. you know a lot of these candidates, maybe all of these candidates are showing up, looking for signs of gotcha questions, looking for openings to say the media is out to get them, like they were a couple of weeks ago. what effect do you think that will have on those moderators tonight and the kinds of questions they ask? i think there might be a little bit of baiting o of that. but i hope our candidates, all of that, get beyond that. because as a republican, we need to win over independents and democrats, frankly, to win the general election, and media bashing is not going to get us there. with respect to dr. carson, specifically, either he was offered a scholarship or he wasn t. and i think it s absolutely appropriate to ask that s not a gotcha question. adolfo, do you think they re going to, though? or do you think given al
and this is how a debate is suppose to be handled. i think the way that fox approaches these debates makes us here at rnc sleep soundly. this will be a top-notch production about substantive issues, and that s what we have been looking. bill: the campaigns got together and it s difficult to get them to agree on everything. but they had opening statements, and closing statements and room temperature. there will be no opening statements tonight. why is that important to a candidate? most important to a candidate, they want an opportunity to introduce themselves and express why they want to be president. a lot of times you start off with a gotcha question or silly question. what happens is that doesn t give the chance for these