writing, this is a dumb game the press is playing, calling it a gotcha game. chris, was it absurd? because what happened on meet the press was chuck todd said, you know, this is what s happened with donald trump. should a president s faith matter? carson goes on to talk about well, if it s inconsistent with the values of america, maybe. and then he stepped in it. i like the guy from c.a.r.e., all he wants ben carson to do is quit. stick with the, was it a gotcha question? not a gotcha question. whether or not ben carson wants to respond oh, now, chuck, i am not going to play your games,
when it works for everybody and everybody works together. that s the choice here and that s why you are hearing these comments. bill: why do you think this came up. katie, you are preparing for meet the press sunday. how does this come up in the order of questions. let s ask him if a muslim is good for the white house. had ben carson been asked about it prior? he had not been asked about it prior. it came up as a result of donald trump fumbling a question about president obama s faith. it isn t a main issue in the race and it s a gotcha question because nobody running for president is a muslim an and its an irrelevant question to bring into the spectrum because it s not an issue. there are bigger issues like the syrianing are try is we can talk
i think i know. no one mentioned sharia law. winning elections are about getting votes. and these comments will work better than you think in the republican primary and driving people who believe those comments in the general election. with the pope about to land here people like trump and carson and others said the same thing about kennedy because he was a catholic. so it doesn t win elections. but what i will do is drive people and we have a year left to go. bill: carson said the quils irrelevant and was a gotcha question in journalism. did he handle it the right way.
hold on,flam simon. i ll let you list one if you want, or two. i know it s kind of a gotcha question. israel?ed hamas and really? that s your accomplishment, that negotiated with terrorists? it doesn t seem like it s game over there yet. every secretary of state negotiated withis israel. boy, if that s an accomplishment, what s a failure? i know that we re not going to agree onn this one. i know that we re not going to find common ground on whether the things she did was positive. but there are many things she did. russia has fewer nuclear weapons today because of hillary clinton.re china came to the table and committed to reduce the biggest polluter in the world, committed to reduce their carbon emissions. she negotiated a cease fire. hamas stopped bombing, putting rockets into israel. these are actual real accomplishments. they may not be everything that you hamas, as you re aware, is a
to do for the country. and i think that s a danger for all the candidates tonight. i want to play how trump responded when he was pressed on foreign policy by hugh hewitt earlier this month. i m looking for the next commander in chief, to know who hassan nasrallah is and zawahiri and al julani and al baghdadi. do you know the players without a scorecard yet? no, you know, i ll tell you honestly, i think by the time we get to office, they ll all be gone. now, i don t believe in gotcha questions. and i m not trying to quiz you on who the worst guy in the world is. well, that is a gotcha question, though. i mean, you know, when you re asking me about who s running this, that s not i ll be so good, your head will spin. do you think trump will be more prepared, or do you think we re going to hear more of the same? i think that trump hasn t been spending enough time getting prepared. i mean, he s had this ridiculous schedule running around the