name the negotiators at the table working out the deal other than john kerry. can you name ten? five? four? let s bring in cnn senior media correspondent and host of reliable sources, brian seltzer. that sounds like a gotcha question. it does. and not the kind of question i expect to get asked. i think what the producers and moderators are going for is that split-screen effect, what we call the two-shot in the business where you see one candidate talking with challenging the other candidate. but some of the questions we saw would work really well. i can share them with you like penn jillette about marriage equality. should the government get out of the business of legally sanctions marriages and instead just enforce the contracts that they enter into with each other or with their churches? should the government get out of enforcing legally sanctioned marriages? rand paul brought that up in the wake of the supreme court decision this summer. he said maybe the government should g
about somewhat obscure people. zawahiri is a bit of a household name, a almost jalani, al baghdadi, are those gotcha questions? you don t have to know the name of the terrorist groups. you want to get a feel, can they handle the notion of the nuance between hamas and hezbollah and where those organizations get their funding and how you would move forward on a foreign policy issue. that nuance is important. knowing who the hamas leader is versus the hezbollah leader is by name, i think is a bit of a gotcha question. you want to find the basic policy knowledge of these individuals or their principles that they would apply to really tricky national security problems that we have today and
influencers are watching what? so you get a guy that goes out there and says things that make us go did he really say that? and the american people are going why does he have to apologize to john mccain? why does he have to apologize to megyn kelly. we re at a moment in time, we re hearing from the american people. and they don t like what s going on. fundamental disconnect between the elites of the country, the bay area, los angeles, new york, washington, d.c. and now the american people through donald trump are channelling their contempt. and bernie sanders. and we re hearing from them. also what i m noticing is that if you get trump with a gotcha question people feel defensive for him. right. they get mad at the question. mark halperin you got i think an article or a piece coming out
the shirt saturday and he had underneath it, reagan/bush t-shirt, and he needs the k content of the choice that he is the candidate of the future, and not the past, and he needs to make that connection, a nd he will. and a lot of people thought that they could go after trump in foreign policy, but he has been boning up on it, and is that a place that you see him vulnerable or a place where jeb and others will be doing the repeated punches. well, every time you stump donald trump on the policy question, he considers that a gotcha question, and whether it is well, it can t be from the other candidates and that is why i asked you that, and it can be from me, but not from jeb. well, jeb has the answers for all of the gotcha questions, and we wanted enough debate time on
and it is 15 years until the election. i think it is 15 years since the campaign started. this is getting ridiculous. it gets longer and longer. remi you said there shouldn t be any gotcha questions. i have to be honest i would prefer you not be honest. i think by asking do you know this person by name. it could be determined as a gotcha question. but to be fair it was a reasonable question and i don t think he did something wrong necessarily. well, you really lawyered that one up. they said they were gotcha questions. i would just like a straightens a from your panelists. for once. i m sure others noted this, but if hugh hewitt is a third