well, i think it is a well-earned trump tattoo. donald trump has been my guest a half dozen times, john i gait long with him well. i would start every radio snow with him. he gets of course, enormous audience, entertaining and informative. yesterday in the events we talked about whether or not what i was asking was a gotcha question. he did quite well on complicated questions how he would respond if the prc would attack an allied ship. overnight he thought more about it. didn t like what he saw. and didn t like how it was plague s playing. he did a very good, professional, television skilled, rockateur would do change the subject back to me. i want the audience to know when it comes time for the cnn debate next week from wednesday, i am not mad at donald trump. i am not pro-donald trump. i m not for or against any of the candidates. i just want to ask questions thit th that gop primary voters want to
baghdadi. do you know the players without a score card yet, donald trump? i don t believe was it a gotcha question. do you know who asan. or did hugh expose one of trump s weaknesses. here to break it down is colonel allen west. good to see you this morning. good to be with you, tucker. was this a gotcha question and what did you think of trump s response? no, i don t think it s a gotcha question. when you are running for the presidency of the united states of america. the most important title is commander and chief. and when you are paying attention to the news cycle, you will understand one of the most important things is the iranian nuclear agreement and general sulemany it broken travel band. went to russia and meeting with vladimir putin and the defense minister there and we find out that iran is
get to office they ll all be changed. they ll be all gone. i knew you were going to ask me things like this. reporter: hewitt defended his questions. i don t believe it gotcha questions. i m not trying to quiz you on who the worst guy in the world is. that is a gotcha question. when you re asking me about who s running this this this. that is not i will be so good at the military your head will spin. reporter: carly fiorina went on after trump, said she did not hear his terview, answered the same questions and declared them fair. i don t think they re gotcha questions at all. it is critically important that we have a leader in the white house who understands the world and who s in it and how it works. reporter: jeb bush last night. you ve got to know who the players are. you need to know what the capabilities of the united states are. you need a strategy. all this stuff, you just can t flippantly say, well, i ll hire the best people. reporter: david gergen, a former a
do you know this one. i thought you used the word kurd before. i will till you i think the kurds are most underutilized and being mistreated by us. no one understand why. as far as the individual players, i don t know them. i haven t met them. i haven t been position to meet them. if, they re still there which is unlikely in many cases if they re still there, i will know them better than i know you. i don t believe in gotcha questions. i am not trying to quiz you. that is a gotcha question, when you are asking me, who is running this, this, this. i will be so good at the military, your head will spin. obviously i m not meeting these people. i m not seeing these people. last question, i want to go back to the beginning. i do agree with you on the gotcha question. at the debate i may bring up nasrallah being with hezbollah, and al-julani being with al-nusra and al-masri, do you
doing more and more but their wages are going nowhere. adjusted for inflation, most people in the united states today are no better than their counterparts were in the middle-class or poorer 35 years ago. i mean there has been a huge movement of excess productivities with wages, income, wealth, all going to the top. what you said right there literally sounds like it could be a bernie sanders stump speech which prompt this is question. do you have a favorite in this race? you re close to the clintons. you were a rhodes scholar with bill clinton, you served in his administration, you ve known hillary clinton and bill clinton for decades. obviously what you just articulated sounds like bernie sanders stump speech. do you have a preference here? are you trying to put me in a corner here, chris? i m just asking an innocent question. is this a donald trump kind of gotcha question? no, i look, i have known h g