welcome back to cnn newsroom, i m george howell. hillary clinton main republican rival is face something problems of his own right now. donald trump stumbled on a foreign policy question with a conservative radio host and he calls it a gotcha question. the presidential candidate fumbled when asked if he recognized the names of leaders of isis and other islamic militant groups. he also said he misheard a question from radio host hugh hewitt about the head of iran s elite qods forces. are you familiar with general soleimani. yes. he runs the qods forces. right. i think the kurds by the way have been horribly mistreated by not the kurds, the qods
he is he scandinavian. they are guilty about being rich. i kind of sympathize with him a little bit. i know a lot of really unhappy rich people. it s a cliche being rich does not make you happy. relationships make you happy. was he happy beforehand? did the money make him unhappy or was he always unhappy to begin with and now he has this voice. maybe is he oversharing. reluctant entrepreneur. the upper side of new york city most unhappy zip code in america. what do you do you think? foxandfriends.com. let us know what you think. donald trump stumbles on foreign policy. gotcha questions. i m not trying to quuz you on who the worst guy. that is a gotcha question though, when you start throwing around names of people and where they live and give me their address, i think it s ridiculous. he says it s a gotcha question. do you agree. should presidential candidates really be expected to know the names of every terror leader?
questions of national security and foreign policy. but donald trump has been masterful in his manipulation of the media and what he s done. we re seeing the support in the polls. into this next debate we know hugh hewitt will be asking questions in los angeles. trump cagey in trying to set expectations early so if hewitt goes after him again his supporters will say oh, it s that third rate radio announcer he was talking about, of course he s going after him. olivia, do you think it was a gotcha question posed by hugh hewitt? i think it s perfectly fair to ask a candidate for the highest office in the country whether or not they know thing about the middle east. i think it was a perfectly fair question and but we see this all the time where people whether it s megyn kelly or other journalists asking trump fair questions and him responding by saying they re gotcha questions or they re mean and unfair and not nice. i think any time he s made to feel stupid or small he will react t
overwhelmingly they said the best candidate would be donald trump. you think that will stick? you know, i think rick is right. it is going to stick with his committed supporters. i think some of the people who are iffy, who are maybe giving him a second look are going to have some doubts. because look the bottom line is, the apprentice may make for a good reality tv show. it would make some people including myself very nervous to thinning thk that you have an apprentice in the situation room when it concerns national security and our country is in danger. the questions he was asked, frankly, normal people shouldn t know them. anybody running for president should know them. particularly because he was asked basically the same question during the republican debates a month ago. everybody else that goes on the program gets asked, tough, defense and foreign policy question. this is not a gotcha question. but i don t expect tight have a
i do think that s a gotcha. trying to reveal gaps in his knowledge. reporter: trump called msnbc to trash hewitt this morning. this third rate radio announc announcer that i did the show gotcha gotcha. do i know this one and that one. he worked hard on that. third rate announcer. that s my trump tat too. you earn that in this business. i m always interested in critiques. i take them under advisement. i don t think it s a gotcha question to ask about the forces surrounding israel. reporter: hewitt is hardly a third rate reporter. gop candidates flocked to his radio show and he ll be posing more questions as part of the next debate in just 12 days, something that was arranged long before trump s interview just yesterday. we are counting down. it s getting feistier every morning. carl, thank you. still ahead, why are nonpoliticians getting so much support in the presidential race? we re going ask some real people. but first the new head of the drug enforcement administrati