and i hope every journalist does going forward until the end they will press every candidate. andrea mitchell was pressing hillary clinton earlier today and i hope that everybody presses hillary clinton on the e-mails. i think benghazi presents real questions. so i think our job is to ask anyone who wants to be president questions that go to their ability to be the top commander-in-chief in a nation at war with thousands of american men and women deployed in harm s way and i ask my questions from that perspective. i certainly think i agree with you on that, hue hewitt. thank you so much as always, a leisure to have you on with us here. appreciate it. i want to bring in now cnn political commentator patti solis-doyle, a former campaign manager for hillary clinton and amanda carpenter, conservative writer and former communications director for senate or ted cruz. so patti, gotcha questions or not? was this fair? i don t think it was a gotcha question at all.
matter to you but it will? i will know more about it than you know and believe me it won t take long. let me clarify. the person, hugh hewitt, will be a questioner not a co-moderator. a little difference there. i want to bring in brian stelter today because my colleague interviewed the interviewer which is something we have to do in this very unusual circumstance we are in. so predictably, donald trump was not happy about having to answer questions about stuff like, you know, terror and who runs what. and now he s gone after i guess this is the predictable pattern. he s gone after the interviewer, even a conservative interviewer. walk me out of this and take me forward. that s right. hewitt was blasted by trump. trump was calling him a third rate radio announcer. a lot of people think hewitt is a first rate radio interviewer. he s had so many candidates on his radio show. he had trump on four times this month and when i talked to him this morning i asked him why he thought this
here is donald trump. even if it was a gotcha question, he s saying you are imposing on me. i ll get it when it s important. but it s important for a lot of people. but it may be the case that nobody who is a trump supporter values this question. there is no evidence this will make a difference for them. martha: a lot of his supporters looking at twitter and the like, sticking up for him saying it doesn t matter. he will study up on these people. when you look at the people he talked about, you are talking about the leader of isis. you are talking about the leader of hezbollah. you are talk about al-zawahiri, which is a name that s been around for many, many years. these are not particularly obscure issues. in terms of his campaign, do you think people around him are
points, 55% to 36%. trump seemed to stumble big-time with a foreign policy question last night during a radio interview with the conservative host, hugh hewitt. trump appeared to confuse iran s elite quds forces with forces fight you familiar with general sewell man my? wees go ahead. give me tell me. he runs the quds forces. yes, okay. do you exhibit i think the kurds have been hashly mistreesed not the kurds. the quds forces this the bad guys. right. well, trump claims he misheard the question today, blasted the host, calling him a, quote, third-rate radio announcer. he also called it a gotcha question. carl cameron is live with more on that. carl? reporter: it was a 20-minute
donald trump in the course of the interview quite politely, that i didn t think it was a gotcha question but i m open to other people thinking it was because i think those detract from the most important issue which i began my interview with which is i m going to ask you some commander-in-chief questions because to me my job the debate next week on wednesday night the week from wednesday, is to take the part of a republican primary voter who is looking for someone who will, a, be able to beat hillary clinton and, b, be a terrific commander-in-chief and a conservative president. so that s what my job is, is to try and separate people out on that basis, not to trick people by gotcha pop quizzes and i didn t do that yesterday. so aside from knowing the names, the distinctions that you talk about that you do expect someone who is running to be commander in chief to know, did you feel like he had a grasp of those? how do you see other candidates,