i know you disagree the only one in the room. you re here former republican strategist, it actually allows candidates to be more tolerant. i personally oppose same-sex marriage but if a loved one or close friend had a wedding or reception or it makes them seem like they re anti-gay. if someone says they don t attend a same-sex marriage or will not attend a same-sex marriage does it come across that they re anti-gay because they re not going to the same-sex wedding because of their religious beliefs? that s where there s that fine line between the question was being asked and how they answered it. and you saw governor scott walker who walked around it had a very difficult time answering that question. i will leave it up to the viewers to decide whether it s a gotcha question or not. thanks very much for joining us this sunday. ahead, ben affleck apologizes for covering up his roots on a pbs special. up next after months and months of tabloid teasing, diane sawyer
you are here as a former republican strategist. is that actually lets the candidates appear to be more tolerant when you bring it down to the personal level. i personally oppose same-sex marriage but if a loved one or close friend had a wedding or reception, i would go. or makes them seem anti-gay. if someone says they don t attend a same-sex marriage doesn t make them does it come across being they are anti-gay because they are not going to the same-sex marriage because of religious beliefs? that s where there is a fine line between how the question was being asked and how they answered it. you saw governor scott walker who walked around it. had a difficult time answering that question. we ll leave it up to the viewers to decide whether it s a gotcha question. mercedes bob, joe, thank you for joining us this sunday. ahead, ben affleck apologizes for covering up his roots on a pbs special. after months of tabloid
questions that make them uncomfortable. how they handle that is a major part not so much did they answer it on the wrong side of the constituents and their party, but how did they handle the question? all these republican candidates oppose same-sex marriage and many repeated that in iowa yesterday. this is an interesting journalistic phrasing because it gets you off the talking points and does make it personal. a number of the republicans say i would, i have attended a gay marriage. i think it s a great question. any way they answer it it s news. everyone can relate to it. a lot of people have been to gay weddings. so it s a very personal question. i agree with joe. when you are running for president, it s a circus. you are going to get personal questions. they volunteered to run. that s why you are going to see those questions asked of everybody. another reason i think it s not a gotcha question i m the only one in the room.
haven t faced that circumstance. all right, is that a gotcha question mercedes? i think it is. it s a very personal question. and although someone will decide to attend a same-sex marriage he might not agree with it from a policy standpoint. so it doesn t get to the answer of what their policy is. we know what their policy is. this is an attempt to get a different kind of answer. it makes it awkward. why is a personal question in your view necessarily a gotcha question? i think when you look at the way they set up the question it was very much in a way to make them feel either embarrassed, awkward, because they know what their policy position may be but when it comes to something so personal as to whether you would attend a gay wedding, that might conflict with your religious beliefs, it s just one of those things that i think hits that personal spot for a lot of these politicians. but one of those asking the questions, hugh hewitt a conservative radio talk show host. t
protesters, rand paul is taking heat for shushing a cnbc reporter, she shushed protesters in her office. look, the real question, too, is why didn t any reporter ask hillary clinton if she would repeal her husband s law on religious freedom. has anyone asked her that, that was last week s big news story when george steph nop loss who asked the gotcha question about the religious freedom act on a sunday show, dominated the news cycle, tried to make it look like republicans didn t like gays. it was also george stephanopoulos during the presidential debates threw out the question on contraception that started the war on women debate, tainted republicans as hating women. so that s what they do. there s a huge double standard. i don t see a double standard at all. i see someone that launched what some say a great opening statement, rand paul got out there, was forceful in his initial opening remarks, then ends up looking like a defensive