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Second, carson's own adviser essentially said he isn't up to it. just a few weeks ago, carson's confidant armstrong williams told nbc news that carson wouldn't be qualified to run a government agency. he told "the hill" specifically, "dr. carson feels he has no government experience, he's never run a federal agency. the last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency." that same day, carson himself gave an interview saying he'd only consider a cabinet position in trump absolutely needed him. having me as a federal bureaucrat would be like a fish out of wate...

Questions are raised whether or not carson embellished stories about his childhood. here is carson. >> first time in history you want to prove you hit your mother with a hammer. you want to prove you hit a friend in the face with a lock. you want to prove you tried to stab somebody to death in order to have credibility. in history this is the first time. it's a whole weird deal going on here. reporter: carson insists he is telling the truth though he may have misremembered some details about his childhood. as to trump's criticisms, carson wouldn't be anxious to have commander-in-chief like tru...

Yeah, but. but if you said, well, poor performance, then you say, well, then carson wouldn't even be on the stage. yeah, but. sharp exchanges like jeb had with marco that didn't work out. if they were fatal to your campaign, trump would be out of the race. so this is just a lot of talk because we have to talk after these debates but it's not going to change the course of the race. blocking and tackling is going to change the course of the race. >> rick, do you think this will change the course of the race? yes, the media obviously has an opinion how this went and didn't go well for jeb bush an...

>> he was basically refusing to say at that point that he is ready to say he's a christian. he says i'll take him at his word. let's bring in don lemon and our senior political reporter nia mallika henderson. are you surprised dr. carson wouldn't simply say yes, president obama is a christian. he says if he says he's a christian, i'll take him at his word. >> i'm not surprised by him making that sort of too clever by half assessment of president obama. you seen that from others, scott walker did that as well. it's almost as if he doesn't want to vouch for barack obama's relationship with god r...

There were 3,000 people there. there was an audible gasp. trump didn't back down. he battled with reporters for about 20 minutes, didn't back down. almost doubled down. i talked to some attendees afterwards, some trump supporters. although they didn't agree with what he said they liked his bluntness, his frankness. they said john mccain shouldn't be able to use that or his defenders as a shield, that he was a p.o.w. and in the military. however, i talked to dr. ben carson after the donald trump interview and dr. carson wouldn't directly address it. he said it depends on your definition of war ...