that includes the editorial board of the wall street jurm that said ben carson for president. in just a moment i ll ask him if he has any plans to pursue a career in politics. first, frank luntz recently convened a focus group of california voters and asked them to watch and dialed the doctor s popular speech. let s take a look at this. sean, the words of benjamin carson struck a cord with a lot of americans. we re here in los angeles with a group of swing voters. we want to know what they think of his language. before we go to them, let s go to a clip. the red line represents swing republicans, the green line swing democrats on the deficit and debt. man, does this guy score well. our deficit is a big problem. think about it. and our national debt, $16.5 trillion. you think that s not a lot of money?
sean: welcome back to this studio audience edition of hannity. we are focused on saving america with a special guest, dr. benjamin carson. the director of speeda pediatrc ty.urosurgery at johns hopkins many asked him to consider a run for office. that includes the wall street editorial board which published a column titled ben carson for president. frank luntz recently convened a focus group of california voters and asked them to watch doctor s popular pore s speech.
20-minute speech, you get to see the president, senator sessions and ben carson. the president for awhile looked like he was texting, then he looked tired. steve: a little squirmish. gretchen: some people criticized dr. ben carson. was this the right forum and as a physician what did he know about taxes? he responded to that question as well. why did you take it upon yourself to go beyond medical policy and talk about tax policy? one of the things i also said during the speech is there will be some people who say you re a doctor, a neurosurgeon, you should be sticking to that. i mentioned the fact that five physicians signed the declaration of independence and were involved in the framing of the constitution and the bill of rights and several other things. there s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists shouldn t be involved in things that affect all of us.
front row. steve: you know dr. ben carson was a keynote speaker at the national prayer breakfast last week. he is an esteemed neurosurgeon at johns hopkins tphe baltimore area. because it was a prayer breakfast, he took a look at the bible and applied some biblical teachings on where we are today. he talked about the national debt, health care and he talked about taxes. despite the way we re doing it right now, it really should be fair. why did he do that? here s the good doctor. somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies. there is no question that he has advocated basically a policy of tax the rich. and i have advocated a policy that comes from the bible, which is a very fair policy of proportional taxation. if it was good enough for god, why wouldn t it be good enough for us? the minute you deviate away
we re people who have learned how to make decisions on facts, empirical data rather than on ideology. brian: really faulted lawyers. said there are too many lawyers involved in the entire government. on that speech, 1.2 million views. when was the prayer breakfast? thursday or friday? steve: i don t remember. his speech, the keynote, was so effective, the wall street journal had a headline that said on the op-ed page, ben carson for president. gretchen: he could probably do it too because he s certainly come from a lot of adversity in his life and risen to the top. coming up on fox & friends, he took down bin laden. now he can t feed his own family. why isn t the former navy hero getting the treatment he deserves from our government? brian: hollywood rarely get it right when it comes to faith. how did they do with the movie lincoln?