quds force, has been a powerful tool of the iranian regime to sow conflict. reporter: trump, true to form, lashed out. i thought he said kurds. this third-grade radio announcer that i did the show. gotcha, gotcha. every question was, do i know this one, that one? reporter: trump s gop opponents were quick to pounce. you can t flippantly say, i ll hire the best people and it will be done. you ve got to have some sense of what s at risk here. i think if you don t know the answer to those questions, you re not going to be able to serve as commander in chief. reporter: trump isn t alone. neurosurgeon ben carson, polling closely behind trump, has struggled to answer tough foreign policy questions. should we have that sort of commitment that if putin makes a move on the baltic states we d go to war? well, if we have them involved in nato. we need to convince them to get involved in nato and strengthen
do you know of players without a scorecard yet, donald trump? no i tell you honestly, by the time we get to office they ll all be changed, they ll be all gone. reporter: trump seemed to confuse an ethnic group, the iraqi kurds, with the iranian elite military unit said to target the west. are you familiar with general solomonny? yes. give me a little, tell me. he runs the kuds forces. i think the kurds have been harshly mistreated not the kurds, the quds forces, the bat guys. yes, right. reporter: trump accused hewitt about gotcha questions. when you ask who s running this, this, this, i will be so good at the military, your head will spin. reporter: yet carly fiorina, another candidate from business, not politics, was on the same program the same day answering with more fluency. we know that the general, the
do you expect. i think the kurds, by the way have been horribly mistreated by us. no, not the kurds, but the qods forces. reporter: saying today he misheard the questions. i thought he said kurds, the third-rate radio hay nouncer, it was like gotcha. the conservative radio host later asking the same questions to a trump opponent. i don t think they re gotcha questions at all. i think that this is at the heart the questions you are asking are at the heart of the threat that we face. trump s other gop rivals eager to pounce. you got to know who the players are for sure. i m sure he ll bone up on this now. i think if you don t know the answer to those questions, you re not going to be able to serve as commander in chief. also on defense, hillary clinton in a rare los angelesy interview, still struggling to end the e-mail controversy. at the end of the day, i m sorry this has been confusing to
who is general suleimani, and my critique here would be and this is one of the reasons why i think the situation room is a good show. there s been very little coverage of general suleimani s trip to moscow to meet with putin. the qods force leaders who went to moscow, even though technically he s still until sanctions. sorry, go ahead. so we are you and i are very conversant on this, because we re focused on it, but one of the things i ve noticed is there s a lot of reality television today, right? there isn t the kind of focus on the news, and many people don t know this qods force leader actually led an attack himself into israel. he helped lead qods forces and hezbollah unitings into an attack into israel. if it s not covered in the news, the question is, how much does our public know about it? how much do even our candidates follow it? that s why it s incumbent upon
see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. they re trying to explain their own stumbles. donald trump didn t know some of the leaders and groups in the middle east, and now grousing about what he calls gotcha questions. in her own interview, hillary clinton says she now wishes she had not used a private e-mail server, and she s sorry about the e-mail controversy that, in her words, it has been confusing to people. our political experts are here to talk all of this over. it s a big day today, guys. we have rebecca berg, dana bash, jamal buoy, and mark prescott. he confuses the qods forces, he thinking he hears the kurds. he doesn t seem to know who the leader of the qods forces in