pretending to be him and rejected the scholarship offer and then she deleted the acceptance e-mail and took it a step further creating a fake e-mail to send to her boyfriend, a rejection e-mail from the school. well, eric is joining us live. this story is crazy. when did you learn what had happened? so in may of 2016 that s when i figure it had all out. live tv. that happens. i did still hear you. i m have so. it s a little distracting, but, continue, please. so in may of the process from okay. so sorry about that. that is not ideal to say the
than other candidates who have been in a similar position? well, he s receiving more scrutiny than he was, say, a month ago but that s because he s the front-runner. in many polls he s even being donald trump. so with that comes scrutiny. what s happening here is they re going after moments from his past, right? we ve got a cnn report looking into his behavior as a child and whether or not his claims about that are true. we have a political report looking into whether or not he actually had a scholarship offer from west point. these are things that are so long ago that he s able to sort of dismiss them as character assassination, hit jobs, things like that. so, look, he deserves more media scrutiny without question. is he able to sort of use the things that are being taken out against him as a way to sort of push back and deflect against media criticism? absolutely. he s doing so at a time when the conservative base, especially sort of primed to be suspicious of anything the media do
parlayed a into this successful presidential campaign. but carson himself insists that he isn t being vetted by the news media but targeted instead. ben carson s political future may depend on how well he weathers questions about his past. it s not particularly getting under my skin. reporter: carson raising a stunning $3.5 million in one week as scrutiny grows over his claims of a scholarship offer to west point, a violent youth and selfless acts protecting white classmates during a 1968 race riot. carson consistently dismissing his critics. you re asking me about something that occurred 50 years ago and you expect me to have the details on that? forget about it. it s not going to happen. reporter: one british newspaper revealing an inside look at carson s maryland home we have to interrupt this piece from peter alexander. the president of missouri university, tim wolfe, has just announced he s resigning.
they have no recollection of him being hot tempered or violent leading carson to acknowledge some of the names were made up. and then a scholarship offer to west point. in his other biography he talks about being offered a full ride after having dinner with general william westmoreland on memorial day of 1969, but as the detroit news notes, the general s personal schedule shows he wasn t in detroit that day. at first, carson was defiant. there is a desperation on behalf of some to try to find a way to tarnish me because they have been looking through everything. they have been talking to everybody i ve ever known and seen. there s got to be a scandal. there s not got to be someone he s had an affair with. they are getting desperate. next week it will be my kind garten teacher who said i ped in
bold-faced lie. they ve been called out by that by the washington post and new york times and i m sure several others will call them out on that because there are actually some people with integrity in your business. you just toll me that you got a scholarship offer. you just said that. she said i got a scholarship. i never said i got a scholarship. i had people who said, yes, that i could get a scholarship to west point. and i told them that i wasn t interested, that i was going to pursue medicine. dr. carson did you make a mistake the way you characterized this? i don t think so. i think it s perfectly clear. i think there are people who want to make it into a mistake. i m not saying it s a mistake. forgot about it. dr. carson, all the information about the violent past, why is that so important? why is that important for your back grund? it s important to me because it was the transformation for me. that s when i became a person who really understood the power