hugh hewett is now the moderator, so now after doing the you're a third rate, people are going to want to tune in to see away questions trump will want to ask, how he responds to the questions and it will just be brilliant for ratings, not only for cnn, but again, poll numbers for trump. >> yeah, it works for him. people keep acting like it's some kind of joke. what trump is doing is kind of a version of what ronald reagan was doing. carter got bogged down in details, all reagan knew was that the soviet union is evil, and that is all he said. >> when a politician is asked something they don't know the answer to they go onto the weird tangents and don't address the question. he is being more honest than i have seen politicians be. and is that refreshing, remy, saying look, he is a straight shooter, an executive, do ceos know every detail of their company? i don't think they do. >> i think it is a good question, a lot of supporters think of him like them. maybe he expresses the questions not in the smartest way, but he is relatable for that way to the american voter. my problem is when t

in a radio interview with hugh hewett he said he's prepared to be commander in chief but stumbled whened about leaders of various terrorist groups. >> so the difference between hess bowl la and hamas does not matter to you yet but it will? >> it will when it's appropriate. i will know more about it than you know and believe mow it won't take me long. >> trump's campaign nounsed today he will give a speech about national security the night before the neck debate, that will happen aboard the battleship uss iowa. >>> on the health watch tonight, after summer of swimming many children are expected to turn up with ear text but one of prescription treatments doctors and pharmacists are giving out might be dangerous. health reporter stephanie stahl has details on new warning from the government. >> reporter: millions of children suffer with chronic ear infections. >> keep them up at night. crying through the night. calling the emergency room. calling his doctor. >> reporter: what dad steve wolf didn't know the ear drops prescribed for his son can be dangerous. warning from the fda says ear dr

well, the panel will be comprised of the moderator, jake tapper, and also cnn's dana bash, and hugh hewett radio, and they will be posing the questions along with questions from facebook, twitter and instagram and so forth. and the subject matters are domestic policy and foreign policy and and poli politic, ane broad policies, they will have one window to answer, and 30 30-second rebuttal if something was said about you. and if you think that the people in the earlier debate were at a huge disadvantage, yes, but it is a smaller audience, but a whole lot longer to say under the rules. and if they say something sharp or interesting, they can play it in the larger debate, and those candidates will have to answer it to. >> and tom foreman, excellent explanation, and the stage is set, and the candidates are making the final preparation forgs debate. let's talk about how the candidates are getting ready to talk about what may be taking place. joining us is a former debate preparation manager for president barack obama and also kevin madden who was the debate manager for mitt romney, and so, tell

made a lot of headlines for the kurds and the middle eastern people he made in an interview with hugh hewett. he said if you don't know the answers to these questions, you are not fit to be commander in chief, he suggested. trump said it amounted to a game of gotcha. what did you think? >> i think i would rather have a president who is tough and puts america first than can win a game of trivial pursuit. i don't know if other candidates were posed the same question and i don't know if they had the answers, but i don't think the public gives a flying flip if they know who is a specific leader of a specific region or religion. that leader will change of course when the next president comes into power just based on the volatility of politics in the other areas. i don't think the public is so concerned about that. it's subjective too. whether a candidate is worthy to be given attention and respect and be taken seriously if they don't know the leader of a tribe or religion or a country. how about other candidates who may not know the price of a barrel of oil today or how much oil it is that we're

trish: and typical trump fashion, he's firing back here calling hugh hewett a third rate radio announcersten to this. >> this third rate radio announcer that i did the show, the gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, the question was do i know this one and that one. he worked hard on that. trish: so is trump's attack a brilliant kind of pr move or are voters going to be concerned he didn't know the answer to some of the questions? do they care? joining me gary b. smith and chris hahn, a former aid to senator chuck schumer. gary, what do you say? does it matter that donald trump didn't know the answers to this guy's questions? >> the only thing that mattered is the answer was entertaining. that's the beauty. everything he does, this guy is entertaining, it's funny. and you ask, will the average person care in the average person says i don't know who my senator, is so i can't expect trump to know who these guys are. trish: he speaks my language and talking to people and he's a success himself. you know, that said, is there any comparison moment, john, you think back to katie couric and got sarah palin ta

over there in the middle and you can see how close they are to the moderator, and dana bash and hugh hewettd you know, jake, you can't handle the truth! or i disagree with you, and that can get dicey, because, kate, it is the audience where it is different in the debate where in cleveland, you had five or six people screaming, this is more intimate where the candidates are bringing the families and such, and the not so raucous thing that we saw before. but you will be here tomorrow, kate, and not bad. what do you think? >> nott bad at all, and it is up close and personal. and everybody has like a personal space issues, and many people do, and if they want to get in a fight, they are very close on the podiums, and even closer than you and i are on t set, and we are not fighting that the often. >> yes, and everybody has personal space issue, and by that, i know you mean, you, and one of the things is that there may not be a raw kaus setting, but i have been to some of the debates before, and there are some of the most intense ones that i have ever seen. >> and get excited, and get excited bec

bash who's going to be asking some of the questions tomorrow night during the debate along with hugh hewett and jake tapper. joining us, david axelrod, candidate barack obama's close campaign adviser, knows a thing or two about political moments like these. so do amanda carpenter and jeffrey lord. she's a former communications drebl director for ted cruz. he served as political director in the reagan white house. these days jeffrey's a trump supporter. dana, first of all, how are you preparing? what is your sense about tomorrow night? about the various strategies that these candidates are going to come to it at? >> well, i think actually jeff's reporting was fascinating to me because i've tried to pull back from my, you know, usual reporting on all the republican candidates for obvious reasons. i want to really kind of keep a distance since i will be asking questions. but i think, you know, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that donald trump is going to be the guy to take down and in the last debate, only one candidate, maybe 1 1/2, rand paul and a little bit of chris christie t

hugh hewett, the radio host, interviewed him last night and asked him a lot of foreign policy questionsre you familiar with general soamani. >> yes. go ahead, tell me. >> he runs the qods forces. >> okay, right. >> do you expect -- >> the qods, by the way, have been horribly mistreated by us. >> not the kurds. the qods forces, the iranian revolution, the bad guys. >> right. >> do you expect his behavior -- >> i thought you said kurds, kurds. >> no, qods. i'm looking at the next commander in chief to know who he is and al zawahiri, do you know the players without a scorecard yet, donald trump? >> no, i tell you honestly, i think by the time we get to office they will all be changed. >> i don't believe in gotcha questions. i'm not trying to quiz you on who the worst guy in the world is. >> when you're asking me about who, you know, who is running this, this, this. that's not -- that is not -- i will be so good at the military your head will spin. >> robert costa, take it from there. this is a man running for president of the united states. a conservative talk show host, hugh hewitt. unfai