dr. benjamin solomon carson to the table. welcome. >> thank you. >.>> hunt: we know you are a great surgeon, and because you have operated on our son. america has not elected any president who totally lacked political experience. why would ben carson be different and good? >> the collective political experience of everyone in congress comes out to 9,000 years and where has that gotten us? this country rose from nowhere to the pinnacle of the world quickly, and it wasn't necessarily because we have had experienced politicians. >> hunt: we have had as presidents. reagan and bush had political experience, roosevelt. >> but my point being you can get experience from lots of different areas. >> hunt: let me ask it this way, would it be different if you wanted to hire a baltimore ravens coach who didn't have any football background or take a really smart person with no medical background and say, we want you to do brain surgery. >> people have asked me that before and i always say, it requires an enormous amount of knowledge, for i

dr. benjamin carson to the table. thank you. al hunt: we know you are a great surgeon. you operated on our son. america has not elected a president with no political experience. why would ben carson be different? thecarson: if you look at political experience of everyone in congress today, al: it comes out to under 9000 years. yet, where has that gotten us? it is possible to gain experience. this country rose from nowhere to the pinnacle of the world quickly. al hunt: we have had presidents with political experience. reagan, bush, roosevelt. dr. carson: you can get experience from lots of different areas. al hunt: would it be different if you wanted to hire a baltimore ravens coach with no football background or take a smart person with no medical background and say, we are going to have you do brain surgery. it requires an enormous amount of knowledge to become a neurosurgeon. it is not the kind of knowledge that you acquire in a year, two years, three years, four years, or even five years. that is not true of politics. a lot of people want to believe it is true. in fac

dr. benjamin carson.ight that he has the intellectual capabilities to think out all the issues through and do what's most sensible for the american people. and i think just thinking logically is really what's going to be very important for america going forward. >> got it. all right. so again, it's interesting, especially contrasting this with what randi kaye was doing down in florida. a lot of people here actually talking about ben carson, which is something we have found just walking the streets of iowa as the candidates have started coming in. it looks like people here at least in this room, it's not a scientific poll but he comported himself pretty well. >> joe, please thank them all for participating. appreciate it. more of our breaking news coverage of the debate after this break. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... that's huge for my bottom line. what's in your wallet? i'm reworking the menu. mayo, corn dogs... you are so ou