Ben Carson cites travel overseas, intellect as equipping him for foreign policy

Carson said common sense dictates the need for more security to screen refugees from Syria at a time when threats against America are at an all-time high, when ISIS has already used the massive wave of refugees to infiltrate France, and American officials admit existing screening is unreliable and incomplete.

Carson, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon, is expected to be the most exposed, according to the report, while Trump’s fate is a bit more uncertain, party insiders said.

In The Times story, Clarridge was quoted saying that Carson needed weekly foreign-policy conference calls to “make him smart”. “If, in fact, it does satisfy basic needs for safety, of course”, Carson said.

Indeed, when asked Thursday who edited his op-ed on national security that ran in The Washington Post, Carson said he sent it to Williams, asking for cuts because the piece was running too long.

“When our government admitted that there is no way to screen these adult refugees for bad apples, I couldn’t believe it”, Carson wrote.

Tickets for the fundraiser are $500 per ticket, $1,000 for VIP and $2,700 per host committee person and are available on Dr. Carson’s website.

And we know there are people who want to come here and destroy us.

While the No. 2 Republican Carson has gained a few ground in the polls on rival GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, he’s hit a couple of bumps in the road in recent weeks, including with the authenticity of a few of the biographical details he’s said again and again in books and on the campaign trail.

In Mobile, Carson said, “Islam itself is not necessarily our adversary”. Carson has struggled to talk about foreign policy during the Republican primary, making erroneous assertions about which countries are in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation or militarily involved in Syria.

“Mr. Clarridge, I appreciate his service as a Central Intelligence Agency agent, and he has sat in on two sessions”, Carson told reporters.

Carson tried to publicly separate himself from Williams, a longtime adviser who appears frequently on television on Carson’s behalf. “I think that applies to every aspect of our lives, particularly in a rapidly changing world”.

“I would hate to do it but it’s something you that you’re going to have to strongly consider because a few of the ideas and a few of the hatred – the absolute hatred – is coming from those areas”, he said.

“I don’t know – I just thought he has the ability to stand up there an say what he wants, and he just wants to touch the hearts of the people here – just ordinary people”.