In a recent interview, Ben Carson discussed how he was much more rebellious when he was younger. He even talked about a time he almost stabbed somebody when he was 14. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“On Friday, after Ben Carson passed him in the polls in Iowa, Donald Trump called his fellow candidate “super low energy.” Carson offered a response Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” by referring to his violent past: “There was a time when I was very volatile.”

“As a teenager, I would go after people with rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers,” he continued. “Of course, many people know the story when I was 14 and I tried to stab someone.”

In the unlikely event that you are one of the few people who don’t know this story, here’s how Carson summarized it in an interview with The Daily Caller last summer”