It was a softball question with an easy answer. “No.”
It may have been out-of-the-blue — though given her response, I’m not sure it was (where there’s smoke ...) — but it doesn’t take much studying come up with an answer to that question. It wasn’t a pop quiz about leaders of obscure nations ... it was a simple question “Do you think the US Government had any involvement in the 9/11 attacks”.
She shouldn’t need to prepare an answer. The fact that she did need to prepare an answer means the answer is likely not “no”.
She is incompetent, and unqualified to govern this state.
SnakeDoc
Yes, that would be enough. But even better would be to start in on how the government handled the first World Trade Center bombing, the bombing of two embassies in Africa and the Khobar bombing as police matters, not the acts of war they were.
She could have mentioned ABC's "The Path to 9/11" which Robert Iger has hidden in a vault at Disney, refused to put on DVD and refuses to sell as evidence of who those who refused to take terrorism seriously during the Clinton adminstration are trying to hide their tracks.