outcome of the court. he has said some is permissible, some is not. we will all be looking for what he does in this case. >> we certainly l jeffrey, sunny, cornell william brooks, thanks to all of you for joining us. that's it for me. thanks for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. next, donald trump in a new interview with cnn saying muslims are his friends and thinks he could win as an independe independent. a friend of the san bernardino shooters now admitting he planned a previous terror attack with one of them. and supreme court justice antonin scalia igniting a firestorm today raising the question of whether too many black students are going to elite schools. let's go "outfront." good evening to all, i'm he erin burnett. outfront tonight, donald trump telling cnn in an interview you that muslims are "phenomenal people" that he has many muslim

friends as his condemnation for a call for a ban on muslims. entering the united states goes global much tonight, speaking to our don lemon, trump refused to given a inch. >> i'm doing good for the muslims. i was just called by them one of the most important people of the middle east. and just said to me, donald, you have done a tremendous service to the muslims. >> his latest defense comes on a day when people across the united kingdom responded to his proposed ban, more than 300,000 signing a petition to bar his entry to their country. but trump insists the one group not criticizing him is voters. and tonight, once again, he floated the possibility that he would renege on a loyalty pledge to the republican party and run as an independent. don lemon is "outfront" tonight. you have this conversation. you were with him face to face. i know you had a lot of time with him and he did not give any ground. >> did he not give any ground. the question everyone has been asking, if you are going to, as he said, ban or stop muslims. from coming into the country, a full ban, you know, he said with the exception of american

citizens, muslims are already american citizens, how would you do it in practical sit in how would any of this work? so i asked him, how does it work? here's what he says. what about foreign diplomats or people from muslim countries who are coming into the country? >> exceptions could be made. not going to say you can't come into the country. the one thing people didn't pick up, at the end of that sentence, it said, in we get our hands around it essentially, until we find out what the hell is going on, which is the expression i used. now, that could go quickly, you know what it is a subject that has to be discussed. >> so you said there will be exceptions, even for, like, international athletes in competitions? >> of course there will be. you can't keep people out like that. they will certainly be exceptions made. >> so you have been saying that until we figure out what's going on, what exactly does that mean? figure out what? what is there to figure out? >> why is there such hatred and such viciousness? why is somebody willing to fly

airplanes into the world trade center and go after it even prior to that? they failed, although they did tremendous damage by any normal standard. after they failed, they went and they actually took airplanes into the world trade center. where does this hatred come from? where does it come? we have to figure it out, because we have problems. so, when you sur veil the mosques, i took a lot of heat for surveillance of the mosques. well, now other people are saying we have to sur veil the mosques. i took heat for we have to study things. nobody's taken the heat like me. i don't care. i don't care, because what i'm saying is right. you know what, you know it's right and everybody knows it's right. you know who really knows it is right is the public. the public knows it's right. we have to find out, don, where does this hatred come from? but it seems to be one group. i mean, the people that flew the planes into the world trade center -- and many other things, not only in this country, but in many other countries, you look at what's going on all over the

world. we have to find out why and where is it coming from? >> so, how would you do it? how -- to be practical, how would you put this policy into action? what do you do, ask someone coming over on an airplane, don't you think two lie? >> tough go through a series of questions. tough go through a series of -- you need paperwork, you have to find out where these people are coming from. but we can't allow radical killers into this country. we can't do it. we have enough problems. we are 19 trillion, going to be $21 trillion very soon. we have jobs that are being stolen from us by china, by japan, by everybody. we cannot continue to allow this to happen to our country. we are not going to have a country soon. we have people pouring across the borders that we have no idea who they are. when i brought up the mexican situation, i brought up basically illegal immigration, i'm telling you, it was a lot tougher than this.

and within four weeks, you know better than i do, everybody was saying trump is right. then you had the killing of kate in san francisco. you had the killing of jameel. you had the wonderful woman, a veteran, 66 years old -- >> talking about mexican immigrants? >> i'm talking about -- well, you know, i think the reason that so many people rank me so highly on security is because i started with a border and everybody said i was wrong. now they all say i'm right. had i not brought up border security and illegal immigration at my opening remarks win announced in this building that i'm running for president, you wouldn't even be talking about it. >> fascinating conversation. and doubling down and explaining himself. i mean, you know -- >> the conversation, have you noticed? >> he does. >> he does. he is right about immigration. we talk about it talks about muslims. . we talk about t and on it, african-americans, he had the pastors, about race. he does lead the conversation. >> he does. and you can't deny that now, in terms of what this is going to do, you know, he is getting

condemned from around the world. look, i have seen the trump brand in the middle east, very prominent, for example in dubai. one billionaire, i spoke to him yesterday, he said ban is political and thinks that "we muslims also must fix our act" not condemning him. donald trump is saying other people in dubai and the emirates telling him the same thing. the biggest business partner he has got there said this will not impact their golf course development. pretty incredible you are not getting the condemnation from there >> two things on that. i asked him, i said, you know, are you concerned, do you a lot of business in the middle east. some people wonder why you still do business in the middle east if you're so opposed to, you know, muslim immigrants coming into the country temporarily. and he said, well, i'm not really concerned about that. maybe i will take a him. he also says that he has muslim friends. i have muslim friends, too. here is what they are telling me. they are concerned as well. here is the rest of our conversation about that. listen. okay, so, here what's my muslim friends are, you say you have lots of muslim friends and agree with you -- >> i have muslim partners.

deal w >> our next step is internment catches. i can't believe this guy is proposing what he is proposing. >> by the way, franklin delano roosevelt, according to you, would be a great president, according to many people would be great president. >> we have said that that wasn't right. >> i don't care if you say it wasn't right. he did it. >> meaning the country. >> so he can do it and what i'm talking about is nothing by comparison to that. so you have roosevelt, who everybody loves, especially people that are on the opposite side of what i happen to believe, okay, meaning on the liberal side, they love, he is like their all-time hero. he can do it. nobody says anything. what he did was ten times worse than anything i'm talking about. i'm talking about -- >> but you're talking -- >> no, excuse me, i don't want to talk that way. i don't want want to talk straight, what you said is the problem that we have in the country. document want to this, you don't want to that you understand the way it is. there's something out there that is evil. there's something out there that's causing problems.

my people are smarter than the pundits. the people that support me, and many of people who don't support me who agree with me, i mean, they agree with me, but the amazing thing and the beautiful thing is that many muslim friends of mine are in agreement with me. >> yeah. >> he is right about -- listen, he is right about something and we discussed that in the interview, he has hit something, but he has touched a nerve somewhere. i'm on the street, i have to be honest with you, heard other broadcasters say this, people know i have interviewed him, don, i hear people, democrats, republicans, all walks of life, i agree with him. >> yes. >> barber shop today, people were saying, i agree with him. i am surprised and again, i talked to him about this, i'm not sure if what you see in the media reflects what people of the private conversations that people have with each other. >> i think that that's right. he knows that he knows that better than anybody, perhaps while he will double and triple down on it. don lemon, thank you so much. much more of dons ainterview in a couple of moments because we

are going to be talking about what he specifically had to bay is running as a third party candidate. and see the full conversation with don and donald trump tonight at cnn tonight, 10 eastern, here on cnn. all right, so, before we go to what he had to say about running as an independent, bring in 2012 republican presidential candidate, former minnesota governor, tim pawlenty, katrina pearson, carl higgby and political commentator, se cup, both with me on the third party conversation as well. se, did he cop vince you that this ban won't hurt him politically? >> well, i don't think there's any way to know that it will or it won't. clearly, saying something that is provably impossible to do to accomplish or patently offensive, unconstitutional, un-american, unconservative, has no the hurt him with his supporters and with his base. you have to assume this is going to make him go up in their estimation. you do have to wonder if they care at all that half of the

things that he proposes he will never be able to actually accomplish. so you feel as though he is really setting them up for a big disappointment. >> katrina? >> okay, first of all, there is past precedent for what he is talking about. several presidents in the past not only have banned portions of immigrants from coming in, but entire section of immigration. there is precedent, title viii section 1182, clearly states that. further more, with regard to this constitutional fight people keep talking about, apparently, they haven't read the constitution or the legal precedent that stands behind exactly what donald trump is trying to do, which was outlined in klein dinest versus mandell in 1972. he is wanting to protect the country. 15 years this has been unchecked in this country and donald trump's not going to let it go another day. >> tim pawlenty, the republican establishment does not seem to know what to do, even know. they are all ganging up on him. still don't seem to know what to do >> well, look, if the republican establishment, quote unquote,

wanted to defeat donald trump, it is not that hard. 75% or 80% of the party doesn't support him at the grassroots level, but you got to have a bunch of other people quit the race to aggregate that vote and get it down to just one or two others. that's not likely to happen in the near term and that's the only way people are going to stop him if they are going to be able to stop him at all. i think there is a reasonable chance at this point that's going to be the nominee. >> all right. all stay with me. we are going to take a brief break. when we come back, we are going to be talking and hearing more what donald trump had to say. we also have the breaking news on the female shooter in the san bernardino massacre. she came to the u.s. on the fiancee visa and now learning tonight, breaking news, u.s. officials never asked her about her views, about jihadist views, none of the above. and cnn also learning the female shooter, i said, was never questioned about those jihadi views. and donald trump on a possible third party run. that part of the interview next. >> well, if they don't treat me with a certain amount of decorum

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i'm going. are you going to break this pledge? >> i think it's highly unlikely, unless they break the pledge to me, because it is a two-way street. >> what does that mean? >> they said they will be honorable so far, i can't tell you if they are, the establishment is not exactly being very good to me. but i'm leading in every poll by a lot. it looks like i'm going to win. my whole life has been about winning. i'm not, like, so many of the other people that you talk to that are essentially losers, okay? i know how to win. i intend to win. it's the best way of beating the democrats. if i get the nomination. in the fox poll that i'm sure you saw, i'm way ahead of hillary, head-to-head, i'm ahead of hillary. i will beat hill rich the one person that hillary doesn't want to run against, and i know a lot of people inside, because i get along with democrats, republicans, liberals, everybody, the one person that they don't want to run against is me. me. >> i just want this plain spoken for the viewer. what do you mean you say if they break this pledge, then you will break the pledge.

what do you mean by that? >> well if they don't treat me with a certain amount of decorum and respect, if they don't treat me as the front-runner, by far, the front-runner, if the playing field is not level, then certainly, all options are open. but that's nothing i want to do >> how will you know that? what determines that? >> i think i will knee over a period of a number of months. we will go through the primaries, see what happens and i will make a determination, but i would imagine they would treat me properly because i'm leading by a lot. >> so, the pledge is you keep your word, if they keep their word? >> hey, don, i want to run as a republican. >> okay. >> all right, back our panel, tim pawlenty, katrina pierson, s.e. cupp, carl higg bill, all with me. you heard donald trump, he will run as a third-party candidate if gop leadership does not treat him with "a certain amount of decorum and respect." >> right. >> okay. that's obviously a very subjective thing. what does it mean? >> wants everyone to play by the rule, he wants everyone to be

fair. the gop is throwing an immense amount of resources to getting donald out of the race. the problem here is they are so concerned about what exactly he is saying and what verbiage he is using, they are not concerned about why he is saying it. he isn't interested in the safety of the american people and that's why he is using this harsh vernacular as he is. >> could he pull off a win if he ran as a third party candidate? he says -- he think it is would be difficult but says he thinks he can do it. >> no i think if he ran as a third-party candidate, woe split, even if it was a small split in the republican party, the margin of difference in the election hand hillary clinton the victory. katrina? >> not at all. look, we look at polls today, particularly with regards to national security and terrorism, there's a large number of women, democrats and even liberals that support this policy for donald trump. what he means by playing fair is if he wins the nomination, technically, then they go behind his back and change around the delegates or change the rules even, that's not fair and that's what he is talking about.

the third party talk is not new. we have been talking about this among the conservatives in the gop since all of the conservatives were railroaded out of the last election. >> all right. let me ask you, se, the former bush adviser, matthew dowd, tweeted something tonight really smart. he said "trump is the dominant gop candidate right now. we should be asking other it is they are going to run as independent it is he wins." does doesn't he have a point, donald trump is clearly the republican front runner and anyone else who has a problem should be running as an independent (he is definitely the front-runner, you can't argue with that i think the national polls are a bit misleading but only by a plurality. the point is when you have 15 candidates, of course -- of course one person like donald trump, who, by the way, not buy nothing this new donald trump victimhood plea. he has got more money than any other candidate. he gets a inordinate amount of media attention when the other candidates are just fighting for it. so, no.

he has got 25%, 30% of republican-registered voters who answer phone calls from pollsters. so, we have got a long way to go here. and frankly, i wouldn't mind if he ran a third-party campaign. i know it means we might lose the white house, but if it means he is not running under the banner of the republican party or the conservative movement, which he has no loyalty to either, i would be pretty happy. we have to win elections in the future. >> hillary clinton win, you would prefer that to donald trump? >> well, the american people are -- >> hold on, hold on, hold on. se, you prefer hillary clinton to donald trump? >> yeah, the damage that donald trump is doing to my party and the conservative movement, both of which he has shown very little affection for, you know, he has voted with democrats, he has supported liberal policies, nothing that he suggests even reeks of conservativism. the damage he is doing is lasting, whether you look at the response to his comes abroad or even here at home, denounced sum marley by both republicans and

democrats, the damage he is doing is lasting to our party and to the conservative movement. so, yeah, i would rather sacrifice the white house for one year and not be associated with this kind of rhetoric, not be in a position to go on television and defend japanese internment camps and operation wetback and religious tests and explain to my kids why i did that on television. i would rather, yeah, rather lose the white house and protect the integrity of the conservative movement and the republican party for years to come. >> tim pawlenty, what do you say? you were a republican presidential candidate f donald trump is the candidate for your party, will you vote for him? >> i would support the nominee, but i don't think he is going to be the nominee. i would say one thing that don said earlier quick, erin, we shouldn't be screening people based on relynn john but donald trump has put his finger on something else. the country is scared. people are afraid. they got a president that they feel is asleep at the switch on security issues. and there are sop gaping holes in our visa and immigration

screening system. we are dealing with countries that don't have functioning governments, failed states, no centralized databases, uncooperative or mischievous intelligence service and obviously, it's a problem. and people are afraid. and so, yes, we shouldn't be grabbing the bait on his rhetoric around religious screening, but we should tackle the issue and deal with the fear, first of all, president obama being asleep at the switch on these issues and second of all, the system is broken and so let's fix it, but let's not do it in some way that is based on relynn john, let's base it on risks and function. >> carl, you were trying to get in? >> absolutely. i think what we saw here withsome e and viewers to see this, what she views as damage, a lot of other people view as progress, the majority of americans in a 12-way race are voting for donald trump. that we see as progress, us americans, not damage. >> well, and erin, look, i would just like to add, the reason why we are having this discussion for a third party is because of exactly what se said, you have republicans in the party who literally cry because they want gay marriage and then tell everybody else they are not republican enough.

you have someone who wrote a book about media bias and christianity and then wants to bring in all the muslim refugees while the christians are being persecuted and have the audacity to tell republicans that they are not republicans. that's why we are having this discussion of third party. >> not a republican. he would be the first to tell you, he has flirted with running as a third party. he has voted for democrats. he refused to commit himself to this party until we begged him to. he is not a republican. and his ideas are not conservative. >> it doesn't matter, se. the point is -- >> it does matter. that's why we are talking about it. >> they are not governing like republicans. why have they been this whole time? that's my point. people like you go around telling everybody else who can and can't be a republican and then expects people to go out there and support your candidates. >> that's why -- that's why everybody likes donald trump is because he has the gop on his -- >> not everyone likes donald trump, trust me. his unfavorables are higher than anyone else's. you guys are in for a rude awakening when it comes time to pick a nominee and a president.

donald trump will not be the president of the united states. i don't even think he will be the nominee. and you will be in for a rude awakening when you find out how many people actually go and vote for a guy who most of them just frankly find enter taping. >> final word to you, tim pawlenty. you don't think he will be the nominee -- >> the one that has been wrong -- >> sorry, i'm sorry, tim. how long do you think it will be before we know the nominee, if it isn't donald trump? gosh, who is it gonna be? >> again, 70% of the party isn't supporting him currently. you canning a greg gate the field, another person could take donald trump out. that is going to require these other candidates to look themselves and the country and the party in the mirror and decide whether continuing on is really in their best interest or in the party's best interest or the country's best interest. i think the rubber is gonna hit the road, going to be a fork in the road after new hampshire with enthese candidates decide whether they will stay in or get out and i think that will tell you a lot. >> thank you all very much for a great conversation. and again, you can see all of don's in thor view with donald trump on cnn tonight on 10 eastern right here on cnn. next, the breaking news,

speaking of security issues, we are learning tonight that the female shooter in the san bernardino attacks who got into this country on a visa had an interview at the consulate, right? she was asked a lot of questions. not a single one had anything to do with her views on religion and whether she was a radical. cnn now is learning that this man who bought the rifles used in the shootings plotted another terror attack with sayd farouk.

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breaking news in the san bernardino attacks. cnn just learning that the terrorist, tashfeen malik, the woman, was never questioned. let me say it again, never questioned about whether she had jihadist or radical views prior to arriving in the united states. she went through an interview at the consulate in pakistan, a full interview. she was not asked. this coming as the fbi admits malik and her husband, sayd farouk discussed plans to carry out an attack over two years ago, let me lay this out very, very clearly, that means the plot was under way before malik

arrived in the united states. so, she was planning an attack against america, went through a consular interview, wasn't asked any tough questions, got into the united states and went ahead with that attack. pamela brown is "outfront." pamela this is shocking that she would not be asked any questions about her views, that obviously, we now know she had. >> especially considering that this interview back in may 22, 2014 was done in pakistan where she was born. we are learning from u.s. officials that during that interview with consular affairs, that she was not asked about her jihadist views or anything like that. now, of course, the question is even if she was, would she have said she had those views, but the fact remains that did not come up, according to sources that they were more focused on whether or not she had a legitimate relationship with farook and as it turns out, they believed that she did and therefore, she was able to get her visa. also, a state department official saying that anything having to do with her jihadist leaning should have come up

before she had that consular interview with dhs, which is supposed to run the database checks. but as officials from both agencies have said, look, there's plenty of blame to go around. john care bill, the spokesperson for the state department, said there is a shared responsibility. and i think this is one reason why you're hearing the president say, look, we need to go back, review this visa program, this k-1 visa that she came in on to make sure there aren't any gaps, we know, erin, she was radicalized long before she came into the united states. and yet it never came up in the interview, according to sources. >> shocking and was planning an attack against america, you know, not simply radicalized but radicalized and planning to take action. this comes as the fbi director said the u.s. is at its greatest threat level from terror since 9/11. now, why is he saying that? >> well, bottom line, it's because of isis. he says he was asked by senator lindsey graham if he agreed with this statement, there are more terrorist organizations with men, equipment and safe havens

along with the desire to attack the american homeland than any time since 9/11. and director comey said, yes, i agree with that. and it's because of isis. isis has the safe haven and it has people all over the world to do its bidding. and we saw it just recently in paris and in san bernardino, people who are both trained or inspired by isis as appears to be the couple -- the case with this couple in san bernadine know so it's hard and challenge for law enforcement. >> thank you very much, pamela. pretty sobering reporting there i want to go straight to former fbi counterterrorism agent tim clemente, seth jones, director at the security form, rand corporation. seth, let's just start with the breaking news. she went through an interview, it wasn't as if she filled out forms, she was interviewed, wasn't asked a single question about her radical views. putting aside whether they could have figured out if she was like if she said no and the answer was yes, put that aside, she was

planning an attack from america. how is it someone coming from pakistan would not get any questions like this? >> erin, not clear to me and i just testified recent loin the hill with senior dhs officials, that they are asking these questions to everyone coming from countries like pakistan or syria, if they are being persecuted for refugees, for some issues, they may ask about religion. my understanding, they are not asking people those kinds of questions in general. i think the bigger question is how many people are falling through that loophole. >> and why aren't they asking them? i mean, you know, in light of this whole conversation out there, are they not asking them because there is a politically correct fear of asking it or not asking it because they simply say, if someone is a radical, the last thing they will do is say yes, i am a he a radical, i'm planning an attack? >> may be a couple of reasons. maybe the last one you noted that people may actually lie about it, but there may be a range of other good reasons. there may be reasons, for example, that if they don't have information that someone may be a radical, may not be asking it, i think this does bring up a

good question about how one interviews individuals coming in from multiple reasons, asylum, refugee status and a range of other issues. >> tim, respect there ways they could ask questions that would let them get some answers, you know, not necessarily ask whether she was a radical, for example, but ask her certain questions that would indicate her knowledge of religious beliefs or issues, okay, this person is perhaps down a path that would lead them to be concerned? >> yeah, i think, erin, the problem is going to be we are going to have people throwing a red flag and call it a religious litmus test if they ask these questions and i believe they are necessary. it goes back before 9/11. i worked islamic terrorism regarding somalia for many years and we had an issue with a lot of refugees that came in under the refugee program after the debacle of october 1993 where 18 of our most valiant soldiers were killed and and a lot of people literally fought and

killed our soldiers later came into america as refugees and lied about not being from one of the major clans that had attacked us, said they were from a minor clan and they were being persecuted. so the process, you know, maybe polygraphs would be necessary but certainly a better interview process and better investigative process is absolutely needed needilily. >> incredibly difficult. people asking the questions who are aware of some of those tribal distinctions in a way maybe the system is not now. seth, the fbi director also saying that the united states is at its greatest threat level since 9/11. that is a very significant statement to say. to harkin back specifically to 9/11. this country has been at a high threat level several times since then, just because oven is bernadino, do you think or the information he is getting what do you think? >> erin, i think the data supports this argument, there's been -- this is research that i have led, 58% increase in the number of jihadist groups, doubling in the number of jihadist fighters, a lot of that, frankly is actually weak governance in key areas, groups like the islamic state have been able to get a foothold, syria,

iraq, libya, somalia, yemen, a range of other places, it has fed this beast, including their ability to use the internet to bring in fighters and train them. >> tim, i will give you the final word. we also now are learning that they were planning an attack before she even entered the united states. that is a pretty stunning development, that we are now learning that, not just that she was ral cal losed, planning an attack. there was a trail of that he was living here, she was living there. there was a communication trail somebody could pick up, right? >> i would absolutely believe that, erin, believe their communications are being scoured going back in time, now that they have their social media accounts, e-mail accounts, access to those via search warrants so that information is now trickling out. the fact that it wasn't picked up, you know, people talk in codes, people talk very secretively in communications and when you have a guy talking to his fiancee, skyping with her, talking by e-mail, there

may have been code words used, other ways that they couched their communications that didn't literally say, hey, i want do this attack on this date against this target. and so it's very hard to listen to those conversations without probable cause. and it has to be that level, minimum of probable cause to get a title iii or nsa wiretap through fisa courts. all right, makes people realize perhaps not doing that does leave open the inevitablity of more attacks like. this thank you both very much. "outfront," new information that sayd farouk planned another terror attack with the man who got him the rifles that he and his wife used to slaughter 14 people in san bernardino. who is this man? we are learning a lot of new things about him at this hour and we will share that with you next. and a supreme court justice questioning whether black college students might be better off going to less-elite schools. that is exactly what he said. his remarks, ahead. this is the best block of all. it's like candy cane lane. i know. oohhh. oh, holiday ferris wheel.

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were first neighbors. this woe grow up to become friends, then relatives by marriage. did he seem like a relative? >> yeah, i could sense that. he was really close with them. it wasn't just, like, a friend that you would see over. >> reporter: brittany dane lives two doors down from the home where farouk's father, brother and sister-in-law live. dane saw marquez frequently here. the home not far from this mosque, the islamic society of corona nor co-. members of the mosque tell cnn several years ago, marquez came here alone, saying he had cop verted to islam, but he only attended a handful of times. this is a mosque marquez listed on his december 2014 marriage certificate as his religious institution. his wife is the sister of the woman married to syed rizwan farook's brother. but to outsider, the marquez's marriage seemed unusual. >> it wasn't like they were married or anything, like he helped them, but it wasn't like

he -- i didn't really see him give much, like -- he didn't talk much to the sister. >> reporter: marquez tells authorities he didn't know about the sbar massacre and is currently not charged with a crime but his role remains crucial to investigators. >> we are also working very hard to understand whether this there was anybody else involved with assisting them, with supporting them, with equipping them and we are working very, very hard to understand, did they have other plans, either for that day or earlier? >> reporter: now, u.s. off uses who have been talking to marquez, who got that claim about the 2012 terror plot, well, they are actually cautiousing us also, too, that they have to verify it, they need to make sure that's not just making it up. there is some concern that he could be saying that to try to deflect from the fact that he did purchase those two long guns that would be used in the massacre. erin, we should point out that shortly after the attack, marquez did initially check himself into a mental health

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refers to a theory known by the shorthand of mismatch, that students -- african-american student does better, better jobs, graduate more often if they -- if they go to lesser schools, say the university of texas at san antonio, at arlington, as opposed to the that is a very controversial theory. a lot of people say not only is there something distasteful about that argument, they say it is simply wrong on the facts but it is an argument that has been made in the brief. >> the argument comes from the belief, i'm trying to understand it, that he would say or people would say well, if you don't have the right preparation coming in, it's better to go to a school that doesn't assume you have preparation you don't have so when you graduate you can't catch up. >> that's the argument and as i say, many people believe that that argument simply does not pan out in the real world and that african americans who go to ut austin do great and this

argument is simply based on a false assumption. >> mark, are you offended? >> am i offended? no, i'm rarely offended when people raise arguments in court and it's a trouble system argument and when people say he was siting a brief, the fact he brought the brief in and mentioned this gave it a level of credence it otherwise would not have. to jeffrey's point there are many people that would disagree with the premise based on data that shows how these students do. and lastly, i think that the whole premise of the argument is that somehow these schools are doing black people a favor when they let them in and that discounts the institutional benefits schools gain by having diverse student bodies. >> what's the data that shows that it's wrong? >> first of all, the data is mixed but what we know for sure is that students after their first year and there is an adjustment period in the first year tend to have higher educational aspirations and may

come in wanting to be a physical therapist and could come out saying i want to be a doctor as opposed to ut austin or community college and tend to do fine in terms of academic achievement in the end of the first year. the idea they struggle acre dem m -- academically and drop out and give up are unsupported. having supports and black faculty, those are things that would make the students more likely to stay, not letting them in. >> let's be clear, they are long on the record believing affirmative action is constitutional. >> he's trying to bolster his argument. >> exactly. he's putting out what he says is a factual argue the in support of a decision he had for decades. >> jeff, you're pointing out no way i remembto know because you compare what someone is going to do at ut austin versus a lesser

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