and linda sarsour is the director of the first muslim online organizing platform, mpower change, and co-founder of the muslim democratic club of new york. we welcome you all to democracy now! linda,a, let's begin with yoyou. your response to donald trump's proposal for extreme vetting, as he calls it? >> it is a continuation of his ludicrous policy proposals. i'm a person who has been working with refugees in new york city foror 15 years. he has no idea the vetting process that immigrants go through before they come to the united states. he is taking us back to the 1950's, this idea of creating a committee on radical islam. who is going to set the standards for that -- for what that looks like gecko when he talks about testing immigrants around only those that will flourish, are those who believe in american dies, who is going to say what those values are? donald trump? the fact that rudy giuliani was anywhere near this, the fact that rudy giuliani can be the next head of the department of homeland security scares me more than donald trump. buts. shocked or surprised, the fact we have