several muslim organizations discuss ways to improve anti-muslim attitudes in the u.s. then westminster review tooks at advancements occurred in the british parliament. another chance to see tonight's landmark cases program on roe v. wade. leaders from several muslims organizations held a news conference to discuss ways to improve antimuslim attitudes in the u.s. this was hosted by the u.s. council of muslim organizations. it's 40 minutes. >> the u.s. council muslim organization a coalition of leading national and local muslim organization is today announcing major educational outreach and civic empowerment initiative to address the growing islamic phobia in america. initiatives include a drive to one million voters prior to the 2016 election. one american campaign to enhance an understanding of american muslims and islam and a national open -- designed to help increase interaction between american muslims and citizens of other faith and backgrounds. another initiative planned by all national muslim coalition includes the formation of strengthened alliances with interfa

what do muslims make of the suggestions? they haven't done enough to root out streamists, or bar muslims? it's the "inside story". welcome to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. sunday night brought this assertion from the american president that muslims cannot "deny the fact that extremist ideology has spread into some communities." normally, that kind of talk would be met with the retort that muslims are not the problem, that many people have worked hard to prevent violate extremism from islam. but knees are not normal days. in san bernardino, california, in the last several days, it has become commonplace to hear that there is a problem inside of islam, with muslims, and the crime scene is deep thing that conviction. >> it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization, calling for islam. >> reporter: president obama, speaking from the oval office wednesday night, calling for calm in the san bernardino shooting outrage. the couple who poured to be supporters of isil. >> reporter: we can not let th

so, again, he has many muslim friends. this is not about the fate, the muslim fate. this is about the -- the islamic terrorists that are using that faith to infiltrate in several mosques across america to persuade them to do damage to america and -- >> you said something, pastor burns, that i think is important. you said this is about the conversations that people are having privately. do you think that most people are having this sort of conversation privately and agree with donald trump privately even though they may not say it publicly? >> without question. listen, i'm a father, as i said, of six. i believe every father watching me right now, even as a pastor. the word "pastor" means shepherd. god has part of a shepherd to protect his people. mr. trurchl wants to simply protect the americans. i believe every father who has a daughter, who has children, who has a wife do not want to see -- they don't want to be at the morgue identifying their loves one because of an i.e.d. that went off or a car bomb or some terrorist attack that took place in california to happen

>> that's correct. >> reporter: trump adding muslim americans, muslim athletes and muslim foreign leaders would be allowed in, while others, including tourists, would not. and today, near universal condemnation from his opponents. >> he is a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. >> it is not about the blowhards out there just saying stuff. that is not a program. that's not a plan. >> reporter: one notable exception, ted cruz. >> i commend donald trump for standing up and focusing america's attention on the need to secure our borders. >> reporter: the plan simply put by trump is simply unconstitutional, according to experts. >> anyone who has read the constitution, studied the constitution, understands our history knows that it is not permissible for the government to take sides between religions. >> reporter: despite the outcry, trump supporters around the country stood by their billionaire. >> i think there has to be something put in place. i don't know if it is a complete ban. >> i'm definitely to keep the bad ones out, would be great. >> reporter: for all their fears, muslim americ

they have stood with muslim advocates and the muslim american community. now i think it is our turn to stand up and express our appreciation for their support and friendship. i ask you to join me in standing up and expressing our support to our allies in this difficult time. [applause] we are thankful for our friends and allies, but we know they are not alone. toknow we need to do more make it easier for fair-minded americans to stand up for what is right and what is just. months,why in coming muslim advocates will be launching a new campaign to counter anti-muslim bigotry, and i look forward to sharing more details about that very soon. so, with the support of forward thinking donors, we have been making progress, because we are stronger together. forward thinking donors include him.e like he is the father of three adorable young kids. like many of you, his hopes and isams for the future inextricably tied to his children. he emigrated to the united as a teenager,ia fleeing dictatorship and seeking freedom. but now he sees this climate of and anti-muslim r

they want to ban all muslims.ow if this happened against any other faith group in this country we would not stand for it and we should not stand for it against muslim-americans. >> let me just ask you. the call, if you will, for moderate muslims to join the establishment party, parts of the party who have admonished donald trump's words and bridge together understanding, is that possible? what needs to be done if you factor out donald trump and factor in some of these members of the gop who say this is hateful rhetoric? >> absolutely. we want to join all fellow americans to root out all forms of violent extremism. bring american muslims in as partners and don't continue to treat them as suspects. we care about the safety of our communities and the safety of o our communities. >> the republican party or any party for that matter, when you look at san bernardino right now, this two-bedroom home of the mother of sayed farook lived in that home. neighbors are revealing he may have been radicalized well before he marri

>> it's not just young muslim men. it's young men across the country being drawn to various extreme ideologies. we see this in the planned planned attacks, and dylann roof. and consistent. we are focusing on muslims now because they're the enemy, but the san bernardino attacks, there were 350 attacks that preceded it alone. this is a dissolution. that's happening across the generational spectrum. and what we really need to do is go back to the offering of hope and positivity and unity, and not just spit on the ideas of america. >> hofstra university, pleasure to have you on the program. thank you. donald trump's remarks about muslims, while controversy, may underscore his political instincts, because what trump has been tapping into, fear, has long been a potent in american politics. david schuster has that story for us. >> reporter: in the wake of the isil inspired rampage in san bernardino, and the republican concerns that more attacks are coming, president obama sunday night urged americans to not overbe react. >> w

he's not saying no muslims can emigrate here, he's saying no muslims can enter the country. unclear what he would do if anything with the muslims that are here in this country. i think the next question would be, would you want to deport them as well as the undocumented immigrants that he's called for deporting? that would be the next logical step in this already very extreme and very hard-line rhetoric. we've seen him really evolve as a candidate. some might say devolve as a candidate. becoming more hard-lined, more extreme, more to the right, and more black and white. calling for muslims -- for there fb a database, then surveilling muslims and shutting down mosques, now a total ban on them emigrating. so for a lot of us covering this campaign, we all just got the e-mail blast from the campaign at the same time, that he's calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the u.s. in the statement, he also invokes shari'a law, saying that muslims in america should have the choice of being governed by shari'a law and that it poses unbelievable harm to americans, e

roundly by american muslims. we have to work to things in perspective. no one will deny the existence of violence. the exaggeration gives an oversized for trail of the reality. i think the media plays a role in that. >> your comments on hillary clinton's statement. she said donald trump is the best recruiting tool for isis. >> i happen to agree with her. his statements are helping isis. he is playing into their hands. it's helping isis. isis could not get her help than political leaders to scare the public and help the public be scared by what isis is trying to dupe it isis leaders know they cannot destroy the united states. what they hope to do is to find americans and scare us. my message to all candidates, not just donald trump, stop being afraid. america is strong. go ahead. >> i'm sorry to interrupt. i did want to bring this home. this is what it means for american families. a young woman posted on facebook that she went to her secure old daughter's bedroom and the child had packed up her belongings and said

just days after trump's call to ban muslims from entering the u.s. >> it's the first time that muslims are fearing for their life, for their children. >> reporter: this woman says some of her muslim friends have been called terrorists and spit on in public. >> wherever there's anti-islamic rhetoric in the country, there's always a huge backlash. >> it's very easy for women who are described to be identified as muslims. puts a lot of attention on muslim women. so definitely there's an air of a anxiety. >> reporter: during the debate, mr. trump once again defended his call to ban muslims, saying it's about safety and security, not religion. this group doesn't buy that. >> it gives isis propaganda. isis wants to make it seem like the west does not want muslims. that it is fighting a war against islam. and that they represent islam and therefore, they're the only refugee we have. >> reporter: this independent voter likes jeb bush and agrees with him that the u.s., instead, must engage the arab world in order to defeat isis. why is this election so important for the muslim community? >> bec

not only are there many muslims serving in our armed forces dying for this country, there are muslimsving right here in the house, working to uphold the constitution. some of our best and biggest allies in this struggle and fight against radical islamic terror are muslims. >> reporter: not only is pall ryan speaking about some of the gulf states and other states around the world who are predominantly muslim, but look, over 3500 muslim americans who have fought in the wars in iraq and afghanistan, some 2.75 million american muslims del. >> and also the house beginning taking up the debate about the visa waiver program. what new restrictions does this pose? >> reporter: this is a rare moment of unity between republicans and democrats. citizens of 38 countries, either allied or friendly to the united states, do not have to get visas to come to the united states. that's the program as it standing right now. potentially it effects millions of people. what this bill will do, and it is a bipartisan bill, would say if citizens from those countries have visited iraq, iran, syria, or sudan sinc

council of muslim organizations as a coalition of leading national local muslim organizations is today announcing major educational outreach to address america and enhance national security through the promotion of freedom and justice. the proposed initiatives include a drive to register 1 million voters prior to the 2016 the elections. and one american campaign to enhance the understanding of american muslims and islam and the national open design to help increase interaction between american muslims and citizens of other faiths and backgrounds. another initiative planned by the coalition includes the formation of the new strengthened alliances with interfaith partners, social justice groups and other minority communities that have faced or continue to face similar challenges. they will seek islamic institutions and individuals to address the rising number of incidents of hate crime are happening nationwide. in a summit yesterday in virginia the member organizations have discussed the present threat of the violent extremist groups that are preying on young people via the internet and

donald trump stands in his rhetoric against muslims. once again, donald trump is in the news again and this time it's his outrageous comment about a shut down of muslims entering america changing the demmeics rate. if you woke up from a 24 hour nap, this is what he said reading from his own press release >> donald trump is calling for a total and complete shut down of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on >>> now, donald trump's press release says "there is great hatred towards american". few says it cannot identify the report he is researching. our countries did find concern muslims concerned westerners as immoral, but there's no hatred mentioned. 25% of the polls agree that violence against muslims in united states is justified in accordance with jihad. it has been criticised which studies islam aphobia. it called the poll deeply flawed with a history of fear monday angering about islam and muslims. house speaker paul ryan is amongst republicans criticising dona

and we, isis, are defending muslims.o here comes mr. trump and says, isis is right. join the isis team or join other radicals, or you're going to be deported, or you're going to be kicked out of the country. i kept thinking to myself while he was making these statements, what exactly would this look like? i spend a lot of time on planes. so you come to the airport. are there people standing there asking you questions? are you a muslim? how exactly do you prove it? do you prove a negative? what do you know about islam? tell me what you think about mohammed. does that mean people from indonesia, people from every corner of the muslim world, over a billion people, including u.s. citizens -- >> the idea that u.s. citizens would have nowhere to come home to -- >> i don't understand where it's -- where it's even coming from. i understand there is a fear. i understand there is a concern about isis, but to say that's it, no member of a particular faith in the country. it's irresponsible from a national security point of view. >>

similarly, i saw islam without muslims and muslims without islam.his applies to other religions that we can look to. jew and see he is a jew without judaism. and weemist christian, can see him as a christian without christianity. thatn this way, i believe the problem is in whether or we -- whether we are muslims, christians, or jews, what divides us is how we look at the text, how we read the text, what we do about the text. so, what the holy books say and what people understand, claimret, and glean -- are often totally different things. when reading the holy books, you may discover freedoms in the same line in which another macy strictures -- another may see strictures. what you see depends on what you're looking for. as english poet william blake once wrote, "both read the bible blackht, but thou read while i read white." extremists read the holy books with a closed mind. they read it selectively, taking verses out of context or misinterpreting verses to meet their own needs, agendas, views. that's why extremists exist in all religions. we don't s

there will be more, i am sure. -- banningng muslims incoming muslims from the united states. i recognize that to and calling suggesting that moderation, and times of moral crisis, will not solve the moral crisis. i realize that my statement could be misconstrued as meaning that in moderation is the better approach. deration is the better approach, and therefore trumpian moderation is fine. that is not the case. back to martin luther king for a moment, one of his informal teachers, someone from whom he learned, was able -- was a woman by the name of lillian smith. a white woman from the united states itself. first of all, the fact she was a woman, defectors white, and she taught him how to stanford's rights as a lack man, puts a lie to the politics of identity. a tangent.that as regardless of our skin color, gender, sexuality, nationality, able to put ourselves in the shoes of the other. we are able to empathize regardless of the identity we carry. martin smith taught luther king, among other things, that there is a difference between a destructive extremist and take construct

he says mass killings by muslims pail into comparison to murders commit by non-muslims. so white lives matter or colorado springs or situations in movie theatres, shopping malls, schools, churches, et cetera. testifieds to the fact that there's a problem in the united states. the fact that muslims committed acts is not something that should be avoided or dismissed. one has to look at the percentages and see what the country. >> communities like these have seen a rise in threats and crimes against muslims in the paris. >> i'm not scared for myself, but my mother and sisters. >> reporter: he does not see it getting better soon. >> it is going downhill. >> what will you do? >> do what i do. we can't live scared for the rest of our lives. another argument. another argument is billionaire candidates. it may hurt security. others say trump is hurting the enemy that america is fighting. jamie mcintyre reports >>> they can never ever ever ever come back. it's over. at the white house donald trump's anti-muslim rhetoric was portrayed as tantamount to aiding and abetting the enemy

what american muslims are saying. and the cuban americans who hope improved relations will help them get back what they lost in the revolution after this. >>> hi, this is al jazeera america, i'm john seigenthaler. us verses them. donald trump's divisive message. >> for a total shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> tonight, america's muslims are speaking out. dollars and diplomacy, sorting out the billions of land and property seized from americans in the cuban revolution. plus, pre-emptive strikes, screening kids for adult conditions like high cholesterol and depression - guidelines and the controversy >>> donald trump's plan to bar muslims from entering the u.s. has outraged many in america and around the world. in the city of dearborn michigan, where americans make up a third of the population, the issue is more than political, it's personal. we have more on that. >> john, muslims are seen as part of the fabric of the community. 300,000 in the south-east. many have been following the comments made by do

muslim communities. we've been doing a lot of this lately. and it's important that we continue to do that working with the muslim community, not driving them away, not vilifying them, not driving them into the shadows is absolutely critical to our national security efforts. so, those of us in government have to speak out about this proposal, this idea. >> how potentially does this make america less safe? >> well, look, i'll come at it this way, we've been building bridges to the american muslim community. i've been personally out there meeting with leader of the muslim community saying, please work with us. yesterday, when i was at mosque in northern virginia, with people who for the most part are american citizens, i said, we cannot vilify muslims as your lead-in repeated. i also said to the muslim community, now i have an ask of you. if you see something, say something. if you see something, say something to law enforcement, to a community leader, religious leader, so we need to continue to do that. an

they were muslim.e had a situation where mosques are being spied on. we're already having a situation where we have politicians saying we won't allow syrians to come in and claim refugee status because they are syrian. so we already are in this situation. what trump is a symptom of a wider culture of islamophobia. the rhetoric that he's come iin out with yesterday. it does have effects. the muslim woman riding on the subway this morning worried about the suspicion looks she's getting or the cab driver that's worried he's going to have a passenger attack him. >> i can't believe i have to stand up for common sense. a large number of muslims believe in this islamic radicalism nonsense. this vicious, bloody ideology. muslims have to take the lead in curing this disease. >> wait, let's be clear. we have to be careful when we say a large number of any group. >> but it is a large number. it's not one or two guys. >> tell me what number you're going to talk about. please give us what number you're talking abou

similarly, i saw islam without muslims and muslims without islam.his applies to other religions that we can look to. an extremist jew and see he is a jew without judaism. an extremist christian, and we can see him as a christian without christianity. and in this way, i believe that the problem is in whether we are muslims, christians, or jews, what divides us is how we look at the text, how we read the text, what we do about the text. so, what the holy books say and what people understand, interpret, and claim are often totally different things. when reading the holy books, you may discover freedoms in the same line in which another may see strictures. what you see depends on what you're looking for. as english poet william blake once wrote, "both read the bible day and night, but thou read black while i read white." extremists read the holy books with a closed mind. they read it selectively, taking verses out of context or misinterpreting verses to meet their own needs, agendas, views. that's why extremists exist in all religions. we don't see thin

you need the muslims on our side. they are on the front lines, and served in afghanistan and iraq, and they have been some of the ablist diplomats to send to iraq to the sort out that mess of a country, but what i am hearing here is nothing more than 1930 style isolationism and xenophobia with the grandiose thing that this is the way to solve problem as. donald trump is a buffoon and every passing day that he says something is a danger to the n country. >> and you have said, frankk that clearly we lump millions of muslims with terrorists. >> of course there is. >> and that is why i have never done it. not once. what i want to make clear about what has just been said, this is a moment where we should be hoping that muslims who are not partf of the problem, and muslims who do not embrace shariah, who do not embrace the jihad that it commands and impose it on the rest of us, and empower organizations like c.a.i.r. and others associated with the muslim brotherhood and the supreme islamic state, and that is not who we want

the muslim has to help us.unity we would have to get very tough and much tougher and i don't want to do that. but the mus imcommunity, it's a not a one-way street. the muslim community knew what he was doing and his heavily radicalized wife, they knew what they were doing was wrong. nobody called the police. nobody said this is what happened. one person said he didn't call the police because he didn't want to be a racial profiler. >> you can't generalize and say muslims aren't helping law enforcement officers across america because they are. >> i don't think they are much. but not nearly to the extent that -- i man, look, not nearly to the extent that they should be. >> willie. >> i want to go back to what you call temporary shutdown of muslims entering the united states. i get the concept but how does it work practically. let's say a man and his family travel -- >> willie, there's certainly going to be exception made like for instance sporting events and other things. hopefully this wouldn't take very long. bu

muslims here. i think he's going to have his base respond in his favor. the question is, is it enough for him? >> right. >> wait a minute, chris. he's fomented that fear. it's because of statements like guys such as trump or the leadership of the gop. i'm talking about talk radio heads and cable television personalities that's where they get direction, guidance and advice. they created an environment where people are comfortable expressing these sentiments. >> michael, john, thank you for all of your analysis. i know you'll be sticking around and watching chris's interview momentarily, guys. thanks so much. >> donald trump wants to make the case to you as to why this is the right way to go for america right now. he's go inge to make the case here on "new day." stay with us for that. mick? >>> other news to get to here. the fbi says the couple that carried out the san bernardino massacre were both radicalized for fight some time. how that happened is what investigators want and need to know. there's

trump doesn't know what a real muslim is and how a real muslim thinks. these extremists are not represent of us. maybe we need to reach out to him and teach him. he is uneducated about who we are. >> trump's statements are met by the ceo of qatar airlines. how enforceable is this and maybe a threat about trump's safety if he travels overseas? >> reporter: i'm not sure it is a threat about his safety. this is a ceo of qatar airlines. it is possible it is hate speech and work toward keeping him out. any country has the right to do that. you have to think about some of the trump properties. trump property here. trump towers here which has his name on it. it is not owned by donald trump. it is licensed. his name is licensed to the person who owns the building. he has properties all around. he is trying to make a mark in the middle east. there is big money in dubai and abu dhabi. he has gone into those areas with his home items. you know this hurts the sentiments of customers here in the middle east. they perhaps would suspend sales of all trump items. this c

see muslims in st. or hear about them on the news or whatever goes through your mind. >> it's very interesting andrea and i have very similar stories in my dad was also an umn< granted in the united states coming after world war ii from germany. i studied in paris and lived there, also. my experience was actually growing up with one of my best friends in elementary school and my little episcopalian school in st. petersburg here was muslim. her parents were from india where they were persecuted for being muslim because it was, you know, very looked down upon and difficult for them to raise their family. so he was an engineer and he came here and we spent a lot of time in sort of this group of students who are young kids who are muslims who were jews, who were christians atqfx< my episcopalian school talking about the old teflt and how we believed in god and the real differences were, you know whether you believed that, you know, jesus or mohammed is the son of god and holy man. she is now, you know, a ne

muslim america -- for muslim americans, we want to hear from you. democrats in maryland, you are on the air. caller: this is my first time coming onto c-span. as you can see, i have an accent. said, if you go out there and try to get isis to , thatand kill americans you can come back. there is nothing wrong with that. if you joint isis and kill american boys and bomb american women and rape american women, you want to come back to the same country? i don't see anything wrong with that. he didn't say ban muslims completely, he said let's hold on and see what is going on until we find out what is going on. donald trump is not wrong. i grew up in a place where there are muslims and christians. most muslims are very good people. and killing people is nothing to them. no conscience. not all of them. some of them can be the best friend you can have. i don't see anything trump has said that is wrong. just hold on and let us make .ure you can see in paris, the one the other day in california. by the way, as we told you earlier, donald trump on fox news late

i wouldn't want to engage the muslim community, but the muslim community has to help us make it. they're not helping us. the muslim community is not reporting what's going on. we have people out there that want to do great -- they want our buildings to come down. they want our cities to be crushed. they are living within our country, and many of them want to come from outside of our country. >> you're increasingly being compared to hitler. does that give you any pause at all? >> no, because what i'm doing is no different than what fdr did. >> trump was asked how his policy would even work. let's watch. >> religion doesn't appear on a passport. would there be questioning at the border in europe before they got to the united states? would it happen here in america? how could this work? >> it could happen at the site, it could happen here, it could happen in many different forms, willie. that would have to be worked out. >> and a customs agent would ask the person his or her religion? donald, a customs agent would then ask the person his or her religion? >> that would be probably --

, libya, syria, where you can limit the muslim aspect and it's just about muslims dangerous for this country. reporter: can anyone survive running as a candidate in this country calling for a religious test? >> i don't think so. trump makes life harder for people trying to get beyond political correctness and solve problems like crime coming from illegal immigrants and the fact our government isn't screening out islamists. so really he's just writing talking points for hillary clinton. it's not just the moral reason why we shouldn't be saying these thing. it also wouldn't be effective. it makes the haystack too big. we need to screen people based on behavior and travel and based on whether they want sharia. not on just their religion. reporter: is he taking polls? is someone telling him this is going to resonate? >> i don't think he's as much a politician to be doing this based on polls. but he's recognizing we have to have some sort of idea idea. al qaeda declared war on us. even obama did this when it came to the issue of iraq. it was a six-month temporary delay in allowing anyone

we look at the state of muslims in america. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] karen: hello, everyone. i am karen holmes ward. welcome to "cityline." from syria to lebanon, mali to france, violence has consumed the news. millions of syrian citizens are fleeing the country. as the violence escalated, president obama seeks to make a larger impact against those terrorizing syrians in our homeland. kim: president obama took a harsher tone against isis while speaking in malaysia sunday. president obama: they are a social media. the most powerful to we have to fight isil is to say we are not kim: the president went on to say that the world will not new norm and will continue to fight terrorist groups. president obama: we will cut off the financing, we will hunt down their leadership, we will dismantle their networks and their supply lines, and we will ultimately destroy them. kim: during a press conference, the president also address

muslims on tourist visas. it's a little muddy. >> as we said, we had josh earnest giving the press briefing. his reaction about donald trump's remarks. >> what donald trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president. and for republican candidates for president, to stand by their pledge to support mr. trump, that in and of itself is disqualifying. >> what are speaker ryan and other republicans supposed to do if trump -- let's say trump does end up winning the nomination, would you like them not to support him? >> they should say right now they would not support donald trump for president. what he said is disqualifying. and any republican who is too fearful of the republican base to admit it, has no business serving as president either. >> so there we have josh earnest giving reaction from the white house, basically saying that the statements donald trump has made disqualifies him for the presidency, disqualifies his campaign from moving forward, but if you look at polls, it's not hurting him what

muslims here.lizing muslims, you're maximizing isis goals. >> laith, thank you. >>> up next, republicans are coming out against donald trump's ban on muslims entering the u.s. but will it matter? we'll dig deeper into voter sentiment, including who might be receptive to the attitude at the heart of trump's proposal. it's a fact. kind of like playing the boss equals the boss wins. wow! ho, ho, hello... can you help santa with a new data plan? sure thing... uh right now you can get 15 gigs of data for the price of 10. that's five extra gigs for the same price. looks like someone just made it to the top of the nice list. in that case, i want a new bicycle, a bike helmet, a basketball, a stuffed animal that talks when you squeeze it. and... yes, yes. i got your letter. we're good. oh. okay i was just making sure. get 15 gigs for the price of 10 now at at&t. gas mileage, horse power, on ttorque ratios... three spreadsheets later, you finally bring home the one... then smash it into a tree. your insuranc

, that is the religion of the muslim, and the muslim people are all bad.not. of course! of course not. >> i want to bring in our global affairs analyst bobby ghosh who is managing editor at "quartz." i want your reaction to this first and foremost, because if donald trump's supporters don't care when americans are outraged they won't care if other folks overseas are outraged? >> no, but it is effective to look at the eyes of the world, because america is influential in the affairs of the world. i have been having the affairs to travel around the world, and the conversations of people once they know that i am from new york, they say, what is the deal with donald trump. for the longest time it was out of the mused and the bemused curiosity, and is this guy for real? surely, you can't be serious, this is a kind of the sort of the clown, court jester, and he is going to go away once the political process got seriously, but much later, it is more serious, and people are going from amused to the anxious, and concerned and worried. i just fwot back from iran, and

and muslims world wide.this is the last thing america needs. >> some people like trump and others say, well, the muslim communities needs to be more engaged in fighting against this, you know, radical islamic terrorism, that the muslim community is not doing enough. that's what they say. what do you say? >> not true. the government will say that it has a huge partnership with the muslim community nationwide and with muslims around the world. you know, let's remember that the vast majority of the victims of isis are muslims. and muslims are the main ones who are fighting isis since its beginning. so for donald trump to paint the entire muslim world and muslim community here is irresponsible. >> i appreciate your coming on this this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> i'm joined by legal correspondent ari melber. let me ask the question, what have you found? >> what i found in talking to a range of constitutional experts as well as looking at the plain language of the constitution is that donald trump's pl

citizens who are muslim would also be included in this ban, if you're a muslim-american citizen and you are traveling abroad, will you not be allowed to come home if donald trump is president and gets his way? donald trump's campaign clarified to "the hill" newspaper that, yes, that is the case. even muslim-american citizens living or traveling abroad will not be allowed back into this country, into their own country. so this statement was released by the donald trump campaign this afternoon. just as people were queueing up to see him speak tonight at a rally in south carolina. when we got word of this statement, the preventing muslim immigration statement and the clarification from the campaign that it means muslims visiting the united states or getting back into the united states even if they're from here and live here and are citizens here. we got all of that clarification from the campaign, nbc's reporter was on the scene of the rally tonight in south carolina and went out and asked donald trump supporters, they asked reporters, what -- excuse me, asked those supporters what they th

we have to welcome muslims. and so i'm for that. i'm totally against keeping muslims out. in some ways being punitive against muslims. if there's information about specific muslims or specific christians, jews, atheists or sikhs or whatever, yes, we should pursue that according to the law. you ask me whether cooperation from mu muslim groups has made r country safer? in many cases it has. we talk about the failures in the media, we don't talk about the successes. and by the way, some of those successes can't be talked about because it would reveal some of our trait craf trade craft and t want people to know how we foil plots. i can tell you from my experience in congress and some other reports that cooperation from muslims have been very helpful in rounding up people who were intending to attack the country. >> congresswoman its good to see you fen. thank you very much. again. thank you very much. >> you too john, take care. >> last debate of 2015 for the republicans. in vegas there was no shortage of stharp exchange sharp exchane candidates. david schuster has the report.

and yet moderate muslims like yourself -- and most muslims -- are getting the blame for all... how did we get to this point? >> i think when somebody attacks another person, it comes from unresolved pain. i think it comes from fear of the unknown. i think it comes from not knowing your neighbor. i think it comes from not doing a lot of internal work, and it comes from perhaps him not understanding his own spirituality and his own comrades in the american society. >> every religion, every nationality, every race has its extremes on the political spectrum. how do you, as an activist, deal with the radical extreme, which has sparked fear in a lot of people? how do you deal with that? what do you say to people who say, "well, you know, now i'm afraid of muslims"? >> well, i do a lot of work in the interfaith arena. i grew up in catholic schools. i grew up in a jewish neighborhood in pittsburgh. so i've been part of the interfaith pluralistic society. and what i have learned is that all religions are road maps to justice. you know, all the scriptures are road maps to justice. and th

american muslims have expressed outrage.onald trump sounds like leader of the lynch mob rather than a great nation like ours. >> the first being a president does when he or she takes the oath of office is to swear an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. what donald trump says yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president. significant is a strong rebuke from house republicans like speaker ryan. this is not: conservatism. what was proposed is not what this party and country stands for. that the dominant view is shutting out muslims would be un-american and unconstitutional. it is worth remembering these remarks were the product of political calculation. he knows an extreme stance on immigration, however controversial or offensive, has beccme his main selling point. for many he is devaluing the notion of the united states of america and trashing the country's international brand. bbc news, washington. katty: i am joined from the institute of social policy and understanding. i will