. ♪ you're only a day away ♪ >> dickerson: we're back with ruth marcus on this deputy editorial pageington post" and "washington post" columnist michael gerson. mike, start with you. you worked for a president who after 9/11 was very careful about how he spoke about muslims in america. donald trump is talking about his ban on muslim immigration and now the idea of profiling. what is your reaction? >> he call attack of the muslim community for not being cooperative enough. he intimated that the president of the united states is a jihaddist agent. this is very, very dangerous in the doe conduct of the war against terrorism which requires cooperative communities in the united states and cooperation with allies abroad all of our allies in this fight. most of them are in fact muslim allies. this is deep ly self destructi destructive. also has just raised huge concerns in the minds of republicans. it was a test. is this guy pivoting? is he ready? in fact he failed the test dramatic ly. >> dickerson: what about on democratic side, ruth. the test hillary clinton had the same test, what is yo

ruth marcus, from "the washington post." alphonso aguilar from the american principles project.nder of the fix and washington post. soon to be out of a job. >> very soon. >> hey, all right. >> literally, more to come. >> tony is not going away. >> that's what i want to here. alphonso, i want to start with you, earlier this week, there was a high profile hispanic outreach director that resigned from the rnc, they hired somebody else. you were servings as the grief counsellor for hispanics. what is he doing with this federal judge? >> this is an interesting thing. you find a lot of hispanic republicans that somehow are looking for a way to support donald trump. >> they want to, right? >> exactly. because they just don't like hillary. but he's doing everything to antagonize them. i've been asked by the media. i've said it to different reporters, look, if he were willing to change his tone, to reach out to us, to talk, perhaps on immigration, change his policies slightly, but nothing is happening. he keeps saying that latinos love him, but if you look at all the polling, that's not

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