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gary tuchman tonight reports. >> reporter: nine months before steve bannon joined the trump campaignad this to say about screening refugees from syria. >> i don't understand. what do you mean vet? why not just -- why not just stop? why are you going through all this thing on vetting? the opportunity cost of vetting. >> well, vetting's important because we don't know -- >> no, you only vet -- commander, i only vet if you're going to let them in. why even let them in? >> reporter: his concerns over immigration and islam apparent in hours of interviews conducted by bannon for his breitbart radio show in 2015 and 2016. >> i think that most people in the middle east or at least 50% believe in being sharia compliant. >> reporter: even harshly criticizing former president george w. bush for calling islam a religion of peace. >> only the dumbest -- the second dumbest comment that one of the dumbest presidents in the history of these united states. that would be bush 43. shrub as they call him. he made the dumbest, being that islam is a religion of peace. >> reporter: bannon's views on islam

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>> you know, it's a great question to ask, you see peter tuchman behind me. depends which trader, which broker you are asking about, what kind of impact the fed minutes had. and a lot of them said before i spoke to peter that no big deal. peter pointed out that we had the sell-off at 2:00 and you look at fed minutes, we're going to get according to the fed still interest rate increase, perhaps three of them this year. while most people were expect second half of the year as peter pointed out, looking like two, three weeks, march. the other issue that peter pointed out is one of the reasons we saw the sell-off, a bit of indecision from the fed, because they won't make it definitive until they finally do it. liz? liz: thank you very much, adam shapiro. with the closing bell about 49 minutes away, did you see this? elon musk's spacex nailed the booster landing sunday, touching off a celebration at the kennedy space center. there it goes. watch this. it is kind of a cool thing of beauty of reusable rocket. he wants to be the walmart of rockets. cheaper, reuse the

gary tuchman, los angeles. >> here's the conversation. rabbi who spoke about president trump's inauguration, founder of simon wiesenthal center. and jeffrey lord. jonathan, you wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" and called president trump's nonanswer on anti-semitism startling and saying it's quote only the latest episode in a troubling pattern. explain what you mean. >> well, nice to be here and i can explain over the course of the last 12 months from the campaign to the election to now we've seen a surge of anti-semitic incidences that have been troubling and many moments over the course of that time whether it was tweets that were sourced from anti-semitic websites, statements by white supremacists, or bomb threats to jewish community centers across the country where we've been looking for moral leadership from our president. yesterday was a moment where we would have hoped he would have spoken out clearly against an - anti-semiti anti-semitism. for some reason that didn't happen. we want to know why. >> the sentiment that his dau

in tonight's america uncovered, gary tuchman returns to a deep red pocket of the country to get trumpters' reaction. >> reporter: it's easy to find people that voted at donald trump in arizona, a state that once again went red on election day. tell me why you voted for donald trump. >> because he wasn't a politician. >> reporter: many people here saw donald trump's news conference. most of the others heard a lot about it. donald trump said this administration is running like a fine-tuned machine. what's your response to that? >> well, it's not fine tuned but i know he's going to do the best he can. >> reporter: do you think he's over stating it when he says fine tuned. >> a little bit. >> reporter: he said i don't think he did anything wrong, if not he did something right but donald trump fired him. does that confuse you? >> not really. he fired him because he wasn't truthful to the vice president what he had actually done. he tried to backtrack and say well, i don't remember exactly -- >> reporter: you don't think he did anything wrong? >> not really. he was doing his job. go with fo