is the reality. we were just praying. we can t pray? tucker: once again, looks like this man s extremism was obvious for years but the attack it caused was somehow a surprise, as it always is. president trump is using the london attacks to lobby for the return of his travel ban that would affect six countries, muslim majority countries. on saturday night, the president tweeted this, we need to be smart, vigilant and tough. we need the courts to give us back our rights. we need the travel ban as an extra level of safety! people, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but i am calling it what we need and what it is, a travel ban! a travel ban is a toned down version of the president called for in the campaign trail in 2015. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. until our country s can figure out what the hell is going on.
we were just praying. we can t pray? tucker: once again, looks like this man s extremism was obvious for years but the attack it caused was somehow a t surprise, as it always is. president trump is using the london attacks to lobby for the return of his travel ban that would affect six countries, muslim majority countries. on saturday night, the president tweeted this, we need to be smart, vigilant and tough. we need the courts to give us back our rights. we need the travel ban as an extra level of safety! today, people, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever the want, but i am calling it what we need and what it is, a travel ban! a travel ban is a toned down version of the president called for in the campaign trail in 2015. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. until our country s can figure out what the hell is going on.
is here to see me today. we will do great things for the united states; is that correct? yes. do they like me in indonesia? yes, thank you very much. speaker of the house in indonesia. thank you very much. [ applause ] that was such a random moment in the presidential election, right? such a random moment in the republican primary. press conference is over, he convenes this press conference to announce he signs this pledge, holds the pledge up with the wrong date on it, thanks everybody, walks away, comes back to the podium, starts up the press conference to tell everybody how awesome it is that he s meeting with his friend, the speaker of the house in indonesia. his whole group is here to see me today. we will do great things for the united states, won t we? weird at the time, totally inexplicable. now we get it. because that was last september, september 2015. donald trump was doing donald trump business that day. his presidential campaign was
back to the podium, starts up the press conference to tell everybody how awesome it is that he s meeting with his friend, the speaker of the house in indonesia. his whole group is here to see me today. we will do great things for the united states, won t we? weird at the time, totally inexplicable. now we get it. because that was last september, september 2015. donald trump was doing donald trump business that day. his presidential campaign was only a few months old. the indonesian speaker of the house was there to talk with trump about a planned golf course and planned hotel. since then, that guy, the indonesian speaker of the house, has gotten into and out of a lot of trouble, because that company i was talking about, that s the largest taxpayer in indonesia, that mining company that operates a giant open pit mine that s the largest gold mine in the world and you can see it from space, that company with
all right, as 2015 winds down, we re looking back at the personnel tease and stories that made headlines, 2015 behind us now. 2016, this year, we met caitlyn jenner in 2015. donald trump, triumphed in the polls and who could forget the faces of refugees. top ten media stories of 2015. debates, shootings, scandals, relentless news buzzing in 2015. moments stood out among the crowded landscape. top ten media stories of the year. hello everybody, thank you so much. number ten, late night s new year. stephen colbert taking over for