the president will cover the rumor mill and the lead-up to a scotus pick. are they trying to put their thumb on the scale or playing along with the whisper campaign? kind of like waiting for the white smoke when a pope is picked. the press will cover who are perceived to be the leading candidates. in the case of amy coney barrett maybe a little bit of a thumb on the scale. we have a lot of things being written about how this judge is a devout catholic, she belongs to a little-known christian group. would that affect her rulings? in fact, when she was confirmed by the senate for the appeals court in chicago there was a bit of a dust-up between senator feinstein and judge barrett about this very question would she who there be some sort of spillover of her personal religious beliefs and many conservative writers saying it is not fair, the press is setting up a religion test. we see the skirmish playing out before the president announced
religion test on anybody coming into the country. but there is a ban on countries where we can t verify their citizen. pakistan is not on this, indonesia is not on this. what about that? mike is not making a point here. it is very clear, when you look at the countries listed there are few things that have in common. they don t do business he is saying what the commonality is they don t do a good job, it is not easy to figure out a background of people to vet people. why isn t saudi arabia on the list? the majority of attackers were from saudi arabia, you can go down the list. the reason we know this is a muslim ban and the reason people are disappointed with the court s decision, is because we use the president s own words,
right because we are arming our armed forces and intelligence communities to help them stop attacks which happen every day and don t make the news. i am not for a muslim ban. i don t think there should be a religion test on anybody coming into the country. muslims come in every day. but there is a ban on countries where we can t verify their citizen. pakistan is not on this, indonesia is not on this. what about mike s point? it s a ban on a majority of muslim countries. mike is making a point here. it is very clear, when you look at the countries listed there are few things that have in common. they don t do business with donald trump. he is saying what the commonality is they don t do a good job, it is not easy to figure out a background of people to vet people. why isn t saudi arabia on the list? the majority of 9/11 attackers were on saudi arabia.
an obligation to speak out, but some things are against their values. the idea that a religion test should be imposed on whether members of congress can serve is antithetical to everything the united states is supposed to stand for. it should be where that aspect is unacceptable in american politics. the more that bannon guides the direction of the republican party, the more this republican party will lose its way and potentially some of its majorities because these views while potent in certain pockets of the u.s. are not the mainstream of what most americans believe. right, and keeping in mind the low approval rates of this president, where does this lead the democrats with steve bannon taking his charge on the other side? well, it is a gift to them in two ways. first off, you have to remember that trump promised to sign ten major bills in his first 100 days of president. we re approaching the 300th day with republicans controlling the house, the senate and the presidency and no
this a sort of mass anti-muslim ban. they base that on some of the more incendiary things that candidate trump and some of his surrogate said during the campaign. things that president trump doesn t say anymore. the issue, the challenge for the drafts of this, to remove religious references in this. the first one had exemptions for persecuted christians and jewish people. this has no exemptions. there is no mention of religiosity, there is no mention of any religion test at all. will that pass muster? i don t know. if you find judges that think what candidate trump said can impale president trump, it will not pass muster. if you find to judges who believe that with the president now says, he means, it will pass muster. all of the benefit of the doubt is to go to the president on this. not to his challengers. the president is charged with securing the borders. shannon: do you think, like i do, that this will go right