good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, december 9th, i m shiba russell. amid the firestorm over his comments about banning muslims from entering the united states, donald trump is planning a visit to the middle east. trump tweeted last night he ll be traveling to israel before the end of the year, and, quote, despite my great respect for king abdullah ii i will not be visiting jordan at this time. trump was responding to a report by the associated press that he would visit that country this month. the jerusalem post reporting this morning that trump will meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on december 28th, just a few days after christmas. the report says that the meeting was scheduled two weeks ago, before the republican front-runner released his controversial plan, which he defended to barbara walters last night. do you regret your ban on
good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, december 9th, i m shiba russell. amid the firestorm over his comments about banning muslims from entering the united states, donald trump is planning a visit to the middle east. trump tweeted last night he ll be traveling to israel before the end of the year, and, quote, despite my great respect for king abdullah ii i will not be visiting jordan at this time. trump was responding to a report by the associated press that he would visit that country this month. the jerusalem post reporting this morning that trump will meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on december 28th, just a few days after christmas. the report says that the meeting was scheduled two weeks ago, before the republican front-runner released his controversial plan, which he defended to barbara walters last night. do you regret your ban on muslims, which some people think is un-american? not at all. we have to do the right thing. somebody in this countr
what s going on. when asked if muslim-american citizens currently abroad would be included, a spokeswoman replied, mr. trump says everyone. the new york times lead story calls it, quote, an unprecedented proposal by a leading american presidential candidate. an idea more typically associated with hate groups. and last night the billionaire businessman described his proposal as a reaction to president obama s speech on isis, and the san bernardino terror attacks. i watched last night, and i watched the president truly that didn t know what he was doing. he didn t he didn t know why he was there. he refuses to use the term radical islamic terrorism. he refuses to use the term. i don t even know if he knows what the hell is going on. i really don t. last night we all saw and we witnessed something that i thought was highly inappropriate. in fact i tweeted, is that all there is? about the president s speech. and i wrote something today that i think is very, very important,
and much, much more on a busy tuesday. first look starts right now. good morning, everyone, thanks for being with us. i m shannon mulaire. has donald trump gone too far this time? political rivals are lining up to condemn his latest controversial proposal, a complete shutdown of muslims entering the u.s. until leaders, quote, figure out what s going on. last night he dug in his heels. we have to figure it out. we can t live like this. it s going to get worse and worse. you re going to have more world trade centers. it s going to get worse and worse, folks. we could be politically correct or we could be stupid. but it s going to get worse and worse. trump s rivals are stepping back in a big way. not a single gop candidate has agreed with trump using words like ridiculous and downright dang. and no surprise from the democrats, hillary clinton is calling the situation reprehensible and prejudiced. and bernie sanders rallied against demagogues. even conservative stalwart di
quickly. it was just it was it was true ly overwhelming to see all of the agencies that got here and got here in a hurry, to provide us assistance. nobody hesitated. people knew what their job was, their job was to try to bring some calm to chaos. now to shiba russell, my colleague there in new york city. and shiba, you can see from the lieutenant that ark of trying to move forward and part of that, we re now closer and more forward than we have ever been here, closest to the crime scene right behind us. there are still more details that we are sure to learn about today. richard lui reporting for us live from california. we are going to turn to political reaction now, to the shooting in california. and it was a big part of a busy thursday on capitol hill. senate republicans overwhelmingly rejected new gun control legislation. twice yesterday democrats tried to attach new provisions on to a budget bill, including the ability to bar suspected