being dem upon straighted by the british prime minister. but i think more than anything, lots of similarities, lots of ingredient on many, many issues but those are some big differences we saw on display there. jim, thank you very much. i want to bring in michael smerconish, michael reagan, author of lessons my father taught me, the strength integrity and faith of ronald reagan. he s a news max contributor and the son of the former president. thank you for joining us this evening. mr. smerconish, what do you think about the president announcing this new extreme vetting measures limiting the philosophy refugees into this country? is this a religious test? yes, it is. i m surprised that there weren t a pugh more nations that were put on that list so as to give cover to what i think is an inevitable legal challenge that will come on that basis and say this is a pre-prohibition based strictly on religion and not necessarily on geography. that was my first thought. my second was for
election, i said these are the people i ll pick. and i think that the person that i pick will be a big, big i think people are going to love it. i think evangelicals, christians will love my pick. and will be represented very, very fairly. so when he says that evangelicals will love his pick, i m sure he s aware whoever he chooses has to get the approval of congress first. right? so what does that tell you? a couple things. evangelicals as you know voted for donald trump number one reason was because of that supreme court pick. no question about it. so i don t i think it s pretty much a no-brainer this better be a pretty good pick that evangelicals gather around. wa award heard gorsuch and hardiman and bill pryor one of those three most likely. bill pry yoer having potential issues among evangelicals as it
i m not here to give you legal advice. obviously, this is a nation of laws not just a nation of people. the constitution has to be upheld. the point i want to make is that we ve got a situation where around the world, there s a global refugee crisis. there are tens of thousands of people literally who have been given the docket they can come here and being left in limbo by this. america s allies in the gulf and elsewhere are left having to explain to their own population how to explain that america shut the door on refugees. that is a very sad state of affairs. you nomah nomah lala yousef. she was shot by the taliban. she s also a nobel peace prize winner. i m heart broken today that president trump is shutting the door on mothers and children and that america is turning its back on a proud history of welcoming regulars and immigrants ready to work hard in exchange for a fair chance at a new life.
united states. if you were a muslim, could you come in. but if you were a christian, it was almost impossible. and the reason that was so unfair is that the everybody was persecuted in all fairness but they were chopping off the heads of everybody. but more so the christians. and i thought it was very, very unfair. so we are going to help them. what did you make of his answer? well, what i was struck by, don, is that he interrupted right as i was asking the question and he interrupted with yes as in they will be a priority. he was very forceful on that. we talked about this before him and i, in previous interviews but as president, obviously, words definitely matter. and the fact that he is going to prioritize persecuted christians i thought was a pretty strong language especially the fact that he interrupted that question and said yes, he got right to i don t know if he would hem and haw on the priority because you open up some potential criticism out
i think it s fair to say last week s march inspired by the election of donald trump. i mean, they had been planning it for a while. something the left is very good at, seen organized protests, well funded. but we need to be cautious about dismiss the women s marches last weekend. a friend of mine wrote a piece in the new york times talking about it s reminiscent of the tea party movement and may learn those lessons. van jones says that as well. comparison is relevant. we don t want to sit and gloat in glory. i m conservative and we re in control and those are crazies marching. there s element of that but also legitimate concerns that women across the country have about a donald trump presidency given his behavior and past statements. we have to pay attention.