Controversial. and at the same time, it inflated donald trump s standing in the polls and that s something that i m sure the party elders keeping in mind. this is a party extremely divided. in the latest poll of nbc news that came out earlier this week, we saw that 7 in 10 republicans believe that donald trump is telling it, quote, telling it like it is. a majority of americans overall said they find the rhetoric offensive and the party, those in the republican primary electorate still at least as of earlier this week like his tone. and divided about whether or not trump is hurting the republican party s image, about 43% say he may be hurting the party and 40% say that he is helping the republican party s image. when you ask republicans themselves, this is a very deeply, deeply divided party and with trump s rhetoric and the poll numbers where they are, that division will only increase. no. he s channelling something and we continue the see it on the campaign trail. carrie, thank you
It is a must-see and hear interview of donald trump. it happened earlier today during morning joe i want to get back to the msnbc conversation with trump that tack took place and joe sc joe scarborough, whether it does harm or good it we can engage the muslim community more actively in america, it more likely that those thugs that you described will be reported to police, right. you know what, i think that s great, joe. it sounds good. it beautiful words. but the sad part is, if you look at this example of what just took place in california, many people knew that there s some really strange and bad things going on. one guy said, and even more than one guy, about racial profiling. i didn t want to report him because i didn t want to be a racial profiler. give me a break!
Of the republican base to admit it has no business serving as president either. earlier today, trump was on morning joe by phone defending this new policy idea and here he is comparing the current fight on terror to world war ii. joe, take a look back at roosevelt and take a look at the alien germans. they called them alien germans. because we were at war, joe, we are at war right now. qul you like it or not. we are at war with radical islam. all this coming after donald trump called for a data-base to track muslims and repeating ii rumors of 9/11. what s the message as muslim americans right now is. we love you. we want to work with you. we want you to turn in the bad ones. we want you to practice
many more dint. more of that straight ahead. moments ago mitt romney weighed in via twitter about what donald trump is saying and wrote, quote, on muslims, donald trump fired before aiming. speaking ryan is on target. when we come back, much more of donald trump doubling down on his call to ban muslims coming into the u.s. first, reaction from one of trump s south carolina supporters. do we think it s a slippery slope at all to ban, blanketing one ethnic group or religious group. i don t think so because it s hard to vent them, obviously, we ve seen that in the current terrorist attacks in san bernardino and paris. good idea or bad idea? i say ship them all back, seriously. by giving a little more, to yourself. i am running for my future. people sometimes forget to help themselves. the cause is retirement, and today thousands of people came to race for retirement
Splinter effect it has. yeah. well, it s very interesting to see. republican leaders like paul ryan scrambling to respond in very strong terms against what donald trump said yesterday. there s concern certainly among many republican leaders about the overall image of their party being tarnished by comments like this by trump, potentially chances in 2016 being tarnished by trump, especially forced to nominate donald trump along those lines and interesting bit of news just in the last few minutes, the new york times spoke with a spokesman for former president george w. bush. now remember the context here. just days after 9/11 it was george w. bush as president who drew that very clear distinction. he said, saying that the united states is not at war with islam. it is only in his view back then it was only a few radical muslims perverted the meaning of islam. so his spokesman contacted by