do we have michael med ved ready to go? michael. thank you, thank you very much. obviously today there s a big emphasis on obamacare which is profoundly important to the american people but seems too often in the last several weeks the administration has gotten distracted and media have gotten distracted by talk of wiretapping at trump tower or the president calling his predecessor a bad and sick guy or criticizing the ratings of celebrity prentice, do you think the white house could do a better job of focussing on the issues that really matter than rather getting distract today these subsidiary conflicts as we move forward into the coming months? thanks, michael. respectfully i would say we have been focused we re here talking
that just came out today, declined to contem tdemn the prl altogether. well, that is not my policy. i have introduced legislation in the senate that would put in place a three-year moratorium on refugees coming from countries where isis or al qaeda control a substantial amount of territory. joining me now, michael steele and sam. michael, i ll begin with you. your thoughts. why? you knew it was coming to you, buddy. i did. i did. yeah. no. they call rand paul an isolationist. that s the great irony here. i have never heard of anything that s so antithetical to our constitution. but not not just the constitution. that s words on papers. to the intrinsic values of this nation. the other republican candidates, though i appreciate their
immigration completely. if we re in a war of civilizations. what donald trump was saying is obviously repugnant and antithetical to american values, and it the groundwork for that has been laid by years of republican rhetoric, including even the premise that people that s not just. that s just not true. hold on a second, michael. the premise that people need to be worried about being blown up in a starbucks. the fact of the matter is what took place in san bernardino was different from what happened in sandy hook only insofar as this were little kids who weren t killed and more kids were killed in connecticut when that attack was. these people couldn t do anything more than buy guns illegally and go out and use them and shoot them in a random killing. their motivation may have been somewhat ideological but we ll never know. the fact is they don t have the ability to do something like
bit of toast calms me right down. second of all but they re not good together. second of all, i will say that, you know, this idea about the sort of what the american populus wants right now part of the issue here is the other candidates have opened the door that donald trump is walking through. i just just so that we re clear, it was just a few days ago that a lot of candidates, not just donald trump, including jeb bush, the establishment moderate, was proposing a religious test for refugees. if the logic is, muslims are too dangerous to let in as refugees, well, then why should why stop at refugees? this is a logical extension of something that marco rubio, jeb bush and a whole bunch of people were saying. it s not just limited to the immigration policies. when marco rubio goes out and says we re in a war of civilizations. if we are in a war of civilizations, donald trump s plan, if people are as afraid as michael is of getting blown up in a starbucks, then donald trump
barack obama said last night that s gotten a lot of criticism when he s talking about a responsibility to muslims around the world. listen to this. just as it is the responsibility of muslims around the world to root out misguided ideas that lead to radicalization. it is the responsibility of all americans to reject discrimination. it is our responsibility to reject religious tests on who we admit into this country. it s our responsibility to reject proposals that muslim-americans should somehow be treated differently. let me just say this, michael. i want to play this for you. this is cruz and rubio responding to that portion of the speech last night. we don t need a president who goes on national television and lectures the american people like a schoolmarm. the problem we have is a president, commander in chief, who refuses to recognize our enemy. our enemy is radical islamic terrorism.