Better than clorox. with donald trump today here at msnbc. this next part, he s questioned about the impact of a ban on muslims would have on america s diplomatic relationships overseas. take a listen. mr. trump you are way ahead in the polls you could become the republican nominee, our future president. how do you think your first meetings with leaders of, say, united arab emirates, superb ally, flying missions over isis, women in their army, how do you think the meetings will go after you proposed, and it sounds like, implementing a policy like this. i think i ll get along great with them. i ve always been a unifier. i ve gotten along with joe and mika for years. if you can do that, you can do anything. true. really you don t think you
Northern virginia with people who, for the most part, american citizens. i said, we cannot vilify muslims, as your lead-in repeated. i also said to the muslim community, now i have an ask of you, if you see something, say something. mr. trump s proposal is a setback that takes us backward in the opposite direction. this is brad.
America s attention on the need to secure our borders. thomas, that may be the most interesting dynamic within the republican race when you consider this. not only is trump in first place, making comments like this, but if you look at all the candidates condemning him, they re struggling in the polls, one who doesn t want to fight with him on this subject is ted cruz. ted cruz is the one in second place right now. steve kornacki, thank you. i appreciate that. also as you talked about the potential for president bush speaking out, we know dick cheney spoke out today saying it goes against we believe in and stand for. also joining this conversation from washington, nbc news political editor carrie dann. we have two more statements, carrie. republican mitt romney tweeted this, on muslims, donald trump fired before airing and applauds speaker ryan.
Waterboarding, survey muslims who they believe could be a threat to their safety here. his supporters are standing by limb. at least as of now. there s no indication that that s going to inc. cha, at least from all comments we ve heard in the past. nothing he has said has made his support diminish. how does the campaign characterize painting the muslim community around the globe with such a terrible brush. what they re doing is they re saying we need to get our arms around this, we need to figure out what is going on 0, we can t tell who s bad and who s not bad and they may be bad behind the scenes and we don t know about it. we need to figure out how we can tell who are going to be terrorists and who are going to be radicalized and who are not going to be radicalized. it s only a temporary thing, just until they re able to figure 0 it out. it doesn t sound like the plan is all well thoughtout or planned on the trump side. at first they were saying that
donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. so republicans have coming out slamming trump s proposals including paul ryan who say this isn t what his party looks like. what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for. would you support a policy that prohibits muslims from entering the country. no, that is not my policy. i believe the focus should focus on radical islamic terrorism. donald trump always plays on everyone s worst instincts and fears and saying we re not going to let a single muslim into the country is a dangerous overreaction. right now we re keeping an ear on the white house previousing, happening live, right now. we ll see if he makes any