free speech in america and carson s opinion shouldn t disqualify him from anything but individual votes if that be the case. bill: so carson goes to facebook late last night amid exactly what i said. i can never support a candidate of the united states was muslim and had not renounced central tenet of islam, sharia, law. does leslie have a point, david? should he have been more clear on sunday or does it matter? no, she doesn t. i watched at interview and looked at full context. i will say this dr. carson doesn t speak in sound bites. that is nature of who he is, but pick up an answer to chuck todd and take just the part of the whole answer. he does talk about the relationship between sharia and the constitution in full context and he goes on to explain it today. unfortunately in politics, and in a sound bite world, if you re explaining, they typically say you re losing n this case he is not because dr. carson reflects
and for getting ratings out of it, okay. let s understand who is the partner in crime here. you can point your finger at anybody. that doesn t mean that the republican candidates can t say this is garbage and i m going to do. this i will take issue with you over the muslim question that carson means is the tenets of islam do not line up with the tenets of judeo-christian philosophy. they don t line up in his opinion therefore, he doesn t believe that a muslim could carry out the vision of the founding fathers. that s his opinion and he is entitled to it without being threatened and called a bigot. i m not threatening him had. i m not calling him a bigot. if you are asking me to comment my opinion on his opinion here is what i say. unless you fancy yourself islamic scholar which i assume that dr. carson doesn t, you have to concede
with his departure, that leaves 15 republican candidates left. the other major story in the field, that is the backlash toward ben carson after he said he will not support a muslim running for president. i would not advocate that we put a muslim in charge of this nation. i absolutely would not agree with that. today an islamic group called for carson to drop out of the race. his campaign is doubling down saying while carson doesn t think muslim candidates should be stopped from running, islam itself is inconsistent with the constitution. and the american people aren t ready for a republican president. several of his opponents publically disagreed. i don t think we ought to just disqualify somebody because of his or her faith. the constitution specifies that there shall be no religious test for public office. i m a constitutionalist. i think this shows dr. carson is not ready to be commander in
to comments by dr. ben carson, obviously, the republican presidential candidate when he said he would not advocate for a muslim to be president of the united states. he s standing by those words. we re going to go to it as soon as it begins. let s continue our conversation we were having with dr. carson s business manager, mr. armstrong williams, joining us once again. mr. williams, thank you so much for obviously sticking with us. you guys are sticking by with what you re saying. i want you to respond to what ted cruz has said in response to dr. carson s words. he says you know the constitution specifies there shall be no religious test for public office. i am a constitutionalist. ted cruz disagrees with dr. carson. why is ted cruz wrong? this issue makes him very uncomfortable, very uneasy. they re putting their fingers in the wind, waving it, twisting it, trying to see which way the constituency is going. you see, dr. carson doesn t do
him. maybe i m wrong. but i don t get that impression. reporter: car sob is someone who has a lot of credibility with evangelical voters. trump of course has responded to carson essentially saying carson doesn t know me, how can he know how i actually feel about my faith. thomas? casey, great to see you. thanks so much. as we mentioned earlier, it s another bad day in the polling for hillary clinton. certainly of concern as she was in columbus, ohio, for a women for hillary grass roots event. now as we look at these new poll numbers, it shows that bernie sanders is leading her in the hawkeye state. this comes as clinton tries to show a softer side, sitting down with ellen degeneres in an interview that will be airing today. if you are elected, you would be one of the oldest presidents elected. does that matter?