Called each other and gone to each others homes and woken each other up and rushed down to the mosque to see if they could help, by the time the alert was raised there was nothing anybody could do. Members of the congregation stood on the sidewalk and wa watched their house of worship burn to the ground. It was a total loss. When the fire was put out they prayed together. Saturday morning a few dozen members of the congregation held their first prayers of the day outside on the curb across the street from the burned out shell of their mosque. That fire started late friday night. Started just a few hours after the new president signed his executive order banning people from seven predominantly muslim countries from coming to the United States. That was friday night into saturday. On sunday, of course, there was the horrific mass shooting at another mosque in quebec city in canada. Six people were killed in the quebec city attack. Eight more people were wounded. Canadian police have a su
system. and what should democrats do about it? david leonhart at the new york times is not prone to this type of argument but he s makin it now. he says democts should not weigh this nomination the same way they ve weighed previous ones. this one is different. the presumption should be that neil gorsuch does not deserve confirmation because the process that led to his nomination was illegitimate. i realize this sounds aggressive and partisan and it makes me uncomfortable to make such an argument but democrats can not play by the old set of rules now that republicans are playing by a new one. the only thing worse than the system the republicans have created is a system in which one political party volunteers to be bullied. joining us now is david le leonhart. thank you very much for being here. a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you for having me. it ee s a pleasure to be here. you stated explicitly and it s palpable you aren t comfortable making this argument, that this