you have to be much more serious in your words and much more sensitive in what you say. in terms of words, you also said that conference that quote, he s taken a page from the playbook of hitler, demonized a group and seeked to ban or eliminate that group as part to a solution of a problem that doesn t exist. is that comparing donald trump to hitler? the comparison was about the playbook. it was about the actions and that is exactly as students of history know, that is exactly what happened back at that time and other atrocities that have taken place in this world over time. donald trump is trying to demonize muslims, he s trying to demonize the islamic faith and blame this group of people for the problems of our country and then seek to ban or eliminate them from the united states of america. that is an exact page out of that kind of playbook. it is dangerous rhetoric.
focus, it might give them a name to claim allegiance to, but, i mean, as you said, this was happening before isis had a caliphate. exactly. i think these people already believed what they executed. and i think the big problem is because the number of people who believe in this within muslim communities and families, definitely not all, but it is so large that these individuals who want to take, you know, an action, to take it beyond believing and beyond practicing but actually want to kill people, they have a large enough group to hide in. do you believe when people say, look, we had no idea. friends, family. it does seem hard to believe that somebody comes up with an idea like this, a plan like this, and doesn t talk to others about it. whether those people believe they ll act out on it or not or whether they re somewhat sympathetic or whatever the case may be. i don t believe it. it is the same people, some of the families who say when their
in terms of words, though, you also said at that conference, quote, he s taken a page from the playbook of hitler, demonized a group, blamed that group for the country s problems and then seeking to ban or eliminate that group seeking an answer to a problem that doesn t exist. really, comparing donald trump to hitler? the comparison was about the playbook, it is about the actions. as students of history know, that is exactly what happened back at that time and other atrocities that have taken place in this world over time. donald trump is trying to demonize muslims. he s trying to demonize the islamic faith and blame this group of people for the problems of our country and then seek to ban or eliminate them from the united states of america. that is an exact page out of that kind of playbook. it is dangerous rhetoric, it is negative at the highest level, and that s not what american politics should be about.
it s the best way of beating the democrats if i get the nomination. in the fox poll that i m sure you saw, i m way ahead of hillary, head-to-head i m ahead of hillary. the one person hillary doesn t want to run against and i get along with democrats, republicans, liberals, everybody. the one person they don t want to run against is me. believe me. okay. i want this plain spoken for the viewer. go ahead. what do you mean when you say if they break this pledge you ll break the pledge? do you mean? if they don t treat me with a certain amount of respect and don t treat me as the front runner, by far the front runner and if the playing field isn t level all options are open but that s nothing i want to do. how will you know that? determines that? i think i ll know that over a period of months and i ll make a determination but i would imagine they would treat me properly because i m leading by
hillary. i will beat hillary. the one person hillary doesn t want to run against, and i know a lot of people inside because i get along with democrats, with republicans, with liberals, with everybody. the one person they don t want to run against is me. only me. i want this plain spoken for the viewer. what do you mean if they break this pledge then you ll break the pledge. what do you mean by that? if they don t treat me with a certain amount of decorum and respect. if they don t treat me as the frontrunner, by far the frontrunner. if the playing field is not level, then certainly all options are open. but that s nothing i want to do. how will you know that? what determines that? i think i ll know that over a period of a number of months. we ll go through the primaries, we ll see what happens and i ll make a determination. i would imagine they ll treat me properly because i m leading by a lot.