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Banning muslims from certain countries is a pretext to muslim ban which is against the immigration policy of this country which says that no person will be banned entering this country because of their religious faith. in addition to that, millions of muslims that live in this country are so disheartened and feel alienated. we are the first defense. two previous administrations, president bush, president obama and their administrations have worked with muslims in the united states to deter, to p...

All right, explain to our viewers what youre talking about. that sounds like a threat. >> no threat at all. it is, in fact, a promise and prediction. we have seen in the course of this last election unrelenting voter suppression. we have seen our rights denied as americans, particularly seniors, african-americans, latinos, and younger people. and so, if the president insists upon conducting an investigation into voter fraud, as a pretext for voter suppression, the naacp along with millions of am...

Very wrong. >> i think not tweeting these attacks against people would make an enormous difference. i think the sense of depression -- >> both sides need to do it. >> lets take it out of the social media, i think that could elevate the conversation. >> i want to push back on your suggestion that both sides need to do it. no. when youre president of the united states -- when youre president of the united states you let insults pass. when youre president of the united states you let congressmen, c...

Obamas action with russia. he set up the whole pretext of this is illegitimate and gave congressman lewis pretext and others to follow suit to say were going to boycott the election based on the fact -- >> i will see your pretext and add pretext. the pretext to that goes back five years when donald trump actually emerged as a political figure. >> thats absolutely right. >> by discrediting barack obama and saying he was an illegitimate -- >> an issue. >> on the person who won. >> the onus always ...

If we could get her to say things about her espionage in an interview before shes arrested, that would be a good thing for the prosecution. >> we started our interview. talked to her about this scenario that wasnt true, that there was a defector that came out from the cuban intelligence service and he talked about a penetration of the u.s. government. and quickly into this pretext, ana had this interesting physiological reaction. there was a rash that immediately broke out. they were on the side...

Has been using every terrorist attack in turkey as a pretext to launch a crackdown on any other group that he sees as his own political opposition. some of these attacks that seem to have the indicators of isis being behind them hes blamed on kurdish separatists. one of the most recent attacks, earlier in december that was a bombing that struck mostly police officers outside of a stadium in central istanbul and killed about 38 police officers and wounded some 150 more, erdogan went ahead and alr...

Hes used it as a pretext in order to quash his own political dissent. right now hes still reeling from a tempted coup over the summer. he responded to that not only by killing some of the people involved, but xwrchbing thousands and firing tens of thousands of people from their positions. this new years eve attack was the thing we wanted to see invekted into this situation. thank you, matt, about that. in just a moment, i want to get back to jim cavanaugh. you know, we do not know all the deta...

And theres a presumption not to second guess. trying a case is like being a football coach. easy to second guess later. it was a close decision, 4-3, but at the same time, they say he was not ineffective. >> you know, jennifer, it looks like the sbeintermediate court, which originally tossed out the conviction three years ago, used ineffective council as really just a pretext. they seem to think skakel was innocent, but, you know, thats not good enough on appeal, absent new evidence, right? >> t...

In our country? right now its all happening in the u.s. its a wonderful thing because we will be able toç sort of spearhead this thing. just like the internet happened here first. it created transformation to the entire planet. but a lot of the big companies in this area are all here. we want the same thing to happen in the u.s. when it comes to driverless cars. we want the first driverless cars to appear here. we want to have the big businesses around us evolve here. we want to sort of set th...

Degree, have gotten on the back of a tiger, and were going to see more of an escalation of russian involvement. >> and it seems the president in turkey is not in control of domestic security. a situation going bad from worse, after the situation in july. >> i know that erdogan is worried about his security himself. that coup in june came as a complete surprise to him, he got away just by chance, and hes worried about his military and police, and with this assassination, now, he should be. >> do ...