And wene lines are open will begin with your commentary but what to show you what the billionaire had to say at a rally in south carolina. [video clip] donald trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States until our countries representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. [applause] we have no choice. We have no choice. We have no choice. According to pew research, among others, there is a great hatred toward americans by large segments of the Muslim Population. Host donald trump yesterday explaining, he would do a complete and total ban of muslims entering the United States. On fox news he eased off the thoseand complete saying that serve in the military would be allowed to return the. The other republican candidates denounced him. Marco rubio said i disagree with Donald Trumps latest proposal. His habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring americans together. That you have George Pataki saying, remarks are idiotic, we will be banning loudmouth billionaires. Says, donald trump is unhinged, his policy close quote proposals icy proposals then a Political Correspondent who says this, here is the truth, whether you like it or not, donald trump is the only candidate to have the bravery to put out that statement on muslims. Expect the donald trump statement on usa muslim ban to give him a boost with evangelical voters, the allimportant voters in the iowa caucus which goes first in a couple months. Up first. Are caller my comment about this is, he is a very scary person. His comment is outrageous, destructive, ignorant. I cannot get over that a candidate is saying things like this. It is the worst side of ourselves. I am scared that this keeps going on. I dont know how this person can stop talking. It is platform embarrassing. It is not so much that it is embarrassing, but it is scary and destructive. To all the muslims in america, please, god, our fellow americans, i cannot tell you how upsetting this is to me. Host when you say it is destructive, explain that more. Caller our country was founded on people who came over here because of religious persecution. That is how we started. To have this person who is so ignorant, how can he be so espousing he is what started this country is us coming over here. If we couldnt come here, we would not have america. Destructive, he gives voice and allows this take some kindto of legitimacy. Host i will leave it there because i want to get a republican. Mona in farmington, new mexico. You are on the air. Hower i just want to say, is it that all of those evangelicals in iowa can say they are christians and go along with him. That is not a christian. Host mona, you are a republican. Who are you supporting . Caller i am supporting the democrats. All the republicans are saying the same thing. They just not saying it as loud as he is. The as we showed you from tweets, the republican candidates quickly denounced what he said. A conservative paper, trump gets rebukes for calling to ban muslims. Trying to turn his rise in the polls. You have this from the front page of the New York Times. Block entry crop of all muslims. Candidates denounced across party lines. It says in the New York Times, mr. Trump made his announcement shortly after a new Monmouth University survey of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers found he had slipped from his recent top which holdsstate, the first contest february 1. He urged 21 in the polls. Marco rubio had 17 . Another iowa poll released by cnn showed mr. Trump with a comfortable lead. As david brody said from the christian broadcasting network, mr. Trumps comments, he believe will give him a boost in the polls with evangelical voters. Then there is this with the new york types. Cruz sees payoff in the polls. Widely detested by the republican establishment has yet to do yet to demonstrate equivalent strength outside of iowa. In the first caucus state has not foretold National Success in recent years, throwing it support behind Mike Huckabee in 2008. He has repeatedly courted evangelicals all year including a visit to some of the most theologically conservative pastors. He has won important endorsements and has lobbied opposition to samesex marriage into a new fight which he calls efforts for religious liberty. Than 2000 the des august featuring what he called christian victims of intolerance, like bakers and forest to have been sued for not serving samesex couples where children were given ted cruz coloring books. A little bit about the president ial campaign in iowa. That nestoring trump made these comments. Their daring republican candidates, specifically ted cruz, to match him on this. Mary, go ahead. Caller your freudian slip just a second ago, it is a game. These politics. What i have to say is a couple of things. I believe mr. Trump is correct. Believes that this country was founded on religious freedom would agree with me. These folks want to restrict your religious freedom, as well as your liberty, as well as our laws. Host you believe all muslims . [video clip] caller hiding your head in the sand. Not all of them, but if the media were being truthful, they would also play the portion of trumps statement where he cited polls done by legitimate Government Agencies and other places in this country of muslims in this country, who more than 50 believe the should be sharia law and acted in this country. They also enacted in this country. They also believe violence against americans is ok. 25 , that is a lot. Host this is from pew research. Significant Muslim Populations, there is much disdain for isis. In lebanon, 100 of those surveyed have an unfavorable view. 97 in israel. 94 in jordan. Indonesia, 79 . Turkey 73 . Nigeria 66 . Overwhelmingly a negative unfavorable opinion of isis in those countries from the Muslim Population. The papers today, mr. Bush was citing a poll, but some believe that the poll is islam a phobic. Islamaphobic. Found that 25 of Muslim Americans agree that violence against u. S. Citizens was justified against global jihad and 51 agreed that they should have a choice of being governed according to shariah. A republican, go ahead. Share your thoughts, you are on the air. Early 20s. In my my whole family is conservative. Originally from texas. I was born and raised a christian, still am, and i find the hatred that this brings into the deplorable. A huge issue i find is that a lot of this is out of fear. Playing on the fear of the people to move more to the right. It is hurting the party overall. Host tony in bethlehem, pennsylvania. What do you think . Caller good morning. I am a registered democrat, but i will never vote for a democrat again. I think the entire party has been infiltrated by a fifth column. I am attracted to donald trump. Lovenk the unbelievable shown in his rallies for america and its values no longer exists in the democratic already. Democratic party. As far as people saying trump is against religious liberty, when i hear that, i go back to my christian values and i turn the other cheek so they can kiss both sides of my rear end. Host j in southern california. Color. I liked that last caller. Donald trump has history on his side. This is not about emotion or fear. Migration toalted assimilate the great wife wave. Ellis island was closed to jewsns, italians, and during world war ii, because it would be insane to let people into this country even though the vast majority of the axis territories would have been great americans. We had to close it, because europe was a hornets nest. In 1913 we halted migration from germany. It never picked up again because of what was going on with the kaiser. We halted migration in 1965 because of the seven years war. Just focusingut on radical islam . That is what senator ted cruz said. He was asked by a reporter yesterday and he said there are millions of people, muslims around the world, that is not my position. I am more focused on radical islam. Host caller ok. The American People come first, unity comes first, assimilation, not accommodation. We only allowed 6 million germans to ever come to this country. We have about 9 million muslims already. We have enough diversity. With themajority germanamericans, there were senators. There was the buddhists movement the bundes movement. We interned 13,000 germanamericans, thousands of italianamericans. We interned japanese americans, unfortunately. We never talk about the germans. They were nazi radicals. The majority would have loved to have escaped hitler, but you think about the security of your Country First and your people first. Party has turned their compassion outward instead of inward. Isnt it funny how we vilify the guntoting socalled White Christian all day long, but it is funny when as soon as a muslim kills somebody they go into damage control mode. They start to talk about that we have to love these people. I think they are out of their mind. Host let me show some reaction from the democrats. Hillary clinton tweeting this is reprehensible, prejudiced, and divisive. Donald trump, you dont get it. This makes us less safe. Bernie sanders tweaking, demagogues throughout history have attempted to divide us based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or country of origin. Waser i think that trump citing the fact that we do not have a proper vetting solution for these people. The old lady who created this situation in San Bernardino lied on her application. Maybe she was hooked up with iri, the pakistani intelligence organization. We dont know which way they will go sometimes. We had major hassan who showed signs of being radicalized in the military but nothing was done about it. I think he is calling for some kind of breathing period until we realize what is going on with the Muslim Community in america and he cited polls that showed a great distrust for the United States, a great dislike for our laws. Ofmp was saying it out honest concern for what is going on in this country. Theres this idea that it is ok to say whatever you have to say to your enemy to get over on him and we are running into that situation. If weld become critical have homegrown and imported people coming in that will wreak havoc. Trump is being courageous. Host you know that the house recently passed legislation that would put a pause on the refugee situation for syrians and iraqis coming to the United States. Many want to include that language into an omnibus bill, to include all the different bills and all the federal agencies. Their deadline is friday. To do so the speaker of the house saying that could slip past friday. He is not saying there will be a shutdown but the house and the senate will be here over the weekend. You also mentioned the San Bernardino killers. The story that the two killers were radicalized a long time ago. Investigators say they have learned through interviews of people who knew mr. Farook that he had militant views before he met miss maleic online miss malik and married her. The reactionw you from the council on islamic relations. Their director who had a news he hadnce, here is what to say. Outrageous coming from someone who wants to assume the highest office in the land. Donald trump sounds more like the leader of a lynch mob than a great nation like ours. American muslims are part of the brickandmortar of this great nation. Are doctors, first respondents, police, social workers, teachers, members of the armed forces. This is who american muslims are. We stand united against americans against stigmatization, against islamophobia, and against terrorism. They must not pray on fear and fear mongering. His ideas are not just unconstitutional, they are unamerican. Host the executive director on the council of islamic americans there. Quarter ofp nearly a the worlds population. At which point muslims will be nearly as numerous as questions christians. Between 80,000 to 90,000 muslims immigrate to the United States each year. Targeted bans on specific groups of immigrants are not unprecedented in u. S. History. The early 20th century, the United States passed a series of strict quotas on foreign in rivals, como knitting in the immigration acts of 1917 and 1994. Coleman aiding in culminating in the immigration acts of 1917 and 1994. Caller i have a question, what kind of people are following him in the media and applauding what he is saying . And two weeks ago, when there was a shooting in colorado, how come there was no lets ban this and lets been that. Because these people happen to be muslim, there is 24 hour coverage, and we are back to being scared and hysterical. Muslim america for Muslim Americans, we want to hear from you. Democrats in maryland, you are on the air. Caller this is my first time coming onto cspan. As you can see, i have an accent. Said, if you go out there and try to get isis to , thatand kill americans you can come back. There is nothing wrong with that. If you joint isis and kill american boys and bomb american women and rape american women, you want to come back to the same country . I dont see anything wrong with that. He didnt say ban muslims completely, he said lets hold on and see what is going on until we find out what is going on. Donald trump is not wrong. I grew up in a place where there are muslims and christians. Most muslims are very good people. And killing people is nothing to them. No conscience. Not all of them. Some of them can be the best friend you can have. I dont see anything trump has said that is wrong. Just hold on and let us make. Ure you can see in paris, the one the other day in california. By the way, as we told you earlier, donald trump on fox news later clarified his remarks and said, this would not apply to muslims who serve in the military or people already living in the country. Douglas, a republican in kentucky. Caller good morning, how are you today . Host doing just fine, sir. Caller my comment is, according to the Supreme Court, this is a christian nation. Muslims are enemies of the christians. It is evidenced all over the world, these people are barbarians. Host why do you say all muslims . What evidence do you have of that . Caller their religion teaches that they are to kill christians. Host you have heard from president obama yesterday, george w. Bush, that muslim religion is peaceful. Caller muslim is not a peaceful religion. It is evidenced all over the world. They are killing their own people. What more evidence do we need . We should deport all muslims. We should destroy all of their mosques. They are warriors for allah. They are against america. Host i want you to listen to what president obama had to say sunday night in his Oval Office Address about muslims, isis, and islam. [video clip] we cannot turn against one another by letting this fight be defined as a war between america and islam. That is what groups like isil want. Isil does not speak for islam. They are thugs and killers. Part of a cult of death. They account for a tiny fraction of a more than billion muslims around the world, including many of patriotic Muslim Americans who reject their hateful ideology. The vast majority of terror victims around the world are muslim. If we do see succeed in defeating terrorism, we must and list muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away with suspicion and hate. The does not mean denying fact that extremist ideology has spread within some communities. Muslim leaders here and around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like isil and al qaeda promote. Against, not just acts of violence, but interpretations of islam that are incompatible with the values of tolerance, Mutual Respect and human dignity. Host that was the president sunday night in his third Oval Office Address reacting to the paris shootings and the shootings in San Bernardino, california. For those who missed it, this is george w. Bush in september 20, 2001 in his joint session to congress. [video clip] i want to speak tonight directly to muslims throughout the world. We respect your faith. It is practiced freely by many millions of americans, and millions more in countries that america counts as friends. These teachings are good and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of allah, blaspheme the name of allah. [applause] the terrorists are traitors to their own faith. Effect, to hijack islam itself. The enemy of america is not our many muslim friends, it is not our many arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them. [applause] that was george w. Bush in 2001. We are getting a reaction to donald trump yesterday saying there should be a shutdown on muslims entering the United States until representatives in government get an idea, he said, of what is going on. We are getting your reaction to that. Blake, what senator jeff a republican from arizona had to say. Just when you think donald trump can stoop no lower, he does. Then you had a democrat from hawaii who said, he is a state party he was a state party chair and i think theres a strong case for formal gop action against trump. Otherwise, what is a party for . Coats, once again, donald trump has chosen bombastic rhetoric over sound judgment. Carl, what do you think . Need toi think people try to understand what donald trump is about. Raceme into this representing a caricature of what the republican ideas are. Those who do not know what a caricature is, it is an exaggeration. A lot of the stuff that donald trump says, they have in feeding this throughout the republican rhetoric for a long time. They are not saying it as bombastic as he has, but it has been growing for a long time. That is why a lot of republicans it sounds reasonable to them. Today and yesterday, you got a lot of the republican politicians say, he is out of line. It is a little bit too late. If you spike the koolaid with alcohol, you got everybo