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About whether we should have a muslim president or not. keep in mind people who say we should not have a a muslim president would oppose having a mormon person, pretty much anybody who doesn't fit into their traditional christian world view. >> you talk about how other republican candidates who have dise vowed what ben carson said. you have jeb bush, carly fiorina, rand paul, all saying that religion cannot be a test for office. you mentioned article vi of the constitution. moments ago ben carson responded to the fact that all candidates are weighing in on what he said. >> probably because you...

The constitution. if you're adherent to that law, it's going to be a problem. i get that because we're seeing the same thing going on where you have an elected official trying to impose their religious interpretation of their faith on to u.s. citizens. we have that going on in kentucky right now. so when he said this comment, you can't blurt that out that needs a whole ten-page explanation to what you actually meant. if people got what he was saying, they would say, yeah, we have a separation of church and state here. and i think most americans would value that. >> i want you to weigh in, but ...

The usual, you know, sort of taking the democratic or republican lines. >> you hear liberals arguing that it is more in line with the constitution, supporting the federal powers in this case is more in line with the constitution, which is basically an argument that many of the people who support this law, you know, also use the constitution. >> the text of the constitution, article vi is the supremacy clause. when there's a conflict between state and federal, federal law is the supreme law of the land. that was the basis for judge bolton's decision. again, this is not an easy case. this is a h...