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Here's what he said. >> people around the country don't know it's an act. they aren't in on the act and they take what he says seriously and they take attacks from sean spicer and sarah sanders and what they do very seriously. they don't have all their faculties. in some cases, their elevator might not hit all floors. my concern is that a journalist is going to be hurt one of these days. >> greg: faculties. trump might trigger crazy americans to go after him, jim, or others. fair enough. jim feels a little like projection. you seem angry yourself. could you be a hazard to the american public. ...

>> well, i think it is a fair parallel to draw. it has nothing to do with the nazis. it has to do with the reaction of americans to refugees, in that case from the nazis, in this case from isis. and the hysteria was similar. these were people in desperate, desperate need, and people wanted to reject them on the grounds that maybe they were in this case terrorists, in that case communists or whatever. in 1940 president roosevelt proposed a bill to admit 20,000 jewish children who might otherwise perish in the -- in europe over quota. it was rejected by the congress after a congressman from miss...

Refugees from this country. this is not what america's about. this is not what our character's about. and also our constitution is also one that we have to be cognizant of. the fact that 120,000 japanese were put into camps was a breach of the constitutional protection. and that created a lot of discord in the japanese-american community just within ourselves because there were some of us who wanted to prove that we're 100% americans by responding to the draft and there was those who said i will respond to the draft if you release my parents from an unconstitutional incarceration. and then if ...

So it was either a comment that was out of ignorance and just needed more information or he's just not well informed. >> congressman nadler, there's been a lot of discussion about how the u.s. reacted to the possibility of accepting jewish refugees, particularly around '38 and '39. you know, there's generally this rule of thumb, it's called godwin's law, that you shouldn't be invoking the nazis to make arguments in present day. is this a fair parallel to draw at this point in time? >> well, i think it is a fair parallel to draw. it has nothing to do with the nazis. it has to do with the reacti...

Disease in parts of africa. only one american died, and that's an american who brought it there. there is this fact we have to address. there's a racism here. in all of the incidences we have, ebola even more, the jews in germany 80 years ago, the japanese americans, the syrians today, it's an otherness. it is apparently a view on the part of many americans not that we need to worry more about american lives and the lives of others. that's a natural factor. the chilling thing about this equation is these are people who say any one american life is infinitely more valuable than thousands, tens ...