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Muslims is really inappropriate. i do think republicans, including newt gingrich, have to be careful when they spoke to the world about us, about -- by that, i mean our political debate. what i found striking about the president's comments on friday night was he knew that this was going to be unpopular. the polls showing two-thirds of americans disagreed with the essence of what he was about to say were already out. if you look carefully at the friday night statement, he said we have to be sensitive to the feelings of people in lower manhattan. this is hallowed ground. even though, this is ame...

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Be changing him. joining me now for more, tim o'brien and author of "trump nation" and a former defendant in a lawsuit with donald trump over that reporting. christina greer, associate professor of fordham university and james peterson, director of studies at lehigh university and host of remix podcast. christina, it's not often we get that friday night statement that at least reflects the awareness of a problem with suggesting you can't question a general. but does not as i point out deal with it. >> well, in this particular case, we have now seen general kelly dragged down to the level of do...

Dinner friday night, a ramadan dinner, thissi iftar dinner and they didn't take on this issue they felt that would be inappropriate, it runs counter to everything the president believes about himself in the sense that when there are tough issues he feels we take them on, we talk about them, put them out in the forefront. i think where this really became a problem for them is being torn apart so viciously by jon stewart, which is this notion of then backtracking the next day. again, i think the white house would try to argue that there's nothing inconsistent between the friday night statement a...