Donald Trump: “I want surveillance of certain mosques”

Hooper said. “The political climate is getting so toxic and Islam-aphobia is getting so acceptable and mainstream, I don’t know where we’re headed as a nation”.

“If we have an enemy of state, I don’t want to give him anything”, Trump said.

Trump said he had trouble hearing the NBC reporter’s questions. “I definitely want a database and other checks and balances”.

Since the November 13 attacks in Paris by Islamic extremists, which killed 130 people, the national mood has turned against admitting refugees from Syria, where the Islamic State has taken control of certain areas, a poll by Bloomberg Politics showed last week.

Fulop said that Trump, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, either has a faulty memory or is lying. Bush called them “just wrong”. “Now if a few idiot that’s running for office that never did anything said that, they wouldn’t have any fear”. Thats not strength, thats weakness.

Mr Trump was asked by an NBC News reporter about the prospect of a database and whether Muslims would be required to be registered.

“We have to be very, very vigilant”, he said.

“I’m a big fan of Donald Trump’s but I’m not a fan of government registries of American citizens”, he told reporters while campaigning in Iowa. The answer is of course not. “I have to be treated fairly”.

Retired neurosurgeon Carson compared blocking terrorists posing as refugees from entering the U.S. to handling a rabid dog.

When [elites] sit around and have a wine after work and a few brie and they talk about the situation and geopolitics and whats going on in the Mideast theyre talking about the Sunnis and the Shia and Alexander the Great and what font the f**king French shouldve used to draw the maps after World War I, he said.

He said, however, it would be acceptable to shut down mosques where “a lot of activity going on that is radicalizing people”.

Other Republican candidates opted not to weigh in on the remarks from Trump, who earlier in the week called for shutting down American mosques frequented by radicals.

Remember, after reading all this, that Trump is still leading in the Republican polls.

Civil liberties experts said a database for Muslims would be unconstitutional on several counts.

There should be a lot of systems.

Clinton responded on Twitter, writing: This is shocking rhetoric.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Trump’s words were “outrageous and bigoted”.

But since the Paris attacks, many GOP presidential hopefuls have contributed to the anti-refugee fervor, like John Kasich Saturday in New Hampshire.

Many Democratic insiders have said they would prefer the Republicans nominate Trump or Carson, considering them easier to beat in the general election, still a year away.

California donor Jeff Le Sage pledged money to the group on Friday, but declined to say how much he was giving.