LATE FRIDAY NIGHT, PRESIDENT TRUMP DOES ANOTHER
EXECUTIVE ORDERÖ FOR A SECOND THAT CONSERVATIVES HATED
EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
CREDIT TO JUSTIN A MORE SHE WAS A TEA PARTY REPUBLICAN WHO
ACTUALLY DID PROTEST CHUMS EXECUTIVE ORDER AS HE DID
UNDER OBAMA.
VERY FEW PRINCIPAL PEOPLE LEFT.
MOST OTHER REPUBLICANS CELEBRATE THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS OF
DONALD TRUMP WHEREAS THEY CLAIMED THEY WERE WILDLY
UNCONSTITUTIONAL UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA.
THE REALITY OF THE MATTER IS THAT TRUMP CAN DO SOME
EXECUTIVE ORDERS AROUND IMMIGRATION.
THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS IN THE ORDER, WHAT IS HE DOING IT
BASED ON AND THEN HOW DO THE COURTS RULE ON IT AND WHAT
IS HE DOING THE COURT SAY NO?
IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, HE CONTINUED TO DO EXACTLY
WHAT HE WAS PLANNING TO DO EVEN THOUGH THREE DIFFERENT
FEDERAL COURTS HAVE TOLD HIM THAT THIS BAND AS IT
PERTAINS TO THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED SHOULD BE
STOPPED AND THEY SHOULD BE RELEASED.
THE GUY WHO RAN AS A RULE OF LAW CANADA APPARENTLY DOES NOT
CARE ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW AT ALL.
1ST LET'S TELL YOU WAS IN THE EXECUTIVE ORDER AND THEN
LET'S SHOW YOU THE REACTION ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO THAT
EXECUTIVE ORDER AND THEN GIVE YOU THE FACTS SURROUNDING
WITH THE REALITY IS.
HERE'S WHAT IT DOES.
IT BANS ENTRY TO THE U.S. FOR PEOPLE
BORN IN SEVEN MAJORITY MUSLIM COUNTRIES SYRIA, IRAQ,
IRAN, LIBYA, SAMARIA, SUDAN AND YEMEN INCLUDING HOLDERS OF
LEGAL GREEN CARDS AND VISA FOR 90
DAYS.
IT SUSPENDS THE SYRIAN REFUGEE PLAN INDEFINITELY.
IT SUSPENDS THE ENTIRE REFUGEE PLAN FOR 120
DAYS AND DENIES ENTRY TO THE U.S. FOR DUAL NATIONALITY PASSPORT
HOLDERS, MEANING CITIZENS OF THE ABOVE COUNTRIES WHO ALSO HOLD,
FOR EXAMPLE, A BRITISH PASSPORT, ARE ALSO BANNED FOR 90 DAYS.
LET'S PAUSE THERE.
THE BRITISH COMPLAINED SO LOUDLY ABOUT THAT.
THAT IS ONE OF THE FEW THINGS THEY ROLLED BACK, BUT IT IS
TRUE.
IT DON'T KNOW IF THEY ROLLED IT BACK FOR FRANCE
OR OTHER ALLIES, BUT CERTAINLY THE BEGINNING FOR ALL OF
THEM, IT DIDN'T MATTER IF YOU WERE A BRITISH CITIZEN, YOU
ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE IF YOU ARE ALSO A CITIZEN OF ONE OF
THOSE OTHER SEVEN COUNTRIES AND THEIR MANY DUAL CITIZENS
NOT ONLY IN BRITAIN BUT ALL ACROSS EUROPE.
I KNOW IT IS BEEN ROLLED BACK FOR BREAD AND I'M NOT SURE
IF IT HAS BEEN FOR THE OTHER STUFF YOU ARE FRENCH,
TYING, GERMAN, IT MIGHT NOT MATTER AT ALL.
YOU MIGHT ALSO BE BLOCKED ON BY THE WAY, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE
THE BACK, THEY ONLY ROLLED BACK IF YOU ARE COMING FROM BRITAIN
DIVE YOU ARE A BRITISH CITIZEN AND YOU'VE DUAL CITIZENSHIP AND
YOU ARE TRYING TO COME IN FROM A RACK OR SYRIA, FOR WHATEVER
REASON, MAYBE YOU WERE A JOURNALIST THERE MAYBE YOU ARE
PART OF OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES WHEN I SAY I AM IN
OVERALL OUR ALLIES.
BRITISH INTELLIGENCE.
SORRY, IF YOU ARE COMING FROM A RACK YOU ARE DUAL CITIZEN,
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO THE UNITED STATES AMERICA.
FROM THE SEVEN COUNTRYSIDE IS AMAZING.
THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IN TERMS OF WHY THIS IS SO PARTICULARLY
UN-AMERICAN IS IT ALSO PRIORITIZES CHRISTIAN REFUGEES
OVER MUSLIMS SO NOW THEY BACK PEDAL LITTLE BIT AND SAY IT
IS NOT A MUSLIM BAND BECAUSE I KNOW THAT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
THEY SAY WELL, IT IS NOT STRICTLY MUSLIMS, IT'S JUST
THOSE SEVEN COUNTRIES THAT WE DIDN'T BEEN THE OTHERS
ALTHOUGH WE'RE THINKING ABOUT IT.
HOW ABOUT YOU SAY THAT CHRISTIANS WILL GET PRIORITY.
THAT SEEMS LIKE PERHAPS IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH RELIGION.
THEY CAPPED THE REFUGEE TOTAL AT 50,000.
OBVIOUSLY JERK CONAN AND ONE MORE THING FROM THE FOR ANY
PUBLICATION THAT COVERS FOR CONTEXT.
OF ALL THE FATAL TERRA TEST CARRIED OUT WHISTLE SOIL SINCE
9/11, EXACTLY 0 HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY IMMIGRANTS
FROM THE SEVEN MAJORITY MUSLIM COUNTRIES TARGETED BY THE BAN.
IT IS ALMOST AS IF IT IS NOT REALLY ABOUT TERRORISM, IT IS
ABOUT FEAR MONGERING AND DEMAGOGUERY AND PROTECT
ATTACK YOU ONE PARTICULAR RIGID RELIGION.
ALMOST.
AGAIN AS THEY SAY TODAY, IS IT A MUSLIM BAND?
WE'RE NOT CALLING IT A MUSLIM BAND.
RUDY GIULIANI MESSED UP ON FOX NEWS BECAUSE HE COULDN'T
HELP BUT BRAG TO HIM HOW TRUMP CAME TO THEM.
HE SAID I WILL TELL YOU THE WHOLE HISTORY OF IT.
WHEN TRUMP FULLER STILL ANNOUNCED IT HE SAID MUSLIM
BAND, THAT IS GIULIANI TALKING.
HE CALLED ME UP, HE SAID, BUT A COMMISSION TOGETHER, SHOW
ME THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT LEGALLY.
THE WHOLE POINT IS, I WANT MUSLIMS BAND WHICH HE SAID MANY
TIMES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
THE FAMOUS PRESS CONFERENCE, TOTALING COMPLETE BAND AND
OBVIOUSLY, HE TRIED TO FIND A WAY TO TRY TO MAKE ILLEGAL.
HE DID NOT SUCCEED.
HE WENT ON TO DO ANYWAY.
ANYONE PRETENDING IT IS NOT A MUSLIM BAND IS BEING
ENORMOUSLY DISINGENUOUS.
WE GO TO DAVID CHANCELLOR, HE IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE
TRIANGLE CENTER.
THEY ANALYZE ATTACKS LIKE THIS AND HAD COMMENTS ON THIS
PARTICULAR BANNER AND HE SAID IT IS FLATLY UNTRUE THAT AMERICA
IS DEEPLY THREATENED BY VIOLENT EXTREMISM BY MUSLIM AMERICANS.
ATTACKS BY MUSLIMS ATTACKED ACCOUNTED FOR ONLY ONE THIRD OF
1% OF ALL MURDERS IN AMERICA LAST YEAR.
IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT VIOLENCE IN AMERICA, THERE ARE
PLENTY OF MURDERS.
PLENTY OF HOMICIDE BY GUN AMONG OTHER THINGS.
TERRORIST ATTACKS, SMALL PROPORTION BUT OF ALL OF THE
ATTACKS AND ALL OF THE MURDERS, TERRORIST ATTACKS COMMITTED
BY MUSLIMS IS ONE THIRD OF 1% OF ALL THE MURDERS IN AMERICA.
EMERGENCY.
BAN EVERYONE.
I HAVE SAID THIS MANY TIMES BEFORE.
THERE IS ONE DEMOGRAPHIC THAT IS ACTUALLY PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE MURDERS IN AMERICA AND IF
YOU ACTUALLY WANTED TO DO A LOGICAL PROFILING AND PICK
ONE PROFILE GROUP TO PROFILE OR BAN, IT WOULD BE YOUNG MALES.
THEY COMMIT UNDER NORMA'S PERCENTAGE, I DO WANT TO
GIVE YOU NUMBERS HERE WITHOUT HAVING THEM IN FRONT OF ME,
BUT WE HAVE DONE THE STORIES BEFORE.
A GIGANTIC PERCENTAGE OF THE MURDERS COMMITTED IN
AMERICA ARE COMMITTED BY YOUNG MALES.
CERTAINLY MALES OVERALL.
IF YOU CARED ABOUT KEEP REPEATING PEOPLE SAFE YOU
WOULD THEORETICALLY PROFILE THERE.
BY THE WAY, I WOULD BE 100% OPPOSED TO THAT, NOT JUST
BECAUSE I'M A MALE THOUGH NOT LONGER NO LONGER YOUNG I'M A
POSTER BECAUSE IT IS UN-AMERICAN DIVE YOU THINK THAT IS A GOOD
DOING IT THAT WE DON'T PROFILE A SON THAT AMERICA BECAUSE WE
DON'T WANT TO DISCRIMINATE TEACH EVERYONE DIFFERENTLY.
THE WHOLE POINT OF AMERICA IS THAT WE ARE ALL EQUAL.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT IT HAS ACTUALLY NO LOGICAL BASIS
FOR THESE BANDS.
ACCORDING TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE NEARLY
800,000 REFUGEES AND COME TO THE US SINCE 9/11,
FEWER THAN 20 HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ON TERRORIST CHARGES.
20 OUT OF 800,000.
THIS IS NOT SINCE 9/11, BUT I OFTEN GIVE THIS EXAMPLE.
THERE WAS A SYRIAN REFUGEE WHO CAME TO THE COUNTRY.
HE HAD A KID HERE AND THAT KID WOUND UP BEING STEVE JOBS.
WHEN YOU BAN PEOPLE YOU ALSO HAVE THE DOWNSIDE OF THOSE
BANDS WHICH IS THAT WE NO LONGER HAVE THE BEST AND THE
BRIGHTEST COMING HERE.
THE BEST TALENT AND THEN WE DON'T HAVE THE GREAT
COMPANIES, DON'T HAVE A GREAT ECONOMY ETC.
THERE IS A DOWNSIDE TO THESE ACTIONS.
IN FACT, MOST AMERICANS REALIZE THAT.
THAT IS WHY THERE WERE PROTESTS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU A SMALL SAMPLE OF THOSE DOLLARS 30
MEXICO 1ST.
THESE ARE ALL LARGELY AT THE AIRPORTS TO GO DEFEND THE
PEOPLE COMING IN.
THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED.
NOW LET'S GO TO LOS ANGELES.
LET THEM IN.
GIANT PROTEST AT LAX.
TRY TO GIVE CREDIT TO THE PEOPLE WHO SHOT THOSE BY PUTTING
THEIR TWITTER HANDLES AND THERE.
LET'S GO TO MORE LAX PROTESTS.
HEY, HELLO.
ISLAMAPHOBIA HAS GOT TO GO.
NOW LET'S GO TO MIAMI.
THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED.
PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED.
ST.
LOUIS.
WHAT'S GOING ON UP HERE?
LAW ENFORCEMENT VERY PEACEFUL.
FINALLY, ARIZONA.
LOVE NOT HATE MAKES AMERICA GREAT.
THOSE ARE REAL AMERICANS.
THEY UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF THE COUNTRY, THAT'S WHY WHEN IT
IS UNDER ATTACK, AND THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.
THE IDEA OF AMERICA IS UNDER ATTACK.
THEY RESPOND.
I ASKED AFTER THE ELECTION FOR PEOPLE TO SAY NOT ON OUR
WATCH NOT IN A BLANKET SENSE.
NOT AGAINST TRUMP BEFORE HE TAKES ACTION AND THE REASON
I SAID THAT IS OKAY, LET'S ACTUALLY GIVE THE GUY A CHANCE.
HE WON THE ELECTION.
YOU DON'T GET TO WIN EVERY ELECTION.
IT IS NOT ABOUT
BEING A LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN BUT
THEN HE STARTED TO APPOINT HIS NOMINEES TO THE CABINET AND
YOU SAW WHAT HAPPENED THERE.
AND THEN HE TAKES OFFICE AND IN A WHIRLWIND SEVEN DAYS HE
ATTACKS THE CORE IDEAS OF AMERICA.
THAT IS WHEN YOU SAY NOT ON OUR WATCH.
YOU SEE ALL OF THIS PROCESS, AND BY THE WAY WE JUST GAVE YOU
A SMALL SAMPLING.
THERE WAS JFK, O'HARE, GIANT ONE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SHOWING UP TO PROTEST.
WHAT TO SAY ABOUT ALL THIS?
IT IS NOT A MUSLIM BAN.
BUT WE ARE SEEING IT AT THE AIRPORT,
YOU SEE IT ALL OVER.
IT IS WORKING OUT VERY NICELY AND
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A VERY VERY STRICT BAN AND WE'RE GOING
TO HAVE EXTREME VETTING WHICH WE SHOULD'VE HAD IN THIS
COUNTRY FOR MANY YEARS.
ITíS WORKING OUT VERY NICELY?
THEY WERE MY HAVE DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF THAT PHRASE BUT
MAYBE THEY THINK IT IS WORKING A GREAT.
THEY WANTED DEMAGOGUERY AND THAT'S WHAT THEY GOT.
THEY WANTED ATTENTION ON THE HATE FILLED RHETORIC, WELL,
THEY GOT ATTENTION.
OF COURSE HAS REAL IMPLICATIONS SO THEY
ASKED SEAN SPICER ABOUT IT, IN A PARTICULAR ABOUT A
FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO WAS DETAINED.
LET'S FIRST LOOK AT HIS CALLOUS RESPONSE.
LOOK AT HOW IT WORKED WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE 325,000
PEOPLE, 109 WERE TEMPORARY INCONVENIENCED FOR
THE SAFETY OF US ALL.
THERE WAS A FIVE-YEAR-OLD FROM IRAN.
THEY WERE PROCESSED.
THAT IS THE PROCESS.
THE POINT IS THAT YOU CAN GO THROUGH A NITPICK BUT THAT
IS WHY WE SLOW DOWN A LITTLE AND MAKE SURE IF THEY ARE
FIVE-YEAR-OLD THEN MAYBE THERE WITH THEIR PARENTS AND THEY
DON'T POSE A THREAT BUT TO ASSUME THAT JUST BECAUSE
SOMEONE'S AGE OR GENDER OR WHATEVER THAT THEY DON'T
POSE A THREAT WOULD BE MISGUIDED AND WRONG.
THAT IS INTERESTING.
IF ONLY WE HAD VIDEO OF THE FIVE-YEAR-OLD THEN YOU COULD
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF WHETHER HE POSES A THREAT.
YOU CAN ASSUME A FIVE-YEAR-OLD, HE IS FROM IRAN.
YOU CAN ASSUME THAT HE DOESN'T POSE A THREAT THAT IT TURNS OUT
AFTER BEING DETAINED, THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS
FIVE-YEAR-OLD WAS RELEASED TO HIS MOM THAT WE HAVE THAT
ON LOCAL NEWS OUTLETS WATCHDOG
THIS IRANIAN MOTHER'S FIVE-YEAR-OLD SON, YOU SEE
ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE, SHE ANXIOUSLY AWAITING HIS
ARRIVAL AND WASHINGTON'S DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
SATURDAY NIGHT ONLY TO LEARN THAT HE WAS ONE OF THE
TRAVELERS DETAINED THOUGHT THERE YOU SEE THE REUNION AFTER
HOURS SPENT WITH ANSWERS.
SHE FINALLY GOT TO HOLD ONTO HER SON IN HER ARMS.
HERE'S PART OF THE EMOTIONAL MOMENT WHEN THEY REUNITED.
SO THAT IS WHAT WE ARE PROTECTING THE COUNTRY FROM.
OBVIOUSLY CNN COVERING THAT.
ONE OF THE OTHER PEOPLE BANNED IN
FACT ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE WHO WAS DETAINED AND RELEASED WAS A
GUY WHO HAPPENED TO WORK FOR US FOR 10
YEARS IN IRAQ, ENDANGERING HIS LIFE.
HERE'S A
TWEET OF HIM BEING GREETED AT THE AIRPORT WHEN HE WAS
FINALLY RELEASED.
HE IS NOTHING BUT GREAT THINGS TO SAY ABOUT AMERICA.
THEY WERE CHECKING TO SEE IF YOU WERE REAL AMERICAN, THERE WERE
CHECKING TO SEE IF YOU WERE A MUSLIMS FROM ONE OF THE SEVEN
COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOW BEEN PUT ON THE BANNED LIST SO THE FACT
THAT HE RESTED HIS LIFE FOR US WAS IMMATERIAL AND HE WAS
QUESTIONED BECAUSE OF HIS NATIONALITY ORIGINALLY IN
HIS RELIGION COURSE.
IF HE WAS A CHRISTIAN, HE WOULD GET PRIORITIES.
THIS IS NOT WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT THAT AND FINALLY, I WANT
TO LEAVE YOU WITH A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE IN ALL THIS PROCESS ARE
ENORMOUSLY HOPEFUL BUT ON THAT WEEKEND WHEN ALL OF THIS STARTED
BREAKING DOWN, WE ALSO GOT THIS NOTE AND HUFFINGTON POST
ARE LASER.
TONIGHT, THAT AFTER THEY AND DIVERSITY OF HOLOCAUST
MEMBERS STAY, HUNDREDS OF NEW YORKERS WILL JOIN JEWISH
COMMUNITY LEADERS, CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
ORGANIZATIONS, IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND LOCAL
ELECTED OFFICIALS TO CONDEMN PRESIDENT TRUMPS EXECUTIVE
ORDER SUSPENDING THE UNITED STATES REFUGEE PROGRAM AND
THE ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF NATIONALS FROM SEVEN
MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRIES INTO A FIRM SOLIDARITY WITH REFUGEES
AND IMMIGRANTS TO SEE IF SAFETY AND OPPORTUNITY IN THIS COUNTRY.
SO YES, WITH TRUMP WE HAVE SEEN THE WORST OF AMERICA BUT IN
REACTION TO CHARM, WE HAVE SEEN THE BEST OF AMERICA.
SO WHETHER IT IS THE NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONS OR
OTHER RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE BANDING TOGETHER
AND SAYING NOT ON OUR WATCH.
OR SIMPLY, AVERAGE AMERICANS GOING OUT TO DO THE MOST
AMERICAN THING YOU CAN DO: PROTEST.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO COMMIT ACTS THAT ARE UN-AMERICAN AT THE
AIRPORT, WE WILL SEE YOU AT THE AIRPORT.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO IN THE STREETS, WE WILL SEE WHEN
THE STREETS DIVE YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT IN GOVERNMENT
BUILDINGS, WE WILL SEE YOU IN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.
THIS IS THE RESISTANCE AS IT SHOULD BE.
THE MOST AMERICAN THING YOU CAN DO.
YOU NEED TO DO IT OFTEN BECAUSE APPARENTLY THIS GUY IS
GOING TO FLOUT THE LAWS IN OUR TRADITIONS AND OUR
CONSTITUTION OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
3 DIFFERENT COURTS TOLD HIM THAT HE MUST RELEASE THE PEOPLE
WHO WERE DETAINED AT THE AIRPORTS.
HE REFUSED TO DO IT.
HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION OR THE RULE OF LAW.
WE HAVE TO MAKE HIM CARE.
AND IT BEGINS WITH PROTESTS.
I AM BOTH DEEPLY DISCOURAGED BY HIS ACTIONS AND DEEPLY
ENCOURAGED BY YOUR REACTION.
LET'S KEEP IT GOING.