FOLLOWING DONALD TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER BANNING
IMMIGRATION AND TRAVEL IN SEVEN MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRIES, THERE
HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF DEMOCRATS COMING OUT AND PROTESTING.
IN
FACT THERE WAS A RALLY RECENTLY IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT
WHERE BIG-NAME LAWMAKERS INCLUDING BERNIE SANDERS AND
SENATOR WARREN DECIDED TO GIVE SPEECHES.
WE HAVE ONE OF THE
SPEECHES, HERE IS BERNIE SANDERS TALKING ABOUT THE TRAVEL
BAN AND HIS FEELINGS ABOUT IT.
TAKE A LOOK --
>>I WANT TO MAKE A FEW QUICK COMMENTS BEFORE YOU JUMP IN.
FIRST OF ALL, THE PART OF THAT SPEECH WHERE BERNIE SANDERS
TALKS ABOUT HOW THIS ACTUALLY HELPS JIHADISTS AND HELPS THEM
RECRUIT, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PROGRESSIVE TALKING POINT, BUT
YOU ACTUALLY HAVE GOP LAWMAKERS, INDIVIDUALS LIKE SENATOR JOHN
MCCAIN, SAYING YEAH, DISENFRANCHISING, BANNING
MUSLIMS FROM COMING INTO THE COUNTRY, DOES HELP RECRUIT
MODERATE MUSLIMS INTO ORGANIZATIONS LIKE ISIS.
SO WE
ARE TALKING ABOUT GOP LAWMAKERS WHO REALIZE, HEY, MAYBE
DEMONIZING ALL MUSLIMS AND MAKING THEM SEEM LIKE THAT
PEOPLE DOESN'T ACTUALLY WORK IN OUR BEST INTERESTS, ESPECIALLY
IF WE WANT MODERATE MUSLIMS TO HELP US, JOIN US IN THE FIGHT TO
TACKLE TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS LIKE ISIS.
I LOVE THAT HE SAID
THAT, BUT UNDERSTAND THAT IS NOT A PROGRESSIVE TALKING POINT,
THAT'S SOMETHING I'M HEARING FROM REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS AS
WELL.
SECONDLY I WANT TO NOTE THAT HE'S STANDING THERE NEXT TO
NANCY PELOSI, AND I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT IT WAS ME THE WRONG WAY.
BECAUSE FOR SOMEONE LIKE NANCY PELOSI I SEE THIS AS AN
OPPORTUNISTIC MOMENT -- I'M GOING TO SPEAK OUT AND GO TO
THIS RALLY IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT.
YEAH, YOU ARE A
REAL STRONG, PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT, ESPECIALLY IN KEEPING
BARACK OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS ACTIONS.
BERNIE SANDERS IS AN
ACTUAL PROGRESSIVE, HE DOESN'T EXPLOIT THESE SITUATIONS FOR
POLITICAL GAIN, HE'S BEEN SPEAKING OUT ON THESE ISSUES FOR
A LONG TIME NOW AND HE'S ONE OF THE MORE SINCERE POLITICIANS OUT
THERE.
AND SEEING HIM STAND NEXT TO NANCY PELOSI, IT'S LIKE
SEEING HIM STANDING NEXT TO HIS ANTITHESIS.
BUT BERNIE SANDERS
IS HONESTLY THE ONLY HOPE I HAVE, AND SEEING SPEECHES LIKE
THAT MAKES ME REALIZE WHAT WE COULD HAVE HAD, AND WHAT WE
MISSED OUT ON.
>>RIGHT-WINGERS SAY WHEN RADICAL ISLAMIC JIHADISTS SAY SOMETHING
YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THEM AND BELIEVE THEM, THEY'RE TELLING
YOU WHAT THEIR INTENTION IS, THEY WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD
AND DESTROY THIS AND THAT, ETC.
FAIR ENOUGH.
YOU KNOW WHAT ISIS
SAID AFTER THE ELECTION?
THANK ALLAH FOR TRUMP, WE COULDN'T ASK
FOR A BETTER GIFT.
AND RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION TRUMP DOES
WHAT THEY ARE HOPING FOR, A MUSLIM BAN, SO ISIS CAN TURN
AROUND AND SAY WE TOLD YOU, THE EVIL AMERICANS HATE ALL MUSLIMS.
NOT JUST US BECAUSE WE ARE DOING BOMBINGS AND BEHEADINGS, THEY
HATE ALL MUSLIMS.
SO ALL MUSLIMS, COME JOIN US.
THAT
ARGUMENT IS NOT TRUE BUT IT'S NOT HELPING THAT THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES IS CONFIRMING IT.
NOW
DISINGENUOUSLY, TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS, I THOUGHT YOU WERE
ALL TOUGH GUYS?
NOW THEY ARE PRETENDING IT'S NOT A MUSLIM
BAN.
SO LET'S GO BACK AND HAVE DONALD TRUMP EXPLAIN WHAT IT IS.
>>DONALD J. TRUMP IS CALLING FOR A TOTAL AND COMPLETE
SHUTDOWN OF MUSLIMS ENTERING THE UNITED STATES UNTIL OUR
COUNTRY'S REPRESENTATIVES CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS
GOING ON.
>>DO YOU STILL BELIEVE THAT MUSLIMS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM
ENTERING THE COUNTRY UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON?
>>WE HAVE TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON.
I DON'T CARE IF
IT HURTS ME, I'M DOING THE RIGHT THING WHEN I DO THIS AND WHETHER
IT IS MUSLIM OR WHETHER IT IS SOMETHING ELSE, I HAVE TO
DO THE RIGHT THING.
>>DO YOU STAND BY THE IDEA OF A BAN AGAINST FOREIGN MUSLIMS
COMING IN?
>>I DO, WE HAVE TO BE VIGILANT AND STRONG.
>>GEE, I WONDER IF IT'S A MUSLIM BAN OR NOT, WHEN HE SAID IT'S A
COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF MUSLIMS ENTERING THE COUNTRY?
THAT'S WHAT HE PROMISED ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, AND RUDY
GIULIANI RECENTLY SAID HE CAME TO ME AND SAID HOW DO WE MAKE
THIS MUSLIM BAN LEGAL?
THAT'S OBVIOUSLY WHAT THEY'VE DONE.
AND
HE ADMITTED TO THE CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK AFTER HE
WAS PRESIDENT, WE ARE GOING TO PRIORITIZE CHRISTIANS.
SO OF
COURSE IT'S BASED ON RELIGION.
AND TO YOUR POINT, ANA, BUT
BERNIE SANDERS, TWO THINGS -- ONE, I LOVE SEEING HIM EMPOWERED
LIKE THIS.
NOW EVERYONE KNOWS WHO'S THE BOSS.
DON'T PRETEND
YOU SPEAK FOR DEMOCRATIC VOTERS -- THEY ARE LIKE, BERNIE, CAN I
COME OUT THERE WITH YOU?
I RIDE YOUR COATTAILS?
I DON'T SEE THEM
DOING THAT WITH KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND OR CORY BOOKER OR ANY
OF THOSE CORPORATE DEMOCRATS.
ON THE OTHER HAND THEY WERE WRITING
THOSE COATTAILS WHEN THEY FOUGHT TO AND MAILED TO DEFEAT HIM IN
THE PRIMARIES, IT'S MADDENING.
>>IT IS.
AND ONE OTHER THING I WANTED TO NOTE ABOUT BERNIE
SANDERS THAT'S IMPORTANT -- MAYBE SOME PEOPLE HEAR WHAT I
HAVE TO SAY ABOUT HIM AND THINK HOW DO YOU KNOW HE'S SINCERE?
FIRST OF ALL, WE EXPERIENCED THE SINCERITY THROUGHOUT HIS
CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN THE LAST ELECTION, BUT MET TAIBBI WRITES
ABOUT HIM QUITE A BIT IN HIS LAST BOOK, INSANE CLOWN
PRESIDENT, WHICH IS A GREAT BOOK, BUT HE TALKS ABOUT HOW A
LOT OF THE TV NETWORKS DIDN'T WANT TO FEATURE NEWS CONTENT
PERTAINING TO BERNIE SANDERS BECAUSE HE COMES OFF AS THIS
GRUMPY OLD MAN.
HE'S GRUMPY ALL THE TIME.
AND MATT TAIBBI MADE
THIS GREAT POINT, HE'S GRUMPY BECAUSE HIS MIND HAS TO DEAL
WITH ALL THE STUFF AMERICAN PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT ALL THE TIME,
INCOME INEQUALITY, THE FACT THAT EDUCATION IS BECOMING
UNATTAINABLE FOR POOR PEOPLE -- YEAH, HE'S GRUMPY BECAUSE HE
CARES.
HE DOESN'T GO TO THESE RALLIES WITH A SMILE ON HIS FACE
BECAUSE HE'S TRYING TO GET BROWNIE POINTS WITH SOME
DEMOCRATS, HE'S GOING BECAUSE HE GENUINELY CARES.
HAIR MESSY,
SUIT ALL OVER THE PLACE, DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THAT, JUST WANTS TO
REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
AND THERE IS SOMETHING ADMIRABLE ABOUT THAT.
>>LAST TWO THINGS ABOUT BERNIE IN THIS REGARD, AND HIS
PRINCIPLES.
BACK WHEN I WAS ON MSNBC, WHENEVER WE NEEDED A
DEMOCRAT TO FIGHT FOR PROGRESSIVE IDEAS BERNIE WOULD
COME OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, I REMEMBER ONE TIME IT
WAS A FREEZING PARKING LOT IN VERMONT, FREEZING HIS ASS OFF,
YEAH, I'LL FIGHT.
AND BACK THEN NO ONE THOUGHT HE WOULD RUN FOR
PRESIDENT, IT WAS UNTHINKABLE.
HE WAS PROBABLY THE LEAST
POWERFUL SENATOR THERE WAS, BUT HE WAS LIKE IF YOU NEED A
FIGHTER, I'LL SHOW UP AND BE YOUR CHAMPION. 40 YEARS OF DOING
THE RIGHT THING GETS YOU A LOT OF CREDIBILITY.
AND FINALLY ON
THIS ISSUE IS PROBABLY THE GREATEST DEFENDER OF MUSLIMS IN
THE COUNTRY.
THIS IS WHAT I LOVE ABOUT AMERICA, THIS IS THE BEST
OF AMERICA, WHEN YOU HAVE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL JEWISH
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, WHO IS ALSO
THE BIGGEST DEFENDER OF MUSLIM AMERICANS AND MUSLIMS ACROSS THE
WORLD, BY THE WAY.
DURING THOSE PRIMARY DEBATES IN NEW YORK WHEN
EVERYONE ELSE WOULD HAVE PANDERED, HE CAME OUT AND SAID
WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT NOT JUST THE MORAL PLIGHT OF THE
PALESTINIANS AND WHAT WE ARE DOING IN MORALLY THROUGH
OCCUPATION AND SUPPORTING IT, ETC., BUT ALSO THEIR ECONOMIC
PLIGHT.
TREATING PALESTINIANS LIKE HUMAN BEINGS AND TALKING
ABOUT THEIR ECONOMY AND THE BASIC DECENCY WE SHOULD TREAT
THEM WITH, NO ONE IN AMERICAN POLITICS TALKS LIKE THAT, AND HE
DID IT DESPITE THE FACT THAT MAYBE BY NOT PANDERING HE COST
HIMSELF SOME VOTES IN A CRITICAL, CRITICAL PRIMARY STATE
OF NEW YORK.
IF YOU REMEMBER THE PRIMARIES, THAT WAS PROBABLY THE
MOST IMPORTANT STATE IN THE PROCESS BECAUSE IT WAS MAKE OR
BREAK FOR HIM AT THAT POINT.
HE HAS PRINCIPLES YOU CAN'T BREAK,
THAT'S WHY WE TRUST HIM, THAT'S WHY WHEN YOU FIGHT BACK AGAINST
TRUMP HE HAS TO BE AT THE HEAD OF THE RALLY.
>>WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO SLIP HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE INTO
WHATEVER HE'S EATING SO HE CAN REMAIN AS HEALTHY AS POSSIBLE SO
HE CAN RUN AGAIN.
WE NEED TO ELECT THIS GUY.
>>HGH, LET'S LOOK INTO IT.
IT WORKED FOR PEYTON MANNING AND
JAMES HARRISON, WHY NOT BERNIE SANDERS?
>>EXACTLY.