LAST NIGHT, NIKKI HALEY GAVE THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE TO THE
STATE OF THE UNION.
FOR SOME REASON SHE HAD GLUED HER TEETH TOGETHER.
SHE DARED TO SAY THAT NOT ALL
IMMIGRANTS ARE EVIL AND
THAT PERHAPS SOME PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE TAKING AN ANGRY
STANCE THAT IS NOT PRODUCTIVE.
COULTER TWEETS OUT:
NIKKI HALEY SAID OF COURSE WE SHOULD VET IMMIGRANTS
THOROUGHLY.
WE HAVE THE LONGEST VETTING PROCESS IN THE WORLD.
IT TAKES 18
MONTHS TO CLEAR PEOPLE BEFORE THEY ARE ALLOWED IN THE COUNTRY.
BUT NIKKI HALEY SAID WE SHOULD DO IT LONGER, BUT IT WASN'T
GOOD ENOUGH FOR ANN COULTER.
SHE WENT ON TO GIVE MANY EXAMPLES OF MUSLIMS WE
SHOULD'VE KEPT OUT OF THE COUNTRY AND SHE WANTS, LIKE
DONALD TRUMP, A BLANKET BAN ON ONE RELIGION, ISLAM.
DISCREDITING BASED ON RELIGION LIKE THAT GOES AT THE VERY
CORE OF AMERICAN VALUES.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT, WE DO NOT DISCRIMINATE BASED ON
RELIGION IS AS AMERICAN A PRINCIPLE AS IT GETS.
BUT THESE UN-AMERICAN PEOPLE LIKE DONALD TRUMP AND ANN
COULTER ARE NOT PATRIOTIC, THEY BELIEVE IN A COUNTRY THAT
IS RUN LIKE A THEOCRACY LIKE SAUDI ARABIA OR IRAN.
LIKE THEM THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO DISCRIMINATE BASED ON
RELIGION.
IN THEIR CASE THEY HATE THE MUSLIMS AND THEY WANT TO
KEEP THEM OUT.
COULTER GOES ON TO SAY ñ
NIKKI HALEY IF YOU DON'T KNOW IS SOUTH ASIAN.
SHE WAS BORN HERE, SHE'S A REPUBLICAN, BUT THEN THEY
CAME FOR HER.
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE MEXICANS, THEN THEY CAME
FOR THE MUSLIMS, THEN THEY CAME FOR ALL AMERICANS.
THEY DIDN'T ASK IF YOU ARE A REPUBLICAN.
YOU ARE AN IMMIGRANT, WELL, MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE DEPORTED.
BY THE WAY, THE WORDS POLITICALLY CORRECT ORIGINALLY
COME FROM TWO REGIMES, THE NAZI REGIME AND THE SOVIET UNION.
IT WAS PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT WOULD
BE REMOVED.
SO HERE IS AN COULTER SAYING YOU ARE NOT BEING POLITICALLY
CORRECT IN YOUR VIEWS SO I AM GOING TO DISQUALIFY YOU AS
A REPUBLICAN, AS AN AMERICAN, AND YOU SHOULD BE DEPORTED.
WHO WAS BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT HERE NOW?
NOW THEY WILL ASK HER ABOUT TRUMP.
I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR HERE THAT WHEN YOU WERE TALKING
ABOUT THOSE LOUDEST VOICES, THOSE ANGRY VOICES, IN THAT
CONTEXT YOU ARE REFERRING TO DONALD TRUMP, CORRECT?
HE WAS ONE OF THEM, YES.
THERE IS OTHER PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA.
I THINK WE ARE SEEING THIS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
YES, MISTER TRUMP HAS CONTRIBUTED TO WHAT I THINK
IS IRRESPONSIBLE TALK.
GREAT.
DO YOU THINK DONALD TRUMP WILL RESPOND?
OF COURSE.
HOW DID HE RESPOND TO THAT?
WELL, IN A COUPLE OF WAYS, NUMBER ONE SHE IS WEAK ON
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND I HAVE KNOWN THAT FOR A LONG TIME.
AND SHE CERTAINLY HAS NO TROUBLE ASKING ME FOR CAMPAIGN
CONTRIBUTIONS THAT OVER THE YEARS SHE HAS ASKED ME FOR
A HELL OF A LOT OF MONEY SO IT IS INTERESTING TO HEAR.
PERHAPS IF I WEREN'T RUNNING SHE WOULD BE IN MY OFFICE
ASKING ME FOR MONEY, BUT NOW THAT I AM RUNNING SHE WANTS
TO PICK A WEEK ON IMMIGRATION.
I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, SHE
DOESN'T.
SURPRISING TRUMP WENT THAT WAY, RIGHT?
NOW NIKKI HALEY'S GOING TO
RESPOND.
DONALD TRUMP WAS NOT THE ONLY PERSON I TALKED ABOUT.
I KNOW PEOPLE WANT TO SAY THAT'S WHAT IT WAS.
HE WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
THE POINT IS WHEN YOU GET LOUD, WHEN YOU GET ANGRY, THE
WORK STOPS, THINGS STOP MOVING.
TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE LOWER THE VOLUME, LISTEN TO WHAT
PEOPLE ARE SAYING.
IF YOU LISTEN YOU WILL REALIZE A LOT OF TIMES THERE IS A
PLACE TO GET THERE.
IT DOESN'T MEAN WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR PHILOSOPHICAL
BELIEFS, BUT IT MATTERS.
ALSO BE RESPONSIBLE WITH YOUR WORDS.
WHAT IS IT THAT DONALD TRUMP IS SAYING THAT MAKES THEM
ONE OF THESE ANGRIEST VOICES?
THE ONE THAT GOT ME WAS WHEN HE SAID BAN ON MUSLIMS.
I WILL SAY TONE, MESSAGE, AND RESPONSIBILITY MATTERS.
I THINK WE NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE IN A MESSAGE IF
WE TRULY WANT TO GET ANYTHING DONE.
I CONSIDERED MISTER TRUMP A FRIEND.
JUST BECAUSE YOU DISAGREE WITH SOMEONE DOESN'T MEAN YOU
ARE NOT A FRIEND.
YOU SHOULD NOT TAKE THESE THINGS PERSONALLY.
WHEN I SAY IT ABOUT MY OTHER FRIENDS THAT ARE RUNNING
THEY DON'T THROW STONES.
WHAT I SAY TO MISTER TRUMP IS DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE LEARNED THAT I AM PASSING ALONG.
TAKE IT IF YOU WANT, DON'T TAKE IT IF YOU DON'T.
THAT IS A TINY BIT OF A BACKPEDAL, BUT OVERALL I
WILL TAKE IT.
OVERALL, YOU GET A SENSE OF WHICH WAY THE TRUMP SIDE
OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
IS GOING.
NIKKI HALEY IS REPRESENTING IF THERE ARE BETTER ANGELS OF
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THAT SIDE.
RIGHT NOW SHE IS LOSING THE BATTLE.
KEEP IT REAL.