Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul stated, “we think if they give us the same treatment that Carly Fiorina was given last time, that you measure from debate to debate, that we actually do meet the criteria already”
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that attorneys at the White House and Department of Justice have been determining “what kinds of authorities the president does have to pass executive actions” on gun control and hopefully this determination “something
Random House Executive Editor and Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham compared President Obama’s handling of ISIS to Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech because “you have people who are incredibly concerned and they don’t feel the president is fully invested in their
Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Muslim travel plan is “dangerous” and “plays right into the hands of the terrorists” on Thursday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”
ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross stated ISIS “may have infiltrated followers into this country with authentic-looking passports it has printed itself” in a report broadcast on Thursday’s “World News Tonight.” Ross said, “American authorities are warning the terror
Columnist Charles Krauthammer panned President Obama’s ISIS approach as “disengaged or delusional,” and characterized his plan as “essentially nothing” on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report.” Krauthammer said, [relevant remarks begin around 3:20] “we are at war with
Breanna Champion, the Chicago Co-Chair of the Black Youth Project 100 and an organizer of Wednesday’s protest at Chicago’s police headquarters stated, “One of our major demands is that police be defunded” on Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”
On Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom,” comedian W. Kamau Bell argued white people needed to “handle Donald Trump.” He further described Trump as “the pinnacle of white privilege and white supremacy meeting in one place.” Bell said, “White people, you’ve created race
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell argued that statements made by Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear are “sometimes rhetoric we hear from politicians” and “there are millions of protesters out there who share his view”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali argued against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Muslim travel proposal, stating, “Even if we could do it, I don’t think we can, but even if we could do it, I think it’s a bad approach” on Wednesday’s
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina accused fellow GOP candidate Donald Trump of “distracting” from the fact that he doesn’t have a plan to defeat ISIS by talking about a Muslim travel ban “which will never happen” and wondered, whether, by
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that “we have very little background, very little knowledge” on the 20 million people who came to the US last year from favored nations under the visa waiver system on Wednesday’s “Your World with Neil
DNC Chair Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) argued, “what is coming out of the Republican side of the presidential field is nothing short of un-American” on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf.” Wasserman Schultz said, “our responsibility, as Americans, my responsibility
Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said, ” We should use the Kurds as our boots on the ground. Now, in addition to that, it may well require embedded special forces and other troops” and that ” we
CNN Senior Political Commentator and former advisor to President Obama David Axelrod argued GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump “is a propaganda bonanza for ISIS” on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day.” Axelrod said, “I think fear is not just limited
Florida Senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio declared, “If you cannot properly vet someone, whether they’re Muslim or not, they shouldn’t be allowed into the United States, irrespective of what their faith background might be” on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that some people vote for Republican candidates “Because they pick out a victim…who we can pick on.” And further wondered, “how do we get those people to begin standing up for their
Columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Muslim immigration proposal as “truly, deeply bigoted” and criticized the enforcement mechanism by jokingly suggested that people be required to eat a ham sandwich in order to enter the US on
Representative André Carson (D-IN) stated that terrorists infiltrating the refugee program “doesn’t concern me. What concerns me is you have the demagoguery taking place from people seeking to become president of the United States” that is “putting people, i.e. Muslims,
Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul stated, “Most of the evidence of terrorism so far in our country has had something to do with immigration” but that restrictions should be based on evidence, not religion on Tuesday’s “Happening
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina criticized the media for following a model where “Donald Trump says something, and that’s all we talk about” instead of talking about proposals put forward by other Republicans on Tuesday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued, “we have to look at this as if we’re fighting a war, and we are fighting a war, and the war is against climate change” during an interview broadcast on Monday’s “All
Former Vice President Dick Cheney argued that “this whole notion that somehow we can just say, ‘No more Muslims,’ and just ban a whole religion, goes against everything we stand for and believe in” on Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” Cheney
Florida Senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said that he would support suspending visas to Muslim countries with active jihadist populations, but fellow GOP presidential candidate Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s amendment that dealt with this subject went too far
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that his proposal to shut down any Muslim immigration into the US wouldn’t apply to Muslims in the US military, who would “come home” and that any Muslims in the US would stay in
