Trump met Tuesday in NY with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during the Egyptian president’s visit to the UN General Assembly.
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“I know how to do this”, Clinton said at an airport news conference on Monday.
He says that ISIS “happened on Hillary Clinton’s watch”, and added: “the rise of ISIS is Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy legacy”. And he’s offering a solution: that the new threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism could be snuffed out if only the United States adopted the kind of “extreme” vetting of foreigners and drastic changes to the immigration system that he proposed and which lit a fire under his presidential campaign. “I get that. And I want to do my best to answer those questions”, she told several hundred students gathered in an ornate, wood-paneled lecture hall. “How is that a recruiting tool?”
According to a Trump campaign statement, Trump thanked President el-Sisi and the Egyptian people for what they have done in defense of their country and for the betterment of the world over the last few years. “Just can’t do it”, Trump said in Estero.
A Reuters-Ipsos States of the Nation poll showed the race across the country narrowing considerably over the past few weeks.
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, claims 44 percent support among the state’s likely voters, while Clinton, the Democratic nominee, gets 43 percent.
He encouraged law enforcement officials to consider racial profiling to stop potential terrorists and warning that under a Clinton administration, “tens of thousands” of potential terrorists would flood into the country from risky parts of the world through refugee resettlement programs. The poll has a margin of error of 3.86 percentage points.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States – period”, Mr. Trump said.
“There have been Islamic terrorist attacks in Minnesota and in New York City and in New Jersey”.
Host Seth Meyers calls Donald Trump’s attempt to shift blame from himself to Hillary Clinton for the birther movement one of the biggest cons. “Has she ever talked that way about radical Islam? No”.
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“I’m the only candidate in this race who has been part of the hard decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield”, she said at the morning press conference. “I have sat at that table in the Situation Room”.
