Candidates Respond To Threat Of ISIS, Concerns About Refugees

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November 20, 2015

At right, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is pictured on September 30, 2015 in Exeter, New Hampshire. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images) At right, Donald Trump is pictured on May 16, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The terrorist attacks in Paris last week have been reverberating in U.S. presidential politics.

Leading Republican Donald Trump suggested shutting American mosques and making Muslims register in a national database. Rival Ben Carson likened concerns about Syrian refugees coming to the U.S. to parental concerns about a mad dog running around in their children's neighborhood.

Leading Democrat Hillary Clinton promised to defeat and not just "contain" ISIS. Her main rival Bernie Sanders drew on the legacy of wartime President Franklin D. Roosevelt to explain his democratic socialism.

Rick Klein of ABC News and Rebecca Sinderbrand of The Washington Post join Here & Now's Indira Lakshmanan and Jeremy Hobson to discuss this and more in our weekly look at the race for 2016.

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Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (left) and Bernie Sanders (right) are pictured speaking at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting on August 28, 2015 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Adam Bettcher/Getty Images) — Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders also weighed in this week on the threat of ISIS and concerns about resettling Syrian refugees. (Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

Guests

Rick Klein, political director at ABC News. He tweets @rickklein.
Rebecca Sinderbrand, politics news editor for The Washington Post. She tweets @sinderbrand.

This segment aired on November 20, 2015.

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