Trump on Surveilling Mosques: We’ve To Take ‘Strong Measures’

STEPHANOPOULOS: “You’ve also said we have to consider closing mosques. Jeb Bush called that a sign of weakness.”
TRUMP: “Well, Jeb Bush is a weak person and that’s been defined very strongly. I mean, Jeb is a weak person who is a — you know, I call him a low energy person. That’s what he is. I mean, call him anything you want, but Jeb is a person that will not solve a problem like this. You have very, very tough people that you’re dealing with. They only understand strength. They don’t understand weakness. Somebody like Jeb, and others that are running against me — and by the way Hillary is another one. I mean, Hillary is a person who doesn’t have the strength or the stamina, in my opinion, to be president. She doesn’t have strength or stamina. She’s not a strong enough person to be president.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “But what would be your criteria –“
TRUMP: “We’re dealing with –“
STEPHANOPOULOS: “-- for closing a mosque?”
TRUMP: “We’re dealing with very — George, we’re dealing with very, very strong people. And you need strength and you need stamina.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “I get that, but –“
TRUMP: “Hillary does not have that.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “-- I want to get the details though. What would be your criteria for closing a mosque? And how does that square with the First Amendment? You’ve said your top priority would be to preserve and protect our religious liberties. Is that only for Christians? What are your criteria for closing a mosque?”
TRUMP: “Well, I don’t want to close mosques; I want to surveil mosques. I want mosques surveiled. We were doing it New York City for a while until the worst mayor that New York City has ever had got elected –“
STEPHANOPOULOS: “All mosques?”
TRUMP: “-- De Blasio, which was a fluke. And all I would do, certainly there are certain hot spots and everybody knows they’re hot spots. And let me tell you, the people that are involved in those mosques, they know who the bad ones are and they know who the good ones are, but they don’t talk. And we have to surveil the mosques — and we were doing it. We were doing it recently until De Blasio closed them up in New York City. We were doing it recently. We have to surveil the mosques. And big material and good material, from what I understood, from a very good source, was coming out of those mosques. We were learning a lot. And they were stopping problems and potential problems by learning what was happening. Hey, look, I don’t want to close up mosques but things have to happen where, if you’ve got — you have got to use strong measures or you’re going to see buildings coming down all over New York City and elsewhere.”