Trump: Internment Camps ‘No Relationship to What I’m Talking About’

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HALPERIN: “Mr. Trump, Dick Cheney is not running against you for president and I don’t think he’s a considered a guy who is politically correct. He disagrees with what you’re saying.”
TRUMP: “We have a president that doesn’t know how to fight the war. We have a president —“
HALPERIN: “Explain that point of view. You said you have sympathy for it. What do you think it means when he says it goes against everything we stand for?”
TRUMP: “I think he means — I opposed the war in Iraq. I fully understand what people say and hopefully this doesn’t take long but our people, law enforcement in particular, has to get their hands around the big problem. How many other checks were isn’t to people all over the country that have been radicalized? Joe, nobody knew this guy was radicalized. His wife probably radicalized him.”
HALPERIN: “You agree this goes against American values?” 
TRUMP: “No, because FDR did it, if you look at it. They said the same thing when I said we have to do strong borders. In 1954, Dwight Eisenhower, I like Ike, everybody liked Ike, he did it.”
HALPERIN: “It the Japanese internment camps go against —“
TRUMP: “We have to be smart, mark and vigilant. And we have to be tough. And if we’re not going to be though three things —“
HALPERIN: “Did the internment of the Japanese violate American values? 
TRUMP: “You’re asking me a different question. Doesn’t ask me that question.”
HALPERIN: “Did the Japanese internment camps violate — your sense of American values?”
TRUMP: “Why want to respond to it. You know why? That’s not what we’re doing. You’re asking me a different question.”
HALPERIN: “But for some people the same values are at stake.”
TRUMP: “It wonderful that you ask me that. That’s an entirely different question. It has no relationship to what I’m talking about.”