CNN’s Clarissa Ward: The One Group that Is Embracing Trump’s Comments Is ISIS

CAMEROTA: "The fallout from Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims is not stopping at the border. Criticism coming from officials around the world. So let’s get perspective from three of our favorite CNN international correspondents. Nic Robertson is CNN’s international diplomatic editor. He is based in London. Clarissa Ward is a CNN senior international correspondent based everywhere, as far as I can tell. And Nick Paton Walsh is also a CNN senior international correspondent based in the Middle East and Beirut. It’s great to have all of you in studio. What a special occasion for us. Clarissa, you’re the newbie among this group. So, let me start with you. I mean, you’re everywhere, global, you’ve been roaring from everywhere since you got to CNN a couple months ago. What are you hearing? Are you hearing things about this presidential race and Donald Trump on the ground?"
WARD: "We’re hearing a lot, I think, about Donald Trump, and particularly about these comments which we’ve seen, you know, they’ve been dismissed I think as arrogant and ignorant and absurd even by most Europeans and Middle Eastern people who I have spoken to about them. But what I found really interesting when I was doing a cross- section and chatting with people from different backgrounds and different walks of different life in different countries, was the one group that really seemed to embrace Donald Trump’s comments are ISIS. And I spoke to an ISIS fighter who said to me, you know, quite simply, Clarissa, he is just saying the truth that Americans hate Muslims and it’s time for Muslims living in the West to accept that. He went on to say that the coconuts need to understand that they’re not welcome in the West. By the coconuts he’s using essentially a popular offensive term that ISIS followers use for Western Muslims, essentially the idea that they’re brown on the outside but they’re white on the inside. And this really speaks to the ISIS narrative, that it is not possible for Muslims and Westerners to co-exist peacefully, that Muslims living in West need to make hegira or migrate to the caliphate. And that’s the only place --"