Ahead of President Barack Obama's Sunday night speech outlining his plan to fight terrorism, Republican presidential candidates called for more surveillance tools for the intelligence community, while front-runner Donald Trump said political correctness and a fear of profiling may have helped allow last week's attack in California to occur.
In an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation," Trump said Americans have been too politically correct with Muslims in America, arguing that people knew what the San Bernardino attackers were planning, but didn't want to report them for fear of profiling the individuals. The FBI is investigating the shooting rampage that killed 14 people as a potential act of terror that may have been inspired by Islamic State.
"If they thought there was something wrong with that group and they saw what was happening, and they didn't want to call the police because they didn't want to be profiling, I think that's pretty bad," Trump said. "So everybody wants to be politically correct, and that's part of the problem that we have with our country."