From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is the Daily.

Today, audio recordings take us inside the mind of the man who perhaps more than anyone

else is influencing our new president's views of Islam, terrorism, and who we will and

will not let into the country.

Then a look at the anti-Trump resistance inspiring mass protests.

Is this the beginning of a tea party for the left?

Is democracy sick or is it just waking up?

It's Thursday, February 2.

Oh, thank you.

Let's start back in August.

Today, we begin a conversation about how to make America safe again.

Starting on a stage, lined with American flags in Youngstown, Ohio.

In the 20th century, the United States has defeated fascism, Nazism, and communism.

Now a different threat challenges our world.

Radical Islamic terrorism.

Then candidate Trump argued that the United States faced a threat on par with the greatest

evils of the 20th century.

Those who do not believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry and hatred will not

be admitted for immigration into our country.

Now, that view isn't the stuff of stump speeches.

It's America's foreign policy.

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