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Reince Priebus, soon-to-be-White House Chief of Staff, said Donald Trump’s team is not planning to establish a Muslim registry, but that he would not rule anything out._ by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 20, 2016 8:04 PM UTC  Reince Priebus, Chair, Republican National Committee, appears on "Meet the Press" in Washington, D.C., Sunday August 28, 2016. Reince Priebus, Chair, Republican National Committee, appears on "Meet the Press" in Washington, D.C., Sunday August 28, 2016. NBC NewsWire—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 20, 2016 8:04 PM UTC Reince Priebus, soon-to-be-White House Chief of Staff, said Donald Trump’s team is not planning to [establish a Muslim registry](http://time.com/4574680/muslim-registry-japanese-internment/), but that he would not rule anything out. “Look, I’m not going to rule out anything,” Priebus said on [NBC’s _Meet the Press_](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/priebus-muslim-registry-not-going-rule-out-anything-n686391). “We’re not going to have a registry based on religion. But what I think what we’re trying to do is say that there are some people, certainly not all people…there are some people that are radicalized. And there are some people that have to be prevented from coming into this country.” Priebus’ comments followed ones from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who told [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-idUSKBN13B05C) last week that the new administration may create a Muslim registry based on the National Security Entry-Exit Registration system created after the Sept. 11 attacks. A Trump advocate last week also [cited Japanese internment camps](http://time.com/4574732/donald-trump-japanese-internment-muslim-registry/) during World War II as “precedent” for a registry. Trump pledged during his campaign that he supported “extreme vetting” of Muslims entering the U.S. Priebus maintained Trump’s position on a strict vetting system. “And Donald Trump’s position, President Trump’s position is consistent with bills in the House and the Senate that say the following: If you want to come from a place or an area around the world that harbors and trains terrorists, we have to temporarily suspend that operation until a better vetting system is put in place,” he said. ## Transcript [00:07] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] President- elect Trump's opinion is that [00:09] there are some people within that particular religion [00:13] that are, that we do fear. But he also has made it very clear [00:17] that we don't believe in religious tests and we are not [00:20] blankedly judging an entire religion but in fact we will try to [00:23] pinpoint the problems and temporarily suspend those areas [00:28] from incoming into the United States until a better vetting [00:31] system is in place. That's what we're going to do. 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