Donald Trump is not concerned about his appearance in a terrorist recruitment video

In a Face the Nation interview airing Sunday, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump defended his December comments calling for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S.," which have been used in a terrorist recruitment video for Al-Shabab, a Somali-based group affiliated with al Qaeda.

The video suggests to Muslims that they should either "leave or fight" the U.S., which it portrays as anti-Islam.

When CBS's John Dickerson asked the real estate mogul if he was concerned by his appearance in the video, Trump responded: "They use other people, too. What am I going to do? I have to say what I have to say. And you [know] what I have to say? There's a problem."

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