Responding directly to Marco Rubio, Matthews asked tonight, “Why does Rubio want to have this as a clash of civilizations? I though that was what ISIS wanted, what al-Qaeda wants, to have the Islamic world fight with the Western world. Why would he want what they want?”

“Why say ‘Islamic’?” he added. “Why don’t we say ‘terrorist’?”

Howard Fineman said that Rubio’s trying to get as “apocalyptic” and “fearmongering” as possible by running to the far-right.