Story highlights The GOP front-runner said people living in the U.S. want to destroy the country

Trump's comments about temporarily banning Muslim immigration to America set off a storm of criticism

(CNN) Donald Trump warned Tuesday that there will be additional terror attacks in the U.S. if his temporary ban on Muslim immigration is not put in place.

"You're going to have many more World Trade Centers if you don't solve it -- many, many more and probably beyond the World Trade Center," Trump told CNN's Chris Cuomo in a contentious interview on "New Day."

A defiant Trump said he believes that there are already terrorists in America eager to harm the country.

"They want our buildings to come down; they want our cities to be crushed," he said, noting that the Trade Centers were attacked twice and citing last week's shootings in San Bernardino . "They are living within our country. And many of them want to come from outside our country."

Cuomo repeatedly pushed back against Trump's plan as not what America stands for and the host noted that most of the developer's Republican rivals have criticized it.

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