JULIAN CASTRO ARE TRADING JOBS AT EACH OTHER AND KEERSYRSTEN GI
GILLIBRAND.
GILLIBRAND. >> AND TRUMP REPORTEDLY TELLING
DONORS THAT DEMOCRATS HATE
JEWISH PEOPLE AND THEIR BROAD
REPRESENTATION IN THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY COMPARED TO REPUBLICANS.
THREE SOURCES WHO WERE THERE BUT
WERE PREVENTED BY SECURITY FROM
RECORDING THE EVENT TELL AXIOS
THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE THE
COMMENTS WHILE REFERRING TO THE
RECENT ANTI-SEMITISM
RECENT ANTI-SEMITISM CONTROVERSIES WITH DEMOCRATIC
CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR.
TRUMP SAID HE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND
HOW ANY JEW COULD VOTE FOR A
CHAT THESE DAYS.
HE TALKED ABOUT HOW MUCH HE’D
DONE FOR ISRAEL, AND TRUMP SAID
IF HE COULD RUN TO BE PRIME
MINISTER OF ISRAEL, HE’D BE AT
98% IN THE POLLS.
A CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN DID NOT
DISPUTE THE COMMENTS AS
REPORTED.
REPORTED. THIS FOLLOWED THE PRESIDENT’S
ATTEMPT TO BRAND ALL DEMOCRATS
AS BEING AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE
DUE TO THE CONTROVERSY AROUND
THE MINNESOTA FRESHMAN
CONGRESSWOMAN.
CONGRESSWOMAN. >> THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME AN
ANTI-ISRAEL PARTY, THEY’VE
BECOME AN ANTY JEWISH PARTY AND
THAT’S TOO BAD.
>> HOWEVER, JEWISH VOTERS HAVE
SWUNG EVEN MORE TO THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN RECENT
ELECTIONS.
ELECTIONS. EXIT POLLS IN THE TRUMP ERA
SHOWED THAT JEWISH VOTERS
FAVORED HILLARY CLINTON OVER
DONALD TRUMP 71% TO 24%, THE
DEMOCRATS DOWNEVEN
DEMOCRATS DOWNEVEN DEMOCRATS DID EVEN BETTER IN
2018.
2018. WHILE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO
ARE JEWISH ARE OVERWHELMINGLY ON
THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE OF THE
AISLE.
AISLE. HERE’S WHERE WE ARE, JOE.
>> HERE’S WHERE WE ARE.
AND THE QUESTION IS, JAKE
SHERMAN, IS THAT WHAT WE’RE
GOING TO SEE OVER THE NEXT YEAR
OR SO IF DONALD TRUMP DOES IN
FACT RUN FOR REELECTION?
IS THIS A PREVIEW?
IS HE GOING TO CONTINUE TO PAINT
DEMOCRATS AS THE ANTI-JEWISH
PARTY, DESPITE HIS OWN CHECKERED
PAST?
PAST? >> YEAH, FOR SURE.
THE ILHAN OMAR CONTROVERSY IN
WHICH SHE HAS MADE COMMENTS THAT
HAVE BEEN INTERPRETED AS
ANTI-SEMITIC AND SHE HAS
APOLOGIZED FOR ONE AND DEMOCRATS
TOOK ACTION TO REBUKE HER
LIGHTLY IN A WAY THAT
REPUBLICANS THOUGHT WAS A BIT
TOO LIGHT FOR THEIR LIKING, THEY
ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE ENTIRE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY -- IT’S ONE OF
THESE MOMENTS WHERE REPUBLICANS
BEHIND THE SCENES HAVE BEEN
SAYING FOR MANY YEARS THAT THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY WAS DRIFTING
AWAY FROM ITS PREVIOUS STAUNCH
SUPPORT OF ISRAEL AND THINGS OF
THAT NATURE AND REPUBLICANS ARE
SAYING IT’S FINALLY COMING HOME
TO ROOST.
TO ROOST. IT’S A CONVENIENT PUNCHING BAG
FOR THE PRESIDENT QUITE
OBVIOUSLY.
OBVIOUSLY. HE IS MAKING ONE OF THE FIRST
MUSLIM FEMALES IN CONGRESS, HE’S
PUTTING HER UP ON A PEDESTAL IN
A SENSE AND THEN KNOCKING HER
DOWN AND SAYING SHE’S EMBLEMATIC
OF ALL DEMOCRATS.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" HAS A
FASCINATING STORY OF NET KNELTBE
NETANYAHU USING TRUMP AS THE
MAIN CENTERPIECE IN HIS CAMPAIGN
IN ISRAEL AND WILL GET A FRES
TEST H
TEST H TEST AND I THINK WE’LL PERHAPS
GET AN INDIRECT TEST OF WHAT
DONALD TRUMP SAID, WHICH IS HE
WOULD BE AT 98% IN POLLS IN
ISRAEL WERE HE TO RUN FOR PRIME
MINISTER.
MINISTER. >> AGAIN, WE’VE SAID THIS BEFORE
BUT NICK CONFESSORE, YOU
ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE RECORD AND,
AGAIN, IT’S PRETTY REMARKABLE
THAT DONALD TRUMP, THE DONALD
TRUMP OF SHARRCHARLOTTESVILLE, W
PUT A STAR OF DAVID OVER HILLARY
CLINTON’S FACE TALKING ABOUT HOW
JEWISH MONEY WAS GOING TO BUY
THE PRESIDENCY, THE TRUMP
REPUBLICAN PARTY OF KEVIN
McCARTHY, KEVIN McCARTHY OF
COURSE PUTTING A TWEET OUT
BEFORE THE ELECTION IN 2018
BASICALLY SAYING THAT IT’S THE
JEWS
JEWS JEWS JEW MONEY THAT’S GOING TO
TAKE OVER AND WE CANNOT ALLOW
THEM TO BUY THE ELECTION.
AND JIM JORDAN, I COULD GO ON
ALL DAY.
ALL DAY. JIM JORDAN TALKING ABOUT TOM
STEYER JUST LAST WEEK AND HE’S
NEVER DONE THERE WITH A GENTILE
BUT HE REPLACES THE "S" IN
STEYER WITH A DOLLAR SIGN.
IF WE WANT TO ADD UP
ANTI-SEMITIC TROPES, NICK,
REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO WIN
THIS ONE BY A LANDSLIDE.
>> CAN YOU GO FURTHER BACK TO
THE 2016 CAMPAIGN WHEN DAVID
DUKE SUPPORTED PRESIDENT TRUMP
AND PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ASKED
ABOUT IT AND REPUBLIC FUSEDFUSED
HIMSELF FROM DAVID DUKE.
IF THERE IS A ANTI-JEWISH
SENTIMENT, IT IS ON THE RIGHT.
BUT NOT ONLY ON THE RIGHT.
IF YOU TALK TO ACTUAL NEONAZISS,
THE THING YOU HEAR FROM THEM
OVER AND OVER AGAIN IS TRUM THE
IS MAKING THE IDEAS OF THE FAR
RIGHT AND NEONAZIS MORE POWERFUL
IN THE MAINSTREAM AND THEY SEE
HIM AS THEIR GUY IN THE
MAINSTREAM AMERICAN POLLITICSPOL
THERE IS PLENTY OF ANTI-SEMITISM
IN THE WORLD AND OMAR HAS BEEN
DINGED FOR HER COMMENTS BUT IT’S
RIDICULOUS TO SAY THE DEMOCRATS
ARE THE REPOSITORY FOR ALL OF
THESE THING.
THESE THING. NETANYAHU, IT’S MOSTLY ABOUT
HIM.
HIM. >> RICHARD HAAS, IT IS
INTERESTING WHAT’S HAPPENING IN
ISRAEL RIGHT NOW.
NETANYAHU IS EMBRACING DONALD
TRUMP.
TRUMP. DONALD TRUMP DID TALK ABOUT
MOVING THE EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM
AND MOVED IN THAT DIRECTION
AFTER PRESIDENTS OF BOTH PARTIES
HAVE BEEN PROMISING TO DO SO FOR
YEARS.
YEARS. AND YET OF COURSE THE SENTIMENT
NOT ONLY TOWARDS TRUMP BUT
NETANYAHU AND THE AMERICAN
JEWISH COMMUNITY IS MORE THAN
SPLIT.
SPLIT. >> YOU’RE RIGHT.
THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY IS
SPLIT.
SPLIT. THERE’S A PERCENTAGE I THINK
PROBABLY A MINORITY THAT IS
STRONGLY BACKING BEBE NETANYAHU
AND WILL LARGELY VOTE HERE ON
THE POLICY TOWARDS ISRAEL AND A
LARGE PERCENT THAT WILL BASE ON
THE WHOLE RANGE OF POLITICAL
ISSUES.
ISSUES. BUT THERE IS A LOT OF SUPPORT.
IT’S INTERESTING WHAT BEBE
NETANYAHU IS DOING, JOE.
IT’S NOT JUST THE MOVING OF THE
EMBASSY TO JUM, IT’S ALSOERUSALE
BECAUSE OF THE SO-CALLED PEACE
PROCESS, THE IDEA OF WALKING
WITH THE SAUDIS AND OTHERS.
THERE’S A REAL PARALLELING
BETWEEN BEBE NETANYAHU’S
POSITION ON BIG ISSUES AND THE
TRUMP WHITE HOUSE.
>> ADRIENNE, THE DEMOCRATS, HOW
ARE THEY GOING TO RESPOND NOT ON
TO TRUMP THIS PAST WEEK BUT ALSO
TO CONTINUED PROBLEMS FROM
FRESHMEN MEMBERS OF THEIR OWN
CLASS?
CLASS? BY THE WAY, THIS IS NOT NEW.
WE CAUSED SO MUCH PROBLEM, IN
1994 WE CAME IN AND ONE OF US
WAS SAYING SOMETHING STUPID
EVERY DAY.
EVERY DAY. WHEN WE WEREN’T SAYING SOMETHING
STUPID, NEWT GINGRICH WAS SAYING
SOMETHING STUPID.
SOMETHING STUPID. AT LEAST DEMOCRATS HAVE NANCY
PELOSI.
PELOSI. BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST THIS WEEKEND
AOC CALLS FDR RACIST, CALLS THE
NEW DEAL RACIST.
YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT
ANTI-SEMITIC REMARK COMING EVERY
WEEK.
WEEK. NANCY PELOSI AND THE DEMOCRATIC
LEADERSHIP, MAN, THEY ARE
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER, STRONG,
SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THAT
ANTI-SEMITISM.
ANTI-SEMITISM. I’M JUST CURIOUS, THOUGH, WHAT’S
THEIR NEXT PLAY?
WHAT’S THEIR NEXT ACT MOVING
FORWARD IF THIS CONTINUES?
>> PART OF THE PROBLEM, JOE,
WHEN YOU HAVE MORE DEMOCRATS IN
CONGRESS, THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE
IN THE PARTY WHO ARE GOING TO
SAY THINGS THAT MAY NOT BE
POLITICALLY CORRECT.
POLITICALLY CORRECT. WE HAVE A VERY DIVERSE CAUCUS.
I’M NOT GOING TO STAND HERE AND
DEFEND SOME OF THE COMMENTS BY
AOC AND SOME OF THE OTHER
MEMBERS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME,
THESE ARE WOMEN WHO HAVE THEIR
OWN OPINIONS AND THEY HAVE GROWN
UP IN AN AGE IN POLITICS WHERE
THEY -- AND THEY WERE LARGELY
ELECTED, BY THE WAY, TO SPEAK
THEIR MIND.
THEIR MIND. I’M CERTAINLY NOT DEFENDING THAT
BUT THEY HAVE EARNED THE RIGHT
TO GO OUT THERE AND SAY WHAT
THEY BELIEVE.
THEY BELIEVE. I THINKS IT’S ALSO IMPORTANT TO
NOTE, SOME OF THESE MEMBERS ARE
REPRESENTING COMMUNITIES IN
THEIR DISTRICTS THAT HAVE BEEN
LARGE TARGETS BY DONALD TRUMP.
THEY’RE GOING TO WASHINGTON
SHOWING WE’RE ANGRY, WE’RE HERE
TO REPRESENT CONSTITUENTS WHO
HAVE BEEN LARGELY PERSECUTED
SINCE HE’S BEEN IN OFFICE AND
RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.
I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A
SYMPATHY FOR THESE MEMBERS
COMING IN WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE
OF A HARD EDGE.
BUT THIS IS WHY WE HAVE LEADER
PELOSI.
PELOSI. SHE CAN WHIP THAT CAUCUS INTO
SHAPE LIKE NOBODY ELSE.
I CANNOT IMAGINE ANYBODY ELSE
BEING THE SPEAKER RIGHT NOW TO
UNIFY PEOPLE UNDER THESE ISSUES.
>> A HARD EDGE IS CERTAINLY WE
UNDERSTAND.
UNDERSTAND. OBVIOUSLY, THOUGH, YOU HAVE
LEADERS -- YOU HAVE MEMBERS THAT
ARE MAKING NANCY PELOSI’S JOB
AND ANY DEMOCRAT WHO WOULD WANT
TO DEFEAT DONALD TRUMP, MAKING
THEIR JOB FAR MORE DIFFICULT
WITH EVERY RECKLESS STATEMENT
THAT THEY MAKE.
AND I WILL TELL YOU, ANOTHER
PHENOMENON THAT MIRRORS 1994,
YOU KNOW, WE.
FRESHMAN CLASS COULD SAY
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARILY
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARILY STUPID.
STUPID. DESPITE THE FACT WE WERE BACK
BENCHERS, THAT’S WHAT THE
PRESIDENT WOULD SEIZE ON AND
THEY WOULD MAKE US OR WHOEVERS
THE RADICAL WAS THE FACE OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
REPUBLICAN PARTY. YOU NOW HAVE THE PRESS DOING
THAT.
THAT. AOC, I THINK SHE WON HER
PRIMARY, WHICH WAS BASICALLY HER
ELECTION.
ELECTION. SHE GOT 15,000 VOTES.
SHE WON BY 3,500 VOTES.
SHE GOT 15,000 VOTES.
HILLARY CLINTON GOT WHAT, 63,
64, 65 MILLION VOTES?
I THINK THE PRESS NEEDS TO KEEP
EVERYTHING IN PERSPECTIVE.
>> I AGREE WITH THAT.
>> I KNOW THEY LIKE TO CHASE THE
LATEST FAD, BUT THEY’VE DONE IT
WITH THE REPUBLICANS FOR YEARS,
FOCUSING ON STUPID COMMENTS BY
BACK BENCHERS.
BACK BENCHERS. I THINK THEY PROBABLY NEED TO
KEEP THIS IN BETTER PERSPECTIVE.
>> THEY REPRESENT THEIR
DISTRICTS, THEIR COMMUNITIES,
BUT THEY ALSO NOW HAVE TO WORK
ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, WORKING
WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.