WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT ARE THOSE AREAS?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN FAR LESS
IMPORTANT.
IMPORTANT. >> IT ALL SEEMS RACIST, SORRY.
PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLED ON
CONGRESSWOMAN OMAR TO RESIGN
OVER ANTI-SEMITIC TWEETS.
UNDER PRESSURE FROM PARTY
LEADERSHIP, SHE APOLOGIZED ABOUT
THE MONEY TO SUPPORT ISRAEL.
SHE DISCUSSED HER REMARKS AFTER
YESTERDAY’S CABINET MEETING
AFTER FIRST TALKING ABOUT
IMMIGRATION.
IMMIGRATION. HE DISCUSSED HER REMARKS.
>> ONE THING I MIGHT WANT TO SAY
IS ANTI-SEMITISM HAS NO PLACE IN
THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
CONGRESSWOMAN OMAR, IT IS
TERRIBLE WHAT SHE SAID, AND I
THINK SHE SHOULD EITHER RESIGN
FROM CONGRESS OR SHE SHOULD
CERTAINLY RESIGN FROM THE HOUSE
FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.
WHAT SHE SAID IS SO DEEP-SEATED
IN HER HEART THAT HER LAME
APOLOGY, THAT’S WHAT IT WAS, IT
WAS LAME, AND SHE DIDN’T MEAN A
WORD OF IT, WAS JUST NOT
APPROPRIATE.
APPROPRIATE. >> YEAH.
>> YEAH. DEEP-SEATED.
DEEP-SEATED. THAT OLD SORT OF RACIST BELIEF
JEWS ARE JUST ABOUT MONEY.
YOU HEAR PEOPLE TALKING AT TIMES
ABOUT JEWS AND MONEY, WHETHER IN
POLITICS OR WHETHER IN BUSINESS,
PEOPLE SAY JEWS ARE -- THEY’RE
GREAT NEGOTIATIONS.
GREAT NEGOTIATIONS. OBVIOUSLY, MIKA, THAT’S
SOMETHING FROM WHAT THE
PRESIDENT JUST SAID THERE,
THAT’S SOMETHING DONALD TRUMP
WOULD NEVER FALL VICTIM TO
HIMSELF, RIGHT?
HIMSELF, RIGHT? >> NEVER NEVER NEVER.
I WANT TO POINT OUT THE TWEET
WAS HORRIBLE.
WAS HORRIBLE. YOU WANT TO LOOK AT HER HISTORY
OF COMMENTS, IF THERE ARE
OTHERS, THAT ARE SIMILAR AND TRY
TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THIS CAME
FROM, IT WASN’T GOOD.
THE HYPOCRISY IS EASY TO POINT
OUT.
OUT. THE PRESIDENT WAS CRITICIZED IN
2016 DURING THE CAMPAIGN FOR
JEWISH STEREOTYPES ABOUT MONEY.
HERE IS BETWEEN 15.
>> I’M IN A DIFFERENT POSITION
THAN THE OTHER CANDIDATES, I’M
THE ONE CANDIDATE I DON’T WANT
YOUR MONEY.
YOUR MONEY. I WANT YOUR SUPPORT BUT I DON’T
WANT YOUR MONEY.
I DON’T WANT YOUR MONEY AND YOU
WILL PROBABLY NOT SUPPORT ME.
YOU WANT TO GIVE MONEY.
TRUMP DOESN’T WANT MONEY.
I’M A NEGOTIATOR, LIKE YOU
FOLKS, WE DON’T BUILD GAS
STATIONS IN FOR $43 MILLION.
HOW MANY CAN DO IT FOR LESS.
IS THERE ANYBODY THAT DOESN’T
RENEGOTIATE DEALS IN THIS ROOM?
THIS ROOM RENEGOTIATES DEALS.
PERHAPS MORE THAN ANY ROOM I’VE
EVER SPOKEN TO.
MAYBE MORE.
MAYBE MORE. >> ONE JEWISH MONEY JOKE AFTER
ANOTHER JEWISH MONEY JOKE AFTER
ANOTHER JEWISH MONEY JOKE.
HE ACTUALLY LAPPED THE
CONGRESSWOMAN ABOUT FIVE TIMES
THERE.
THERE. >> YEAH.
>> YEAH. >> JUST WONDERING, IS KEVIN
McCARTHY GOING TO CALL FOR HIS
RESIGNATION?
RESIGNATION? I HEARD KEVIN McCARTHY CRITICIZE
THAT.
THAT. DO WE HAVE THE STAR OF DAVID
PICTURE?
PICTURE? WHEN THAT WENT UP, THEY WERE
PEDALING CLEAR UGLY
ANTI-SEMITISM, I DIDN’T HEAR
KEVIN McCARTHY OR MITCH
McCONNELL CALL FOR DONALD TRUMP
TO STEP DOWN.
MIKA, THE HYPOCRISY IS SO
EXTRAORDINARILY THICK HERE.
>> THAT DOESN’T DENY WHAT
HAPPENED AND DEMOCRATS SHOULD
TALK ABOUT IT AND DEAL WITH IT.
TRUMP’S INFAMOUS REMARKS ABOUT
GOOD PEOPLE BEING AMONG THE
WHITE SUPREMACISTS AT THAT
DEADLY RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
IN 2017, REMEMBER THAT?
NOT TO MENTION HIS BAN ON
MUSLIMS, HIS COMMENTS ABOUT
S-HOLE COUNTRIES IS INCREDIBLE.
AND ALLOWING FOR BREEDING AN
INFESTATION OF CRIME.
EUGENE SCOTT, YOU HAVE A NEW
PIECE OUT IN THE "WASHINGTON
POST" ENTITLED ILHAN OMAR AND
STEVE KING REACTED TO CRITICISM
DIFFERENTLY, HOW THAT MATTERS.
>> WE KNOW WHEN DEMOCRATIC
LEADERSHIP INCLUDING HOUSE
SPEAKER, NANCY PELOSI CALLED ON
REPRESENTATIVE OMAR TO
APOLOGIZE, THE REPRESENTATIVE
DID AND DID SO RELATIVELY
IMMEDIATELY.
IMMEDIATELY. WHEN MINORITY LEADER McCARTHY
CAUGHT ON, STEVE KING, WHO HAS A
HISTORY OF MAKING COMMENTS
SYMPATHETIC TO WHITE
NATIONALISTS APOLOGIZE, NOT ONLY
DID HE NOT APOLOGIZE, HE DOUBLED
DOWN AND RECENTLY LED A FIGHT TO
GET BACK ON HIS COMMITTEES.
HE’S TAKING THAT CUE, ONE COULD
ARGUE FROM THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF
WHO HAS NO HISTORY OF
APOLOGIZING, INSTEAD CRITIQUING
HOW OTHER PEOPLE APOLOGIZING.
WHAT HE IS AWARE OF THE MOST IS
WHAT HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS SAY
ARE PROBLEMATIC, NOT HE AND HIS
OWN.
OWN. HE IS DOING THAT BECAUSE THE
BASE WILL NOT HOLD HIM
ACCOUNTABLE IN WAYS THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL HOLD
PEOPLE LIKE REPRESENTATIVE OMAR
AND NANCY PELOSI ACCOUNTABLE.
>> THEY DID, WILLIE.
THE DEMOCRATS DID HOLD THE
CONGRESSWOMAN ACCOUNTABLE.
CONGRESSWOMAN ACCOUNTABLE. OBVIOUSLY, IF SHE MAKES ANOTHER
ANTI-SEMITIC STATEMENT, I WOULD
BE SHOCKED IF SHE WEREN’T KICKED
OFF THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE.
COMMITTEE. I WILL SAY YOU LISTEN TO ALL THE
RACIST THINGS DONALD TRUMP HAS
SAID AND STEREOTYPES DONALD
TRUMP WAS PEDALING, JEWISH
STEREOTYPES, AND THEN MIKA
TALKED ABOUT DONALD TRUMP SAYING
THAT OUR IMMIGRATION POLICIES
LEAD TO BREEDING AND
INFESTATION.
INFESTATION. THERE ARE THOSE THAT SAY YOU
SHOULD NEVER COMPARE ANYTHING
ANY AMERICAN POLITICIAN DOES TO
WHAT FASCISTS WOULD DO OR WHAT
NAZIS DID.
NAZIS DID. THE PROPAGANDA, WHEN YOU START
TALKING ABOUT BREEDING, RACES
BREEDING, YOU START TALKING
ABOUT THE INFESTATION OF PEOPLE
OF NON-WHITE PEOPLE, IF YOU
DON’T WANT ME TO SAY THAT’S
SOMETHING THAT THE THIRD REICH
PEDALLED IN, I WON’T SAY IT,
JUST GO READ A BOOK BECAUSE
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAID
ABOUT JEWS.
ABOUT JEWS. >> THE PRESIDENT WAS TALKING IN
APRIL, LAST APRIL ABOUT THE
SANCTUARY LAWS IN CALIFORNIA.
EDDIE, OBVIOUSLY, PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS NOT THE RIGHT VESSEL TO
COME DOWN AGAINST RELIGIOUS
DISCRIMINATION.
DISCRIMINATION. LET’S GO TO THE MUSLIM BAN, HE
WANTED THE ENTIRE BAN FOR THIS
COUNTRY BASED ON THE GOD THEY
WORSHIPED.
WORSHIPED. DID NANCY PELOSI NOT HAVE TO
RECKON WHAT WAS IMEXPLICIT WITH
CONGRESSWOMAN OMAR’S TWEET?
EXPLICIT, I MEAN.
>> I WANT TO TAKE SERIOUS THE
REACTION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
TO REPRESENTATIVE OMAR’S
CLAIMS -- HER TWEET.
AND STEREOTYPES ABOUT JEWS
ANIMATE OUR SOCIETY AND CAN BE
BELCHED UP AT ANY MOMENT AMONG
ANY OF US.
IN ORDER TO TAKE SERIOUSLY THAT
COMMUNITY’S REACTION WE HAVE TO
TAKE SERIOUSLY HER APOLOGY SO
THERE IS SPACE TO GROW.
SHE SAID SHE LEARNED FROM HER
JEWISH COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS
AND CONSTITUENCIES, SHE’S GOING
TO GROW AND WE HAVE TO TAKE HER
APOLOGY SERIOUS IF WE’RE GOING
TO GROW.
TO GROW. THE SECOND THING THAT IS
SEPARATE, EVERY ISRAELI POLICY,
NETANYAHU DOESN’T MEAN IT WILL
OPEN UP SPACE.
THE THIRD THING, THIS GOES TO
DONALD TRUMP, WE’RE FORGETTING
WHAT HAPPENED IN PITTSBURGH IN
THAT SYNAGOGUE AND WE’RE
INVOKING GEORGE SOROS AND THE
JEWISH
JEWISH JEWISH CABAL FUNDING THE
CARAVAN.
CARAVAN. WE’RE FORGETTING TRUMP TRADES IN
THE LANGUAGE OF GLOBAL LISTS OUT
OF A WHITE NATIONALIST THAT
CONTROLS THE COUNTRY.
FROM GLOBALISTS TO SOROS, TO
WHAT WE JUST SAW, THIS MAN’S
LIFEBLOOD COMES OUT -- FLOWS
FROM HATRED AND FEAR.
THIS IS HIS POLITICAL LIFEBLOOD.
SO THE IDEA HE IS GOING TO STAND
IN MORAL JUDGMENT OF ANYONE
SMACKS OF NOT ONLY HYPOCRISY BUT
ABSOLUTELY LUDICROUS.
ABSOLUTELY LUDICROUS. >> WHEN DONALD TRUMP CANNOT
CONDEMN DAVID DUKE OR ACTS LIKE
HE DOESN’T KNOW WHO HE IS.
>> REMEMBER THE TIKI MARCHES IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE, JEWS WILL NOT
REPLACE US.
REPLACE US. THAT’S WHAT THEY SAID.
>> THE IDEA HE CAN MAKE THIS
CLAIM AND KEVIN McCARTHY CAN
STAND WITH, IT JUST MAKES MY
BLOOD BOIL.
BLOOD BOIL. IT SHOWS HOW HYPOCRITICAL THIS
IS.
IS. LET ME SAY THIS, THE FACT THEY
DON’T TAKE THE CLAIMS SERIOUSLY
IS POLITICAL FODDER.
>> JOE.
>> JOE. >> REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN
ATTACKING GEORGE SOROS FOR SOME
TIME, CONSPIRACY THEORISTS,
THERE’S ALWAYS AN ANTI-SEMITIC
SMEAR TO IT.
WE JUST SHOWED YOU A KEVIN
McCARTHY TWEET ATTACKING GEORGE
SOROS ABOUT THE TIME OF THE
PITTSBURGH SLAUGHTER IN THE
SYNAGOGUE.
SYNAGOGUE. IT’S AN ABSOLUTE GAME PLAN WITH
THE AMERICAN FLAG RIGHT NEXT TO
IT, ATTACKING GEORGE SOROS.
I WILL SAY, I’M GLAD TO HEAR
EDDIE TALKING ABOUT OPENING THE
SPACE OF DIALOGUE AROUND THE
ISSUE.
ISSUE. I AGREE WITH HIM.
I SAW AN ARTICLE LAST NIGHT FROM
TALENT THAT SAYS THE
CONGRESSWOMAN HAS USED
ANTI-SEMITIC TROPES AND THAT
DESERVES CONDEMNATION.
DESERVES CONDEMNATION. BUT SHE ALSO VOICED AN
EXCEEDINGLY RARE WILLINGNESS TO
QUESTION HER PRESUMPTIONS AND
PUT HERSELF IN JEW’S SHOES.
SHE DESERVES DIALOGUE AND NOT
DENUNCIATION, AGAIN, FROM A
TABLET, JEWISH NEWS SERVICE.
I AGREE WITH THAT, MIKA.
I HOPE WE CAN EXTEND THAT BEYOND
JUST A DISCUSSION ABOUT JEWISH
ISSUES, ISRAEL.
ISSUES, ISRAEL. I APPLAUD EDDIE.
I THINK WE NEED TO OPEN THE
SPACE TALKING ABOUT RACE,
TALKING ABOUT GENDER, TALKING
ABOUT ALL OF THESE ISSUES THAT
SEEM TO ENSNARL PEOPLE AND
REALLY STOP THE SORT OF DEBATES
WE NEED TO HAVE IN AN AGE OF
IDENTITY POLITICS.
IDENTITY POLITICS. I THINK AT TIMES, IDENTITY
POLITICS RUN AMUCK THAT ACTUALLY
STOP US FROM HAVING THESE KIND
OF CONVERSATIONS WE SO
DESPERATELY NEED.
DESPERATELY NEED. IN OUR SILENCE AND IN THE
EXCESSES OF IDENTITY POLITICS,
THAT IS WHERE DONALD TRUMP
THRIVES.