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Im obsessed with the rise of anti-semitism and a game of what aboutism being played by both parties. stop it. you both have a problem. the house will vote tomorrow on a resolution to contemn anti-semitism by democrats prompted by two remarks by the freshman congresswoman omar of minnesota. last month she tweeted that the are you luktance to criticize israel was all about the benjamins, in other words, money. i want to talk about the political influence that said it is okay to push for allegiance...

And citizen phobia and a member saying hell send obama home to kenya and in another tweet she says dont get me started on this. where does it start and end? >> a number of the questions she asked which are fair questions about other bigoted ways of being and speaking, a lot of those happen when the democrats werent in leadership. not all. but right now were seeing nancy pelosis leadership be swift and strong. i want to say for the record, we dont have to go night, i take exception to the comment...

But on important things like health care and iranian nuclear deal and a whole host of other things, previous presidents told lies. all this president has done -- >> this is not equal. >> its not what aboutism. >> its not equal. the volume of these lies. >> make your point and then have to go. i want you to make your point. >> the point im trying to make is that we have a public who sees elected officials and presidents as people, they dont tell the truth all the time and so, you know, they dont ...

United states call a nikneneo n very fine people. >> every time someone has something on their side that does something bad it becomes the what aboutism. you and i went into the what aboutism. what do we do about that? >> we call it out where we see it. right now were seeing it in the democratic party. >> but its a little hard to take the sanctimonious preening of vice president pence on this. >> that makes everybody uncomfortable. >> that his principle is as -- >> you can take it from me. thank...

If 35 years ago he said this was a terrible thing to do and worked his entire life to make amends for it, and then the people of virginia understood that and knew that, they could make a choice whether he has been redeemed or not. but to come out 35 years later when the virginia voters didnt know and voted him in, i think theres got to be consequences. you can be redeemed but i still may have to pay the consequences. i dont like this to be turned into a conversation of what aboutism on one side ...

2016 which was before the election. roger stone spoke to senior trump officials about organization 1, which we believe is wikileaks. and they had information, damaging information about the hillary rodham clinton campaign. and apparently then they talked about releases and more stuff coming out. it sounds like his conversation was with wikileaks is giving some dirt on the hillary clinton campaign. given what we know about campaigns, is it against the law to ask for dirt on the other campaign? >>...

Power, including what is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government, congress, has abdicated its responsibilities with the senate refusing to stand up to him. they dont want to criticize him when he attacks our freedom of the press. they dont want to criticize him when he attacks the independence of our federal law enforcement. when he suggests on life tv that the fbi should go after the family members of a former lawyer of his who he decides he is no longer on his good side. so, you know, i...

Mcdougal and stormy daniels? >> he said that never happened. but put that aside. rudy, for a lawyer, doesnt seem to know a whole lot about the law. these were not people running for office. these were people who were sitting in office. by the way, they have changed that law. its so outrageous -- >> yeah, when it came to light. >> yeah, finally. >> just a few weeks ago. >> it goes to the point that rudy will say anything. my thing is maybe for the new years we can just stop listening. >> if you l...

Harassment. >> theres something that passed. >> yeah, we covered it. when it came to light they fixed it. >> when it came to light, alisyn? >> listen -- >> it has been the law for -- >> thats what aboutism. i agree with you. i am saying the bar is so low for this president. allow mueller to do his work. we dont know what cohen has provided. we dont know the information that is there and we dont know the conversations they have had and we know the senate intelligence committee and mueller are doi...

Do this at cia, "the washington post," "the new york times" and all of the other networks? >> not duped i would defer to shane to talk about how the agency views it but we were not duped -- >> the intelligence from turks and others but go on. >> katy, its very possible khashoggi was ordered murdered by mbs what the president said today going to the helicopter was put in context the saudi arabia relationship is very important in the second paragraph it the real enemy, the middle east iran, greate...