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The conference begins sunday and runs through tuesday. there are several candidates that we havent heard from yet and it is possible we will see more staying away from aipac which begins in a few days. shannon: lebanon is the next step for mike pompeo where he will step up pressure on iran and regional ally hezbollah but stereo controversy during a trip to jerusalem and 2020 candidates are sensing weakness with the trump administrations diplomatic efforts. the secretary of state joins us from je...

Distance and diffuse this debate and say were standing with our ally israel and explain what it is instead of letting tlaib and aoc and ilhan omar determine the debate of democrats and israel. >> she is right. a couple of weeks ago she makes a great point. ilhan omar. she made this anti-semitic comments and aipac was in the middle of the comments. they watered down the resolution, we dont have to rehash it. thats out there. the president is trying to make political hay out of that. its a bad thi...

Judea, 1100 people work there. i toured the plant. 600 of them are palestinian. 500 were israeli. they got along fine. they worked together. men, women, muslim, jew. it worked beautifully. they have had the best paychecks theyve ever had their lives. four times the amount of money theyd ever gotten under the palestinian authority for any job they ever had,d, and the bds movement puts so pressure on soda stream, they shut the plant down and you know who suffered the most? the very palestinians th...

They are against the 2 state solution, you cant force the bds movement to support his relapse right to exist. they have taken the side of those who continue to say people living in that country are not allowed to be there. that is anti-semitic. we dont support israel because of the jewish state but because it is a state with western values the united states also has an democrats and republicans used to be a will to agree on those things. democracy, human rights, gay rights, voting in a place whe...

Nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, leaders of the democratic party. so what happens now because we havent yet heard from them, but we have heard from those candidates who say they will not go. >> another example how the left has taken over the 2020 race already. im sorry, but youve got all these candidates in a rails to see who is a bigger socialist already and you have move on.org that started in the clinton impeachment and iraq war on the very left dictating which democrats are allowed to go to aipa...

Anti-israel mind-set? they are doing it so quickly, they fall into line so quickly. >> they have lost their minds. our alliance with israel is not a left right issue. its an up-down issue. this is not horizontal politics. its vertical politics of are we going to take our culture and society up or are we going to take it down? aipac has been reliably nonpartisan. in fact if anything i got a little bit disappointed with aipac a few years ago during barack obamas push for the iran deal.. because th...

We are for something called free speech, fools. >> look at a what she was trying to do to the i.c.e. agent. she was trying to basically make a law enforcement official into a nazi. this guy was not far right. its almost as if you have a communist looking at a welfare state liberal and says you are far right. actually thats far more illuminating about the person making the accusations than it is about the person whos attempted to be described. >> laura: dinesh dsouza, oh, yeah, theres the picture...

When he talks about crimea going forward. >> bret: tom, this is a head of prime mittens prime minister netanyahus visit, ahead of aipac, which democrats are not visiting this year. particularly segmenting marking anti-semitism on the rise, including in congress. there is a big national security shift in policy. >> i think thats right. chuck just mentioned, i think part of this is the democrats boycotting aipac with the stuff going on with rep omar, trump recognizes that and a big supporter of is...

>> harris: what a position to put himself in there and take accountability. what do you think about this for your party? >> leslie: there are two camps. the jewish vote, the mobile reduce majority democrats, that theres almost like a sucking sound of then leaving. my cousin is jewish, hes watching today. hes a member of aipac. hes a democrat but he is pro-israel. speed when you make it sound like democrats arent pro-israel. thats going to be an awkward litmus test to going into 2020 if thats t...

Community and it was like a breath of fresh air to have ilhan omar say these words. weve organized against aipac, protested against aipac and tried to get more oxygen into the discussion and say wait a minute. benjamin netanyahu does not speak for us. he is not as david gregory said king of the jews or leader of the jews, whatever he said. we are not mono-lynic in thinking about israel about the occupations, ob netanyahu or aipac and anything we can do to foster and to actually grow the roots of...