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The american israel public affairs committee. what does it do? who does it support? how is the money spent? address at the root of this issue. at the end of her apology she says this, i reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our policy. she apologizes but then says this. >> sandra, the obvious thing for me as a muslim reformer is where are her comments about the turkish lobby or the saudi lobby or the ranian lobby that got the iran deal through with the obama administration? she is ignora...

Or jewish americans. i unequivocally apologize. i reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics whether aipac, nra, or fossil fuel industry. how did you read that statement and apology, mr. speaker? >> i think the last line is the liberal throwaway line. she could also put in there several muslim activist groups that are the parallel to aipac but she didnt. look, this is a freshman who is a radical. she is part of whats moving the democratic party to the left. she is a part of the g...

Herself. i think it was a terrible statement. and i dont think her apology was adequate. a lot of democrats came out against her. nancy pelosi condemned her and thats when she decided to release her statement. brian: right. she said aipac is paying off essentially lawmakers to have this pro-israeli stance. ben shapiro took umbrage with this. >> >> how do you not have a censorship of a resolution of ken sure against ilhan omar for all of this? the reason is the democratic party deep down agrees w...

Off-camera. i will get to that in a moment. shes from minnesota, just outside minneapolis. she came here at the beginning of january and she came under fire last night after critics say that her tweets were full of stereotypes about jews and money. a follower asked omar "who is paying american politicians to support israel?" she responded aipac. another tweet criticizing members of congress for taking harsh stance, she tweeted "its all about the benjamins." she has supported a nonviolent campaig...

Services fire fighting. we do rescue. we are training ground for future careers in fire fighting. federal careers. we think its important to volunteer. brian: important you guys came out. thank you for your message. lets go upstairs where we saysequestered jillian. jillian: ilhan omar should be ashamed of herself. lobbying group of paying members of congress to support israel. omar has apologized saying my intention is never to offend my constituents or jewish americans as a whole. in that same ...

And she retweeted with apac, which is the aipac, its a lobbying group and one talking about support of israel where she says its all about the benjamins baby. >> yeah. >> and there will be people who look at this and saying what shes doing is perpetuating this myth, this notion that jewish money is somehow controlling things in this zblunt listen,co >> i understand what shes saying which is aipac is a powerful lobby and they spend a lot of money. >> and they do spend a lot of money. >> its one o...

May have promised to the russians. >> i want to switch gears and ask about congresswoman omar from minnesotas latest tweet. some are calling it senate semitic. she retweeted and respond saying would love to know who congressman omar thinks is paying to be pro-israel. bad form, congresswoman. thats the second anti-semitic trope youve posted to which she posted aipac. how do you see that? >> this is part of a larger issue thats 25th up ttwisting country. we see it in virginia. people in public off...

Believe that its anti-semitic, but you are opening yourself up to those charges and theres a better way to do it. >> well, look, its all about the benjamins baby is going even further than just putting the word aipac there. and what you have seen before is there have been all kinds of people who have criticized bringing up michael bloomberg for instance and they will note that seems to be some kind of illusion to anti-semitism here. its the same thing. >> im not sure its the same thing but she s...

At the same time, i reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyist in our politics, whether it be a aipac, the national rifle association, or the falls of your injury fossil fuel industry. >> bret: lets talk more about the situation. good evening, brit. what do you of all this today? >> i think its interesting that the congress jumped on her with both feet, really, and got her to issue what you called an unequivocal apology. the question remains now is any further action will ensue. you may recall wh...

The battle over border security. were now hearing californias governor may be withdrawing nearly 400 troops from the border. all this coming as negotiations are now hitting a wall with democrats over a new demand regarding the ice agency. >> i would advise the president to take somewhere near $2 billion for the wall, sign a bill that would give you that much money as the down payment and find the rest of the money on your own. declare a national emergency if necessary to get the rest of the fund...