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You can criticize apac. heres where i think theyre wrong on the issues, but you dont need to say politicians are being controlled by a jewish organization organization because that had negative and hurtful connotations. whether she understood sto stoo she needs to understand these things. >> do you think language, choice of o language aside, do you think she had a point on the issue that she was trying to make? >> look, obviously. apac has committees that give money to candidates and that has an...

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...

Problem, whether it be apac, nra, its gone on too long and we must be willing to address it. the last part referring to her final tweet from last night, referring to apac, the pro israel lobblobbying. money being when she said its all about the benjamin, but she had to do this. she was facing an enormous amount of criticism from her leadership. republicans are saying she should be removed from the house foreign affairs committee. theres noind kags democratic leaders are going to do that, but tha...

Now. democratic leaders of the u.s. house of representatives have joined this growing list of democrats in condemning one of their own. freshman conscious woman omar of minnesota accusing, accused again of anti-semitism, for suggesting republicans support israel is fuel bid donations from a prominent pro israel group. the house leadership is now calling the congresswomans comments quote deeply offensive. and this is one of the comments raising outrage on both sides. congresswoman omar tweeted al...

Republicans backed israel because the campaign contributions they received from apac, a pro-itsrael group. now the house minority leader is calling for action over the commentses before he takes matters into his own hands. im not sure what that would even mean. jake sherman, senior writer for politico and an msnbc political contributor. jake, break this out for us. how did it start? >> youre right, at the top, kevin mccathy does not really have the ability to punish the congresswoman for her rem...

Year history, the apex summit or asia-pacific economic cooperation, fails to reach a formal joint closing statement. amid disagreements between the u.s. and china over trade and security. the vice president mike pence tweeting an hour ago, every nation gathered here at apac has a place in the presidents vision for free and open pacific our decision excludes no one we only asked that they respect nations neighbors sovereignty free fair and reciprocal trade and uphold individual rights. we have mo...

Have clout and an influence with the iranians. the concern is that the iranians are setting up for a long-term presence in syria and that will be against our interests. >> charles: and canada thought it would be okay for russia to get involved in nation building. but having said that, ive read, peter, from russias vantage point, everything except crimea is on the table. if thats true what do we extract from them? what are the key take aways? >> they have met before in small meetings. the g-20. t...

Permanent military bases in syria. its also seeking to develop to build precision-guided missile factories in syria and lebanon against israel. i will not let that happen. we will not let that happen. we must stop iran. we will stop iran. >> israels prime minister bengman netanyahu addressing apac with explicit threats against iran. that the hour, he is at meetings at capitol hill. he is also celebrating trumps decision to move the american embassy to jerusalem, designating the holy city as isra...

Democratic party has been beholden to the pro israel lobby apac so choose. beholden to a bank and i take seriously i think monetary of the united states of the palestinian i think cornel west. i sat side by side with cornel west and had a lots of criticisms of the democratic party i still think i think at the end of the day he is not a democratic party afraid of the pro israel lobby and i think the party of brock obama just championed their rand nuclear deal the center for american progress and ...

Internment chaamps. two-thirds were born in america. and while behind camp fences, a number of these juyoung japanese-american men volunteered to fight against japan. the 442nd go for broke regiment became the most decorated unit of its size. saturday never again was the mantra as people quietly took to the streets in new york and around the country. they walked to commemorate the in-tutern internments 75 respect anniversaanth anniversary about. joining me now, chair of apac and also the jacl. r...