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At. finally, as the president prepares to make his first stip to israel this month as president, its day 2 of apac. this morning both vice president biden and israels prime minister, benjamin netanyahu via satellite will address the group. here was texas senator john cornyn last night. >> israel remains a country where arabs can serve in parliament and heckle the prime minister. can anyone imagine jewish legislators being allowed to heckle a prime minister? me neither. and that goes to explain w...

Offend out the lobbying groups are lobbying against israels best interests. >> the one im thinking of is ai pac. they were in favor of these going to egypt? >> you better ask them directly. thats been mercky today and we have been trying to pin that down. my understand is phone calls were made from apac lobbying for weapons to be sent to egypt. so if youre a member of apac and prize our friendship with israel, we need to call your leadership say, what in the heck is going on? why would you want ...

Was referring to. we may be able to get to that. was he talking about apac? was he talking about the various christian organizations that deeply support israel? we didnt get an answer to that. maybe we will later on. >> are you a no? i know you said that before. >> yes. im absolutely a no and theres nothing thats gone on today to counter what we all know. that you could not pick a united states senator from the last decade that has had more anti-israeli comments, that has had more troublesome vo...

Even george bush didnt have a regime against iran at that point in time. i told him i was going to make these remarks public. and he said, go right ahead because im going to say the same thing at the hearings. at those hearings, hell allay the concerns of the people. it is sort of interesting, david, one final point neither apac or the anti-deaf mission league or any of the groups have come out against hagel, and most of the opposition comes to be coming from the political hard right. >> we will...

Tone and phrasing. the phrase the jewish lobby offends some people. i dont think its only neo-cons finding that offensive and the remarks about apac and pro-israel calling some of the tactics stupid and cant deny them because theyre on tape. i think you will see him try to tune down the remarks and move toward the substance and where i think jim is right and probably not that far from where the american people and maybe a lot of americas jewish community are on a lot of the foreign policy issue....

Place there arent many members of congress publicly, you know, when these letters are sent up by apac and other pro-israel groups, hagel among maybe six or four senators that didnt sign them and 90 senators did sign them. on operations like the libya operation, he was a critic of that. he seems to be opposed to a lot of u.s. military interventions overseas whether they be for humanitarian reasons or other reasons. i dont know if id say hes outside of mainstream but an argument is made he could b...

We are a democracy as well. so you have the right to defend yourself, and that is where i think that israel and the united states very much had this sort of camaraderie and even despite the bad blood between netanyahu and our leader president obama, and the countries do maintain a healthy relationship, and you have a lot of american jews who do have dual citizenship as well even today. >> point that out, because the jewish vote is very vital in the country as we watched it play out in the electi...

Its something that president obama believes in personally. in fact, he affirmed that to the apac conference when he was a candidate in 2008. this is something that is in the republican platform, something that mitt romney said on his recent july visit to israel. why those words, why the language was taken out is inexplicable. i talked to a number of democratic officials about it order to and they said they want the platform toe cussed op president obama unswerving commitment to israel security. ...

Folly. >> good morning to you. >> good morning to you, bill. >> a do yo couple of headlines from this. one of his aides suggested that the governor would back and israeli strike over iran nuclear capability. how did this two-day swing go for him? >> i think overall if what he was trying to do was to say, nice, nice, israeli government, i am with you if i become president of the u.s. it went very well. and when you examine what it is that the governor said, there is really nothing, bill, nothing ...

Theyre trying to jump on this trip. are they doing a good job? >> i agree that the israel portion of the trip has gone well. strong message to evangelical voters back at home, that romney can be trusted with his support for israel. actually, he didnt really say anything different policy wise from the obama administration. many of the things he said, president obama has said recently. apac speech and other remarks. it was romneys tone and the nuensy and his confidence that were -- his fluency and...