of those 97 times, 83 were israel. the only liberal democracy in the middle east, a tiny country, the only jewish state in the world. there is something dark behind that pattern and for the u.s. to simply state empirical reality and enforce actual u.s. policy and make this decision, for the u.n. to come in and try to make it null and void and a symbolic vote as a slap at santos but israel, it s another insult to the u.s. which is constantly antagonized at the u.n. we should reduce what we pay and because what are we getting for that investment? terrific to speech. dagen: jessica, marco rubio tweeted yesterday, given its tendency for anti-americanism, reevaluation as the u.s. role as
has done on its own in the middle east peace process, and help i m paraphrasing her here, to be making some anti-israel moves over time. do we have time to come out and chat about this? i m asking our team here, because i see with the big thought bubbles. lawrence: they have been anti-israel, is just the fact of the matter. i think this needs to be said. this is bipartisan issues. people voted on this. they said they wanted this in jerusalem. and then you keep that promise. the bipartisan of people that are still elected into offense and former presidents. i don t like how this is being planted as just president trump going rogue. he s honoring, not only his promise, but the promises of former presidents as well as senators and congressmen. harris: six months ago and they voted on this in congress, it was unanimous. we will move on. new development now after congressional leaders met with
the deadly attack happened last month outside remote village, the ambush is believed to have been orchestrated by militants linked to the islamic state. sergeant johnson was layed to rest a few weeks ago in florida. eric: in the middle east, meanwhile the rolling back of isis continues. the retaking of raqqah and syria means the loss of major foot hole in the country. iraqi forces have fully recaptured mosul, many in congress say to fully eradicate, military force that was first passed in response to al-qaeda attacks on 9/11, well, they must be rewritten. tod deposition exhibit young, a member of the senate committee foreign relations and he s in bloomington, indiana tonight and also a veteran who served in the u.s. marine corps as intelligence officer. we thank you for your service in the marines and thank you for
you know, you are for jeff flake, against kelli ward, which is his candidate in arizona, correct, now jeff flake is out, but his picks include michael grimm in staten island who got out of prison for tax fraud. is that someone you back? michael grimm no, and i think that s a different situation. i back marsha blackburn. i do think chris mcdaniel would be a better choice than wicker in mississippi. and several other of his candidates that he s looking at i think are potentially very good picks. intriguing one, erik prince if he throws his hat in the ring in wyoming, ceo of a very controversial contractor that works in iraq, et cetera, in the middle east, black waterwater that has had questionable episodes there including the 2007, you know, killing of 17 civilians. are these is that a candidate you re interested in? i m interested in learning more, yes. so you saw what happened with these tea party candidates,
in a stronger position as a geopolitical leader, or will it cause some allies to distrust the u.s. and the u.s. word? look, i can t speak on behalf of other governments, but obviously there s been a lot of opposition coming from the u.k., france, you know, and germany our key allies were involved in the negotiations. russia and china they would generally have an opposing position to us in any case no matter what. to that point, russia and china, some might argue that if this in some way weakens america s trust amongst the other countries then of course russia and china would be happy to jump in and say iran listen, you can trust us, we want to be the leader of the world. we have some common thinking with our allies. i mentioned france, the u.k., and germany, who negotiated the deal with us. what they believe is the same thing we believe, that iran has been a bad actor in the middle east. what they did in syria was just nothing less than atrocious. they supported a butcher of his