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Youre talking about two muslim women. when there is such a spread of islamophobia worldwide and one of them happens to be a palestinian american. when you have anger, the palestinian territories about the building and the settlements and theres still no peace and still no two-state solution, broeth of these women and many democrats support. apac and others, pro israel, has supported the congresswomen and felt israel was wrong. >> they did that because, for the plit kl atmosphere -- political atm...

Anti-israel, so anti-jewish, again, if other people made that statement, there would have been hell to pay. but i did speak to people over there, yeah. >> reporter: before the presidents tweet, the white house denied mr. trump was urging netanyahu to ban the congresswoman, saying, that was inaccurate. democrats are railing against the move. >> its an insult to the american people. representative talib and representative omar are equal members of the united states congress. >> reporter: this is m...

Trump. president trump certainly putting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in a difficult situation. this is going to appease the president, this decision today, but going to anger many house democrats. dana? >> dana: all right, trey, thank you very much. joining me now is veteran national political journalist and president of trust scott brockman. i havent seen you in awhile. you left washington, d.c. moved back to detroit. and we were going to have you on to talk about democrats and me...

At the same time i cant say that i was so surprised. similar to his attacks on representative lewis, on the freshman congressman, representative talib, representative alexandria ocasio-cortez, et cetera he has time and again shown hes willing to attack and demean lawmakers of color. so like this was nothing new. i wasnt super surprised. like so many other people from baltimore -- yeah? >> i was going to say i cant help but think though its part of a pattern, this is where we are that we are not ...

>> her colleague representative talib. >> boo! >> representative alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> boo! >> so representative pressly. >> boo! >> the president tonight also referring to senator elizabeth warren as pocahontas again. talk about what youve been hearing. >> reporter: you should note these are scripted remarks. the president is reading from the teleprompter and spoke about how fiery reporters should expect the rally to be. what the president said tonight about each of the congresswomen is ...

Her back. >> when you see the four congresswomen always in that lovely -- >> boo! >> representative ill lomar. >> boo! >> her colleague representative talib. >> boo! >> representative alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> boo! >> so representative pressly. >> boo! >> the president tonight also referring to senator elizabeth warren as pocahontas again. talk about what youve been hearing. >> reporter: you should note these are scripted remarks.

Something racist and not be a racist, for example? i mean, this sort of game of anti-ics we are playing now about anti-semitism. >> we just had this last week during the michael cohen hearing with mark meadows and that display. and you know, what happened with him with representative talib. look, this is what i think is going on here. its clear that representative omar knows exactly what shes saying. its clear that she is wading into these issues in a way that out of the heart so does your mouth...

Talib repeat her apology. the michael cohen hearing wasnt a hearing at all. it was cheap theatrics. here to weigh in, the professional at princeton university, rick tyler. im told and its been reported there were some people gasped when mark meadows brought out this trump staffer. what was your reaction then to that and then seeing the exchange? >> well, i was horrified. i found it insulting. congressman meadows used lynn patton as if she was a black venus and put her on display. theres no neces...

Example of bill clinton that we have with donald trump where there are serious questions about whether hes violating the constitution. >> theres no serious evidence, keith. >> those questions are being investigated by robert mueller so dont say will they have been resolved or not. unlike whether or not you got a blow job from an intern. >> okay. all right. >> okay. >> okay. >> good. >> lets -- speaking of things that we dont usually say on this show. >> im sorry, i didnt mean to say that. >> kei...

Going to stand firm for that. thats exactly the right mow situation. we have to keep making the argument and the american people have to keep speaking up in support of it. thats when we get the democrats to do the right thing. >> neil: the president says in the name of national security he can do this on his own. can he? >> i think he can but that will get challenged in court. thats why this is the better approach. to appropriate dollars by the government to do what we said we were going to do. ...