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The president just within the last hour defending his comments about jewish americans despite the backlash thats emerged since yesterday. many leading jewish organizations saying the president used an anti-semitic trope while connecting americans to two frequent targets of his. >> where is the democratic party gone? where have they gone where theyre defending these two people over the state of israel? and i think any jewish people that vote for a democrat, i think it shows either a total lack of...

Respect and support of jewish americans. he cares about one thing, and that is furthering a nationalist, racist agenda and he will slam anyone and anything, he will invoke homoph trope thats necessary in order to show off to his base, look how tough i am, look how bad the other people are. and so he uses jews instrumentally. he uses them as a prop, whether its to attack the democratic party or whether its to -- weve lost jennifer for a minute. i want to play what the ceo of the anti-defamation l...

President -- obama, the former president, will be traveling to denmark. what are the chances that theres some relationship between his decision not to go and the fact that barack obama was going to be following him there? >> invoked another democrat from history when he was talking about the attempted purchase or at least the inquiry about the availability of greenland which is a part of denmark and he said harry truman had first expressed in that and trying to suggest it is an idea that has com...

Politics reporter and former senior adviser to the clinton campaign. betsy, the president is now insisting he is going to make changes to gun laws. heres what he just said. >> were working on background checks. there are things we can do. but we already have very serious background checks. we have strong background checks. we can close up the gaps. we can do things that are very good and things that gun owners want to have done. were dealing with democrats, were dealing with republicans, were de...

Concerned pass sweeping gun safety measures is to get a democrat back in the white house. >> and there are a lot of people, charlie, who agree with that, who are determined to do it. we have seen no letting up from the parkland students who started the whole movement with all the protests and everything else and a couple of them were -- they were unveiling a comprehensive gun reform policy today. let me play for you what two of the founders had to say. >> the important thing to remember about th...

In the white house. and the notion that hes good for israel, hes eroding support for israel. hes making it difficult for democratic jews to support israel because hes in a close relationship with the israel prime minister. so hes actually harmed israel in the long run. >> appreciate it. and the president denied hes in full retreat on the issue of guns after the shootings in texas and ohio seeming to suggest the real cause of the gun crisis lies at the american border. >> i have an appetite for...

Counting off all the good things hes done for israel. >> in my opinion, the democrats have gone very far away from israel. i cannot understand how they can do that. they dont want to fund israel. they want to take away foreign aid to israel, they want to do a lot of bad things to israel. in my opinion you vote for a democrat, youre being very disloyal to jewish people and youre being very disloyal to israel and only weak people would say anything other than that. >> joining me to talk about this...

Theres a terrible shooting, calls for reform, nothing happens. 20 dead children, six of their teachers, nothing happens. theres been some movement, some success by these groups on a state by state level. but could this be the year when gun safety does rise to the level where it becomes a true issue in 2020, that it becomes important for the democrats and maybe even if its not a defining issue in the presidential race, it could move some votes in congress? >> no, i think thats the way to put it. ...

The president, sanders up five points. everybody else is either tied with the president or trailing. back with me, former senior adviser to the clinton campaign and bulwark editor chief. is that a sure sign that other candidates know they just have to counter that electability argument? how much is that driving the race right now? >> its driving the race pretty dramatically because joe bidens had a rough summer and he still maintains a substantial lead in this race and i think its because democr...

Their final two years which the record there is not very good. >> i recommend your article today to everybody. thanks to all of you. still ahead, the president and the nra flips and flops on where he stands on guns and the president refuting claims that he folded during a phone call with wayne lapierre. but the president says if you vote for a democrat, you are simply not loyal to israel and goes further saying only weak people would say anything different. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, im a...