Wrongdoing in those conversations. Begin with White House Correspondent sara murray. The white house downplaying cnn reporting saying that chief of staff Reince Priebus did nothing wrong but told by a source close to the president there is some consternation, heartburn about the conversations between Reince Priebus and fbi, the source says not the distraction the president needs. Really hoping to focus on top line agenda items and getting frustrated with the negative coverage hes getting around the staff story particularly, and this was another blow around that front. Clear at white house in peculiar incident that the white house didnt want to discuss this with cnn any further. Press Secretary Sean Spicer holding offcamera gaggle. At times doing this, may just invite a pool in or small group but bizarre. Cherry picked news outlets in. More conservative leaning and favorable to the president allowed in but i was blocked trying to atend for cnn and number of other major news outlets including New York Times and politico, sources that president has been vocally criticized also blocked. Asked why they decided to hand select which news outlets to let in or block. They didnt respond today. Thank you sara. Bring in maeve reston. Ask about the New York Times reporting. Reporting that National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster breaking with president , not calling terrorists radical islamists and signaling more moderate approach to the islamic world. Whats your reaction . Seen top adviser after top adviser breaking with donald trump. Its hugely significant because donald trump was so intent on using that phrase on the campaign trail last year. Radical islamic terrorism and make a big deal in front of the crowds as big crowd pleasing moment. Interesting break there. Talk about something else. Get back to what happened today. Do you think President Trump is attacking the media as distraction from the cnn reporting, incredible reporting weve been doing . I think its certainly that may be one of his motivations. But i think steve bannon and donald trump have made it very clear that their strategy in the first 100 days is have a hostile relationship with the media. I believe bannon said at cpac things would only get worse. What happened with sara murray at white house and other news organizations is really unfortunate. But thats the game the white house wants to play. They think its going to work in their favor in terms of helping to gin up the base and making the media the enemy. Maeve, the former Vice President dick cheney just introduced current Vice President mike pence at Republican Jewish Coalition of in las vegas now. What is this event . This is a powerful gathering that cheney and pence just addressed and pence is speaking now. Republican Jewish Coalition, a hugely powerful Donor Network for the republicans. Mike pence is there tonight to offer his thanks from both him and donald trump for standing with them throughout the Campaign Last year and being really powerful donors. He gave a special tribute also to shell vin adelson, one of the most powerful donors in the republican party, giving over 80 million to conservative causes last year. Also made a tribute to dick cheney. Rare appearance to see the former Vice President out there and pence often talked about him as role model and tonight cheney was joking he had never met a Vice President who was happy and he was so glad to see pence filling those shoes and that role. Lot of affection between the two on stage tonight. I appreciate that maeve. Bring in alan dershowitz, matt lewis good to have you all on. Matt ask you about the New York Times reporting. H. R. Mcmaster breaking with president , not calling terrorists, radical islamists and signaling what might be more moderate approach to the islamic world. Do you think so . I will be very interested to see how this plays out. Does he walk the talk . Is this reporting solid . Because this is surprising. I mean i think that calling it radical islamism is the moderate position. Dont want to accuse all muslims of being involved in something bad. But calling it radical, that qualifier, and islamism, i think is the accurate and even dare say politically correct term. But i have Great Respect for general mcmaster and the work he did in the counterinsurgency. If anybody has the credibility to say this is the wrong terminology, he would be one of the people. Alan, i know you want to respond. I bring up a good point, this is New York Times reporting, not cnns, go on alan. First of all i think trump is right to call it radical islamic terrorism. When i reported Jewish Defense league in 1970s, everybody called it extremist jewish terrorism. Done in the false name of judaism and this is done in the false name of islam. Think its good thing to have National Security adviser, expert in this, use a more moderate term. No reason why there shouldnt be disagreement in the executive branch. President can continue to use his term which i support and National Security adviser uses his term to maintain good relations with the arab allies. Saudis, emirates, egyptians. As long as nobody uses term islamic terrorism without the preface of radical or extremist. I think it plays into the hands of exactly what the extremists want. Want us to label them as radical islamic terrorists to am up their base, collect more money, organize the grassroots. They go on the internet and use this as ammunition to grow their base of support. Thats what mcmaster knows. What im curious about, with all due respect mr. Dershowitz, in a normal presidency, of course have differences of opinion. But this is not normal presidency. Third day the new nsa adviser counters a main talking point out of the president s administration, im curious to see what the president will do. Is he going to fire another National Security adviser . Just make him look weak. Not if hes smart. Exactly. I think say i welcome the disagreement s and will work out fine. In terms of encouraging isis, they dont need encouragement. I dont think calling something its true name shouldnt be making policy. And lets see what the actual truth is before coming to conclusion about exactly what this is. Alan turn to antisemitism and talk about that topic. Last night some things you wanted to discuss. Wanted more time than in a three minute segment or 30 seconds left because think its important. Vice president pence speaking at Republican Jewish Coalition event in las vegas, weve talked about last few weeks were not great particularly after told a jewish reporter to sit down at his press conference last week. You say you think President Trump and steve bannon are antisemitic no. Or theyre not. Ive said over and over again. Do you think this is olive branch know with the correction there. Think not antisemitic. But going to Jewish Cemetery an olive branch . Think its right thing to do. I think the administration has not been tough enough on antisemitism. I think theyve allowed things to happen. Bannon has allowed jews to be left out of of the holocaust commemoration because he doesnt want to alienate people on the altright. Hes not antisemite but strategist and opportunist and finds Political Support where he can get it. I think administration owed antisemitism a more respectful approach. Glad sending pence out. I wish the president would say i dont want support from anyone who is antisemitic. Go elsewhere. But short of that, what pence is saying in las vegas is good thing. Speaking up in the cemetery was wonderful. Can i also make my point about the democrats. I will get other folks reaction and then talk about that. Republican Jewish Coalition and Vice President , slip of the tongue. Alan said theyre not antisemitic, my mistake. What do you think . Theres a careful balance. Be irresponsible not to recognize there is a base of antisemitic voters that do support donald trump, and they need that base right now, angry and engage and criticizing the media for not doing its job. Thats their shtick. But they have to appease republican base. Some antisemitic, not all but some, and donors that are proisrael voters. You say denounced antisemitism and should be enough. What about the rise of it across the opportunity . I agree with everything said so far. I do think its concerning that weve seen these incidents and thats problematic. My point though is, a couple days ago President Trump was very clear in denouncing antisemitism. Then i saw, you know, another 24 hours of the press saying was he passionate enough . Did he denounce it Strong Enough . I dont think that was it matt. I think youre being hyperbolic. I think saying why didnt he what took him so long to do it. If you ask someone a question about antisemitism, racism, about xenophobia, misogyny, anything, all you have to do its easy answer. We have no place in our culture, in our society for it. And it will not be tolerated. Boom. End of story. I think this plays into what a lot of people dont like about the press and the sense that theyre brow did tbeating him. He was very clear. Gave a responsible and appropriate comment i think the press did say that. And there was a lot of followup commentary in the press. He should have said it stronger. He should have. And i think thats part of what people dont like imagine if he said if as strong as words against the press were to counter these statements. Right. Or against the cast of hamilton not able to generate as much against antisemitism in the block. Alan get to what you wanted to talk about. Didnt want to give you short shrift. Keith ellison, you dont support Keith Ellison, you think i dont know if you think hes antisemitic but some of the views or things hes said are. Hes made antisemitic statements in the past, associated with virulent antisemites and after working closely with farrakan who called judaism a gutter religion and after this, ellison gets up and says i didnt know he was antisemite until i decided to run for office in a neighborhood with a lot of jewish voters. Opportunistic and calculated and then votes against the iron dome. How do you do that . Its methodology of protecting civilians from terrorist rocket attacks. Why are the democrats thinking of picking somebody who extreme . Going to turn them into the labor party in england. Last time tried to moderate leftist people, mcgovern and dukakis. How could they be than they are right now. They won the popular vote in the election. And thats how we win elections . No. But reality is democrats have lost over 1,000 seats in eight years, raised more money than ever. The fight right now in the dnc is not about antisemitic comments. To be fair you have chuck schumer, randy wein garden, this is the man who supported only jewish candidate for president and supported huns of millions of dollars to israel. List goes on and on. It stops right now. And smear campaign. Dnc sending me messages theyve been getting about Keith Ellisons voting record that is false. I checked it and its false. Fighting how to win back seats. Not about a policy decision or smear tactic but the money going to major contracts at national level. Hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to National Contracts for eight major firms. Many of which are dnc members. Youre an attorney, you are a professor of law. It is a conflict of interest for voting members of the dnc, executive members, to be taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the dnc and not going to the states. Let them vote for a candidate who will undo this but not someone with antisemitic and antiisrael background. We have to take a break. Be right back. Announcer get on your feet for the nastiest bull in the state of texas. crowd cheers [car[clicking of ignition]rt] uh wha woof eeh woof wuh [silence] [engine roars to life] [dog howls] dramatic opera music swells from radio [howling continues] but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. Thats why i have the spark cash card from capital one. With it, i earn unlimited 2 cash back on all of my purchasing. 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When he said jews have too much power over American Foreign policy. So many good candidates for chairman of the dnc, why pick someone who is going to make me quit the Democratic Party, stop contributions from and alienate so many of the base of the Democratic Party. Ruin it and turn into corbins labor party and push it so far to the left. The hate to break the news but the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging membership. Base of the party has been lost for over a decade. The question here, democrats that are voting members have nowhere to go. New generation, where are they going . Literally no leadership at state levels. Lowest point since 1920 and were having a conversation about quotes from a College Newspaper and association that Keith Ellison had with someone and is guilty by association. You made an accusation of him and he didnt respond, i didnt know you had to respond to every accusation out there. Good serious ones. But bring up interesting point. Cant compromise with antisemitism. Mentioned heim sab at, thats indicative of the problem. Dnc has been beholden to few members. Prem afraid of losing his money. Other conversation is why do we have to donate for members, to Fund Consultants losing us elections. None of the states have money to organize, recruit, train, activate, encourage new members to join and having conversation about a sland rus attack. Having a conversation about antisemitism and asking why obama doesnt support Keith Ellison, why joe biden. Because he worked for doesnt support. And why he doesnt satisfy all the criteria without introducing this element of antisemitism. Dont need can i ask you a question . What is more important having conflicts of interest in the democratic or responding to landerous attacks 100 of the members concerned about conflicts of interest. Secretary perez propped but by five major consulting firms. And theyre wrong. Theres no reason to compromise with antisemitism. No business to justifying it. No one is doing that. Others will quit if you compromise. Trivialing what hes said in the past. Two democrats there arguing. And there are folks who have said this is why the democrats lost in november because theyre so busy eating each other up. Not to say antisemitism isnt important. Stop fighting and pick with uniter instead of divider. Instead of going with candidate who on the republican side said tough things, they eat each other alive. Sometimes parties have to have these fights and things are worth fighting for. I think professor dershowitz is right. Give him credit for calling out his own side. This topic with antisemitism. I dont think the other side of the conversation is talking about antisemitism but look this is unfortunate reality here. We have both sides of the political spectrum, populist right and populist left infected with strains of antisemitism. I think it would be a real shame if the Democrat Party was it harry truman who recognized it as that party to nominate a chairman of political with ties to farrakan . This is Keith Ellison at Democratic NationalCommittee Debate on cnn. Listen. Now we dont have it. Ask my colleague a direct question. Do you believe ellison when he said when he worked with farrakan all those years he had no idea he had any antisemitic views. Do you believe that . Thats not for me to decide. Im reporting on it. Yo