9 11 as some people did something has now caused a fire storm. Well, heres some context. Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second class citizen. And frankly im tired of it and every single muslim in this country should be tired of it. Care was founded after 9 11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our Civil Liberties. Washington post fact checker Glenn Kessler pointed out that care was founded in 1994, not after september 11. Omars spokesperson Jeremy Slevin said the congresswoman misspoke, meant to refer to the fact that the organization had doubled in size after the september 11th attacks. There has been a fullthroated reaction from both sides of the aisle. Texas republican congressman and former Navy Seal Dan Crenshaw tweeted this. First member of congress to ever described terrorists who killed thousands of americans on 9 11 as some people who did something, unbelievable. Donald trump jr. Tweeted this woman is a disgrace. On fox and friends, cohost Brian Kilmede said this. Really, some people did something, you have to wonder if shes an american first. Others faulted the New York Post, Michigan Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib said taking her words out of context was a racist act. Representative alexandria ocasiocortez was similarly appalled. We are getting to a level where this is an incitement of violence against progressive women of color. And if they cant figure out how to get it back to policy, we need to call it out for what it is, because this is not normal and this is not a normal level of political debate or rhetoric as wild as it can get, sometimes this is something beyond what is normal. The New York Post didnt back off. Instead, running a follow up editorial that doubled down saying omar and her supporters simply want to stifle debate by declaring any criticism of her to be out of bounds and democrats are playing along, either echoing the out of context excuse or just staying silent. Its even worse than their failed effort to condemn her remarks accusing American Jews of duel loyalty, and Political Support for israel. The dodgers may play well on twitter, we expect most americans will remain appalled. Then congresswoman omar made things worse with another tweet. She cited president george w. Bushs quote, the people and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon, was bush down playing the attack, what if he was a muslim. I dont think the comparison is a good one. President bush unlike omar wasnt ignoring the perpetrators of 9 11, he was threatening revenge against them. And yesterday, President Trump joined the fray himself with this tweet which incorporated grizzly images of the towers with her quote. Everybody has had their say expect me. So here it goes. I think that at best her words were poorly chosen. Never should anyone much less a member of congress minimize september 11 by saying that some people did something. Better than in making a point about Civil Liberties she had correctly noted the terrorists killed 3,000 innocent americans robbing them of all of their Civil Liberties. I can understand why she might have been uncomfortable using the words radical islam in front of an Islamic Group but heres what she should have said. She should have said care doubled in size after 9 11 because it recognized that in the aftermath of the most despicable and heinous terror attack on our country, which was perpetrated by individuals who distorted our faith, lawabiding peace loving muslims were losing access to all of our Civil Liberties. After i made that point on siriusxm radio, a friend of mine objected and said omar is being held to a different saturday because shes a muslim, and that made me reconsider, what if it had been a different type of political leader who similarly sought to make representative omars point about the curtailment of Civil Liberties post 9 11. After all, thats a libertarian mantra. What if a libertarian leader, maybe ron paul, was speaking at an Affinity Group and similarly said some people did something that caused the rest of us to lose all of our Civil Liberties. Would he have faced the same reaction as congresswoman omar . Probably not. Heres the bottom line. Her words were totally inappropriate, and so, too, was much of the reaction. I want to know what you think. Go to my web site at smerconish. Com, answer this survey question, the New York Post cover using 9 11 photo to condemn i condemn elan omar, was that morally wrong or a fair come back to her 9 11 comment. Ill give you the results at the end of the hour. Looking ahead to the 2020 election, are the democrats headed for a nasty slug fest at the 2020 convention. Remember that donald trump won in 2016 by taking advantage of the crowded gop field and the winner take all primary rules to grab an unexpected victory. My next guest says that in 2020 the president could again benefit thanks to similar factors, a crowded field, primary rules, but this time, on the democratic side of the aisle, and it could lead to a floor fight at the convention. Joining me now to discuss is david wasserman, house editor at the cook political report, he wrote this recently piece in the new york times. Trump may have an unlikely reelection ally, david, hypothetical, if the 2016 republican contest had been fought under democratic rules, what would have been the outcome, it absolutely would have gone to a contestant convention. Everyone knows that democrats are headed for a zillion way primary field. That didnt hurt Donald Trumps chances in 2016, but republicans and democrats primary rules are fundamentally different in a way that penalizes democrats for having a large field. The reason is that republicans are more about free markets and they allocate most of their delegates on a winner take all basis, which allows trump to wrap up the nomination fairly early, gave himself two more months before the convention to attack Hillary Clinton and kind of jackhammer away at her. Democrats rules are more egalitarian. Everyone gets a participation trophy, everyone gets a share of delegates as long as they have more than 15 of the vote in any district or state. And so what that means is if you have seven or eight viable candidates next spring, then youre going to have a scenario where its very very difficult for one candidate to get 50 of the delegates before the convention, and that means and this is the irony of the dncs rule change on super delegates, even though they dont get a first vote at the convention on a first ballot, if this thing goes to a second or third or fourth ballot, the irony is the super delegates which the grass roots hates could end up having more say in deciding who the democratic nominee is. Let me illustrate by showing a slide from South Carolina in 2016 and the final result in South Carolina. There it is, 32. 5 of the vote won by donald trump, and yet he gets all the delegates. Thats right. And, you know, we didnt give republicans enough credit, i dont think, in 2016 for just how much their primary process rewarded a front running candidate who is winning small pluralities. In fact, we looked at it and said, okay, well, maybe winner take all by district. Donald trump may have won 33 of the vote in South Carolina total but he managed to eke out majorities in every district in South Carolina. This was repeated across the board where he was able to get essentially a delegate majority, clinch the nomination before the convention. Thats not true on the democratic side. Todays Democratic Party is highly fractious. This is not going to be a picnic. You have candidates raising enormous money from small donations, from grass roots which will allow them to fight deeper into the primary calendar. We dont know when the checkered flag is going to be on the democratic side, and also consider that democrats have front loaded their calendar. California and texas have moved up their primaries to super tuesday, so you will have at least 36 of delegates allocated by early march, which means that this primary will have allocated a whole lot of delegates before the herd has been called. Right. The point is, and were showing the graphic, that super tuesday is going to be of critical importance, and youre saying everyone will still be standing, 15, maybe 20 candidates on march 3. The vote will get whacked proportionately, and that will decrease the odds that someone on the democratic side can do that which donald trump did on the republican side, which is to lock it up. Now, let me ask a question because i think you make a very convincing argument. Is this necessarily bad for the party . I mean, maybe it will energize the interest level if the thing goes down to the wire to the convention . It could. But look, what we found out in 2016 is that donald trump is an expert when it comes to prying open cracks in the partys coalition. Hes a highly manipulative politician as we know. Democrats are a factious party. There are democrats who want nothing less than a green new deal, to abolish i. C. E. , for a Single Payer Health care. There is also a new convention of democratic primary voters i would argue, suburban republicans who trump has converted to democrats who bristle. You want democratic voters who dont want a white male, who dont want a coastal elite. Theres a broader array on this wish list, and no democrat, i think, is going to get everything they want in a nominee. But, you know, that could lead to a scenario where the president is able to kind of use social media and use ads on facebook and other channels as he did to suppress elements of the Democratic Coalition in 2016 to do the same in 2020. Let me just roll some footage, katherine, show the bernie footage from the last cycle at the convention. Those bernie folks at the convention were bummed. I mean, thats them at the convention. Look at the misery in some of their faces because their guy went down, and you know they thought that it was super delegates, actually super delegates didnt determine the outcome, but my point is there could be some very disappointed people if, in fact, it goes to the convention with a lot of candidates still viable at the outset. Thats right. And, you know, kind of the myth from 2016 was that super delegates, you know, swooped in and rigged the nominating process on the democratic side for Hillary Clinton. Well, you know, the danger for democrats in 2020 is not necessarily, you know, the super delegates overriding the will of democratic primary voters so much as the fact that large field could lead to a very very divisive convention in milwaukee, and you know, this wasnt a danger for democrats in 08 or 2016 because the field boiled down very quickly to two candidates, it was virtually guaranteed that one of those candidates in those years would receive the delegate majority. Thats not guaranteed in 2020. Fascinating analysis. David wasserman, thank you so much for coming back. Go to the web site and answer this weeks survey question, the New York Post cover using 9 11 photo to condemn ilhan omar, morally or realistically wrong or fair comeback to her 9 11 comment. Tweet me at smerconish, go to my Facebook Page. Ill read some during the course of the program. She was 100 correct, her delivery was just not eloquent. She was correct in so far as there were Civil Liberties sacrificed by the muslim community. I cant say she was 100 correct whereby omission she ignored the heinous nature of what happened on september 11th. Thats my view. Up ahead, will we ever be able to solve the border situation . Not until peoples views are based on data, i say, and not their perception of the president. And when attorney general bill barr discussed spying on the Trump Campaign, he was talking about former Trump Campaign aide carter page. Mr. Page is here to discuss. 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Border authorities are predicting the number of undocumented migrants stopped or turned away at the southern border could reach as high as 1 million by the end of the year, potentially doubling last years level, yet the issue has become a political football. This was reinforced this week when we learned that the president wants to relocate migrants to sanctuary cities as a kind of punishment to the quote unquote radical left. Cnn reported that the president told cbp head Kevin Mcaleenan that if hes jailed for blocking Asylum Seekers, the president would pardon him. Joining me now is daryl lynn, Senior Correspondent at vox, who covers the immigration beat, author of the recent piece 9 questions about the border crisis you were too embarrassed to ask, which was perfect for me because she answered many i was wondering. This isnt a manufactured crisis or a politically engineered one. Explain. So, for a while, and this has diminished somewhat as its become clear just how many people are coming in, but in the last couple of months it was tempting for democrats to say yes, there are problems but the only problems on the border are those that the administration has created. Its since become apparent that the magnitude of Central American families coming into the u. S. Really is something that we have just never seen before, and that this isnt entirely something that the Trump Administration has provoked even if there are fairly strong arguments that the number of people being caught by Border Agents crossing illegally as opposed to to ports of industry may be slightly reduced if the administration were allowing people to seek asylum at those ports. The first question that you address, is there an unprecedented surge of unauthorized migration to the u. S. , whats the answer . 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