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It's something that president obama believes in personally. in fact, he affirmed that to the apac conference when he was a candidate in 2008. this is something that is in the republican platform, something that mitt romney said on his recent july visit to israel. why those words, why the language was taken out is inexplicable. i talked to a number of democratic officials about it order to and they said they want the platform toe cussed op president obama unswerving commitment to israel security. as to why they took out jerusalem as the capital, none of them could say to me. it's back in again ...

Changes. we understand that the platforms don't really define a candidate per se. but at least for this week, they are part of the story. >> people were learning here today that they don't do you a lot of good. if you mess one up they can do you harm. i don't know why the jerusalem thing was dropped out of the platform. it has been in there, boilerplate language for years. maybe it was a mistake. i tell you this, the republican platform is different this year on jerusalem, too. every republican platform since 1996 has called for the moving of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. every ...

Channel and your network is that the democrats are godless people, they ought to know better. god is not a franchise of the republican party. >> so what i'm asking about the two changes, the two words, i'm just asking why. i'm not drawing conclusions. >> i know what is going on here. in an effort to justify the money shelby is spending in the name of standing up to israel, the democrats and the republicans are committed to israel's future and security and i'm one of them. >> i'm just asking -- >> present your evidence. present your evidence. >> i'm just asking the question what was the word ta...

God taken out was why did it change in first place? on israel the jerusalem part, mitt romney was asked about that today. take a quick listen to that. >> i find it one more example of israel thrown under the bus by the president. for us at a stage like this to take action of that nature, to cease calling jerusalem the capital of the israel, this is a troubling development. one which will be recognized for what it is by people across america and across the world. >> bret: that was before the change here. jonah your thoughts on this? >> one thing we know about the platform, they are what the par...

Is the language on jerusalem. they did not restate language isolating hamas, no return to the '67 lines. and the right of return. all of that is left out of the platform. quite troubling for pro-israel community. >> bret: charles, we have much more to talk to you about but we'll see you later tonight. thank you for tonight on "special report." don't forget tonight's text to vote question. how will bill clinton affect the obama campaign? text sr1 to 36288 if you think he will help. text sr2 if you think he will hurt. sr3 if you believe he will have no impact. results shortly. we talk with obama...