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>> i still can't get over that and joining me to talk about it, michelle goldberg, columnist at slate and sam seder msnbc contributor. there was a sense we had we didn't want a spectacle of the press conference to overwhelm the news but that exchange, like, just rid of what you think of the president's disposition or him as a person or his politics, it's like did he not understand? >> that actually was a super easy question because the answer to it is "ain't semitism is terrible, i condemn it". >> and we'll do everything we can to make sure people feel protected. >> particularly when you have ...

To go to the costco and the target on 116th and first avenue that are filled with undocumented immigrants with their costco cards but they don't have a way to feel protected and this is somehow going to help our economy chris? >> let me ask you this. you and javier agree that mass deportation is a dead end. and javier i want to come back to that where you understand the white house is because what chairman goodlatte said to congressman castro is -- you know, on the record now as of this show. my question to you is about what is the feeling that is reverberating through folks you're talking to?...

For the same group to like him. it's manifest, even in that room at one point, him saying you know, i'm a nice guy, i'm a nice guy. there's a neediness that seems to be driving this venomous feeling of being spurned that's evident when he's in the room. >> that's why the question was put in the most friendly possible terms but it's why he took it as an assault on his character. you know, and -- i mean, there's room to make an assault on his khark when it comes to kind of pluralistic democracy but that's not what this journalist was doing. and i think again it's because he's torn between two di...

Watch how friendly he is. wait, wait, watch how friendly he is. go ahead. >> reporter: mr. president, so first of all my name is jake turks and i, despite what some of my colleagues may have been reporting, i haven't seen anybody in my community accuse either yourself or any of -- anyone on your staff of being anti-semitic. we understand that you have jewish grand children, you are their zeyde. >> thank you. >> that is reporter jake turk, new to the white house press corps, seemingly bending over backwards to be what the president was asking for, a "friendly reporter." jake has been waiting fo...

>> what we are concerned about and what we haven't heard being addressed is an uptick in anti-semitism and how the government is taking care of it. there's been a report out that 48 bomb threats have been made against jewish centers all across the country in the last couple of weeks. there are people who are committing anti-semitic acts or threatening to -- >> see he said he was going to ask a very simple easy question. and it's not. >> reporter: it's an important question. >> not a simple question. not a fair question. sit down, i understand the rest of your question. so here's the story, fol...