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>> what we haven't really heard being addressed is an uptick in anti-semitism and how the government is planning to take care of it. there's been a report of 48 bomb attacks against jewish centers in the last couple weeks. >> he said he was going to ask a very simple, easy question, and it's not. it's not. not a simple question. not a fair question. okay. sit down. i understand the rest of your question. here's the story. i am the least anti-semitic perp you've seen in your entire life. number two, racism. the least racist person. he lied about he was going to ask a straight, simple question. ...

>> yeah, by being himself. if he were a phony that would be a problem. that would be a problem. he'd lose people on his own side. he's himself. that is exactly what people want to see. that's what his supporters want to see and what he's doing. >> john? >> this isn't my friend jeff a question if you like him or not or agree with policy, it's what jake tapper said, what you saw was an unhinged, deranged individual, and that's what's unsettling to people. i think to hook in the question about his attack on the press, which your interview with joaquin castro was interesting when he called the pre...

Media and that's part of what you're seeing as a destructive value. you're not seeing what you would have seen in decades past, everybody sort of yuniting and pushing back. he's getting everybody to jump on each other. to say the media is the epmy of the people is dangerous. >> thanks so much. jeff, stick around. when we come back, what the reporter you're about to see thinks about his moment in the spotlight. and a discussion behind the question that produced this highly charged moment. >> it's not a simple question, not a fair question. okay. sit down. i understand the rest of your question....

Country. here is the president's response, congressman. >> so here's the story, folks. number one, i am the least an anti-semitic person you've ever seen in your entire life. number two, racism. the least racist person. in fact we did very well relative to other people running as a republican -- quiet. quiet. see, he lied about -- he was going to get up and ask a very straight, simple question. so, you know, welcome to the world of the media. but let me just tell you something. i hate the charge. i find it repulsive. i hate even the question, because people that know me, and you heard the prim...

A name that i guess sounds kind of jewish. every time i retweeted from maybe jake tapper from your network, i get millions of mentions from people calling me every ethnic slur in the book, and some i have to look up on urban dictionary to find out what they mean. and i think that the way that he answered this guy's question, shut up, sit down, sadly, i think will be taken as a signal to those people whether or not he meant it. >> the problem is he didn't answer the question. it was a question about systemic anti semitism and the dozens of attacks and threats of attacks that have happened, and ...