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Nomination, they won't let anybody fill that job. they won't even hold hearings about putting her in the job. why? why? i don't know, any urgency around this issue at all, in our country right, now? republican senator did finally relent today. they allowed, at last, -- they will hold a confirmation hearing for her, for the antisemitism special envoy position. they finally allowed it for more after more than six months. all it took was, you know, in the past week, a bunch of neo-nazi banners flying over the interstate. more neo-nazis beating and spitting on a jewish student, because they were i...

. i got good news and bad news. which one do you want? let's start with the good news? the house of representatives has passed a new bill targeting islamophobia. here's the bad news. as the associated press writes, there was a quote, 219 to 212 party line vote to approve legislation sponsored by democratic congresswoman ilhan omar, that would establish a new special envoy position at the state department to monitor and combat islamophobia worldwide. how'd you get any "no" votes on that? that's right. the bill to fight islamophobia passed, but only over the objections of 212 republicans. thei...

Close the facility, but they're trying to do it very quietly under the radar. they're not really working with congress yet. their plan right now is to try to make as many of the detainees eligible for transfer to other countries as possible. quietly move some out and then begin working with congress. another thing we learn second degree that you may remember from the obama administration there was a special envoy position both for the state department and the pentagon. well, that was something that the biden administration during the transition time before he came into office, they had talked ...

State rex tillerson suggested maybe it wasn't a good idea top of someone fighting anti-semitism in the state department, maybe that could make the problem worse. secretary tillerson suggested if we had an envoy focused on fighting anti-semitism, maybe that would make everybody else stop working so hard against it. rex tillerson has been gone as secretary of state since march. in may of this year, a full 16 months into the administration, the new secretary of state mike pompeo got asked about the still-vacant special envoy position. >> in 2004 i authored the anti-semitism special envoy. that to...

Since president bush created that post 14 years ago, there have been three special envoys for combatting anti-semitism, but the last one departed in jan 2017 at the end of the obama administration. under the trump administration, that position has been held vacant, since then, all this time. after the position sat empty for six months, then-secretary of state rex tillerson suggested that maybe it wasn't a good idea to have someone dedicated to fighting anti-semitism in the state department, maybe that could make the problem worse. secretary tillerson suggested if we had an envoy focused on fig...