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The president just within the last hour defending his comments about jewish americans despite the backlash that's emerged since yesterday. many leading jewish organizations saying the president used an anti-semitic trope while connecting americans to two frequent targets of his. >> where is the democratic party gone? where have they gone where they're defending these two people over the state of israel? and i think any jewish people that vote for a democrat, i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. >> so then today the president defended that comment after

Respect and support of jewish americans. he cares about one thing, and that is furthering a nationalist, racist agenda and he will slam anyone and anything, he will invoke homoph trope that's necessary in order to show off to his base, look how tough i am, look how bad the other people are. and so he uses jews instrumentally. he uses them as a prop, whether it's to attack the democratic party or whether it's to -- we've lost jennifer for a minute. i want to play what the ceo of the anti-defamation league had to say and there are a lot of jewish organizations that came out immediately, put out ...

President -- obama, the former president, will be traveling to denmark. what are the chances that there's some relationship between his decision not to go and the fact that barack obama was going to be following him there? >> invoked another democrat from history when he was talking about the attempted purchase or at least the inquiry about the availability of greenland which is a part of denmark and he said harry truman had first expressed in that and trying to suggest it is an idea that has come up before in history. of course the president described when he used the nasty description you we...

Politics reporter and former senior adviser to the clinton campaign. betsy, the president is now insisting he is going to make changes to gun laws. here's what he just said. >> we're working on background checks. there are things we can do. but we already have very serious background checks. we have strong background checks. we can close up the gaps. we can do things that are very good and things that gun owners want to have done. we're dealing with democrats, we're dealing with republicans, we're dealing with the nra. we're dealing with gun owners. we're dealing with everybody. and i think we...

Concerned pass sweeping gun safety measures is to get a democrat back in the white house. >> and there are a lot of people, charlie, who agree with that, who are determined to do it. we have seen no letting up from the parkland students who started the whole movement with all the protests and everything else and a couple of them were -- they were unveiling a comprehensive gun reform policy today. let me play for you what two of the founders had to say. >> the important thing to remember about this plan is it is an appropriate and bold response to the massive amount of gun deaths that we have o...