Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe comes out and says that the 25th Amendment was considered against President Trump, the media struggles to exonerate Ilhan Omar of anti-Semitism, and we talk about the one year anniversary of Parkland.
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00:01:52.000And in this interview, in this interview, he tells Scott Pelley that he and a bunch of other people at the FBI and inside the DOJ considered recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment.
00:02:05.000Here is Scott Pelley reporting that from CBS this morning.
00:02:08.000The most illuminating and surprising thing in the interview to me were these eight days in May when all of these things were happening behind the scenes that the American people really didn't know about.
00:02:19.000There were meetings at the Justice Department in which it was discussed whether the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the President of the United States under the 25th Amendment.
00:02:34.000These were the eight days from Comey's firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel.
00:02:41.000And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president.
00:02:47.000Okay, and this is fully insane, right?
00:02:50.000If you recall, this was first reported by the New York Times.
00:02:52.000They reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who's always been seen by President Trump as sort of anti-Trump, as the guy who was allowing Robert Mueller to run wild in the Mueller investigation.
00:03:02.000The New York Times reported last year that Rod Rosenstein had basically convened meetings about whether the 25th Amendment could be used to declare President Trump mentally unfit.
00:03:16.000The decision as to whether the 25th Amendment could be invoked or should be invoked would have to be initiated by at least a sitting cabinet member, you would imagine.
00:03:24.000It can't just be some low-level staffer over at the Attorney General's office who decides, you know what, let's have some internal discussions about removing the President of the United States, specifically in the aftermath of the President firing the FBI Director.
00:03:36.000Which, by the way, he has every right to do.
00:03:39.000Trump has responded in a pair of tweets on Thursday morning after Rosenstein said that McCabe's account of the discussion was inaccurate and factually incorrect.
00:03:48.000He said, disgraced FBI acting director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a poor little angel when in fact he was a big part of the crooked Hillary scandal and the Russia hoax, a puppet for Lincoln James Comey.
00:04:25.000He had denied any wrongdoing and he claimed after he was fired that he was innocent and he justified his leak by claiming that James Comey knew about it.
00:04:32.000He had leaked to the media that there were developments in the Hillary Clinton case.
00:04:36.000He had leaked that to the Wall Street Journal and then he had lied about it internally.
00:04:39.000Katie Pavlich has a piece over at The Hill about this a few months back.
00:04:43.000She says that McCabe hired a K Street lobbying firm to set up a legal fund where he raised $500,000 from sympathetic leftists who viewed his firing as unjust, even cruel, since it happened just two days before his retirement.
00:04:53.000You remember, he was stripped of his retirement because of the firing.
00:04:56.000The truth is McCabe's line was worse than previously imagined and cited for his firing.
00:05:00.000Speculation about his lack of candor was overwhelmingly confirmed by a long-awaited Office of the Inspector General report late last week Which showed that McCabe's behavior was not only dishonest, but that he lied multiple times under oath to OIG investigators and FBI agents.
00:05:13.000OIG investigators concluded his repeated lying was calculated and beneficial to him, not the Bureau or the agents who work inside of it.
00:05:21.000According to the report, as detailed in this report, the OIG found that then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lacked candor, including under oath, on multiple occasions in connection with describing his role, in connection with a disclosure to the Wall Street Journal, and that conduct violated FBI code.
00:05:34.000The OIG also concluded that McCabe's disclosure of the existence of an ongoing investigation in the manner described in this report violated the FBI's and Department's media policy and constituted misconduct.
00:05:44.000Now, does that mean that McCabe was part of the quote-unquote Russia hoax?
00:05:47.000Does that mean that McCabe was actively undermining the president in 2016?
00:05:51.000It doesn't mean that because If you recall, the reason that he was fired was because he leaked information about Hillary Clinton to the Wall Street Journal.
00:05:58.000Nonetheless, McCabe has some honesty problems, obviously, and him suggesting that inside the DOJ there were actual meetings about getting rid of President Trump is pretty insane stuff.
00:06:09.000According to the New York Times, they reported last year that Rod Rosenstein, who is currently the Acting Attorney General, had suggested, or he's the Deputy Attorney General, he suggested that he secretly record President Trump in the White House.
00:06:25.000A Justice Department official said he made the remarks sarcastically.
00:06:28.000The accounts tended to back up Rosenstein's account, but McCabe told Pelley that Rosenstein's offer to wear a wire was made more than once, and that he ultimately took it to the lawyers at the FBI to discuss.
00:06:38.000McCabe, who was named acting director of the bureau after Comey's firing, launched obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations into whether Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey.
00:06:47.000Now that's the part where McCabe becomes part of the quote-unquote deep state.
00:06:50.000Launching investigations that are entirely baseless or based on speculation just because you don't like that your boss got fired?
00:06:58.000There was no evidence at the time that obstruction of justice was what had caused President Trump to fire, to fire James Comey.
00:07:06.000President Trump said pretty openly the reason that he fired James Comey is because Comey wouldn't just say that he wasn't under investigation at the time.
00:07:13.000And yet McCabe launched these obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations into Trump.
00:07:21.000McCabe says, I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid grounds in indelible fashion that where I removed quickly or reassigned or fired that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace.
00:07:54.000And McCabe saying that he was setting in process a bunch of investigations specifically with an eye toward the possibility that Trump was some sort of foreign agent is pretty crazy stuff.
00:08:04.000In an excerpt of the book published Thursday in the Atlantic, because he has a new book coming out, which is why he's doing all of this, McCabe describes a phone call he received from Trump on his first full day on the job as acting director of the FBI.
00:08:14.000According to McCabe, Trump told him he had hundreds of messages from FBI people saying how happy they are that I fired Comey.
00:08:29.000McCabe was eventually fired in March 2018.
00:08:33.000So McCabe coming forward with this bombshell once again is going to raise the specter that President Trump is not in the wrong when he says that there are motivated people inside the DOJ and the FBI who are attempting to oust him from office without proper evidence.
00:08:48.000If that is true, if inside the DOJ there were actual meetings about invoking the 25th Amendment without a single member of Trump's cabinet asking for it or asking for that investigation, that's pretty insane stuff.
00:09:01.000And Trump has every right to be extraordinarily upset about all of that.
00:09:06.000Meanwhile, President Trump is deciding whether or not to sign this border wall deal.
00:09:12.000It appears pretty obvious that today President Trump is going to sign the border wall deal.
00:09:17.000It doesn't actually provide tons of money for the border wall.
00:09:19.000It provides about 1.375 billion dollars for additional border fencing.
00:09:23.000According to the New York Times, Congress will move quickly on Thursday to pass a border security deal that deprives President Trump of what might be his last chance to build his wall.
00:09:31.000It doesn't really deprive him of the chance.
00:09:33.000I mean, President Trump Maybe reelected?
00:09:36.000Maybe he uses his executive powers in order to build more fencing along the drug corridors?
00:09:41.000The New York Times, though, is hopeful that Trump signs this into law.
00:09:44.000The Senate will vote first on the legislation, which includes the seven remaining bills to keep the final quarter of the government open through the end of September.
00:09:50.000House and Senate negotiators unveiled the 1,159-page bill just before midnight on Thursday, leaving little time for lawmakers to actually digest its contents.
00:09:58.000First of all, this kind of stuff has to stop.
00:10:00.000This, this is just not the way government was ever supposed to work.
00:10:03.000That negotiators were supposed to dump 1,200 page bills in front of the people voting on it the night before.
00:10:09.000Number one, no bill should be this long.
00:10:11.000Every bill should be about three pages long in English that people can understand with a legislative synopsis and should be posted 24 hours, at least before voting.
00:10:18.000And we should have a chance and an opportunity to peruse the actual bill.
00:10:21.000Dropping 1,200 page omnibus packages is just a way for legislators to escape responsibility for their culpability in writing garbage bills that are just crap sandwiches.
00:10:31.000Passage is expected tonight when the House takes it up.
00:10:34.000Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican of Iowa and the President pro tem of the Senate, began Thursday's session by praying that President Trump will sign the bill.
00:10:42.000Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said the agreement is something both sides should view as an important step.
00:10:47.000Passing the bill, McConnell said in remarks on the Senate floor, will provide the certainty of a fully functioning federal government.
00:10:52.000Bottom line is that nobody has the taste for another government shutdown at this point, which is why President Trump is likely to sign this into law.
00:11:02.000And President Trump, I guess, gets the political victory of being able to point to the Democrats and say, these folks don't care about border security going into 2020.
00:11:10.000The border security compromise, which is tucked into the $49 billion portion of the bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security, represents the most stinging legislative defeat of Mr. Trump's presidency, according to The New York Times.
00:11:21.000It provides $1.375 billion for 55 miles of steel post fencing.
00:11:27.000A pale comparison to the $5.7 billion request for more than 200 miles of steel or concrete wall the president wanted is actually less in mileage and money than what was included in the deal the president rejected in December.
00:11:39.000But the money allocated for fencing and immigration detention was more than what the left flank of the Democratic Party had wanted because they wanted to actually abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
00:12:02.000The president is not the great negotiator he claims to be when it comes to negotiating with Democrats.
00:12:06.000This is the second time he has caved to Democrats.
00:12:08.000You'll recall a couple of years ago, he went around Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and just signed a deal straight with the Democrats, giving them everything they wanted on the budget.
00:12:20.000Number two, it demonstrates once again, Democrats do not care very much about border security, and they are willing to allow the border to remain a thoroughfare for drugs and gangs and illegal immigration, if it means dealing President Trump a political blow.
00:12:33.000Okay, in just a second, I want to get to the anti-Semitism controversy that continues on the Democratic side of the aisle.
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00:14:09.000Over the last month, the president has gained substantially in his average approval ratings.
00:14:13.000In the Gallup tracking poll, the president is up something like 7% over the last month and a half, despite the government shutdown, despite all of this.
00:14:21.000Because the more that the president can show the Democrats in the proper light, the more he can show how radical they are, the better it will be for him.
00:14:52.000Yesterday she made a fool of herself when she was interviewing Elliott Abrams.
00:14:56.000Elliott Abrams is the special envoy to Venezuela.
00:14:59.000Elliott Abrams has been a lifelong envoy to South America during the 1980s.
00:15:05.000He worked with a bunch of governments in South America.
00:15:08.000Now, you'll have to recall that in the 1980s, there were serious conflicts in South America in which the Soviet Union was specifically attempting to overthrow certain governments in South America and Latin and Central America, attempting to overthrow those governments and put in place communist dictatorships.
00:15:22.000And the United States was deeply involved in funding a lot of regimes that were bad.
00:15:26.000But the question is, were those regimes actually worse than communist dictatorships?
00:15:37.000Elliott Abrams was working for the Reagan administration.
00:15:40.000He was not in favor of human rights violations.
00:15:42.000He was in the middle of a Cold War and he was attempting to make changes in South America and work with governments making changes in South America that would eventually lead to democracy.
00:15:50.000So, he worked, for example, in El Salvador.
00:15:52.000In El Salvador, there was a civil war between a communist uprising, a communist front group that was run basically by the Soviet Union and funded by the Soviet Union.
00:16:02.000The United States backed the El Salvadorian government, which was a dictatorship.
00:16:07.000In 1984, there was an election in El Salvador, and that began the process of transition away from military dictatorship and toward a A democracy that did not violate human rights in the same way during the same period the United States took in hundreds of thousands of Salvadorian refugees.
00:16:22.000So it is simply not true that the Reagan administration, the Clinton administration, they turned a blind eye to all of the human rights violations in El Salvador.
00:16:30.000Omar was, Ilhan Omar, was asking Elliott Abrams questions and you have to understand, The reason that she was going hard after Elliott Abrams was not really because of things she suspected that he did back in the 1980s.
00:16:43.000That is not the real reason she's going hard after him.
00:16:46.000The real reason Ilhan Omar is going hard after him is because she is a defender of the Maduro regime.
00:16:50.000So for a lady who is complaining about human rights violations in the 1980s, she's sure doing an amazing job of defending one of the worst human rights violators on planet Earth, Nicolas Maduro and the socialist evil regime that exists in Venezuela.
00:18:11.000By the way, she doesn't even know what she's talking about.
00:18:13.000I mean, she was questioning him about Iran-Contra, and she was mispronouncing half of her words.
00:18:17.000She legitimately doesn't know anything about the topic she's questioning about.
00:18:20.000Her staff preps her, and then she goes out and asks questions by mispronouncing the actual words that she's supposed to be saying.
00:18:26.000Mr. Adams, in 1991, you pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information from Congress regarding your involvement in the Iran-Qortra affair, for which you were later bartered by President George H.W.
00:18:55.000In that hearing, you dismissed, as Communist Propaganda Report, about the massacre of El Mesote.
00:19:05.000Okay, so look, she doesn't know what she's talking about, and she's a nasty human being, to not even allow Abrams to answer the questions.
00:19:12.000I don't know what the purpose of these hearings is other than to provide these sort of moments for the fresh faces of the Democratic Party, so fresh, so face, to demonstrate how they can destroy Republicans, and then we just clip out the part where he answers, and then we pretend that she did an amazing job of tearing him down.
00:19:27.000But that is not the extent of the defense of Ilhan Omar.
00:20:16.000And the same thing is true of Attorney General Mark Herring, in the same state, who dressed up as a rapper in 1980.
00:20:21.000The point that I'm making is that people say dumb, ignorant stuff sometimes.
00:20:25.000They do dumb, ignorant stuff sometimes.
00:20:26.000And when people do dumb and ignorant stuff, and we can adjudge that it has been dumb and ignorant, then forgiveness is in the cards.
00:20:32.000Forgiveness is not in the cards when you have a long record of doing bad stuff and then you say a thing.
00:20:38.000When you have a long record of saying things and then you say another thing.
00:20:41.000At that point, forgiveness is not in the cards, nor should we adjudicate your statement in the same way we would as if it was the first time that somebody else had said it.
00:20:50.000Ilhan Omar has a long record of this sort of garbage.
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00:22:43.000Okay, before I get to the rest of Ilhan Omar and her long record of antisemitism, I've been getting emails from people asking me to define antisemitism.
00:22:50.000Because people are doing this routine on the left where they say, being anti-Israel doesn't mean that you're anti-Semitic.
00:22:55.000Opposing certain actions that Israel takes does not mean that you're anti-Semitic, obviously.
00:22:59.000Opposing actions taken by the Israeli government or perspectives of the Israeli government on particular issues does not mean that you are anti-Semitic.
00:23:07.000I'm not anti-American, and I oppose some of the policies of every administration.
00:23:11.000I'm not anti-Israel, obviously, and I oppose many policies of the Israeli government.
00:23:15.000Most obviously, the 2005 pullout from the Gaza Strip that turned over the entire place to the terrorist group Hamas.
00:23:23.000What is anti-Semitic is believing, one, that Israel does not have a right to exist, two, treating Israel in a way that you would never treat any other state.
00:23:31.000So holding them to a standard you would hold no other state And three, suggesting that Jews everywhere are responsible for the specific actions of Israel and punishing Jews as a collective for the actions of the Israeli government.
00:23:51.000It is also anti-Semitic to buy into giant anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.
00:23:55.000The idea that the Jews are manipulating world events as a collective.
00:23:57.000We get together at our synagogues and we control the weather and the financial system and the media.
00:24:01.000That's anti-Semitic conspiracy theory nonsense.
00:24:04.000The problem for Ilhan Omar is that she believes a lot of these things.
00:24:07.000And it is obvious from her statements and her activities that she does believe a lot of these things.
00:24:11.000By the way, my suggestion that this is what anti-Semitism is, is not unique to me.
00:24:15.000It is the State Department definition of anti-Semitism.
00:24:18.000Here are some of the examples of anti-Semitism that the plenary in Bucharest decided to declare in the Stockholm Declaration are anti-Semitic.
00:24:27.000Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
00:24:33.000Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective.
00:24:39.000Such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government, or other societal institutions.
00:24:48.000Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
00:24:56.000Accusing the Jews as a people or Israel as a state of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
00:25:01.000Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, the dual loyalty canard that is engaged in openly by Rashida Tlaib.
00:25:08.000Hey, that is definitional anti-Semitism according to the State Department.
00:25:10.000of their own nations, denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, for example, by claiming that the existence of the state of Israel is a racist endeavor.
00:25:17.000That is definitional anti-Semitism according to the State Department.
00:25:21.000Here's Ilhan Omar doing exactly that in the last month.
00:25:24.000When I see Israel Institute law that recognizes it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it, and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East, I almost chuckle because I know that You know, we see that in any other society.
00:26:18.000And her suggestion that Israel cannot exist as a Jewish state is an anti-Semitic canard and fully in keeping with everything that she has said in the past.
00:26:26.000Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis, another State Department-recognized version of anti-Semitism.
00:26:33.000Using symbols and images associated with classical anti-semitism, claims of Jews killing Jesus, or the blood libel, to characterize Israel or Israelis.
00:26:41.000Bottom line is this, if we're going to analyze anti-semitism, and I've done this before on the program, it seems to me that in the modern world there are three types of anti-semitism.
00:26:48.000One is old school religious antisemitism, the belief that Judaism is a gutter religion in the view of Louis Farrakhan.
00:26:55.000That is sort of classical antisemitism, that Judaism is inherently evil and terrible and wrong and therefore it must be wiped out, right?
00:27:05.000Then there is racial antisemitism, the idea that the Jews as a race are nefarious, evil, Attempting to undermine society, right?
00:27:14.000That is the second type of antisemitism.
00:27:16.000You see that mostly associated with sort of alt-right, Nazi-esque groups.
00:27:20.000The idea that the Jews are a separate group of people genetically, and therefore, they have an agenda all their own.
00:27:25.000And then, there's the left-wing version of antisemitism, and that is that the world is made up of people who are more privileged and less privileged.
00:27:34.000Jews are more privileged, therefore, the Jews are engaging in activity to keep their privilege to themselves.
00:27:41.000And that crosses over a lot with intersectional theory.
00:27:43.000So people wonder how it is that the far left, which doesn't share a lot of priorities with radical Islam, seems to share priorities when it comes to Israel and antisemitism.
00:27:50.000And the answer is, because there's a lot of crossover.
00:27:53.000Radical Islam says religiously Jews are evil and also they cross over into Nazi territory with the Jews are the sons of pigs and monkeys.
00:28:03.000And then you have the far left, which says that Israel obviously is a victimizing, exploiting state and uses its world power in order to hypnotize the world.
00:28:13.000There's a lot of crossover between these two things.
00:28:20.000There were those of us who were calling it out for legitimately months before she was elected, as soon as she started making the national stage.
00:28:27.000I mean, this is a woman who appeared on a show with a guy who suggested that Israel was the Jewish ISIS.
00:28:33.000And she joked on that show about people in the United States taking too seriously and being too afraid of Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah.
00:29:16.000Okay, so yeah, we can laugh about al-Qaeda, we can laugh about Hezbollah.
00:29:20.000She suggested at the time, by the way, that it's American action in the Middle East that causes terrorism in the Middle East, which is, of course, a trope that is used by radical Islamists all over the world.
00:29:28.000So, there's nothing new under the sun.
00:29:30.000There's a reason Ilhan Omar celebrated with Linda Sarsour During the Women's March, there's a reason that she interviewed with that same guy, that same anti-Semite that she was talking to right there.
00:29:38.000She interviewed with that guy again in January 2017.
00:29:40.000There's a reason that in less than two weeks, she's supposed to speak at an event next to an open anti-Semitic pro-terror leader.
00:29:47.000But we're supposed to pretend that she's not an anti-Semite.
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00:32:32.000So the reason to lay out Ilhan Omar's entire record here is to suggest that when she makes an anti-Semitic comment in 2019 that is consistent with anti-Semitic commentary she has been issuing for legitimately 10 years, for every moment she has been in the public eye, that this is not in fact a break from her perspective.
00:32:52.000It is an integral part to her perspective.
00:32:55.000And we should be treating her the same way publicly that the Republicans treated Steve King.
00:33:00.000The reason that Steve King went under the bus is because Steve King for years had been saying stuff that was really, really on the line.
00:33:06.000And there was a way to interpret some of those things as not nefarious.
00:33:11.000And then all of that exploded when he made these comments about white nationalism and why should we treat white nationalism as a term of no value.
00:33:18.000Once he did that, I was like, okay, well now we have to go back and look at his whole record in that light.
00:33:22.000With Ilhan Omar, you didn't even need this comment to do it.
00:33:24.000She's apologized for anti-Semitism two times in the last month.
00:33:31.000Now the reason I also bring this up is because the media have attempted to suggest that President Trump and Ilhan Omar are somehow alike when it comes to the issue of anti-semitism.
00:33:40.000It is plainly absurd and frankly it's insulting.
00:33:43.000So it's insulting to the intelligence.
00:33:45.000And now listen, President Trump has said stuff that can be perceived as anti-semitic.
00:33:50.000He has done stuff that can be perceived as engaging in anti-semitic tropes.
00:33:54.000The reason this came up is because yesterday, we'll start at the beginning, President Trump suggested Ilhan Omar should resign.
00:34:00.000So here was President Trump yesterday saying that Ilhan Omar should resign.
00:34:02.000Now she should resign, but she shouldn't resign because she tweeted out an anti-Semitic thing over the weekend.
00:34:06.000She should resign because she's an anti-Semite.
00:34:09.000She should be kicked off her committees, certainly not be on the House Foreign Affairs Committee for God's sake, because she is an anti-Semite for as long as she has been in public life, and she has never once wavered from that sentiment, ever.
00:34:21.000She may have been cudgeled into saying that she made a mild boo-boo.
00:34:26.000But she's as anti-Semitic as she ever was.
00:34:32.000He focuses in on the anti-Semitic trope that she used over the weekend as though that's the real problem, not the long record of anti-Semitism that preceded it and engaged with this particular comment.
00:34:41.000Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress.
00:34:47.000And Congressman Omar is Terrible what she said, and I think she should either resign from Congress or she should certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:35:03.000What she said is so deep-seated in her heart that her lame apology, and that's what it was.
00:35:12.000It was lame, and she didn't mean a word of it.
00:35:52.000Yesterday on the program, I read you a piece from the Twin Cities Tribune, from Minneapolis Star Tribune, in which Jewish leaders went to Ilhan Omar years ago and tried to have a sit down with her in anti-Semitic intervention and came away completely disturbed by everything So she's just lying about that.
00:36:08.000The misdirection by the media from Omar to Trump is a very convenient ploy, but it is not realistic for a few reasons.
00:36:15.000Number one, Ilhan Omar's apology was complete bunk.
00:36:17.000The reason it was bunk is because she went right back to engaging in the same stereotypical tropes that she used a minute before.
00:36:23.000She just got rid of a little bit of the conspiracy theory.
00:36:25.000So what she did is she says, Jewish money is responsible for American-Israel support.
00:36:31.000She said, oh, I guess that was offensive.
00:36:33.000But it's AIPAC money that's responsible for Jewish-American support.
00:36:37.000I mean, for America's support of Israel.
00:36:39.000That is carving it back just enough so we can pretend it's not anti-semitic.
00:36:43.000But, again, every comment that she's made for 10 years has been basically anti-semitic when it comes to Israel and Jews, so I'm not sure what we're supposed to take away from that.
00:36:51.000Also, does this seem like a person who is deeply, deeply regretful of her activity?
00:36:57.000Yesterday, she sent out an email that was raising money off the entire issue.
00:37:18.000We're trying to say that you say terrible, terrible things, and that you've taken terrible positions and associated with terrible people, all of which is true.
00:37:25.000Does this seem like the activity of a person who is deeply regretful of her actions?
00:37:29.000Here was Ilhan Omar being asked about this by a CNN reporter.
00:37:32.000Did she stop and say, listen, I am, I've already said I'm deeply sorry about this.
00:38:15.000They suggest that the reason that she's being attacked is not because she has a long history of anti-Semitism.
00:38:19.000The reason that she is the reason she is attacked is because she is a Muslim.
00:38:23.000So here's Chris Cuomo doing that idiotic routine, this moronic block of wood on CNN, suggesting that the reason people are angry at Ilhan Omar is not because she has a long record of anti-Semitism, but because she's a Muslim woman and we just can't stand a Muslim woman in Congress.
00:38:38.000I mean, by the way, worth noting, I've stated on the show, I've stated on the show that I was happy that Congress changed its rules so that Muslim women could wear hijab on the floor.
00:39:35.000He turned it into kind of a shtick on his show, which, you know, I like Jake as a reporter, but I thought that this was really ham-fisted and not fair.
00:39:45.000So, Jake Tapper on CNN yesterday turned the Ilhan Omar scandal against President Trump by playing old clips of President Trump engaging in anti-Semitic tropes.
00:39:54.000Here was Tapper doing this with the help of his producers.
00:39:56.000There is nothing that this White House finds more offensive than a politician feeding into stereotypes about Jews and Jewish money and controlling politicians, which is what Congresswoman Omar is accused of having done.
00:40:09.000You know, you're not going to support me because I don't want your money.
00:40:12.000You don't want to give me money, okay?
00:40:34.000Okay, so a couple of things that are worth noting about the various clips that Jake Tapper shows right there.
00:40:39.000First of all, the clip of Trump speaking is at the Republican-Jewish coalition.
00:40:43.000So he's speaking at the Republican-Jewish coalition, and he followed that statement up by saying, I too have engaged in trying to buy politicians.
00:40:50.000Okay, so a little context there is necessary.
00:40:53.000It doesn't mean that he wasn't engaging in an awkward and ignorant anti-semitic trope.
00:40:57.000And it doesn't mean that when he retweeted something from alt-right accounts, which he was doing consistently in 2016, that that was not forwarding the aspirations of the alt-right.
00:41:04.000I was the number one recipient of anti-semitism online in 2016 from the alt-right, so I know this better than anyone.
00:41:11.000However, if you are going to suggest that the real pro- This is why the media have been trying to boil down Ilhan Omar's sin, to this particular statement.
00:41:19.000They don't want to talk about her entire record, because if they talk about her entire record, then the question becomes, why was she elected as an open anti-Semite in the first place?
00:41:26.000Why are Democrats tolerating her continued open anti-Semitism?
00:41:29.000If they can boil it down to, oh, she said a bad thing, well, Trump has said bad things in the past too, then it makes it easy to ignore the fact that Trump is also the most pro-Israel president in American history, that he has Jewish grandchildren, that his daughter is a convert to Judaism, his son-in-law, who is probably his top staffer, is also a Jew.
00:41:46.000It makes it very easy to ignore all of those things when you focus in on the individual statements.
00:41:50.000Now, as I said, as I said, you have to analyze people.
00:41:53.000I said this at the very outside of this monologue.
00:41:54.000You have to analyze people by the bulk of their work.
00:41:57.000So, if Trump says an ignorant stereotype about Jews in front of the RJC, while simultaneously being incredibly pro-Jew across his business life, across his administration, in his family life, then you say, okay, probably this comes from ignorance.
00:42:10.000If, however, an open anti-Semite for years says the same thing, then maybe we shouldn't take it exactly the same way.
00:42:20.000If Ralph Northam, dressed in blackface in 1985, then spent the next 30 years caring for poor black children in the inner city in his doctor's office, I think maybe we should take that as a notion of ignorance, as opposed to an actual KKK member who spent 30 years terrorizing black people and burning crosses on their lawn, dressing up in blackface.
00:42:38.000In other words, the activity itself can be bad in both contexts, but how we adjudicate the person based on the activity changes based on the lifetime of experience.
00:42:47.000So by just saying the real problem is Ilhan Omar's comment, not Ilhan Omar's viewpoint, What the left is doing is escaping culpability for their own complicity in antisemitism.
00:42:58.000They're pushing against Trump in order to avoid the fact that the left has become very, very comfortable with antisemitism in their own ranks.
00:43:05.000And look at the media trying to defend Ilhan Omar.
00:43:07.000Here's Brooke Baldwin on CNN saying, well, you know what?
00:43:10.000You know, Ilhan Omar apologized, so we should let it go at this point.
00:43:12.000She's apologized twice in the last month.
00:43:15.000Okay, and she has a long history of anti-Semitic viewpoints.
00:44:35.000She said a newcomer member of Congress has apologized for her remarks.
00:44:38.000It took them, what, 13 years to notice Steve King?
00:44:40.000Okay, so first of all, she's already comparing Ilhan Omar to Steve King.
00:44:45.000So she knows exactly what Ilhan Omar is, because Nancy Pelosi believes that Steve King is a deep-seated racist.
00:44:50.000So she knows what... So what's the lesson here?
00:44:52.000You get 12 years of free antisemitism before anybody gets to do anything?
00:44:56.000That because the right was too slow to awaken to Steve King, that therefore Ilhan Omar, who is perfectly obvious, significantly more obvious in her anti-Semitism than Steve King was in his racism until the last few months, that now she's got, I guess, a dozen year reign of anti-Semitism before her, before Nancy Pelosi decides to pay attention to it?
00:45:15.000The reality is Democrats know exactly what Ilhan Omar is, and they are keeping her on these committees because she is a fresh face.
00:45:34.000Imagine a justification where somebody does something wrong, and you say, well, you've done something wrong for 12 years, and then you finally acknowledge it, so I guess I get to do something wrong for 12 years.
00:45:45.000That is Nancy Pelosi admitting that in her view, Ilhan Omar is Steve King, but she's not going to do anything about it because Republicans were too slow on Steve King.
00:45:51.000Way to take the moral high ground there, Nancy.
00:45:54.000The reality is that Ilhan Omar will remain so long as she wishes to remain because the Democrats are fine, fine with anti-Semitism in their ranks.
00:46:03.000They've been hosting dozens of Congress people who routinely meet with Louis Farrakhan in their caucus for years.
00:46:10.000And we're all supposed to overlook that, because President Trump said some stuff that engaged in anti-Semitic tropes that was bad stuff, but that did not mesh with his career record.
00:46:20.000Again, a difference between that and statements that completely mesh with your career record, which is the state of the case for Rashida Tlaib, it's the state of the case for Maxine Waters, it's the state of the case for Ilhan Omar.
00:46:32.000Alrighty, let's get to, let's get some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:46:37.000So, yesterday, since I played the Soviet National Anthem in honor of Bernie Sanders and AOC, that got me thinking about great National Anthems.
00:46:43.000And of course, perhaps the greatest National Anthem is the French National Anthem, the Le Marseillaise.
00:46:48.000And the best use of Le Marseillaise comes In the greatest movie of all time, Casablanca.
00:46:53.000This is the best scene from the best movie of all time in Casablanca.
00:46:56.000A bunch of Germans are standing around in a Moroccan... It's French Morocco.
00:48:25.000One of the things that makes that scene so effective, by the way, is that a lot of the actors in that scene were actual expatriates from Europe who'd been expelled by the Nazis, or had to flee the Nazis.
00:48:34.000And this was made in 1942 in the middle of the war, so the idea that La Marseillaise was eventually going to triumph over The Watch on the Rhine was still very much in doubt at the time.
00:48:44.000The one quibble I have with Casablanca is that Paul Henr— Like, when I watch the movie, I don't understand why Ingrid Bergman would be into Humphrey Bogart over Paul Henry.
00:48:51.000Paul Henry's character is just a much better character.
00:48:54.000Part of it is that Humphrey Bogart's a little too old for the part, but obviously a fantastic movie and a great national anthem.
00:48:59.000Okay, time for a bunch of things that I hate.
00:49:05.000Okay, so we begin with things I hate today with Jussie Smollett.
00:49:08.000So you'll recall that Jussie Smollett claimed that at 2 a.m.
00:49:10.000on a Chicago street, he was accosted by two MAGA fans who started shouting at him the F-word and the N-word, and then suggested that he had invaded MAGA country on the streets of Chicago, roped a noose around his neck, and hit him with bleach.
00:49:25.000Now, there's no camera evidence that any of this happened.
00:49:29.000The camera stops for about... There are a bunch of cameras in Chicago.
00:49:33.000He's missing on camera for about 60 seconds.
00:49:35.000During that 60 second break, suddenly a rope appears around his neck or a clothesline.
00:49:40.000He walks, wearing that, straight through his lobby, at home, straight through his lobby, still carrying his Subway sandwich, by the way, straight through the lobby, up to his room, waits 40 minutes to call the police, and then, when the police come, and they say, okay, well, can we see your phone?
00:49:52.000Because you said you were on the phone at the time.
00:49:55.000Then finally, when he turned over his phone records, he turned them over, and they were so redacted that they no longer, that they no longer were of any use to the police, which is what the police said.
00:50:02.000Well, now, Jussie Smollett, who, again, this story was never particularly credible, now he goes on Good Morning America, and he says, how dare anyone Distrust my story, and he cries about it.
00:50:52.000Oh, so it's that we all don't want to see the truth, which is that you were walking down a street in Chicago at 2 a.m.
00:50:58.000when two MAGA fans who watch Empire recognized you and shouted about MAGA country and beat you up and kicked you in the ribs and roped a noose around your neck and poured bleach on you and then you waited 40 minutes to call the police, didn't turn over your phone, changed your story multiple times.
00:51:55.000By which he meant, I judge people as individuals.
00:51:57.000Not that he's colorblind or that he has no capacity to see the difference between a black person and a white person in terms of his visual fields, but that when he looks at people, he doesn't see them as members of a race first, which is what we should all aspire to, I thought.