off. donald trump takes on rhonda scent this and the florida governor seems to be crumbling it s his presidential campaign over before it even begins then, judicial ethics, the cal to investigate clarence thomas are growing. i ll speak with congressma hank johnson, one of the democrats leading the charge t try to hold thomas accountable and or start the week, it s battle for the most tone tha the campaign announcements you will want to stick aroun for these once i am ayman mohyeldin, let s ge started. all right, so in politics, lik in life, the little things matter most. great politicians like joe biden, nancy pelosi, barac obama, they have an almost innate ability to appreciate the little things. think about bill clinton snack for remembering the names of voters he met years earlier or even ronald reagan s habit o enjoying a jog at the end of the day with then speaker ti o neill. it was those small gesture that mean a great deal to th people on the receiving end of th
tel aviv spawned by italia prime minister benjamin now wh far-right power grab my alte plans for a democratic congressional delegation tri to israel, led by hous minority leader hakeem jeffries it is a rule who s who o rising stars within th conference, includin representatives like jos gottheimer, that pete washroom insults, all of them have been on the show. whether any of the lawmakers will be pressed abou normalizing the anti democrati authoritarian tactics of israel s current extremist government remains to be seen. writing in foreign policy last month, stephen cook argued, it is not appropriate for the united states to tell israel a the live or organize their society, but let s no longer pretend that the two countries share democratic values. cook observes accurately tha israel has long had so-calle democratic deficits bu netanyahu s government i making them impossible t ignore any longer. his regime as personally sough to weaken the checks and
territory. and that the reality is, a they say in the foreign affair article, some colleagues o mine that i know quite well, that is a once the reality i think the difference is, i my view, is that there will no be a solution, it once the solution where s and palestinians live together democratically and peace i think you ll see some very ugly versions that the statu quo that are marked by periods of violence between israel jews and palestinians who ar under occupation and eve absence of israel. this is not a panacea, but onc the reality is, and th unfortunate outcome of israel permanent occupation is become an annexation. what is it going to take, and you know better than i do, on this particular issue, fo congress and i suppose specifically, to your poin earlier that the base of the democratic party is shifting o this issue - for congressional democrats to start responding to this extremism of netanyahu s government to perhaps tie in o
delegation going i suspect what they re tryin to do is thread the needle i the same way that the bide administration has, which is t deal with perhaps prim minister netanyahu but not the far right zealot ministers tha make up the majority of hi government i am not sure that that will work any longer. as polls have demonstrated particularly among democrats i the united states. there is a significant shift i the way, in which, people view israel and its conflict with the palestinians in fact, a recent poll shows that more democrats are more sympathetic to the palestinian than the israelis. of course, netanyahu s efforts to undermine the checks an balances in the system and the ministers and his government who are seeking to annex territories at the expense of notion of a palestinian stat can help matters either. it will be rather awkward fo congressman hakeem jeffries an the rest of the delegation