antifattah for changes. that s not to say that no members of his cabinet are. that is having an effect, isn t it? that is the effect and what i ve learned is that basically there s a small my north that are pu minority that are pushg for a presence. jews are allowed to visit the site but they re not supposed to pray there. there is a small group of religious groups who want a presence, want to go up and pray. 24 this is the holiest site of judaism. the palestinians are really obsessed even though you re talking about a tiny fringe of the israeli population. the palestinians pay close attention to any statement that comes out of this group of people. it can kind of set off a spark whether it s justified or not. it just touches at the deepest fears and once there s a spark, things spread very quickly. maybe a tiny fraction, a fringe element as you call it. uri ariel is not a man on the
amendment rights. this is about whether or not the mayor and whether or not the authorities in new york stood up and said these comments that are being made are wrong. because while it may have been a fringe element, the media was catching that, the media was broadcasting this, this is what police officers are seeing. so again, whether we like it or not, whether it was ten people, it was getting play on the air. and so what they wanted was not the michael skolniks of the world tell people to be quiet, they wanted their chief, they wanted their mayor to stand up and say, this is wrong. so let s be careful he condemned it over and over an over again. well, again, he didn t at the time. and that s the problem. is that he did not stand up and say these things. so again these remarks that were made by mr. lynch were certainly intemperate, but at this point, as i say, it s about the ramos family, it s about the liu family. we need to take care of these people and we need to stand down.
days, protesters don t steam to be listening to them. it s important to remember that the group orlging these protests, the answer coalition is basically the slime of stall lynists, this is basically bill de blasio s base and it shows he can t even lead his own side in this. it underscores u how unbelievably ineffective he s been as mayor. no one out of respect for these officers, a little bit of a cooling off period as well, please don t take to the streets and here they are. is there some idea here of decency and free speech colliding? there s a fringe element that wouldn t listen to any mayor. and in some respects, bill de blasio is between a rock and a
that s condoning it. who would condone killing police officers or calling for the death of police officers? but again, wolf, people do have the right, the first amendment right to protest, to peacefully protest, to assemble. and these are real issues. these aren t made-up issues. yes, there are problems of police brutality. yes, there is racism in the police ranks. and those are issues that need to be addressed. can i weigh in on this? yeah, weigh in but i also want you to weigh in on what the mayor said. he wants a hiatus in the protests now until after the funerals. but go ahead. i couldn t agree more. we need to simply stand down. everyone needs to stand down at this point and let these poor people grieve. listen, this is not about first amendment rights. this is about whether or not the mayor and whether or not the authorities in new york stood up and said these comments that are being made are wrong. because while it may have been a fringe element, the media was catching tha
policies, i m going to say that maybe you don t like me because of the color of my skin, and that s why it s not right. craig, isn t there something in between here? i mean, you don t want to hide behind race, but there are people who hide behind policy, because they don t like that he s black. well, let me just send out a memo. we have racism in america, okay? we all know it. everybody on this panel knows it. the issue, though, is not that it exists, the question is whether or not it permeates enough throughout society that it doesn t allow the attorney general or the president to do their job. and i think the comments that paul begala made about what the president said in that article are spot-on. that, yeah, there is an element we all acknowledge there s an element in our society, a fringe element, that is racist. that they don t like certain people, because of their ethnicity, their gender, or their race. it s made america great, and the reason we have an