jim, thank you. here to discuss all of this, executive editor mark preston, cnn political analyst kiersten powers and david swerdlick. kind of like an oops for that announcement. but first before we get to that, mark, we have never seen a president-elect hold a thank you rally before. what s your reaction to the speech? i don t think it was necessarily a thank you rally and it was a guess what, i won rally. he did say thank you america. he did say thank you america. he went out and definitely rubbed the nose in the dirt a little bit. but he did win. you know, and this has been the way he has run his campaign and certainly has been running his transition. and that s fine. i think that it s okay that he did it. give him props for winning. i wouldn t suggest going forward that he would continue to carry this tone going forward. i think he did try tonight to be conciliatory but probably not the best strategic thing to do. kiersten. i m in the same place.
i have to run now, but i did enjoy our conversation. okay. go ahead. i wish you the best. god bless, thank you very much. appreciate it. now, one person consistently turning a blind eye to saudi arabia hillary clinton, her foundation received millions from saudi leaders. earlier today fox news obtained a memo by the hillary clinton campaign blasting the new sweitzer book calling swierts sweitzer and his book discrediting. the silenceing that s kiersten powers and joining us is tammy bruce, author and columnist pamela geller. a little choppy because delay. we tried our best. what s your reaction to her? clearly. she lives under the sariia.ha sharia.
it in. muslims are percent cuted. the moral equivalency argument is foolish. he has to go back thousands of years to pull out the inquisition and the crusades. it s insane. so now why do you feel this is so important? what is it about you, kiersten powers, that has put this killing of christians abroad to the top of the list? as you know, bill, i care a lot about human rights in general. i was married to somebody who is a coptic christian, i m still very close to him and his family. and they re in egypt. and i spent time there and feel a real connection. so when i see these people, these coptic christians being beheaded i see family essentially. so i really was educated by spending time with people who are in this region, and i think
religious persecution but lump it in. muslims are percent cuted. the moral equivalency argument is foolish. he has to go back thousands of years to pull out the inquisition and the crusades. it s insane. so now why do you feel this is so important? what is it about you, kiersten powers, that has put this killing of christians abroad to the top of the list? as you know, bill, i care a lot about human rights in general. i was married to somebody who is a coptic christian, i m still very close to him and his family. and they re in egypt. and i spent time there and feel a real connection. so when i see these people, these coptic christians being beheaded i see family essentially. so i really was educated by spending time with people who are in this region, and i think
be out next month. so tell the folks what you wrote, kiersten. well i wrote about something that s been going on for a while. i ve written a lot on it but i feel like it s really reaching a critical tipping point which is christian persecution in the middle east and northern africa, and it s something that president obama has largely been silent on. and i pegged it off this press conference he had with the prime minister with italy. and they were talking about the people that were thrown overboard for being christians and the president said nothing. but the prime minister said he didn t think the christians were drowned because of their faith, which is insane because they were thrown overboard in the mediterranean sea, all right, by muslims. what other reason would there be? and they were praying. so the italian authorities arrested the men the muslim men and charged them with a hate