people. i agree that she needs to be held accountable. i think she should be taken off her committee assignments with regard to showing some kind of consequences for this kind of anti-semitism behavior. if people of israel and the jewish people were offended by that, there needs to be consequences for that. you can strongly disagree with certain israeli policies, but if you are making statements that are hurtful to people there certainly needs to be consequences for this. one thing where i m jewish and i wasn t insulted. i don t think that s a uniform view. where has that consensus been when there s criticism and observation with the president who used inflammatory language? ic condemned his statements many times. it s not helpful. it is mean spirited.
as interim president man maduro. maduro is feeling threatened then. when he says to the u.s., your imperial aggression will lead to his strong response, what is he saying? that s what he s got to say to his own supporters. there s little he can do. he s got to hold on. he s got nowhere to go. he s got to keep the military behind him and the pressure is increasing. he doesn t feel he has the upper hand? i don t think so. he s behind the power outages, likely? right? i don t know that anybody knows that. i mean, look, their system fails every year at this time. okay. they haven t invested in it to keep it working. what is extraordinary this time is how widespread it is. almost the entire country is blacked out. you can see reports of people dying in hospitals because dialysis machines don t work. doing operations with the flashlights from cell phones.
those people are then going to blame maduro. oh, you bet. when you talk about maduro has power thus far because the military, you know, is backing him, but as soon as that support dwindles, or is compromised, is that when he loses grip and guaido, you know, gains power? because he, you know the top level of the military is very loyal to him. the national guard troops out on the street. they are a military national police force. the military, military is really not out repressing people, it s the national guard. i think they are hesitant to do that. there, the junior officers enlisted people, their families are suffering the same effect that everybody else in venezuela is. how long are they going to stay loyal? what should the u.s. role be here? well, first of all, we done a very good job, so far, of
in light of congressman omar s comments about israel. listen to what senator amy klobuchar said about it last hour. you mentioned she got a lot of applause, but then, on this particular topic, this is how she addressed it. did not agree with what the representative said there because, i believe you can be true to your country and advocate for another country. whether it is israel or canada or ethiopia, there are many americans that feel strongly that they love their own country, but they advocate for maybe a country of their own ancestry or another country they care a lot about. but, what i do believe is that the president has ignited, in his own way, a string of things
welcome back. president trump is slamming his former lawyer, michael cohen after two weeks of bombshell testimony on capitol hill. the president claiming cohen lied under oath, yet again, this time calling into question whether cohen asked for a pardon. i don t discuss it. the only one discussing it is you. i haven t discussed it. i know that in watching and seeing you folks at night that michael cohen lied about the pardon. it s a stone cold lie. he s lied about a lot of things. when he lied about the pardon, it was really a lie. his lawyer went to my lawyers and asked. i can go a step above that, but i won t now. congressman denny heck joining me now, a democrat from washington state and a democrat from the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks for being with us. the president contradicting