wild over this stuff. he s not doing it for american jews. american jews hate this. this is about him, his ego, the applause of his right wing base, and in the process he defiles the american presidency and he harms the u.s.-israel relationship. nancy pelosi put out a statement today showing that this was a reversal of israeli policy based entirely on the donald trump tweet. her statement said last month israeli ambassador dermer stated that out of respect for the u.s. congress and the great alliance between israel and america we would not deny entry to any member of congress into israel. that s what he said then. this is sad reversal and is deeply disappointing said speaker pelosi. jonathan, your reaction. well, it s interesting, lawrence, that donald trump also tweeted that it would, quote, show great weakness for
vociferous disagreement on issues, yes. denying congressional members entry, no. exporting intolerance is the true sign of weakness. joining our discussion now from little rock, arkansas, is senator amy klobuchar from the great state of minnesota and a member of the senate judiciary committee. she s a 2020 presidential candidate. senator klobuchar, i d like to hear more of your reaction to this thing we ve never seen in our history before, the president urging a foreign country to ban two member of congress from entering and israel banned them. i could not believe this today. just when you suspend belief and you think things can t get worse, this happened. and that is because i have always seen israel as our beacon of democracy in the mideast. and like your previous guest, i think that is so important for those of us that support israel. and i cannot believe this
so any american jew, and jennifer and i are both jewish, any american jew has to understand if they love israel they have to urge their friends in israel to vote against netanyahu in september and under no circumstances support donald trump. he might have moved the embassy, but this is a dagger pointed at the heart of israel s future. jennifer, congressman engel s point about what has been lost, his point was that the best perspective from which to view israel and israeli issues is to be in the country, experience it. and every israeli government has always understood that. in fact, pretty much every government in the world has understood that. even in our tensest moments with china, they ve always wanted representatives, members of congress to come so that china could make its case in whatever
rashida talib. and the least noted piece of this incident is that donald trump said these two congresswomen hate all jewish people. if i said donald trump hates all black people there would be outrage to that statement. uled be unanimously condemned by every republican member of the house and senate, and not one of them not one of them has objected to donald trump saying that two members of congress hate all jewish people. some republicans have said it was a mistake for benjamin netanyahu to follow orders from donald trump and to ban the congresswomen. but none of the republicans have objected to what the president said about these two members of congress. try saying that publicly about kevin mccarthy the leader of the republicans in the house of representatives that he hates all jewish people. try saying that. see what happens to you if you say that about any republican member of the house or anything like that about any republican member of the house.
of the united states was telling any foreign government, ally or foe not to admit members of the united states congress. it s apparent that benjamin netanyahu is putting his own re-election hopes which dependent upon him cur rying cu favor with the far right in israel above the u.s.-israel relationship. and no one who s a friend to israel would ever do this. and the reason is the survival of the relationship depends upon it being bipartisan, and that is why apac came out and to the exception of what the president said, if you have crossed the line with apac i think it s time to sit down, it s damaging to the united states, damaging to israel, to the united states congress. but mostly it s just damaging to donald trump because he doesn t give a darn about israel. this is means of him puffing up his evangelical base who goes