way it wanted to. and they wanted their opponents to come so that they could try to make their case and show them their perspective on things. iza israel has always actually been very good about this until today. that s right. this is why israel encourages every member of congress to come. it encourages the chiefs of staff of congress to come. it pays for all sorts of people to come to israel, specifically for this reason. so they will see first of all that israel is a normal country and that people are raising families, people are going to work. there s a very functional economy, and that will appreciate their parm, their security situation. it is ridiculous to say i m not going to have them. and just to make your point even further i was told by a very reliable source that one of the main objections is that they didn t like the itinerary.
anyone saying that would be condemned by republicans, anyone not named donald trump. this shows you how far we have defined deviancy down for donald trump. donald trump is by far the most deviant person in the history of elected office in the united states. it is impossible to thing of something more deviant than a president telling the lie that two members of congress hate all jewish people and telling that lie so he could get them banned from entering israel. like everyone else we are going to discuss all of the other issues involved in this unprecedented poisonous episode, but i want to put a marker on those words in the trump tweet because the republicans and the republican news media players who object wildly to any version of the use of the word racist applied to anything donald trump
happened. i don t agree with everything these two congresswomen have said, and i have made that very clear as have others. but it is a much bigger step to suddenly say you are not going to allow these elected members of congress to visit your country. and the fact that the prime minister did it immediately after our president sent out his hateful tweet and then just reacted, i don t see this as a sign of strength on either of their part. and as far as president trump, you know, i still remember when john mccain was banned by vladimir putin to go to russia. that happened. or senator mary landrew of louisiana, that happened. and so why he would encourage an ally, a friend in israel to do the same is just beyond belief. and as i said earlier this afternoon, it is not a sign of strength. exporting intolerance that is a
this is israelis, they said it was too one-sided boss they were making multiple stops in the west bank. but at the same time the israeli government was discouraging israeli groups from meeting with these people. what could be more counter productive and more stupid than that, i don t know. go ahead, jonathan. i was just going to say on your basic point about how you have congressional delegations to china and other countries, what is really worrisome globally is that a lot of these countries will now no longer let members of congress in. i mean when the soviet union was around we had very, very anti-soviet members of congress who would go to the soviet union, they would talk to dissidents, come back, give a report to the american people about what they found. why would be close society anywhere in the world now agree to let members of congress in? this is a lot of what they do is go on these congressional delegations. so this is terrible precedent.
sleepily but i can stay up for an hour. might be a reason to do it. i think you re going to want to know. i was going to have a glass of wine tonight but i will not just to make sure pay attention, rachel. we have two presidential candidates joining us tonight after fox news released the answer to this question asked in a fox news poll, do you think donald trump is drawing the country together or tearing the country apart? those are the words of the fox news poll, and 59% say donald trump is tearing the country apart. and today donald trump did more to tear our country and our government apart by urging israel to ban the entry of two members of congress to israel. freshman democratic congresswomen ilhan omar and rashida talib. we ll ask the prez kjs candidates about that. our first guest tonight beto o rourke restarted his pr