saying. i think they found out it was out, i didn t know it was ever in. i mean that. so. the reverence to jerusalem? that i knew waits in. that is something if you wrote the platform you had to know that was political dynamite. and that is you had to know. it s like congress. i mean, you re a caucus in congress can do stuff that the president. when want to help your candidate rather than sticking dine know might? activists in both parties are are far less moderit than candidates from the fact this is busy work for act ti vifs? you can put together a platform anyway? no. no. i think look. i think there is some pro life
i m from. not going do well in the direct i represent but he s g going to win the state. and the platform in this controversy about the democratic platform which in all fairness i didn t go after. and the only reason it s curious is because in prior years, it s been tlchl the fact that jerusalem is not there. there are party activists that make changes and i don t think people cross refr refrs reference everything in there. mayor booker says it s about moving america and economy forward so. mayor booker seems to say this is an
steve, it has been quite a 24 hours. it has been. apparently you were not harping on like senator durbin said. it was a serious question. i think we still don t have an answer to it. we still don t know why the language was dropped. as charles suggested earlier and we talked about last night, these things don t happen unless there is a reason they happen. so there was some discussion about why this language should be dropped. there will be a change in policy. we don t know. taking a step back and looking at the big picture, if you have enter a political convention like this. there are basic rules. don t angeer the president. don t embarrass the first lady. don t put delegates in a position to booing god and jerusalem. especially on videotape. it s bad moment for democrats. it has to be included all of the coverage of the convention. i don t know if it will overshadow bill clinton. probably not. but it will be part of the story. bret: chuck, ed henry confirmed the associated press
and the platform has been amended as shown on the screen. bret: could have asked for roll call vote at that point. they didn t. the chair decided that was two-thirds. there were some boos as you heard there in the hall about that decision. now last night, here on special report, i asked senate majority whip dick durbin about the remuel of god and jerusalem removal of god and jerusalem from the platform this year. durbin accused me and the network having an agenda by asking about the omissions. your conclusions are young if you re drawing them. i m not. secondly, let me tell you the first president to recognize the state of israel was harry truman, a democrat. and every president since democrat and republican, has stood closely with israel. i know what is going on here. in an effort to justify shelby and the money he is spending to stand up to israel listen. the democrats and republicans are committed to
it s something that president obama believes in personally. in fact, he affirmed that to the apac conference when he was a candidate in 2008. this is something that is in the republican platform, something that mitt romney said on his recent july visit to israel. why those words, why the language was taken out is inexplicable. i talked to a number of democratic officials about it order to and they said they want the platform toe cussed op president obama unswerving commitment to israel security. as to why they took out jerusalem as the capital, none of them could say to me. it s back in again tonight. another controversy that erupted at exactly the same time when the language about god was taken out of the 2008 convention platform. talked about people being able to through the help of government reach their god-given potential. that was changed and people should be able to go as far as their own talent and drive could take them. i talked to some people about that today at the faith c