was anti-semitism. your colleague sees it differently. explain to our viewers who may not be familiar, why you think that tweet was anti-semitic and can you have a conversation about the influence of money on american politics like the nra, big faphrma, fossil fuels. 100%. we should be having a conversation about the israel lobby, apac. it is possible to do that without being anti-semitic or straying into even unintentionally anti-semitic tropes. one of the ways to do that is, as you know, jews have literally been mass murdered for accusations we are secretly controlling the levers of power with money, right? so when you know that a people has literally been mass murdered over that kind of portrayal, you want to be accurate when talking
about jews and control and ppowd money. yes, a lot of apac s power comes from the fact that israel is popular among americans, right? they are not controlling politicians. they are not controlling them with money. they are offering them a pro-israel credential with which to go out and tell the american people that they are pro israel. so we need to be very, very careful in the language, right? if they were no christians in america, aipac would have almost nowhere near the same amount of power. okay. let me bring peter in. you obviously wrote a very different opinion. and in your tweet sorry, your titled, ilhan omar is not an anti-semitic and you wrote, the problem is all lobebies use money. so unless you want to deny there even is an israel lobby, it can t be off limits to point out it works in secret and uses money to bring out policy.
with taking sides and preparing lawsuits. that s where we stand two days in to a national emergency that was declared by president trump. watch this. to certainly the expansion of authority congress has given past presidents, this president has the same authority. i wish he wouldn t use it in this case. daring the court to strike this down. the wall the president wants to build is not appropriate and in fact just a fulfillment of a campaign promise he hasn t been able to keep. this is a serious situation. this is a crisis. republicans are afraid he s going to take the money from somewhere else. and something they care about, but fundamentally, they think it s a president who failed, who hates to lose, who s acting childish. you can imagine, did not stop there. senior white house policy adviser stephen miller defended the president in this tense exchange on fox news sunday. the president will protect his national declaration. we re out of time. i make this point.
freshman congresswoman ilhan omar created controversy for this tweet saying merkel support is motivated by money, all an the benjamins, baby. responding to another tweet claiming the public affairs committee known at aipac is supporting american politicians prompting house democratic leadership to issue a joint statement condemning her quote. use of anti-submit eck tropes and supporters and called on her to apologize. she did apologize saying she is listening and learning and standing strong nap apologies did not appease the president who had this to say. i think she should either resign from congress or she should certainly resign from the house foreign affairs committee. all right.
health emergency related to the opioid crisis. really if we want to deal with drugs, and this national emergency, why don t we help the people dealing with those addictions instead of throwing money away at a wall that really isn t going to do anything? to that point, and why it s important to have reporting on the ground. you recently wrote a piece that looks at asylum seekers on the mexican side of the border. many saying the wait is too long and they have to give up. they re not getting the support they need. many turning back to go back to their home countries. what s the reality like on the ground from the way you ve seen it reported? while all of our attention has been drawn by the president to this concept of the wall, we ve been looking at, we went from summer, family separation to a winter of the wall. meanwhile, a lot has happened and the big policy changing trump made, we report on them and sort of forget about them, but they re having a real impact. the president and hi