israel s right to exist as a homeland for the jewish people. on top of that there s also a group of jewish house democrats who have been circulating their own letter to sharply criticize what jayapal said. i obtained a pt of the draft letter. they wrote, we strongly sut israel s right to exist as a homeland for the jewish people. we will never allow anti-zie nist voices to hijack the democratic party and country. most democrats are refraining from directly attacking jayapal herself but all of this is coming as the president of israel is set to issue a joint address to congress on wednesday and several progressive democrats have already threatened to boycott that speech over israel s treatment of palestinians. so the democratic party s divide over israel once again coming to the forefront this week, dana. it sure s thank you so much for that, mel. let s go back to the table. you know, what s so important about this is that it s not just a one-time thing.
enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society. why so zealous in pursuing trump yet so passive about hillary or hunter. there s a lot wrapped into that statement there. but that certainly sounds like someone working for the trump campaign. that s not someone working for donald trump. that is from someone running against him for the republican nomination. his chief rival, ron desantis. here s another statement. quote, what we ve seen over the last several years is the weaponization of the department of justice against former president. i would purge all of the adjusts in our system. again, that sounds pretty trumpy in the language. that s from another rival for the nomination. senator tim scott of south carolina. they are not only refraining from attacking trump, they are echoing his language in many ways. the language of someone who has now been indicted twice. joining me now, is someone who knows a thing or two about republican politics and can help us answer just that. f
critic, chris christie prepares to enter the fray. nbc s gabe gutierrez is covering the race on the ground in iowa, and jennifer palmieri is the former communications director for the obama white house and hillary clinton s 2016 campaign. she s an msnbc political analyst. gabe, back in december that monmouth poll showed desantis leading by 13. now trump leads by 24. what message, what strategy is the desantis campaign using that they think can counter that trend? reporter: well, chris, the desantis campaign certainly faces an up hill battle. they re about to get an event started in this venue behind me, a small venue, but they have been crisscrossing the state today. as you said, chris, the governor is stepping up his attacks on former president trump, but only when he s asked about it. in his stump speeches, he s refraining from using the name donald trump, but he s trying in a subtle or not so subtle way to establish a distinction between
security juliette kayen. police say there will be no presser today. what do you make of this? is it a technique or strategy of refraining from sharing any information immediately? it s definitely a technique. it s not surprising. we ve seen this a couple times coming out of texas now and these mass shootings. it s unfortunate, i might have stronger words in the sense that public safety serves to protect the public and to inform the public. i thought yesterday when i was on air they didn t even confirm what i knew just by looking at twitter, what the gun was or even the ages of those killed is
weapons we are talking about right now. what has changed is people s societies, morals, our ethics, the break down of the family, the breakdown of the home, break down of faith, that is what is different. that s why you have started to see crime and accommodation of criminality or manifest with very troubled individuals who choose willingly evil actions over refraining from that seeking help and doing good no one wants to talk about that because everyone indicts themselves. can we talk about militant transviolence and what these activists are leading us to? perception same thing as genocide and that s exactly what these activists had said with their propaganda materials national day of vengeance or purge on april the 1st? what do you think they are going to do when you tell them this day and and day out.