zealots i brought to power. i will keep israel within its traditional political bound tears. it s me, your old pal bebe. they all wanted to trust him and it all turned out to be a lie. joining us now is rick stingle, former secretary of state in the obama administration, an msnbc political analyst. this is a crisis in israel like we have never seen. yes. these are the largest demonstrations in israeli history, lawrence. israel is at a cross roads. will it be a jewish state or a democracy? they re in conflict with each other. as you know, israel does not have a written constitution. it s one of only six nations in the world. what they do have is a very, very strong supreme court, a very strong judiciary. what we ve seen over the last 15
freedom around the world wherever it was threatened. laura: she loved reagan, she had a great relationship with reagan, john paul ii. obviously she and trump got along really well. woody and i were just talking about that. yeah, absolutely. laura: i want to you play you some other reaction to her death from some corners was a bit odd mr. secretary. here s former obama official and journalist rick stingle. british colonialism which she presided over for years had a terrible affect over the world. there s a still a cashing that yearns for that very thing that we escaped from. laurie: what on earth is he talking about? i mean, they have contempt for anything attached to tradition, period, end of story. unbelievable. you ve got it exactly right. this is an attack on the foundational ideas of our country. we have a very different system. we have no monarchy here we
unpopular on the continent, in uk and europe, it s principally because when it comes to the north atlantic alliance between united states and the european allies, the president has sided with vladimir putin of russia, which is the arch nemesis of that historic alliance. so the champions of the alliance, primarily in the militaries of the uk and other european countries and intelligence services who are so closely aligned with the united states, they are suspicious of donald trump s diplomacy, his foreign policy approach, they wonder whose side is he on. not to mention the fact in buckingham palace you have a study in contrasts. you have the queen of england, the one individual who represents history of nobility, patriotism, she s the one individual who represents tradition and honor and he represents individual one. that s exactly right. rick stingle, that s a great point. his problems go with him.
so since mueller finished his work, rudy giuliani, jared kushner, and brad parscale are on the record with ambivalence about the attack, that robert mueller took great pains to point out last week. because of trump s extraordinary insecurity and weakness that sees anything that the russians tried to infiltrate our elections as undermining his victory, no one in that administration can say we were attacked by a hostile foreign power. a strong president would be able to say this doesn t undermine victory but it undermines the democracy that we believe in. and we have to do something in. really quick and then we have to get to rick.
rick stingle, always a pleasure to have you on the broadcast. thank you very much. coming up, something in the tax bill that may bring further hurt to a place that suffered a world of hurt in 2017. that and more when we come back.