the middle east. chris: now, you couldn t see it because you can t see our feed, but when she said the only democracy, she did it in air quotes. are you troubled by congresswoman omar questioning whether or not israel is a democracy and earlier saying that explaining american politicians support for israel as, quote, it s all about the benjamins, baby? are you prepared you talked about the president and his divisiveness, are you prepared to call out congresswoman omar? i have. i don t agree with her on her positions on israel, and i certainly don t agree with anti-semitic comments. all of that being said, and i have been very clear about that, i thought this decision by the president to say that elected members of congress who are duly elected shouldn t go to visit israel, that they shouldn t be allowed in that country which is our ally and, yes, a beacon of
and pushed back saying, look, american jews who voted overwhelmingly for hillary clinton in 2016 vote on a lot of issues. they just don t vote on who s the best candidate for us israel. the anti-defamation league just said expolice setly this is an anti-semitic trope that you are using here, mr. president. and people like charles d chuck schumer, democratic leader in the senate, said at a time of rising hate crimes against jews globally but also here in the usa, that he was, in essence, you know, encouraging kind of white nationalist anger at jewish people. this trope has been used for a long time to isolate jews as the other people who were really self-interested or interested in israel more so than in being american patriots. i think in some ways it helps the president with the evangelical base that sees him as having moved the capital into tell a avive and done to jerusalem. to jerusalem, excuse me. also in terms of the settlements. they see him as having taken
steps that strengthen their love for israel. i m not so sure it works with american jews though. chris: julie, karl talked in the first segment when we were talking about what the president needs to get reelected, one of the things he talked about was college-educated women and republican suburbs. when the president seems to stoke these divisions whether talking about the squad or about jews being disloyal or baltimore congressman elijiah cummings, how does that play in the republican suburbs among college-educated women? i think there are some differences in some of those things that he s saying, and i would also throw in policy issues. when you talk about the squad, the strategy from the trump campaign is very clear here, they want to paint the entire democratic party as socialists, as outside the mainstream of what we think about democrats as. and that s in part because they want some of these republicans, independents in the suburbs who really don t like donald trump very much to
the electability argument is fast becoming voters, especially democrats, need to be inspired s and we see when they vote with their head, it s catastrophic. we ve seen that with gore, dukakis and kerry. and here as this campaign falters, there are others clearly waiting in the wings that can inspire. and i think that, you know, the head of the monmouth polling institute which just released a poll which still proves that he s leading in the polls in iowa said i ve not yet met one biden voter that in any way, shape or form is excited about voting for him. chris: and then there was president trump s controversial comment this week which he made one day and then doubled down the next day. take a look. in my opinion, you vote for a democrat, you being very disloyal to jewish people, and you re being very disloyal to israel. and only weak with people would say anything other than that. chris: juan, some top jewish groups were very upset by that
democracy in a really tough neighborhood in the mideast, i think that was wrong. and i was pleased to see that aipac and j street and other leading jewish groups came out and said the same thing, because when people go to israel, they see despite my disagreement with some to have policies of the prime minister there they see a democracy. and i think that is one of the worst things, a strong the democracy allows people in their doors, they don t shut them out. chris: senator klobuchar, we re going to have to leave it there. thanks for your time. thank you. it was great to be on, chris. chris: well, please come back, and safe travels on the campaign trail, senator. thank you. chris: when we come back, joe biden s campaign says democrats need to focus on one thing, beating donald trump. we ll is ask our sunday panel whether the front-runner can make that case to voter, or next. there s a company that s talked to even more real people than me: jd power.