Government to undercut democratic opponents at home. This isnt a story about russia if youre listening or a story about trump admitting hes open to foreign help in the 2020 campaign. Those are two times that trump has faced bipartisan rebukes for welcoming help from russia. Tonight its President Trump seeking help from israel to retaliate against two democratic politicians the first two women who are muslim women in congress and before i get to the details right now, i want to present you with pieces of context. First, donald trump tonight right now having done this be is totally isolated facing rebukes we can report from democrats and republicans. From National Security experts and civil libertarians from, liberal jewish groups and more conservative u. S. israel groups like apac. Theres a lot of blowback already on this brandnew news. Second before i present with you the facts and we will, please, please understand this does not appear to be a story about Foreign Policy or National Security. Its a story about a longrunning partisan feud with the squad. In fact, it was just about a month ago that trump told the recently elected women of color they should go back to the crime infested places they allegedly came from. Tonight he has a Foreign Government that will now deny them entry by publicly bullying israels administration to reverse itself because right here you see just last month, israel specifically said the Congress Women were allowed to visit out of respect for the u. S. Congress. Now, President Trump urging israel to bar ilhan omar and Rashida Tlaib and alleging their policy views amount to basically a disgraceful hatred of israel. Within hours of trump posting that, the Israeli Government reverses itself and gave in, blocking their visit. As a technical diplomatic matter, countries may decide who enters. Israel has a law that authorizes the possible denial of entry to people who support boycotts can of israel and omar and dlaib tlaib do. But Foreign Policy experts and middle east experts say thats not what this is about at all tonight. In fact, they know that because israel was planning to admit them and had said so on the record and an israeli journalist is now reporting the reason israeli Prime Minister netanyahu made this reversal was because of the pressure from donald trump, which is why so many top American Jewish organizations and apac as mentioned oppose this trump tactic. So theres a lot going on kind of a lot even inside the story. Lets take this in. You have these groups and experts who work on these Foreign Policy issues for a living. Some of them as you probably know are critical of these very Congress Women. And these groups dont think the this story is about Foreign Policy. They think its Something Else and they think its dangerous and they want it to stop. They think its President Trump exploiting their work to double down on his longrunning attacks on these women of color who lead the liberal resistance to trump. As you know, he told them last month to back where they came from. That very attack on trump earning him his historic rebuke by the u. S. House, the first such vote in over 100 years that declared a sitting president advanced racism, the same attack his own supporters repeated back to him in that ugly chant that he backed in at a rally. Send her back. Send her back. Send her back. Send her back. Send her back. Send her back. When that footage went around the country when it was on the internet and tv, all that next day, there were people who asked if donald trump condoned those lines. That is way too gentle a question. Donald trump wrote those lines. He brought up that discriminatory frame. He stoked the antiimmigrant antimuslim fervor. And then it was yelled back. And we know that discriminatory motivation because he ran on it telling similar maga crowds in 2016 that he was running on doing something unconstitutional. He wanted to ban an entire religion for migrating to america. Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shut down of the muslims entering the United States until our countrys representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. Is there a linking from running for president on banning muslim travel to governing as president by engineering the bachb travel . By the president s most prominent Muslim Political opponent . Is a maga hat red . Tonight congresswoman omar notes trump has gotten another country to implement a version of trumps muslim ban noting this time against two duly elected members of congress. This is not a drill. This retaliation is not being done in secret where there might be some alleged debate about the cause and motives. The cause is clear. A Foreign Government bucking to trump who wields the power and the might of the United States and the world. The motive . Same as it ever was. Its become somewhat normal to note the president s words and deeds are not normal. Which is more of a problem than a paradox if you think about it. Its become common to hear the objections he violates tradition. Tonight the experts and neutral referees are clear, the Associated Press reporting trumps move is completely unprecedented. The Washington Post reporting on an extraordinary intervention by trump to seek foreign retaliation against these domestic opponents while trumps critics at the New York TimesEditorial Board say this is New Territory even for donald trump. Im joined by markince berg, former United States ambassador to morocco, bill kristol, and civil rights attorney and former prosecutor maya wiley. Good evening to each of you. Maya, is this on the level . Nope. Its not on the level. And you know, ari, you already laid it out quite clearly. And if we just go back even in terms of history, right . You know, we have a long history in this country of members of Congress Going to Foreign Countries in order to understand what they think it the policy positions of the United States should be. And thats actually something that the constitution of the United States sanctions. So here you know where had you a Dennis Hastert who went abroad even though the white house was upset about it but the white house never you know, wen and called you know colombia and said dont let him in, you have nancy pelosi in 07 when she went to syria, had you all kinds of, Ronald Reagan didnt like it when then speaker of the house jim wright went and started negotiating a Peace Agreement greet with the msandonistas thanks to former president arias. Long history frankly in some of those instances even the congressional member overstepped their hands. Newt gingrich did it when he went to Mainland China and said dont come for taiwan or well come for you. That was not the law of the land in the United States when the he said it. Nobody prevented them from traveling. They were all allowed and even when those white houses didnt like what they were doing, democrat and republican, no one stopped them. This is exactly as you said, donald trump actually put out a tweet that said theyre dras and they hate israel. Why would we ever let them why should anyone let them in. And it undermines exactly what we want a Diverse Congress to be able to do. Represent multiple different experiences and positions. Apac did the right thing and the principled thing by saying we dont agree with him. Thats not the point here. We want them to see and understand whats happening in israel. Thats what we should all want. Ambassador, you hear her lay out the history. Have you ever seen anything liking this. No, and i used to as ambassador host codels and congressmen. I have to put this into some context. This is all about politics is local. Benjamin netanyahu was under pressure to permit these two Congress Women to come even though a few days before their arrival there was a bipartisan delegation of congressman led by steny hoyer and these two women refused to be part of that. Im no fan of the squad. I believe they were basically going to stir up a lot of mischief during this friendship. However, the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu was prepared to let israel turn into a vas sill state for donald trump particularly at a time when netanyahu only cares about one thing which is his ability to form a new government if hes obtains mandate that he needs on the december 17th election, all politics is local in israel. In israel, trump is the most popular person in israel. You mentioned that trip. We have some footage there of the Top Republicans speaking about what youre referencing. Lets see that for context. Had i wished that she would have joined all of us, yeah, join the other freshmen, as well and that we see it together. When we work on these issues as one body, we have the same experiences that were looking through but i think its healthy that au members come. And saying as you said, there may be good faith or strong disagreements about the underlying policy but theres something you dont see every day which is kevin mccar i think saying the squad can still come. Today its all been inverted. Bill kristol, is this a story about Foreign Policy or is this a story about donald trump . I think its very unfortunate that the Prime Minister of israel buckled to donald trump. There are israeli members of the zril knesset. A lot of their views are not that different from these representatives. Israel has a long tradition of welcoming such people when they dont agree with particular policies or what hostile to the state as a whole. Im not saying whether these people are or not. Its an unfortunate thing for israel and the u. S. israel relationship. I think netanyahu in my opinion shouldnt have buckled. The interesting question is why did he. Ron dermer is the ambassador to israel and very close to the Prime Minister of. He was his chief of staff and sent by here, the most sensitive diplomatic post for an israeli to occupy. He said a week or two ago look, were going to welcome them. Theyre members of congress. Its important for us to do that. What happened . I dont think it was just a tweet. Netanyahu is a very tough and savvy politician. If he watches trump, hes gotten along well with trump, too well in my opinion and hurt in the sense by being excessively solicitous of trump. He depends on the u. S. israel relationship. He can see a tweet and could also say my hands are tied. We have a long tradition. I disapprove of these people. Im not going to meet them personally but they can come like anyone else can come to israel unless theyre going to cause daniel which theres no evidence was going to be the case this time. So why didnt he do it . What how much arm twisting was there by trump and his am ba bass door to israel. I have part of the answer which is something the three of you and the four of us have covered which is when you look at the attempted alleged obstruction by donald trump, twitter was a tool in it but it was almost rarely used alone as i template. We know from the exhaustive account of the Mueller Report and other Good Journalism it would figure into a much larger pattern. Legally thats generally considered bad because it speeps to someones malicious intent. Here everyone is saying this is bad. But it certainly speaks to a larger drum beat and to bills point, i want to show some of the reporting out of israel netanyahus National Security adviser asked different Government Agencies for their opinion on whether omar and tlaib should request and that was deemed strange because the relevant Government Agencies already said last week they supported letting them. The reporting this had been going on for at least two days at the highest levels of the Israeli Government against what is supposed to be their nonpartisan policy and would suggest the u. S. Pressure began privately by trump before the tweet. Its Something Congress should look into it. Did john bolton call determiner . Did other trump opatives, what did mike pompeo say about this. This is a major problem for our relationship with a close ali thats going to damage that relationship and make one of the two Major Political parties the democrats feel that israel is not treating democratic members of congress with proper respect and with some justice unfortunately. How did this happen . What happened here . From the u. S. Government point of view. Ambassador, then maya. I just want to adhere that you know, you have a u. S. Ambassador that its more of an agent for israel in the United States. That is freeman, the ambassador to the United States and israel. He put out the most incredible statement defending what essentially was the effort to bar these Congress Women. Its just unbelievable that friedman is permitted to in effect be the behind the scenes lobbyist for trump and the white house. I guarantee you that freeman had a lot to do with convincing the Israeli Government to bar these two members of congress. 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