to ban tlaib and ihlan omar from visiting the country. president trump encouraged the move against the democrats, both members of the squad and his political foes. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu explained the ban this way. the plan of the two congresswomen is only to damage israel and to meant against israel. his announcement was shorgt after a tweet from president trump in which he said it would show great weakness. speaker nancy pelosi said it was beneath the dignity of the great state of israel and apac, a pro israel lobbying group in the u.s., broke ranks with president trump opposing the ban. they say despite their support of the boycott movement, every member of congress should be able to visit israel. let s go live to cnn s oren lieberman who is live for us in jerusalem. so just breaking, we know that congresswoman tlaib is going to
she can visit her grandmother in her 90s. it was a letter written by congress tlaib to the minister in which she requested the visit on humanitarian grounds and she wrote i will respect all restrictions and will not boycott israel during my visit. the interior minister responded and approved the request. in doing so, he says in light of that, those promises, and in accordance with his commitment from yesterday, minister decided to allow her entry into israel and expressed hope she would stand by her commitment and the visit would indeed be more humanitarian purposes only. so the decision coming just a short time ago and all of this comes one day after israel decided to deny entry to congresswoman tlaib, as well as ihlan omar for their visit, which was for political reasons and was supposed to start this weekend and span a couple of days. israel had been considering it for a few days, but the final decision came down shortly after president trump s tweet in which he said israel would be
be allowed to visit for humanitarian reasons, on humanitarian grounds. what about ihlan omar, because if she is able to go ahead and visit as well, it literally reverses what president trump was trying to accomplish. the requested visit of congresswoman ihlan omar remains banned at this point. that was a visit as israel sees it for political reasons and a knit as prime minister benjamin netanyahu says with a sole purpose of trying to damage israel. but congresswoman tlaib has family members in the west bank village where she intends to go and it is because of the family and she made a humanitarian request to visit her family and her grandmother in her 90s, saying it may be her final chance to see her that they ve granted the request on humanitarian grounds. she sent a letter to israel and interior minister saying i will rerespect any restrictions and will not boycott during my visit. and allowing her entry on
this just in to cnn, we have learned that the israeli government will indeed ban two sitting members of congress, congresswoman rashida tlaib and congresswoman ihlan omar from entering the country. they were scheduled to visit just a few days from now. just this morning the president said israel would show great weakness by letting them in. this week we heard senator bernie sanders attack the washington post and the president has done so repeatedly on unsubstantiated claims. this year amazon turns 25 and it s been a remarkable transition from a book store that baiezos started out of his garage. the neck giant has experienced increasing scrutiny has it has grown. we take a look at them for the report.
wayside. it s easy for both parties to spend a lot of money. offsets are the hard thing to do because that means you have to take something away from each other. basically both of them are being told all the money you want to spend on your priorities, that s pine. it s interesting on the same day that they went under the radar to try to change the regulations for snap for those who can get food stamps to try to cut spending as well. the republicans have been trying to cut those programs but they don t control and house and they re not going to get what they want. thanks very much. president trump claims that he is going to win minnesota now in 2020 because of the back and forth with congressman congresswoman ihlan omar. how likely is that really? is it really in play? we ll discuss. hi i m joan lunden.