fight anti-semitism, vote and confirm professor lipstadt today. we need her in place now more than ever. professor, i want to read you some information here from washington post and get your thoughts on the other side. it s talking about, what counts as assistant semitism? the biden nominee receives a hearing on the topic. she points out, jews make up 2% of the u.s. population and 0.2% of the world s population. but according to fbi data, 55% of all reported religious bias crimes in the united states and 2020 targeted j ews. in the united states, a pew research center survey of jewish americans between november 2019 and june 2020 found that 53% said they personally feel less safe than they did five years ago. professor, if we were looking at this on a scale of the sort of, you know, highest moments of anti-semitism, anti-semitic violence in america versus the lowest levels, where are we right now? are we heading towards a code
this is largely routine diplomacy and that s what this shows. good luck, persuading americans this is an impeachable offense. 37% say, yes. 57% say no. do democrats have a big road here to walk to convince the american people this is a good idea? they don t have a lot of wiggle room. they re hoping that because it s shifted from russia to ukraine, they were krscrutinizing the contacts with russian officials. now, they seem focused on the president s contacts with the ukrainian leader. think think is the more of an egregious display of the president reaching out to get foreign interference, to help his chances in the election.
of course, you are aware that russia has in the past tried to infiltrate influential american non-governmental organizations, like yours? yeah, russia has in the past done that. are you worried that they re doing that with your group in. no, i have never been asked once to do anything by any russian that would go against my conscience or betray my country. reporter: what do you think there are americans walking in lock step with this russian movement in. i this i they are putting their abuse before their country, before the ideals that built this country. and its freely said that they can do that. reporter: do you think what is happening in russia could transfer back here? i m very scared that that will happen here and in some sense it kind of is happening. reporter: sadly, that appears to be true. according to a report from the anti-violence project, which documents hate crimes, last year was the most dangerous year on
she would know, she used to work for the agency. does the cia keep files on all prominent dual citizen americans? the cia doesn t have the resources or the manpower or the time to monitor everyone. he would have had to do something to rise to their level of interest or to be connected to someone. definitely have connections to russian government without a doubt. he now lives in washington, d.c., a member of a group of activists who are vocal critics of putin s russia, he says the owners of tnk, kukis employers were oligarchs, powerful ones. they re extremely closely connected. i would call them the inner circle of putin. putin was consolidating his power, making his inner circle evenen tighter. loyal oligarch s got rich, enemies had their assets seized. in 20034, the ceo of russia s
in wars i ve covered, american generals often spoke about winning in enemies hearts and minds. enemy s hearts and minds. so is it possible someone else with a military and great power and traditions could have had the same idea. did we ever stop to think the same strategies could work on americans? maybe they did? maybe they work very well to win the hearts and minds of president trump s most ard ent supporters, the people that back him in poll after poll, gun critics and evangelical christians. many american conservatives seem to want to follow its example. but do they know what kind of example it is? here s a scary thought. maybe they do. [ music playing ] it s almost :00 a.m. inside the