that his is you, aipac. aipac is stronger and more effective than ever. high are your to exceed that every year you exceeded just as this dinner has a record number of people. aipac knows what to do, and his unrelenting and making sure israel is protected. for that, i thank you all 7800 of you and i applaud you. [applause] now let me close by telling you about my name. as some of you know, my name is a hebrew word. schumer comes from the hebrew word which means guardian. watchmen. my ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall of alicia and when they came to ellis island bay said their name india dish. and it got written down as schumer. to you i say this. that name was given to me for a reason. for as long as i live, for as long as i have the privilege of serving in the senate from new york, i will unflinchingly, unstintingly and with all of my strength beef show me her, a guardian of israel. ladies and gentlemen, in israel and america the jewish nation lives now and forever. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ .. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we are so honored to have the prime minis

i know i always do when i see my friends from aipac.hter] and i want to thank lee rosenberg for that introduction. congratulations, you're going to be a terrific president. [applause] i also want to thank david victor and howard corp. and lonny kaplan, n.j. the pritzker, and howard freeman, and richard fishman, and i'd better stop. but all of aipac's directors and staff for your leadership and hard work. and i am very pleased that you will be hearing from a very good friend of mine, congressman jim landrigen, a great champion for israel. but let's hear it for jim. [applause] and to all of you, all of aipac's members, thank you once again for your example of citizen activism, petition your government, expressing your views, speaking up in the arena -- this is what democracy is all about. [applause] and i am particularly pleased to see that there are once again so many young people here. [applause] you recognize that your future and the future of our country are bound up with the future of israel. [applause] and your engagement today will

thank you, aipac.♪ ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen please welcome former aipac president, howard friedman. ♪ >> good morning. i would like to remind everybody, all my great friends out there, that next year we will see you again. aipac behalf conference is a 27 to may 24th. be sure that you and your friends and your family and the friends that you have not yet made are here in the nation's capital for the important work that we all care so deeply about. there is still time to register at the special discount rate. be sure to visit the quick stop right outside by 3 p.m., the little kiosks, and sign up today. it is now my pleasure to introduce a woman to has been to many conference policies with me and has worked closely with aipac's leaders for several years. life is's most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others. that was the question posed by the reverend dr. martin luther king jr.. perhaps the more applicable question for the next speaker would be what are you not doing f

aipac. aipac is stronger and more effective than ever.very high barrier to exceed but every year you exceed it just as this dinner has a record number of people. aipac knows what to do. and is unrelenting in making sure israel is protected. for that i thank all 7800 of you. and i applaud you. [applause] >> now, let me close by telling you about my name. as some of you know, my name is a hebrew word. schumer comes from the hebrew word so-mair which means guardian. watchman. my ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in galisha and when they came to ellis island they said their name in yiddish and it got written down as schumer. to you i say this, that name was given to me for a reason. for as long as i live, for as long as i have the privilege of serving in the senate from new york, i will unflinchingly, unstintingly and with all of my strength will be the guardian of israel. ladies and gentlemen -- [speaking hebrew] >> the jewish nation lives now and forever. thank you. [applause] ♪ >> more from aipac in just a moment from israeli pri

that his is you, aipac. aipac is stronger and more effective than ever.is a very high are your to exceed that every year you exceeded just as this dinner has a record number of people. aipac knows what to do, and his unrelenting and making sure israel is protected. for that, i thank you all 7800 of you and i applaud you. [applause] now let me close by telling you about my name. as some of you know, my name is a hebrew word. schumer comes from the hebrew word which means guardian. watchmen. my ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall of alicia and when they came to ellis island bay said their name india dish. and it got written down as schumer. to you i say this. that name was given to me for a reason. for as long as i live, for as long as i have the privilege of serving in the senate from new york, i will unflinchingly, unstintingly and with all of my strength beef show me her, a guardian of israel. ladies and gentlemen, in israel and america the jewish nation lives now and forever. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> now secretary of state addresses aipac. t

we later corrected aipac's position on the as did apr and abc. al jazeera also fell for the gag. good news for herb conscious corn advisors. it distracts from legit thement effort. blaming cows and pigs for climate change is scientifically inaccurate says air quality expert frank. he says 2006 united nations report overstates the role livestock play in global warming. a new jersey town is barking mad. a local tv station reports a city ordinance about incessant dog barking between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. has been expanded to include barking around the clock. owners could be fined if their dogs bark too much at all. one resident says dogs shouldn't be blamed because, quote, that's not fair at all. they are talking. talking is their barking. and finally india's military has a hot new weapon against terrorism. and it's really hot. the military has decided to use the world's hottest chili to immobilize suspects. they will use ghost chili grown in the region because its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hideouts. our top story at the bottom of the hour. pre

aipac with so many good friends.ipac with so many good friends. i saw a number of them backstage before coming out and i can assure you that i received a lot of advice. i know i always do when i see my friends from aipac. and i want to thank lee rosenberg for that introduction and congratulations, rosie, you're going to be a terrific president. [applause] i also want to thank david victor and howard kohr and lonny kaplan nd j.b. pritzker and howard friedman and ester kurz and richard fishman and i better stop, but all at aipac's yours and staff for your leadership and hard work. and i'm very pleased that you will be hearing from a good friend of mine, congressman jim langevin, a great champion for israel. [applause] let's hear it for jim. [applause] and to all of you, all at aipac members, thank you once again for your example of citizen activism, petitioning your governments, expressing your views, speaking up in the arena. this is what democracy is all about. [applause] and i am particularly pleased to see again th

i know i always do when i see my friends from aipac. i want to thank lee rosenberg for that introduction and congratulations, rosie, you're going to be a terrific president. [applause] i also want to thank david victor and howard kohr and lonny kaplan nd j.b. pritzker and howard friedman and ester kurz and richard fishman and i better stop, but all at aipac's yours and staff for your leadership and hard work. and i'm very pleased that you will be hearing from a good friend of mine, congressman jim langevin, a great champion for israel. [applause] let's hear it for jim. [applause] and to all of you, all at aipac members, thank you once again for your example of citizen activism, petitioning your governments, expressing your views, speaking up in the arena. this is what democracy is all about. [applause] and i am particularly pleased to see again that there's so many young people here. [cheers and applause] you recognize that your future and the future of our country are bound up with the future of israel. [applause] and your engagement t

welcome again to the largest aipac policy conference in history.c i i want to start my comments this morning with a few words of appreciation to some very remarkable individuals. first i want to say a few words to howard friedman, our outgoing chairman of the board. howard, thank you for your leadership and your dedication as chairman of the board. [applause] to david victor, david, these last few years have been quite extraordinary. i want to stay thank you for your leadership, for your dedication, for the commitment that you have made to this cause. you have made us stronger and for that all of us bow you a debt of thanks. caught mac sully rosenberg come you are the right person for this moment to lead this organization and the scots and i look forward to working with you in a remarkable partnership over the coming two years. rosie, thank you for all that you do for our people. [applause] i also want to take a moment to recognize a group of special leaders who are part of a much larger group of individuals, who has made extraordinary financial co

. >> hillary clinton came to aipac with a message of tough love. >> as israel's friend, it is our responsibility to give credit when it is due and to tell the truth when it is needed. >> the relationship with israel is rock-solid, she said, but she was unapologetic about washington's column last week when it condemned plans for additional housing for jewish settlers in occupied east jerusalem. she says -- she faced a skeptical audience. settlement was undermining any progress in the peace talks. it seems to undermine the trust between the u.s. and israel. joe biden was in israel 10 days ago when the government announced the settlement expansion. benjamin netanyahu is now in washington. his public response to mrs. clinton's speech will be telling about the direction that israel's government will be taking. diplomacy is only one way to go. demography is not working in israel's favor. >> given the the reality, eight two-state solution is the only viable path for israel to remain both a democracy and a jewish state. >> she ran another alarm bell. >> we must recognize that the ever-evolving technolog

>> aipac kidneys to go to the senate. -- a packet needs to go to the senate.ill that change anything? >> that will be a lot of the land until or if changes go through the senate. the bill that actually went to the president's desk tonight is the senate bill, which includes the cornhusker kickbacks and other measures that a lot of people are not happy with. so they still have some heavy lifting. it is on chartered water right now on -- is on chartered water right now on how they will proceed -- it is uncharted water right now and how they will proceed. >> is this a victory for democrats? >> this has been the top democratic party for all of president obama administration, but really going back several decades. they preferred a public option, some form of government-run health care. that was not in the cards. but they got a good job of what they were looking for. the fact that you get from the most liberal members and the board to pack and his folks to come on board together, that is -- and bart stupak and his folks to come on board together, that is significant.

. >> brown: last night, another, even more friendly, stop to the pro-israel lobby group known as aipac, the american-israel public affairs committee, holding its annual conference. but these are not normal times for israel and the u.s., and the prime minister's visit has come after nearly two weeks of tension with the obama administration that's led to a sharp diplomatic rift. it began on march 9 in the midst of a visit by vice-president biden, when israel announced plans to build 1,600 new housing units in east jerusalem. the obama administration has called for a freeze on new building, and the announcement was taken as a public insult. >> because that decision, in my view, undermined the trust required for productive negotiations, i, at the request of president obama, condemned it immediately and unequivocally. ( applause ) >> brown: secretary of state clinton followed that with an heated phone call to prime minister netanyahu, demanding that israel put forward specific new measures to show it's serious about the peace process. in israel, since the settlement announcement, palestinia

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netanyahu defended those poll sneeze a defiant speech at the annual aipac conference. >> the connectionn the jewish people and jerusalem cannot be denied. (cheers and applause) the jewish people were building jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the jewish people are building jerusalem today. jerusalem is not a settlement, it's our capital! (cheers and applause) everyone knows that these neighborhoods will be part of israel in any peace settlement and therefore building in them in no way precludes the possibility of a two-state solution. >> rose: characterize for me the state of u.s./israeli relations. >> we have been have ups and downs for weeks in the kind of embarrassing event during the biden visit. but i hope that these meetings this week here in washington will put this behind us and pave the way to resumption of proximity talks that will lead as soon as possible into a fully fledged direct negotiations about this agreement with the palestinians. and america is basically our great ally. we are a sovereign state, we have our own security interests and other vital interests, we expect to b

. >> because once again catering to the money flow that comes from aipac and other funding sources and -- you know look they've got their constituencies, they've got lobbyists, there are special interests, of course. but what's obvious is that they don't care about the substance of this and they apparently don't care about the peace process. we're supposed to help israel. >> let me jump in dylan. look, people talk about money and the lobbyist influence but israel is our number one ally and a very difficult part of the world and i think there's a very good philosophical -- >> why is it different. >> a very good philosophical reason to support israel, this is their territory. they won it in 1967 and essentially asking them to do is turn over to their sworn enemies, people who want to destroy them, who don't even recognize they exist, part of their territory. i think we should stand with israel on this, and the fact that the united states is openly, i think undermining our ally in the region, that's the real issue. >> cenk, real quick? >> it's ridiculous. why do we have such problems in t

and secretary of state hillary clinton gave competing speeches before the powerful lobbying group aipacthe american israeli political action committee. that revealed simmering democratic tensions between the two countries. netenyahu refused to yield to u.s. pressure to halt construction of housing units in arab east jerusalem. here are the back-and-forths. >> the jewish people were building jerusalem 3,000 years ago. and the jewish people are building jerusalem today. jerusalem is not a settlement. it's our capital. >> new construction in east jerusalem or the west bank undermines that mutual trust and endangers the proximity talks that are the first step toward the full negotiations that both sides say they want and need. and it exposes daylight between israel and the united states that others in the region hope to exploit. it undermines america's unique ability to play a role, an essential role in the peace process. >> let's turn to nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. also host of "andrea mitchell reports" and msnbc political analyst, howard fineman, also of

everyone knows that aipac controls our congress.look on page 147 of the 9/11 commission report that talks about why we were attacked on 9/11, because of our support for israel and their oppression of the palestinians. guest: we were not attacked on 9/11 because we were supportive of israel. the congress is not controlled by israel. israel has never had any american to fight for israel. we give 3000 in foreign aid -- $3 million in foreign aid every year to israel. maybe we should not give accurate -- give it back. -- maybe we should not give that. host: today, the israeli prime minister is sitting down with the president. what do you think that conversation will be like? guest: i have met them both and they're both impressive, intelligent and proud men who are not used to differing to anyone else in the room. they're both used to being deferred to. i would like to be a fly on the wall at it. i guess they're not even allowing cameras at all, not even for the handshake at the beginning. obviously, there have been tensions between the o

.- based pro-israel lobbying organization, aipac, meets in washington. yesterday, the group denounced the white house reaction to the israeli settlement move, an issue sure to be front and center when both secretary clinton and prime minister netanyahu address the group next week. for more on all of this, we get two views: from david makovsky is a senior fellow at the washington institute. he is the co-author of "myths, illusions, and peace: finding a new direction for america in the middle east." and amjad atallah is the co- director of the middle east task force at the new america foundation. he is a former legal adviser to the palestinian negotiating team. welcome to both of you. david, starting with you. how serious a rift is this? there's been a lot of undiplomatic talk. what does it add up to? what do you think is going on? >> i think the peak of the crisis has been over the last few days. i think we're in the beginning of the deescalation phase. the set-up piece you just showed, hillary clinton made clear she's not questioning the underpinnings of

[applause] we're just aipac conference. can you tell me what was your favorite book to write?>> boy, that's a good question. i would say probably the first one hand that was a success, on the face of ronald reagan because it was a shock. i started off writing a book on reagan and the cold war generally. and never intended to talk about his face. and as i start going through the primary sources, the latter is a handwritten speeches, interviewing people come in every people who knew him, i came to this really, really deep pervasive faith that i did not expect to have at all. a lot of people were suspicious as to whether reagan was a really even religious. including a lot of conservatives because nancy consulted us closer. ronald reagan didn't go to church on a regular basis. but as i read, as i went to the reagan library in a red speeches like the evil empire speech, and look at the actual document, i saw reagan's hand all over it. there was a big file in the reagan's library called the phf, presidential handwriting file, which is documented that has reagan's writing on it, not

secretary clinton made a speech today to aipac and said that, if iran obtain a nuclear weapon, we are likely to seek a nuclear arms race in the middle east. i took issue with it. make no mistake about it. in the press, you know that that nuclear arms race is on to date and we are not talking about it. we need to be talking about it. there is a nuclear arms race in progress in the middle east and we need to be honest and we need to talk about it. if we do not talk about it, it will not just be iran with nuclear weapons. you have a potentially unstable region with lots of nuclear weapons which makes jamie's. all the more likely. look at what we know. -- jamie's point all the more likely. look at what we know. we know about iran's facility at koontz. we need to be concerned about the nuclear arms race that is currently going on. >> let me see where our audience takes us. let me introduce the interview team who has helped us select the questions we will talk about. i would appreciate 8 if you would hold your applause -- if you're going to applaud. [laughter] until we hear them all. these

everyone knows that aipac controls our congress.can look on page 147 of the 9/11 commission report that talks about why we were attacked on 9/11, because of our support for israel and their oppression of the palestinians. guest: we were not attacked on 9/11 because we were supportive of israel. the congress is not controlled by israel. israel has never had any american to fight for israel. we give 3000 in foreign aid -- $3 million in foreign aid every year to israel. maybe we should not give accurate -- give it back. -- maybe we should not give that. host: today, the israeli prime minister is sitting down with the president. what do you think that conversation will be like? guest: i have met them both and they're both impressive, intelligent and proud men who are not used to differing to anyone else in the room. they're both used to being deferred to. i would like to be a fly on the wall at it. i guess they're not even allowing cameras at all, not even for the handshake at the beginning. obviously, there have been tensions between t

everyone knows that aipac controls our congress. can look on page 147 of the 9/11 commission report that talks about why we were attacked on 9/11, because of our support for israel and their oppression of the palestinians. guest: we were not attacked on 9/11 because we were supportive of israel. the congress is not controlled by israel. israel has never had any american to fight for israel. we give 3000 in foreign aid -- $3 million in foreign aid every year to israel. maybe we should not give accurate -- give it back. -- maybe we should not give that. host: today, the israeli prime minister is sitting down with the president. what do you think that conversation will be like? guest: i have met them both and they're both impressive, intelligent and proud men who are not used to differing to anyone else in the room. they're both used to being deferred to. i would like to be a fly on the wall at it. i guess they're not even allowing cameras at all, not even for the handshake at the beginning. obviously, there have been tensions between

secretary clinton made a speech today to aipac and said that, if iran obtain a nuclear weapon, we are to seek a nuclear arms race in the middle east. i took issue with it. make no mistake about it. in the press, you know that that nuclear arms race is on to date and we are not talking about it. we need to be talking about it. there is a nuclear arms race in progress in the middle east and we need to be honest and we need to talk about it. if we do not talk about it, it will not just be iran with nuclear weapons. you have a potentially unstable region with lots of nuclear weapons which makes jamie's. all the more likely. look at what we know. -- jamie's point all the more likely. look at what we know. we know about iran's facility at koontz. we need to be concerned about the nuclear arms race that is currently going on. >> let me see where our audience takes us. let me introduce the interview team who has helped us select the questions we will talk about. i would appreciate 8 if you would hold your applause -- if you're going to applaud. [laughter] until we hear them all. these are bot

the united states will host the aipac economic forum in 2011. president obama announced that they will host the leaders meeting in honolulu, hawaii. we also plan to leverage this unique opportunity to demonstrate our ability to play stronger and more constructive goal in the development of the asia-pacific region. we are also looking for increased market opportunities within those 10 southeast asian economies the that make up the association of southeast asian nations. collectively, they are our fifth largest trading partner. we have agreed to establish a dialogue with trade and trade finance. i will join my colleagues in a multi-city tour that will permit us to exchange ideas about how government and business can work to expand trade and investment opportunities between the united states and them. states and asian. this is one part of the world. i want to make it plain while we explore these new opportunities in the southeast asia region, while we strengthen our regional enforcement, that we won't neglect some of our most significant trading pa

secretary clinton made a speech today to aipac and said that, if iran obtain a nuclear weapon, we are likely to seek a nuclear arms race in the middle east. i took issue with it. make no mistake about it. in the press, you know that that nuclear arms race is on to date and we are not talking about it. we need to be talking about it. there is a nuclear arms race in progress in the middle east and we need to be honest and we need to talk about it. if we do not talk about it, it will not just be iran with nuclear weapons. you have a potentially unstable region with lots of nuclear weapons which makes jamie's. all the more likely. look at what we know. -- jamie's point all the more likely. look at what we know. we know about iran's facility at koontz. we need to be concerned about the nuclear arms race that is currently going on. >> let me see where our audience takes us. let me introduce the interview team who has helped us select the questions we will talk about. i would appreciate 8 if you would hold your applause -- if you're going to applaud. [laughter] until we hear them all. these