discuss this filibuster and what's next i'm joined by political activist and co-founder of code pink medea benjamin thank you so much for coming on and i think it's been my favorite part of last night was seeing the shout out ted cruz gave the code pink and the sooner the better you know i really thought this filibuster would go on and on and on and i thought that paul would be the single opposition to his nomination in this story and i was kind of shocked of just boom he's appointed now was this all political theater. well it's good political theater and it's political theater we need because i think the thing that it accomplished the best was getting this out in the open having so many americans learn about things they've never heard about before i mean have americans heard about signature strikes have they heard about us counting every male of military age as a combatant where we're using these drones have they heard about the killing of u.s. citizens overseas i think this was quite a lesson of course in the lesson in civics and unfortunate levison that according to our president and our. attorn

discuss this filibuster and what's next i'm joined by political activist and co-founder of code pink medea benjamin thank you so much for coming on and i think it's been my favorite part of last night was seeing the shout out ted cruz gave to code pink in the scene and you know i really thought this filibuster would go on and on and on and i thought that paul would be the single opposition to his nomination in the story and i was kind of shocked of just boom he's appointed now was this all political theater. well it's good political theater and it's political theater we need because i think the thing that it accomplished the best was getting this out in the open having so many americans learn about things they've never heard about before i mean have americans heard about signature strikes have they heard about the u.s. counting every male of military age as a combatant where we're using these drones have they heard about the killing of u.s. citizens overseas i think this was quite a lesson of course in the lesson in civics and unfortunate levison that according to our president and our. turny gener

. >> more from code pink cofounder medea benjamin, sunday on c-span's "q&a." took the president until 2002 to develop an answer. the answer was to states for tuesday -- to states for two people, jewish state in palestinian state, but only when the palestinian state would be a decent, stable, peaceful, democratic, non-corrupt government. arafat hasmeans got to go. >> elliott abrams on the israeli-palestinian conflict, sunday at 10:00 eastern on c- span2. "washington journal" continues. the: gregory angelo is head of log cabin republicans. tell us about log cabin republicans. guest: log cabin republicans was founded in 1978 in response to ronald reagan and is opposition to an amendment that, not unlike a position eight, would have made it in for a teacher to be openly gay in schools. , at tremendous political risk, came out and said it was unnecessary, and he opposed it. after ronald reagan came out in opposition to it, the proposition failed. a local group of gay republicans founded a local chapter and wanted to pay all my to the roots of a quality that the roo

talk to one of the activists who attended the protests medea benjamin she is a co-founder of human rights group global exchange and peace group code pinkmedea apart from the settlements issue what else is concerning you and what will you actually hoping to achieve by taking part in these protests. we want to show that there are married many americans who feel that apac is really a danger to our national security apac is pushing the policies of a foreign government in israel which is not always in the interests of the united states and i should say is not always in the interests of the israelis either i think this push towards war with iran is disastrous for everybody in the region as well as us here in the united states i also feel that the fact that the united states is going through an economic crisis where the budgets of every organization is being cut and yet apac wants to continue the u.s. spending of three point one billion dollars to the israeli government is something that many of us as americans don't think makes sense especially since israel is a rich country and doesn't need this kind of foreign aid so these are some of the