senator dan coates for an spellens -- and david freedman for u.s. ambassador to israel. >> all right. >> senator tom carper is the top democrat on the environmental and puck works community and joined the chair of the house transportation and infrastructure committee to talk about u.s. infrastructure. they discussed funding challenges during this event by the association of american highway and transportation officials in washington, dc. this is half an hour. >> senator, thank you for joining us today. [applause] >> you have the veterans here? if you're a veteran, stand up and safe our applause. please. [applause] >> i'm a retired navy captain. spent 23 years in the war in southeast asia,. and i -- different parts of the president's speech lanight i appreciated. in dover -- where is secretary cohen? we of our secretary of transportation. >> i don't know -- is shane here from colorado? okay. he has his parole hearing this morning. [laughter] >> give him our love. but one of the things reminded us last night is the sacrifice of our service men and wom

an incredible force in organizing the women's march and the rap has done amazing work against david freedman refugee ban that the trump administration put out, from the jewish community, but i would say that just as democracy is being threatened in the u.s., also in israel. just as the jewish community has built an enormous amount of power in the u.s., we have an enormous amount of power in israel and with that comes a responsibility to do something. so the choice to me is clear. it we want to see israel slide into a one-state reality, contin continual violence and strife, that's going to happen. if we want a two-state solution, it's on all of us to make that happen. [ applause ] >> daniel, what does that mean, "all of us"? how does the jewish community, in practical terms -- what is the jewish community in this battle right now? >> well, first of all, i agree with brook that the challenges to democracy and democratic fiber in our country that we're experiencing, seemingly very suddenly, have a lot of echoes from what has been happening in israel these last -- this last decade or so, and of

they have done amazing work standing up against david freedman. refugee band that the trump administration put out from the jewish committee but i would say that democracy is being threatened in the u.s. just like it is in israel. we have an enormous amount of power in israel and with that comes the responsibility to do something. the choice is clear. if we want to see israel slide into a one state reality with continual violence and strikes in insecurity, that will happen. but if we want a different solution, it's on all of us to make that happen. [applause] >> daniel. >> what does that mean, all of us? how does the jewish community, in practical terms, what is the jewish community in this battle right now? >> first of all, i agree with brooke that the challenge to democracy and democratic fiber in our country that we are now experiencing have a lot of echoes from what is happening in israel over the past decade. we are pushing back against the erosion of democracy in israel which i believe is what we are doing here. whether or not there's a jewi

i was proud to join my colleague confirming david freedman just last week. i wish him the best of luck but difficult and important task relies before him. let me share another with. this one is from prime minister benjamin netanyahu, in his 2015 address to congress, here is what he said. may israel and america always stand together, strong and resolute. may we need to fear or dread the challenges ahead or may we face the future with confidence and strengths and hopes. i could not put it better myself no matter what the world throws our way, we'll continue to walk by israel's side. [ applause ] thank you. ♪ please welcome senate democratic leader chuck schumer. [ applause ] >> thank you everybody. it is truly an honor to be with you this monarch. you kn morning, you know i like telling a little story. some of you in new york have heard this but many others have not. it is about when i was redistricted as a congressman, i always had a district in brooklyn and i am campaign ng the new parts of queens. a lady comes over to me and she says oh, i just read in the

is obama good or bad for israeli, the iran deal, good or bad, settlements, david freedman, whatever the case may be, when people think about israeli they think about the conflict. but imagine somebody came to us and said i don't really understand what america is about. i come from a different country. i understand it is a great republic. i know there are really profound ideas at its core but i don't know what they are. can you tell me a little bit about what makes america great. i said well, there was a war in 1776. there was anwar in 1812, a civil war between 62y and 65y. first world war, second world war, korea, vietnam, iraq, afghanistan. there are, but the point is that i haven't told the person anything about what makes the country great, i haven't told anything about thomas jefferson and dream of a new republic and democracy. they haven't gotten a whiff of what is in the federalist papers, the way the founding fathers of this country wrestled with states rights and federal rights and so on and so forth. if they haven't read lincoln as address long before he becomes president where

david freedman alienated a lot of democrats with his comments about the middle east and about democratscusing people of betraying israel if they didn't share his hard line views. interestingly, they got -- the democrats hoped to peel off between one and three republican senators in committee. that didn't happen. this is a big step forward toward confirmation. bob menendez voting for freedman. the republicans sticking together. it's a big step toward confirmation but we'll still see more fireworks. >> olivier, laura, julie, phil, thank you all. great discussion. great to be here with you. >>> thank you for joining us on "inside politics." i'm dana bash. and we are moments away from the white house press briefing. wolf blitzer will bring that to you live. did you make that? i did... n't. hey, come look what lisa made. wow. you grilled that chicken? yup! i did... n't. mhm, lisa. you roasted this? uhuh... n't. introducing smartmade by smart ones. real ingredients, grilled and roasted using the same smart cooking techniques you do. you own a grill? smartmade frozen meals. it's like you made

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senator dan coates for an spellens -- and david freedman for u.s. ambassador to israel. >> all right. >> senator tom carper is the top democrat on the environmental and puck works community and