here to discuss eliot abrams, a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. happy new year and as always, welcome back. are these charges -- is there merit to these charges? first of all, anti-semitism. >> look, i can't read his mind. i can only go by the public record. the public record suggests he's got a problem with jews, frankly. there's reports from the members of the tiny nebraska jewish community that they never had a politician in nebraska who was so indifferent, their word, indifferent to the community. who took no interest, who was completely nonresponsive to any requests they made. there's a beginning. then you have these quotations of his. the jews this and the jews that. there was a story when he was president of uso trying to close the uso site in a port that a lot of u.s. navy ships were visiting. a jewish organization came to argue with him it should be kept open. he said, apparently, well, let the jews pay for it. there's a pattern here. any one of these things taken alone isn't much, but you start putting this together. he does an interview