i understand you spoke with megapastor john hagee. a man in the 1990s suggests that it was part of god's plan that hitler led the holocaust against the jews. several years later, he said his words were taken out of context. he also has robert jeffress who says he will be delivering a prayer there who has suggested that mormonism is a cult, that islam promotes pedophilia. why include these men in part of this ceremony? >> the comments that you've just referred to are certainly concerning and one thing that is more important or not reflective of overall mission and pastor hagee his group christians united for israeli their main focus is israeli israeli and standing by our allies in that mej and we have worked hard to make sure to keep this issue out there on the forefront and working with vice president v s pence and the president and making sure it's not a matter of if we move the embassy to jerusalem but when and worked tirelessly to keep that out there. >> do you think it's appropriate that he is there as part of this ceremony -- tha

another pastor taking part in the dedication: john hagee. he told the .tra- conservative breitbart website trump will win "political immortality" for the embassy move.. john hagee/founder, senior pastor of cornerstone church: "jerusalem is and always shall be the eternal capital of the jewish people..."problem is in the nineties hagee suggested adolph hitler was fulfilling a prophecy through the holocaust..voice of john hagee/founder, senior pastor of cornerstone church: "and the hunters shall hunt them'... that would be the jews. hitler was a hunter." hagee says his comments were grossly misrepresented - his group said the comments were based on the writings of a jewish theologian .....and similarly jeffress cites context and history in defending his comments... robert jeffress/first baptist church pastor: "islam is wrong, it is a heresy from the pit of hell." (ken)here in california;young palestinians gathered outside the israeli consulate in los angeles today to protest the u-s officially opening its embassy in jerusalem.they held palestinian flags and

another pastor taking part in the dedication: john hagee. he told the .rvative breitbart website trump will win "political immortality" for the embassy move.. john hagee/founder, senior pastor of cornerstone church: "jerusalem is and always shall be the eternal capital of the jewish people..."problem is in the nineties hagee suggested adolph hitler was fulfilling a prophecy through the holocaust..voice of john hagee/founder, senior pastor of cornerstone church: "and the hunters shall hunt them'... that would be the jews. hitler was a hunter." hagee says his comments were grossly misrepresented - his group said the comments were based on the writings of a jewish theologian .....and similarly jeffress cites context and history in defending his comments... robert jeffress/first baptist church pastor: "islam is wrong, it is a heresy from the pit of hell." (robin) that was tom foreman reporting. (robin) in national news ... first lady melania trump is doing well after her kidney procedure on monday. her office says, she underwent an procedure to treat a ábenig

hage said hitler was part of god's plan for israel. they both play prominent roles for today's opening of the united states embassy in jerusalem. why would the white house invite them and put them in such prominent positions? >> i don't know. i know that the evangelical community has been huge supporters of israel. they have had funding and protection of israel over the, years. i think if you look to see what happens to the base of that report. it comes have christians. it's legitimate to have leaders from that community coming up and speaking for the event. i don't know who or why sort of surprising, especially for a president who has jewish members of his name and played smart of the new embassy. and that was a huge part to what they're doing. i don't understand why those particular gentlemen were chosen. >> i misspoke. >> >> reverend hage praised the president in his prayers today. is that the only thing that matters, showing loyalty to this president? >> it seems to be one of the things that donald trump grades people on a single s

>> john mccain had to reject hagee's endorsement and repudiate the comments.remember what president obama said about jeremiah wright and his comments. why does there appear to be most response, no consequence for president trump? >> you know, it's amazed me because, number one, president trump has some moral issues of his own. the thing that the fundamentalist and southern baptist convention, which is one strict philadelph fundamentally is amazing to me. they were strict when it came to religious doctrine and now very lukewarm in their doctrine teaching. they seem to espouse the fact that the end justify the means no matter how evil a person might be after the results seem to be okay and we can accept that individual. >> reverend alvin gwynn, thank you for being with us and we appreciate your time. >> you're welcome. >>> a survivor of sexual abuse so a mission to protect children from across the country. next, how her story is helping change laws in more than two dozen states. you'll want to see this. first, we head to vermont. and go to our coffee shop. and m

as for the hage everything, i agree they did it in the worst possible way. they could have gotten concessions out of israel in exchange for this move, they didn't try to do that.h as for happened in gaza, i think one of the things we've seen, it was relatively quiet on west bank --f: >> woodruf you're right. said west bank, i meant -- >> on gaza. to me, is the problem 1967 or 1948? for the palestinian authority, treitionally 1967 has been problem. get israel to roll back to the '67 borders and we will have seace. for hamas 1948 the problem, the existence of israel itself. the finathing to be said is that hamas started announcing what happened onhe fence the in march. the israeli military had months to prepare and months to take most of the peple who are coming across the fence and figure out a way tot no shoot they took no effort to do that. so that is to thir debt and an insult to a government that's gotten less cler and fraly more callous. >> woodruff: our reporter jane ferguson was in the field hospitals showing so many young boys there and the ones who s

. >> pastor hagee, the other pastor, at one point in t the '90s, he talked about hitler being an instrument of god and yet here he is at the opening of the u.s. embassy in jerusalem and when raj shah was asked about this in the white house press briefing, how was this choice made, how could -- what could you make of that. or he wouldn't -- >> he could but he wouldn't. this is a common trump playbook to appeal to the alt-right to extremist ideology that is anti-semitic and anti-islamic and cozying up to zionist and it is a bizarre mixture but it fits in trump's playbook where he's trying to appeal to the base, which is often filled with suck folk at the same time trying to appeal to the new base around the issue of israel. very dangerous and it is very cynical and ultimately it is a provocative move that will only create more unrest in the region and around the world. >> marc lamont hill, thank you for your perspective on this. >>> i want to get back to the president trump tweet about saving jobs but in china because this is surprising. zte is a chinese company the u.s. is sanctioning for do

. >> reporter: another pastor taking part in the dedication, john hage, telling the breitbart websitetical immortality for the embassy move. >> jerusalem is and always shall be the eternal capital of the jewish people. >> reporter: problem is, in the '90s, he suggested hitler was fulfilling a prophecy through the holocaust. >> and the hunters shall hunt them. that is the jews. hitler was a hunter. >> reporter: he said his comments were grossly misrepresented, his group said the comments were based on the writings of a jewish theo loathan and cites context and history in defending his comments. >> islam is wrong. it is a harassy from the pit of hell. >> reporter: he tweeted back at mitt romney that christians have believed jesus alone offers salvation and still believing that is, quote, neither bigoted nor news worthy. jake. >> tom foreman. follow me on facebook and tweet me and get a new copy of the hell fire club at your local bookstore. that is it for "the lead." i turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." thanks for watching. >>> happening now, breaking news. first lad

arthel: pastor john hagee, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, arthel. arthel: have a safe and peaceful ceremony tomorrow. thank you. >> thank you. arthel: by the way, you can watch history unfold right here on the fox news channel tomorrow with anchor harris faulkner will be live from jerusalem. be sure to catch her tomorrow beginning at 1:00 p.m. eastern. eric: back here at home, the white house under fire after refusing to apologize for that tasteless and offensive comment made about senator mccain by an administration aide. here is press secretary sarah sanders. >> -- apologize to senator mccain? >> again, i'm not going to get into a back and forth. again i'm not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. >> are you saying -- >> again, i'm not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting. eric: that leak claimed that white house staffer kelly sadler dismissed senator mccain's opposition to the president's cia nominee gina haspel by saying in a private meeting quote, he's dying anyway. that remark abou

ehe had as the provider of the benediction at the ceremony aiverend john hagee, a man who john mccrepudiated his endorsement in 2008, after it was revealed he called the catholic church the core ofd babylon ccused the catholics of colluding with adolph hitler to exterminate jews, but he's right on the defense of israel and, you know, the supre zionist, thefore, they overlook to the point where it's a toal embarrassment he was involved in this ceremony. that aside, the political benefits to bibi netanyahu are obvious. it shores him up politically at home. anytime there's a threat to estiniansom the pal along gaza or anyplace else, it strengths the conrvative party. that happens in any country and i think the fact that donald trump had, in that american delegation no democrats, many of whom supported his moving the embassy to jerusalem and the only civilians he had were mr. and mrs. sheldon aidleson, the fllionaire benefactor donald trump and republicans and israel.ssman in i mean, to me, it was so transparent as a move, ind think it weakens the unitedat as any potential aent, coordinator of a

john hagee and robert jeffress are vocal supporters of the president. jeffress has decried islam as "heresy from the pit of hell," and has disparaged mormonism and judaism as well. >> i am so proud to be here in orusalem, the eternal hea the jewish people. >> reporter: the president's son-in-law jared kushner, who was charged with brokering peace lks, said he's hopeful t move will help bring a solution to the long-running henflict. >> wn president trump makes a >> we've shown that the united states of america will do what's >> reporter: finally, israel's prime ministerahenjamin netadeclared it a "glorious day." >> thank you president trump for having the courage to keep your promises our brave soldiers are ting the borders of isra as we speak today. >> reporter: but on those borders that "protecting" meant deadly violence across the palestinian territories, and scenes of bloodshed set against the rusalem celebrations in gaza, ts of thousands gathered near the border with israel, trying to make it over the fence. the palestinns are calling for their righ