judaism certainly can. but it will have to loosen its kind of relationship to a more strict understanding that the situation that a human finds him or herself in is a situation that is determined by following or not following divine command. we have to start to integrate the fullness of our interdependence on the natural world. this is why i'm calling for the possibility of folding forward. a notion of the maternal role of the divine and the natural world in caring for us and our environment. >> how would you say that. >> well, i was very fortunate to participate in a page program in mythological studies which i just recently completed. >> congratulations. >> thank you very much. lots of work but again i felt just really blessed to be able to explore these territories of religions that i had not been exposed to really to any great degree. and so i think that to go back again to this interconnection, we do need to not just sort of invite in the possibility of it, but actually to look at our existing text for

>> at the age of 15, he decides judaism is not for him. he becomes a self-proclaimed agnost agnostic. he goes to city college and then harvard law school where he's at the top of his class. i have photographs of him in his harvard law school dorm in the book. he wanted very much to become part of the protestant elite. he married the daughter of a protestant minister. he never attended synagogue except to give an occasional lecture. in his will to the surprise and shock of his protestant wife and most of his friends, he asked that the traditional jewish prayer of mourning be recited at his funeral. >> by? >> he specified by louis henkin. he was the son of one of the preeminent orthodox rabbis in the country and a preeminent legal scholar who for 40 years was a law professor at columbia university. i think one of the great authorities on sbraninternation law. he has been a consultant to the state department. >> so frankfurter, very jewish until 15, casts it all off, becomes jewish again at his funeral. >> and he says to another friend shortl

he later became interested in judi judai judaism. but i'm not sure one can draw a connection between his decisions in those areas and his -- maybe they had been aware unconsciously. cordozo didn't set foot in a synagogue on a regular basis, he had the jewish knowledge. that would be the only thing i would say. grandice did, you're right, on those decisions. because he was a progressive reformer also, and he was one of the leading progressive voices in america at that point. >> brian's name stays alive with the university of louisville's law school. >> which is a wonderful -- it really is, yeah. and that was changed, i guess, just in the past 20 or 30 years? >> okay. we have one from the left now we get one from the right. >> rabbi, yes my name is jonathan. i guess this is question is a different way, i'm on my way after this to another venue to beat my cohorts. that's a different discussion. maybe you can write a book on that day one day. anyway, my question is as follows, president wilson, there was actually a forum, program just pu

>> at the age of 15, he decides judaism is want for him. he becomes a self-proclaimed agnostic, and he goes to city college and then at harvard law school where he's at the top of his class. by the way, i have the first published photograph of him in his harvard law school dorm, but he wanted very much to become part of the protestant elite in the country. he married the daughter of a protestant minister. his mother did not attend the wedding. he never set foot in a temple or synagogue in his adult life except to give an occasional lecture, but here is the paradox. in his will to the surprise and shock even of his protestant wife and most of his friends, he asked that the traditional jewish prayer of mourning be recited at his funeral. >> by -- >> he specified, louis hanklin. he was not only a practicing orthodox jew, but the son of one of the preeminent orthodox jews in america. >> and a preeminent legal scholar who for 40 years was a law professor at columbia university. you may know better, one of the great authorities on international l

because judaism at its core is a constellation of people, culture and theology. we need a device -- we need an information device that actually reflects all of that. is a little different from other faith communities that might have the perspective of a geological stance or something like that. so i'm wondering -- really, it seems to me that it has become a kind of mirror to the community itself. a kind of educational device for the community itself. and really has become a kind of nourishing, sustaining mechanism for the community to have a self reflective experience. i'm wondering -- in what ways, maybe your letters to the editor reflect that deeper kind of -- i would say, yearning that we all have, to be connected and to care for one another. >> that is a beautiful way of putting it. and i think we all do have a yearning to connect. that is what a jewish publication does for a jewish community. and again, not an unthinking or uncritical connection, but exploring what is meaningful about this. at the same time, this week, we and the jewish press around the coun

he really never felt connected to judaism as a religion.oody has always been much more interested in the big questions than the day to day. he's still asking about the nature of existence, and is there a god. it's a theme that he works again and again in his movies. >> mom, come out. >> of course there's a god. >> but if there's a god, then why is there so much evil in the world? just on a simplistic level, why were there nazis. >> tell him, max. >> how do i know why there were nazis. i don't know how the can opener works. >> jewish history inclines jews to be pes mists. judaism is optimistic. >> can you in 30 seconds admit that you are in danger now of total mass acceptance universally? >> i think two things. i'm making progress toward it, but let's not exaggerate the success of annie hall. i'm going to try and make decisions to keep myself from acceptance by the masses. i'm going and make all those decisions counterproductive to my best interests. you're more than just a bathroom disease. you're a life of unpredictable symptoms. crohn's,

against christians and judaism in the middle east. >> there is hate against other muslims, too. people who commit acts of violence against and -- against christians would not think twice before they commit an act of bounce against sick of people, against other muslims. and there is a lot of people -- against secular people, against other muslims. there is a lot of people. it is perfect because you don't have freedom of speech over there. there is a lot a hate against christians and shia. [indiscernible] one they came out two weeks ago and he said we need to take a break from cursing the christians and the jews in order to curse the shia. [laughter] to focus on al ah to hate to the shia. it was nurtured over years. hate about westborough baptist church. think about that. >> thank you. so, last month in june, said theykurdistan were going to referendum on independence. how thisour opinion on would add another independent nation or a whole other issue with a nation with significant populations living in three other countries opposing ideologies, especially with leaders in the west

>> the rabbi was the seventh -- in his lifetime he rescued you could say, postwar judaism and gave it a religious direction that many people thought he would never have again after the holocaust. even with the establishment of the state of israel, israel leaders at the time assumed that religious judaism is fading and if it existed, it existed in small pockets and to reverse that he promoted jewish ideas, jewish values, jewish practices as good and and of themselves. not just of the tradition trying to preserve but as positive forces for change in the world that were not just restricted to jews.it was a value that judaism inspired. and he inspired people to become missionaries and affect other jewish communities around the world. and in the course of the project he became very widely respected, not just in new york where he lived with throughout the country for his advice. the advice of political leaders in israeli politics and global affairs. politicians would come to seek his advice. their pictures him talking to robert kennedy and correspondence with ronald reagan, things like that

and his daughter converted to judaism. david duke is using this. he did ittrump -- over and over. , i rest of his speech imagine martin luther king jr.. , andtened to his speeches donald trump is the closest thing to martin luther king jr. as i have ever heard. host: why is that? caller: america, unite and come together. host: i want to take the first part of her comments, where all of this is of no consequence. consequence of what people heard from the president with the people who supported him, voted for him, and those that don't? steve bannon tells the new york times this morning -- president trump, by asking -- where does this all and? connects with all of -- the race identity politics of the left wants to say it is racist. i can't get enough of it. guest: i think there is a certain segment of president trump's base that will not abandon him no matter what happens. safe in thaty respect. there is another segment of the population that would never support him the matter what he did. a certain that to extent, there is nothing he could have said

i'm very proud that it was in the offices of the religious action center reformed judaism in washington that the voting rights act of 1963 was drafted and the civil rights act of '64, but those acts are under siege. the voting rights act was eviscerated in a supreme court case in shelby in 2012. as you referenced a moment ago we have voter suppression laws all across the country, one in north carolina that was called racist with surgical precision by a federal appeals court when it got thrown out. we need to organize and mobilize at the grassroots level as you're doing on august 28th. >> i thank you both very much, reverend tullis and rabbi jonah pestner. >>> up next, could smoking marijuana lead to the destruction of this country? stay tuned. i no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. wondering, what if? i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it's been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. and is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who have had no prior tr

in judaism. the first legal systems in ridings disappear after all the few dozen steps before he reached the end of the block all the history peters out and all human civilization is on. that was easy you stretcher lakes and prepare for what could not be much longer. may be the dinosaurs no doubt that the formation of the earth by sundown. in fact, he would have to walk 20 miles a day every day for four years and then to reach the big bang another decade. the planet earth is not the story of a whole sapiens. there is no complex life not the d.c. or the of topics except for the wind and waves we have the of violent planet those first creatures from boston harbor lasted 4 billion years on earth about anything else in fact, the years between 1.8 billion for someone natural even geologist refer to read as a love boring billing - - billion with a geologist calls a boring be appalled. [laughter] even the earth was the desolate wasteland one of the only signs of life for millions of years and six planes

they would attack the dirty, muchited gringo with as rich real as they want the maneuvers of judaism. m.nmain local enemy of the .r. where the -- were the wealthy pen barons. the enriched themselves at expense of the bolivian nation. they declare them and nti-nationalist force -- an antinationalist force within bolivia. i think it is important to point out that there were many strains of bolivian nationals. the mnr nationalism did not sympathize with mussolini or franco's spain. i think it is said to say that the german people -- truman people saw them as distasteful. in the eyes of the roosevelt and it wasadministration, the potential ally and what time fascism. or a nationalist threat to liberal capitalism. was toman administration be got it by a continuation of the good neighbor policy. i will add that we have been talking a lot about the good neighbor policy but during the war, it led to extensive collaboration with latin american security forces against fascism. what the truman administration thought to do after the death of roosevelt and into the immediate postwar. andto put as

used introduction to judaism in the world. "think a second time" "happiness a serious problem" "still the best hope" "why the world need american values to triumph" which i highly recommend and "the ten commandments still the best moral code." he has produced three films and is currently in the process of producing a fourth, no safe spaces which he will be producing with comedian and filmmaker adam carolla. prager was a fellow at columbia university school of international affairs where he did graduate work at the middle east and russian institute. he has taught russian and jewish history at brooklyn college and president ronald reagan appointed him to the u.s. delegation to the vienna review -- to the vienna review conference. he also received an honorary doctorate of law from pepperdine university. mr. prager also periodically conducts ork stras and has introduced hundreds of thousands of people to classical music. in 2011 mr. prager co-founded prager university with his producer alanest rent which is an institution of highe

it's also judaism and explains at least in part, think, why wilson was so welcoming of jewish americans into princeton and then into his administration, and also was protective of the notion of a jewish homeland in the far east. i mean, the middle east. okay, so, what we have then is the notion that you can strip it away from calvinism. don't have to be christian. don't have to be white. and in fact, all that these protestant denominations began to do was to found universities, like the american university in cairo, the american university in beirut, also in iran turkey. they were going to convert the locals to christians. well, didn't work very well. what they did convert them to was constitutionalism. and many of the liberal movements that we have seen in the middle east come out of these plants in the late 19th 19th and early 20th century, that are related to the protestant schools that spread in so many part offed the world. well, let's get back if we can without me running over time, to what was going on in the united states. in the united states, the critical mistake that was made

he hates donald trump's family, because there donald's family, too, and his daughter converted to judaism david duke is using this. president trump disavowed david duke and the white supremacists, and he did it over and over and over. -- ihe rest of his speech go back to martin luther king, jr., and i have listened to the speeches, and donald trump is the closest thing to martin luther king, jr., as i have ever heard. host: why is that? keep america --unite and come together. host: she said all of this is of no consequence. of whatthe consequence people heard from the president with the people who voted for him and with those who do not support him? steve bannon tells "the new york times" this morning, president trump connects with the american people about their history, culture, and tradition. the rest want to say it is racist. tear down more statues, say the revolution is coming, i cannot get enough of it. i think there is a certain segment of president trump's base that will not abandon him no matter what happens. there is another segment of the population that would never support pre

deeply distressed to the purposes of fees for a government run contrary to their humane ten days of judaism or it's actually in the torah what they believe their connection with that when it should. stick so it's really none of my business but. we do know that will loose. priest religion so we'll have the same basic ideas but when you're smee something else in this city something we've done thirty exhibits and everywhere we because the truth is for the rich will put it. here. it's about recognizing the predicament of of this attaches very much to the philosophical position that we should do as we would be done by character from charles kingsley school to babe it's mrs stewart she would be dumb but says that but we. it is incumbent upon a school and upon our politicians and on all those of us who think about people who might be on the other side of an argument to pull ourselves in their shoes how would we feel sick here in washington if there were drones but sing around in the sky all day and we never knew we were going to be playing now. because it is the it a drone attacks for its targeted

and in reformed judaism. what we see then is a way in which the constitution changes over time. if you look at, and definition of the covenant that comes from - brother richard. if you look at the covenant into think about, if you get out one of these extraordinary book of orders as it is called that the presbyterians have, it is the democratic. you immediately want to convert. i mean it is terrific! if you're a democrat that is. because they have checks and balances built into them. they have all kinds of freedom of information and speech built into them. this then becomes the template for the american constitution. in many ways, it was the calvinist who waged the revolutionary war against the brits. for example the major calvinist burial site, because the colony was founded by them after that was dug up the bills a church. you know what this does if you are a calvinist? get mad. so present itself became a bastion of - this then leads to the triggering history of princeton. how far i can go on before he cut me up i'm really into this but john witherspoon, one thing that i found

this is like the basement of anything that judaism would stand for.he army of tomorrow is the group of children today. what is there for you when you become 18? 36% of the boys have to go. 45% of them witnessed the beating and the killing of their fathers. they immediately switch from the helpless father, who could not protect them, to somebody who is more thoughtful. jews who are armed with machine guns and military jeeps victimize these children, and when we allow the children to play this game as part of the therapy, many of thee children prefer to play the role of the jew in the game becacause that power. ♪ >> under the deep strains of the current intifada, very few israelis went on examining how to make core examples tense happen. she is -- core existence. >> i asked to speak with prime minister netanyahu. i wrote to him five times. and then he doesn't want to speak with me. in the letters i wrote i want you to look me in the eye and to tell me that my son died for a reason. i want you to look at me. he never had the courage to do it. i feel a re

part of what i see is one of the key teachings of judaism is to be able to recognize the divinity in every single human being recognize that infinite uniqueness recognize that infinite value and to build societies in which humanity can thrive and. there are many forces in the world that dehumanizing us but but racism white supremacy anti semitism those are among the most toxic that we've seen throughout history you know how do you how do you expect this to play out. well what i expect is that the american people will recognize and remember the values on which we. have been standing for for a long time will recognize that we're not and you know nationalist state that we are not. about a particular ethnicity what we are about is certain values and principles the principles of democracy the principles that every single person should be able to be valued within this society regardless of your religious beliefs regardless of your ideology and background i think that the vast vast majority of americans believe that and i think we'll remember it fairly soon it's like we forgot pluribus unum

judaism, christianity, muslim, and publish it. once they allow people to have a format in a mailing list that is open-ended, they are playing with fire selecting some views that are acceptable and some are not. it may be much better to say religion and politics don't belong in the company. imagine a mailing list where people are debating abortion. they would offend both sides, legitimately right away. everyone.istract it would be acceptable for a ceo to say we are not having emails about abortion in the company. that's not the reason for our existence. emily: final thought, should he have been fired? >> no. emily: why not? >> googles culture, if you look at the historical context on the mailing list at google, they are wide raging. i only worked at google for two weeks, but fundamentally, i believe the mailing lists are .retty wide-ranging if it was a different company, then absolutely i think it would be acceptable to fire him. emily: keith rabois from khosla ventures, joining me this hour. coming up, steph curry of the golden st

buddhism, judaism, hinduism. with each football the cultural milestones get staggering. first legal systems in writing disappear and then tragically sodas beer. after a few dozen steps for you can reach a block all of the quarter's history peters out and all human civilization is behind you and fully mammoths exist. you stretch your legs and prepare for what could not be much longer block. perhaps a short stroll to the dinosaurs a little farther still to -- in fact, you have to keep walking 2 miles a day every day for years to cover the rest of the planet's history. then there is a footnote to reach the big bang you have to go that for another decade. clearly the story of planet earth is not the story of homo sapiens. almost all of that walk would be to for bidding navigate with no lifeline. save for the wind and waves are the silent planet for the most part during this nearly attorney preamble to animal. those first creature stamped on the rocks of boston harbor came after 4 billion years on earth without anything on the planet more exciting than pond scum. in fact, the

his daughter ivanka is a convert to judaism which in the bible is an even higher level. for a neo nazis, this is going to drive them either crazier. the president has jewish grandchildren. what would happen to his grandchildren if this ideology were to prevail? i think we have to take him to his actions. he rose to political prominence on the back of a racist lie, failed to condemn david duke during the campaign because he said he didn't even know who he was. he's apparently making a decision, not to tamp down the kind of social tearing apart of our national fabric that this kind of event represents, but to stoke it. that as president is something he feels he should do. he's got to be doing it strategic cli politically and i think that's what's so distressing to the country. >> all of you, please stay with us. we have a lot more to talk about. ahead we'll have more from the panel and the lieutenant governor of virginia is to join us. he has a lot to say about the president and the opportunity he says he squandered to bring this country together. i'm ryan and i quit smoki

talking about both sides, can we not forget that president trump has a daughter who converted to judaism? his son is also jewish?>> give the right to be idiots. they just can't cause harm. >> why are we talking about not -- why aren't we talking about antifa. they were talking about the harmful, hateful things that their talk about. >> where we got talking about the young black men who were talk -- attacked by 10 members. >> if you take the view, like the best -- settlement does, that the president should weigh in and say that these people are bad and way into the fight, the we are going to have much more dissent and problems 12 years from now. is a reason john quincy adams is a one term president, it is a reason why at the end of the obama administration, we were more divided. the job of the president is not to get into -- in too deep. the white nationalist, whoever they are, are bad people. they are. >> you don't think that president trump has further caused divisiveness? >> know. i think that he could give away the winning lottery numbers, and he would be considered wrong. >> >> we're

he's converted to judaism? what is jared kushner saying?n an administration where the president of the united states is saying there were many fine people chanting "jews will not replace it" talking about blood and soil, using nazi imagery. what is jared kushner doing still working in the white house j when you have a president who is -- who is empowering neo-nazis and white supremacists? why is jared kushner still there? how does he justify this? how does he sleep at night? >> joe, that documentary is 22 minutes that every american should watch, especially right now, and in that documentary, to your point, one of those white supremacist leaders talks about jared kushner and how he stole being a jewish man, how he stole one of their women in ivanka trump. he goes after him with visit recall. jared kushner ought to watch it and see what they're saying. it's disgusting and repulsive. it's all there. it's vice news. i know you saw some of it, harold. >> he said we killed no one unjustly. the restraint repraised, he said the restraint our peopl

it is the most widely used introduction to judaism in the world. happiness is a serious problem, still the best hope, why the world needs american values to triumph, which i highly recommend and also the ten commandments still the best moerl code. he is currently in the process of producing a fourth film, no safe spaces, which he'll be producing with wall dam corolla. he went to the school of international affairs where he did graduate work. he has taught russian and jewish history and president ronald reagan appointed him to the u.s. delegation to the vienna review conference. he also received an honorary docket rat of law. he also conducts orchestras and introduces hundreds of thousands of people to classical music. in 2011 he cofounded which is an institution of higher learning on the internet with unique difference. all of the courses are five minutes long. the courses are the best ideas of the best minds in the world and cover history, fill os fi and religion, economics and psychologist. it includes george guilder, arthur brooks. i'm pleased t

. >> did you practice judaism growing up?ned in the church of england. >> did that seem odd? >> it did seem odd. as usual, my mother interceded. she said, "well, yes, some of your family had been jewish originally." and that's about as much as i knew. >> in the early '70s, simon and nick, now in their 20s, both moved to los angeles to pursue careers in the music business. the distance between father and sons grows ever greater, especially after their parents divorce in 1973. >> as we got older, he actually shut down more, so it became harder and harder to get any information out of him. >> i grew up with this mostly silent father. he could talk to me about cricket and innocuous subjects. i needed to know who i was, where our family came from. >> bernard goodman dies in 1994 at age 80 without providing an answer. but three months after their father's death, the brothers receive a mysterious shipment of boxes filled with old papers that reveal their father's secret history. >> my grandparents were murdered in concentration camp

evening from the long-time rabbi of jared kushner and ivanka trump who oversaw her conversion to judaism condemning racism, condemning the remarks, i believe. so it has to be enormously upsetting to them. and there are reports that it is just that. you know, so the question is, what's your red line? what's your -- you know, how much of this do you take? how much do you stand? i imagine they're asking themselves do they stay? those who work in the administration, do they stay in hopes of being a positive influence? or at least preventing awful things from happening or do they leave as a statement. or just not being able to take it anymore and we shall see. no one has left yet. >> and michael crowley to, whipsaw back to foreign affairs, briefly, you get the last word. it's on north korea. it's about mr. bannon say eg doesn't see a military option, which puts to rest a half century of american policy, think of the americans in uniform we have there in the korean peninsula. think of those on standby in the region all the way to guam. >> yeah, it's loose talk that it goes to the problem that

did you ever learn anything about catholicism versus judaism? do you speak to you groups -- youth groups? bill: have you been invited to another convent? t josaine: i haven't been to a convent, but i've been to a few catholic schools. i have been in maryland and virginia and too many of them. interested and i am always surprised how much they do know. very impressive, they be a lot of books on the subject. in a school,o kids i usually ask them what they have read and what they know so i know what angle to begin with. that theys surprised read so much of the literature. bill: we have time for one more question. with josiel wrap up concluding our program. stay with us for a couple of minutes. for those of you who just raise your hands, josie will remain on the stage after she finishes so we invite you to come up here and ask her the question and she will stay as long as you have a question to ask her. please come up here and do that. if -- how your mom handled the situation after the concentration cap. was she angry? did she forget? when did she f

. >> man: "we represent the majority of the people in alabama who hate niggerism, catholicism, judaismd robert creel of the alabama ku klux klan. he also said, "i like barry goldwater. he needs our help." >> the biggest adverse problem that lyndon johnson had was the racial issue, 'cause there was nothing like it. remember, he sent lady bird down on the lady bird special to go through the south in the hopes of salvaging some of the south. there was concern about her safety. there was a lot of abuse when she'd stop and speak, and people would talk, you know, "nigger-lover," and all that kind of stuff. >> woman: i recall specifically her saying at one stop, "now, just a second. you've had your turn to make your point. let me have mine. i'm so glad to be back here in the south that i love so dearly. so even if you don't like what i have to say, at least you understand the way i say it." and... [ laughs ] and, of course, that brought some humor and a little bit of levity, which frankly, we needed in that very tense time. >> the overall sense in the black community to me, and this is my opi

williams, last week we had a rabbi of the reformed jewish -- who heads religious action for reformed judaism, who is one of the leaders of this thousand ministers march with myself and you and others. and it seems, as i said, more than ever, i moved this up in the show, because i think the way you answer the bigotry, the racism and anti-semitism of yesterday is showing black and jewish and other faith leaders together, nonviolently, going to washington, saying, wait a minute, we are going to uphold what doctor king and the rabbi and others stood for. i mean, we are -- announced this weeks ago. rabbi was on last week. rabbis and ministers and priests and all organizers. but i think in light of yesterday, it brought back to min mind to me, you put a clean glass next to a dirty glass and show what we really ought to be about now. >> you know, you are absolutely right, reverend. thank you certainly for having me. look, over 50 years ago, we saw bloody sunday. a bloody sunday in selma, where afterwards dr. king called thousands of ministers and hundreds of people of faith to come together and joi

ivanka converted to judaism. they are practicing modern orthodocks.the c version is getting political. sent a ler out to the entire congregation saying while we avoid politics, we are deeply troubled by the moral ekwifcation president trump has offered. it makes you thinks can they stay silent on this? >> reporter: i think we've seen the answer to that. it's been several days. these days sort of feel very long to us in the news cycle. it's been since sunday. they were observing the sabbath as she had wriy yachts are happening. i feel like the jewish community is asking e-ivanka trump to be an advocate and by remaining silent i think they feel that is quite frankly deafening. the however on the other side i do feel this is a cun none drum that happened when this is the daughter of the president and the son-in-law. when you sort of build these extra layers of complication, it definitely becomes, would imagine for ivanka trump sort of being between a rock and hard place. >> but there's also right and wrong and they're speaking out as she did so eloquentl

this as a coalition of rabbis representing all the diverse strains of american judaism have denouncedments after charlottesville and say they will not participate in a traditional call with the president ahead of next month's jewish new year. let's get the inside scoop from our msnbc contributors. welcome all. jonathan, first you. the whole question of e the government shutdown looming over everything, you've been writing on this. let's get a recordkeeping. >> goldman sachs put out a note last week dpifing a chance of the government shutdown 50%. i was talking to people talking to people close to leadership last night including in the administration and they think it's higher than that. the question is whether donald trump has the fight in september or december. some of his aitd aides believe bettor d a short-term three-month funding bill that will kick the can down the road to december. but donald trump wants this wall. he believes it's politically e smpblly and he wants to have a fight over it so a lot of people think it's going to happen. >> kara lee, at the same time, you and i bo

i think -- nor do i think his judaism is the issue. this is a question of basic moral principles, right? are you willing to participate in a administration that's giving license to political forces of racial hatred of our racial past that is, in fact, standing against the kind of efforts to build a multiracial, multiethnic, religiously diverse democracy. these are not political questions in my mind. these are questions of moral judgment. and you know, i hope he hears our message. i hope that the people who do talk to him, i'm sure he has classmates he's close to, i'm sure there are people who are very dear to him who feel the same way. i would expect that there would be. i don't know them but i'm sure they're there and i hope this message gets through, that this is not a matter of the debt ceiling or of the infrastructure project or anything else. this is a question of what kind of democracy, what kind of nation will we be and whose side is he on. >> i got it. james, matthew, thank you both. >> thank you. >>> more on the breaking news

do not forget have drawn the cradle of judaism. to give up control of hebron if you are religious and all and even if you were not you should understand the connection they say and i agree with the bacon come back to hebron as a person with a legitimate right and history. that is what they are fighting for. that stream and the of religious commitment does not demand occupation and after every war that is what we are missing and tell somebody resurrects it. [applause] seven things to the family foundation for their support and also mr. salem so please join me to thank the excellent panel. [applause] [inaudible conversations] . . .... .... .... >> and later, andrew carol looks at world war i through the eyes of general john perishing in "my

his daughter converted to judaism. how can people think he embraces naziism or neo-naziism. this racial -- and the racial issue, this racial climate in america is being fueled by the media as well. white people don't get up in the morning saying i hate all people. all black people aren't getting up in the morning saying, i hate all the white people. i consider us friends you're white, i'm black, that's never been an issue between us. the media is fueling this only because trump is president. >> pastor. >> if hillary clinton was president -- >> which makes it all the more surprising given everything you just said, all the harder to understand why the president won't come out and say, forcefully, i do not want your support, go home, don't march in my name. he did not say that. >> if you -- >> he did not say that, pastor. pastor, he did not say that. and given his daughter and son in law and lawyer and all the other things you laid out, he did not come out and say, i don't want you marching in my name, i don't want you supporting me, i don't condone it, i don't accept it, go ho

we don't look at judaism as a problem. all these mainstream -- not mainstream. all the main religions have justification for the use of violence within them. but all of them, including islam, those individuals who believe that violence is justified have been marginalized and minority over the years. their challenge today is ensuring that conditions are such that the popular base doesn't expand, that the base of support we see today which is not along ideological lines, but is a i long the idea if i permit al qaeda to use my territory they won't attack may, they may provide me with food or water or assistance. that is why al qaeda, that is why that minority group is becoming stronger. so i think that this is, yes a contest within islam to a degree, but it is manifesting itself in secular terms in conditions that state-to-state engagement can actually address. ilon: let's go to a question here and then i have one to wrap it up. >> hi, when you said that there is radical christians that use a religion from a violence, can you give an example? it sounds like you wou

stage in twitty's book, which weaves explorations of his own identity, including his conversion to judaismthe roots of american food, and stories of his childhood. the book you chose to write is also part memoir, right? >> yeah. >> brown: so why use your own story and your own family to tell that story? >> i was always intrigued by this notion of the black autobiography, the kind of writing that maya angelou or james baldwin did. how i got over. how i came to be this person. that we have passions that last our whole lives, and that we are extremely engaged in our own history and culture. >> brown: but you didn't start out that way. >> no. >> brown: even by your own descriptions, right? i wasn't interested in soul food, i didn't even really like being black, i think you wrote? >> right, exactly. >> brown: so why suddenly explore all that? >> i wanted to re-approach this narrative of self critique and self hatred. but also, letting people know that the food was my way in. the stories... i got a sense of pride of the people who i came from, my own family. and i felt like i wanted to put the m

the report says the rabbi that oversaw ivanka trump's conversion to judaism has released a letter togregation of jared kushner and ivanka trump's longtime synagogue condemning president trump's widely criticized statements about the violent protests in charlottesville. and so ana marie cox, we heard earlier in the program that gary cohn standing there with the president yesterday is now -- was outraged by the comments, but silence from him. but there is obviously going to be a continued protest of this kind coming out from what he said. >> of course. and i guess -- i mean i gave up on jivanka a long time ago. she said she doesn't consider herself political. there's a point at which being -- there's a point at which you are political because of what you don't do and what you don't say. and i think she crossed that line a long time ago. i just -- we need to stop looking to this white house for leadership, either from the president himself or from people around him, and we need to look to each other. i think that's the only thing we can do right now. nothing about this surprises anyone