leader kfin mccarthy stripped steve king of his committee assignments. representative omar still sits on the foreign affairs committee after her anti-semitic comments because democrats and nancy pelosi refuse to do anything about it. >> that's a very shameful comparison to make, congressman. i'm disappointed you'd use this moment to do that. steve king has, for years, made all sorts of horrendous comments that have gone without a deafening silence from your party. and i think this is a moment to lift this up. you are correct, jake. the president did not specifically call out white nationalism and the way that we have to combat hate and sexism and bigotry and anti-gay bias, you name it we have to name it. we have to say it. we have to have that courage. and we cannot just resort to ilhan omar, she apologized and i think ended up by having a resolution to be against all forms of hate to see what then happened this week was the right thing to >> this is years after

steve king and i were buddies.he nicest, gracious host to me. that was many years ago. the steve king today, i don't know who that is. and i'm really, really disappointed in him. and you know, he deserves to lose his committee chairmanship. and he's drown a primary opponent out there in iowa and hopefully the people of iowa had enough of this. shameful, steve king. what are you doing? >> cornell, it's interesting. it would be one thing if in the wake of this -- all right, it was a mistake, someone else, assuming he's telling the truth there and someone else posted it. at that town hall when, you know, gary asked the question and then turns out there were people in the audience who were concerned about it and followed up with it. he could have said more than just, you know, i wasn't happy it was posted, i took it down. no one, it seems, today kind of tries to explain why they're unhappy it was posted. he could have said i don't believe there should be a civil war, i don't want there to be a civil war in this country

steve king is a white guy. president pretends he doesn't know what he says. >> it's either wrong or it's not. right? >> yes. but hold on. but hold on. there is an important thing here. why does the president of the united states think that he's going to call out one and pretend he doesn't know about the other? >> because he's a hypocrite! >> he should have called out steve king immediately. >> okay, that's all i was getting at. >> absolutely. >> why don't you call him out for when he said that he doesn't want black people counting his money. he only wants jo s jews with y counting his money. this is just not an acceptable argument for -- it smacks of hypocrisy. if you want to talk about anti-semitism, let's talk about the 50% increase in anti-semitic incidents in 2015 after donald trump took office. there was a surge in anti-semitic incidents, including predominantly -- or, excuse me, largely, from trump supporters in 2016. >> quick word to rob, keith, since you started. >> this started off as, is there a probl

congressman steve king shared a meme depicting modern-day civil war. and it says folks keep talking about a civil war. on one side it has 8 trillion bullets and the other side, it doesn't know which bathroom to lose and he asked which would win. his home state is iowa. after he was stripped of committee assignments and widely conde condemned, he's learned his lesson and everything is totally fine now. michael, what's going on? >> steve king uses this verified facebook page to share memes and images that you can find throughout right wing facebook and the broader right wing internet. a lot is mostly fun, poking fun at democrats and hollywood democrats. a few are tasteless. i think that's a big part of why the congressman ended up deleting that. there's another image he shared just last week of a man wearing a bikers for trump t-shirt looking menacing, perhaps threatening violence toward a bernie sanders supporter. that's still on steve king's page. >> obviously a lot of this stuff exists. what does it say to you that this is a member of congress spreadi

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steve king and i were buddies. when i would go to i, what steve king was the nicest gracious host.t was many years ago. the steve king today, i don't know who that is. i am disappointed in him. he deserves to lose his committee chairmanship. he's drawn a primary opponent out there in iowa. hopefully the people of iowa had enough of it. shameful steve what are you doing? >> pernell, it's interesting, it would be one thing if in the wake of this, it was a mistake someone else, assuming he is telling the truth there and someone else posted it at that town hall when fare asked the question and then it turns out there were people in the audience who were concerned about it and followed up with it. >> that right. >> he could have said more than just, you know, i wasn't happy with post, i took it down. no one today tries to explain why he could have said i don't believe there should be a civil war. i don't want there to be a door. the idea we would be pitting americans against each other. anything anything like that. it's just i didn't want that posted. >> that's right. the congressman is

steve king? she's actually using steve king as an example. steve king, who in an interview with "the new york times" asked when white supremacists and white nationalists became offensive, who has been making outrageous racist statements for years. racism so bad that republicans finally could no longer turn a blind eye to it. his party couldn't turn a blind eye, but it seems the president could. >> i don't -- i haven't been following it. i really haven't been following it. >> he didn't have anything to say about steve king there, but he sure did when he said this back in 2014. >> today i'm here to support steve king, a special guy, a smart person with really the right views on almost everything. >> but back to sarah sanders today. asked a follow-up question, she doubled down, refusing to say whether the president thinks democrats hate jewish people, which should be a simple question to answer no. no, the president doesn't believe that the democratic party is full of people who hate a whole group of voters because of their faith. it's easy. tha

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. >> it should be done the way the republicans did it when steve king made terrible comments. we called it out by name, we stripped him of his committee memberships and we'd like to see democrats follow suit. >> steve king, the republican congressman from iowa, is the defender of white nationalism. when sarah sanders uses the pronoun we in conjunction with condemning the congressman, she is quite simply not telling the truth as was pointed out to her today. >> steve king, the president, correct me if i'm wrong, has not condemned steve king. >> i -- >> he was praising white supremacy. has the president publicly come out and said anything to criticize -- >> i've talked about that a number of times and i'd refer you back to those comments where i used words like abhorrent and unacceptable. >> now to be fair on the 16th of january she herself did indeed say steve king's comments were ab bornlt and the republican leadership, unlike democrats, have taken action when their members have said outrageous and inappropriate things. however, the president himself has never said a word on t

yeah, i don't know if i buy steve king's response to alice, first of all.i feel like he hasn't apologized as far as i can tell. he just took it down, right? secondly, he hasn't disciplined the staff member who allegedly put that up there against his will. >> that we know of. >> that we know of. thirdly, he has a history of saying statements exactly like this. this isn't the first time he's made a statement threatening civil war, talking about the possibility of civil war in the white majority loses its power. it's perfectly on message for this to be said. it's so tone deaf because this happens on the day after 50 people were shot and killed by a white supremacist in new zealand and trump is going on talking about "snl" and the republican national committee is busy tweeting drunken stereotypes about irish people and steve king is threatening a civil war. this is exactly the tyime you want the country to come together and not be divided. trump isn't helping with that at all. the republican party isn't helping with that at all. steve king is not helping with t

the racist comments he's made and the point simply being where was trump on steve king? >> exactly. h back. was that the republicans centered steve kipg took away his committees. >> trump said nothing. >> that's the kicker. that's the kicker. that they weren't apparently ready for in the white house by invoking the example republicans tried to set with steve king. crickets. tumbleweeds. silence from the president. when she says tries to deny the president said what we all heard him say on camera, said he's consistently condemned hey tret and bigotry, we know the example of charlottesville. among many, many others. >> neo nazis came up. why didn't he condemn them. >> both sides, people. not really a tough one, but apparently it was for the president who kept going back to that particular talking point. so again, you see the white house in a situation where the best they've got is trying to assert something that the president's own words makes it fall apart. >> just looked at my notes. she was asked about the paul manafort right, the fact that he was, we know he was sentenced week. som

i did the same with steve king.terviewed him many times, but since this, he has not accepted an invite. that aside, you say she made a mistake. this isn't a mistake. she said these kinds of things many times, peter. where's the mistake? >> i think what her mistake was not -- i think she has every right to criticize apac. apac is an organization, let's be clear, that essentially supports the israeli government policies no matter what they are, and i think those policies are fundamentally anathema to human rights for palestinians. >> okay. >> the mistake she made was rather than simply criticizing the policies to try to speculate about the motivations for the policies. >> amy, what's your take? >> well, chris, i agree with you. i don't think it was a mistake. she has said these things time and time again. and, you know, i think nancy pelosi has a problem on her hands. the democratic leadership. and, you know, i do want her stripped of her committee assignments. it's concerning that she has a seat on the foreign affair

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steve king still sits there. know he lost his assignments, but -- >> harris: why -- >> jessica: i believe nancy pelosi sees she's a new member of congress, not somebody who's been a proven anti-semite like steve king. see when you would know what i think she sees? the support she's getting within those chambers that were willing to call out steve king so quickly. michael? >> michael: i would like briefly to disagree with every thing jessica said perry [laughter] very quickly. just at that we were unfair to the palestinians -- >> jessica: i said that was their perception pair that's not my perception. >> michael: a terrorist organization that they elected. to compare her oakmont doll doughnut comments others is absurd. any criticism of politicians taking money -- >> jessica: what about the george soros stuff? >> michael: he's a terrible man. >> melissa: the what about his son -- medially turns off. that's how everybody deals with all of these arguments today. it's almost like two wrongs make a right what about whe

dangerous circumstances. >> just finally, i know congressman cedric richmond of louisiana calls steve king white supremacist adding that, quote, when people show you who you are, you believe them. do you agree with congressman richmond, and do you think king is a white supremacist? >> i do. but i don't want to get lost in name-calling. i would ask the people of america just to think this. if you speak a certain way and act a certain way, and that is racial and racist, then that is what you are. and i just don't -- we don't have to shy away from saying those kinds of things. it's not being used as a pejorative term. it's very descriptive. like i say, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's usually a duck, and it sounds like it. it's not a surprise. the only question is how long are we going to tolerate that from individuals like him? i love iowa. i think the people there are wonderful people. they're great americans, and they just deserve a lot better than him, and i hope they see fit to show him the door at some point in time. >> mayor landrieu, always appreciate talking to yo

he refused to say anything about steve king. he didn't say the republican party is the pro-white supremacists party which would be the equivalent of what he said today about the democrat party being anti-jewish. just like he didn't say anything condemning david duke. when pressed on it by jake tapper, he falsely denied even knowing the man. >> just so you understand, i don't think anything about david duke, okay. i don't know what you're talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. so i don't know. i don't know, did he endorse me or what's going on because i know nothing about david duke. i know nothing about white supremacists. >>, in fact, he knew who duke was and had condemned him in the past. in addition to that, certain aspects of his twitter feed and official campaign material appeared to adopt, in some people's opinions, anti-semitic tropica trops. there was the six pointed star, and a pile of cash most corrupt candidate ever, an image that was posed to an anti-semitic message board. the star of david looking

steve king had done.entatives. keep in mind, charles, there's three formal ways to discipline a men. you can have a formal reprimand, you can do that and have a censure or kick them out. this is not that. this is a 'tweener, as you might say. something that kind of goes to congresswoman omar but doesn't. i can imagine if there was something else said that it could be referred to the ethics committee. but they say that doesn't fit in with the language if you're a member of the house of representatives. >> i have to ask you about jim clyburn saying that her experience is more personal than jews that had parents that were in the holocaust. >> yeah, and that's the issue, too. keep in mind -- this is why this is a challenge for the house democratic leadership. they have a very big tent and people are bringing in different voices and that's a challenge in the first two months of governing. >> charles: chad pergram, thanks for your help there. thanks very much. folks, you should know the monday fort hearing sent

in janry, republicans referre to steve king in a resolution saying white nationalism is not ok.re you skirting around the issue and not naming her in the resolution you are votinon? rep. jeffries: i can only speak toshe february 11 letter i party to. i have not seen the terms or the language of the resolution yet. in that letter we condemned in forceful and unequivocal language ilhan omar for afficking in an anti-semitic trope. that is our position. christian: one of the criticisms from labour mp's in this country is that there has been a long pattern of denial, obfuscation, inaction from the leader's office. are you aware within the democratic party that if you don't jump on this, it has the potential to split the party and force away those jewish democratic voters? rep. jeffries: i represent the ninth most african-american district in the country and the 14th most jewish. in many ways i have the best of both worlds, my constituents and friends telle at home, and i agree with that. i embrace the gorgeous mosaic of the district i serve and i icbrace the gorgeous mosaic of the ho

he was not told by steve king's folks. so it seems to be partly a strategy to have folks in there, very small number of people and also people that aren't necessarily going to ask him the tough questions when he is there to be put on the spot. and lastly, to be honest with you, having been at one of these meetings before there are some folks who think it's funny in his constituency and some folks who agree with him. that is there. i saw that plain and simple, a woman saying to him she was proud of him and he should stand up and continue his comments about white europeans being important and the most important to civilization. she also said let's take the sting out of racism. so there are some folks who actually agree with him in his constituency. >> did anyone in that audience ask king about his offensive rhetoric? >> you heard the person there say actually we do care about it. so there was a follow-up. i'll let you listen to the question here. >> do you think a white society is superior to a non-white? >> i don't have an

reporter: the president has not condemned steve king. supreme asy. te sarah: the husband has been briefed on a number of topics nd i refer to you to those comments. reporter: the president plans to name patrick shanahan as the secretary of defense, elevating him. can you tell us whether or not that is going to happen? sarah: i'm not going to make personnel announcements. the president has a great deal of respect for acting defense secretary shanahan. he likes him. and when the president is ready to make an announcement, he will. reporter: there are a lot of actings in the administration. sarah: a lot of possibility there. we are waiting for the confirmation process for a couple of those folks. reporter: i want to follow with the latest on china. has the president made an offer .n mar-a-lagogate sarah: in terms of whether or not we have a date set, not yet. we are continue inthe negotiations with china. when we have an announcement for the two leaders to sit down, we'll let you know. reporter: the president's negotiating partner after the talks broke

steve king was targeted for his controversial comments. seemed to me that debate was about him, not broadened out. as i read this resolution that they're going to vote on, among other things, it says from the political right, center or left, bigotry, oppression and racism is all bad. we should agree it's all bad but now it's about the left, center and right when this is a democratic congresswoman? >> right. with the steve king, a republican from iowa, it took a long time for republicans to deal with it. but they did. they took him off the committees, rebuked him publicly. their critics say this has been going on a long time with steve king. they did something about it. here they're purposely not naming congresswoman omar because if they did and they put the resolution on the floor, they know with republican votes it would pass. nancy pelosi doesn't want that on the floor because of the old hastert rule that the majority wouldn't be the majority in this vote. there would be a hunger to say something about her comments. >> ed: when president

by the way, he brought up steve king. representative steve king and what happened with him after his racist remarks. we are talking about is parity now in terms of what happened to her. >> i think our party has been consistent. our party is not big enough to tolerate racism. or even the perception of racis racism. the reality is, for the democrats to say, "we are against anti-semitism in general," and every body knows -- that's why we are talking about this right now -- everyone knows were talking about congresswoman omar's comments. it's not appropriate for her to continue to have no action other than sternly worded statements. more posts on facebook. these needs to be taken action by the democratic leadership. or as many of my democratic hogs are concerned, they are expressing in private -- some in public -- over her comments of today. over the weekend. that there are a handful of freshman that have taken away the historic democratic party. they have moved the party far to the left, so traditional democrats -- we are no

. >> belatedly on steve king, much belatedly, years too late. >> decades too late on congressman steveg. so i think we can -- and i think jen is absolutely right, that when you get into the motivations of people, that's where you get into trouble. i think the other area where congresswoman omar gets into trouble is, remember, she's freshman member of congress, part of this class of activists making the transition from the streets to the inside, to the halls of power. and there's a completely different way of behavior, of ways of doing things. and what we're seeing now in it real time and uncomfortably is she is learning, or at least i hope she's learning, what she's going through and how she can still change her behavior without changing how she thinks or what she believes. >> we saw that, kimberly, last week in the oversight hearing with michael cohen when there was that clash with another one of the freshmen members against mark meadows and realizing that there are congressional rules, that you can actually be brought in front of the ethics committee if you attack another member. >>

let's not forget steve king was stripped of some of his house committee seats. >> right.y republicans. >> right. >> steve king, when there was a resolution against racism and the remarks that he made, this was directed at steve king, he was not mentioned in that resolution and he voted for it. the real problems for democrats, there's the fissures in the party. i talked to one aide earlier today who said i wish that we could quit dealing with one another. it's causing a divide. when you have the divides between the freshmen and something that mitch mcconnell took issue with and said he thinks that anti-semitism is on the rise with the freshman house democrats. he said that was in the house earlier today. you want the right person, ted deutsche and so on. >> charles: it's an ugly problem and probably will get worse. >> thank you. >> charles: mike bloomberg is out. is mark cuban ready to join the billionaire's club with a presidential run? lowered their r and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? and you may lose weight. in the same one-year s

she was asked did the president condemn steve king and she waffled and said i've condemned steve kinghe hasn't. the president is not pure. i was there when he told jewish doe flnors that you aren't goin vote for me because i don't want your money. >> we pulled that for you. >> he's not worried about that. >> we anticipated that bad language. president trump is himself been accused of peddling an anti-semitism in the past. he made these remarks in 2015. >> i know why you're not going to support me. you're not going to support me because i don't want your money. you want to control your own politician. that's fine. good. >> in 2016 then candidate trump tweeted and later deleted be image of hillary clinton over a bed of money next to a six pointed star. it was the star of david. as the president refused to condemn the white supremacist march in charlottesville. last october in a tweet then house majority leader kevin mccarthy singled out democratic voters with jewish heritage for the attempting to quote buy there election. mccarthy later deleted tweet but not our memory of it. your thoug

he said nothing about steve king when he defended white nationalism in the aftermath of that, he didn't say the republican party is the pro white supremacist party which would be the exact equivalent of what he just said today about the democratic party being anti-jewish. but he didn't say that. just like he didn't say anything condemning grand wizard kkk david duke because he traffics in anti-jewish conspiracies. when pressed on it, he falsely denied even knowing the man. >> just so you understand, i don't know anything about david duke. okay? i don't know what you're even talking about white supremacy or white supremacists. so i don't know. i don't know. did he endorse me? or what's going on? because i know nothing about david duke. i know nothing about white supremacists. >> in fact, he knew who duke was and had even condemned him in the past. in addition, certain aspects of his twitter feed and even his full campaign material appeared to document in some people's opinions, anti-semitic tropes. most corrupt candidate ever. an image that had been posted to an anti-semitic white suprem

reporter: you mention steve king, the president, correct me if i am wrong has not condemned steve king. praising white supremacy. has the president publicly come out and said anything to criticize or -- >> i president on number of topics i talk about that number of times. i refer you back to those comments i used words like abhorrent or unacceptable. john. reporter: we're getting some word that president intend to nominate patrick shanihan to be secretary of defense elevating from the acting position. can you tell us whether that will happen? >> i will not make any personnel announcements at this time. i can tell you that the president has great deal of respect for acting defense secretary shanihan. he likes him. when the president is ready to make announcement on that front he certainly will. reporter: there are a lot of actings in the administration these days. any possibility of removing axing from mick mulvaney's title? >> certainly at love possibility. there the reason we have actings, we're waiting on confirmation process for at least couple folks. we hope that moves forward. rep

it should be done like what happed to steve king. he made terrible comments and we ofipped them -- stripped him committee memberships. reporter: the president has not condemned steve king. he praises white supremacy. has the president publicly come out and said anything? sarah: the president has been briefed on a number of topics and i refer to you to those comments. i used words like abhorrent and unacceptable. reporter: the president plans to name patrick shanahan as the secretary of defense, elevating him from the acting position. can you tell us whether or not that is going to happen? sarah: i'm not going to make any personnel announcements. i can tell you that the president has a great deal of respect for acting defense secretary shanahan. he likes him. and when the president is ready to make an announcement, he will. reporter: there are a lot of actings in the administration. any possibility of removing sarah: certainly a lot a possibility there. some of the reason we have acting's is we are waiting on the confirmation process

the house was correct to condemn steve king's remarks.rks in the same manner, same fashion. if you're somebody like ted deutch, i'm sitting here in bethlehem, pennsylvania. this is where he's from. his father was battle of the bulge. his family was a small -- they're patriotic americans. and to have your loyalty questioned like that. i can understand why my jewish colleagues, my former jewish colleagues would be deeply offended and why this is anti-semitic. they should have done that. they could have also passed a second resolution condemning white nationalism or islamophobia. they could have done that too. but the truth is this was really about representative omar's comments and that's why we're debating a resolution today and everybody should have voted for it. >> right. and of course the waters got muddied. however, there of course is always some incredible irony or hypocrisy, peter. the minority leader kevin mccarthy voted yes. okay? but then afterwards he said this. >> congress so better than this. please, do not make history write a

you can't cite steve king because steve king has been a racist for decades before someone finally saidand did something. i wouldn't tout that as -- >> i just mean tolerance and inability to push back and call them out. >> democrats have been able to say, we don't conduct ourselves that way. only they do. they lose that now. >> as an american, i know that israel is vital to our security interests in the region. as an american jew, i am very sensitive to any kind of anti-semitism whether it's intentional or not. i'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt and think it wasn't, but what she said was anti-semitic. as an american jew who is a democrat, this drives me crazy that we get bogged down in these things where we just rip ourselves to bits because we're democrats because we just -- these are things you don't see the republicans doing. and i have to say, at times like this, i wish we didn't go through what the republicans doorg. vote to condemn anti-semitism. vote to condemn hate. let's move on. because this -- >> from a strategic -- go ahead. >> she's in a stronger political positi

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we'd like to see democrats follow suit. >> you mentioned steve king.he president, correct me if i'm wrong, has not condemned steve king. he was praising white supremacy. has the president come out publicly and said anything to criticize -- >> i have talked about that a number of times pip aoed refer you back to those comments where i used words like abhorrent and unacceptable. john? >> reporter: we're getting word that the president plans to nominate patrick shanahan later this weekend to be the secretary of defense, elevating him from the acting position. can you tell us whether or not that is going to happen? >> i'm not going to make any personnel announcements at this time. i can't tell you that the president has a great deal of respect for acting defense secretary shanahan. he likes him. when the president's red do i make an announcement, he will. >> reporter: there are a lot of actings in the administration these day. any possibility of removing acting? >> certainly lot of possibility there. some of the reason we have acting is because we're waiti

>> i will just note steve king, there was a resolution -- >> ten years later.. >> i'm not defending it. i'm noting that he was taken off his committee. >> even noting it -- no, steve king has been doing what he has been doing -- >> for nine terms. >> the most outrageous, racist insane things he has been saying, nonstop. they finally do a resolution, which probably they did it so they could be doing what they're doing right now. >> two observations. i think that her comments shouldn't be taken in a vacuum. there's a huge rise in sentiment on campus, in the congress. >> anti-israel? >> anti-israel. and secondly, a group glaringly omitted from the anti-bigotry from that resolution, catholics. >> i think i did see -- maybe it was taken out. there was reference to anti-catholicism against john f. kennedy. >> all their recent anti-catholic comments and hearings for judges. there's a real -- that needs to be included as well. throwing everybody in the kitchen sink in this resolution, democrats, to their own peril, ignore catholics coming up in the 2020 elections and r

they are saying, look, what steve king did was much worse.ident trump did by saying there's good people on both sides, the both sides argument, which was much worse. that might be the case but i disagree, both are very problematic, steve king in particular was very bigoted and what he said, but that is besides the point. we should announce those things when they occur on the political right, but when they occur on the political left, the left has to be consistent, and when they see signs of anti-semitic tropes or these old games retry to delegitimize jewish participation in american civics by suggesting their loyalties are elsewhere. >> shannon: why do you think they're so much angst and the democrats about trying to get this done and get it onto the ground? onto the floor? >> i described it, there is a vain and finally left that says, with the right is doing as much worse. the bigotry on the right as much, much worse. we don't want to have this false equivalency, and this sets up a false equivalency. it's much worse on the right. that's not

you could ask the question why the president hasn't said anything about steve king, which he has not.a -- she had to dance there a little bit and she danced around it and she never answered the question, which is is that what the president believes? is that what he said? >> what do you think, ryan? >> i think she said something about the privately, he's denounced steve king which, of course, you could do anything privately. it's whether you do it publicly. >> is right. >> or not that matters if you're president. this is classic trump. using an issue that has divided democrats a little bit. they've had some trouble with one member in the house of representatives. that they've haddiscipline, this is trump taking advantage of this. look, the democratic party is a much more diverse party. they're always going to have, frankly, more key bait and it's going -- this -- and as the primary goes along here for president on the democratic side, this is going to be trump at every single moment, lobbing grenades, whether it has to do with rhetoric from a house member or policy, he is going to be i

indiscernible uestion] reporter: referring to steve king and removed him from his committee. mr. mccarthy: from all of his committees. reporter: how much longer is he going to be left off his committees when you call for representative omar to be removed from her committee? mr. mccarthy: the action we took with congressman king was what we heard from our party, it's not what the country believes in. we took action. we didn't have to wait weeks. we didn't have to water down our action at all. we removed him from every single committee. the difference here is the democratic leadership would not take action. when this first happened, congresswoman omar it's about the benjamins, the republicans had to move something to the floor. the democrats then realized by saying -- they said ngresswoman omar, she should apologize. short time later, more anti-semitism came out of her mouth. and own democratic congressman object to that and the leadership said they would take up a resolution and bring it to the floor and focus just on anti-semitism. they couldn't do that. the progressive wing of t

time, you have been referring -- 48 he bump of -- for a period of time can we have referred to steve king, removing him from his committees. to much longer if you going be left off his committees will you call for representative omar to be removed from her committee at this point? rep. mccarthy: the action we took with congressman king was what we heard from our party, saying that that is not what the already believes and also not what this country stands for. we took action. we didn't have to wait weeks. we didn't have to water down our action at all. we removed him from every single committee. i think it is an action that people would celebrate around the country. the difference here is that the democratic leadership wouldn't take action. when it first happened with congresswoman omar, when she said it was all about the benjamins, it was the republicans but had to take action and most something to the floor of the democratic joined with us and voted against. the democrats then realized by saying -- they said congresswoman omar, she should apologize. just a short time later, more anti-se

look how they didn't deal with steve king and his racist comments for many years, and only dealt with it when they were pushed to do so. the democratic party is going to hope they can move past this, get the focus on donald trump and the democratic 2020 contenders don't want to be dragged back into a washington fight when they want to be outside of washington and talking to people and drawing the distinction between themselves and the kind of political warfare in washington. that's the last thing the contenders want to have to do. >> let's talk more about the democratic 2020 contenders and perhaps everyone is waiting on for a final answer. joe biden. michael, your newspaper reports, biden is 95% committed to running according to sources familiar with the discussions. what's stopping him? >>. >> i think the first major hurdle that biden had to get over with is a family hurdle. we're told that's now past, his children, his wife. everyone in the family wants him to run. that was probably the biggest thing he needed to get past. there are still questions. can he raise the kind of money th

if they want to stand on steve king, he's been doing it for ten years.wait a second, maybe it is wrong to associate with white nationalists. there is a string of republicans and if we want to go down the line, we have sorrels and matt gaetz, it can get extremely sour. what nancy pelosi broke here was a fair deal. let's not forget that we have a president who's sitting in the president office who never apologized what he said about charlottesville which was against jews and neo-nazi. this was about politics and making sure that the debate over support over israel does not open warfare with democrats and republicans and it was about politics and it was met with a political solution. >> yeah, i have to say it is ridiculous that we are having all these votes. it would be nice if we can govern policies. >> yes. thanks to all. next new and horrifying images of teenager giving nazi a salute. a holocaust survivor is trying to teach those teens what they are doing or mocking is knotnot joke. she sat down with cnn, that's next. [friend] i've never seen that before

they are saying what steve king did was worse.rump did by saying there is good people on both sides, was much worse. that may be the case. i think both of those were problematic and steve king in particular was very bigoted in what he said but that's beside the.. point. when they occur in the political left the left has got to be consistent. when the left sees signs of anti-semitic troops or old games where we try to delegitimize jewish participation in american civics by suggesting their loyalty is elsewhere -- shannon: why is there so much egg are about getting this done and on the ground? >> there is a vein in the left that says the right is doing much worse, the bigotry on the right is much worse. what we don't want to have is this false equivalency, this sets up a false equivalency and that is not the point. of his worse on the right denounce it on the right. when it occurs on the left -- shannon: her position on the foreign affairs committee. >> the most important thing is for the democrats to have a resolution and denounce

but isn't it on the steve king point, it's sbreing she wrought up congressman king since trump has been silent on him. >> totally silent on kin. you're 100% right. trump has chosen not to say anything about king. probably because he's wondering if shehe's going to run again of he could win his race. there you have a member without any committees. correct? now. there are democrats that i've spoken with who thought that congresswoman omar should perhaps have been taken off the foreign affairs committee. and the chairman decided he did not want to do that. that's up to him. and there are democrats who thought the resolution was watered down, but have that conversation rather than the conversation about oh, by the way, democrats hate jews. that's just silly. just silly. >> i want to ask you about michael cohen. this came up in the briefing. you had hall the great reportin about the reports of the pardon. president trump's claim that michael cohen asked him for a pa pardon. here's the change. >> last week, the president tweeted michael cohen quote directly asked me for a pardon. when did tha

should in the congress today. >> as you know it took years congress after congress after congress steve kingkept saying the same things and was not stripped of committee assignments until now. >> until kevin mccarthy became the republican leader. while others didn't deal with it before, he did. >> back to the president and what he chose to write about this weekend, for example. fight hard for judge jeanine. he is calling on fox news to fight for an anchor there who is suspended for questioning if a member of congress is basically unamerican or not. where is her allegiance? is it to the constitution? in the hours, days following the attack that murdered 50 muslims the president is fighting for judge gene piero. is that appropriate? >> what happened in new zealand was a tragedy. we can't do enough. we can't be emphatic enough to call out the hate that led to it. i am not obsessed with the president's twitter feed. i don't read what the president tweets on a minute by minute basis. i'm hard at work in the house of representatives on the issues that matter. last week one of the stories that didn

steve king lost the committee chair ship in the wake of making his racially charged statements.n't they doing the same thing for congress from an omar especially what we are seeing over with the legal party getting him elated due to anti-semitism, we have anti-semitic floats and carnival parades in belgium i saw today also online for disturbing images of jewish americans in europe. >> i just got back from poland this morning and one of the things i was doing there was to participate in a ceremony for the polish christians who helped saved jews during the holocaust. i think people need to understand the anti-semitism is not just about rhetoric. there was a long history of people being brutally and savagely murdered in cold blood. we are not just talking about military combatants, we are talking about innocent men, women, children, older people. it's a horrible thing. it needs to be addressed. i think nancy pelosi -- and i have to give her some credit. she's trying, but she's got her hands full with some of these young democrats who really don't understand what i call "basic playg