Good evening, thanks for joining us today.

We learned the President of the United States urged the head of a foreign power to take

action against two Democratic Congresswomen, American Congresswomen who are critics of his

and the head of that foreign power did just that.

And in a truly Trumpian twist late today, the President denied having pushed the foreign

power while also seeming to admit that he had.

Bear is repeating, this is certainly not normal, except abnormal is kind of now normal.

It's also a classic Trump distraction play, a way to turn the media and the public's

attention away from yesterday's disastrous stock drop and fears of her session.

So keep that in mind.

Nevertheless, it is worth looking at what the President just did here because, as we said,

it's unprecedented.

So this concerns two Congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who plan to visit Israel.

They are, as you know, openly critical of Israeli policy, both support a boycott of Israel

and Congresswomen Omar has been criticized, including by her colleagues and has since

apologized for using anti-Semitic tropes on a number of occasions.

And these may also know they are two of the four non-white female lawmakers whom the

President has been attacking repeatedly.

When you see the four Congresswomen, oh isn't that lovely?

Representative Ilhan Omar.

Center back, which is a racist, nativist chant that's been used at one time or another

in America against just about every minority group in America.

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