March 6, 2019
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. |
| 0:05.5 | Stay tuned after the show for a message from Google. And I'm Jake Sherman. This week, |
| 0:10.0 | Democrats will move to pass HR1, which they believe is the kind of good government bill that sent |
| 0:14.7 | them into the majority. Speaker Nancy Pelosi worked for months to get consensus on this legislation, |
| 0:19.6 | which has already been delayed due to the |
| 0:21.5 | government shutdown. The passage of HR1 is the kind of moment that's supposed to define the early |
| 0:26.5 | part of the House majority. But instead of a laser focus on that, Democrats are enmeshed in a messy, |
| 0:31.5 | divisive internecine food fight over support for Israel, which has pit old school Democrats like |
| 0:37.4 | Elliot Engel and Nita |
| 0:38.5 | Lowy of New York against Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. |
| 0:41.9 | Omar has invoked what many see as anti-Semitic tropes in discussing Israel, suggesting |
| 0:47.4 | lawmakers who support the nation have a dual loyalty. |
| 0:50.8 | Earlier, she said, legislators support for Israel is, quote, all about the Benjamin's baby. |
| 0:56.9 | The divisions among Democrats are only getting deeper and more public. The House has already |
| 1:01.4 | passed one resolution as a result of Omar's comments, and now a second one is in the offing. |
| 1:07.1 | A vote on a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism has been put off after resistance from the left. |
| 1:13.5 | This Congress is only 62 days old, and presumably by the end of the week, it will have taken two votes aimed at condemning the words of a member of the majority. |
| 1:23.2 | Furthermore, Democrats seem to be headed for an extended discussion about America's support for Israel, something that will certainly split their caucus. |
| 1:30.3 | This fight isn't going unnoticed. |
| 1:32.2 | The New York Times put its story above the fold today, and it carries this headline. |
| 1:36.2 | Rift over Israel has Democrats divided by age. |
| 1:39.1 | Anti-Semitism motion rattles the House. |
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