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Mixed Messages From Pres. Trump On Gun Background Checks; Tom Friedman On The State Of The Republican Party

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tom Friedman On Pres. Trump's Week Of Reversals; Friedman: If Trump Were A CEO He'd Be Gone; Pres. Trump To Jewish Americans: "If You Vote For A Democrat, You're Very, Very Disloyal To Israel And To The Jewish People"; Pres. Trump Threatens To Release Thousands Of Captured ISIS Fighters To Europe; Tom Friedman On The State Of The Republican Party; WH Official: Pres. Trump Brief On Gun Control Options; Mixed Messages From Pres. Trump On Gun Background Checks; WH Official: White House Preparing Gun Proposals To Be Unveiled As Congress Returns From Recess, Unclear What's Under Consideration; WH Official: Pres. Trump Briefed On Proposals To Address Mass Shootings; Pres. Trump Embraces Title Of "King Of Israel"; Pres. Trump: "I'm The Chosen One" To Confront China On Trade; Pres. Trump Embraces Title Of "King Of Israel"To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening.

0:01.0

When we left you last night, President Trump had just canceled a trip to Denmark, a keynote

0:05.4

of ally, because the Danish Prime Minister would not sell him Greenland, calling the idea

0:10.2

absurd, which made our very stable genius, called her nasty, and then canceled the official

0:15.3

trip.

0:16.3

So, don't worry, America, alienating allies.

0:18.3

It's all part of the plan.

0:19.9

The Denmark discapt a day in which the president also accused Jewish Americans of being either

0:24.1

ignorant or disloyal if they supported Democrats.

0:28.0

It should be noted that throughout history, calling Jews disloyal has been a common

0:31.5

anti-Semitic trope.

0:32.5

It's been a pretext to exclude Jews or take their businesses or put them in ghettos or

0:36.8

expel them or expel them from schools or exterminate them.

0:40.1

Today, the president repeated the disloyalty claim, although this time is specifying that

0:43.9

American Jews who voted for Democrats would somehow be disloyal to Jews and to the state

0:48.2

of Israel.

0:49.2

Nevertheless, the theme of disloyal American Jews from this president continues.

0:53.6

Ivanka Trump must be very proud of her dad tonight, and you could probably just watch

0:57.6

for Ivanka leak in the coming days about how she tried to talk her father to change that

1:02.4

kind of language.

1:03.4

It's a classic Ivanka move.

1:05.3

The president also today executed a move rarely seen in modern day politics.

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