Rahm Emanuel

Anti-Semitism always exists.

What happened in this country that it allowed it to go from not being kosher to coming public, that's something that we all have to ask about why it all of a sudden became acceptable not only to express it, but to act on it violently from the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

to what we saw in Colorado, to what we saw in D.C., where it's not just saying ugly things about Jews, but then acting on it in a real violent way.

And what gave that permission slip, that nobody would have done that when I first ran for Congress in 2002.

They said some ugly things about a money changer.

He's not one of us.

The normal tropes of anti-Semitism.

But that became somewhere you could act on it and not just act on it and say it publicly, but then violent.

That's another topic I hope we can get into.

Yeah.

Now, to Israel, somebody, and I want to say this to you, look, I didn't need a war to know that this prime minister was not good.

2009, I don't know if you know this, we got in such a public fight when I was president of Obama's chief of staff.

Publicly, he called me a self-loathing Jew.

Is this when he came and addressed Congress?

No, that was 2015.

This is 2009.

Okay.

My disagreement with him, and it's gotten pretty direct, was over housing in the West Bank because I thought he was destroying a two-state solution.

If you destroy that, Israel was on a course to endless wars.

A lot of other people thinking about running for national office were lip-syncing his stuff.