Rahm Emanuel

Dan Rasinkowski, Frank Annunzio, Roman Paczynski were all predecessors.

Got it very ugly.

And I said then, as I said, there's only 2% in the district, and they elected Rahm Israel Emanuel, and I was running against a Polish woman who was a state rep.

I know the people of the city of Chicago, good people with good values.

They were going to see through this ugliness.

When Amy and I, when you came to visit, when we were ambassador in Japan, I was ambassador and we were living.

Somebody sprayed Nazi insignia on our fence.

Next day, a neighbor cleaned it up.

I still don't know.

They never came forward and said who they were.

I've said this many times, hoping one day they'll introduce them so I can thank them.

So I've seen the worst, and I've seen the best.

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.