00:00As President of the United States, I will always support Jewish Americans, and I will always be a friend and a champion to the Jewish people.
00:11I have been.
00:14And I will say, you know, if you go back 10, 12, 15 years ago at the most, the strongest lobby in Washington was the Jewish lobby.
00:25It was Israel.
00:27That's no longer true.
00:28You have to be very careful.
00:30You have a Congress in particular, which is becoming anti-Semitic.
00:36You have AOC plus three.
00:38You have those people, Ilhan Omar.
00:43She hates Jewish people.
00:45And you have to be very careful because there's been a big change.
00:48You know, if you go back 15 years ago, I'm not Jewish, but my father was very friendly with many, many Jewish people, was honored by federation.
00:57I would go with him to federation of Jewish philanthropies and many other things.
01:03And we grew up respecting and loving Jewish people.
01:07You know, you don't even think about it.
01:09In Brooklyn and Queens, mostly.
01:10And my father didn't go to Manhattan.
01:13He never went to Manhattan from the standpoint.
01:15He could never understand how in Brooklyn you could buy a piece of land for $3 a foot and how in Manhattan you had to pay $1,000 a foot.
01:24He said, I can't get that.
01:26I don't like it.
01:28I'd like to buy it for $3.
01:29So it was different.
01:30It's a different thinking.
01:32In a way, I'm glad he didn't do that because he let me have some of that fun.
01:36And it was â I had a lot of fun in Manhattan.
01:38We did great.
01:39But my father would tell me the most powerful lobby that there is in this country is the Jewish lobby.
01:50It's the Israeli lobby.
01:53It's not that way anymore.
01:54You have a lot of people in your way.
01:56You have a lot of people that don't want to help Israel.
02:02You have a lot of people in Congress that don't like Israel.
02:05You have a lot of people in Congress that, in a way, I think, Mike, we could say it, right?
02:09You're there.
02:09You're doing an amazing job, Mike Lawler.
02:12They hate Israel.
02:15They hate Israel.
02:16And if you would have told me 15 years ago that that was possible, Jason, I would have said, there's no way.
02:22There's no way that's possible.
02:24But it's happening.
02:25And obviously, it's getting progressively worse.
02:28Less so in the Senate, but the Senate is starting also.
02:31You get glimmers, you know, when I'm in the back rooms talking to people.
02:35You get glimmers of statements that you say, whoa, where did that come from?
02:39So we have to be, Sid, we have to be very careful because bad things are happening.
02:45And then you see what goes on in Australia.
02:48Or October 7th.
02:49How about October 7th?
02:51And then you have people that deny it ever happened.
02:53How about the people that deny, like they deny the Holocaust, but, you know, you figure, well, that's just many years.
02:59Well, October 7th is not many years at all.
03:01And you have people that deny October 7th.
03:04I saw tape that I wish I never saw it, actually.
03:08I wish I never saw it.
03:09I got to see tape that some of you got to see.
03:13But as president, I got to see things I wish I never saw.
03:16But there's no denying it.
03:18But then they'll say, oh, the tape was a rigged tape.
03:21It was a tape that never existed.
03:23They made it up.
03:24It's just propaganda.
03:25And I don't know if they believe it.
03:27I don't think they believe it.
03:28But you have to be very, very careful.
03:30Bad things are happening.
03:31And we're not going to let that happen.
03:33Well, I'm president.
03:34And the DOJ and Harmeet, we're not going to let it happen.
03:39But please, please be vigilant and careful because you have some bad people that are now in Congress
03:46that were unthinkable, unthinkable to be in Congress 12, 13, 14 years ago, 15 years ago.
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