Steve Israel

When it comes to power in Congress, New Yorkers are pulling a lot of the strings....

Ahead of Wednesday's debate, Pete Buttigieg has emerged as a new leader in Iowa. Steve Kornacki, Steve Israel, Joe Crowley, and Kimberly Atkins join Chris Jansing to discuss what this means for the 2020 race and whether Buttigieg's has staying pow...

Daily Point Open Congressional Seat: Day 4 The saga of New York's 2nd Congressional District only got hotter as the week progressed. Democratic bigwigs Steve Israel and Rep. Carolyn Maloney on Thurs...

As the impeachment inquiry enters its sixth week, former Congressman Steve Israel, Republican Strategist Matt Gorman, and Washington Examiner Senior Political Correspondent David Drucker join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss President Trump's argument that ...

President Trump's official merchandise is bringing in more than just big money there is a math to the madness. Stephanie Ruhle is joined by Axios Media Reporter Sara Fischer and former Congressman Steve Israel to break down how this is all part of the...

Speaker Pelosi announces that there will be a full house vote on the impeachment inquiry. Former Congressman Steve Israel and Commentary Magazine Associate Editor Noah Rothman join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss how that changes both democratic and republican...

Now what?Now that the Yankees' great season ended in such a heart-crushing way, with a walk-off homer by the Astros just minutes after a game-tying blast by the Yanks, where do I turn?Where do I turn for comfort?When the day's news turns darker wi...

Hallie Jackson is joined by Former Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Evelyn Farkas to discuss the full-steam-ahead impeachment inquiry, where Congress is expected to hear testimony today from Ukraine diplomat...

Democrats are showing no sign of backing down in their effort to find out about the president's dealings with Ukraine. Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, former Congressman Steve Israel, and former Congressman Carlos Curbelo join Stephanie Ruhle to dis...

Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago? Stephanie Ruhle explores that question with think tank Populace co-founder Todd Rose, Editor-in-Chief of the Bulwark, Charlie Sykes, and former Congressman Steve Israel and discuss how Americans define...

As third quarter fundraising numbers roll in, the issue of gun reform laws remains at the forefront of Democrats' minds. Editor-in-Chief of the Bulwark, Charlie Sykes, and former Congressman Steve Israel join Stephanie Ruhle to break down what can be ...

President Trump is expected to make a decision on gun control this week. Former Congressmen Steve Israel and Ryan Costello join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss what Democratic leaders are promising if the president moves on background checks and how it could...

Remember those terrible days, weeks and months after Sept. 11?As we mourned the loss of so many of our friends, neighbors and family members who went to work on that impossibly blue morning and never came home, we came together as Americans.We flew our Am...

Former Congressman Steve Israel (D- NY) said Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar shouldn't be playing into the president's hands when he criticizes them on Israel....

Former Democratic Rep. Steve Israel said that Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib sometimes...

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 55% of Americans say they are very worried about another deadly attack by white nationalists. Former Democratic congressman Steve Israel - now director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at...

Carlos Santana calls the Woodstock festival site — now Bethel Woods Center for the Arts — "ground zero for peace and love." But when he electrified some 450,000 in 1969, he was anything but grounded. He was so high he just wanted to ma...

After terrible days of darkness and death, perhaps we can pause for a moment, take a deep breath and savor our soothing summertime scenes of life. Let's treasure them while we can because, like life itself, we know how fleeting they can be.***Whose he...

As the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee descends into chaos, its former chairman is warning Democrats not to alienate centrist voters by adopting a platform of far-left policies. Former Rep. Steve Israel (D., N.Y.), who served as DCCC chair fro...

You're going to hear a whole lot about Woodstock as we approach the Aug. 15-18 50th anniversary of history's most famous concert, held right here at the site of Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.You may feel like you're hearing as many interpre...

Over the last two nights, a nmber of important issues were talked about, but several other ones were barely mentioned or skipped entirely. Former Congressman Steve Israel and MSNBC Political Analyst Elise Jordan join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss which key...

It's come to this:Those rebels of rock, the Rolling Stones, who once protested the commercialism of that man on TV who "tells me/How white my shirts can be," now have a tour that not only has a sponsor, it's a trade group — the Allia...

"Go back" to where they came from?What if an Orange County educator who immigrated here spoke against President Trump's immigration policies?If she had listened to what Trump said about four congresswomen of color (three of whom were born here...

Here's how health care should work:Your doctor, who's spent years studying medicine and treating patients, examines you. If she finds or suspects an ailment, she prescribes treatment, whether it's a prescription drug or more care.Then you go t...

It's taken a near-lifetime to appreciate what Memorial Day should mean.As a little boy in Bayonne, N.J., Memorial Day meant a day off from school and a walk down to Broadway to watch men and women in uniform marching. Spectators like me lined the side...

My wife and I sat at a Passover Seder table last month with Mike Levine's wife, Ellen, and his sons, Ben, 33, and Sam, 30, just as we've done since they were boys. I looked at the copied pages of the prayer booklet, or Haggadah, that Mike, the lat...

It's all enough to make you fit to be tie-dyed.Why in the name of Wavy Gravy does the state schedule construction on the main road to the site of the original Woodstock festival during the 50th anniversary summer?How can we wait decades for a casino a...

Imagine that you're just a child, maybe 11, 12, 13 years old. You're sexually abused by the man your family reveres so much — a priest — that they want you to be a priest like him. They've invited him for dinner, let him take you t...

Last week I wrote about how my grandfather learned the meaning of religion as a little boy more than a century ago in Russia. Who could possibly have imagined that one of you had a Christian grandfather who not only was there, but saved the lives of perse...

On this weekend when many of us gather with our families and friends to celebrate holidays of liberation and resurrection, I'd like to repeat a story about the meaning of religion that my late grandfather Max Botwinick told me. The story, which happen...

By the time they get back to Woodstock, they'll be at least tens of thousands strong. And you know what those 50th anniversary of Woodstock pilgrims could see this summer here in Sullivan County?Dirty glass and plastic bottles, shiny crumpled cans, ba...

By the time they get back to Woodstock, they'll be at least tens of thousands strong. And you know what those 50th anniversary of Woodstock pilgrims could see this summer here in Sullivan County?Dirty glass and plastic bottles, shiny crumpled cans, ba...

If it weren't such a destructive and downright dumb idea, it would be a joke.A bit more than a year after Sullivan County's half-century casino dream came true and Resorts World Catskills opened just outside Monticello, gambling giants want to ope...

When I reminded the winner of last year's March Madness pool that Villanova took it all in 2018, the defending champ asked — tongue in cheek — whether Yeshiva University was in it this year.The champ, who wishes to remain nameless to prote...

President Trump continues to attack dead war hero and six-term senator, John McCain. Former Congressmen Carlos Curbelo and Steve Israel join Katy to discuss why there hasn't been a stronger backlash from Republicans in Washington....

I asked Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa to play "Black Magic Woman" and "Evil Ways" by Santana for my 94-year-old father-in-law Joe and 92-year-old mother-in-law Peg.This was last week at their New Jersey home, when I was telling them...

I step outside the other morning and my heart soars. I see a sight I haven't seen for months: two gray mourning doves flying into the brightening dawn sky. Those are the same sort of birds whose "coo coo coo" call has been echoing over our sno...

A cashier at a local supermarket says that when she walks past someone on the street or in a parking lot she always says hello."Maybe it will brighten the rest of their day," she tells me.A man running a local Agway spends precious minutes during ...

What's it like to be retired?Don't just listen to the advice of so-called experts who may have decades to go before they can make one of life's most momentous moves.Ask someone who's retired.I got plenty of input from fellow retirees last ...

Three years ago this week, I was riding an emotional roller coaster.One minute, my stomach was twisted in knots. The next, my heart was soaring to the sky.I was about to do what I'd planned for years, delayed for months and never really thought possib...

President Trump has lied so often in the more than two years he's been in office — more than 8,100 false or misleading claims, according to the Washington Post — the truth often vanishes in his repetition of lies about everything from buil...

Is it wrong that Bob Dylan is using one of the greatest musical pleas for peace, justice and civil rights to sell beer?That's what he's doing with "Blowin' in the Wind" on a new Budweiser commercial set to air during the Super Bowl. Th...

Steve Israel, who served 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, is to...

Before he glimpsed the light of life, Goshen's Mark Bischof was gripped by darkness.His wife of 38 years, Sharlene, was lying in a bed in Orange Regional Medical Center's Intensive Care Unit after she had begun bleeding at work. Even though Bischo...

Before he glimpsed the light of life, Goshen's Mark Bischof was gripped by darkness.His wife of 38 years, Sharlene, was lying in a bed in Orange Regional Medical Center's Intensive Care Unit after she had begun bleeding at work. Even though Bischo...

MSNBC's Garrett Haake and former Rep. Steve Israel join Andrea Mitchell to discuss Speaker Nancy Pelosi's allegations that President Trump "outed" her trip to Afghanistan....

Ever wonder how you got to be so grown-up?Happened to me the other day when I was in the college town where time seems to stand still New Paltz, home of shops like Groovy Blueberry and Karma Road. I was browsing in another sort of shop that's a blast ...

There can never be another Woodstock not at the 50th anniversary celebration at the site of the 1969 festival, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, or on the same Aug. 16-18 weekend at original Woodstock promoter Michael Lang's anniversary bash 150 miles...

Imprisoned in a concentration camp when she was just a few years out of her teens. Standing in front of the vile men, including Adolph Eichmann, whose evil minds devised the plans to murder six million of her fellow Jews.What does Marianka Zadikow May do?...