after the fight over the 2020 election, what lessons have been learned? someone s going to get hurt, someone s going to get shot, someone s going to get killed. election workers facing death threats. we ve seen a dangerous increase in threats against public servants. in 2024, the bad actors will be more coordinated, more strategic. we support every voter right free and accurate. this morning a by part can conversation with the secretaries of state in four key battleground state. plus, the threat of disinformation, artificial intelligence and the increase of heightened risk from foreign actors. i ll speak with anne applebaum and rene de-res ta. and in a year when we ll hold elections, how will it work? joining us, peter banker, amna nawaz, evelyn far ka, and ben ginsberg. welcome to sunday and a special edition of meet the press. announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is a special edition of meet the
students we got together, we came to this disinformation event at the university of chicago to, one to listen, to ask tough questions, and to report. what we discovered is that the event speakers like anne apple baum who is atlantic reporter and brian stelter and jonah goldberg is that they don t actually care about roading out disinformation because though talked the whole time about taking back power. they said they need the corporate mainstream media to take back the gate keeping power that they had before social media. the social media, you know, it democratized information in the way that they want to take that to take back that power. that social media took away from them is to give government the ability to have algorithmic control over what we post on the internet.
then ultimately unimportant. that s the playbook before us when it comes to hunter biden laptop just in the last couple of days. the atlantic put on a panel seminar where the university of chicago. they were confronted by some students. brian: regret this by the way? will: yes, i do. ainsley: panel on disinformation. will: the internet and fox only people that will ever show this kind of hypocrisy. i don t know if they regret it, brian. but you get to see it here s where the university of chicago freshman confronted anne applebaum an atlantic writer about the hypocrisy, the propaganda and the censorship on hunter biden s laptop. watch this. i m a fraternal at the university of chicago. my question is for ms. apple baum in 2020 you wrote those who live outside the fox news bubble do not, of course, need to learn any of the stuff about hunter biden referring to his laptop, of course. a poll later found out if voters knew about the content of the laptop, 16% of joe biden voters
has some criminal exposure, and if the department of justice signs off on allowing congress to immunize him, to get his true testimony without the opportunity to assert the fifth amendment, that means they re not interested in investigating him. wow. more questions than answers today, i m sorry to say. greg bluestein, dan goldman, thank you so much for spending some time with us. when we come back, does vladimir putin stand to gain by risking war? the answer, according to the atlantic s anne apple baum may go far beyond ukraine. e apple by e apple by go far beyond ukraine. (excited yell) woo-hoo! ensure max protein. with thirty grams of protein, one gram of sugar, and nutrients to support immune health. (music) one gram of sugar, i think to myself what a wonderful world
today, russian president vladimir putin and chinese president xi jinping met in a show of solidarity and a challenge to the united states dominance on the world stage. in a joint statement, china accusing the u.s. of stoking protests in hong kong and encouraging an independent taiwan while russia said the u.s. was playing a destabilizing role in ukraine. the statement reflects the geopolitical threat that democracies all around the world represent to these two autocrats. writing in the atlantic, anne applebaum says, putin wants his neighbors to doubt whether democracy will ever be viable in the longer term. in their countries as well. farther abroad, he wants to put so much strain on western and democratic institutions, especially the eu and nato, that they break up. he wants to keep dictators in