those accounts will be used for future war crimes prosecution. he believes that the atrocities kit and mariupol where the worst is in bucha, historian and author timothy snyder, longest regret about russian brutality in a new york times op-ed this week he shares a new word that ukrainians have invented to describe russian facism, which directly translates to ruscism, he joins me now tim is oppressor history at yale university in blood lands, europe between hitler and stalin, has been updated and reissued in paperback. tim, thanks so much for coming back on the show. before putin s invasion many in the west would ve been hard-pressed to list the differences between russia and ukraine. but you argue that those differences are significant and even putin seems to miss them. you say in your op-ed quote, russians don t understand ukrainians because they have not learned it, ukrainians do understand russian, because they have learned it. this fact has battlefield implications. how so? wel
only two republicans who show up for the sort of commemoration and the moment of silence, i found that stark and worth a thousand words and unnerving. what do you see when you see that? well, first of all, there were no republicans in the chamber at all. it was just completely empty, devoid, not as usual just of ideas but devoid of physical presence over on their side of the aisle. and that was chilling. it was a little bit like a sci-fi movie. i was happy liz came and happy that she brought her dad because i ve been trying to check out the history of coups around the world and, you know, in greece, argentina, chile, whatever. you can t find an example of an attempted coup and serious fascist push in society where progressives and liberal parties alone defeat facism. you need a coalition of liberals and the center right.
facism how close america is to it right now. plus as omicron spreads like wild fire i ll ask the former cdc director what the cdc under joe biden could do to improve messaging. as the school closures escalate the president of the american federation of teachers will join me to talk about what steps she believes need to be taken to protect both educators and students from the virus. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. we just marked one year since the horrible, deadly january 6th assault on the united states capitol. now as the insurrection rolls on we are getting ready for the next national election. not the 2024 presidential election. the midterm congressional elections that happen later this year. it is 2022 already. those elections could decide everything. like if republicans win the house, will they certify the
so joe biden the president is going to give a big voting rights speech in georgia on tuesday. another big visit. another big speech. people like you and me are tearing our hair out saying authoritarianism, facism are around the corner. at what point do the democrats and specifically the president go beyond speechifying? look, it can t, i mean, i guess i would resist the premise of the question. we can t expect the democratic party or even the president to do these things without a lot of pressure coming from other directions. if we sit back and expect the democratic party with all due respect and love to save us then we re probably in a pretty bad position. what has to happen is the idea of voting rights is something that comes not just from above but from below. what has to happen is that people understand the elections of 2022 not just 2024 are also existential. for us it is a matter of living in trump land again but in a much worse version the second
said they don t have a policy platform for 2022. they don t stand for anything. they don t believe in anything other than fear, fraud, and facism. that is the point al franken was just making, picking up the president s midterm strategy earlier today don t pull any punches when it comes to republican obstructionism. with nine months to go nbc s jonathan allen wonders if it will be enough writing, quote, the question for biden is whether voters will reward democrats for not being republicans or grow more frustrated with what he hasn t been able to achieve. still with us al franken and bill kristol. bill, you heard what jamie harrison had to say about this. earlier this week you tweeted the six main strands of the trump coup attempt in which you said the conspiracy theories, the lawsuits, the fake federal investigations, stop the steal whips up the base, fake electors and objectors, and pressure on state and local officials. in fairness you write this as the main strands of the trump c