blowback, a warning to save democracy from the next trump. take a listen. miles taylor, who are lifelong republican. a conservative. you served under george w. bush as well as donald trump. you ve written a book about a safety mobocracy. some, quote at the next trump won desantis s drop main rival for the gop presidential nomination in 2024. do you believe he is or could be the next trump? cohen do ideally want to see when the presidential race? desantis certainly could be. jaime, and i think that s concerning to me, we ve actually seen a number of these candidates take trumpism beyond where donald trump was willing to take it. policies that were thwarted in his first term have been seized upon by his acolytes then carried forward things like abusing migrants as political pawns trying to detonate the federal bureau of investigation. ballot watchers at the polls. there is a range of different things that donald trump was
potentially result in a nuclear strike in the homeland. so we had not just one, but a series of very sensitive meetings at the department of homeland security to prepare for the possibility of a nuclear strike in the u.s. homeland. want to make clear ayman mohyeldin mehdi that s the first time in the history of the homeland security that it s had a real life preparation for a real life nuclear strike that s exceptionally serious. and i can only imagine in a second term that there will not be cooler heads around donald trump to keep him from engaging in that type of international conflict or lease to prevent him from something that could trigger a spiral into that type of conflict. miles, you write in the book the aids had donald trump openly discussing what it might be like to have sex with his daughter ivanka. comments that led his then chief of staff john kelly to call him an evil man. why do you think it is, you re a republican, you are a conservative, why is it that a christian e
and trump s inclination towards illegality will be entirely and constricted. it s not just a threat from trump at home to you talk about in your new book, it s a broad as well. disaffection on the left that is brought into this maggot myth trump s anti-war, that he s an old-fashioned isolationist. yet you report in a book how close we came to nuclear war with north korea on trump s watch? well i have wanted to talk about this for a few years, but i needed to make sure that i got the department of homeland security s approval to have a conversation, because this involves some very delicate issues. what i was allowed to say in the book was that yes, we grew so concerned that the then president donald trump was handling relations with north korea in such a reckless and unpredictable way that we determine that it might be credible that the united states would end up in a nuclear conflict and one that could
around 50,000 officials will be newly subject being fired while 50,000 under a proposed scheme notice schedule f. the economist warns that a second trump term could seek america quote follow hungary and poland down the path of a liberal democracy. now, you might say that s just the liberal media being hyperbolic, that s trump derangement syndrome. but according to former trump dhs official miles taylor has it damning new book called blowback i m gonna speak to in a moment a top former u.s. intelligence officer has a same warning for us. so gordon who is the deputy director of national intelligence the 25 veteran of the u.s. intel community, she told taylor on the eve of the last election than another trump turn or another trump-like figure in the oval office could mark america s slow turn toward despotism.
you know what? that slow turn may be speeding up. in recent weeks, the ex president and his allies have escalated their extreme authoritarian rhetoric. just take a look at this video that trump himself re-posted a re-truth as he puts it on his social media site. if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before. is there any way to view that kind of language and anything other than an open and fascist stick threats? again this is just what trump and his allies are saying publicly. i have to ask are we also really be concerned about what they re planning for us behind closed doors? earlier i spoke with miles taylor the author of that new book blowback. miles taylor thank you for joining us on the show. congratulations on the book, it is much needed. let me start by asking you, can american democracy in your view