in those in the public who say come on, it won t be that bad. america survived four years of trump already, the institutions held, the guardrails held and when people compare yourself to a third term of trump like to a third reich, that s hyperbole, that s exaggeration saying. i would say to them, if i were hearing myself saying that five years ago, i wouldn t feel the same way, but now i have watched him, donald trump and his allies plan to do things in a second term that were entirely unimaginable in a first term, but only because there were the thinnest guardrails that prevented him from doing that. and things there were quite clearly illegal and unconstitutional and he had a very eager interest in doing, but well meaning people, people of conscience around him prevented him from doing those things. those people will not be there in a second and that s probably the most common thing i have heard in all my interviews, that those people will be gone
survivors and back to, you are just a staff to the department of homeland security during the trial separation controversy when migrant kids were kidnapped and put in cages. an investigation by buzzfeed news found that you actively work to push through the policy. they got in hold of emails showing how integral you are and coordinating family separation efforts and defending it to the public. how do you square that miles with a public opposition you now have to authoritarianism and trumpism? i have to ask, would you like to apologize tonight to the parents and kids who lives were privately damaged by family separation during the trump well, it s incorrect. and i was not the chief of staff at the time. i was actually the adviser for counterterrorism and intelligence. later became deputy chief of staff. i want to go back in time even further. i was never a maga person. i didn t vote for donald trump for president. i try to to
in the jacks mitt case, it was fed versus fed. two teams and two indictments. judge cornell, i want to play the sound of trump issuing a not so subtle threat made on a radio show this week. warning what would happen, he thinks, if he ends up being sent to prison. have a listen. for example, they do say jack smith, okay i m going to put donald trump in jail. i think it s a very dangerous thing to even talk about it. we do have a tremendous passionate group of voters who would be very dangerous. if you had a defendant saying something like that in a trial you are seeing, what would you do? we do restrict their speech or hold him into contempt. i can t imagine anyone getting away with this threat before going to trial. he s threaten the judge. he threatened the prosecutors. he talked about family members. this is clearly a threat. he s doing it again. this is what he s done in the
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
mehdi hasan. it is good to be back from a two-week break. i was in the uk visiting friends and family were a lot of people kept asking me the same two questions. one, can donald trump really win again? and to, will really be the end of american democracy if he does? my answer double foes questions was yes, he can win again, and a second trump term will be an existential threat to american democracy, in a way that even his first scandal ridden can traverse a plagued fascist like term was not. next time around if there is a next time around and that seems increasingly possible considering right now donald trump is leading in the gop presidential polls and almost tying with joe biden in general election polls. if trump finds himself back in the oval office come 2025, it s becoming very clear that there won t be any guard rulers or bureaucracy or adults in the room to stop and. so i m amazed and frustrated by