thank you for joining, us live, at town hall in new york city for this very special addition of why is this happening? he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart. and, admit it, he is taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, a beloved colleague, msnbc s, chris hayes. [applause] thank you! oh, stop. stop it. [applause] how are you? good? thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you, that is extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. it s a hard 20 seconds for me. thank you for cutting it short. it is amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i have family here. tonight, we will talk about democracy. that word, we have probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time as a journalist. even that, as a topic, seems we are. we all know, america is a democracy. there is a certain history you are taught that, i think, is part of american, ci
hello, new york. thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for this very, very special edition of why is this happening. he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very, very smart. and admitted, he s taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, msnbc s chris hayes. thank you. hey. oh, stop. stop it. how are you? good. thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you. that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. that was a really hard 20 seconds for me. thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i got some family here. so tonight, we re going to talk about democracy. and that word, we probably talk more about democracy in the last four, five years than i had in all of my time before that. like, even that as a topic seems weird. we all know, america is a democracy. there s a certain kind of history you re taught
source of denial for a political movement? well it is not the earnestly believe it didn t happen. they re using holocaust denial for a reason. as part of a political project. and that is what i got into in the 40s, and that is how i found my defendants. and that is how i learned that they all got put on trial, and they all got off when the judge died. and i thought, you know, i was gonna tell a different story, i think i m gonna tell this one. because i didn t know any of it. there is you trace in the book different strands of pro fascist, antisemitic, nazi aligned fought and actors in the u.s.. how would you describe because in some ways, it s a little bit of a misfit toys situation. there are some real odd ones in there. but they re also operating in a discursive environment that is not closed off to what they re