Sensitive site expiration is done. To be thanks very much, we appreciate it. Kristen oleary is the former director of Hostage Recovery for the United States. Hes a Senior Vice President of Global Affairs for the group. Coming up, donald trump continues to take a page out of the authoritarian playbook as his legal troubles grow. Ill speak with the woman who wrote the book on authoritarian leaders. Ruth joins me. Then, with israel and Hezbollah Trading Fire over lebanons threatens to spill over into the region. Well go to lebanon for the latest on the ground. Plus, lbj and by the former vice Prime Minister of israel, another hour of velshi begins right now. Good morning to you, it is sunday the 22nd. With wars regime between ukraine and russia, israel and hamas, and threatening to spill into other continents, Global Leadership is critical. Were facing our own crisis of democracy in her own home, one that is easy to overlook when the news of the worlds war. Legal peril facing the twice im
antisemites who have said very clearly, i mean, they re a u.n. member state openly calling for the eradication of another u.n. member state. that s unprecedented in u.s. history. i understand what you re saying. all i m saying is what is the best way to keep iran as far as possible from a bomb and that is the only calculation. the problem that netanyahu faces tomorrow in congress is he s going to make a very good argument about the weakness of whatever deal is taking shape. but he s got to offer an alternative that doesn t involve endless carpet bombing of iran which, by the way, would not permanently stop the program. withly? david ignatius we heard secretary john kerry say yesterday and a number of obama administration officials on this show saying last yeek p security relationship not the personal relationship but the security relationship between united states and israel have never been stronger.
well the prime minister actually is going to be speaking right there at aipac moments from now. we will of course keep a close eye on that. meanwhile, a brand new poll is revealing what americans think about the controversy surrounding netanyahu s speech to congress. showing 48% of voters think congressional member shos not have invited netanyahu without notifying president obama. and bringing in mark murray. good morning. good morning, jose. we re expecting the prime minister of israel to speak any minute now but speaking to congress tomorrow. what are the potential ramifications here? the biggest political ramification is this further politicizes the issue of israel here in the united states and you mentioned the new poll numbers we ended up having yesterday, and there is a very big partisan split. 66% of democrats say that netanyahu shouldn t have been
getting with iran is dangerous for israel and he s going to try to explain why. i think people should listen carefully to his arguments. and then in following days, the administration officials, but it s going to be a moment that s really, i think, television worth watching how netanyahu gives this speech also will affect him in powerfully in the israeli elections which are scheduled in two weeks on march 17th. i was going to ask you, david. obviously we re about to show you some polls that show where theern manies stand on this issue. israel appears to be split. an ad appearing in newspapers this morning has over 100 security officials in israel saying the mistake is the speech is a big mistake, that netanyahu shouldn t do it. what did you find in israel? what are you finding in israel about reaction to this speech? joe, as you know i just was in israel a week ago and i found a country genuinely divided over the wisdom of netanyahu s making this case so publicly and
on the bench but that doesn t mean i m the closest to death. have you seen justice scalia? heing loo inging looks like he s hooked up to an iv bag. scalia you just got ginsburg ed. what about the sat of the union where you were caught sleeping? i wasn t sleeping. i was giving in to the weight of the glasses. justice ginsburg. i m sorry. i was having a disgusting dream about bruno mars. i like my men like i like my decisions, 5-4. that s a third agree gins-burn. it doesn t matter what alabama does because when i get ahold of that gay marriage ban it s going to fall faster than madonna at the awards. oh, my gosh. like you said willie. she seems