that the fascists were gonna try to take over. there are gonna try to mount a physical fascist coup. to defend against that, you wanted to call it the military to defend rome. to stop the coup. but the king at the time wouldn t agree to that. so the military wasn t called to defend the capital. and instead, what the king did is he caved to the fascists. he invited the leader of the fascists to form a government. to become the new prime minister. and the head of the fascists, enthusiastically, he agreed. the tens of thousands of his supporters who he had threatened would march on rome to seize power in a coup, they didn t march on rome to seize power. instead, they marched on rome in a victory parade. because just the threat of them have made it so that he was handed power blood blissfully. that is how the fascists took power in italy 100 years ago next month. they threatened to take power by force, didn t have to, because they intimidated everybody into giving them far ahead
fascists to form a government, to become the new prime minister and head of the fascists enthusiastically agreed and the tens of thousands of his supporters who he had threatened would march on rome to seize power in a coup. they didn t march on rome to seize power. instead, they marched on rome in a victory parade because just the threat of them had made it so that he was handed power bloodlessly. that is how the fascists took power in italy 100 years ago next month. they threatened to take power by force, didn t have to, because they intimidated everybody into giving them power ahead of their march be on rome. that s the famous march on rome, october 1922. the centennial of that event next month. what happened in 1922, things in italy changed pretty quickly. within three years, by 1925, italy was a one-party state. within three years after that, by 1928, mussolini abolished elections all together. it was a full on fascist dictatorship. not to spoil the plot or anything, but
good evening and thanks t at-home for joining us in th special edition of alex wagner tonight. we are coming up on the tw year anniversary of the januar 6th attack, and i think all of us at this point have memories of that day seared into ou minds, where we were what we were doing even after all these times past i mean, almost all of us hav those memories as it turns out, a few peopl have no memory of that day a all, apparently. here is an excerpt of deposition of one of president donald trump s persona secretaries, who worked just outside the oval office, testifying to the january 6t committee, from their fina report quote, i don t remember where was that afternoon do you remember being at the white house that afternoon even if you don t remember where exactly you were at th white house? no, i do not do you remember being home wherever home is for you, on the afternoon of january six as opposed to being at the white house? no, i don t. so, you don t remember whether you ar
the bill includes $369 billion to combat climate change, largest in u.s. history. it gives medicare the power to negotiate some drug prices. it caps medicare out-of-pocket expenses at $2,000 and extended affordable care act subsidies for three years. white house reporter kevin livtak looks at what it means. jess, i want to start with you because we have news breaking in the last five to ten minutes, which i think is a good harbinger for your next few days at the capitol, where do things stand for the key elements for this to move forward? reporter: phil, democrats getting good news from the senate parliamentarian. to give you the big picture, they are using as you both noted this complex budget process that requires the support of all 50 democrats. doesn t need any republican support, but in order to do that the parliamentarian has to rule it passes and musters up to all of these rules surrounding it. we just found out really in the last ten minutes that the parliamenta
game? let s bring in michael pillsbury, senior fellow at hudson institute and author of book the 100-year their mono. marathon. michael, thanks very much, indeed, for joining us. thanks. gerry: a lot of sound and tour fury around speaker pelosi s itinerary. did this visit achieve anything? well, it achieved a lot, but a lot depends on what nancy pelosi does when she gets home to washington. she refused to join a series of republican initiatives including a task force to deal with china. she s kind of cold shoulderedded any cooperation across a broad range of issues. so if she changes that approach when she gets back, then trip will have had a huge impact probably on her. as you know, she was quite the china hawk back in the 90s, demonstrating in beijing on behalf of tiananmen students who were killed, doing a whole series of things to hurt china badly. she then shifted over to a more moderate view, and if she shifts back now to how she was in the 1990s, that will b