rhetoric with a potential indictment looming, predicting death and destruction just hours before the manhattan da s office received threatening letter. van, marjorie taylor greene takes her political theater to a dc jail to visit a january 6th defendants. but what were conditions really like? and florida s culture war takes aim at michelangelo? how the rallying cry of so-called parents rights could shape the 2024 election, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening. i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. and 1:00 this morning donald trump posted yet another insulting and threatening message to his social media platform. he called manhattan da alvin bragg a, quote, degenerate psychopath, and warned the potential death and destruction could follow a charging decision from brags office in the stormy daniels hush money case. at 11:40 this morning, da brags office received an anonymous threatening letter. that letter said, quote, alvin, i m going to kill y
but what were conditions really like? and florida s culture war takes aim at michelangelo? how the rallying cry of so-called parents rights could shape the 2024 election, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening. i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. and 1:00 this morning donald trump posted yet another insulting and threatening message to his social media platform. he called manhattan da alvin bragg a, quote, degenerate psychopath, and warned the potential death and destruction could follow a charging decision from brags office in the stormy daniels hush money case. at 11:40 this morning, da brags office received an anonymous threatening letter. that letter said, quote, alvin, i m going to kill you for this. in all capital letters, with 13 exclamation points. we envelope contained white powder, which, thankfully, was not dangerous. a senior new york law enforcement official says there have been several hundred threats to the da s office and recent
rooted culturally and white nationalism, white christian america, anti lgbtq. but there s a brief periods, frankly, as i was emerging and felt comfortable, where some of the cultural issues, the republican party went silent on, even in bush 43, the compassionate conservative who said we re not really going to deal with the issue of abortion. and as game eric came up, you saw republicans fight it, but then they fell silent. it was interesting, as i served, to see, i thought we were going in the direction of more moderate, at least accommodating more moderate views. but what happened from the tea party into trump, is a reflex back to what the party was 30 years ago. and so i don t know that it s that different than what it has always been. i think it s the danger of donald trump. instead of taking us to a trumpism to who we can be as a country, it s taking us back to who we used to be, and who used to be was a very dark culture. the make america great again is always a question, when w
how quickly has this happened to the gop? look, it s a party of class jobs and it is a party of snowflakes. it s fantastic question. how far away is this from the party that i knew? it s actually not that far. this is an interesting thing. so this is a party that was rooted culturally in white nationalism, white christian america, anti lgbtq. but there s a brief periods, frankly, as i was emerging and felt comfortable, where some of the cultural issues, the republican party went silent on, even in bush 43, the compassionate conservative who said we re not really going to deal with the issue of abortion. and as a gay marriage came up, you saw republicans fight it, but then they fell silent. it was interesting, as i served, to see, i thought we were going in the direction of more moderate, at least accommodating more moderate views. but what happened from the tea party into trump, is a reflex back to what the party was 30 years ago. and so i don t know that it s that different than wha