covering the weather beat in palm beach. we are here to interview the former president donald trump. giel the rest of us have spent 2.5 years arguing about systemic racism transrights and other things, america s position globally has eroded so fast it defies belief but donald trump has noticed things have really changed since he left office. that s the topic of this next part of the conversation. you said at the time when you were president that going to war with russia either hot war or cold war would drive russia into alliance with china that would displace us as the most powerful nation. i did but we have a bigger
i would love it to be donald trump. griff: that s a great tease. democrats donating to donald trump. happy easter. thank you. former college swimmer vowing she won t be silenced after ambitioned and assaulted by transrights protestors during speaking engagement in san francisco state. aleft and ray hoff is live with more on this, alex. alex: gaines is 12 time ncaa swimmer and she says she will be pursuing legal after activists forced her to be barricaded inside of a room. it was for her safety. gaines being rushed into safety as screaming crowd attempted to surround her chanting phrases like transrights are human rights and transwomen are women. during the incident she was assaulted adding this is proof that women needed sex of coursed
i wouldn t have lasted this long in the entertainment industry if i hadn t taken a few risks but i m also a realist because i have seen it all. the battle for women s sports is heating up and joe rogan is calling out the fairness of female athletes having to compete against transgender swimmer leah thomas. this transathlete thing [ bleep ] blows my mind. how many people go along with this. this is nothing to do with transrights. it just has to do with humans.
piece. the social media app, replete with these operations. one woman who threatened elon musk for threatening to restore free speech on twitter was involved in an operation setting up fake russian accounts so they could blame an american politician for enjoying support by the russians. so you really need to understand how deep this goes, how dark this is. tucker: bringing transparency to twitter, how it works, what is the algorithm, will change everything. i agree. i think this is civilizational. darren beady, thank you. the question is, can you whip out your genitals on live television? it depends. are you doing it for transrights? yeah. no problem. we ll tell you why it s important for some people next.
nbc news digital senior reporter ben collins has just dropped this piece on nbc news.com. he has got in front of a camera for us to share more about his reporting. ben, the floor is yours. i think a lot of people thought that was a one and done thing on saturday, where they saw those 31 masked men pull out of a u-haul in idaho. but it is just the beginning of what these people are right to pull off. like you talked about, there was that proud boys storming of a drag queen story hour in california, but they have been arranging similar things in texas and arizona, maybe not at the militia level, but at the personal level. doesn t require a whole bunch of people to do that. they re also sending a bunch of these threats to transrights rallies. one in georgia win talked to the organizers. they received one the same night as this bust and had to cancel their event for the next weekday. this is something you re seeing increasingly in these spaces. they re obsessed with this drag queen story