hello, new york. thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for the special edition of why is this happening. he s incisive. he is big hearted, he s very, very smart. admit it, he is taller than you expected. give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, chris hayes. [applause] thank you. . stop it. how are you? good. thanks, thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down. thank you, it s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. it s a very hard 20 seconds for me. thanks for cutting it short. le pen fits very amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i ve got my family here. tonight we are going to talk about democracy. that word, we have probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had talked about all of my time as a journalist before that. even that as a topic seems very weird. america s a democracy, and there is a certain kind of history that we are taught as a part of the mystery civic cultu
thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for this very, very special addition of why is this happening. he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart, and admit it, he s taller than you expected. [laughter] please give a warm welcome to my friend and beloved colleague, msnbc s chris hayes. hello! [applause] thank you! hey! stop it! [applause] how are you? good! thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you, that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. [laughter] that was a really, really hard 20 seconds for me. so thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i ve got some family here. so, tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. and that word, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years than i had in all of my time as a journalist beforehand, i would say. like, even that is a topic seems a little weird. we all know, ameri
tonight on a special holiday edition of the reidout the next trump administration, if there is one, will be more extreme and have fewer guardrails than anything we saw in the first trump administration. donald trump is not hiding his iron fisted authoritarian plans, believe him. my conversation with abc news correspondent jonathan karl on his very revealing new book. also tonight as one source said to me, his arrogance destroyed him. tucker s arrogance destroyed him. one producer on the show said to me, we were burning too bright. we knew it wasn t going to last, and it didn t. brian stelter joins me on his book about fox, network of lies. if you think the worst was over when tucker was fired, think again. plus hitler thought that lynching, what he called popular justice in the united states, was another important thing for the nazis to study in terms of how these things can be look good on paper but still work out in practice the way they wanted them to
thank you for joining us live at a town hall in new york city for this very, very special addition of why is this happening. he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very, very smart, and admit it, he s taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, msnbc s chris hayes. [applause] well, thank you! hey! oh, stop! stop it! [applause] how are you? good! making. thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you, sit down, sit down. thank you. that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. [laughter] that was a really, really hard to 20 seconds for me. so thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i ve got some family here. so, tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. and that we re in, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last, you know, for five years than i had in all of my time as a journalist before that, i would say. like, even that is a topic seems a littl
guardrails than anything we saw in the first trump administration. donald trump is not hiding his iron fisted authoritarian plans. believe him. my conversation with abc news correspondent jonathan karl on his very revealing new book. also tonight as one source said to me, his arrogance destroyed him. tucker s arrogance destroyed him. one producer on the show said to me, we were burning too bright. we knew it wouldn t last. brian stelter joins me on his book about fox, network of lies. if you think the worst was over when tucker was fired, think again. plus hitler thought that lynching, what he called popular justice in the united states, was another important thing for the nazis to study in terms of how these things can be look good on paper but still work out in practice the way they wanted them to. my conversation with my friend and colleague rachel maddow on her fascinating new book, prequel, an american fight against fascism. also picked up my phon