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
university of arkansas law school. the nazis sent a young, important rising star nazi lawyer to spend a year at the university of arkansas lawyers doing a study of american race law, because they wanted to learn about how america could be seen as a paragon of democracy and a good guy country in the world, while oppressing african americans to the degree that we wear, while oppressing and indigenous americans, native americans, to the degree that we wear, and while conquering countries around the world and subjugating the people in those countries as subjects and not citizens. how is it that america looks good and our constitution says none of this is possible, but they re still doing it? they thought that was an excellent idea. and so, they sent a nazi lawyer to the university of arkansas to do a deep study of american racist law.
source of denial for a political movement? well it is not the earnestly believe it didn t happen. they re using holocaust denial for a reason. as part of a political project. and that is what i got into in the 40s, and that is how i found my defendants. and that is how i learned that they all got put on trial, and they all got off when the judge died. and i thought, you know, i was gonna tell a different story, i think i m gonna tell this one. because i didn t know any of it. there is you trace in the book different strands of pro fascist, antisemitic, nazi aligned fought and actors in the u.s.. how would you describe because in some ways, it s a little bit of a misfit toys situation. there are some real odd ones in there. but they re also operating in a discursive environment that is not closed off to what they re
to the fbi and she told [ applause ] the fbi what her senator boss was doing with that well-known nazi agent. like, that is a woman who did not sign up for the marines and plan to paratroop, you know, pretend to be a paratrooper but is somebody not in a powerful position and did something important for her country. i am very enthused to learn her story, i m very enthused to learn about the guy who was like this really milquetoast. like normal middle of the road guy whose field of expertise was direct mail advertising. and yet when his son came home from his first semester at college and was like, dad, i m getting all this propaganda, this anti-semitism, pro-german, pro-fascism propaganda at school, it s really freaking me out. he was like, well, i do happen to have an area of expertise
and the way that you can have the 14th amendment and also jim crow. and also lynching. and they brought that, it wasn t nazi government production, they brought his report back to munich and berlin, and they used it as the basis for discussion for writing the nuremberg law to strip jews of their citizenship in germany. they learned some of that from us. and if you think that it s something in the german character that makes you susceptible to fascism, i invite you to spend time thinking about that anecdote. it s very disturbing. very disturbing very disturbing arexvy is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. rsv can be serious for those over 60, including those with asthma, diabetes, copd, and certain other conditions. but i m protected. arexvy is proven to be over 82% effective in preventing lower respiratory disease from rsv and over 94% effective