see you on this saturday afternoon. i m yasmin sudan. we have a lot to get to in two hours ahead. former president donald trump suggested that the constitution be suspended to make him president-elect again is getting swift reaction across the board. argument that we should disregard the constitution, the rule of law and all the other great traditions of our democracy and allow him to stay in office because he wants to. it s very dangerous. everyone should condemn it. we are also on the ground in georgia ahead of tuesday s election day, the crucial senate runoff, and we re following breaking news out of iran iranian. state media now responding to a report, the country s morality repeat police may have been disbanded. i m getting firsthand reactions from inside iran. we will have that for you as well. all of that plus terror at sea. it was just a boom.
barbara craig sees it. in researching my book, i have been learning a lot about how authoritarians use disinformation. this post uses many basic old tricks. robert mcquade is joining us now to walk us through some of these basic old tricks as she puts it. barr, block us through it. norman to put your entire post up. i had a similar conversation to this in yesterday s show as well, taking a page out of authoritarian, how to be authoritarian one-on-one. walk us through some of what you have found. yeah, everything about this post, yasmin, has a line that s right out of the authoritarian playbook. first, state and obvious lie. an outrageous lie. cloak it in some sort of corroboration that you can t really pinned. down here he says the revelations of massive voter fraud. what revelations? there s been no revelations other than his false claims. he speaks the coated language of the tribe.
police had been abolished, they could come back in a heartbeat if the supreme leader says that is the case. so, there is on the one hand this lived experience, people on the streets of tehran and other cities and tehran have been seeing this and reporting that there is not this formal enforcement. at the same time, we have this very murky pretty confuse picture, as you, set some elements of state media, not all are crumbling with this claim that the attorney general made. partly because they re seeing reported and western media and seeing it be reported almost as a kind of defeat for the traditionalist of the islamic republic. just the last few minutes, the white house has made weighed in on. this i want to read you a little bit of the statement from the national security council. it says, iran must and its use of violence against its own citizens simply for exercising their fundamental freedoms. from washington to tehran, people very, very closely watching what s going on here, yasmin
like something huge hit the side of your house. to travelers speaking out after a roadway of killed a fellow passenger on their cruise ship more on that story ahead. as well as the images. you can see it there. it s just unbelievable. we want to start though with the. white house putting out of fiery statement reacting to former president trump s on american suggestion to suspend the constitution and declare himself the president. it reads in part of this. and i quote, attacking the constitution and all it stands for is an eight amount to the soul of our nation and should be universally condemned. you cannot only love america when you win. they re not feeling on speaking out, nbc s allie raffa joins us now to walk us through a stall. we just read in part the statement from the white house. what else are you hearing? yeah, yasmin. these comments yesterday brought congressional democrats to pretty quickly react to
there is some reason for walker to be hopeful in these early numbers. the electorate and the runoff early electric screws owes or, even older than it did in the mid term general election runoff about 70% of voters are 50 and up. we know from polling that herschel walker has an edge with that group. now, big picture, yasmin, two things are well understood. warnock is going to win the early vote. herschel walker is going to win the election day vote in two days. the big question, this is walker going to win that election day vote by and mitt to make up for this big margin, significantly that democrats appear to be building now in the early vote. sahel couple or, has always, we appreciate you. i want to talk through a couple different things if we can, maya. you talk specifically about how difficult this decision is and how difficult this race, as specifically for black voters in the state of georgia. you write this, nearly 2000 people have surged in the u.s. senate. only 11th of them h