joining us this hour. today at the start of the day, the republican party's presumptive presidential nominee was facing a deadline to put up $4 of million bond or if he couldn't, today the state of new york would start seizing his bank accounts and his properties pursuant to a huge fraud judgment that has been levied against him by the courts. he then got a surprise reprieve of that deadline this morning. a new york appeals court said today he can put up smaller bond, only $175 million. they also said the deadline is no longer today. now he has an extra ten days to do it. they did not explain their decision, but that is what it was. today the republican party's presumptive presidential nominee also learned that the first of his four pending criminal trials starts three weeks from today, april 15th. this is the case in which he is facing dozens of felony charges related to falsifying records at his business to cover up illegal contributions to his presidential campaign. that was today as well. also today, the u.n. security council passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in gaza. the u.s., importantly, abstained from the vote instead of vetoing it, which angered the israeli government, which resulted in israel calling off planned meetings with u.s. government officials. today the ceo of boeing announced that he is resigning. and everyone pronounced him lucky that he was just stepping down and not falling through a fuselage door that someone forgot to screw closed. today the rapper sean combs had his homes searched by homeland security officials in some sort of federal investigation. mr. combs has recently been accused of sexual assault and sex trafficking in public forums. but today federal officials searched his homes. today "the new york times" reported that when brazil seized the passport of that country's former president and started arresting his aides for trying to mount a coup to keep hip in power after he lost that election, that president, jair bolsonaro apparently fled to another country's embassy. he fled to the embassy of hungary to try to get asylum and viktor orban, so his own police forces could not arrest him in brazil. each one of those stories is incredible on its own terms, right? today is one of those days in which the news has been a fire hose, not a faucet. there is a lot going on. there is a lot to cover. there is a huge and totally underappreciated supreme court case that is going to be argued tomorrow which is so radical and so potentially life-changing for american women, and comes from such a bizarre place in the law that it almost can't be overstated how important and how strange it is. we've got a guest booked on that tonight. tomorrow's supreme court argument in that case. i'm very eager to talk about it. all of this to say there is a lot going on, and this is a huge day in the news, all of which makes me all the more flabbergasted, all the more bewildered that i have to start tonight with something else. but i have to start tonight with something else. let me explain it my way. in the hopes that this maybe helps our overall understanding of what has just happened here. these are guys who live rent-free in my head. none of their faces will likely be familiar to you, but on the upper left, that's a man named william dudley pelley. he ran a fascist paramilitary group in the united states that was modeled on the brown shirts in germany, the storm troopers. pelley's group was called the silver shirts. pelley was their leader. he said he would be america's hitler, that he and his silver legion would get rid of democracy the way hitler is running germany. william pelley mounted a run for president from the christian party. his run for president did not go well. he got less than 2,000 votes total. go back to that group there, the foursome. on the upper right, probably never seen that guy either. his name is gerald l.k. smith. he was a fantastic speaker. some people in his time said he was the best orator this country maybe had ever produced. gerald l.k. smith. he was a fascist. he called himself a christian nationalist. he said we needed a christian nationalist takeover to, quote, seize the government of the united states. he attacked fdr. he attacked president roosevelt for supposedly being too old and too infirm to stay in the job. gerald l.k. smith said about fdr, quote, we're going drive that cripple out of the white house. gerald l.k. smith also ran for president. he ran for president on the america first party ticket, and like william dudley pelley, he also got less than 2,000 votes. go back to that foursome again. okay. let's do lower left. you might recognize him, maybe. his name is charles coughlin. he was a right-wing radio phenomenon, maybe the most influential and widest reaching american media figure ever in the history of american television and radio. father coughlin was a fascist. he was in love with the franco dictatorship in spain. he invited franco to submit articles to his newsletter. he translated goebels line by line and put his own byline on it. he knew he couldn't be president himself, because he was a priest, maybe, but mostly because he was canadian. so coughlin decided to arrange effectively a puppet candidacy of a no-name congressman. but everybody knew if you voted for that no-name congressman, it would really be father coughlin behind the scenes running the show. that presidential run organized by father coughlin, it did not work either. he did his best, and he was a huge media figure at the time. but in that presidential run, he got less than a million votes nationwide. now back to the foursome again. the last one, lower right-hand side. his name is general george van horn moseley. ever heard of him? moseley? his deputy chief of staff of the u.s. army at one point, and he conspired with fascist groups in the united states that were plotting a violent overthrow of the u.s. government whereupon his deal with them is after they overthrow the government, they would install him as the new american dictator. and general moseley traveled the country advocating for the american system of government to be overthrown. he testified to congress about it. he explained that if he got into the white house, first thing he would do is effectively to empty the government out, to fire the entire government. he'd have to, because deep state. commies everywhere. general george van horn moseley's plan did not work out either. i mention he was a retired general. as a retired general, the u.s. army told him he of course was welcome to continue barnstorming the country, offering himself as america's fuhrer, but if he did so, the army would no longer feel obligated to keep him on their payroll as a retiree. so general moseley, would you like to keep your army pension? or would you like to keep calling for the overthrow of the american government in order to install yourself as a dictator? you can have one, but not both. which will it be? general moseley decided hard call, but let's go with the pension. he took his pension. a condition of keeping his pension would be that he would stop talking about overthrowing america and becoming america's dictator. so it didn't work for him to take over either. i bring this up because these guys live rent-free in my head, and i am aware. i am very well aware that in our country, there has been no shortage of creeps like this. there has been no shortage of american men who thought they would make an excellent dictator of the united states, and they were delusional enough to think the rest of us would like that too. that we would put them in that position if we could. they all thought that you could stoke enough frustration in the united states. you could get people divided against each other enough, you could get people het up enough and frustrated enough with the complexities and frustrations of democracy that you could convince people to get rid of it, you know. you tell people it's an emergency enough, eventually you tell people it's time to break glass in case of emergency. and the message of what they're offering instead is always some variation of the same theme. imagine a new america where thank god there is finally a man in charge, and he's finally going get stuff done, and we'll all be unified for once behind this leader, because he really loves america, and he is going to finally once and for all fix our problems by getting rid of all the things that are stopping us from fixing our problems. and if you're against the leader, maybe you're one of those problems, and maybe we'll have to get rid of you. but otherwise, the rest of us will all be so unified, right. this has this clean simplicity to it. things will be efficient for once. there won't be an opposition political party, this useless congress will stop standing in the way. they'll either become irrelevant or they'll be ignored, or if need be, they'll be abolished. get them out of the way. they don't do anything any way. the judicial system. that will no longer be a constraint on the country or on the leader who is trying to get stuff done. all of these lilliputian strings will no longer hold gulliver down, right. the leader will finally be able to lead. the judicial branch will also come to heel. it will do as its told, or it will be ignored or abolished, if that's what it takes, just like congress. the government will be emptied out. and replaced with people loyal only to the leader, just so we can get stuff done. you don't want that bureaucracy hanging around, you don't want that deep state. we'll get rid of everybody. we'll put in people who are all part of a leader's program. it will be so clean, so efficient, so simple. politics will finally get out of the way. aren't we exhausted of politics? let's not have politics anymore. all this deep state nonsense. all these lesser institutions, these lesser people, these would-be competitors who lost to the leader. they will get out of the way. they will be gone so we can be unified. so we can finally get something done, so we can be great again. it's always the same thing. it's always some version of that same sales pitch, right. and there has been no shortage of guys who have preached that to the people of the united states. you go back and look, you find there are not just no shortage of them, there is a surprising number of them who really did think they could persuade the country to vote for that kind of change. vote to install somebody like them in power whereupon the whole american system of government will be done away with so we can have this new system instead under them. they all thought i'll just give people a chance to vote for me instead of the american system of government. all run for president. and they all failed miserably. but they all live rent-free in my head to this day, because while we have had a succession of dudes with these aspirations live and among us in the united states of america, they are all now forgotten for a reason. there is a reason when i put up those pictures, none of those guys looked familiar. there is a reason they have been mostly lost to history. and it's this. did you catch what i said about how those guys were actually trying to get into the white house? how those guys thought they were going to get to be leader of the united states? william dudley pelley, he was the presidential candidate of the christian party. what's that? gerald l.k. smith, he was the presidential candidate of the america first party. what's that? father charles coughlin, the puppet presidential campaign he ran was for the union party. what's that? general george van horn moseley, the group he tried to get to put him in the white house was called the american nationalist confederation. huh? what are those things? none of them are still parties or organization. some of them don't even have wikipedia pages to this day. so, yeah, we've had a lot. we've had plenty of would-be authoritarians who wanted to do away with the american system of government and make us an authoritarian country instead. but they tried to accomplish that by inventing or latching on to random parties and movements you have never heard of and that never went anywhere. none of them ever attached themselves to something big and powerful with institutional capacity and gravitas and historic heft. none of them ever attached themselves to something like the republican party. and at first, real estate developer donald trump didn't either. do you remember that his first attempt to run for president was with a different party? year 2000, the reform party. remember that? no? nobody does. and the reason we don't remember it is because it's about as memorable as any other pointless no-name third party vanity campaign. whether it's radical and revolutionary and wants to get rid of the american system of government or not, it's almost beside the point. who cares, right? it's irrelevant. even though we have had a thousand and one would-be authoritarian leaders in this country, guys who plotted and promised to overthrow the u.s. system of government, we have never before had someone with that ambition who also has the use of one of our two major political parties to get him there. and so it's a different kind of danger, right? it's a different kind of danger. it's dangerous because it means the power and the institutional heft and the legitimacy of a massive american political institution is now being brought to bear on this project that has always before now been, yes, radical and worrying and sometimes quite violent, but it wasn't going to win. what has always been a fringe project before now in america today, if the polls are to be believed, it's now a cause and a candidate that is likely to win. and it's not because the american people have never heard that sales pitch, right? it's not because we the american people have never heard the siren song of a guy proclaiming the virtues of a new america where there is finally a man in charge and nothing is going to get in his way. we've heard this a million times from a million crazy-eyed weirdos, right? it's only likely to win now because of the republican party, because people in so-called normal politics have laundered it, have laundered this sales pitch to make it seem like a good choice. they've led their own credibility to even the craziest parts of it. they didn't just stick around for the policy. they didn't just stick around for the potentially normal parts of it, they stuck around and pitched in to help when push came to shove, when we got to the violent part. the person who is the head of the republican party during donald trump's time in office and during his effort to throw out the election result and stay in power any way, and during his effort to run for election again after having done that is ronna romney mcdaniel. and she pitched in and helped. she helped set in motion the part of the plot that involved sending fake trump electors to congress from states that trump did not win so republicans in washington could use those fake, fraudulent elector slates to contend that maybe trump did win those states, even though he didn't. and don't believe me on that. there she is on page 23 and page 27 of the federal indictment charging donald trump with conspiring to defraud the united states. there is her personal appearance in this scene of the crime as alleged by the u.s. justice department in this ongoing criminal case. in michigan, where the fake electors are themselves now on trial, she told the state of michigan in writing explicitly, do not certify the election results. the detroit news has reported that with donald trump on the phone with her, she directed michigan election officials to not certify the vote. she told them, quote, do not sign it. we will get you lawyers. she pitched in. she was part of the project. and what was the project? it was to use the power of the republican party, republican officials in the states, republican office holders in washington, the national republican party that she runs to use the party's power to reject election results to take over the government and hold power by other means. and this project is now ongoing, right. now the project is to tell the american people that those efforts are on the 2020 election were righteous. that 2020 election, it wasn't okay. those election results were not correct. we shouldn't believe american elections. we shouldn't believe american elections are real elections. american election results should not be seen as real. they should not be respected. that's the project now. it didn't work to overthrow the government last time; but as long as you can build on that first effort, as long as you can keep up the anti-election mythology, then you are priming your people, you're priming the american public to not accept the results of the next election either. you're telling them that they're going to need to take power by other means, because the election isn't going to be how we do it anymore. you're also priming people, honestly, to vote to give up this supposed democracy we have because what good is it any way, all right. so what are we really losing if we decide we're going lose this? who cares. elections are fraudulent here any way. who cares if we give them up. ronna mcdaniel has been pitching in on that, continuing to say since 2020 that that election wasn't right, that the american public should know that that vote wasn't real, and that is a message not only about 2020, but about this next election. and about whether or not elections should matter at all, and whether we should bother having them at all. the republican party getting behind that message is a choice. i mean trump himself is going to do what he wants to do. we've always had guys like trump. sometimes they wear ridiculous little uniforms. we've always had guys like that. we've never before had a big storied, important american political institution embrace a guy like that. even when it came to overthrowing the american system of government. and in a time like this, it's hard, right. this is a challenging and worrying time. republican officials have to figure out whether they're going to stand up for the american system of government or not. republican politicians, congress has to decide if it's going to assert its own relevance. they're going to assert their own independence, their own role in the government, stand up for our system of government, or not. judges and prosecutors have to decide if they're going to be braver than they ever thought they'd have to be in this job. they have to decide whether they're going stand up to the threats and the violence. and nevertheless, be independent, be fearless, stand up for their own independence, and thereby stand up for our system of government. regular citizens have to decide if we're going to brave the threats and the violence to stay involved in politics. to work for campaigns, to volunteer as election workers, despite all the threats, all the attacks, all the violence, to stand up for our system of government. and then there is the press. which is both reporting on all of this and is also a part of it. because just as a strongman needs to control the judicial branch or get rid of it, needs to control the congress or get rid of it, needs to control the political opposition or get rid of it, what the strongman most desires before all of that, the necessary precursor to all of that is to control the free press, or get rid of it. and you know, in the press, we do not take it personally when we get attacked, when they say they want to put us on trial and execute us for treason. we don't take it personally. but we do defend ourselves as an institution. not because we're personally offended by the way that we're treated, but because a free and uncowed press is necessary for our democracy. a free and uncowed press is part of our system of government. we stand up for ourselves as a way of standing up for our country and for our constitution. the first amendment to which makes it possible for us to exist at all. and so i want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at msnbc and at nbc news who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone who hasn't just attacked us as journalists, but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government. someone who still is trying to convince americans that this election stuff, it doesn't really work, that this last election, it wasn't a real result. that american elections are fraudulent. because that argument, that is a necessary part that is the most necessary part of the overall project of getting us as americans to give up on this election stuff. because wouldn't we rather have a real man in charge any way, somebody who could really get some stuff done. if only we can clear away all the things in his way. we have a long history in this country of forgettable men telling us that we need a new system of government where everything is under their control and politics is over, and this new strongman way of government is going to make america great again. we have had a lot of these guys. but our generation's version of this guy has gotten a lot farther than all the rest of them. and why is that? he would have been as forgotten as all the rest of them had he not been able to attach himself to an institution like the republican party and had the leader of that party in his time not decide that she would abide him, she would help. she would help with the worst of it. it's my understanding that msnbc's leadership did not object to ronna mcdaniel being hired by nbc news when the matter first arose, but when the hiring was announced, and msnbc staff essentially unanimously and instantly expressed outrage, our leadership at msnbc heard us, understood, and adjusted course. we were told this weekend in clear terms ronna mcdaniel will not be on our air. ronna mcdaniel will not be on msnbc. and i say that and give you that level of detail because there has been an effort since by other parts of the company to muddy that up in the press and make it seem like that's not what happened at msnbc. i can assure you, that is what happened at msnbc. ronna mcdaniel will not appear on msnbc, so says our boss since saturday. and it has never been anything other than clear. and i will also say if you care what i think about this, i will tell you the fact that ms. mcdaniel is on the payroll at nbc news, to me that is an inexplicable. you wouldn't -- you wouldn't hire a wiseguy, you wouldn't hire a made man like a mobster to work at a d.a.'s office, right? you wouldn't hire a pick pocket to work as a tsa screener. and so i find the decision to put her on the payroll inexplicable. and i hope they will reverse their decision. and it's not about, you know, democratic party, republican party. it's not about partnership. it's not about right versus left. it's not about being a political professional versus some other kinds of person. it's not about being mean or nice to journalists. it's not about just being associated with donald trump and his time and the republican party. it's not even about lying or not lying. it's about our system of government and undermining elections and going after democracy as an ongoing project, right. and this is a difficult time for us as a country, and i think that means we need to be clear-eyed about the implications of it. difficult times make for difficult decisions. we are contending with something we've never had to contend with before. in the news business, yes, we are covering an election, which we do all the time. but we're also covering bad actors trying to use the rights and privileges of the democracy to end democracy. the chief threat among them now is not the rioters and the kooks, but the slick political professionals who are turning their attention that election results aren't real and they shouldn't be respected. we are contending with this now not from william dudley pelley's brown shirt militias, right, but from the multibillion massive political operation of one of the two governing parties of the united states of america. and that's new. and with our country up against something that daunting and that scary and that dangerous for the country, i think bad decisions will inevitably happen. mistakes will be made. but part of our resilience as a democracy is going to be recognizing, us recognizing when decisions are bad ones. and reversing those bad decisions. hearing legitimate criticism, responding to it and correcting course. not digging in, not blaming others. take a minute. acknowledge that maybe it wasn't the right call. it is the sign of strength, not weakness to acknowledge when you are wrong. it is a sign of strength. and our country needs us to be strong right now. we'll be right back. morikawa on 18. he is really boxed in here. -not a good spot. off the comcast business van. into the vending area. oh, not the fries! where's the ball? 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>> well, i think in balance things are actually better. our elections officials are trained. they're more prepared. we know what to expect, for the most part. there are some new emerging wrinkles. but we've been here. we've seen that, and those pictures you showed of those armed crowds outside of the warehouse, that was my warehouse. that was my election in maricopa county in 2020. we got through that we got through 2022. we will get past 2024. and we will protect democracy. >> tell me some of the specifics of your planning. this is obviously a threatening environment, not just in terms of physical safety for you and your staff, but in terms of making sure the election can be carried out without being hindered by external forces. >> yeah, well, first the background. we've lost senior election officials in 12 out of our 15 counties here in arizona. but to shore up the load, we're making sure that everybody who is coming in, most of whom really already were in elections at sort of the next level down positions, that they're preparerd. and we're focusing on the fundamentals. but we're also adding in some augmented training, including some ai training like we had at a recent tabletop exercise. that's training that law enforcement and the military use to sort of role play, throw scenarios out there. we've also got some tiger teams from our office that are going out to make sure that our i. the i.t. security systems are locked down. we have worked with homeland security at the state and federal level and cisa to shore up all of our physical and cyber security needs. but at the end of the day, it is fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. and the folks who are running elections in arizona are ready. >> i know that the justice department had a press conference today in arizona in phoenix after the sentencing of a man sentenced to more than two years in federal prison after threatening your predecessor, who is now the governor of the state. do you feel like the criminal law part of this obviously threats and intimidation are always illegal, let alone violence itself, do you feel like on the criminal law side of this that arizona is doing a good job at prosecuting this stuff and you have the support you need from the federal justice department to do what needs to be done? 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>> yeah, it makes me think about, you know, when the draft opinion first came down and we read it and the center for reproductive rights litigated the dobbs case. and of course the line there from justice alito, we're going send this back to the states. this case puts the lie to that. we're back in the supreme court less than two years later, and they are going to decide whether really important approval for medication abortion, and particularly, you know, the approval for it to be done by telemedicine, which has totally expanded the ability for people who live far from clinics, who would prefer to be at home to have a conversation by telemedicine and get the pills by mail. the fda has approved that as safe and effective. and that's what's on the line, among other things in this case that will be argued tomorrow in the supreme court. >> i know this is folly to ask, and you don't have to answer if you want, but what are you expecting the court to do here? everything i have read is that the underlying ruling, the district court ruling is so bananas that it would be unthinkable for them to side with that district court judge. that said, the appeals court did uphold some of what he was trying to do. so that makes it a little bit more of a wild card. what are you actually expecting? 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