that is all in. a magical land of with pod you re like a wizard. that s what i am. thanks for joining us. it was june of 2022 and the venue for the conservative political action conference, cpac, venue was packed. hundreds of far right politicians and activists gathered to claim election fraud, the launch attacks against the president. donald trump was slated to give a talk on chinese election interference. jason miller was there, now ceo of the conservative twitter clone getter. also this attendance was republican mark green who voted against the certification of joe biden as president. and in a lot of ways this was just another cpac conference. the main difference was that this one was happening in brazil. months before that country s presidential election. and all the false claims about election fraud, they were dubbed in portuguese. this is the extent to which the maga movement embedded itself in brazilian politics, a relationship now worth revisiting after they had
house democrats will always put american values over autocracy. benevolence over bigotry, the constitution over the cult. democracy over demagogs. working families over the well connected. yes, we can over, you can t do it, and zealous representation over zero sum confrontation. house democratic leader hakeem jeffries makes it sound as easy as abc. but after 15 tries it s kevin holding the gavel. we re watching the house floor as republicans try to get organized and what kevin s struggles mean for our democracy. also tonight, the nexus of insurrection. steve bannon and the others who cheered on the january 6th attack on the capitol are now exporting that brand of anti-democratic violence to brazil. and that is where we begin tonight. with the notion of contagion. for most of the 20th century and into the 21st, the u.s. considered itself a leading if not the leading exporter of democracy around the world. and while that sometimes involved nefarious acts like overthrowing
of course big drama on capitol hill as well, as kevin mccarthy finally has the gavel. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. i want to provide an update on our ongoing efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place. there is really strong evidence that something happened, that something was changed in the transmission or inside. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. all converging and now we re on, as they say, the point of attack. look in the streets of brazil. look at the great patriots in brazil that at a lot of danger to themselves, have come forward in the streets of brazil. f brazl a corrupt president, the forces of fascism, and the mobs that believe the lies. this morning, we re following fast moving developments out of brazil where police have arrested hundreds who attacked the presidential palace and congress. we ll have the latest on the unrest
on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidential elec
fascinating interview with him that went on for more than an hour. we will have more on that in a moment and will speak to his son, but we are in brazil broadcasting all week for a reason. if you are worried about the future of the united states, this is a good place to come to get a glimpse of it. or what it might look like depending on what choices we make. brazil and the united states have much more in common then we realize. both are huge countries. brazil is actually a little larger than the continental united states. countries with deep natural resources, diverse physical environment, diverse population, and a very divided political climate. on one side, you have a nationalist party that is currently in power now, controlled the executive in brazil. on the other side you have, in effect, the globalist party, and the tone of the politics year is bitter and the stakes are very high, you can go to prison in brazil routinely when they lose elections. but the reason we are h