sensitive site expiration is done. to be thanks very much, we appreciate it. kristen o leary is the former director of hostage recovery for the united states. he s a senior vice president of global affairs for the group. coming up, donald trump continues to take a page out of the authoritarian playbook as his legal troubles grow. i ll speak with the woman who wrote the book on authoritarian leaders. ruth joins me. then, with israel and hezbollah trading fire over lebanon s threatens to spill over into the region. we ll go to lebanon for the latest on the ground. plus, lbj and by the former vice prime minister of israel, another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning to you, it is sunday the 22nd. with wars regime between ukraine and russia, israel and hamas, and threatening to spill into other continents, global leadership is critical. we re facing our own crisis of democracy in her own home, one that is easy to overlook when the news of the world s war. legal peri
ukraine and russia, israel and hamas threatening to spill over into wider conflicts, american leaders on the global stage critical, but we are still facing our own crisis of democracy right here at home one that is easy to overlook when the news of the world s war. the legal peril facing the twice impeached multiple indicted former president seem to increase in recent days, with the guilty pleas of two high-level codefendants in the election interference case out of fulton county, georgia. but the peril for our own system of governance is increasing too as donald trump s own behavior continues to push dangerous lies and the republican party continues to be largely beholden to him. in this moment of global crises, americans and the world are looking to american leaders for guidance. but instead of inspiring confidence, our congress is more dysfunctional than it has been in more than 150 years, since the civil war. and that is because donald trump has broken the republican part