creating jobs and trades. orban has been open with his democratic views. to do this the national leader has taken measures including rewriting election laws to favor his parties and changing school s textbooks, removing press freedoms. orban was granted an oval meeting by the then president in 2019. his first since 1998 and this is not the first time the former president has endorsed a far right leader. last october, trump endorsed the brazilian president. on the same day he recommended facing criminal charges of his
have steadily consolidated power by weakening the country s independent and democratic institutions, rewriting election laws to favor his party, changing school textbooks, curbing press freedoms, overhauling the country s constitution, and changing the composition of the judiciary. sounds a whole lot like donald trump. what he did and what he had hoped to do. but no, that paragraph in the new york times today was describing hungarian prime minister viktor orban, the far-right leader of a self-styled illiberal democracy. he is a populist and authoritarian and as of this morning, a proud recipient of a political endorsement from none other than donald j. trump. joining our conversation is former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, now an msnbc international affairs analyst and clint watts. ambassador mcfaul, i couldn t even get there on trying to figure out what this would be like if it were anybody else. so, maybe you can help me with