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and both investigations have expanded to former members of the trump administration. former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and ex treasury secretary steve mnuchin both testified before the january six committee this week. any day now, the committee could hear from former secretary of state mike pompeo. meanwhile, mike pence s former top aides, marc short and greg jacobs, testified before the federal grand jury convened by attorney general merrick garland, making them some of the highest profile witnesses to testify. they are questioning at those proceedings contributed to the news first reported by the washington post, that the doj is formally investigating trump s actions leading up to january 6th. possibly a step closer to a criminal probe of trump himself. more and more former trump officials have come forward since the january six committee s public hearings started last month, and congressman jamie raskin, who is a lead manager and trump s second impeachment ....
American should read that speech. because it is a police state, it is outlining a police state both in literally racialized policing, but also he is openly praising treasuring paintings quick trials and executions with no problems, and he s also channeling duterte. let s kill all the drug dealers. this is pure authoritarian intention, and it is terrifying. right. and matt, ruth is touching on something, i didn t read the speech. i listen to the speech, in realtime. it was struck by all the things we ve just talked about. trump s pay praise of judging paying and his execution of drug dealers, and this very dark crime ridden america. that got a lot of applause from the people he was talking to. am i wrong to think that the republican base is just fine ....
Preservation of our institutions. exactly the opposite of that. it is a group of people, now, that believes autocracy is the better path to what they want then democracy is. and that is the scariest thing, in the modern democracy in our country, to me, that we have a major party that now represents that move away from democracy, and towards autocracy. and ruth, we have a major television network that is aiding and abetting what matt is talking about. new york times released a story, fox news snubbed trump s speech and what is becoming a pattern. the network would help make mr. trump a force and the american left about a little airtime to his speech, but they go live with a competing speech that former vice president mike prince deliver the same day, for roughly 70 minutes on tuesday afternoon fox viewers heard mr. pence uninterrupted talking about how a television network like fox news aids and abets the authoritarianism that ....
Free to talk about trump s speech with its dystopian imagery. which made his american congregate inaugural address seem tame. and wondering how, that his speech this past week, fits in with the authoritarian playbook that you have studied? yeah. so for pence, he was trying to be a statesman. and he says i have looked with vladimir putin in the eye, and he is talking about, let s not be trying to deny the election, let s move forward. but the statesman is no longer, you can sort of statesman is no longer with the republican party is about. it is to have this route with a stick, which is trump. and when a charismatic authoritarian who has a cult, he is a cult league our leader. when somebody like that shapes a system, it never returns to what it was before. and the appetite for that kind of leader, it stays. so trump is playing to that. if you go to his speech, every ....
Which became a political controversy. he claimed in the campaign he was against the war, but he wasn t. cue howard stern. are you for invading iraq? yeah, i guess so. you know, i wish the first it was done correctly. the celebrity obsession is carrying over. there you have the president with kim kardashian wednesday. and as we ve been reporting, he s also considering pardoning celebrity style figures like martha stewart or rod blagojevich who both appeared on th the apprentice. stern says trump s relationship with the media is all about how he feels. he loves hollywood. first of all, he loves the press. he lives for it. he loves people in hollywood. he only wants to hobnob with them. and all of this hatred stuff directed toward him, it s not good for him. it s not good. i m joined by michael hersh orn who developed the concept of ....