social media @theweekendmsnbc. later today. raphael warnock is on politics nation to talk about all things georgia from the case against trump to both parties fighting for black voters. in the meantime, al i velshi now. good morning. >> i was enjoying the conversation at the end about the third parties and no labels and the concept of vaccines. we forgot about the fight, but for a lot of americans, it's live. we talk so much about the inherent threats to democracy, but some people decision on that ballot on november in november for the president. based on other things that they think about. and it's volatile to hear that might be influential vaccines and the government's role may tip a federal election.

>> it will for, i think, a larger segment of the population that people may realize. and i think that's one of the dynamics that both campaigns but especially the biden campaign has to take into account is you've got the other variables you can't take your eye off of. >> and there are many of them and i am glad you all underscored them. thanks a bunch for you guys and see you next week. >> all right my friend. velshi begins now. good morning. it is sunday march 17th. happy st. patrick's day. 2024 has been dubbed the year of elections. citizens of many countries will head to the polls this year, including in eight of the ten most populous nation in the world. but some of those elections are less legitimate than others and one of them is happening right now. at some point today, we will get the results of russia's presidential election. it's a real nail biter.

putin is facing off against three nobody who barely campaigned and in reality it's a foregone conclusion. even though you may see images like this, of people casting ballots at polling stations in russia this weekend, the choice has already been made for them. the government previously disqualified a pair of opposition candidates and those who remain on the ballot pose no actual threat to the russian president. putin will, quote, unquote, win a fifth term in office and run the country for another six years. putin's russia is an autocracy dressed up to appear like a democracy. that's why it's troubling donald trump who is now the republican party's presumptive presidential nominee openly admired the russian president for years. shortly after putin won in 2018, then president trump was given briefing notes ahead of a call with the russian president. it was from trump's national security advisers and in one section they wrote in all caps, do not congratulate.

but of course, trump picked up the phone and congratulated putin for winning the fake election anyway. there were plenty of reasons not to congratulate the russian president then. the american government had just blamed moscow for poisoning a former russian spy on british soil which trump neglected to condemn during that same call. putin's chief critic alexi navalny was banned for running for the presidential race that year. he is now gone having died last month in a siberian prison under mistiersous circumstances. but that phone call was a classic trump moment. at once, it exposed disregard for political norms his apparent i go nance of diplomatic relations, and his admiration for strong men. it was not an isolated incident either and it is not limited to putin. ten days ago, trump welcomed the hungarian prime minister to his mar-a-lago resort in florida. it was a great photo op for one

of europe's most notorious leaders to be seen with a former american president and didn't take long for orban to make a propaganda featuring trump's remarks about him. >> there's nobody that's better smarter or a better leader than victor orban. he's fantastic. the prime minister of hugary. and does a great job. he is a noncontroversial figure because he said this is the way it's going to be and that's the end of it right? he is the boss. >> a lot of laughs in that room. democracy in hungary eroded under his rule for the last 14 years like in putin he russia corruption is rampant both cracked down on the press and free speech and suppressed lgbtq rights among other reports of human rights abuse. a week and a half ago he called him fantastic leader and said having him at mar-a-lago was a

great honor and uncritical of auto kratts with corruption and human rights abuse depicts kim jong un as a tough, smart guy and boasts about friendship claim kim wrote him beautiful letters and they fell in love. he praised chinese president xi and his hard lien tactics during a fox news town hall last july he had this to say. >> think of president xi central casting brilliant guy. when i say he is brilliant they say that's terrible. he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. smart brilliant and everything perfect. >> trump's warp respect for thor tarians extends to some history's worst figurer jon kelly said he said hidler did good things. trump's continued reverence for thor tarians is troubling to say the least. at gop presumptive presidential nominee has tried to overturn the results of an american

election once before. despite his continuing attempts to weaken our system of government we still have a democracy for now. but if trump is able to power and control it he may not let go of it again. joining me is senior correspondent covering college democracy and right wing popsie and staff righter and author of important books. welcome to both of you. thanks for being with us. and the title of your book, seductive lure of thor of author terrorism. it lured donald trump and he talks about thor tarians with unabashed admiration. >> it's true we in america we

assumed that certainly since the end of the cold war, we assumed that democracy was more attractive than departicular ateorship and most leaders would prefer that. trump has broken with that, and reminded us that throughout history most democracy failed. most of them eventually fall apart. most eventually collapse into civil war. and ours has in the past. and, of course, could again. his affiliation, his alignment with foreign dictators is because he admires strength but he is interested and has actually imitated some of the things he has done. you mentioned victor orban didn't become a dictator in one day. he was democratically elected and after the election, he proceeded to step by step take part the -- take apart the

democratic institutes of the country and you can see trump questioning the validity of election attacking independent organizations and research organizations of all kinds. attacking judges and seeking to assuming there's my judges and their judges. and seeking to perpetuate that. talking about the military as if it was my military and if it was something he could use personally for his personal political gains. american foreign policy to be use personally. those are things he is learning from other dictatorships. and thinking about and people around him are thinking about bringing them here. >> zach, let's. that more looking at russia where there's elections today or iran where there are elects, but they are rigged and you can't run if the government doesn't approve of you. the results are foregone. but let's talk about some of the places like hungary where in the midst of slightly dismantling democracy orban won

or turkey where he does similar things in human rights and won again. or underan where he will likely win again this year despite doing similar things. this idea that you have the vote and you vote for people who take little bits away on the edges of your democracy. >> so, think it's important to understand the democracy thor terrorism a bright line and a spectrum which i mean there's a real distinction a clear one between a democracy and authoritarian systems but there are variance of different kinds of thor terrorism from china and russia on one end that's extremely repressive to like hungary if row are not familiar with the technical ways he rigs the elections functionally without stopping the ballot box it would look like a democracy and it does. and a lot of people in the united states especially a lot

of sympathetic conservatives, really believe it's democracy and gets upset when you tell them the 0% of the state of the media is controlled by the government and its allies and that several society functionally doesn't have a free voice. and that the electoral system is through gerrymandering and different means such as the district use of campaign funding it is rigged so he can stay in power. it's not designed to look that way. people genuinely believe in what the government is selling for a variety of reasons and they need that otherwise the softer thor terrorism doesn't work. and so they are supporters but it doesn't take away from the fact democracy disappears. the chinese party has genuine supporters and you can have supporters real ones and be in an authoritarian system.

>> when donald trump makes speeches and i you know he did one last night and he goes farther and farther one might think it would i'll ate mainstream voters. it won't i'll ate the hardest core trump supports but others. why does it not? why does it creep towards authoritarianism and not alarm more people when they tell you this is just him talking. it's trump being trump. how do you respond to that? >> i think there are a couple of answers. i think one of them is that people -- again, people have this assumption that our system is the best, and it's always going to be the way it is and they can't imagine or they are unable to see the ways in which it's deteriorated or declined. i remember once working on an article venezuela and reading that even well into many years into the chavez regime when he was in position when he couldn't lose elections, some large percentage of venezuelans

still believed their country was a democracy. so, reminding people that it's not just thability to vote or say what you want around your table reminding them there are consequences and subtle changes can bring about big changes. i think that's part of it. and i think another part of it is connected to extreme polarization. and many people say, okay, trump is bad, but the left is worse or okay trump is bad, but markists are taking over the schools. so the way in which a part of the former conservative movement has weaponized issues and made people feel they have to make a stark choice on the one hand they will be -- they will go down a left wing markist hell hole and keep america together that's been much more successful than others like to naj. >> one of the things trump said

because it sounds like someone worried about trump becoming president might use he says if it is not one i am not sure you will have nor election does that make sense? i don't think you will have another election if we don't win. i don't think you will have another election or certainly not oop election that's meaningful. he is got his followers who believe that to be true, there's a a deterioration of democracy of america something we can all understand, but in the view of donald trump and his supporters, the other is responsible for the deterioration of democracy not him who denied an election and continues to fight the outcome of the last election. >> so, that's a really critical point. so inside established democracy like the united states, the typical pattern for authoritarian deckry days which we -- the from a digsal style

is not this what they say are things along the lines. they salem protecting demock so and orban says there's no democracy in europe that liberalism is antidemocratic and and he is protecting hung hungarian democracy and benjamin netanyahu said we don't live in democracy but a rule by courts. you see similar patterns in india. all of these and i discuss all the examples in the fourth coming book the reactionary spirit that analyzes this but the basic point is when democracy is dominant when people around the world use the language of democracy in human rights and the gold standard which we judge regimes even nondemocratic regimes want to be democratic because they risk losing support of the people especially a country of a long robust history of democracy or lip service to democrat being

ideals. that's happening in the u.s. and hungary and increasingly central problem to understand if we want to grapple with the decline of democracy around the world. >> what an important discussion. thank you. i wish i had continued the conversation for the two hours but we will have you on more to have the conversations because they are crucial. zach senior coursens for vox and applebaum historian and staff writer. also during the dark rally last night in ohio, republican nominee for president described the human, trying to come to the united states as animals. sadly didn't stop there. in a moment we will talk to the political pollster about what that means for the future of our democracy and how it is affecting the national discourse in america. also, msnbc joy reid joins me to discuss what trump said and litany of legal troubles and

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tiktok fans across the u.s. are growing increasingly worried about losing access to one of the world's most popular video apps last wednesday the house of representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill to lead to a nationwide ban of the social media platform. the crux of the issue is around the owner chinese based come bytedance. lawmakers believe the company is beholden to the chinese government and that it could potentially exploit the data of tiktok users in america which is the largest market. but banning the app could have severe consequence for the millions americans who make a living. >> you will destroy small business. >> reporter: tiktok creators desending on the capitol.

>> you need to make your voices heard. >> call them and tell them to stop the ban. >> reporter: hoping to save the social media giant. tiktok appealing directly to its users. >> we had millions of kids calling congress and some cases threatening suicide. >> reporter: and flying them to washington. what would it mean to you and your family. >> it would be devastated to launch out a positive message would be message. >> reporter: and it passed in a landslide and heads to the senate if signed into law it would force bytedance to sell the platform within six months or face a possible ban in the u.s. the big of the markets 167 million americans use the platform including 7 million small business owners now worried about their livelihoods. >> it's 100% of our income and how i feed my wife and three

children. >> reporter: law makers say the move is a matter of national security. >> this app has the potential of being a mass surveillance tool. >> reporter: critics pointing to laws in china allowing the government to demand data from any chinese owned company. several countries including the u.s., have already banned the app on government devices. >> we worried about the spy balloon hanging over the u.s., and you know a lot of people put this at 170 million spy balloons. >> reporter: another fear the power and reach of a hugely popular foreign based platform that's readily accessible to millions of americans. many of them teenagers. >> the reason that is valuable to the chinese communist party is it begins to allow them to know how to influence americans. >> reporter: but tiktok ceo insist the app is not a tool of the chinese government. >> there's a lot of noise but i haven't heard exactly what we have done that's wrong. >> reporter: meanwhile, any possible sale of the app could prove costly and complicated. one. >> one of the issues is what

you get when you buy it because they won't gives the alalga rate because we can see if they have been spying. >> reporter: they are looking to inassemble a group of investors. >> should be owned by an u.s. businesses and there's no way the chinese would ever let an u.s. company own something like that. >> reporter: the current bill doesn't allow the government to remove tiktok from people's phones. instead, it would be-available to download or update. but in countries like india, where tiktok is banned, savvy users work quick to find work around. it comes in consequential election year with both parties desperate to woo young vote percent. could it impact how people vote. >> 100%. there's people that won't be reelected because of the way they choose on this ban. >> reporter: faced with uncertainty some users preparing for the end. >> who knows if today is the day and this is the last video. >> reporter: as the app known for the global reach and viral moves now stands increasingly

on rocky footing. >> and that was my colleague savannah sellers reporting. calling human, animals the presumptive gop nominee for president vowed to initiate the largest domestic deportation operation in american history on day one. if reelected. we are going to discuss what this deliberate dangerous rhetoric means for the future of american democracy next on velshi. . of american democracy next on velshi. . (ella) fashion moves fast. setting trends is our business. we need to scale with customer demand...

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jail for years if you call them people i don't know if you call them people, in some cases they are not people in my opinion, but i am not allowed to say that because the radical left says it's a terrible thing to say. they say you have to vote against him because did you hear what he said about humanity. i seen humanity in the humanity these are bad -- those are animals, okay. >> donald trump speaking to a crowd of supporters in ohio. peddling a dark and deceptive version of america and the world. dehumanation of immigrants and those of color is deliberate and dangerous part of a cynical tragedy deployed up and down the republican party right now. the strategy is very specifically to not fix any real immigration related problems this country is facing and lie about and demonize immigrants to stir up fear and ainge are among the maga base and it permeated the right and in congress where rewon can lawmakers also recognize the value of using the immigration

issue as a political weapon in 2024 as many of them seek reelection. to talk about the alarming and dangerous strategy i want to bring in a long time political pollster and communication strategist. look, this is an issue you have been thinking and talking about for a long time. everybody has gotten immigration wrong in the country for a while. we have weirdly arrived at a place where both parties are prepared to have done something at the insistence of democrats and they got a bill. and republicans didn't want it. what's going on with immigration. this is supposedly issue number one for a lot of republicans and yet no one wants to fix. >> and americans are outraged because they want a fix. and here's the thing they want a compromise. they want a barrier. and this southern border they want the dream act completely and now, and they want to increase legal immigration. that compromise has 79% support. including majority of democrats

nd pennant and republicans. republicans don't want to engage in the increasing legal immigration democrats don't want to put up a barrier because they think it's sounds like trump. and in the end nothing is done and then they figure out a compromise to address the chaos at the border. and it's donald trump who says let's pull it. and that to me was a breaking point. because that is the definition of putting politics over people. make no mistake, the border was much safer and much less chaotic under the previous administration. however, they are stalling for election day to try to score political points. that's unconscionable and unimaginable and should be we should call it for what it is. politics over people. >> so tell me why, as a person who understands what works in elections, this is literally a situation in which there could be a potential beginnings of a solution, on a bipartisan level, but what, if you are running as republican that's a bad thing to have been part of

a bipartisan solution? or it's bad thing to eliminated such a key election. >> it takes -- if they fix the border that takes a away a key republican issue and difference between the republicans and donald trump says let's have the issue. i almost of republicans trying to and succeeding in the house of impeaching the secretary of home land security. you are angry at president vote hem out but don't do this performance art and i know you stand you know where i stand. and i do believe that in this area it's more a republican problem. because republicans are doing performance. we have this issue because joe biden undid so much of trump's legislation and no one is willing to be candid. the problem is we have to admit we got it wrong and you did in your introduction.

we have to acknowledge that we have done things in immigration that are inhumane. and that are antisecurity. and that it's not working. all you have to do is go five blocks from here ten blocks, and see the hotels that are filled with undocumented workers. it's a failure and the public has the right to demand success and they are not getting it. >> so let's talk about some polling you've done. you asked a question about the source of our divisions in politics the question is who -- what is most to blame for america's political divisions? there's a lot of answers but we have taken the top six of them here. according to your respondents your focus group donald trump is the most to blame the press is next and obviously they don't add up to 100. money in politics and gop and social media and joe biden. >> we gave 19 choices and asked them to choose the top 3 and

donald trump is chosen more than anyone else. it's an identification of how he communicates and what he says. you saw it in the video that viewers were watching. that he is going to use the most devising polarizing words and phrases to get people agitated. i am convinced it's possible to win going above. being positive. giving a positive vision about the future. and in the end, i know presidential elections are not about the past but the future. that's why joe biden is trying to if he focus what he wants to do and donald trump won't and this is an acknowledgment from the public they don't like what they hear. >> which of the following are you most afraid of for democrats failure of democracy the top answer for republicans was losing culture traditions and way of life. >> this is how different we are. we are priorities are different and how we think are different and dress so we are not that

different. but there is no similarity or common ground and that's the problem. we don't get media to inform us. we got it to affirm us. and i like to say to all the biden people who are watching i know you get hate mail for having me on. in the end, some of the things i will tell you when we do the appearances will actually have an impact a positive impact for them. we don't have -- we have beaten the crap out of donald trump in 2016 and 2020. it doesn't work. there is a better approach that will unite the country and get us focused on the things we need to to focus on. i worked in politics for 20 years and out in 10 and i had enough and so have the american people and that survey was for the national could havens in association in an initiative called disagree better. that's what we need to be willing to do. disagree, but disagree better.

>> i agree with that. and you and i will agree on that. thank you. a long time pollster and communication strategist. we have a lot more velshi a lot more coming up and if there's an episode you want to watch again or send to a friend check out msnbc.com/ali that brings you to the youtube page and see the interviews with lawmakers and book club and economic updates in one place. economic updates in one place.

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leader med ger evers returned to the united states after serving his country fies fighting overseas in world war ii he and other young black men struggled with the dissidents of the democracy abroad and racist segregationist ways of the jim crow south. alarmed at the racism in the community and destitution of black people in rural mississippi, his home state, evers decided to do something about it. he soon began organizing for the naacp and in 1954 he became the organization's first field secretary in mississippi. driving across the mississippi delta galvanizing black communities. he even worked to recruit witnesses to take the stand in the especially emmitt till murder trial when speak the truth in court could get a black person killed. and evers chief marter in in the fight was his wife myr lie together they naught dangerous mississippi for equality for fair voting rights and

desegregation of the state's public accommodations. but the crews work forbut the work gave they have note right him notoriety his work wouldn't die with him and lived on through his wife myrlie. the love story which was key to the civil rights movement is the subject of a new important book written by my friend at msnbc colleague joy reid tired medgar and myrlie. his work put him in harm's way. before his death he was a top kkk's kill list because of his outspoken advocacy. he knew it. and as joy reid rights myrlie knew it. the book describes a conversation when he tried to convince him to leave because she knew he would be killed if he continued the dangerous

work. in those moments when his young wife raised her doubts and fears he was encouraging her but clear about his commitment to the movement. you're stronger than you think you are he told myrlie. you know i am in. i am not going to leave it. and she said to him, why not? these are your children. he said that's exactly why i am not going to do it because i am fighting for you and my children and other parents and their children. for that reason, after he was killed, she almost immediately picked up the mantle and honored legacy and carved out her own and would run for congress and become chair of the naacp and deliver the invocation for barack obama's second presidential inauguration making her the first woman and nonclergy member to do so. the singular joy reid and friend of the reidout discusses the book and legacy of medgar and myrlie evers. acy of medgar and myrlie evers. (tony) yes, problem. you need verizon.

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you can sa i joining me is joy reid the anchor of the reidout and a "new york times" best selling author. the newest book is medgar and myrlie and this is joy's old spot. welcome to my show this is really truly your slot. so, good to see you. >> ohings my goodness, it's great. and i love the way you

rearranged the place. the furniture looks amazing. i love the so and love watching you ali. i am proud of you and i am just very grateful to have you as my friend. >> thank you. and you and i had one chance to talk about this book some time ago, but i want to get into it more with you. the medgar and myrlie story it's important because they are both civil rights leaders. they were both budding heads and it's typical in the civil right move to but hits but the tension was how it would end. myrlie was clear the road med ger was going down and other leaders felt the same way, was dangerous. and was going to get him killed. and tell me about that tension between them. >> well, absolutely. first i want to acknowledge today actually is myrlie evers williams 91st birthday. happy birthday to her. 91 years young and feisty and in the fight. so honor to her.

the fights were interesting. because for myrlie she was a 1950s housewife that's what she wanted to be. she loved this man and had fallen in love with him as a 17- year-old, you know, college freshman. and when they married, she really didn't understand she was signing on to be part of the moment. and that's not what she wanted. she was a young woman and wanted to do young woman things and go to a movie, have dinner with her husband and him to be home to tuck the children into bed. but he was very determined as you said in that really excellent open, that he was like no, i am going to fight for the right for this family to live like normal people in the state in which we were born and in which our families helped to build because they were enslaved in mississippi. his fights with the naacp were different. you know, myrlie was afraid for his life. they were mad. new york, the naacp leadership, just fundamentally disagreed the way to get rights for blacks in the south was in the

streets. was through marches and sit-ins and boycotts. they believed it was through the courts. and they wanted the fight to be left there and he said no. young people are willing to march, they are willing to sit in. they are willing to boycott and i am with them and that's a fundamental rift with the bosses. >> in the end when you look back it it, one argue both had to happen, and the stuff that. >> yes. >> med ger evers did put the pressure on institutional level to be made. but what worked better than the other was medger evers on the right track or did they have to move forward. >> in 1954 of have a landmark supreme court decision that desegregates the schools but has no effect because in the south, the reaction was resistance. my husband jason and i were in new orleans recently and met a group of women called the mcdunna three i didn't know about. they desegregated mcdunna elementary school the same day

as ruby bridges did. 35 minutes before ruby bridges by her is of walked into a school. these three young kids also walked into an elementary school. we are talking about in 1960. we are talking about the fact six years after the supreme court decision kids had to try to desegregate schools and were getting screamed at by adults. all of the white kids left, they were there alone with just their teachers. no white parent would allow their kids to go to school with them. six years brown v board so what medgar understood because of the resistance of white authorities and white families and silence of the white moderates, the only way to push the issue was in the streets. so i think he was fundamentally right and the leadership was right you needed the court cases but to make the court cases for desegregation actually take effect, it required physical action. >> ultimately, myrlie recognized the legacy and

continued it and built her own legacy. what did that do to her? because she never got to be the housewife she want to be. she never got to live that life she wanted to live. even after medgar died as she knew he would, got killed, she then picked up the mantle and pushed forward. >> you know, what i find fascinating about miss myrlie is she had no templet to work from. when her husband was assassinated unlike the other black women who were mourning black men who died as a result of their fight for basic civil rights, she walked out of her house in the daylight in the morning after her husband was killed, to dan rather and a big tv news crew and had to figure out what to do. she had to use what she learn in the upbringing, the poise as a member of a young girl singing group and when she learn from the grandmother and aunt about how to be a dignified woman. to try to figure out what do i say? because i am the only one who knows this man. i am the one who was his

sounding board, his secretary, the person he bounced his speeches off of. i knew him. and so, i need to translate him to the world. and she did that years before. two years before malcolm x's rido and five years before coretta scott king and she set the stage for the other women. but in addition to that, she wound up picking up the mantle and number one, she was going to fight to get the man who killed her husband and put him in prison until the day she died. she said if it takes 100 years, i am going to get him and it took 30 years but she had some of the actual data that was needed to convict him. and he was convicted but she was on her own and had to figure out how to open up a bank account before women were legally able to open a bank account with their husband's signature and when she moved to california, she couldn't open a bank account because they are like a woman and women can't do that where's your husband. she did things like run for congress. i have this -- i brought a prop i thought it was so cool and because you're my fellow nerd,

this is awesome. this is a jet magazine from 1970. and this is myrlie on cover. she ran for congress in 1970, two years before charl are shirley chisilm and she becomes a renaissance woman and is by herself and has to figure out how to be and she decide to be amazing. >> what does she think about things looking back now? as we have said it's her birthday. where does she think we have come and what has to be done? >> well, during the book tour i had an opportunity to go to pomona college where she finished her degree because she did drop out of college to marry medgar and finished at pomona and we did an event and she spoke at the event and we spent some time together. where she is, i think there's a sense of disappointment we are having these fights. we still have to say black lives matter and tell people that's a good thing and not a bad thing. we still have to fight for our history to be told? schools.

and we are having book bans. and we have a former president who is calling humans animals and we are fighting a lot of the same fundamental fights that we did in that era. i think that disappointment her but she is very determined and strong person. she is not going to stop fighting. i think that her kind of mission for all of us, is that no mat are how far we feel we are going back, it's kind of like a spiral right. we are going back but we are slowly inching forward. and the only time we stop moving forward is when we stop fighting a-she never has and we shouldn't. >> thank you for an amazing bock and thanks for being my friend and mentor and for your great friendship. joy reid is my friend the host of the reidout on msnbc weekdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern. this book is important. medgar and myrlie the love story that awakened america. from the -- from thank you.

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