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Is great to see you again. thank you so much for your time. one of the biggest highlights from the documentary is from the first minute when you say rudy is the anti christ. tell us why hes deserving of that title in your eyes. >> once upon a time, when he was u.s. attorney. he seemed to be a reformer. he seemed to be someone who believed in the rule of law. he helped clean up the teamsters. help defeat the mafia. a lot of people, myself included, admired. that then he runs for office. he turns ...

Rudy is the anti christ. tell us why hes deserving of that title in your eyes. >> once upon a time, when he was u.s. attorney. he seemed to be a reformer. he seemed to be someone who believed in the rule of law. he helped clean up the teamsters. help defeat the mafia. a lot of people, myself included, admired. that then he runs for office. he turns into a demagogue. hes the worst kind of racial appeals. for his own good and to divide our city, and ultimately divide our country. this is a guy who...

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Americas mayor in the wake of september 11th terrorist attacks. it waits when it became the definitive trump supporter defending him from mueller and stormy ukraine for dirt on biden pushing to overturn the 2020 election. the question i think all of this asked was, what happened to rudy? let me pose a counter narrative. what if their version of rudy giuliani is who he has always been. a demagogue who exploited resentments and anger to his own political advantage. that is a subject of the new msn...

Been as much of this calculated demagogue. >> but a strong language. >> what reverend sharpton. one of the reasons we call this film truth is not truth is because, when he said that on meet the press, it broke this whole thing open. because on the surface it is a dangerous term, but if you look into the context, it is rudys playbook, and the embodiment of a phrase. if we cannot agree on the certain side of facts, we are in danger of democracy crumbling. and rudy is at the center of that. i watch...

Many to wonder what happened to rudy giuliani. this weekend, a new film from msnbc will examine this very question. >> rudy giuliani was always a calculated, intentional demagogue. the way you do politics is find an enemy, beat up on them, play on peoples fears and prejudices -- he needs an enemy. he was going to be the sheriff of wall street. >> he was going to clean it up. he was a guy who walked out of the office. he always managed to -- the press, no. he would very much exploit the press cov...

In ballot process that led to the shenanigans that happen in the 2020 election. >> laura: if you do t do it like florida does. in less exciting news, guys, here was adam schiff on his own bid for the senate on sunday. >> i need to get out. california is in a time when the democracy is so deeply at risk and quality of life as risk and deeply concerned about the future of the kids and start to entertain a demagogue that promises he can fix things. >> laura: senator vance, hes right our culture and...

Service. a member of the house of representatives can perform. and of those 36 house managers, there have been only four lead impeachment managers on the floor of the united states senate in the four impeachment trials of presidents that the senate has conducted over the last 233 years. we have had 55 speakers of the house but we have had only four lead impeachment managers in the senate trials of presidents. adam schiff is one of the four. >> ive always believed that what is right matters. that...

Schiff kevin mccarthys home state senator. but, my motivation was much deeper than kevin mccarthy, and that is the fact that our democracies remains deeply at risk from the kind of extreme maga republicans that kevin mccarthy, marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, and these others represent. and i think lawrence, youre exactly right, a big part of the problem is that the gop under donald trump has essentially forsaken the truth. george santos in that respect is a prime example, really of the truth...

Social security and medicare as the price of not bringing us to economic ruin that i think we invite more of that kind of economy hostage taking. so i think that the biden administration is taking exactly the right position. cutting social security and medicare, for me, and i know for the president, is completely a deal breaker, off the table, nothing to be considered and never will be. >> the -- i know its very premature and ive never asked a candidate at this stage this question before, but if...