Dictator Chic News Today

Murray, thanks to both of you. Thanks for watching our msnbc special. Find me on weeknights. Its the beet, 6 00 p. M. Eastern. It started as a 30minute phone call between two president s. It erupted into a fullscale scandal that now threatens to bring down donald trump. Today im announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Our president sacrificed our National Security and our constitution for his personal political benefit. Theyve been trying t...

Roads and roundabouts and schools and water projects. absolutely it. did part of the reason, even that scale of investment over 20 years, did not materially change more about what its like to live in afghanistan, is because so much of what we put into afghanistan, was shoveled off and diverted by the boatload, by a fantastically corrupt elite. from the very beginning. this was ten years ago. this verge of me and richard looking at this neighborhood in kabul. but this was true from the very begin...

Government official right? this is this weekend. youre a government official really? reminds you of the footage of the golden toilet fixtures and the private museums and the tacky ornate palace people finally got to see when the ukrainian dictator was ousted in 2014 and had to go flee to moscow to save his skin. dictator chic is the same the world over. corruption always smells the same and they really like gold fixtures. but in afghanistan nobody who has spent considerable time there during the...

Kabul. it was true from the very beginning and is still true today. you might have seen the taliban footage of them lounging around inside the home of an afghan government official right? this is this weekend. youre a government official really? reminds you of the footage of the golden toilet fixtures and tacky ornate palace people finally got to see when the ukrainian dictator was ousted in 2014 and had to go flee to moscow to save his skin. dictator chic is the same the world over. corruption ...

Independent of russia, a russia that was fighting a war on their borders to try to suppress them, suppress their freedoms. they thought, america stands with us. >> with russia now occupying crimea and eastern ukraine, the new pro-american government in kiev needed its friends in washington more than ever. but the obama administration first wanted ukraine to clean up its house. then vice president biden was named point man for the anti-corruption effort. >> its absolutely critical for ukraine, in...

Independent of russia. a russia that was fighting a war on their boreders to try to suppress them, suppress their freedoms. that they method, america stands with us. >> with russia now occupying crimea and eastern ukraine, the new pro-american government in kiev needed its friends in washington more than ever. but the obama administration first wanted ukraine to clean up its house. then vice president biden was named point man for the anti-corruption effort. >> its absolutely critical for ukrain...

Now, because of the $200 billion of new tariffs, but i think trump is much more comfortable, hes shown this repeatedly, he is not a person who embraces the traditional liberal western democratic values of liberty and free markets. and human rights, he is someone who embraces something that is much darker, hes much more punitive, he loves the strong man swagger, the dictator chic, this is a guy who has an almost juvenile obsession with the bullies and thugs and strong men of the world. thats what...

Clouds thanks to cameras mounted on the shuttles rocket booster. you can follow that journey. fantastic views of the launch. later you will see it fall back to earth and plunge into the ocean. you might call it dictator chic. stylish suit worn by hosni mubarak. you will find there is more to this outfit than meets the eye. >> reporter: sure any filthy rich dictator can have his name monogrammed on sheets, towels and shirts. look closely at the suit of egypts former president, closer, closer. t...

>> reporter: it is monogramming for megalomaniacs worn by mubarak in 2009. with a single suit mubarak knocked gadhafi off the fashion throne. it is called dictator chic, despot swag, fashion gangster. >> it is not like they had a spool of fabric. they created a fabric that has his name woven into it. >> it looks like one of ours. >> reporter: stacy jones represents tom james clothing, they have made plenty of others like it. the owner of the new orleans saints when they won the super bowl last y...

He likes his name in pinstripe, i understand. hes not alone. >> reporter: sure, any filthy rich dictator can have his name monogrammed on sheets, towels, shirts but look closely at the suit of egypts former president, closer, closer -- this is no eye exam. hosni mubaraks pinstripes spell out his name over and over again. >> he strikes me as the type of man who is going to buy a suits with his name on it. >> reporter: you practically need a magnifying glass to see it. it is monogramming for m meg...