,. good to go, all right. hello, new york. thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very special edition of why is this happening? he is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. admit it, he s taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbc s chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. hello! thank you. oh, stop. [applause] stop it! [applause] how are you? good? thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down, sit down. thank you, that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. really, really hard 20 seconds for me. thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, i ve got some family here. tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. in that word, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. even that as a topic seems weird, we know a
Below new york, thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for this very special addition of why is this happening . He is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart, and admit it, he is taller than you expected. Please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, msnbcs chris hayes. Hey, everybody, hello. [applause] thank you, hey, oh, stop. Stop. [applause] how are you . Good. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Thank you, thats extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. That was a really hard 20 seconds for me. Thank you for cutting it short. Its amazing to be here, in my hometown of new york city. I got some family here. Tonight, we are going to talk about democracy, and that word, i think we have probably talked more about democracy than the last four or five years that i had in all of my time as a journalist. Even as a topic seems a longer. We all know, america is a democracy, and there is a history that
january 6th select committee hearings, judge luttig called out donald trump and his cronies as a clear and present danger to american democracy. you will recall that when the disgraced twice impeached four times indicted ex-president was pressuring mike pence to help him overturn the 2020 election results, pence in his moment of legal need called judge luttig for advice and in no uncertain terms he told mike pence that legally and constitutionally he could not help trump do what he wanted to do. now judge luttig is sounding the alarm again, about another constitutional question. does trump s role in the insurrection, not just make him a really, really bad choice to be the commander in chief, but does it actually bar him from ever holding office again? judge luttig argues that under the 14th amendment trump is actually prohibited from ever being the president again. judge luttig s legal theory is being adjudicated in multiple courts in multiple states right now. judge luttig h
democrats colluded with the fbi, cia, and big tech to censor us and hijack elections. the two journalists who broke the story testified in front of congress today. twitter, facebook, google and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government from the fbi, the dhs, even the cia is making lists of people whose opinions, beliefs, associations or sympathies are deemed misinformation, disinformation, or mall information. as someone who grew up a traditional aclu liberal, this mechanism for punishment and deprivation without due process is horrifying. the censorship industrial complex combines established methods of psychological manipulation some developed by the u.s. military during the global war on terror with highly sophisticated stools science artificial intelligence. federal government officials, agencies and contractors have gone from fighting isis recruiters and russian bots to censoring and deplatforming ordi
coronavirus overtaking wuhan, china. what do we do? oh, you know who we could ask? the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease [laughter] is the same name as the lab are. [laughter] that s just, that s just a little too weird, don t you think? howard: here s i stewart on his apple f the show reflecting on the backlash. i thought it was a pretty good can bit that expressed kind of how i felt. and the two things that came out of it were i m racist against asian people and how dare i align myselfs with the alt-right. howard: unreal. i bring this up, of course, because parts of the biden administration now believe the kid thely virus did originate from that wuhan lap lab. we don t know for sure, but the media and social media played a key role in stifling any debate. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, brian kilmeade on his interview with ron desantis and the house investigating george santos. one politician who got beat up pretty badly