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good morning. happy new year. welcome to a special new years day edition of "morning joe." were on tape this morning with some of our top, recent conversations. we begin with a discussion about donald trumps increasing use of authoritarian language in his speeches and social media posts. in recent months, trump has repeated fascist rhetoric, including saying immigrants are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country, and referring to his political enemies as vermin. >> we pledge to you ...

To support a liberal rule. and a lot of the stuff going on now -- like, look how many people were involved in january 6th are running for office. thats because -- >> right. >> -- you need extremists in government and in the party. and then you have these mini-trumps who have learned the lessons of trump and want to surpass him like desantis. so, all of these things are legible, are understandable through the, you know, making an authoritarian culture for the future. >> and based on all -- should...

So why have we changed from that, anger about his church with wright and acceptance of an american to this -- theyre all becoming donald trumps, mini trumps. >> my explanation for it is fear. my explanation is its not based on a study of genealogical history or -- its fear. and among a certain part of this population, this country, which you showed there on the charts, they think that president obama is on a mission to rob the american people of their freedom. >> thats why he killed bin laden. >...

All the trouble. why did we change from that to this -- theyre all becoming donald trumps, mini trumps. >> my ex lplanation for it is fear. its not based on a study of genealogical history. its fear. and among a certain part of this population, this country, which you showed there on the charts, they think that president obama is on a mission to rob the american people of their freedom. >> thats why he killed bin laden. >> yes. >> thats why hes almost destroyed now al qaeda, which you said he wo...

>> that -- you are saying is par for the course. a bunch of things are going on here. to olivias point, look, actually firing your chief of staff after humiliating legislative defeats i have ever seen, which was last nights senate vote. thats not unwarranted. you si that trump has a it group of mini-trumps. in comes scaramucci who just seems to take that past any possible imaging. >> i mean, he -- the reason that i think that he probably has a bright future in trump land, at least for the forese...

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