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Authoritarianism affects all in a globalized world and so we may need global rules like term limits to ensure accountability

Congressman deborah waltz abou what this is about leadershi on the hill. and attacks against th judicial system, nothing new for authoritarians around th world. i will talk to the author of strongmen about th similarities to what trump i doing right now. but first, my colleague richar lui is standing by with a look at other big stories we ar watching this hour at msnbc. richard? >> symone sanders-townsend very good evening to you again we are following that breaking story, very powerful storm mo...

>> i mean, its gonna play out in court for sure. and one o the things that fox seem t have lost is whether or no theyre gonna have to force th murdochs to actually testify so, i think this is gonna play right in the courtroom, this sort of, you know, lawsuit fro tuckers producer, what it i it going to demonstrate is not only that fox did all this bad stuff in terms of defaming dominion and helping sort of attacked the election, because they were boosting trump and worried about their audience bu...

They were boosting trump and worried about their audience but they went one step further and that they were actuall engaging in a sort o coordinated cover-up, using, you know, their own employees. so, i think that not only is her trial going to play ou kind of simultaneously, bu its going to end up playing right in the court, which is just a couple of weeks away. this whole thing is starting april 17th >> around the corner, angelo thank you. >> thank you >> next, strongmen author ruth ben-ghiat ...

In prison for similar reasons. italys former prime ministe was convicted for tax fraud. and in france, forme presidents have been convicted of embezzlement and influenc peddling, and the list goes on but here in the united states, it is a different story. as new york times as peter baker points out, for more tha two centuries, presidents have been held on a pedestal, eve ones swatch in scandal declared immune for prosecutio while an office, and effectively even afterwards. joining me now history...

Its from george soros. >> his master, george soros. >> george soros. >> mr. soros. >> alvin bragg in particular is the most magical d.a. you can ultimately get to. george soros funded him over $1 million. >> as the possibility of a trump indictment looms, the former president and many in the republican party continue to take aim at manhattan da, alvin bragg. their latest tactic involves trying to connect bragg to billionaire philanthropist, george soros. hes been portrayed as a so-called globali...

All: stand up, fight back. [chanting] hip hip, ho ho, donald trump has got to go. - its a question of citizenship, who has the right to be heard in our nation? - weve got an avalanche of lies, propaganda, and disinformation, which, by the way, is the standard operating procedure of tyrants and dictators and bullies and strongmen all over the earth. - democracy is not the default condition for the way that people live in this world, and it never has been. its very hard to do what were trying to d...

America in uncharted water what is donald trump doing i response to the mounting legal challenges he is facing? hes attacking the justice system and everyone in it wh is investigating him he is calling it a witch hun and claiming in a statement he released yesterday, that it all a political ploy, quote, this is happening becaus president trump is leading i the polls by a large margi against both democrats and republicans, and theres never been anything so blatant i american political history joi...

Silence from desantis. there is no desantis job policy, he hardly speaks about inflation. homelessness, the environment, nothing. even on crime, desantis must avoid specifics becaus specifics might undermine hi audience floyds are worse than new yor in california. that is something that the white house is probably well aware of, am i right >> salivating. chomping at the bit. i have a lot of analogie there. but thats how we got here he ran in effectiv communication strategy basically on twitter, ...

Political party becomes little more than a cult following one wannabe dictator obsessed with grievance and retribution. potentially on the verge of indictment. joining us now is martin gallons, down freighter at the atlantic and ruth ben-ghiat, history professor at york universities, author of strongmen. partly, start with you because you put meat on the bones of a story that we all know exists in pennsylvania, in arizona. these are regular people. the man you featured is a republican. thats his...