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Consequence of islam. the arabs were motivated in part to conquer new lands and people but also to spread their religion. >> oliver: islam was introduced in the 7th century. for years after, afghanistan was a fractured land, ruled by religious strongmen and chiefs. by the 1830s it was the target of foreigners. the struggle became known as the great game. >> it was just a contest for central asia and for india and it was basically waged between russia and great britain. >> oliver: india the crown...

Was a fractured land, ruled by religious strongmen and chiefs. by the 1830s it was the target of foreigners. the struggle became known as the great game. >> it was just a contest for central asia and for india and it was basically waged between russia and great britain. >> oliver: india the crown jewel of the british empire was crucial to londons global power but russia was making a grab for land in central asia. >> the british empire and russian empire separated only by this rugged strange terr...

Steve, thank you very much. steve moore on the pun money for us today. talk to you soon. jon: right now with moammar ghadafi clinging to power in tripoli, tens of millions of his dollars remain frozen. other dictators who with spend a lot of their countrys loot right here in america. author and film maker robert young pelton has spent years uncovering some of the dirty deeds and secrets of a rogue gallery of strongmen and a lot of those guys like their american real estate, dont they, robert? is...

Look at the inside pictures. unbelievable! bill: also, the unrest in egypt could have a ripple effect in the arab world. each of the arab nations, by the way, significant in the fact they have differences internally. lebanon is once again grappling with political instability and greg burke streams live out of beirut with the story, greg. >> reporter: thats right, lebanon recently moved with a little more power to hezbollah, and, the u.s. could be finding out they have fewer friends in the region...

Has no taste for expanding beyond his base. and his numbers are in the low 40s. republicans have to run in a ditch political atmosphere in november, in the midterm elections. and when he feels put-upon, rather than trying to find a way to appeal to the people who arent necessarily turned totally off to him but arent with him, he goes way back into his own base. >> is it fair to ask, does he not have a taste for democracy? i ask that not just with this and his affinity for strongmen, affinity tow...

Home of realignment where donald trump wants to realign the american center as being erdogan, xi of china putin. >> the strongmen. >> victor orban of hungry and this new leader of italy on one side and putin and traditional u.s. allies, france, germany, england on the other side. what are the global consequences? >> i remember when he met with kim jong-un wasnt of the first things he said is that when he speaks to his people kim jong-un think listen and i want the same thing. so he wants the sam...

>> the new propaganda push to save scott pru night scott pru sit standing strong in his job. >> plus, new evidence of a russian attempt to hack state voter systems. and rebecca traister on the glaring difference between samantha bee and roseanne barr. >> americans are finally paying attention. >> when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes was two big foreign policy moves just today, the president is turning away from the western democracies that have for decades...

Safe scott pruitt. >> scott pruitt is standing strong in his job. >> plus, new evidence of a russian attempt to hack state voter systems. and rebecca trayce traister on the # glaring difference between samantha bee and roseanne barr. >> americans are finally paying attention. >> when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes with two big foreign policy moves just today, the president is turning away from the western democracies that have for decades been americas ...

Praising a leader who jailed political opponents and who just raised term limits. >> china is great and xi is a great president. hes now president for life. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] president for life. no, hes great. and he was able to do that, i think its great. maybe well have to give that a shot some day. hes the most powerful president in a hundred years, you know, person in a hundred years in china. >> so, these were light-hearted comments, made in jest, but is this something to...

President trump nearing the end of his trip through asia. he says its going great. but there is some anxiety and certainly frustration about how he has embraced pair of international strongmen, russian president putin and filipino president tuterte. we have a team to break it all down. starting with nbcs chris jansing traveling with the president in the philippines. chris, so much has happened over the last few days. get us up to speed with whats going on there. >> well, lets start here in the p...