You will no longer be in danger. You're not going to be in danger any longer. You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today. You will be protected and i will be your protector. Trump's extremely weird pitch to win over women voters. The adjudicated rapist will be women's protector, just like he protected e. Jean carroll, the three wives he cheated on, and the random women he grabs because when you're a celebrity, they let you do it. Also tonight, the middle east is on the brink of a regional war with israel and hezbollah trading attacks. And the timing of this escalation is having an impact on the presidential race here at home. And we begin tonight with a stark historical parallel. The united nations as we know it now began to come together in the summer of 1945, with world war ii nearly over and europe in ruins in the wake of adolf hitler's sixyear blitzkrieg across the continent that killed tens of millions of people, including the 6 million jewish men, women, and children trapped in concentration camps and shot, gassed, and starved to death in a campaign so barbaric it came to be known simply as the holocaust. But the origins of the united nations began in the weeks after the attack on the u. S. Military base at pearl harbor, hawaii. By the empire of japan. It was after that that winston churchill visited the white house on the morning of january 1st, 1942. President roosevelt went to the room churchwill was staying in at the white house to say he wanted to change the name of the allied coalition from the associated powers to the united nations. As the world war ii museum notes, churchill approved of the change, and the name united nations stuck. Later that very same day, representatives of 26 countries signed the declaration of the united nations and 21 more countries formally joined the alliance prior to the end of the second world war. The u. N. Officially began in october 1945. And every american president since then has addressed its general assembly. Today, president biden, who has been in politics longer than almost anyone alive, addressed the gathering for the fourth and final time as america's head of state. I decided after 50 years of public service it's time for a new generation of leadership to take my nation forward. My fellow leaders, let us never forget, some things are more important than staying in power. For all his sincerity, everyone listening in that room knew that president biden is a lame duck. He will no longer be president as of noon on january 2025. So i would imagine many of those assembled ambassadors had to be wondering who will we be dealing with next year, and what world will we be navigating? will it be a kamala harris world, a world where she's vowing to defend our global alliances and to be the president of all americans? her campaign is out with a new ad today reaching out to republican farmers in pennsylvania. Or will it be the world of donald trump? who it's not clear knows the difference between the american state of georgia and the country georgia, given his recent comments at one of his increasingly insane rallies and whose later pronouncements have grown even more bizarre and unhinged, building a dystopian vision of america is is an unmitigated hellscape where you can't walk out of your home without being raped or murders by black and brown immigrants walking through town like the walking dead, raping, killing. Donald trump, particularly when surrounded by his maga flash mob, and even in friendly right wing media interviews, is officially sounding more and more like the man the united nations was created to respond to. Adolf hitler. With his recent comments that the jews will bear a lot of blame if he loses the election and now his comments about how he would conduct his mass deportations of immigrants. We're getting the criminals out and we're going to do that fast. We know who they are, the local police know their names and their serial numbers. They know everything about them. We're not a dumping ground. We're going to get all those people out and we're going to get them out fast. It's one disgusting thing to say in an interview, you plan to give immigrants serial numbers like in the old nazi concentration camps, but what makes it even more hitlerian is not just how he says it, but how his cult reacts. Do you think springfield will ever be the same? the fact is, and i'll say it now, you have to get them the hell out. You have to get them out. I'm sorry. Get them out. Can't have it. Can't have it. They have destroyed it. Your periodic reminder that trump and jd vance's claims about springfield originated from literal neonazis. It's al worth noting vance once called trump america's hitler. And as catherine rampell notes in the washington post, it is donald trump who seems intent on making the hitler comparison happen. Quote, in recent weeks the republican presidential nominee and his running mate senator jd vance have ramped up their baseless claims about violent invasions from unpure foreigners echoing blood and soil style rhetoric deployed nearly a century ago. He's doing it in the face of a reality in springfield, ohio, where he and vance have caused harm to the whole city at the behest of neonazis who are happily taking credit for the real power donald trump has given them. But here's the reality about trump's dystopian america. It doesn't exist. The fbi showed that violent crime was down 3% nationally last year. Murder was down nearly 12%, and rape decreased by 9%. Meanwhile, in actual middle america, this is what's actually happening in springfield. Just wanted to come down and support the haitian restaurant and the haitian people. We drove over here again to show our solidarity with the haitian community here. People aren't rampaging through the haitian community searching for their stolen pets. They're living their normal lives, and patronizing haitian restaurants to show love and solidarity. While donald trump and his beyond weird running mate try to set this country on fire. Just so that trump can avoid going to prison. Joining me now is former senator al franken of minnesota, host of the al franken podcast. Paolo ramos, author of defectors, the rise of the latino far right and what it means for america. And dana milbank, washington post columnist and author of fools on the hill, the hooligans, sab atours, conspiracy theorists and dunces who burned down the house. Both books were published today. I want to congratulate our authors here. I have my handy dandy copy of fools on the hill. I blurbed it so you know it's good. Let me come to you at the table first. This is a man, donald trump, who hosted at his home, his personal home, a nazi sympathizer who was among those who stormed the capitol, those are the people he said he wants to pardon. He's called good people. This man's name is timothy hale case anelly. Trump appeared on video at this event. That is the kind of people trump is now openly surrounding himself by, and now he's doing hitler talk openly on the campaign trail. You're right. And my colleague catherine rampell, what she said is right. He's not shying from these comparisons. He's inviting these comparisons. That was absolutely chilling, the litany that you just went through here. I think it's important to understand and why it should be particularly alarming to the world is donald trump is not happening in a vacuum. The autocrats are on the march. He just happens to be our aspiring autocrat here. Whether it's putin in russia or orban in hungary, modi in india, or netanyahu in israel. There is a real struggle emerging here. And it's also somewhat related to what i have been writing about with the fools on the hill, because it's not just trump. It's the entire congressional party. The internationalist wing of the republican party, the kind that was interested in the u. N. Experiment in the senate, it's on life support. In the house, it is absolutely dead. You're seeing it constantly in the disparaging of foreign aid, of nato, the inexcusable fivemonth delay of getting military aid to ukraine. Which benefitted vladimir putin, of course. You're seeing this over and over again. And i think that's the truly alarming thing, is that if there is a president trump, there's nobody, no internationalist part of the party to push back against it anymore. Senator franken, i think that is the challenge. It's the metastasis of this. It isn't just trump who is an oddball who thinks georgia he's not sure georgia the state and the country aren't the same thing. He's clearly a diminished person cognitively, but he's got a whole group of senators and members of congress around him that echo it as well, as the folks gather at the u. N. they have to understand that there's a 50/50 chance they'll be dealing with that cadre starting in january. Yeah, and it gives nightmares to europe. If trump comes in, by all rights, he'll exit nato. He'll abandon ukraine. I mean, you know, he's putin's dream. And that's why we're getting russian propaganda targeted very finely with ai, this race, and it's very, very scary. You know, and paolo, what's even scarier, and another excellent book, i am trying to read all these books at one time. I read a little bit. Yours is a beryllium tomeb. It gets into something that scares me a lot, which is this kind of open racism, this sort of almost kkk style rallying where people cheer, get them out, and you know, wave signs that say deport them all now, this is being picked up in some cases inside of the latino community. I want to just go here and let me play you what donald trump has said about venezuelans. Because they're one of his target groups. Let's listen to that. Aurora, colorado, you saw that, where venezuelan gangs are taking over real estate. They have become real estate developers. How nice. They're taking over real estate, and they have weapons that even our military hasn't seen. Who is giving them these weapons? aurora is a mess, the governor is a mess. The governor is a democrat, and he's a radical left democrat, and he's not too popular because they're going to take through a lot more than aurora. They're going to take over the whole state by the time they finish, unless i become president. They won't last long. Despite the fact the way he talks, despite the fact he talks that way, he started with mexicans, he's on to venezuelans, you write and the quest to fit into this country could be increasingly driving some latinos toward extreme nativism because there's nothing more nationalistic than making migrants a sworn enemy of the white people. Say more. It's alarming that we're staring at a presidential election where someone like donald trump, someone like who we just heard who refers to latinos and immigrants in such a grotesque way that he's polling anywhere close to 35% to 40% with latino voters. The same man that is promising to do mass, huge mass deportations, so i think what's important to understand is trumpism does have the ability to sort of tap into a racial and ethnic grievance that is familiar to some latinos. To a small but growing group of latinos. That is because if you look at the iteration of the latino voting bloc today, it's very different from what it was 20 years ago. We're talking about an iteration of the vote that is more americanized, that has assimilated, that is younger, that speaks mostly english. Within that reality, there's a small group of people that are very scared that white america, that trumpism, will always see them, see us, as these perpetual foreigners, and to bring it back to what you just played, that fear is grounded in the reality that hate crimes against latinos in this country are steadily rising, and you know when they really, really spike and peak? when mainstream media, and when someone like donald trump says things like there's a caravan happening, and there's an invasion happening. So that turns into a segment of latinos who not only sort of really like the sort of antiimmigrant rhetoric, but in their quest to prove that they belong in this country, it turns into latino maga supporters. And you know, senator franken, what's really frightening about this is trump is tapping into sort of an i. D. an ugly thing that has always been in the country in some respects, turning that against black immigrants, turning it against brown immigrants. He's tapping into something. Then there's the reality, where you have crime way down, where you have immigrants, 60% less likely to be incarcerated. 30% relative to u. S. Born whites. Where you actually have numbers and data and real experiences and regular people going into haitian restaurants in springfield and being kind. Like, it's so disconnected, the reality that he's created inside of his cult, including with some people of color and the real world. The real america. It's such a disgrace, what senator vance's part in this, which is he represents springfield. And the idea of starting to spread this about the haitians in springfield who are there, they're completely documented. They're completely there legally. And they lied about it and continue to lie and mislead people. And it's just a disgrace. And you know, i was a senator. This is not how this is not your job. Your job is the opposite. Yeah. And your job is the opposite in the house, too. And you write about this in your book. I'm going to read a few quotes. I spent half my day as speaker, the speaker of the house, and the other as a mental health counsellor, says mike johnson. We're a ship that doesn't have a rudder. We're a broken conference. This is the worst team i have ever been on. Mike kelly of pennsylvania. Clearly, there are people who are serious issues. Mike johnson has also raised doubts about whether he would certify the election if he has the gavel. The world is watching us and seeing this. It is truly astonishing. It's historic even. We use that word loosy. In this case, it is. You look at the numbers. This congress is on course to be the least productive since 1860, when the union was dissolving into civil war. You know, the constant the constant turmoil over there, whether it's the botched impeachment, whether it's the 22day shutdown of the house after they kicked out mccarthy to find a new speaker. They can't seem to ge