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They're anti-semitic. they stand for all the things that most americans disagree with. >> it appears that the president and his allies are trying to re-brand this attack on socialism. do you agree with that? >> well, actually, you know, that's what trump has been doing for many, many months now. and let me just respond to that, don, by saying that virtually every idea that i am fighting for, whether it's raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour, whether it's making public colleges and universities tuition-free or canceling student debt, whether it is guaranteeing health care to all people ...

Soviet system the party once stood unified against." wow, what did you mean by that? >> well, what i meant by that is under republican leadership, essentially the country is turning into many of the red baiting soviet fever dreams that republicans once held 30 years ago. things like we have purges, we have people standing in literal bread lines these days. we have televised cabinet flattery sessions. we have more advocacy for a centrally planned economy, industrial policy. that is what trump is doing when he has these bailouts of coal plants. so on so many things that we have historic -- we ha...

Peculiarly enamored of president vladimir putin. under republican leadership, the united states is starting to look an awful lot like a failed soviet system the party once stood unified against. wow. what did you mean by that? >> what i meant by that is under republican leadership, essential the country is turning into many of the red-baiting soviet fever dreams that republicans once held 30 years ago. things like we have purges. we have people standing in literal bread lines these days. we have televised cabinet flattery sessions. we have more advocacy for essentially planned economy, industr...

Starts, it's obvious this is where we're going to end up. >> where you want to be in this, just to be a total self-parody here. tis w historically you want to be the senate forfrom maine who in 1950 said that joe mccarthy was violating fundamental american principles. you don't want to be the guys in '54 who just caught up with the idea that maybe things weren't so great with red baiting and so one of the tragedies of the last era and i've used this line before but this is one of the few cases of when trump won the nomination of a hijacker boarding a plan and the passenger sided with the hijac...

The syrian crisis. and we're talking about susan rice. i mean, excuse me, let's focus on the things that really count. >> okay. >> and a foreign policy that, frankly, doesn't exist. we have -- we're at a mementos time. the president was right on one thing and that is that the world is a tremendous mess at the moment. >> we're going to move on and talk about what exactly is our foreign policy. john, i want to get you in before we do. what do you say to this? >> just at the moment, we're living in a world where the trump presidency is as if joe mccarthy had a reality show. what mccarthy did in t...