JOINING US, STAFF WRITER FOR THE nd TOULUSE, AND PRESIDENT OF WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER KIKAKA MATOS, MARK MCKINNON STILL WITH US AS WELL. I SAID GOODBYE TO YOU TOO SOON, MARK. ALL RIGHT, TOULUSE, TALK TO WALK ME THROUGH WHAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING ACROSS THE COUNTRY.JUST HEARD RAND PAUL SAY THAT THE REASON THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT ACCEPTING THIS OR PUSHING BACK AGAINST IT IS BECAUSE THE AGENCY HAS FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN TRUST WITH THE AMERICAN public. Sound in my reporting as well in ...

This week, an unprecedented raid unfolded in Georgia when the FBI carried out a search warrant Wednesday at an election center in Fulton County seeking 2020 in-person and absentee balance, tabulator tapes and voter rolls. And while agents loaded up boxes with these materials, photographs showed Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence. In other words, the United States top spy leader was on the scene speaking on the phone.Her unexplained presence and this escalation in the Trump administration's ...

Joining me now for an exclusive interview Abby Lull. He's one of the most prominent defense attorneys in DON LEMON IN HIS CASE AGAINST THE TRUMP JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. ABBY, WE JUST SHOWED DON THERE, OF COURSE.EVERYBODY HAS BEEN ABLE TO SEE HIM. This is terrifying, no matter who you are. How is Don doing.I think a lot of people at home are wondering that. I think people should be. I mean, no matter how solid you are and how much you've covered the news when others get this happening to them.When it happens to ...

over the Trump administration's statements over the fatal shooting of Alex Preddy in Minneapolis by ICE agents. Newly released affidavits from two witnesses as well as video from the scene appearing to contradict the administration's claim that officers fired in self-defense after Preddy brandished a handgun. Here's what law enforcement officials said on the Sunday talk shows today.I think it's deeply concerning the things that are being said. This is an individual that was a city resident. It appears that ...

Nadia Toolkonova was sentenced to prison in Russia when she was only 22 years old. She is a founding member of a punk band whose name you have heard me say uncomfortably several times now on this show. Uh Nadia Toakonova is a founding member of the group Riot uh for staging a musical anti-Putin protest at an Orthodox cathedral in Mosc Moscow.Nadia and two of her bandmates uh were charged in 2012 with hooliganism. It look like hooligans to you. They were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison.Miss To ...

We've apparently entered the lame duck news cycle. It's an old playbook reflexively referring to a president's second and presumably last term and writing about it as the so-called lame duck period. Headline after headline now frame Donald Trump as a lame duck.A term meant to convey a president not seeking reelection who will remove themselves from power after the next election with diminished authority and waning influence over the government, its institutions, and their own party. A president acting like ...

As thousands of protesters took to Donald Trump's backyard yesterday, calling for his impeachment, Trump was already reeling from a week where his legal losses were mounting on numerous fronts, both presidential and personal. An appeals court rejected Trump's efforts to revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN. A federal judge ruled Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Washington DC was illegal.And another federal judge ruled that Trump likely violated the law when he tried to cut millions of dol ...

The heavy-handed response by Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum to dissent will bolster the opposition’s charges of authoritarianism, says @JPSpinetto (via @opinion) https://t.co/PrToCZ6R3r ...

Um the thing about authoritarianism, Alacia, is it cannot exist in that petri dish um when people have agency, >> right. So, and it cannot exist and people don't have agency when they're isolated. So, all of the things that are bull works against what are some really sizable steps toward authoritarianism that Trump has made that we've all covered here, um were delivered a decisive blow.It's it's this engagement that you and Jacob both covered yesterday um out um in places where people were voting and they t ...

The New York Times editorial board is out with an expansive interactive piece this morning asking this question. Are we losing our democracy. In it, the editorial board lays out 12 benchmarks of what it calls democratic erosion from the stifling of disscent to the persecution of political opponents.The editorial board argues that the United States has regressed on all 12. The piece concludes this way. The United States is not an autocracy today.It still has a mostly free press and independent judiciary and ...