All right, how we doing out there. It is time for the main event to cap off our evening. It's prime time and we're going to talk about the state of our democracy.Please welcome to the stage two of the most trusted voices in America, MSNBC legends, the great Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel M. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] What's going on here. >> Wow. Wow.I'm Lawrence. >> Hi. >> Hi, you guys.>> Y'all are good looking. This is exciting. >> We never get to see you.I mean, we can see you throug ...

President Trump's second term is drawing alarm from protests to experts over this drift away from democracy and towards an autocratic slide that can be understood sometimes not so much by looking to our own history but those of other countries from Turkey to Hungary where systems that once used elections and law as a baseline began to bend to autocrats where scenes of troops abroad resonate differently now for many in America as Trump repeatedly deploys soldiers inside our country to US cities that he views ...

Trump is shredding our Constitution. Is it okay for mass federal agents to arrest people off the street because of their skin color or their accent. No way.Not in a free America. Okay. For the government to cancel research grants to compel universities as to what they can teach.No way. Not in a free America. Okay.To use power over broadcast licenses or power over mergers to compel television networks as to what they can put on the air. Not in a free America. Okay.To weaponize the Department of Justice to go ...

RT Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (@RFERL)On October 23, 1956, Hungary rose up against communist rule. It was the first armed revolution in the Eastern Bloc. The uprising was crushed and the return to democracy that had been fought for was delayed until its anniversary in 1989, when the Hungarian Republic was declared. https://t.co/i56hWq50Pf ...

Senator Chris Murphy is a Democrat from Connecticut. He spoke to the crowd at the DC No Kings rally on Saturday and he joins me now. Um, Senator, first I I just got to get your reaction to the reporting from the Times today and we got the the president responding to it a little bit about he's going to have his Justice Department settle $230 million with himself.>> Yeah. I mean, this is obviously abs Yeah. uh you know, listen, what he's doing is sort of changing the Overton window uh every single day in term ...

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley holds floor to “protest Trump’s threats to Democracy." For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day click here: https://www.msnbc.com/ » Subscribe to MSNBC: https://www.youtube.com/msnbc » Subscribe to MSNBC on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@msnbc » Subscribe to MSNBC on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/msnbc Download our new MSNBC app for the latest breaking news and daily headlines at a glance: https://www.msnbc.com/information/download-msn ...

Welcome back. The Trump administration crossing a major hurdle in their immigration crackdown on Democratic le cities. A federal appeals court ruling yesterday to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon, saying that the president likely, in their words, lawfully exercised his statutory authority in making that order.Oregon plans to appeal the decision. But this fight isn't just playing out in Oregon. A group of Tennessee officials has just filed a lawsuit over the deployment of Nat ...

7 million. That's how many Americans took to the streets on Saturday at nearly 3,000 events nationwide marching under one banner. No kings. >> This is the most American thing that you can do. Um, protest and speak for what you believe in. >> The people who come out here and fight and who want to resist, that's those are the people who make change. Those are the people who make history. >> I wore the uniform since I was 18 years old. I never thought I would see this. >> We live by the Constitution and that w ...

Australia has portrayed itself as South-East Asia’s steadiest friend among democratic powers. This has won it greater trust than America enjoys among the region’s authoritarian regimes https://t.co/hcKcNouoTx ...

Millions of Americans marched at No Kings rallies all across this nation this weekend. Organizers now say about 7 million people showed up. That's about two million more than the No Kings events back in June.These protests against authoritarianism reached about 2600 communities from coast to coast and around the world, even in deep red states. Check out this crowd in Arco, Idaho, a town with less than 900 residents. Protesters lined Main Street in a state Trump won by 36 points.In Texas, thousands marched, ...