We begin with a study in contrast. Here are presidents George W. Bush and President Barack Obama when confronted by public opposition to their policies. >> Democracy is a beautiful thing and that people are allowed to express their opinion. I welcome people's uh right to say what they believe. >> I've listened to you. I heard you. I heard you. I heard you. All right. Now, I've been respectful. I let you college. All right. So, so let me just let me No, nobody's removing you. I've heard you. But you've got t ...

As America faces this Trump administration, the crackdowns on the First Amendment, the questions over the use of troops, as promised, I want to play something that our colleague Rachel Matto, who's been working on these issues, said about what it boils down to, what we see in MAGA's motives. What we've got right now, what the movement is right now that Americans on the other side are up against is a movement that is deathly afraid of the fact that there are no longer there is no longer going to be a white m ...

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. But tyranny also fails when ordinary people refuse to cooperate.When they say no kings, and they mean it. >> Millions of Americans are coming out today not because they hate America. We're here because we love America. People were out on a Saturday because they love America, because they they love this country.They love the Constitution. They have a different view of America than say uh maybe some people who are ...

Organizers say more than 7 million people gathered at nearly 3,000 events across the country over the weekend for the so-called no kings rallies in a largely peaceful show of force against the Trump administration's policies. That is 2 million more people than the first No Kings Day back in June. Protesters flooded streets, squares, and parks in both big cities and small towns, chanting no kings in America, and carrying signs with slogans like democracy, not monarchy, and make America good again.In Boston, ...

Organizers say with more than 7 million people gathered at nearly 3,000 events across the country over the weekend for the so-called No Kings rallies in a largely peaceful show of force against the Trump administration's policies. That is 2 million more people than the first No Kings Day back in June. Protesters flooded the streets, squares, and parks in both big cities and small towns, chanting, "No kings in America, and carrying signs with slogans like democracy, not monarchy," and "Make America good agai ...

Organizers say more than 7 million people gathered at nearly 3,000 events across the country over the weekend for no kings rallies in a largely peaceful show of force against the Trump administration's policies. That's 2 million more people than the first No Kings Day back in June. Protesters flooded streets, squares, and parks in both big cities and small towns, chanting, "No kings in America and carrying signs with slogans like democracy not monarchy and make America good again. " In Boston, organizers sa ...

RT C-Reason🇺🇸 (@CreasonJana)I am sick and tired of being called or considered a ‘democracy’!This just tells you how ignorant and truly uneducated the media and many politicians are.We are a Constitutional Republic. That is how our founding fathers made this country! https://t.co/ZlUbqVhBLJ ...

Joining us now, journalist and author Pao Ramos. She is contributor for MSNBC and Noticia Telmundo. Also joining us is independent reporter and former Washington Post columnist my former colleague Philip Bump. Thanks so much for joining us this morning, guys. It appears that the apocalypse that Republicans were predicting happen >> did not happen. Um but Paula, what what did you see yesterday on the streets? >> So I was coming back from the Rio Grand Valley. So, I spent um the last week in in the valley and ...

Joining me now is Eddie Glaude, distinguished professor of African-American studies at Princeton University. He's the author of several books including Begin Again, James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own and we are the leaders we have been looking for. Uh, Professor Glaude, good to see you. Uh, I thought of you when I when I wanted to discuss this because it it so deeply troubled me that we were talking about protest and disscent, which is so core to this country, as hate. You know, Ally ...

Taylor, a national security expert who served as chief of staff for the US Department of Homeland Security for the Trump administration. In 2018, Taylor published an anonymous essay in the New York Times blowing the whistle on Donald Trump's presidential conduct. He revealed his identity two years later.He's the author of Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the next Trump. Since then, Donald Trump has publicly accused Taylor of treason. I'm also here with a friend of the show, Jennifer Rubin, co-foun ...