In Washington DC, homicides are down 32%, robberies are down 39%, armed carjackings are down 53%, assaults with a dangerous weapon are down 27%. In Washington, DC, the rates of burglaries and assaults with a dangerous weapon are at their lowest point in 30 years. Nevertheless, because he's so tough on crime, President Trump today deployed hundreds of National Guardsmen and women into Washington DC.send the US military to become the police force in Washington DC. The lead in the Washington Post tonight, quot ...

[Applause] So that's what violent crime in DC looks like. And Donald Trump sat in the White House watching that happen for hours and did nothing. Police officers were brutally beaten as America's tradition of a peaceful transfer of power was ended on that day, January 6.Trump supporters chanted to hang Trump's own vice president, Mike Pence. Yet today, in a very peaceful day in Washington that looked nothing like that, and amid a 30year crime low in the nation's capital, Donald Trump decided to claim that n ...

>> SALE AT SONIC SMOOTH COMM. >> I'M BACK WITH MILES TAYLOR, FORMER DHS CHIEF OF STAFF DURING TRUMP'S FIRST ADMINISTRATION, AND MSNBC LEGAL CORRESPONDENT LISA RUBIN. LISA, I JUST WANT TO KEEP GOING DOWN THIS ROAD BECAUSE BECAUSE IT SEEMS ABSTRACT TO PEOPLE.WHEN PEOPLE GET TARGETED BY THE GOVERNMENT OR THE PRESIDENT USED TO BE, IF A GUY LIKE MILES GOT INTO THAT KIND OF TROUBLE, THERE WOULD BE A LINEUP OF HIGH PROFILE LAW FIRMS THAT WOULD SAY, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THIS BECAUSE BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT TO ...

All right, take a look at this. I want to show you some recent recruitment ads from the Department of Homeland Security, specifically ICE. This is the landing page on the join ICE.gov website, featuring an image of Uncle Sam with the headline, "America needs you." It eerily reads underneath, quote, "America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need you to get them out." As ICE attempts to boost its recruitment numbers, it's hitting social media with an ad blitz. According to 404 Media, DHS is als ...

This is what oligarchy feels like. Not someday, right now. We know that a better world is possible.And we are willing to do something about it. >> If we stand together, we can defeat Trumpism. We can defeat authoritarianism. We can defeat oligarchy. We can create a new nation.Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Okaziocortez have drawn tens of thousands of people to their fighting oligarchy rallies across blue and red states. In fact, Senator Sanders is kicking off new rallies in West Virgini ...

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So after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent end of the Cold War, many experts predicted that democracy would flourish and spread and that Soviet authoritarianism was an aberration. Well, we've had 35 years now to run this natural experiment and to ask whether or not that was actually true. And we're now in a position where we can ask the question, is democracy spreading.And unfortunately the answer to this question is not really. Over the last several decades democracy has faced many many headwi ...

And joining us now is Princeton historian and professor Julian Zeazar. Um, thanks for being with us, Julian. It's good to see you.This is not the president's first attempt to control the source of information, right. Peter Baker of the New York Times points out that there are intel officials who were fired because the president didn't agree with them. He created his own tax plan cost estimate.He's pulled archive climate data off government websites. Steven reportedly pressured the Smithsonian recently to pu ...

Today, Fox News commentators reacted in stunned silence to a brutal July jobs report that was way below market expectations. Crucially, the report also revised the previous jobs data from the last two months, which is standard practice. This happens a lot.It's a hard thing to measure. That turned out to be the worst part of today's report, right. So, the revisions reduced job growth for May and June by a combined 258,000 jobs.Like, enormous revisions. Basically, what we have now is the worst 3 months of job ...

Joining me now is Lukan Ahmed Way, distinguished professor of democracy at the University of Toronto and the author of numerous books including Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism and Joyce Vance, former United States Attorney, co-host of the Sisters-in-law podcast and an MSNBC contributor. Welcome to you both. Luka, I think I'm we're getting a commission from University of Toronto.Uh this this show we had uh we had Jason Stanley on at at 10:00. You have studied how ...