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associated services. including a sub network for spanish speakers. the suicide prevention -- more than double within the first year, first full year of the 988 hotline. coming up on this hour of a man, how conservative news media and elected republicans failed a ten year old rape victim. plus, the breaking news out of texas, we have new details on a preliminary report into the failures of law enforcement in the uvalde school massacre. >> and all eyes on georgia, new reporting shows that trump and his cronies are in deep trouble for their efforts to overturn the states election results. i'm ayman mohyeldin, let's get started. >> all right, so we were warned, pro abortion activists warned us that some consequences
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overturning roe v. wade, would be so severe that we couldn't even imagine them. and then came the news that a ten year old rape victim had traveled from ohio to indiana, in order to obtain an abortion. here's what president biden said when he heard that story first reported. >> ten years old, ten years old. raped, six weeks president. was forced to travel to another state. imagine being that little girl. imagine being a little girl, ten years old. >> we couldn't have imagined stories like that, but sadly, we could imagine the republicans responses suffolk that. republican governor kristi noem called it fake news. the wall street journal editorial board said it was it was a fanciful tale. others accuse president biden of lying. >> why did the biden administration, speaking of lying, repeat a story about a
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tied-year-old child who got pregnant, and they got an abortion -- or was not allowed to get an abortion, when it turns out the story was not true. >> the ided have politicians in america trying to exploit a story like this, and make up a story like this in order to advance their own sikh agenda. >> ohio's own attorney general, also republican, said he heard nothing about the case. >> have you had anybody come to you in your state to say, we are looking into this, police report was filed? >> not a whisper. >> and when the rapist was arrested, and confessed to the crime. republicans there barely change their tune. a tepid editors note about what that was. it really raised questions. congressman jim jordan, who cast doubt on the young girl story on twitter, simply deleted his tweet, no apology, no correction.
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still, republicans aren't outraged about with this young girl endured. they are just outraged about the abortion. this week, republican attorney general of indiana said he luncheon investigation into the doctor who provided abortion care into that ten year olds. republicans failed this little girl. they lied about her, and her horrific ordeal. because it made their cruelty look even worse. now they're trying to attack the women who helped her. let me say this very clearly. stories like this are real, and we are going to hear about more ten-year-olds in the future, we are going to hear about more women who have died because either they or their medical providers feared that they would be treated for a miscarriage. we know what republicans will do. they will deny, and deny, and deny the attack. so, it is up to all of us. all of you watching, and we in
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the news media to push back on the republican lies, and hold them to account. because ten year old little girls don't deserve this. no windows. joining us now is janet griswold, the colorado secretary of state and the chair of the democratic association of secretaries of state. thank you so much for joining us, secretary griswold. first, of your reaction to the concert of reactions to this ten year old story story. >> first, of thanks for having me on. i am just horrified for what this little girl has had to experience. i can't even imagine being that young, i'm going through such trauma and not being able to get the care you need right in your state. and being forced to have to travel to another state, because these politicians are such extremists, they make you jump through so many more hoops. it's noteworthy that she had to travel to indiana, she got the cash needed, but indiana is about to restrict abortion
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access even further. just a couple of weeks but might've melvin possible. any person who is victims for rape, has the right to get abortion care, and any little girl who is pregnant has been raped. and needs to get the health care response that is needed for human dignity. >> do you think we, secretary, are as a society, prepared for these stories of ten-year-olds that will eventually come out more and more as these bands take more and more effect? >> well, the supreme court's decision, and the extreme laws being pushed by the minority on some majority of us, have real consequences. i do think we will hear more and more of these stories, and at this point it's so egregious that women are second-class citizens in this country. we've been stripped of our fundamental freedoms, but here in colorado we believe in freedoms. we believe that women and all people should be able to choose
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when to have a family, who to have a family, with how many children have. that's why i am so proud to have joined governor pull is an underlying that colorado will not extradite any person for the criminalization of abortion in other states. we will continue to fight for our freedoms here in colorado, and just hope that this country across the nation respects women and all people. >> secretary, let me change gears for a moment if i can. states like arkansas in texas are considering legislation that would make it a crime for women to travel to other states for abortion care. in response, you said that your office will not extradite anyone for a criminal violation of another states laws. tell me about your plans, and why they are so important. >> well, i think, when we are seeing the fundamental freedoms of any american been rolled back, we all have a duty to act. in the story of this ten-year-old little girl is a snapshot, what's going to happen to women across this
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country. women will die because they will have access to -- not have the necessary access to reproductive health care and abortion care. that is why i joined governor polish and making sure that colorado underlines its commitment to women. women should be able to choose the future of their lives. who to have a family with, and really control their economic futures also. i do think we are an unprecedented legal territory, and we will see how this continues to evolve. as long as i am secretary of state and i have the authority, i'll do everything i can within my power to protect our freedoms. >> are you prepared for possible legal ramifications if, for example, another state tries to force an extradition request. are those common between states? >> as long as i'm secretary of state, i will do everything that i can to protect women, to
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protect children, and to protect all of our fundamental freedoms. absolutely, whether it's legal challenge or elsewise. sometimes, leadership is hard. but, we are in new uncharted territory, and everybody needs to leading. as secretary of state, i spend most of my time worrying about voting rights. i want to underline, were seen extremist legislators and extremist governors put a minority view on americans, stripping us of our fundamental freedoms. they're the same people who are restricting access to the polls, taking away americans freedoms to choose, levelheaded people to represent us in government. so make no mistake, the attack on voting rights. the attack on abortion care, we will soon be seeing attacks on privacy, on marriage equality. very possible. so americans of good conscience need to be really paying attention and protect our freedoms, and that definitely includes the right to vote in
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2022. >> all right, janet griswold, secretary of state for the state of colorado. thank you so much for a time, i really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> up next, there is some breaking news on the uvalde mass shooting. we will tell you about that. but first, -- richard louis is here with the headlines. >> hayman, some of the stories we're following for you this hour. at least four others are injured, after a gunman opened fire in a mall inside outside of indiana on sunday it happened outside of greenwood park mall in an indianapolis suburb. officials said the suspect had arrived from several magazines of ammo with them. he was shot and killed by a bystander who witnessed that attack. for first responders died after a police helicopter crash in new mexico yesterday. the county sheriff's office said that one of his choppers was helping crews with wild fire when it went down. the cause of that crash was not known. and tuesday's mega millions jackpot is expected to be over
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community investigating the uvalde school massacre, has issued a scathing preliminary report, revealing that it wasn't just local police who suffered from egregious pour decision-making. in fact, almost everyone involved who is in a position of power failed to do their jobs, according to this report. earlier this week, surveillance video from inside the school were published by two texas-based news outlets. it's often said by republicans that a good guy with a gun, can stop a bad guy with the gun. but almost 400 law enforcement officers were on the scene in uvalde, and still nothing was done to stop him for more than
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an hour. meanwhile, in buffalo, -- with a federal grand jury returned a 27 count indictment -- against 18 year old white man accused of killings in on eight crimes in firearms foreigners. two months after that shooting took place, the supermarket finally reopened to its customers. let's bring in our sunday night panel to talk about this in more detail. hayes brown is a editor for the -- daily. we and christina greer is an associate professor of political science at fordham university, and politics editor for the -- and black. ethnics hayes, let's start with, you this texas house committees preliminary report really shows that, almost 400 law enforcement officers descended on the schools, which the texas tribune pointed out is a force larger than the garrison that defended the alamo.
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the group was devoid of clear leadership, basic communications, and sufficient urgency to take down the gunman. your reaction to this development today? >> yes, i looked through some of the main bullet points from this reporting. scathing is definitely the right term for it. i will caveat very quickly, to remind people that this was a republican-led committee investigation, in the texas house. some of the ideas within the report reflect that, and there's a large, focus for, example on the fact that the school, the doors were sometimes propped open, and a lot of focus on hardening in protecting the schools, as a way to prevent school shootings like this. we i will note that a lot of filler had to happen on multiple levels, including the police chief of the school district, his police work. it's a wild thing to actually say, but the school district had a police force of about six officers, and he did not turn over control, once it was clear that he cannot call the shots.
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so there is just a state of confusion, as all these officers gathered and are unable to move forward. especially at this plenary report notes. which -- helps explain why we have these videos of so many officers standing around because there is a completely different idea of use of force, you're trying to get someone locked into a room versus trying to stop an active shooter. >> molly, the radical nra likes to argue that a good guy with a gun can stop mass shootings. in this case you literally had hundreds of good guys with a gun and they weren't able to stop the uvalde shooting before he killed 19 children in buffalo. you had an armed security guard who tried to stop that city shooter. does the uvalde video finally expose that myth as a lie? >> i mean 376 quote good guys with guns, couldn't stop one
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person with a gun. so i think that's pretty fair. that was always the big lie, right? if you could just get more guns and more guns they way to solve the gun problem. i think it's pretty clear when we're living in this time of just carnage. mass shooting after mass shooting. >> other countries, normal countries just don't have this level of death and they don't have this level of suffering because they don't have the amount of guns we do. and until we get our gun problem under control, we are just gonna live like this. and it's just incredibly grim, and schools, grocery stores, nowhere is really safe. movie theaters. we just are living in a sort of low-key kind of war zone and is really scary. yes, and the radical nra's logic is that of 376 people can do with guns, they want to now
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arm the teachers because they think they will be able to start an active shooter. christina, after the supreme court struck down the state gun restrictions, a number of blue states are going back to the drawing board to try to pass new restrictions. one of them is here in new york, which will require those carrying concealed carry permits to hand over listeners their social media accounts to get a review of their character in conduct. what do you make of the strategy? is it likely to uphold in court? >> i don't think it will, ayman, i'm not a legal scholar, and quickly back to your point. army teachers, my students know that i struggled power points, there's absolutely some things that teachers don't need to be wary about, and carrying firearms first and foremost. to your question if this will hold up in court, largely because other countries, japan for example had very strict gun laws. where you have to sort to be interviewed, and your community members have to play to your
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character, and given evaluation. they do a review who you are and what you're interested in how you've been. i think this teeters on some first amendment rights, but i think more conservative lawyers were arguing i'm not sure how this will hold up this make become more of a states rights conversation, where more cities and states try to get more gun laws under control. in new york, obviously, civilians cannot carry guns. you have to have a special permit, we're seeing certain legal cases trying to challenge at. which means that for 9 million new yorkers, very concerned that we will end up in a city like chicago, where people can have an open carry situation, or like many city in the state, in the south where that happens. >> hayes, do you think these blue state efforts could survive potential legal challenges? this same supreme court, this supermajority the throw that concealed carry law in new york, could potentially be facing other attempts to restrict gun
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laws. >> yeah, like christine pointed out, the first amendment issues, i feel concern for these efforts. i need to say that not just thinking about how conservative lawyers will make their case, i'm thinking about how -- the idea that you have to turn over social media accounts to the government before you can take action it's kind of a slippery slope. that makes me a little hesitant to fully back this idea. i feel like the idea that you can check someone social media, and check for red flags. i would say that -- this person holds clearly extreme, views and should exclude them from carrying a firearm. i think that makes sense, but a plane that logic to other facets of life, though, i think it's where you would start to get into trouble, in terms of the first amendment especially. i think that you will see challenges to, it i'm not sure they will all come from the right, is my point at this point.
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>> it's a sign of the desperation, states are trying to find any way they can, to protect people from having the courage of gun violence. panel, stay with, me after the break i will speak with congressman raja krishnamoorthi, we will change tack and talk about american efforts to help ukraine. we will come back and discussed a lot more. we will come back and discusse we will come back and discusse a lo ooh! don't worry. skip the hassels and sell directly to opendoor. bingo! when life's doors open, we'll handle the house. if you have type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure you're a target for chronic kidney disease. you can already have it and not know it. if you have chronic kidney disease your kidney health could depend on what you do today. farxiga is a pill that works in the kidneys to help slow the progression of chronic kidney disease. farxiga can cause serious side effects including dehydration,
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for all your athletic pursuits. you might not hear about the most often but russia's offenses in the ukraine are continuing to occur all the time. this week -- far from the front lines of the war, we -- laser dimitri, the four-year-old ukrainian girl with down syndrome was killed in that attack. her mother irena was greatly wounded. this is russian forces as bragging about destroying weapons in a series of missile strikes, the same strikes that killed liza. joining me now is congressman
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-- we just returned from a congressional delegations and parts of europe with members of the house intel committee. congressman, great to have you back on this show. first off, i'd like to get your reaction to this horrific story that we are just reporting on. >> it was yet another outrageous vicious and savage attack. it's a war crime. i think at this harden's results and support of ukrainians. i also believe it makes it less likely that the ukrainians are going to cave to putin. at the end of the day i think the morale remains very high. and these atrocities, the viciousness of a putin-led invasion only caused them to fight harder. >> but did you experience during the congressional delegations to part of europe? what if anything to date change and your perspective about this war?
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>> i think i had three observations and one is that morale is extremely high among our troops and our allies and the ukrainians, and there's a recognition that the ukrainians are fighting a war so that we don't have to, and they're fighting for democracy so the stakes can be higher. i think the second thing i take away is that the way in which the ukrainians fight is superior and the way in which the russians fight. the ukrainians haven't essentialized, do whatever it takes to win approach, whereas the kind of top-down command and control way in which the russians fight has largely been ineffective. and the third point is ukrainians are really doing an excellent job of deploying a highly sophisticated weapons systems, such as the high marks, a high mobility artillery rocket systems to inflict deep losses far behind enemy lines, especially on ammunition dumps, command outposts and radars.
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>> from an intelligence perspective, and i should note you traveled with other members of the house intelligence committee. from an intelligence perspective, did you learn anything that leads you to believe the end is near, or that we may be in a different phase of this conflict and we weren't months ago? >> i think it's a different phase. i think it's more of a war of attrition at this point. although the ukrainians have a lot of advantages, one of the advantages the russians have it's a lot of artillery, and they are out gunning the ukrainians. that being said, there are two things that i think helped the ukrainians. one is they are receiving these increasingly more sophisticated shipments and weaponry that they're deploying rapidly, and the second thing is that the russians are starting to run out of people to throw into the combat. now, most recruit from prisons,
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they're paying mercenaries. the president of russia, putin, does not want to call a general conscript of russian citizens again, because he sees that potentially it's causing popular uproar. longer this lasts, i think it does hurt the russians. we have to stand firm with the ukrainians. >> what do you think of vladimir putin now making this rare trip abroad the middle east to -- ties with iran in turkey, which is a nato member. your thoughts on that? >> i think there are two things. one, he is increasingly having to rely on other countries for drones and other equipment because of the sanctions that we put in place that prevent him from kind of -- the army with high precision
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armaments and weaponry. the semiconductors that the world community has denied the russians makes it very hard for them to create those types of weapons that they need for the battle, so they go to iran and other places. the second thing is we absolutely have to put pressure on iran with our multilateral partners to make sure that they don't ship these drums and other types of weapons to the russians, and the third and final point is it's all the more reason why we have to step up our shipment of weaponry to the ukrainians, and that might mean more sophisticated trans, but it also might mean other types of armaments that we have withheld up to this point. >> i'm sure you probably see this fox news host, tucker carlson, a longtime putin apologist. he set up a conference this week that he really doesn't care wet putin does in ukraine. you gotta wonder that's gotta resonate with millions of americans who watch the show,
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but i wanted to give you a chance to respond to that to make the case of why we should all care about what happens there. >> my constituents care about what happens in ukraine. i think the vast majority of americans care. i personally believe that the vast majority of americans believe that the ukrainian people are fighting for democracy all over the world, not just in ukraine, and that we will state by the ukrainians through thick and thin, and we will not cave to putin. >> congressman raja krishnamoorthi, thank you so much for your time. it's a pleasure to have you back on the show. thank you for making time for us tonight. >> thank you. >> coming up, republicans who try to overturn the 2020 election in georgia might soon be indicted by a local prosecutor. by a local prosutecor prosutecor
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getting big headlines, but don't lose sight of the investigation into efforts to overturn georgia's election results. the major waves are about to being made in that investigation. ap reports fulton county district attorney has sent letters to prominent georgia republicans. warning that they are at risk of being indicted for their alleged roles in submitting an alternate slate of electors, who claim that trump won the state of georgia. cnn reports one of the republicans who received a warning later is georgia
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republican party, david schaffer. let's bring back our sunday night panel. your reaction to the so-called target letters being sent out? big development? >> i think so. i think it also makes a lot of sense considering the fact that these target letters, i think show the investigators in fulton county are looking into the potential unlucky that the people who were on board with the fake elector scheme, this plan to have a slate of electors presented to congress to allow vice president pence to be able to say these electoral votes for joe biden shouldn't count, because there are alternates that had to be considered. the states should decide which one is legitimate. that whole -- it's the people behind it if they knew -- we knew it was illegal. they knew it was part of a broader plot. they knew that in trying to put this sleep together, they were violating the georgia state law. that is extremely important. the fact that they believe that they've gathered enough evidence should be able to make that case, says a lot about how far this investigation has
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come. >> christina, your thoughts on the district attorney fani willis -- exhilarating her investigation, when we've yet to see this action from the doj at the federal level. it's completely different jurisdictions, but the way she is the at least signaling that the investigation is intensifying, lets people know and assures people that at least in fulton county, the wheels of justice for now are spinning. >> right. she must. i think we're going to see progress and it's going to be on a county by county and state by state level. it isn't imperative that she bringing these questions to the fore and prosecuting who knowingly tried to break the law. in 2022, a november elections or right around the corner and in november 2024, the elections are right around the corner. we've already seen republican candidates projecting that their elections have been stolen. we have even even voted yet. in many of these races for the midterm elections, and states
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across the country. so hopefully this is a shot across the balance so that other states can either take action or hopefully prevent other people who were trying to break the law, knowingly break the law, hopefully will prevent them in some slight fashion. cooler heads or wiser heads will prevail at some point. >> molly, she's considering requesting donald trump to testify under oath to a grand jury. do you think she will succeed on that front? >> good for her, man. right? that's her job. i think it would be unusual for the state to go before the doj. it's pretty unusual. i mean, i hope that merrick garland will -- it is crime upon crime, upon crime here, anybody who's watching the january six committee hearings, i mean, it's just a plethora. it would look kind of bad if the doj did not go first, but i think, good for georgia for not
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waiting, right? i mean, we saw alvin bragg in new york decided not to not sort of baffling lean not to prosecute, even though there was a whole apparatus in place for that, so i mean, we certainly need someone to protect democracy and george's -- if georgia's gonna do it, good for them. >> do you think investigation might be the place where we actually see some action or any real action to hold republicans accountable? >> i think yes, actually, i think the fact that this is an investigation in -- georgia state law. if you look at, it it's pretty clear. i think that the evidence that have been put forward by the january 6th committee so far, the five people over at the law fair, they've put together and compiled evidence and shown just how clear it is that laws were broken during this attempt to overturn the will of the voters in georgia.
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i am very impressed with the fact that they're pushing forward on this. i think the fact that it is not at the doj level, i think it's actually easier to before with this case considering it's easier to make the case to just saying, this is my jurisdiction. and i believe laws were broken in my jurisdiction, and it is my job to investigate whether laws were broken. and so, it's easier to get that sign off, i think, and it would be for the doj politically, especially, to be able to push forward in the same way. >> yeah, i can't sing fanny wilson's praises enough and carrying out this investigation. let's hope merrick garland is taking no. stay with us. when we come back, and on camera admission no one saw coming. republican john bolton admitting to planning a series of cruise against foreign governments. we will talk about that when we come right back. governments. governments. we will talk [whistling]
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someone say the quiet part out loud? well, this week were treated to one for the record books, courtesy of trump's former national security adviser, john bolton. >> it is not an attack on our democracy, it is donald trump looking out for donald trump. it's a once in a lifetime occurrence. >> i don't know if i agree with you, to be fair, with all due
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respect. one doesn't have to be brilliant to attempt a coup. >> i disagree with that, as someone who's helped plans coup d'état, not here, but other places. it takes a lot of work. >> i'm sorry, why? what was that mr. bolton? were you just openly bragging about the brilliance of planning multiple coups? my sunday night panel is back with me, molly, your reaction to john bolton? >> it was amazing, i was watching that live, and i was like -- but? i tweeted, did he just say i planned coups? no, that can't be right. this must be me. and then it was just amazing stuff, and look, a lot of the members of the trump world are known liars, again it is also possible that american has a long history of this kind of thing. it's hard to know what is true
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or not true, but certainly it says many bad things about his judgment, and about the judgment of the country, and about where we are as a democracy that this person is on television, musing about how hard it is to plan goose. it is not a great sign. >> yes, and we kind of laugh a bit in joke about it. but it is astonishing that bolton casually describes as a point of pride, that he's been involved with planning multiple coups at abroad. when you think what happened under george w. bush, where he served as the u.s. ambassador to the un, invasions in iraq, human rights abuses in guantánamo, about grave. it shouldn't serve by surprise us that he can say something like that, we know official had been held accountable for any of these atrocities, and violations of international law for human rights. >> yeah, i want to point, out during the bush administration, john bolton was nowhere near coup planning materials. he wasn't in charge of wmd
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oversight, or stuff like that. he was named briefly to the un ambassador. but i fully believe, he helped plan coups. were they successful coups? probably not. were any of them launched, doesn't seem to be the case. if they, where we didn't really hear about it, and they weren't very successful. it gets me, though, is not the fact that he's bragging. but he's saying it in a way as though it's a good thing for u.s. foreign policy, and i am just stunned, considering the field day that i'm sure russia and china and other authoritarian faithful have, using that soundbite to move forward and say, during the color revolution in the don't democracy. russia has already for years now, since the early 2000s said that any sort of pro democracy push is a u.s.-led coup attempt. they still say that ukraine was a u.s.-led coup attempt. the revolution there in 2013 and 2014. the fact that he would go on
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television, and give them more fodder for them to be able to push back on pro democracy activism around the world, that is just baffling to me. >> christina, john bolton has since then actually said. quote, snowflakes might be shocked, but when you're looking out for america's best interests, you do what is necessary. bolton says, real men plot coups, your reaction? >> well, i mean we, i digested it on two levels. one, he's trying to problem self up, and as hayes, said they probably weren't successful coups. we can't be naive here, this is the united states of america, we know that they've gone into many countries in central america, the continent of africa, and all over the globe and try to intervene in not only other countries elections, but their leadership. so yes, we have been involved, whether it's fiscal management or military wise, or funding --
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insurgent groups, or funding opposing parties. we know that that has happened, the fact that john bolton feel so empowered to casually state that on a news program, is frightening for democracy. i do think that it will involved in our adversaries and a host of ways. but it does bring a larger conversation to the four, because so many folks in the trump world, because they are known criminals, many of them, feel very comfortable not just doing this to other countries, but also to our own nation, which brings in another level of, i would say, fear and discuss to where this country is headed, as a democracy. >> and there are, it may have been a slip of the tongue, it may have been a moment of pride for john bolton. but molly, there are geopolitical ramifications. i think venezuela, a country that america is trying to regime change for years now. venezuela's national assembly voted to condemn his remarks. the leader of the assembly described it as an extraordinary feat of
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brazenness. >> yeah, john bolton is sort of known for extraordinary feats of brazenness, and sort of propping himself up to seem more important than he is. again, this was part of before, this is a group of cereal liars. so i don't know that i trust anything with john bolton says. but i also do believe that america has this terrible, very problematic history of going in and messing with things. and in a lot of -- it's really problematic. so i think that this is going to have reverberations, that we don't even know about. i think more importantly than that, we are a country that has really tried to hang on to democracy so the more that we can focus on the goal of staying in democracy, that is probably good. these people from trump world just don't understand that, or appreciate it. >> hayes, in 2019, bolton
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adamantly denied characterizing the trump administration's recognition of venezuelan opposition politician as a president, and encouragement of the military to turn on venezuelan president nicholas maduro, as a coup. but later in that same interview, he specifically mentioned venezuela in his list of coups. >> yeah, coup attempt. you have to be very clear here, john bolton wasn't saying i successfully launched several coups. he was arguing that you have to be smart to plan a who. -- smart to plan a coup, there have been attempted coups in multiple states, throughout the centuries that did not involve the best and brightest of what our country had to offer. i fully think that john bolton, in, this made clear that he believes -- he has always believed that the u.s. has the power, and has the right, to do whatever it must to ensure its own security. in his mind, that includes
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going against the norms of democracy, in order to put new governments into place in various states. that's nothing new, the fact that he said it on cnn's what's new. >> all right, hayes, brown molly jong-fast, and christina greer. thanks to the three of you for joining us tonight, but let's -- catch me back here on saturdays at eight, sundays and nine. make sure to stream new original episodes on fridays on peacock. make sure to follow us on twitter and tiktok, i am an msnbc. stick around for an encore presentation of msnbc films diamond hands, the legend of wallstreetbets. the documentary goes beyond the headlines of the gamestop short squeeze, and highlights the realtime players taking on the most powerful financial institution in america. l financia
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