president biden? >> the nlrb and chief pounces are being attacked today by the republicans there shocked that we have an agency of government doing what they are supposed to do. that's what the mission of the nlrb's, to protect, not to be pro worker or pro corporation, but to protect workers rights and make sure the corporations obey the law. that's what this nlrb has done. data deserve credit for doing that. it's really quite shocking to some of my republican colleagues can't believe there is actually an agency of government that's demanding fair play for workers. >> senator bernie sanders, the t which is demanding fair play for workers. >> all right, senator bernie sanders the chair of the committee today that had howard schultz in before them today.

thank you. >> thank you. >> that's all in for tonight. alex wagner is next. with ali velshi. high drama playing out right now. questions that he wasn't able to answer when he was running for president back then. some of the things that starbucks have done to people who have indicated they want to be unionized. that's a right we believe people should have the right to have. it's 2023. why can't i put a tip on my credit card because workers at the store decided to be unionized. >> the photo of the line getting into this hearing, an enormous line. >> highly consequential. thank you for joining us tonight. this is ukrainian city of

bakhmut. prior to russia's invasion last year, bakhmut was a small city of about 75,000. now it's one of the most important cities in the war, for seven straight months ukrainian forces have held bakhmut by being attacked by russian forces. this is the longest continual battle of the war so far. thought to be europe's deadliest land battle since world war ii. western intelligence agencies estimated that russia has taken 30,000 casualties in this little strategically insignificant town of bakhmut. this month both the ukrainian military and the russian mercenary group which has been doing most of the fighting in bakhmut both groups have been sounding the alarm that they're running of bullets. this battle for democracy might

come down to, the longest bloodiest front of the war to decide whether that ukraine gets small democracy or stolen by russia would come down to supply chain. which means it could come down to alliances. there's new and legitimate worry that china is contemplating tipping the scale here. so far china has remained on the sideline. when this war started everyone started it would be over three days. but russia still can't take the little town of bakhmut. in large part because of america and the democracies of the world banded together to support ukraine. so in a lot of ways the literal fight for democracy in ukraine will likely be determined by the

help of democracies at large. fitting today president biden held a global conference on just that. a summit for democracy. >> today, we can say with pride that democracies of the world are getting stronger and not weaker. autokrasys of the world are getting weaker not stronger, a direct result of all of us coming together with confidence in ourselves. >> now i love president biden's optimism here. i desperately what biden is saying to be our reality. but i just don't know if it is. even if you just look at the speakers list for biden's summit today it's plain that this is not the case. this is israeli prime minister netanyahu, he gave a speech on the subject of how democracy delivers economic growth and shared prosperity.

this is what his country looked like this week. tens of thousands took to the streets to protest prime minister netanyahu's blatant un-democratic power grab. he's attempting to weaken the independence of the israeli judicial system and make its judges subject to political control. he's trying to increase his own power. india's prime minister, also a speaker at biden's summit today and particularly notable because india is in theory the world's largest democracy, at least it should be. this is a member of the indian parliament and the most prominent opposition leader. gandi was just sentenced to two years in prison for the supposed crime of defamation. that two-year sentence is significant, because it's a harsh penalty to be sure but in

india members of parliament who are sentenced two years in parliament are rendered not allowed. not only countries struggling to live up to their democratic ideals there's also us. i would argue that we're dangerously close to having our democracy slip away. don't take my word for it. this is a judge michael ludwig. in 2005 he was the top of the short list for potential george bush supreme court nominees. by the way might know him for his role on january 6th. on the day before january 6th then-president trump pushed vice president pence repeatedly to try to convince him to use his power in the senate toover turn the election. that day pence's personal lawyer called this judge for help.

he quickly wrote up his opinion that the vice president had no power to change the outcome and he posted it to twitter. the next day, january 6th, pence staff incorporated his reasoning citing him by name that pence wouldn't try to block the counting of the electoral vote. the judge was nearly voted by the younger george bush. now the judge is saying this, quote, the institutions of our democracy and law, he says, are under vicious, unsustainable and unendurable attack from within. determined denial of january 6th. that the former president lost the 2020 presidential election fair and square, their promise that the 2024 election, quote, won't be stolen from them again. as they maintained it was in

2020 american democracy and the rule of law are still in constitutional peril and there's no end to the threat in sight, end quote. we america should be the city on a hill inspiring democracy worldwide. the world needs a strong america to fight back the tide of authoritarian that's sweeping the world right now but to do that america needs moral authority. we need to be able to say we're doing the right things at home. how do we achieve that? joining us is professor of history at yale university. he just returned from a trip to ukraine. thanks for being with us tonight. there are two intertwining problems. there's receding in my opinion democracy on the global stage, and then there's receding democracy in america and right

now joe biden's trying to walk that road. he's trying to bols ster democracies around the world and try to fight autocracy here in america. >> first of all, whether or not mr. biden is right, it's definitely right to be tried. a very good thing he has a democracy summit. very good thing we're trying to value democracy. i think democracy is going to triumph because people are going to show it's the better system. i think it's important to note in these examples that you gave earlier it's democracy is under threat but also the rule of law or more broadly human rights are a threat. we have to be able to use that kind of language as well. i think it's very wobbly worldwide. but i think mr. biden is doing the right thing by supporting

the ukrainians. russia invades ukraine that's an autocracy trying to destroy democracy by force. that's place where you have to look ukrainians are taking a risk, they remind us that democracy requires us taking a risk. >> interestingly though, when russia invades ukraine, it's not an abstraction. this was a democracy that may ceased to be a democracy. the other stuff you talk about the threat to the rule of law, the threat to an independent cue dishsy like in israel, democracy is under threat because of all of these things. everybody in israel, israelis in israel have a vote. people still vote in iran and russia but they're not

democracies. >> everyone claims to be a democracy. russia claims to be a democracy and claiming to be a democracy they erode, day take the sense, the meaning away from the word. that's their design. our weakness as we say we have trouble defining what makes a democracy work. the war in ukraine is clarified in a different way. one reason they're doing so well is civil society. it's the habit of cooperation that allowed the army to do so well. that's a lesson for other societies. they're making their voices known as a society. democracy is not -- democracy is about muscle, about movement, about people taking a stand and being together. if you wait for the institutions to save you it's already too late. >> let's talk about china for a second. because china be influential, a

wobbly vote about democracy. china could have an impact on this right now. >> absolutely. i mean the chinese are the most important country in the world. it's a china-russia bloc that we're talking about. what they have in common is the notion that these western ideals are just kind of local fantasies, things are fundamentally are just about power and economic might. so therefore, follow us, we're reliable, we're predictable. i think what democracies have to show in connection to china is a, there are moral reasons to prefer democracies, people live better under democracy and prefer it. c, that we can be more predictable and reliable

ourselves. our constitutional problems at home the fact that many people around the world, say who knows what's going to happen in 2024. that's problem. the immediate problem as the judge said we could have a second coup attempt in two presidential elections. people look at that, concerned about democracy or not that makes that whole system unpredictable. >> the judge is not a hair on fire kind of guy, he's a conservative. he's a republican. he's very, very deeply alarmed that our situation, our democratic situation in america is at risk. the difficulty he has and a lot of us have, and you write about this endlessly, how you convince people that that risk is real. something we'll have to actively do something about in this world that donald trump has ro claimed i'm your retribution, is what he

tells his followers. >> it's the language of fascism. saying i have an alternative truth for you. saying that politics is all about naming the enemy and taking revenge. those are basic fascist reality. they have to be able to do is remember some of the legacies of the 20th century. when i look at florida, i think communism, the book bans and the public gatherings and the singling out of authors. all of this stuff is supposed to be anti-communism. that reminds me of the things that were wrong about communism. getting people rallied up about

authors. we have to be able to say positively in a democracy we don't do those things but we do other things that are better. >> you write about this and you're an esteemed professor. last weekend i spoke to a woman in florida who spoke at a school board meeting about this book banning. her name is grace lynn. she's 100 years old. her husband died in world war ii fighting for the united states. she's 100 and she's fighting book bans. what do the rest of us who are not professors do in this fight? how do you become a foot soldier for democracy under threat in 2023? >> you run for office yourself. you tell the truth about basic things. you make sure you're talking to people who don't agree with you at least once, smile and give it a shot. pay money for local journalism

that still exists. you join some kind of group because if you join a group you'll feel better about yourself over the long run. you remember it's the little things that count. you take examples from people in ukraine or in your own city or elsewhere who are taking risks and you encourage those people. so many little things that we can do. when we do the little things we end up feeling better about the big things. the world is looking tough. how it looks to us every morning depends on what we did the day before. >> if we lean into some of these things, a remarkable list by the way that you just listed, individuals can do if and when they're powerless. the result doesn't seem to be bearing oumt in the short term particularly in elections. you can work as hard as you can and you see two election cycles

go by and things don't look good. people who planted certain seeds those seeds didn't come to fruition until years or decades later. >> almost everybody who's remembered now as hero of human rights or of democracy failed most of the time, right, most people who are remembered as heroes of democracy or as revolutionaries failed most of the time and finally they succeed. they're important for us not so much because of their success ultimately but because of their example they stuck it out. they have principles. they stayed with it. you're making a great point. >> thank you, sir. it's actually heartening to hear from you on this topic. i was less optimistic when i introduced you. professor schneider thank you so

much for the conversation tonight. lots more to get to tonight. coming up, defense secretary lloyd austin said a bunch of military promotions up before the senate are absolutely critical for u.s. military readiness so why is one republican senator dead set on blocking them? but first a manhattan grand jury weighing an indictment that donald trump would falsely claim would lead to his arrest last week, that grand jury my be going on hiatus, what this could mean for the investigation, next.

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donald trump should have been arrested eight days ago, that's not accord to us according to this post from the former president telling the world almost two weeks that the manhattan d.a.'s office was ready to arrest him. while donald trump isn't the most reliable of sources a lot of people did think something was about to happen because days earlier the manhattan d.a.'s office had invited donald trump to testify before the special grand jury overseeing his case which is usually a pretty strong signal that charges are about to be brought. since that moment the entire country's been on indictment watch and with good reason because if trump is charged he

would become the first former president ever indicted in american history. alvin bragg the manhattan d.a. would become the first prosecutor to indict a former president. the stakes are huge. today reports that the grand jury investigating trump in manhattan will break for most of the month of april. they're not expected to hear evidence in the case for the next month largely due to previously scheduled hiatus. the break by the way that continues, the break would push any indictment of the former president to late april at the earliest. we don't know if that's true. because the d.a.'s office could still use the grand jury when it meets tomorrow, monday or wednesday of next week. it makes you wonder what's going on, will trump get indicted? some really good theories out there pointing to some plausible

explanations. as one former federal prosecutor writes, michael cohen has said at least two things in recent interview that would raise red flags for prosecutors. now, this is potentially a big concern. because despite being the main witness against trump in the case, cohen is not shy about talking about the case and trump's defense will use every single statement that he's made if it serves him to. that's one theory. here's another the manhattan grand jury weighing potential hush money charges against donald trump could have voted monday. we just wouldn't know it yet. and if they've already voted to indict the district attorney doesn't need to file the indictment immediately, end quote. we're not so sure about this one. but deliberations of the grand jury are secret. again, who knows that that's two theories.

a third theory out there that i personally believes have some traction that has do with allen weisselberg currently serving a five-month sentence at rikers. to unrelated tax fraud charges. this is from "the new york times" last month. manhattan prosecutors this week warn they might file new fraud against allen weisselberg increasing pressure on weisselberg. he's an interesting story. one of donald trump's closest confidants all his wife. he's due to get out of jail next month. if someone's trying to testify against trump now is the time. our colleagues at wnbc have confirmed tonight that his attorneys, who were being paid for by the trump organization to represent weisselberg, are no longer representing him. a big deal, one that which could potentially.

lot of questions for a guy who knows nothing about the law. karen, thank you for being here. i'm very intrigued by the fact that he's no longer being represented by those lawyers. tell me what that means. >> a look-term grand jury when you ask people to sit for six months, they preplan out whatever the schedule is going to be and with the public schools being out on break you don't want to lose grand juries. you take those holidays off. there are two days left in this -- before they go on hiatus which is tomorrow, thursday, and monday. it's very possible that when that statement that you read that said they're not going to hear evidence, it's possible but they need to be charged on the

law and vote. that could happen and we may or may not know about it for the same reason we may or may not they voted on monday. those things are possible. i'm very intrigued by the fact that no longer is being represented by those lawyers. >> tell me what that means. that's interesting. these are the two lawyers who have represented him through this case. he's a remarkable story. this is a guy who at his advanced age he decided he was going to go to jail and not cooperate. i'm sure they gave him options not to go to jail and he's in jail now. tell me what this means. >> it could mean one of two things. number one, the case is over. doesn't need the lawyers anymore. they're just representing him on that one case or more likely, i think, there was this pressure campaign put on him saying while he's in rikers, do you like being there, because we're about

to bring other charges? if he testified in the grand jury you wouldn't know it. he'll be brought in the back door because he's being incarcerated. unlike the other people who either like michael cohen who tells people he testified, other witnesses we know about them because we see them going in and out of the building. you wouldn't necessarily see allen weisselberg. so it's possible he's already testified. we just don't know. >> he probably wouldn't -- he'd have a lawyer of some sort, right, would we know about that? >> no. it's all secret. it's interesting that those lawyers that were paid for by the trump organization if he's cooperating, they're no willing to represent him. >> everybody wondered whether he's going to be indicted,

possible there was nothing at that time? >> he says things to bait people, i think he was trying to bait the d.a.'s office to tell what was going on or make a public statement. he says things to incite people. didn't he say protest, protest, protest? he said death and destruction, et cetera. several reasons why he said that. the reason it came up because he was offered an opportunity to testify in a grand jury which means it's the end of the case, which means he's going to get arrested if they vote to indict. i think he was panicking because he thinks he's going to be arrest zbld could be the case wasn't ready for an indictment. he ended up calling other witnesses. more michael cohen. they brought david pecker back. it seems like they're hearing

stuff they've heard before, but something is raising questions for the grand jury. >> yeah, well, a grand jury's presentation is usually very straightforward and bare incumbency. there's no opening, no closing, no cross-examination of witnesses. it's the facts. these are the facts, just the facts. but when you give a defendant like donald trump the opportunity to testify he said no, but he said i want to hear from one of my witnesses. it turns it into a mini trial. this does happen. it turns into a little bit of a mini trial. obviously robert costello said things that caused the prosecutor to say, i'm going to now rebut that with other witnesses. we just don't know. there was some question, does

alvin bragg have cold feet? he wouldn't try to rebut what donald trump was saying. >> that image that donald trump had with a baseball bat and alvin bragg, actually came down, very little -- donald trump rarely dleets nick. he took this post down. that's a step forward. prosecutors tell us it's quite rare to get an actual threat or a material threat like that. >> it's rare. but he definitely crossed the line. i mean, he could be prosecuted for that. that coupled calling for death and destruction and i think he clearly crossed the line that if he wanted to prosecute him, unfortunately it's just a misdemeanor. which is why he walked it back. he's clearly walking it back and even this morning when he posted on truth social he was talking

to the grand jury saying, how fair-minded and wonderful they are. the good grand jurors. it's witch-hunt. he's talking to them that he crossed the line threatening them and now he's trying to convince them not to indict them. >> karen, thank you. former district attorney for the manhattan district attorney. i got that wrong. >> close enough. still ahead tonight, republicans continue to push laws at the state level on two major policy issues despite the fact that polls show that resoundingly favor democrats. claire mccaskill joins me next to discuss. cuss ainst erosion and cavities. i think that this product is a gamechanger for my patients- it really works. (woman) oh. oh! hi there. you're jonathan, right? the 995 plan! gamechanger for my patients-

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there are a number of things happening florally that indicate we could be in a contest on any one given day. >> defense secretary lloyd austin yesterday warning senators on the armed services committee that something republican senator tommy tuberville is doing could have disaster consequences for national security. he's unilaterally blocking the promotion of military officers.

160 are affected at the moment. hundreds more including admirals and three and four-star generals, some are slated for taking over strategic roles in the middle east and working as a pentagon liaison to nato's military committee. usually this massive amount of promotions are approved by groups by unanimous consent. senator tuberville maneuver, for it to get past him promotions would have to be approved one by one. which could take weeks. to risk the u.s. military's readiness, here's his explanation. >> as of 12 days ago, you all got the american taxpayer on the hook to pay for travel and time off for elective abortions and you didn't make this with anybody in this room or congress taking a vote. i'm not going to let our military be politicized.

>> i'm not going to let our military be politicized by holding up promotions because you don't like what they're doing? what senator tuberville is referring to is a new defense department policy that allows for reimbursement for travel expenses and up to three weeks of leave if they travel out of state for reproductive care including abortions because abortions are reproductive care. it clarifies a memo from austin last year after the fall of roe directing all branches of military that ensures members of the military could get access to abortions. tuberville claims this violates the hyde amendment which prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion. the policy clearly states it does not. military installations in at least 14 states that have banned or mostly banned abortions and more than 230,000 service members and their families live in those states. the pentagon's new policy is reducing barriers and helping

these members and their eligible family members to get the reproductive health care they need. let's not miss the irony here. senator tuberville said he's not going to let the u.s. military be politicized. it's exactly what he's doing by holding up military confirmations over his views on abortion. when it comes to the politics of abortion senator tuberville may think he's on solid ground, that ground is shifting. what that means for democrats and democracy just ahead. stay with us. advil targets pain at the source. acetaminophen blocks, pain signals, advil, dual action.

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tomorrow in florida the republican-controlled state senate will take up a bill that would ban nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy before many people even know they're pregnant. exceptions for rape and incest but only up to 15 weeks. in north carolina today, house republicans introduced a total abortion ban from the moment of fertilization. meanwhile, also in north carolina, the republican majority legislature just voted to over-ride the democrat governor's veto of a new law that eliminates background checks for handguns.

eliminate background checks. and allow gun owners to carry a concealed gun in public without a permit. in tennessee, where three adults and three little kids were just shot dead at an elementary school lawmakers there had been advancing legislation that would allow the minimum age to carry guns from 21 to 18. they put it on pause a little bit but it will almost certainly come back. if that list of states' actions on abortions and guns seem daunting to you you're not alone. republicans are loosening access to guns even though their constituents want the opposite. how americans feel about abortions. take a look at this in florida and north carolina more than 60% of residents said they want abortions to be legal. when it comes to guns republicans seem to be in for a

reckoning in near future. 63% of americans support stricter gun laws. this argument about gun reform and abortion democrats appear to be on the winning side. they have the support of the american people to get something done. how do they get republicans on their side or out of the way? how do they use the mandate to move the needle? the writer for the new york magazine and the cut has an idea, seize the opportunity, make them the centerpiece of the democratic party's 2024 ayen da. let's talk about that with claire mccaskill. thank you for being with us. >> thanks, ali. >> this constant tension among democrats whether they should lean into things about this or lean away. many are saline into the policy things that biden has done.

lean into kitchen table issues. what do you make of rebecca's argument, lean into this because with respect to commonsense gun laws the numbers favor democrats? >> well, certainly, extreme positions lose elections. most of america is closer to the middle than they are to the ends. of the spectrum on issues particularly ones that are people feel passionately about. so what's happened is the republicans have gotten into gerrymandered districts that are so republicans they keep trying to go further and further and further to the right in order to avoid a primary that might cause them a problem. in doing so they're making our elections for democrats much easier. my state is great example. keep in mind that when i lost my

election in 2018 we had the majority of statewide office holders in missouri. today abortion is illegal from the moment of conception, no interceptions for rape or incest. republicans just voted in to allow children of any age to carry weapons of war publicly on the streets of our state. so it has gotten so extreme that now it's time for us to talk about these extreme positions and make them the centerpiece, make them our cultural wars. >> let me ask you about that, when you say a lot of republicans stake out these extreme positions because of the fear of being primaried. there's always that fear. but on these two issues which if rebecca -- if her argument holds they become centerpieces for republicans there's a loft money that comes from anti-abortion groups and a lot of money that

comes from the nra. that's a lot to overcome. not a matter of asking republicans to moderate their opinions. it's asking them to possibly give up their seat. >> listen, there's no question that there's money on these issues especially on these extreme positions on both guns and abortions. one thing that happened there are things that are lot of folks out there that get, 5, 10, $20. if i bet right now i'd bet the women of america are ready to give serious money to any candidate in a general election who says, you know, i'm tired of our children getting slaughtered. we ought to manage to get weapons of war designed for only one thing -- to kill as many human beings as quickly as

possible. we ought to be able to manage to get them off the streets entirely. and i believe that issue in most districts in america would be a winning issue in a general election. i'm not sure that even survive a republican primary right now. the extreme wing of the republican party is in control. in general elections somebody who takes these issues to heart and campaigns on them with heart i believe is winning. >> in this particular case i wanted to speak to you because of your own history in a state like missouri. this last midterm election where republicans staked out extreme positions in arizona, pennsylvania and michigan. democrats were victorious. the victory in michigan, the abortion matter was a ballot measure, it was front and center

for a lot of democrats, the gun issue is very, very big in michigan. and the democrats swept that. gretchen whitmer at. of the ticket. i'm intrigued by that. how much was that a blueprint of what rebecca tracer is talking about if. >> i think there's a little bit of both. i want to give gretch the credit. she's strong and passionate and is a wonderful role model for women everywhere who want to lead on these subjects. also the republican party in michigan is a good example of where they really embraced the far-right extreme and all the militia action up there and her being threatened by kidnapping all of that played into the hands of most michigan voters who want to be somewhere where we can see the middle not necessarily -- it's fine to have

really progressive values but most people want there to be some normalcy and they don't want extremes. when republicans keep nominating very extreme people and you combine that with a compassionate strong leader with individual freedom to decide what to do with your own body then you have a winning combination. she's still did a great job as did the rest of the ticket pointing out how extreme and unacceptable the other side was. >> we could go on for a very long time on this conversation. claire, good to see you. >> thank you. one more story for you tonight. how one tiny pacific island's victory at the u.n. today is set to make a gigantic impact on global science justice.

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the assembly decides to adopt this resolution. is so decided. >> all right that was a scene at the united nations assembly, if the dry sounding language that something big was happening maybe the vigorous applause the people in the audience taking cell phone videos considered to be an historic moment might, because what happened today was spearheaded by the tiny south pacific nation of vanuatu, population of 320,000 spread across san archipelago. for vanuatu, climate change is no longer theoretically. they're increasingly being pounded by cyclones while also planning to relocate dozens of village away from the coastal

for severe sea level rise. they got 193 member states of the united nations to agree on something, no dissent. the thing they agreed on to kick the well usual conversations around climate change up a notch. by getting the entire assembled world body to agree to ask the international court of justice in the hague for a ruling on who bears responsibility for the destructive effects of climate change and what nations who are literally drowning can force the biggest carbon emitters to do. obviously this is one small step in what will still prove to be much longer journey but take the wins while you still can. that does it for us tonight. i'll see you here tomorrow. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is up next.