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after my show. she's under the weather at the moment. she is resting her voice so that she can have her big, special voice at the new hampshire primary. we are all looking forward to it. we will be hearing from rachel in just a few minutes. overall, we have so much to get to tonight. we are less than 24 hours from the polls closing here in new hampshire. doing our show from new hampshire. the last meeting challenger to donald trump, is trying to pull off a surprise win for the republican presidential nomination. at least to finish close enough to stay in the race. this may actually be the bar. a day away from the vote, nikki haley, trying to prevent the new hampshire primary tomorrow from being essentially the end of that race. unless something truly shocking happens tomorrow, and shocking things happen in politics, donald trump, is going to be the republican nominee. he's going to be the nominee because he has broad support among republicans in the country, all across the

country. he has broad support among communities that seem least likely to support him. if you look back to 2016, donald trump, twice divorced, casino candidate, long history of being pro-choice, just to be a few things, did terribly among iowa christian voters. in last week's iowa caucuses one week ago, they pretty much lined up behind him. in the states after new hampshire, there is every indication at this point that not just the evangelical community, but a range of groups that logic would tell you that would not support donald trump, are doing just that. the political train of the republican nominating process after new hampshire is quite donald trump friendly. new hampshire is supposed to be different. here in new hampshire, nikki haley, taking a traditional approach. personally looking at voters across the state. that is what candidates normally do. donald trump, is pretty much acting like the inevitable

winner. he's definitely not taking the traditional approach to campaigning at all. he's not hitting up new hampshire diners. he's not holding babies the way that nikki haley is. maybe that is for the best for those babies. he's spending time in a new york courtroom. attending hearings about how much money you will have to pay in a defamation suit from the writer, eugene carol. this is on top of the millions that a jury already ordered him to pay for sexually abusing and defaming her. to be clear, donald trump, doesn't have to be in court for this at all. he is not required to be. he is choosing to be there. to make enough of a spectacle of himself that the judge has threatened to throw donald trump out of the courtroom. he believes that is the best way for him to campaign for his party's presidential nomination. that is his strategy. federal and state cases ahead of him. donald trump, telling voters that he believes that presidents should have total immunity from prosecution,

even if they commit crimes. even if they quote cross the line. his words, not mine. donald trump, came to new hampshire for a rally this weekend. he didn't give a traditional here is my plan for new hampshire's economy speech like the candidates usually do. his message was for foreign dictators being great. >> there is a great leader in europe. he is the prime minister of hungary. he is a very great leader. a strong man. some people don't like him because he is too strong. you need a strong man running your country. >> nice to have a strong man running your country. we are looking at them not having them on the republican closing arguments. this is donald trump's closing argument. this could be the last seriously contested primary of his march to the nomination. he's not asking anyone in new

hampshire to vote for him despite his belief that he should exist outside the law. the united states should not be run more like a dictatorship heard rather, he is asking new hampshire voters to counts -- cast their ballots because of his strategy and message. you may not like it. i understand, leave me. clearly, a lot of people do like it. even in new hampshire, the state were donald trump is getting his worst poll numbers of any republican primary. the state is full of independent voters that like to look at the convention. it is the live free or die state after all. new hampshire is a state where nikki haley has been seen as having a chance of beating him. donald trump, is still winning. even here. the latest new hampshire tracking poll today has him up 19 points. this is where he is doing the worst. that is worth repeating. we can shut our eyes to the fact that when donald trump is pitching to voters, it is very appealing to a lot of americans. if we are going to protect american democracy, we better

understand why. joining me now, professor of history at nyu. also the author of "strongmen." mussolini, to the president. foreign nbc political analyst heard him, let's start with you. the politics of this, we have been talking and covering this for a long time. it is a little perplexing. donald trump, is in new hampshire. praising the autocratic prime minister of hungary. how does this make them different from any other state? why does it work? >> i can understand how they would be perplexing to some folks who have not steeped themselves in with the republican base wants. the republican base is looking for somebody that is going to try to combat their enemies. that is a big line about donald trump back in 2016. he fights. the other guys on stage don't fight the left or the liberals or the immigrants.

the gay teachers. whoever the enemy of the day is. donald trump, will fight them in a way that they won't. i was struck listening to your interview in the previous hour. i'm happy that he is willing to do that. that showed a level of courage. even still, his arguments against donald trump didn't seem strong. they didn't seem like they were coming from a position of strength. it was a little bit like a weasel. it was a bank shot. maybe his arguments say that donald trump might hurt other candidates. donald trump is a little bit uncouth. his opponents within the primary have not attacked him with strength. that has allowed this to fester and congeal, to gain more power. i think he has positioned himself as the outer alpha within the party. that explains why it is working in the republican primary. the general election would be a

different animal. >> alpha is another word for strongmen. donald trump set it at this rally. it would be nice to have strongmen leaders. we are through a lot of things. this is the title of your book. tell us why that is appealing to him. also, what that means as it compares to other leaders in countries like hungary. >> donald trump, has been conditioning americans and educating americans to want that kind of leadership. what he is doing, by talking about her being a bad cop, bad apple, or anything else, he's asking them to accept anything that he would do. he's most interested in talking about it a lot. he's talking about avoiding jail. all strongmen are corrupt. through authoritarianism.

the executive is able to dislocate this area. able to commit the crime without paying any consequence. the leaders that he is holding up, it is disgraceful that he is holding up the responsible leaders. vladimir putin, kim jong-un, and others, trying to deny them to stay in power. that is very deserving of donald trump. he's interested in the absolute power that they have, and the ability to never be prosecuted. >> i have a hard time thinking that most new hampshire voters understand what it would be like to live under an authoritarian leader. it is not little like that. what do you think politically you are doing on the sidelines? is this being worth presidential candidates? what is the best political pushback? is there something that nikki haley should have been doing over the last couple of weeks

to better pushback on this argument? >> sure. i think the attacks against donald trump, could have been more forceful and straight on. this is what i was saying about others that have criticized him. ron desantis, and everyone. donald trump, is attacking his opponents aggressively. positioning himself as the attack dog. the representative of the people. nikki haley, has a birdbrain. he's going back to people he didn't like. if your response to that is that chaos follows donald trump like a bad smell, right or wrong, they are some bad things. you are feeding into the argument that he is strong and you are weak. i don't think they need to some like me. i'm not going to rail against donald trump. i don't have a fear for democracy.

they did need to pick one or two things that worked with voters. this guy is a loser. he didn't build the wall he promised you. he is stealing your money to pay for his legal bills. he doesn't care about you. nobody did that. would it have worked? we could be in a party that has a different personality. nikki haley, has never really been in the game. >> every situation is different in every country. you know, cover, and have expertise on this. tens of thousands of people came to protest far right extremism. is there anything that we can take away from that? is there anything we can take away from these mass demonstrations? what can we reflect on as what is happening to the united states right now? >> i'm glad you asked that. recently, in the fall, we have the example of poland.

they had many years of far right leadership. they practically had no abortion-rights left. they organized that unity was very important. these are multiparty systems. they also had a optimistic heart centric messaging. literally, they had a march of 1 million hearts. these mass demonstrations are very important. it is a numbers game. the far right is always the tyranny of the norm. they are very loud and scary. they intimidate. this is like january 6th. they are not the will of the people. a mass demonstration is going to show other people that they could feel similarly to they do. they don't really want authoritarian drills. they want a place like germany or poland. it was occupied with communist dictatorships. these are places that no

stakes. the problem in america is that too many people don't have any idea of what the stakes would be, or what it is going to be like. to have an authoritarian state, donald trump is telling you quickly what he wants to do. this is what authoritarians often do. they tell us what they are going to do, and who they are. we don't listen to them or take them seriously until it is too late. >> wise words to end our conversation. listen to them. donald trump, is certainly telling us who he is, and what he wants to do. thank you for a fascinating conversation. coming up next, we are joined live by the person who is usually in the chair this hour. we are going to let her use her voice for just a few minutes so that we can get her opinion tomorrow. she has marked them on the republican campaign trail. publicans fall in line behind

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some people don't like him because he is too strong. >> readings, from new hampshire. the republican front runner would like to talk about political issues, like the strongmen in charge of hungary. making american presidents immune from criminal prosecution, which will come in handy for donald trump. this is not your usual new hampshire primary. we are looking at that tomorrow. the usual host of the 9:00 p.m. hour. the author of "prequel." my friend and colleague, rachel maddow. we are not going to make you use your voice too much. thanks for talking with us this evening. i have been sort of saying tongue-in-cheek that this is his closing message. talking about donald trump's message. he's campaigning a little bit in new hampshire. you have set it with authoritarians quite a little

bit. is this really about winning votes in new hampshire primary? >> i apologize for my voice. i'm grateful for you having me here. i'm trying to hold it together healthwise so that i can have a voice for tomorrow night's coverage. i'm so excited to be part of that. that is why i sound like a mess right now. i think there is a very simple reason that donald trump is making a closing argument, in what could be the less contested primary. that is really what he is offering. this is a special sauce. donald trump is not leaving the republican party field of candidates because of his youthful vigor. this is because of his policy preference. it is because of his eloquence. this is what he is offering. they were both inherently offering it. more and more, they explicitly offer this. if you pick me, that will be

the end of politics. you won't have to deal with politics anymore. you don't have to deal with contested elections, or dealing with contests or divisions when it comes to power. you will have a strongmen leader. i will do what i am wanting to do. won't that be similar? that is what he is offering. the strongmen model is what the republican base is enthused about. that is something that sets him apart from every other republican candidate. we are looking at the sidelining or the domesticating. this is the judiciary compass. they will get it done. that's what he is selling. that is what they are very eager for. >> is seems like that. i think of him as the marathon orchard.

everyone has a different view on his strengths. the question i sometimes think about, how did we get here? how did we get to that stage of a person who is such a political control or party? even on the politics of it, we are looking at the appeal of the strongmen argument. it is so appealing to a large swath of the country. >> in first aspects, we should be humble about it. we don't have too many democracies in the world. most of the world is governed other authoritarian governments. there's nothing about the american populace that makes us immune to the promises of strongmen leadership. that's part of why i have done the history of some of the things in the prequel leading up to world war ii. talking about how susceptible americans were to the same time of authoritarian messages that will work for the population in

germany. they were working on the population in germany, italy, and spain. he was elected. he didn't have to literally march on rome. it was a figurative thing. he was installed in the heart of the government. these messages, they have appeal. there are ways that you can drive a populace toward them. we are making it so that the legislative branch never works. it is seen as an object of ridicule and prosthetic leg. this is one of the three branches of government. challenge the rule of law. they are biased against people like you. it doesn't work for people like us. you should denigrate to the courts, the law, and a legal system. this is in a way that falls down these lines. all of these things help. flirting with these kinds of

conspiracy theories that have them looking to mythical fantasies for solving their problems instead of actual government work. that helps. flirting with military violence, where you bring violence into it. normal people are too intimidated to engage in normal, political behavior. all of that is a populace towards authoritarian messaging. that is the only solution, or the thing that will help. >> what do you think was real, honest, and authentic about these issues? what might work? what is effective? we talked earlier in the show about the protests in germany. what works? what can be done in this country to push back on this movement? >> the history works on a couple of different levels. it's interesting to me, watching those protests in germany this weekend. what struck me, was the reason

that they had more than 1 million and a half people that turned out crowds in some places. the police had to shut them down for security reasons. the reason they came out in germany, was because of a report from a secret meeting with the far right party in germany, which is poland, had secretly discussed mass deportations of migrants in germany. millions of people, all deported all at once. it was a bombshell, investigative report. that is what donald trump and stephen miller are offering openly. people are not out in the streets for it, because it was not bombshell reporting. that policy that the far right is working on, is exactly what donald trump and stephen miller are talking about doing

here. he is being put back in office. they are literally talking about putting millions of people in camps in the united dates. a revelation like that in germany, got germans out by the hundreds of thousands over the weekend. saying that this is something that we cannot see coming back in the civilized world. we just absorb something that donald trump is going to do. there's also what they are asking for. they are asking for the german courts to ban it. trying to bend that party as an anti-democratic party. germany has some history with that. 1952, they were banning the parties that wanted to use the democratic process to come back in. they haven't done it since then. they are ready to do it now with this iteration of the far right. we are considering that with potential insurrectionist being back on the ballot. >> very much good for that. history repeats itself.

we have history and life things happening around the world that are going to be looking at this. we have to rest her voice. you can talk about this all night. what are you doing for yourself? do we need to send you something? we will deliver it to you. we are going to lean it into the coverage tomorrow night. >> i just have the thing that everyone else has. i had covid for the first time ever in october. it took me a long time to get over it. i just have this cold that seems like everybody on the east coast has. i'm a terrible patient. i have daytime and nighttime stuff. i just sleep and drink tea and it never gets better. if anybody out there has the secret sauce, i will take it. in the meantime, i'm trying to rest. >> if you have secret sauce, we are going to collect it and give it to her so that she can be leading the coverage tomorrow night. rachel maddow, thank you as always. hope you feel better.

take care of yourself tomorrow night. looking forward to the primary coverage tomorrow night. still ahead, donald trump, did not have a single congressional endorsement. republicans are rushing to lend their support. why are they falling in line so quickly this time around? we are going to talk about that. president joe biden, targeting new hampshire voters ahead of tomorrow's primary. are we prepared for the risk of other defects this coming november? we are going to talk about that coming up as well. as well. not found in traditional dish soaps that remove food and grease 5 times faster. and, because it cleans so well you can replace multiple cleaning products for counters, stoves, and even laundry stains. try dawn powerwash dish spray. brand power, helping you buy better.

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donald trump is superior to the income and president joe biden. that is clear. i signed the pledge to support the republican nominee. i will honor that pledge. he has my endorsement, because we can go back to the old republican guard of yesteryear. we have a package formed warmed over corporatism. nikki haley represents this. >> i have written many endorsement statements. let me tell you, that is not a ringing one. he seemed under duress for a moment. of course, ron desantis, grudgingly. endorsing donald trump. driving out of the race for president this weekend. it is just the latest example of how republicans are pretty much lining up behind donald trump ahead of the new hampshire primary. right now, he is on stage with a troop of leading republicans. they are endorsing them. it is all is dark example of how donald trump has come to

dominate the republican party over the last eight years. when donald trump ran for president in 2016, not a single republican member of the house, senate, or any of the sitting republican governors endorsed him before the primary. not a single one. it wasn't until after new hampshire, and late february 2016, when donald trump got his first endorsement from a sitting member of congress. that was none other than new england republican congressman, chris collins. he would later get indicted, and convicted of insider trading. donald trump parted him during his first month in office. that seems fitting for some reason. the second member to endorse donald trump was another guy. this guy. congressman, duncan hunter. he was also forced to resign from congress after being charged and later convicted of stealing campaign funds.

that is quite a track record for the first two endorsements of his presidential campaign. donald trump, pardoned duncan hunter during his final days in office. i think there is a pattern that we are seeing. before donald trump became the republican nominee, only 12 members of the house and jumped felons were having this in common. only one endorse donald trump during that time. remember sessions? that guy has been paying for that mistake ever since. a lot has happened since 2016. donald trump, has been impeached twice. he tried to overturn a legitimate insurrection election. inadvertently, he claims that he wants to be a dictator himself. despite all that, somehow, there seems to be an even greater willingness to look the other way. this time, republicans are rushing and elbowing each other to endorse donald trump as soon as possible. we are going to have

republicans in the house and senate. they have already endorsed donald trump. they are calling some presumptuous nominees. former presidential contenders, tim scott, begin the latest to endorse donald trump on friday. just a few minutes ago, he spoke at a rally in new hampshire. with ron desantis , and his endorsement, he has the endorsement of 11 sitting republican governors. just two years ago, she was fending off of a donald trump indoors primary challenger. she endorsed donald trump today ahead of the states primary. she will remember that part from a couple of years ago. lastly, republicans have fallen in line behind donald trump. breakneck speed. what does that mean for this race and the republican party i had of tomorrow's primary? it feels so inevitable with everyone lining up. they will explain and tell us what it all means. we have a senior columnist.

thank you for being here with us tonight. it is great to see you. let me start with what i just outlined. you are covering it. 2016, republicans did not go around donald trump until after he won the nomination. they have holdouts even then. why is this happening so much faster now? >> politicians are responding to the marketplace of their electorate. there voters want more donald trump. they are in fact responding to that. it is a classic example of the readers deferring to their electorate. they are basically following what they perceive understandably so to be the preference of their brokers. that is really the long short part of it. the first statewide official to endorse donald trump in 2016,

was also a governor. lieutenant governor. this is from south carolina. the payback for endorsing donald trump, the first statewide official to do so, was that he was elevated to governor when donald trump nominated the governor of south carolina, someone's name, nikki haley, to the ambassador. full circle donald trump endorsements for 2016. one of those is still playing out today. the reason why donald trump appointed her to the u.n., wasn't because they had a relationship, with the south carolina primary in 2016, he appointed her to be the governor of south carolina, as a reward for him for being one of the first people of the country being the statewide

republican official to endorse him in 2016. to your point, there were so few people in the party at that point who would dare stick their neck out for this celebrity casino developer. >> a lot has changed. he has done a lot since then. i think the question that is tricky, what is motivating? there is political survival. that is a motivator. there is fear if they don't endorse him. i think that is a big motivator. ron desantis, in the video, he again looked under duress. it looked like a hostage video situation. holed up today's newspaper. >> exactly. >> it felt ai generated. what is motivating the majority? what is it about? >> i think the folks that are facing the voters every two years, i think it is almost entirely trying to stay on the right side of their voters.

if you talk to these people privately, a lot of them at least, they have become of age politically before donald trump. what do you want me to do? my voters like them. i was telling one republican, and actually former governor today, this very same thing. what ron desantis would have been honest about, is the truth serum. what do you want me to do? i want a future on this party. i'm only 44 years old. the voters still like donald trump. that's really it. to your point, there is definitely a bullying element. if you don't get behind him, he attacks you. they are leading supporters to attack you online. even worse, your prank calling your office. there is definitely an intimidation factor, to no question about it.

>> you talked about this off- line. this is behind-the-scenes. let me put you on the spot. there is a primary tomorrow. what does nikki haley have to do if she wins? that would be a surprise. what is the margin that she has to get within in order to justify to her donors and supporters to stay in the race? >> if she comes within single digits in new hampshire tomorrow, i think she can justify going to south carolina, and trying to fight it out in her home state. that would be a race. it is a month long, south carolina showdown. armageddon in the palmetto state. politically between donald trump and nikki haley. this would be a sight to see. it would push them through. if she loses by 17 points, it is harder for her to rationalize and staying in. at that point, i wonder if she would be better off saying she

was the last person standing in this race. nobody else thought i could do it. here i was. i was the only person left. if you are losing by 17 points, that is the case that you make. i think if you sue for a piece now, you have an outside shot at the mvp. you need to be in the mix if you have knockdown drag for a month in south carolina. >> you don't want it until you want it, i guess. donald trump has told donors reportedly that they have put february 1st aside. if he shuts off the money, that seems very tricky for her. jonathan martin, thank you for joining me tomorrow and tonight. coming up, a fake president joe biden robot is encouraging them to skip the polls in tomorrow's new hampshire primary. what can the federal government do to combat this threat as we head into the 2024 election?

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today, just one day before the new hampshire primary, the new hampshire journey -- attorney general office, is looking at unlawful attempts at voter suppression. several new hampshire residents got a call, reported to be from president joe biden. it wasn't. it confirmed that the call was a fake. if you have received it, would

you be able to tell? >> what a bunch of malarkey. you know the value of voting democratic votes count. it is important that you save your vote for the note -- november election. will need your help electing democrats in the coming ticket. voting this tuesday only enables the republicans in the quest to elect donald trump again. your vote makes a difference in november, not this tuesday. >> malarkey sounds a lot like president joe biden. take it from me. that was at the beginning of the call. we have no idea who is behind these fake robot calls. they are likely misleading voters and president joe biden. it seems pretty clear that we do not yet know how this is going to look at president joe biden's voice, or how it was made. information experts tell nbc news that it was almost certainly created with some form of artificial intelligence. we know that fake content like this is getting more realistic,

and easier to make all the time. it is improving, the technology of it. a published audio claimed a longtime donald trump adviser, roger stone, caedfor the assassination of jerry nadler and eric swallow. nbc news has not been able to dependently verify this audio. it does really sound like roger stone. stone, and the audio is fake. this is because of how easy it is to make realistic seeming fake content like this right now, it is very difficult to figure out how people can use it to their advantage on both sides. today's news about these fake robot calls in new hampshire, or being seen by health fake content like this could be messing with primaries and general elections. how difficult could it get to tell fact from fiction by november? join me now, a former director of cyber security and infrastructure security agency. co-chair of the askin institute cyber security working group. thank you so much for joining me. i can think of anyone else to

help me explain it. let me start with the basics. how sophisticated would you have to be with computers to make fake audio like that one? we just looked at those president joe biden robot calls that we are seeing here in new hampshire. >> unfortunately, i'm not particularly sophisticated at all. it doesn't require much more than some of the public, open sourced language models they can be used to create text, to voice, or even text to video. you really don't need much of a sample of whoever you are trying to mimic. you can get a voiceprint of about 30 seconds worth of tape. obviously, with president joe biden, there is much more than that. there is much more than you and me. it is not a complicated tradecraft right now, unfortunately. >> anyone can make one. one of the things that feel so alarming to me. one of the things as we look

back to 2016, we have been talking about it in the show. what are the threats? what are we talking about? are there nationstates like china and russia? have they intervened in our elections in the past? is this a tactic and tool that you think they are developing? should we be watching more closely and talking about it? >> there is no question that they are testing and exploring the range of capabilities, and the conversations that i have in the national security community. they are absolutely concerned about states rolling ai into their information activities. they know whether it is technical, hacking, cyber security threats, or the broad information warfare that we are seeing increasingly a part from our elections. i would suspect over several elections that are happening in 24 and 25 as well, you can see more of these ai enabled threat

vectors emerge. >> they obviously have a number of experts like yourself in the federal government. i have a two part action. what would you like to see them doing? do you have any concerns about the lack of understanding or knowledge within congress about the threat of this? we see this in social media, since 2016. >> there are a number of different pieces of legislation that have been introduced. this is particularly in the senate to address ai as it may impact the elections. there is a bill introduced by the senator. this would address this specific risk of mimicking a political candidate that would give them a couple of different options, including removal of the content, as well as damages. this is a piece of legislation introduced. it is going to take some time

to get that in place. it is the federal communications coalition. they have a couple different mechanisms that they can use, particularly seen as defrauding voters. as well, the fbi has several different paths that they can follow. i think the real key word here, is similar to a number of messages that will be pushed out in the 2020 election. if you ever have a question about information, go to the trusted source. don't listen to someone on twitter, x, or whatever. go to the source. the election official, or the candidate themselves, and verify the information that you have heard. >> on the flipside, this is very good advice. people are looking for exactly that. the fake content problem, is this problem of plausible deniability. there is this audio media that had and released.

reportedly, they were denying it, aiming ai. going back and forth. it gives people to my ability of things that were true. how do you grapple with that? >> the dean of the university of texas law school, and another colleague, coined the term the liars dividend. there is this diffused information environment, when you can't really tell what is true. this is when they really thrive. we are well into that space. the information environment has really lost that touchstone of truth. it is hard to believe what you read or hear. you know when you add ai, that sounds like me. somebody must've copied it. this goes to some importance for candidates and campaigns right now to do whatever they can. this is the video and audio

that they used. president joe biden's executive order on artificial intelligence really does go to that watermarking . this is the mechanism that folks can use to take ownership of their own likeness. this is what they appear as. >> thank you so much. such an important topic. we should be talking a lot about november robo calls. this is just a reminder. thank you so much for joining me. another story tonight that we are talking about, shows just how much a jumpstart of new hampshire's residents like to get on the rest of the nation when it comes to voting. we will be right back. and

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