s.t.e.m. thanks for joining us this hour. g . so speaking of the holidays, two years ago on thanksgiving day -- so thanksgiving day

2022, the leader of one of the world's highest profile car companies made a surprise thanksgiving day announcement. he told people who owned his company's cars that as of that day, they no longer had to drive their cars. starting that day, thanksgiving day, the cars would be able to drive themselves from here on out. quote, tesla full self driving beta is now available to anyone in north america who requests it from their car screen, assuming you have plotted this option. congratulations to tesla autopilot/a.i. team on achieving a major milestone. so this is two years to go. again, 2022, thanksgiving day. not any warning this was coming. hey, hey, if you bought a tesla, you have the option when you bought it, you paid a

little extra so it would be capable of driving itself someday. so tesla, like lots of cars now, they send software updates over the air to their car so your car gets its operating system while it is parked in your driveway. then company's ceo was announcing in 2022, hey, while you have been inside enjoying turkey and stuffing and i don't know, six to a neck glasses of wine with your family, lucky you, your car out there in the driveway has just been upgraded to one that can drive itself so if you want, just feel free to give it a go. then the car henceforth will drive you wherever you want to go. it was thanksgiving day the company's ceo put out that announcement. within a few hours, it had led to some news.

>> 16 people, including eight kids, were part of a crash on the bay bridge. >> they say it happened so fast. chain reaction crash. >> i thought i was a goner. at first when it happened, you see something like that coming toward you at full speed. i thought, well, this is it. >> that was thanksgiving day, 2022. just a few days later, the news outlet the intercept obtained video that showed the accident as it happened. it turned out it was a tesla whose owner says it was in full self driving mode and the car just randomly braked superhard in the middle of the tunnel, which is what started that huge pile up of cars in the tunnel. the one that injured all those people. >> until today, we only saw the aftermath of the chain reaction crash last thanksgiving day. drive-by video of cars stacked

up in the tunnel, eastbound on the bay bridge. and a traffic jam that lasted hours. but brave bridge surveillance video now shows how it started. 76-year-old lawyer from san francisco told the chp has white 121 tesla model s was in full self driving mode when it suddenly supplied the brakes. a total eight vehicles crashed, nine people injured, including a two-year-old boy. just hours before the crash, tesla ceo elon musk called a major milestone. but there are a growing number of reports of the tesla technology unexpectedly slamming on the brakes. the national highway traffic imitation assigns a special crash investigation team to look into itwhat happen they are already investigating dozens of instances involving advanced systems from boloz, x, hyundai, genesis, and cruise, but mostly tesla.

>> mostly tesla's. and, you know, car crashes happen. we humans are not all that great at avoiding the problem of hurting and avoiding ourselves with our cars. car crashes are plagued and who can say whether robots might be better at driving than us overall at-large. but in a country with more than 280 million cars and trucks on the road, clearly it is worth studying if we're going to make this change. whether letting robots drive our cars is going to be more or less safe than letting us humans drive our cars. well, the u.s. government is doing that studying. you saw a reference in the news report to the national highway traffic -- national highway traffic safety ministration looking into that particular crash and others like it. well, the year before that pig thanksgiving day crashed in the bay area, that permit agency started a program where the car

companies have to report when crashes happen while a car has been in autopilot or in full self driving mode. they have to tell the government when that happens. so that means crashes like the one that happened in 2022 in the san francisco bay area, and also from this other terrible crash that was right nearby in contra costa county california the following year -- this was a fire truck got slammed into at speed by a tesla autopilot. the driver was killed. four firefighters were sent to the hospital and that crashed. earlier this year, the agency released its report on its findings after collecting all this data for several years. it led to headlines like this. quote, tesla's autopilot and full self driving late to hundreds crashes and dozens of deaths. government report described the

data about these hundreds of crashes, but it also gave the specific details of some of them, including one particularly harrowing one from carolina. a 10th grader stepped off of a school bus. the school bus was doing everything right. it was pulled over. it had its lights flashing. it had all the warning signals to let everybody know around there that they need to stop. the school bus is doing everything right. the kid was doing everything right. but a 2022 model tesla wept around the stopped school bus and slammed into this kit. this 10th-grader had to be med e backed to the hospital with life threatening injuries. by the time that report was issued, not only had crashes like i received a lot of attention in the areas where they happened, but the overall problem was starting to come into focus. riders had already reported that a criminal investigation into these matters was underway

targeting tesla. tesla had already disclosed in a sec filing that it had received federal subpoenas for information about its full self driving mode. it's autopilot mode. then just a few weeks ago, the government announced the opening of a formal federal investigation of tesla's full self driving mode in more than 2 million teslas. more than 2 million cars. and that is a big deal. which you might have noticed i said that report happened a few weeks ago. so, to be specific, the announcement of the federal investigation, that pig, potentially very consequential investigation happened in mid- october. what has happened between mid- october and now? since then, you might have seen that tesla ceo elon musk has basically had himself surgically attached to donald trump's party. i mean, seriously, are they

stitched together? can either one of them get dressed alone at this point? and of course donald trump won the presidential election last month. and so what happens now to anyone unsettled by the idea of a robot-controlled car driving itself into a nearby fire engine full of firefighters or a robot-controlled car slamming on its brakes in a crowded tunnel full of cars going 55 miles an hour while people are all driving to go see family on thanksgiving day? what happens to anybody who might have those kind of concerns? reuters headline, quote, exclusive: trump team was to scrap car-crash reporting roll. the trump transition has surveyed the landscape of public policy in the united states of america and it has decided, you know it really to go? what really needs to go as a matter of priority is this thing where car companies have to report it when their car is on autopilot and they crashes

into something. that is the new priority apparently. quote, the trump transition team was the incoming administration to drop a car crash reporting requirement opposed by elon musk's tesla, a move dr. crippled the government's ability to investigate and regulate. musk, the world's which is person, spent more than a quarter of $1 billion helping trump get elected. removing the crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit tesla, which has reported most of the crashes, more than 1500 of them, to federal safety regulators under this program. tesla has been targeted in national highway traffic safety investigations, including three stemming from this specific data. now. now, what is the purported justification for getting rid of this role in getting rid of it now? well, they cannot just say this guy paid for the presidential

election. therefore, he kind of bought himself a government so he gets what he wants. right? you cannot just say that. hey, you kids getting off school buses, hey, watch yourselves. you are fair game on the side of the road. you cannot say it that way. so they have to say something that sounds better than that. well, this is what they came up with. quote, the recommendation to cover crash-reporting rule came with a transition team tasked with producing a 100 a strategy for automotive pat strategy. then group called the measure a mandate for, quote, excessive data collection. oh. oh. excess of data collection. that is a problem that needs to be addressed here in this photo. excessive data collection. we have way too much data. our thumb drives are all full. we keep collecting data about these car crashes killing

people, our phones will slow down. too much data clogging up. excessive data collection. quote, a reuters analysis of the nhtsa crash data shows tesla accounted for 40 out of the 45 crashes reported to the agency through october 15th. 40 out of the 45 fatal incidents reported. that sounds bad if you are tesla. right? if you are tesla, better to have people not ever hear numbers like that. therefore, don't collect the numbers anymore. stop collecting all this excessive data. problem solved. problem solved for tesla and for elon musk. problem not sought for the contra costa county firefighters were in that truck. problem not solved for the a decades and the giants mash up in the thanksgiving dave tunnel crashed. not sought for the medevac in

north carolina after stepping off the school bus. right? problem not solved for is sold billionaire. i should note that this reporting from reuters is based on a document that waiters saw. we have not seen the document ourselves. we have also reached out to tesla and to the trump administration. so far we have not heard back. when you think about this dynamic answered of our government, i acknowledge maybe worrying about car crashes is not your thing. maybe that is just not what you are worried about. maybe less domestic, more global concerns. like, come on, you're talking about car corrects. there are bigger things at stake in the world. there is the opiate academic and nuclear armed rogue states. right? why are you talking about this? this domestic, specific thing?

well, behold, the man who has been tapped to be our next secretary of commerce in the united states. that is him standing with the microphone next to jd vance. as the co-chair of the trump transition team, this man was in charge of identifying 4000 new hires to the second trump administration including antitrust officials, securities lawyers, and expertise. but he himself has not stepped away from running financial firms that serve corporate clients, traders, crypto firms, and all of which are regulated by the same agencies whose appointees he is helping to find. this is about howard who has been tapped to be the next co- chair of the trump transition. you saw the mentioned there of cryptocurrency. that is about one very specific thing that is worth hearing.

his firm, the trump transition co-chair, the guy who will be trump's nominee for secretary of commerce, his wall street firm, it is up to its neck. more than $80 billion up to its neck in one particular crypto firm that is reportedly now the subject of a major federal criminal investigation, and it is also reportedly potentially on the hook for sanctions by the u.s. treasury department. this is reporting for the wall street journal. quote, the criminal investigation run by prosecutors at the manhattan u.s. attorney's office is looking at whether the cryptocurrency has been used by third parties to fund illegal activity such as terrorism and hacking. the treasury department has meanwhile been considering sanctioning the company tether because of its use by individuals, including groups in the u.s., including the terrorists group hamas and russian arms dealers. sanctions against tether for generally prohibit americans from doing business with the

company. cryptocurrency is, quote, a vital financing tool for several the u.s.'s top security concerns including -- check out this list -- the north korean nuclear weapons programs, mexican drug cartels, russian arms companies, middle eastern terrorist groups, and chinese manufacturers of chemicals used to make fentanyl. that criminal investigation first reported literally two weeks exactly before the presidential election. but then trump won the election and this guy gets named to be secretary of commerce and also was named as the guy who is going to staff up the whole federal government while his firm is, again, up to its neck in managing tens of billions of dollars for a firm that is reportedly been criminally investigated for alleged links -- just put up the list again. was a l.y.n.x. again? l.y.n.x. again? alleged links to the terrorist

group hamas, russian arms dealers, the north korean nuclear weapons program, mexican drug cartels, and for good measure chinese manufacturers of chemicals used to make fentanyl. so maybe car crashes are your thing. are any of those things are concerns? if any of those things are important to you for any reason, sorry. unless and until you are buying yourself a president, the government is going to be taking care of the school bus autopilot tesla's and the alleged money wanderers for hamas, russian gun runners, and the people who preview fentanyl. they are not going to be working for you. when we use the word oligarchy or you hear people talk about oligarchs, it always sounds foreign, first of all. but second of all, i will admit as a person sort of interested

in the that goes along with the news, sometimes the whole idea of oligarchy or oligarchs, it sounds kind of interesting. maybe a sixth sense of what counts as drama in an interesting story, but you have got really, really rich people. a really small number of them changing the government so it only works for them. it can sound like interesting drama to watch. right? like "succession file." rich people fighting amongst himself to see who gets to control which piece of the pie. maybe there's going to be interesting drama. succession-style to watching trump's various billionaires scratch amongst themselves to see if the guy with $80 billion worth of links to the crypto firm with north korea tice. is he going to be commerce secretary or maybe treasury secretary? maybe he is out.

or maybe the one billionaire who wants to live in space, will he totally take over nasa himself or will the other billionaire with his own space company make big enough smoochy companies that he will be headed some portion of america's space and infrastructure. you know? there is a way to think of this as real junior high drama. well, these kitty cats hate each other meow. what a fight. there is a way to look at drama as a theater of greed and maybe there will be some good stories there. and of course there is also the lowdown crassness of it all which is its own lowbrow kind of drama. one son's girlfriend gets to be an ambassador. sure. why not? the other son's wife maybe it's to be a senator. one daughter's husband gets an

ambassadorship for his felon dad and his college roommate gets to be america's hostage envoy because, sure, why not. jared's roommate for the hostage envoy job. it is not like anybody's life depends on it. and the other daughter's husband, he will get a middle east envoy job for his father who seems to have persuaded everyone he is a billionaire but apparently that was all an act in his family just owns a truck dealership. now that he has been exposed as a con artist, does he get to be? it is all hilarious. it is maybe good drama unless god forbid you have a family member who is a hostage summer and is counting on the u.s. government to save his or her life in your maybe worrying at jared's roommate was not the best person to head that up for the u.s. government. maybe there is somebody more qualified? i mean, it is hilarious unless you have a loved one trapped overseas with a problem in a

foreign country who needs help from the u.s. embassy in that country, and it turns out don jr.'s girlfriend was a diplomatic ambassador there? it could all be very interesting drama, unless you have got a reason to worry about fentanyl and opioids or unless you have got a kid getting off a school bus somewhere. or unless you find yourself on thanksgiving day driving a car full of kids through that tunnel at 1:00 p.m. what people like anne applebomb and ruth ben-ghiat and timothy snyder have been teaching about a government that is all over the world but has never been here, one of the things they're telling us is that oligarchy, under an authoritarian leader,

we have got very, very rich people dividing up the spoils of the government under an authoritarian leader who let them have at it. one of the thing to know about that kind of system is that it isn't just about the leader and the oligarchs helping themselves. it is that and it is a sight to behold. there are untold piles of ill- gotten gains all over the world to show for that. but for most of us, what is more important than what they do for themselves is what it does to everyone else. government exists to serve the people who have been made very rich by technology and industry and business practices that have a side effect of hurting and killing regular people, the effect of that is that more regular people are going to get hurt and killed because there will be nowhere to turn for redress or for protection because the authorities might once have called, they are no longer there for you. they are there now for the guy at the gala at the leader's

winter home in florida. they are there for the con artist in-laws of the leader's second daughter or whoever. i mean, that is what oligarchy is everywhere. the important thing is not the drama among the oligarchs and i can feel our media system right now sliding into soap opera coverage of the drama month oligarchs. sure. that drama is there. but the real effect on our country is not just about which kitty cat comes out with the biggest spoils. right? the drama among the oligarchs as drama but the consequence for our country is what that kind of a system, what kind of a spoil system does to all of us. does to regular people. how do we prepare ourselves better for that based on what other countries have been through with that. is there anything we can learn about how we can try to slow it down or stop our country from becoming that if in fact we

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she gets to be ambassador to greece. i don't know why greece. this is a fun one. kind of like a nesting doll. pick for surgeon general. she is related to the guy who trumped pick for national security adviser. the new national security adviser is related to the new surgeon general. her brother-in-law is trump's pick to run the transportation department. i wonder why she got the -- i wonder why he got -- i don't know. to lead the dea, trump pick the son of an nfl owner, a friend of his, who he had parked it in his first term. apparently, the heat was a little too hot for that guy. he has already withdrawn his name from contention. and in that mess on its own is a lot to take in. anyone of those appointments would be a showstopping scandal in any others ' presidency. that is just stuff that nobody is even noticing amid the tsunami of candidates who are not related to trumpet who have

varying degrees of legitimately alarming details and lack of qualification. plus, the never ending parade of policy proposals being floated by the trump administration. let's get rid of the fdic. let's get rid of vaccines. let's get rid of the postal service. let's get rid of the weather service. what else do we need? it does feel like a fire hose right now but psychologically that doesn't affect us. because that feels like too much, does that mean were not able to focus on money one of these ab things? we strategically strategically align ourselves to this moment of information, this moment of transition in our country? this moment that keeps us psychologically engaged and strategically sharp in defending our government and our country. joining us, timothy snyder, you know him from this show,

primarily as the author of the seminal book, "on tyranny." his newest book is called "on freedom." professor, thank you for coming in. let me ask you, i talked a little bit about the idea of oligarchy in the first segment. i want to know if i talked about that in a way that resonates with you or if i got that wrong? >> you got it absolutely right. it is the ancient greeks who said the oligarchs will be stronger than democrats because they will collect the money and have the propaganda. and then we borrow the word from the russians who have seen this story happen in the 1990s. week aging presidents renovate rich, clever people who fight amongst themselves, divide up all the goodies, and bring the state down. >> bringing the state down is important for people who care about the government. also for people who are concerned about their everyday

lives. there are things that we will miss when we are gone. and if the oligarchs capture the government so that it only serve their purposes, the american people will be worse off and poorer and less safe and ultimately dislocated from the levers that we can currently used to make our government more effective and more responsive. >> yeah. americans like to think we are special. but oligarchs in our country will always be more affectionate towards oligarchs and other countries. you have to see the world through their eyes, which is a world of billionaires and auto citizens. all the countries that trump admires where people have shorter lives or were they are poorer. >> when you look at the examples from our contemporaries in other countries who are contending with systems like this but also the history of this type of government, are there lessons

to be learned about how to stop a slide into oligarchic domination? how to resist it or how to try to retain our rights and the things we enjoy about our government against those kinds of forces? >> i think personal we have to be able to keep it positive. not in the sense of saying everything is great. it is terrible. they're trying to break the government which means breaking the country. but positive in the sense that we should have a shadow cabinet. alternatives to the same people so we can look and say this person should have been secretary of the treasury. that person should have been secretary of defense. give positive alternatives as policy but also something so the journalists can talk to them for the next four years. so the journalist can talk to them. let's talk about the good vaccines and what we actually could do. let's talk to someone about how

we could prevent car crashes and what that would look like. what an america would look like if we had a real elite. more practically, the states can make it harder for oligarchs to function and we can look at other countries to make it harder for people like musk to function. >> what you mean there? >> i mean the things that musk an hour oligarchs to our sometimes illegal in other countries, and we should observe that and be supportive of that. but it is the states that actually control a lot of financial flows. >> what do tell people who feel overwhelmed by, as you say, how bad it is right now. i think one of the things that has rocked a lot of people since the election is that sort of the worst things that you can imagine, particularly in terms of nominees, like kelsey debord for the director of national intelligence. robert f. kennedy for health secretaries the worst as you can imagine.

fbi director, cash mattel, definitely the worst choice you can imagine. the succession of those. it was not just matt gaetz. it is as bad as it could probably get. i think it is overwhelming to people in a sense and it also a key multiply makes people feel like i'm not sure which to focus on. maybe i should just focus on any of this and check out. >> none of these people should hold any position in any country at all. we can't normalize it. the second thing is we can classify them. some of them will destroy it because of incompetent. some will destroy because of conflict of interest. and some like musk will want to destroy the government because he wants to rebuild it. rebuild we have to get over the line to as many of these people as possible. like respectable republicans should not be voting for these

people. once they do, we have to think about the six terrible months that followed. the democrats should not be thinking about this lost an election, but what things look like in june of '25 and how things could be so much better than the terror that this group is going to bring us to. >> shadow government. that democrats for respectable republicans are never-trump republicans should be stepping up and saying no. this is what the transportation department should be doing. >> i think harris or pelosi or someone should have a shadow government whose job it is to talk to the press every day about, hey, this is what the government could do. when things get terrible, we will think let's get less terrible. but we should be thinking about, hey, we actually have great people in this country we can get you all that. >> timothy snyder, yale university, the author of "on

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the quite unexpected news this weekend that abc news would settle a defamation suit with president-elect trump and pay him $15 million had the president-elect licking his chops today at a press conference talking about the

prospects he imagines for going after more media outlets. he says he plans to sue somebody. i don't know. the people of iowa? their newspaper. he wasn't totally clear. he plans to sue someone over a poll late in the election that showed trump not doing as well as he did in iowa. since he eventually won iowa, he thinks that is grounds for a lawsuit because the poll said he might lose it. and especially harry think he said today is that "he should have to bring suits like this himself." the u.s. department of justice should bring lawsuits like this on his behalf. the dynamic that is emerging for the second trump term is not just a powerful people want to be able to use their own power to harassed their perceived critics but that the president-elect expects -- he expects that he will be able to use not just his own power and

influence but the u.s. government to harass and punish his critics. and it is not just the justice department he plans to use. today, the co-chair of the fcc, federal communication's commission, responded again to trump's demand that the fcc should strip licenses from a news network that made him mad. the upcoming chair said, quote, the fcc has no business threatening to take away broadcast licenses because the president does not like the content or coverage on a network. ahead of the election, trump talked about using the military domestically to target americans who oppose him or protest him. the so-called enemy from within. now, he is planning on creating a new board overseeing promotions and senior officers in the u.s. military, which would allow him to purge military leadership of anybody who is disloyal to him or who disagrees with him or who has

different politics. trump and his allies are also considering withholding federal money from states or cities that don't go along with plans like his mass deportation idea. it feels like a lot because it is a lot and it is happening all at once. how do local governments and news organizations and ordinary citizens think strategically about this when trump is threatening and saying he expects to use the most powerful government on earth against its own citizens to attack his critics? what can your mayor or governor or local paper or some voluntary organization you may be part of do to stand up against that in a time like this? just the person to ask. joining us now is anti-romero, executive director of the american civil liberties union. anthony, it is nice to see you. having you and tim snyder here on the same night feels like i won the lottery. >> no. it is great. >> to me about how you at the

aclu are thinking about your plans to try to do defend american civil liberties. >> well, we have been planning for almost a year. you were anticipating the possibility he would win this election so we have spent thousands of staff hours tracking project 2025 and what happened in trump 1.0 to see what might happen in trump 2.0. clearly, we can't run the same playbook. they are aggressive. they are smarter. they are faster off the block. they are running the gauntlet on many of the policy issues that they did not dare try last time. they are going to run the ball down the field. litigation is going to be key. the courts are still a place we will have to turn to. we will have to be wide-eyed that the courts are increasingly conservative and

he will appoint new judges onto the courts. also, biden appointed a record number of judges onto the courts. they will have to earn their pay by picking the right clients, the right theories. review file. where do you really push the envelope. that is what really we are working through right now. >> when you talk to regular americans were not lawyers, or not people engaged in this fight in a practical paid to do it kind of a way, and you hear people feeling intimidated, feeling overwhelmed at the pace in which we are getting alarming news about the extremism of their plans, what you tell them about the prospects of holding life? >> the local governments, the state attorneys general, the mayors, we had this whole plan around a firewall for freedom we call it. these officials generally play an important role in stopping the worst of the abuses. >> how so? >> when they tried to detain

and deport these hundreds of thousands, up to a million people, they have the legal power to do the raids, but the logistics. and they are going to need mayors and governors or city councils to either give them access to police officers are not. jails. where are you going to house all these folks? what we are doing is preparing executive orders to put pressures on elected officials so they don't roll over. they should sever these relations they have with the federal government on immigration. they should make sure our prisons and our jails are off- limits. shae should begin to think about what actions they should take to pardon immigrants who have a criminal record because they drove on a suspended license. well, let's take them out of harm's way. >> take a do that now. >> yes. so part of it is what we have to do a swarm our allies. even in red states, you have

some blue mayors. we have a whole game plan. part of it is breaking it down. what can be done by the courts. what can be done by citizens. what can mayors do? >> when people look at the fact there have not been large-scale protests the way there were after 2016, i tend to look at that and people are smart and marshaling their resources. you see at the same way? >> totally. when he starts deporting all these folks, ripping apart communities, you are never going to move that many people to the immigration system. it is going to rip the basic fiber of our lives. that is what people are going to say. oh, that is not what we bargained for. >> anti-romero, directed of direo the american civil liberties union. thank you. we will be right back. stay with us. stay with us.

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