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extension of the 2017 trump tax cut that will cost trillions of dollars and blow a gaping hole in the deficit. nbc news is reporting that even if trump. but really, ellen did manage to slash all the spending that doge is targeting like usaid and dai programs, his policies would still blow a hole in the deficit. according to the nonpartisan committee for a responsible federal budget, trump has called for a series of tax cuts from eliminating taxes on tips, overtime pay and social security benefits on top of extending the 2017 tax cuts for the rich. but those cuts would add at least $5 trillion to the ten year deficit, compared to the red ink. if no changes are made to current federal law. now, they don't want you to know that. so they're waving around the shiny keys instead. shadow president elon musk is already suggesting sharing all those doge savings he has yet to prove

actually exist, and saying they could send $5,000 in dividends in the form of tax refunds to american households. it's the new stimmy check, like the ones congress sent to americans in 2020 with trump's magic marker signature on them. while his actual policies ultimately led to more than a million people dead from covid in this country. it's like what we're seeing now, right? the nation is still massively in debt from the trump tax cut, with republicans planning to extend them forever. and real americans are getting hurt by the doge spending freezes and cuts. people aren't getting their farm subsidies, head start and more. while the richest man in the world proposes to toss some coins on the ground, hoping the pocket change will distract people as they lose their homes and farms. meanwhile, elon and friends are throwing a bunch of meaningless numbers on a weird website that is allegedly about saving. this is the doge website, a lo fi, slightly stylized version of the doge twitter account, looking

exactly how you'd expect a government run website by elon to look. yesterday, the site published a list of government contracts it had canceled, claiming about $16 billion in savings itemized on a new wall of receipts. but that story is falling apart real quick. the new york times caught a mistake early on. doge claims it saved $8 billion from just one contract with the immigration and customs enforcement agency. per the times, the doge list vastly overestimated the actual value of that contract. a closer scrutiny of a federal database shows that a recent version of the contract was for $8 million, with an m, not $8 billion with a b, and the total savings number published on the site, $55 billion lacked specific documentation. so, you know, off by about 7,992,000,000, give or take, while adding to the

speculation that doge is actually just an entirely made up operation, pretending to save money and fooling the maga base. this is all happening while trump is literally wasting his time playing golf, selling meme coins and merch, offering maga themed photo ops, or making pointless moves like renaming the gulf of mexico to make it seem like he has a presidential legacy besides dismantling the united states. this man is so bored. apparently, while elon and the project 2025 people are running the country, he's now also micromanaging new york city traffic, because that's the thing u.s. presidents do now. today, the administration nixed federal approval of new york's congestion pricing automobile tolls, which had been instituted just last month to ease traffic, improve air quality and raise money for the city's aging public transit system. the plan charged passenger vehicles $9 to access manhattan below 60th street during peak hours. in a letter to new york governor kathy hochul, transportation

secretary sean duffy of road rules all stars reality tv fame, said the federal government has jurisdiction over highways leading into manhattan. duffy called the trolls targeting manhattan bound drivers backwards and unfair, and a slap in the face of working class americans and small business owners. and that is where the reality tv transportation secretary gets it wrong. surprise, surprise, congestion pricing will actually help the vast majority of new york commuters. the overwhelming majority of whom get into manhattan via drum roll public transportation. ever hear of the subway? real world. sean. also, cyclists beware trump is vowing to eliminate bike lanes, which are approved by the federal new york city department of transportation, saying that bikes are dangerous because, quote, they're whacking people. but isn't there, you know, a person close to trump who would benefit from these changes? because people without bikes might buy more cars? i'm thinking, thinking, thinking.

why would that be? basically, it's all about the rich getting richer and the middle class and the poor footing the bill, even down to cutting one of the most significant safety nets in u.s. history today. trump went on his social media site to endorse the republican house budget plan, which would make deep cuts to medicaid. he's going after medicaid despite promising he would never do so, a promise he made literally only a half a day ago on fox. he's going after medicare and farmers to schools, teachers, veterans for their closed circuit of maga fans. they are letting them think they're saving them money. but what's really happening is that republicans are jamming through a tax cut for that poor, a tax cut for rich people that poor people and veterans are going to have to pay for. and despite their promises, republicans continue to ignore the majority of their own voters and focus only on the rich ones. it's the republican way. and one might call it gangster capitalism. joining me now is michael steele, co-host of the weekend and the former chair of the

republican national committee. back in the olden days, when there was a republican party that was normal. and msnbc political analyst david jolly. michael, you were the head of the republican party. republican party has always been for tax cuts. that's not new. but now what they're doing is, you know, there was always this lie that there were going to be paid for. they're going to be paid. they're never paid for. right? they always just blow a hole in the deficit. but now they're literally like, we're cutting farmers money and medicaid. and don't worry, we're going to send you five k, which they when are they going to send them that they're not. and if you lost your farm, well that doesn't help your thoughts. >> no i agree with that. >> none of. it is. geared towards. >> the. >> working middle class. >> of this country, and certainly. >> not the. >> working poor. >> and so these programs. >> which doge. >> is going after. >> in the guise. >> of efficiency, is really more designed to create. >> those lanes. >> to justify spending on the. >> back yard. >> back end. >> all of this money. >> all of this money.

>> is being. >> accumulated to, to your. >> lead in. >> to pay for the tax cut. that's the end game. so let's not be stupid people and understand exactly what the deal is here. >> this is not not about. >> government efficiencies because there's nothing nothing efficient. >> about what elon musk. >> is doing. secondly. the new york example. >> of. >> the pricing. >> that that the. >> city put in place with the state's. >> approval. >> this flies in the face of everything that george. >> mason mason. >> talked about. >> and there are a lot of folks at the time concerned about an overreaching federal government. so the party that said. >> hey. >> you know, the federal government has no place in states. >> rights. >> that little 10th amendment thing, right, where the states get to call the shots for themselves and their local governments, even that's now blown out of the water. that cover has been exposed. so now we have a full a fuller appreciation of what the end game is here. the cub, this new

cover of time out of the white house today with donald. >> trump with. >> a crown on his head. that's the end game. and the price that's going to be paid are civil liberties. the taxes that you have to pay for the for your rights to be taken from you and ultimately, expansion of a very wealthy class of individuals. that will be the american version. >> of oligarchs. >> that's that's. >> really the end. >> game here. >> and across, of course. >> across the way donald trump gets richer and richer in the process. >> right. i mean, look, i've long said that, you know, it always comes down to tax cuts. david. right. i mean, you were in congress. i mean, but but the thing is, is that if you just say to people, we're going to cut really rich people's taxes and we're going to make you pay for it by cutting your medicaid, people go, oh, no, i don't want that. so instead, you say doge is going to magically find all of wastewater and they go after

stuff that is easy for people to demonize foreign aid, like people think foreign aid is like, you know, hundreds of billions or thousands. they think it's all this money when it's really a tiny bit of money. but you say the foreigners aren't going to get the money. here's one of the things that trump just did a new eo stop federally funding work for unaccompanied migrant children. do you really think that we're spending so much money providing legal assurance to unaccompanied migrant kids that if you just get rid of that, suddenly the tax cuts are paid for? they're not. but what the way they're being paid is, if you go through all of these people who are losing u.s. aid money, california has the most farms impacted. but you know who's second? north carolina. you know who's third? indiana. florida's then new york, but then you know who's next? florida, then minnesota. it's going to be farmers in red states that are going to pay for that tax cut. and that's what they never want to tell you. >> yeah. >> joy. >> i love having this conversation with you and michael right now because we all get to spit some truth. i mean, i lived in the belly of the beast on republican tax cuts in

congress and so forth. and i'll tell you a story. i was a co-sponsor of many of those tax cuts. and i remember there was an estate tax cut or a death tax, as republicans call it, that. i was a co-sponsor of it, lived out there for about a year. and all of a sudden when we brought it up on the house floor to pass it, and i go to leadership and say, okay, now how are we going to pay for it? and a member of leadership looks at me and says, oh, we don't pay for tax cuts that republicans haven't paid. >> for. >> tax cuts for decades. and here's the other truth that is really critically important for all of this branding that trump and his dodges are doing about about federal spending cuts. nothing. absolutely nothing that doge is doing right now would ever come close to paying for the tax cuts. correct. less than 2% of the federal budget is federal employees, about 1.7%. so let's say you cut 10% of the federal workforce. that is less than 2/10 of 1% of the federal budget. that is not paying for $4.5 trillion of tax cuts. and secondly, even if you go after the programs, 70% of our budget

is mandatory spending, social security, medicare, medicaid, interest on the debt, 30% is what doge can look at. well, half of that is defense, which are not really cared about. so now 15% of the federal budget, actual services, domestic services to people is what they want to target. >> and all. >> they're doing is causing unnecessary pain and disruption and chaos and suspension of services for nothing. none of this will actually pay for republican tax cuts. but they don't care. they don't want it to. and the scariest part is this donald trump is a lame duck not going to be on the ballot again, so he. doesn't actually care if people get ticked off at him. now there's question about other republicans going along with it. why? but right now they're exerting a ton of pain on the american people for zero in return. >> right. i mean, and the thing that's been so wild, michael, is watching republican members sort of meekly say, hey, maybe please don't cut my kansas money, but not really fight for it, right? and, you know, the first thing they're going to throw overboard is tax on tips. they're not

going to do that. the first thing they're going to throw overboard is no tax on social security. that's not going to happen. they're going to keep all of the stuff that's going to help elon musk. you think they're going to cut defense, cut elon's defense contracts. they're not he's going to make money. while all regular people out in the heartland are going to get hosed. >> i mean, america, the richest man in the world, is sitting atop of our federal government. and that 30% that my buddy david just referred to, he's a big part of that 30% in his government contracts, the 17 or 18 contracts he has. is he. >> looking at that? >> no. is he going to look at that? no, no. >> is the waste, fraud and. abuse in. >> an elon musk contract? i'd love to take a fine tooth comb. let david jolly, who sat on those committees, go through that, those contracts. i bet you he'd find a lot of waste, fraud and abuse. but you know what's waste? fraud and abuse for you is not for me. all right. and that's what. >> that's the.

>> space we're into. so we just need to be honest about this. i mean, the reality of it is the american people are now slowly waking up to this new reality. yes. even in red states where you've now got members going and quietly, as you rightly noted, saying, please don't cut this program because it's going to hurt my people. well, really? oh, you're just realizing that you've been out here, you know, promoting this. and so now you want to cleave out a little corner for your folks. well, what about the folks next door? what about the folks down the street? and so that's that's the compounding reality. >> that needs. >> to be leveled up in these conversations. >> and, david, 80% of federal workers don't work in washington. they work out somewhere else in the country. they're getting there. they're going to be all these unemployed people that are in their 50s that have been doing this job for 30 years, that have no jobs. they're going to figure out what to do with them. they're cutting medicaid while all that's happening. this is going to hurt a lot of republicans, right where it hurts and they don't seem to care. why aren't any of

them saying we want to audit elon? why don't we audit his stuff? where are the where's the call to audit him and his contract? >> yeah. when you're elected, you either lead or you follow. and republicans are a bunch of followers right now, not leaders. and you're right, they're going to hear from their constituents because it's going to impact local economies. you're going to see services reduced. take the national park system, particularly those communities that thrive on kind of the national parks economy. forget about it. it's getting wiped out right now. and so to expect republicans to stand up, i think we'll never see that. but here's what i think is truly going to emerge for the midterms. i think money and politics. every ten years or so comes around is something that people just see it and they get it. and in this case, money and politics is the thread between donald trump's corruption and his grift and his graft and his personal businesses and contracts that compromise national security, is willing to lead us into the involvement of elon musk. but it's also the wealth gap that gets expanded through republican tax cuts, where the billionaires get theirs and other people get left behind, either because you're a

civil servant who loses their job or you're simply seeing somebody. you're somebody who's whose taxes and wages aren't getting better and your services are getting cut. watch for this to develop. there is a resentment growing. no more billionaires in politics is a simple message for a lot of voters right now. >> and by the way, $5,000 will be life changing for a lot of families in america. i promise you, they'll never give it to them. they're not going to give them that. the first thing they're going to throw out is that because elon needs his contracts and his money, it's not about y'all. it's about him getting his money. we're out of time. but very quick, michael. very quick. >> real quick. >> just a question for the american people. envision what a recovery looks like on the other side of all of this. when this administration is done and the damage has been wrought, have you considered how we're going to build back the infrastructure, the federal government, to reestablish those programs that you now rely on to pay for your kids, to help your kids, to help your family? >> yeah, because it's going to be gone because they got to pay for that tax cut. michael steele and david jolly, thank you guys

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government workers. people who work at the department of defense, the climate science and weather agencies noaa and nasa and the irs in kansas city are just some of the agencies reportedly bracing for firings. and even though trump and musk are attempting to paint these federal employees as wasteful frauds, remember these are real people, public servants who are losing their jobs. the washington post reports one transportation department worker found out he was fired on valentine's day, just after putting his children to bed, as he sat down to watch a movie with his wife, an agricultural employee discovered he was terminated the morning after attending an ex partner's funeral. luca graziani, a disabled army veteran, was five weeks from completing his probation year when he logged into his work computer at the bronx veterans affairs hospital. waiting on the screen was a boilerplate termination email, citing performance concerns. and

there's ian fauci, a cancer researcher at the national institutes of health who fears his job is on the chopping block. >> hhs has. >> said they're. >> they're following. >> the president's plan. >> to streamline the government. it's firing cancer researchers. >> part of that. >> plan. hhs has. >> said they've. done this to better serve. >> the american people. >> consider the medications you rely on. >> for diabetes, heart disease, or cancer. these are developed in. large part due to nih and nih funded researchers. >> is destroying. >> years of progress into research. >> really serving the american people. >> and ian is just one of the many federal workers who took to the streets today in protest of these efforts. joining me now are two federal workers who spoke at today's rally in new york, chris fasano, former attorney for the consumer financial protection bureau, who was fired from his job yesterday. and chris dole, spokesperson for the federal unionist network and president of his local union chapter.

thank you both for being here. i want to start with you. we have two chris's. i'm going to start with chris fasano. tell me how you found out that you had lost your job, and tell me what your job was first. what did you actually what were you doing? >> yeah. so i was an enforcement attorney with the consumer financial protection bureau. so we would enforce consumer laws. we would prevent financial companies from taking advantage of ordinary americans. and i found out that i was fired last tuesday. i received an email at around 830 at night to my personal email. that email went out to about 70 of my colleagues, and it said that i was my performance was not up to standards for the consumer financial protection bureau, but it was the same email that everyone else got. and in fact, it didn't have my name in it. it was a just said to an employee, first name, last name.

>> so they referred to you as first name, last name. no specific, but they're saying performance, but they didn't specify it to you. >> that's right. and now when we download this letter, that's when populated with all of our information. but i think it speaks to the fact that what is happening at agencies across the country is that you have this, you know, threadbare staff that's trying to tear apart the agency, and they're doing it in this sloppy fashion. it's the elon musk strategy of move quickly and break things. and when we found out that we were fired, the first thing that we did is we got on a call. we've been organizing for weeks and we were angry. we were angry that we were fired, angry that we couldn't serve american consumers, and angry that american consumers would be left unprotected from financial fraud and abuse. and the very next day, in 12 hours, we organized a picket outside of federal plaza here in new york city. and we thought maybe a dozen people would turn out the fired employees. but there were about

100 people. and that was it was uplifting. it was a source of hope to see so many people come out and protest this. yeah. >> crystal, you as a union rep and a union leader, i work with lots of union folks here. i work in television, so we work with lots of union people. and my understanding is that the union provides you some, affords you some protection. right. like, what are the rights that folks have in this in the other chris's situation? >> i mean, the. administration's approach to our agencies and congress's, you know, mandated authorization. for our agencies, agencies to do their jobs is being treated the same way. >> as union. >> contracts and labor protections, which is they're just being tossed. there's no respect for contracts. there's no respect respect for the laws that have created these agencies. and the truth is that they're not really seeking.

anything about efficiency. >> they're not trying. >> to do anything about the performance of the federal workforce. they're coming after the services that these agencies are mandated to provide. and they're doing it, you know, as elon musk is doing it. >> chris. >> you should describe how the cfpb's role is specifically tasked with regulating, like, what is it, the financial services wing of tesla. like, they're they're they're gutting the very services that elon musk himself is subject to regulation for. >> yeah. please describe that. >> yeah. that's right. i don't think it's a coincidence that elon musk came after the consumer financial protection bureau so early on. and that's because some of his companies are regulated by that bureau. it's the financing arm for tesla. he's talked about creating a payment app, kind of like apple pay that would be

regulated by the consumer financial protection bureau. so he came in, fired the workers, told us to stop working. and that basically gives bad financial actors like elon musk a green light to take advantage of hard working americans. and he did that to enrich himself. this is a heist by an unelected billionaire. >> i think that is clear. and crystal, talk about protests are happening. what is the plan? is there legal action pending? what are you all planning to do? >> yeah, i mean, all the federal unions are pursuing lawsuits because of all the laws that are being broken, whether it's, you know, again, the congressionally mandated responsibility of our agencies to regulate or to protect the environment or to protect labor standards, like there's all the ways in which those laws are being broken. there's also all the ways in which our labor contracts are being violated. and the unions are certainly pursuing those lawsuits. but i think it's worth

taking stock that we're dealing with a congress that will do anything the president will say. obviously, the president and the billionaires that he's surrounded himself by, but also the courts have indicated that they're going to be deferential to the authority of the president. and i think it creates a real, you know, people describe it as a constitutional crisis because the absence of checks and balances. but i think there's one check left. and i think that's what organized labor has to bring to the table, which is the power of regular working people to make this a political crisis that they can't manage. and so in the weeks ahead, i think that we have to tell our stories about the services that we provide, you know, the human interest story about, you know, chris losing his job. that's worth telling. but it's more important that we highlight that the services that chris did for the american people to protect them from, you know, predatory lenders. yeah.

you know, the things that make sure that we're not going to die in debt. the medicaid that's getting cut. i mean, they want to go after. >> that. no, i'm 100% with you. and i know we are running out of time, but yes, i mean, if you can't get medicaid and you can't feed your kids and you can't trust the food that you're eating, that it won't poison you because the regulators have been taken away, that does affect you personally. chris fasano, crystals, please come back. we wish you the best of luck and we will be watching what you guys are doing. >> can we just drive your audience to how to get involved? the federal unionist network did a day of action today in 40 plus cities, and you should go to go public services.com and sign up on the form even though the events are behind us. sign up on the form to get plugged in with solidarity with the federal workforce. >> we will also put that on our social media, and we'll make sure that we make let people know how they can get directly to that website. thank you very much, crystal. chris. thank you guys very much. >> thank you so much.

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corruption charges against new york city mayor eric adams. following a hearing this afternoon. returning to the courtroom for donald trump, but in a different capacity, was his former personal lawyer in the new york hush money case. emil bove, now the acting deputy attorney general. besides the role change, what was also unusual was that bove was the only representative for the doj in that courtroom. perhaps he couldn't get another prosecutor to join him, because so many resigned in protest over the motion to dismiss, including the acting u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, danielle sassoon, who resigned, saying the rescission of the charges against adams amounted to a quid pro quo. bovey couldn't even get the prosecutors that he reportedly strong armed to sign the motion to join him in court. he repeated his past claims that the motion is justified because the charges interfere with adams duties as mayor, specifically assisting trump on immigration issues, and were the result of political weaponization against the mayor. it's just another

example of how, under this administration, the rule of law is subjective, so long as you can benefit trump in some way. joining me now is msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor and friend of the show, paul butler. likelihood of this case being dropped. >> it's not likely. >> so under the law, the. judge has very. >> limited discretion. we learned this recently. >> in dc after. >> trump pardoned. >> the january. >> 6th insurrectionist. >> there was an open case involving two proud boys. the department. >> moved to dismiss. >> those cases. the judge said. >> it would be a grave. >> injustice to. >> the american. >> people to dismiss. >> the cases. >> but she. >> had to do. >> it. >> right, so he probably will dismiss it. there's been some. here's judge hall questioning mayor adams. let's listen to that for a minute. i'll have to read it. sorry. is there are there any other agreements, written or otherwise, that you've entered into with the government? no. and then mayor adams. no. your honor, judge ho. has anyone threatened you in any way to consent to the motion? mayor adams? no, your honor. there's been some criticism of

judge hall that he didn't have really strong, striking, quite strident questioning. what do you make of it? >> i think. >> the judge did the most. he could. >> under the law. >> so he. >> really focused. >> on whether the mayor. understands that doj can reinstate. >> these. >> charges whenever they want. this is a. dismissal without prejudice, which means that. >> the doj is. >> basically using this pending. charges as. >> a stick to force. >> adams to do. >> whatever donald. >> trump wants him to do. and adams was illustrated. >> he understands. >> the assignment. he went on fox news with trump's immigration czar. and he was sitting there like, yeah, basically whatever you want me to do. the immigration czar literally. >> said. >> if adams doesn't. >> cooperate. >> he's going to be up his butt. >> let's play it. let's play it. we have that. >> i came to new. >> york city. i wasn't going to leave without nothing. >> right. >> i did the last time, and i told him i'm not leaving until i got something. >> now i got him on. >> the couch in front of

millions of people. he came back waving his. now. right. >> if he doesn't come. >> through, i'll be back in your city. right? and we won't be sitting. >> on a couch. >> i'll be in his office. >> up, up. >> his butt saying, where the. >> hell is the. >> agreement we came to? >> i mean, that's a threat. >> it is a threat. it's a quid. >> pro quo. >> and again, i think that's one reason why the deputy attorney general was sitting by himself at that council table. normally you'd see a whole team of prosecutors, but i think both they knew that if he took real career prosecutors, they would be forced to say in open court what they said in their letters of resignation, which is that dismissing this case violates the oath they took to support and defend the constitution and to stand up for equal justice under the law. >> what do you make of these post-hearing statement? i went to new york today to show the men and women of the justice department, as well as the american people, that i am personally committed to our shared fight ending, weaponized government, stopping the invasion of criminal illegal aliens, and eliminating drug cartels and transnational gangs for our homeland. for those at the department who are with me in these battles and understand

that there are no separate sovereigns in the executive branch, we're going to do great things to make america safe again. for those who do not support our critical mission, i understand there are templates for resignation letters available on the websites of the new york times and cnn. >> so eight prosecutors have resigned rather than go along with this order, which they think violates, again, not only the constitution, but the code of professional responsibility and the oath that they took as prosecutors. so, joy, our nation has to turn its anxious eyes to da alvin bragg d.o.j. trump. they have no power over state cases, which is why, after the michael flynn investigation, when trump was implicated in the federal charges. but they weren't they weren't forthcoming. so da bragg stepped up and got those 34 felony convictions. steve bannon, trump pardoned him. that's right. the d a bragg got him locked up on state charges. if you look at the allegations in the federal case against adams, bribery is

also a state crime campaign violations also a state crime. so da bragg could bring eric adams to. >> justice very quickly. last thing before we go, mayor adams. one of the arguments is that he can't do his job unless these charges are dropped, but he before has said he can. this is a quote from mayor adams. i can do my job. my legal team is going to handle the case. people said it's going to be a distraction. i'm moving forward. i'm going to continue to deliver for the people of new york. before he said he could do that, he said he could. >> so it was just regurgitating an argument he made when he was defending donald trump. remember then he was always saying, oh, there can't be these criminal cases because he's got to be president. there's no federal judge that gave credit to that argument. judge holt shouldn't either. again, there are different rules that apply. so he probably has to dismiss the case, but not because adams county. >> d.a. alvin bragg. our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. maybe again. paul butler, thank you very much, my friend. coming up, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is slamming donald trump after the american president played the role of putin's little helper, floating the astounding lie that ukraine,

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that call, defense secretary and former weekend fox host pete hegseth and vice president jd vance capitulated in advance while on european soil to every single one of putin's demands, including declaring that ukraine should be denied nato membership and proposing to carve up the sovereign country and hand huge chunks of it to russia. if that wasn't enough, trump made the deal even sweeter by offering to lift sanctions on russia and calling for russia to rejoin the group of seven western nations club, which they were kicked out of because because they invaded ukraine. former russian president dmitry medvedev summed up the situation pretty succinctly when he tweeted if you just told me just three months ago that these were the words of the us president, i would have laughed out loud. donald trump is 200% right. joining me now is ben rhodes, msnbc political analyst and former deputy national security advisor to president obama. ben, it has been remarkable to watch donald trump line up with putin so directly that it almost as if

putin writes his talking points. a european diplomat, this is the latest news, a european diplomat told politico. we now have an alliance between a russian president who wants to destroy europe, and an american president who also wants to destroy europe. the transatlantic alliance is over. do you think he's right? >> yeah, i do. i think that things have shifted. >> 180 degrees. >> in about. >> two weeks. joy. >> and the united states is no longer working. with ukraine, working with europe to. >> try to. >> repel a russian invasion and to. >> try to. >> restore the concept of ukrainian sovereignty and back that up with any kind of meaningful security guarantee. you have an. >> american president. >> who is saying the opposite and, as you say, saying this, zelensky is a dictator saying that he has 4% approval, which is a lie, you know, blaming the war on ukraine itself. these literally are the broadcasts of russian propaganda every single night. i mean, this is not just in the ballpark. it's literally on the nose of what the kremlin narrative is for their invasion

of ukraine. >> and by the way, it's not new. this is donald trump's messaging just over the years, just from 2016 to 2022. here's a little bit of him. >> this is putin smart. yes, putin was smart. so putin is now saying its independent, a large section of ukraine. i said, how smart is that? i have president putin. he just said, it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> putin is a killer. >> a lot of killers get a lot of killers. why do you think our country is so innocent? i think putin has been a very strong leader for russia. i mean, he's been a lot stronger than our leader. that i can tell you my attitude when people like me, i like them. even putin. >> and now the news, nbc reporting that putin, according to intelligence from u.s. intelligence and others, he wants all of ukraine. he doesn't want a piece of it. he wants it all. he wants to take it back over. they want elections because they think they can get rid of zelensky. and guess who else wants to get rid of zelensky? team trump. it's kind of hard to argue that trump is

not a putin asset. >> well, this. >> is. >> first of all, part of what's so dangerous about what trump is saying is that they're their real lives at stake. it's like usaid. this isn't like a twitter show. there are tens and tens of thousands. >> of ukrainians. >> have been killed by russia's invasion. tens of thousands of children have been kidnaped. so the stakes are very real here. >> and trump. >> treats it like a show. but this is one where what he says and what he does are the same, because he's encouraging putin to be even more maximalist in his demands and as to like his. >> status joy. >> i mean, on the one hand, sure, it would be very alarming if, you know, he was compromised by russia. certainly, like a lot of the things he's saying and doing they would want, tulsi gabbard is who they would choose to be the head of the director of national intelligence. but i would argue, actually, joy is. >> just as, if not more. >> concerning, if. >> that's actually just what donald. >> trump believes. if donald. trump believes that nothing matters, that alliances don't matter, that big countries carve up small ones, and that doesn't lead to ever bigger wars, which

is the lesson we learned in world war one and world war two, and why we wrote the rules to prevent them. if he looks at vladimir putin and just likes him because he would like to be a leader like vladimir putin would like to be a dictator, like vladimir putin would like the. world to operate in a way in which he and putin and xi sit down and kind of carve it up without regard to human beings. that's just as alarming, you know? so, you know, this is this is a this is a very dangerous period of time that we're entering. and it's not like trump won where he seemed to think those things, but not say them out loud or act on them. now he's doing both. >> you're seeing republicans sort of gently sort of say, no, we don't really believe that, but they won't really do anything about it right before they try to prevent him from getting out of nato. but it does feel like we're seeing a new sort of axis create itself, which is russia, the united states and saudi arabia in sort of their own little axis, where, as you said, they carve up the world and do business. and trump wants to let you know, russia back in the g7 so they can do business. they want to eat up

greenland so they can get their natural resources, take, you know, ukraine's natural resources. that's the new axis, right? those three countries and. >> and you could throw you could throw a few more. you could throw china in there. you could throw the uae in there. it's basically big, powerful countries with autocratic leaders that are purely transactional. there's no values, there's no rules. it's just what i can buy or who i can bully. and the problem with this joy is that, you know, the united states, the reason we benefited from having some rules. the reason we benefited from having a values proposition in foreign policy is that actually gave us an advantage over a china or russia. those countries will always break the rules even more than donald trump will. you know, they're unconstrained because they are in truly autocratic systems. and so the danger to this is it's not even smart in some strange way, it's disadvantaging the united states to the advantage of those leaders. he's talking about things that are currently against the law in terms of doing business with russia, in terms of all these things, the

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