joining me now is the author of that piece, susan glasser, staff writer at "the new yorker". aying attention to what i thought was the most explosive statement of the week. we talked about it yesterday on this show but does it surprise you how little a mark on the national radar trump's statement from milwaukee was, that he might not accept the results of this november election and that fighting might be the necessary outcome? >> truly. i think it is a marker of how in word we have become to the outrageous and dangerous and out of control rhetoric that comes from trump that we often have a hard time, i think the sort of saying wait a minute, this is news, this is something he hasn't said before, let's put this on the record. in may of the election year, he's already stating he will not accept the results of the election if he loses. more than that, he's echoing very explicitly his words from 2020 and then you have to fight if it is not the outcome that t you want. i think that that is a statement that would have been major news from any candidate in our lifetimes had it been r

hugo lowell, jeremy salon, susan glasser and anthony coleman are back with me. s sort of repeat on all of these talking points can we expect to hear in the next week and are you expecting that we are going to see another sort of cadre of folks just show up on behalf of donald trump in his defense? >> yeah, absolutely. first of all remember that donald trump is under a gag order. he clearly objects to that. his whole brand is to call people names, to attack and ripped down others and it's clearly visibly making him infuriated that he's not able to do so in the way that he would like in this courtroom. last week remember the judge had to call him out to his own lawyer for audibly cursing in the courtroom. that's how upset donald trump is, so of course he wants supporters there who can call names, who can go out there and give the attack lines that he himself is not able to deliver right now. more broadly i think this, the. it sums up the trump phenomenon in full because there audience is national, sure, it's getting on tv but also it's the audience of one. republic

let's talk more about all of this with susan glasser. she is a staff writer for the new yorker. all right. good to see you, susan, was it your calculation that the white house had some intelligence? ahead of biden revealing that he would impose conditions. a military aid if israel were were to go into rafah it certainly seems like the white house wanted and thought about sending a message this week. >> also the news had become public. it was leaked that last week, even before the israeli moved in and took over a key border crossing in rafah with egypt that the us had made this decision. the pentagon had made this decision to pause weapons, i think with that coming out, president biden took the chance to make a very pointed message to prime minister netanyahu. what i've heard here you are in washington is increasing concern from many of the presidents, democratic allies. they are absolutely fed up with netanyahu. they believe that the prime minister of israel has essentially been flouting the words and counsel and advice the president of the united states for months now and there

also with us, staff writer at "the new yorker," susan glasser.e this year, senate republicans voted down a bipartisan border security package that they had demanded. in a 43-50 vote with six democrats joining republicans, the gop killed the package that they helped to write, calling the renewed vote simply political theater. senate republicans killed the package initially back in february on the orders of former president trump so he could deprive president biden of a legislative win and campaign on this issue. in a response to the bill's failure, the white house released a statement that reads in part, "congressional republicans have enough time to travel to new york to kiss trump's boots, but not enough courage to side with the american people and border patrol over fentanyl traffickers." meanwhile, independent senator kyrsten sinema, one of the lead negotiators of the bill, had this to say about why she voted yesterday against her own legislation. >> my colleagues blamed political theater for blocks action. so did i. they were right. i spoke o

back with me now are susan glasser, brendan buck, and julian castro.le, and dangerous things that then put people in harms way. however, the judge in this case thus far, eileen cannon, has been very sympathetic to donald trump and has not been in much of a position to rule in the favor of the special counsel. do you have thoughts on this? reaction to this? >> well, it is really notable that the special counsel has actually taken this to court. this was one of the wilder subplots of the week, donald trump embracing a new conspiracy theory first promoted by some of his far right allies like marjorie taylor greene, basically distorting this raid at mar-a- lago into some sort of effort into put him into the crosshairs of federal law enforcement guns. it even prompted a very unusual statement from merrick garland himself, the attorney general, saying this wasn't true, donald trump nonetheless not only promoting it on his truth social media platform, but even raising money off of it. if you get those emails in your inbox, it says "joe biden tried to kill me,

susan glasser, fascinating, new piece at "the new yorker." thanks so much. mika?isan group of senators released a road map for combating misinformation stemming from artificial intelligence. it encourages a.i. creators to implement robust protections ahead of this year's election while still protecting first amendment rights. joining us now, nbc news correspondent and anchor for nbc news now daily, which is doing great, by the way. >> thanks, mika. >> love watching you guys. whose new reporting on who might be most affected by a.i.-driven misinformation. what did you learn? the answer ca scares me a lot o it scares me a lot. >> it scares me, too. it's not the baby boomers or millenials having trouble clocking misinformation but generation z. a third of adults under the age of 30 regularly get their news from tiktok. so, of course, we wondered, how does this generation actually distinguish between what's real and what's fake, and what does all of this mean for how they're going to vote this year? the answers we got, trust me, they were pretty surprising. >> reporte

kitty fang joins us, susan glasser and barbara quaid, veteran fellow prosecutor and former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. her new book, attack from within, how disinformation is sabotaging america is out now. this is the testimony many people were anxious to hear. what do you make of what stormy daniels had to say? >> she was incredibly vivid and detailed, and maybe some people think that is a convenient truth for her but from what she said and what she relayed to the jury that sat in rapt attention and took detailed notes, stormy daniels delivered for the prosecution, mainly that she experienced a brief sexual encounter with donald trump that was not being presented for the purposes of the salacious notice of what happened, but because at the end of the day, immediately after it occurred, donald trump never told her to keep it confidential. he never told her he was worried that his family or wife would find out. instead, it was only after he announced that he was going to run for the office of the president of the united states, that suddenly there was a ma

with that, let's bring in susan glasser, conservative lawyer john conway, who was in the courtroom today. he is also a contributing writer at the atlantic. catherine christian, former assistant district attorney. she is now an msnbc legal analyst and neil is here, department of justice veteran and former acting solicitor general. george, you were our eyes and ears in the courtroom today. >> there was not much that was said about the gag order. it was a written opinion and we did not actually have the judge read it in court other than to say, i rolled nine out of 10 for the prosecution. >> why, he didn't want to waste time? >> you wanted to get straight to the trial and i think a lot of the stuff we just heard about what was in the opinion, we did not actually here in open court but that obviously was very significant because he is going to have more to say on this next week when the second round or third round of gag order violations is going to be discussed and i think that it is significant that he mentioned the possibility of jail. he's not going to impose it for this next series of e

. >> joining me now are susan glasser, staff writer at the new yorker.boehner and julian castro. secretary castro, let me start with you in terms of how biden tackles his problem. the first is the shakiness of trump. good news to the biden campaign i guess if you are looking at these numbers but it is hard, right? how do you reach voters who are largely disengaged from the political process and don't follow traditional news media? do you have an answer? >> well i mean, it means you have to pursue this kitchen sink outreach strategy. you can't just be traditional tv or direct mail. it has to be a lot of digital getting on social media. in so many ways, alex, this is deja vu all over again. the best thing joe biden had going for him in the 2020 hen jury 2020 general election is he was going up against donald trump. and people wanted an adult in the room. they were tired of the chaos and lies and failures of so many ways of trump especially covid. and they felt like joe biden would be a steady hand. and everything joe biden can do to reach the lower income

germany is well documented in a couple of books about the trump presidency from my husband, from susan glasserabout his affinity for who trump referred to as the german soldiers. this is not new for trump. >> no when i saw this story today, nicolle, it brought me right back to those comments that the then president made after charlottesville, right? literally in the wake of a horrific event where you have literal nazis marching through the town where i live, he says there are very fine people on both sides, praising those neo-nazis that only made things worse. was like fuel on the fire of racism and anger that was on display in charlottesville. maybe once it's an accident, it's a misstep, but when it happens again and again and again, this imagery, as you said, praising the third reich, it's hard to call it an accident. and it has real consequences. we talk all the time, nicolle, on this show about how his words, the things that he posts, the things that he says are taken quite literally by a lot of people. we saw that on january 6th. >> claire, again, we don't do this often but to sort of und

along with his wife, susan glasser, he would spend four years living in russia, serving as the washington post's moscow bureau chief, chronicling the rise of vladimir putin, the chechen war, beslan and the moscow theater attack. he was also the very first journalist to report from rebel held northern afghanistan. and following the september 11th attacks in 2003, he was embedded with the united states marine corps during the invasion of iraq. his very first book was the new york times bestseller the breach inside the impeachment and trial of william jefferson clinton. he followed his second book in 2005 with kremlin rising, vladimir putin's russia and the end of revolution. peter would join the new york times in 2008 after 20 years at the washington post. he also currently serves as an msnbc, msnbc analyst. peter is also the recipient. the juror for ford foundation's journalism prize for distinguished reporting on the presidency, receiving it not once but twice. first in 2007 for his work on george w bush's presidency. and then again. in 2015, a 2013, he published his third major work days

i'm sure you had peter baker and susan glasser here, who was able work across the aisle, make government work. and we don't have people like that much anymore, which is obviously a shame. so until something i'm not optimistic about our federal government and let's not say i'm not optimistic about the american people because i'm an optimist. i'm a happy person. i'm blessed many ways. but right now i don't feel great about our federal government or our last two presidents. thank you, anybody else. here? we got a man man. which one of these eight guys would have the best chance of getting today? well, because lincoln, my mind stands head and shoulders above of them. if you had to pick a frontrunner in my mind, it would have be lincoln. because he was totally eloquent. he was a very shrewd political. and he was he was principled. he could recognize what the moral issues were compared to what the political issues were and and and in fact, my book presidents an average of three leadership traits for president a total 24 leadership traits in the book. they're all different no and when i got thr

i'm sure you had peter baker and susan glasser here, who was able work across the aisle, make government work. and we don't have people like that much anymore, which is obviously a shame. so until something i'm not optimistic about our federal government and let's not say i'm not optimistic about the american people because i'm an optimist. i'm a happy person. i'm blessed many ways. but right now i don't feel great about our federal government or our last two presidents. thank you, anybody else. here? we got a man man. which one of these eight guys would have the best chance of getting today? well, because lincoln, my mind stands head and shoulders above of them. if you had to pick a frontrunner in my mind, it would have be lincoln. because he was totally eloquent. he was a very shrewd political. and he was he was principled. he could recognize what the moral issues were compared to what the political issues were and and and in fact, my book presidents an average of three leadership traits for president a total 24 leadership traits in the book. they're all different no and when i got thr

susan glasser, thank you for your time this friday evening. that is original for tonight. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, special friday night edition. >> friday night edition after a friday in the courthouse . i will be joined by my courthouse posse this week. andrew weissman, adam klasfeld, lisa rubin, all in the courthouse with me this week. >> did you guys break for lunch together? >> i have pictures of lunch together, which can only be shared privately. alex, the heroes in that building or the court officers. they are running an amazing process to get people in, to get them out, to control the setting in a way that it has never had to be controlled before because of course of the secret service protection for a former president. no group of court officers has ever had to deal with a former president and a secret service detail with a criminal defendant. that has never happened. and, there are tensions created by that, which they handle beautifully. i just have to say. we have all been raving about it. >> the strange tensions between lawrence

susan glasser is here, staff writer for the new yorker. former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst glenn kircher, and historian john meacham, who occasionally advises president biden. this evening was just awarded the lincoln leadership prize. you are our legal expert, help us out here. reminder audience what trump has said about testifying over the last six weeks. i'm going to share a bit of it and i want you to comment on the other side. >> yeah, i would testify, absolutely. it's a scam. i am testifying. i tell the truth. >> yes. >> will not stop you from testifying? >> no, it will not talk stop me from testifying. >> do you plan to testify in court? >> probably so. i would like to. i mean, i think so. >> oh, he'd like to? now he is not going to. he decided he won't, and now a jury will not hear from him. is the jury allowed to draw any conclusions from that? is it like taking the fifth? >> absolutely not. they will be instructed that a defendant has an absolute right to testify in his own trial and to decline to testify in his ow

we'll have to see. >> susan glasser, thanks very much for coming in. comparisons with the 1968 election campaign. "the new yorker"'s susan glasser. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," congress takes action on anti-semitism as gaza war protests roil colleges across the country, passing legislation with bipartisan support. one of the bill's authors, josh gottheimer, will join us straight ahead. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. we pulled people off the street, and asked them about their hearts. -how's your heart? -doing good. -is it? -i think so. -you think so. but how do you know, right? -how do i know... -i don't actually know. -you don't actually know. -i'm believing so. if there was only a way the heart could tell you — hey, i'm doing okay, or uh... i could use a little attention. let me show you something. put two fingers right on those pads. -look at that. that's your heart! -that is pretty awesome. winner gets to check your heart. ready? one, two, three, heart! with kardiamobile, you can take a medical-grade ekg in just 30 seconds,