and i do think that that is exactly as timothy snyder points out, teaching power, what it can do.rian king that he desires to be, while when in reality, this is america and we have presidents and he does not have that kind of authority. and i think it's really important that in this time people stand up and say that very, very clearly. >> simone garrison hayes, folks, he has the most amazing like instagram and does all these videos that literally teach you so much about history, historical context, bringing the things together. i've learned a lot over the instagram years following you, and i feel like i learned a lot tonight. so thank you for shining a little light on something that, frankly, we're all talking about. garrison hayes, appreciate your time. >> thanks for. >> having me, folks. that is all for this hour. again, i'm symone sanders townsend. i will see you once again tomorrow night at 7 p.m. eastern. we look forward to seeing you. but don't you go anywhere because all in with chris hayes starts right now. >> tonight on all in. >> this is. >> the chainsaw. >> for. >> bure

it's an absolute disgrace. >> david remnick and timothy snyder, thank you, gentlemen.still ahead, senator richard blumenthal, the armed services committee who met with zelensky just hours before trump kicked him out of the trump kicked him out of the white house. he will join me on (man) got one more antoine. (vo) with usps ground advantage, it's like you're with us every step of the way. ♪ (man) cooool. ♪ (man) right on time! (vo) stay in the know. from your dock... to their door. but at least you can go to safe flight.com and schedule a fix in minutes. >> sweet. >> sweet. >> safe flight can come to when i was diagnosed with h-i-v, i didn't know who i would be. but here i am... ...being me. keep being you... ...and ask your healthcare provider about the number one prescribed h-i-v treatment, biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in many people—whether you're 18 or 80. with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to undetectable—and stay there whether you're just starting or replacing your current treatment. resea

timothy snyder is professor of history at yale university.your perspective as one who has written extensively on ukraine and that's -- and its struggle for independence, what did you see in that spectacle in the oval office earlier today? >> what you see is the president of the united states has a little bit of trouble controlling political reality once he gets beyond the united states. the premise was that we are working towards a peace arrangement between russia and ukraine, but thus far all we have done is make concessions to russia. that's all we've done. the second thing we have done now is we have brought the ukrainian president to the white house and tried to humiliate him. we have favored the aggressor and weakened the defender. you can't really get to piece on that logic. you have to do exactly the opposite. there's a lot of wisdom in what representative lawler just said. in order to have the right people at the table, you have to have the right ellen's of strength and encouraging the aggressor and attacking the country trying to def

her quote of timothy snyder, who is a scholar on authoritarianism, who said something is shifting.and stealing things, and they will keep trying to break and steal. but the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. nervous. musk. nervous. trump. and the point is not that necessarily everything is going to be over in 30 days, or that things are going to collapse in 30 days, but democrats, for the first time since election day. and that's this is what halperin's wide world of news is saying. for the first time since election day, democrats are starting to see an opening. and with that opening, a lot of questions about who will lead this party. >> right. joining us now, co-founder. ceo of axios, jim vandehei. and journalist, editor and. >> author of. >> the. >> newsletter fresh hell. >> available on substack tina brown. >> i love it. >> my favorite. >> newsletter. >> the bbc's. >> katty kay. >> is still. >> with us as well. she's the host of the rest is politics. >> podcast. which is amazing as well. >> so jim vandehei, you've actually written about axios, has actually