. >> adolph hitler's fascist man fes tor and frankly it doesn't matter if trump didn't read it. ever read anything. what matters is he is echoing hitler's rhetoric whether he's literally plagiarizing it or channelling it naturally because that's who he is. by the way, his late ex-wife i vanna trump once said he kept a book about adolph hitler by his bedside. mara, your thoughts on this because he is at this point saying, well, hitler said it but in a doesn't way and then saying it again. >> you know, i think that there's going to be so many opportunities to get pithy about the political consequences of this speech, but i just want to take a moment to call out how immoral and dangerous and hateful they are, that speech, that speech is, excuse me. and the reason is not just because it's fascist and i think unfortunately too few americans really understand what that really could mean, even a democracy. but because it dehumanizes others. that is what makes it dangerous. it suggests that immigrants are not as human or as deserving of human rights and dignity as others. that is langua

if adolph hitler himself showed up on campus and started preaching the genocide and extermination of jews, these university presidents would be saying well, it depends on the context of which adolph hitler said these comments. are you kidding me? in america today? that's just ridiculous. >> sandra: that is happening. there is a column in the free press calling out the treason of the intellectuals pointing to then harvard university dean claudine gay and her statement after the killing of george floyd. she said there is an acute sense of vulnerability and reminder even the most mundane activities carry inordinate risk. he said the reason gay's carefully phrased answers on thursday infuriated her critics, they weren't technically incorrect but so clearly at odds with her own record. in nothing that gay said last tuesday did she seem aware that jewish students might have felt the same way after october 7th. that is an obvious observation but a worthy one, jason. >> yeah, i believe it was with stefanik, we have to roll the tape who asked if you turn the tables and said it about black ame

jeff, first respond to this poisoning of the blood and the comparisons to adolph hitler, his wife ivankamp, mother to his children, who died falling down the stairs a little while ago, said he had a book of quotes of adolph hitler on his bedstand. take it from there. >> i think it is fascinating trump volunteered "i haven't read mein kampf" and in fact the book he is alleged -- i haven't read "mein kampf" in effect the book he is alleged is a different book. he's is going out of his way to repeat that language after the comparison has already been made. i think he is invoking that because of chaos and drama. i think he is counting in his face he is going to be more helped by the high trauma of hitler and world war ii than the comparison to the worst fascist in history. nermeen: what do you think of the consequences of not taking these words of trump's seriously? and also, is this likely to diminish his support or in fact increase it? >> all we need to do is look at what is happening, it is increasing the support. he is understanding the drama. in terms of not taking seriously, a lot of t

anti-immigrant rhetoric which resembles the words of adolph hitler.rees last night the 2024 republican front-runner defended and repeated his comments that immigrants were, quote, destroying the blood of our country. that the echoing of 20th century authoritarians was not the end of it. >> we have no idea who any of them are. they come from africa. they come from asia. they come from south america. and it's true they're destroying the blood of our country. that's what they're doing. they're destroying our country. they don't like it when i said that. and i never read "and they said hitler said that in a much different way. they could be healthy, they could be very unhealthy. they could bring in disease but they do bring in crime. but they have them coming from all over the world. and they're destroying the blood of our country. they're destroying the fabric of our country. and we're going to have to get them out. >>> still ahead we've got new reporting on what the white house is promising hispanic lawmakers as border security negotiations will now con

trump's interview with vanity fair, where she said that her husband kept collected speeches of adolph hitlerhis bedside. that's an awfully random thing to say. you'd say, joe will keep sometimes devotional, biographies of paul mccartney, churchill books, randomly, donald trump kept a collection of hitler speeches by his bedside. and so maybe he did read it, but he kept a collection of hitler speeches by his bed, according to to his first wife. you can hear it in his words. you can see it at his rallies. that's exactly the direction he's going. he's doubling, tripling down on facist hitler-like rhetoric. >> as you were speaking a few moments ago and referencing his bedside, mika sighed. and that's the sigh, i think, of the country. this country is on overload. the volatility of the electorate in this country is if everyone of eligible voting age are in a clothes drier tumbling around. the problem with what we just heard donald trump speaking as he spoke saying what he said is nobody ever leaves. they stay there and they will listen to him. and the infection has spread coast to coast. nobody l

the main one was adolph hitler and they always said it because of this feeling of shame even after the end of world war ii and mr. konrad adenauer who is the first chancellor after world war ii and even the foreign ministers of the german governments who always there are coalitions in the governments and we did not have a single party, the social democrats were the christian democrats social christians. this is what i would like to offer to you in terms of the political view of the federal republic of germany, which is actually a green image of the german government, and this sentence and this summary. it can be said in a sentence that was repeated for the first time during the time of chancellor mrs. merkel, who in the first years of her presidency was actually the parliament of the zionist regime, the knesset, and that sentence is that the security of israel is the reason for our existence. this existential reason, well , many call it existential philosophy in translation, many call it reason. some authorities say that the state of rezon is equivalent to german state razan, i am sayi

and we have him using language that evokes what adolph hitler used to say. those in the white house said to me, they've made a compelling case in recent months, the biden white house, that they feel americans are not paying attention right now. it's too early. people are not paying attention. next spring, after the republican primaries, which are not competitive are over, and americans start actually listening to donald trump as we move into the summer, move into next fall, and it's a general election between biden and trump, when americans start paying attention again, they will hear this from trump and reject it. they'll say, we can't go down that path again. we can't go down that path again. my question, though, is, as trump's poll numbers are only going up, both in the republican primary and now, general election survey after general election survey, he's ahead of biden in most surveys, and "the wall street journal" just moments ago, said americans feel better about his policies than they do biden's, my question is, are we sure americans are going to car

>> the biden administration released that donald trump channelled his role models and parroted adolph hitler, and we have not heard anything from the president himself. priscilla alvarez is following this for us. >> this rhetoric from the former president is not new. they said in that statement that he's following his role models, and the white house adding to that saying in a statement, quote, they are dangerous attacks on the dignity and rights of all americans on democracy and on public safety. it's the opposite of everything we stand for as americans. jim, as i talked to campaign officials, they note the policies that have been rolled out by donald trump on immigration are un-american, and they note we should take him seriously, and the former president ran into obstacles on resources, like he said with the largest deportation, but the intent is the same. it's going after immigrants. that's where the president and the campaign have been prepared for that and they have blasted him on that, and president biden used his first statement through his re-election campaign to specifically critic

thought i would be saying during a campaign cycle, but we heard the former president invoking adolph hitler. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: we did. the former president was making his fourth visit to iowa in less that a month trying to deliver a decisivive victory in the iowa caucuses and talking about hitler. insisting that his words against immigrants, his heated rhetoric against migrants were not inspired by hitler. take a listen to how he described why he says he's not inspired by hitler. >> they are ruining our country, and it's true, they are destroying the blood of our country. that's what they are doing. they are destroying our country. they don't like it when i said that. they said, oh, hitler said that in a much different way. >> reporter: so he's been talking about imgrants in that fashion. you'll remember for quite some time, but the rhetoric has gotten even more intense, more sharp, more pointed. clearly trying to tap into what is an actual issue in this election. an issue in this country is immigration. he's going beyond any solutions or ideas in talking specifi

his campaign rallies over the last several days, languages consistently drawing comparisons to adolph hitlerntis is now saying trump, made a tactical mistake when he said immigrants were poisoning the blood of our country. >>> also brand new this country, trump's super pac launching an attack ad against nikki haley for the first time in the early voting state of new hampshire after new polls showed her gaining quite a bit of ground on trump. here is a clip of that ad that just came out moments ago. >> that's right. haley broke her promise. >> increase the gas tax. >> hurts families, new hampshire can't afford nikki high-tax haley. >> steve contorno tracking all of it this morning. good morning. they have been busy campaigning in iowa ahead of the trump rally. that just shows that trump is scared of the gains we're making in new hampshire. but now, iowa. >> reporter: that's right. to iowa where there's so much focus on this early nominating state. desantis and haley have been spending the last few days here. they will continue to campaign in iowa after trump leaves today. however, if you look

nothing along the lines of comparing trump to adolph hitler, which the biden campaign has done. biden campaign literally put together a graphic with trump's image and hitler's, side by side, comparing the quotes. that's not a fairly -- that's a highly aggressive campaign attack from the biden campaign, which they say is justified. historians are pointing out this is fascist, authoritative rhetoric. authoritarian rhetoric, i should say. republicans haven't gone to that length. part of the reason is obvious. the polling, as we noted, supports in the context of the republican primary, supports what trump is saying. you know, i find the more interesting conversation to be the one that jen had, which is, like, where does the biden campaign bring this? one of the things i've been trying to grapple with and trying to figure out is, you know, are they worried at all that because -- by fact we've been through four years of trump and came out on the other end, and here we are, maybe the voting public doesn't take these threats of, you know, fascism and the loss of democracy all that seriou

autocrat viktor orban and why he keeps doubling down on his anti-immigrant remarks with shades of adolph hitlerpresidential candidate florida governor ron desantis will be a guest. >>> also ahead, transportation secretary pete buttigieg will join us on the new $140 million penalty the department just levied against southwest airlines for last year's holiday travel meltdown. >>> "morning joe" with all of that is just a few moments away. . to help keep me sharp. try new neuriva ultra. think bigger. it ain't my dad's razor, dad. ay watch it! it's from gillettelabs. this green bar releases trapped hairs from my face... gamechanga! ...while the flexdisc contours to it. so the five blades can get virtually every hair in one stroke. for the ultimate gillette shaving experience. the best a man can get is gillettelabs. >>> welcome back. senators are set to return to the capitol today after negotiators worked through the weekend trying to strike a deal on immigration reform in exchange for additional aid for ukraine and israel. homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas arrived at the capitol for mee

continues to spout anti-immigrant rhetoric that has historians drawing comparisons to language used by adolph hitler. one of 17 videos posted to social media last night, the 2024 republican front-runner again -- again claimed that illegal immigration is, quote, poisoning the blood of our nation. >> illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. they're coming from prisons, from mental institutions, from all over the world. without borders and fair elections, you don't have a country. make america great again. we must win in 2024 or we will not have a nation. thank you. >> now, recent polng has shown that donald trump's anti-immigrant comments are actually helping him more than hurting him with republicans in iowa. in the latest nbc news des moines register mediacom poll conducted earlier this month 42% of likely iowa caucus goers said trump's poisoning the blood remark made them more likely to support him. meanwhile 28% said those comments made them less likely to caucus for trump. and 29% said it had no bearing on their support. >>> turning now to weather, the severe weather on the west

and they've not been shy calling out trump's hateful rhetoric including the word adolph hitler.day about another group that is angry with the white house. tell us about it. >> that's right. this all comes back to the president trying to keep his coalition together. as the president's trying to get this aid passed for ukraine, he's tied in the border aid with that as well. and the hispanic caucus on capitol hill is not pleased with it. they feel like they've been iced out of this whole entire process and have not had the seat at the table they think they should have for this. and a few members said they essentially felt like they've been used sort of as bargaining chips here. the president is making a trade on this one issue that's obviously very important to them. the border and asylum and making sure that asylum seekers have the rights that they they think that they should. they feel like they've been used as a trading piece here and have been frustrate would the white house's engagement with them on this. and this is a dynamic that the white house is now having to navigate. of

so he has no problem whatsoever in the fact his rhetoric is an echo of the rhetoric that adolph hitleri think and this comes through in your book as well and a lot of reporting on trump. one of the things the man genuinely believes in. one of the things i think he genuinely believes in at a cellular level is strong men are good, and democracy is not good and the way to run a place is like xi runs china and kim jung-un runs north korea. it's evident in things he says in public he genuinely admires, likes, and respects and thinks it would be good to have a system of absolute leadership like in china, north korea, or, you know, past european autocracies. >> and trump, of course, has a temper. but the times that he has been most explosively angered as a president -- angry as president were the moments where when he didn't get precisely what he wanted. so when bill barr does not follow his demands to use the department of justice to help overturn the election and in fact says there was no fraud, he explodes. i had -- i talked to somebody that was in the meeting after barr came out with his

hearing trump's words on the campaign trail could have just as easily come out of the mouth of adolph hitler, which he's not that shy about, by the way, the sort of parallels. the reality is as distasteful and abhorrent as you and i may feel they are, i think there's new polling out from market that says more people trust donald trump on legislation. what do you make of that? >> you have somebody like donald trump who presents a real threat because he's put some of these policies into place before and is neck and neck in the polls right now with president biden. saying these kind of things based on his track record and that he has so much support still with the american people it makes you think what's going on with us? what's going on with the american people? not enough by any means but it's striking and very worrisome and i think dangerous if we're not careful. the kind of language that he's using, we know the result of this. this foments hate. it prompts violence like we saw in el paso in 2019 where somebody drove from dallas all the way to el paso because he believed there was a hispani

. >> the biden campaign has accused former president trump of, quote, parroting adolph hitler. and other republicans feel? >> 76% of the american people believe the border is broken, they're worried about fentanyl. >> what about that language, the poisoning the blood? >> i'm worried about an outcome, he is right -- he had the border secured, the lowest in 40 years in december of 2020, to the biden administration, you're talking about donald trump's language as you sit on the sidelines and allow the country to be invaded, 172 people on the terrorist watch list have come on your watch, fentanyl is killing more americans than any time in history. >> the senator did not answer the question. hitler used the word poisoning in his propaganda, described, quote, the worst kind of germ carriers in poisoning the human souls. trump first used the word poisoning the blood or the phrase during an interview with the national pulse late september. trump has also used the word vermin, which have left critics comparing those words to mussolini. later in that same rally in new hampshire, trump di

he's being accused of, quote, parenting adolph hitler.tion coming from the biden campaign after trump's rally in new hampshire. >> they let i think the real numbers, 15, 16 million people into our country. when they do that, we've got a lot of work to do. poisoning the blood of our country. that's what they've done. they poise in mental institutions and prisons all over the world that just in south america, not just the 3 of 4 countries that we think about. >> but all over the world. >> trump made a similar statements truth social early this morning saying, quote, illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. hiller use the term blood poisoning in his writings where he attacked immigration and other races. trump who is rallying tonight in reno maintains a commanding double-digit lead and the upcoming republican iowa caucuses. the biden administration is working with state negotiators this week trying to reach an agreement on new aid for israel and ukraine. but that's not going to happen. republicans say without additional fund

but in fact poland after nazi germany, adolph hitler made their claim is on the sedate land because of. poland also made her own push into czech territory, along with hungary and they carved up czechoslovakia together, poland in nazi germany, everyone forgets this too, who actually effectively allied between 1934 and 1939, the soviets and this is stalin. he's already kind of thinking ahead. he realizes that by setting a precedent, by overturning the territorial integrity of czechoslovakia, also encouraging polish aggression and getting the poles to rather foolishly team up alongside nazi germany and in helping to erase the boundaries of a neighbor state. we're digging a grave for poland's independence. in fact, you can start to see as early as 1938 the idea of a polish partition, and it starts to show up, not in germany, but in soviet theoretic journals and then in izvestia and finally in pravda and then in hints and conversations between soviet diplomats, you had stalin's you're not living off. he was a front man of no great significance. people like vacuum can people like stalin's en

by the way, that is rhetoric that is eerily reminiscent of what adolph hitler said. donald trump said he didn't read "mein kampf." perhaps he never read "mein kampf". i don't know. i know ivana trump said he kept a book of hitler's speeches by his bedside. told "vanity fair" that. maybe it's not "mein kampf," but he is certainly channelling that book that ivana trump said he kept by his bedside. that was some of donald trump's worst rhetoric lately, and, of course, there's quite a hardy competition for the worst things that he's been saying recently. that was some. this is some of donald trump's 2024 opponents who are lobbing mild criticisms at trump for his repeated fascist rhetoric, talking about migrants poisoning the blood of our country. in an interview released yesterday by the christian broadcasting network, florida governor ron desantis said this. >> when you start talking about using those types of terms, i don't think that that helps us move the ball forward. i would not put it in those terms. >> a former u.n. ambassador, nikki haley, told the ""des moines r

the real, but in my case somewhat fictionalized are called board between alastair crowley and adolph hitler at the end of world war ii. and the first three artists who were hired to work on the book, i do the writing, they all had major life catastrophes like illness and suicide and awful things and i was starting to get scared, you write about someone like alastair crowley and there's like bad juju in there or something dangerous happening so i got really scared as i was writing that that i was touching energies that i shouldn't and then it was just really hard to do, to be really faithful to the actual world war ii story and to tell that story as reality, as history while also getting into these characters in the part that wasn't real and trying to distant was between the two in what felt like a responsible way, so that was the most harrowing writing experience i have had. >> 35 minutes left with douglas rushkoff. this is marshaling houston, texas. thanks for waiting. >> thank you very much, gentlemen. this is a fascinating conversation. i'm interested in your role with research, particul

. >> reporter: the biden campaign accusing trump of parroting adolph hitler, who used similar wording in his writings. but only one of trump's republican rivals has blasted him for the remark. >> he's disgusting. and what he's doing is dog whistling to americans. >> reporter: trump also called north korea dictator kim jong-un very nice, and he quoted russian president vladimir putin as he argued the four criminal indictments he's facing are political payback. >> vladimir putin of russia. this is a quote, he said it's a politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for russia because it shows the rottenness of the american political system. >> reporter: one new poll out of new hampshire has nikki haley in a strong second in the state following the endorsement of its governor, chris sununu. >> i will fight to earn every single person's vote because we have a country to save. >> reporter: while florida governor ron desantis betting big on iowa, ramping up his attacks against the former president. >> trump loses, he will say it's stolen no matter what. he will try

city that was going to shortly experience the horrific invasion of nazi troops, sent there by adolph hitler to exterminate the jews of europe and many other people that lived in eastern europe at that time. just in ukraine and poland at that time there were 16 million people that were killed. they were killed by hitler and killed by stalin and the people in that region remember that experience like it was yesterday because it was in human events it was yesterday. my mom, as i said, is still alive. she can't believe that she's lived long enough to see another shooting war break out in europe as she put it, but here we are. and there's a reason why she can't believe it. part of it is that -- part of it is that the freedom that she experienced and my grandparents experienced, an aunt who was the only other person who survived the war in this country were unimaginable to them because of what they had gone through in warsaw. they were separated during the war. my mother was told that her parents had been killed. and she believed they had died. and then they were reunited after the war. and they

we were dragged into it not only by the japanese attack today, but five days later, by adolph hitler'slaring war on the united states. we did not declare war on nazi germany until nazi germany declared war on us. so as churchill once said, you can count on the americans to do the right thing once we've exhausted every other possibility. that is an important thing for us to remember. not to, therefore, lower our expectations of ourselves, but to remember that even the greatest generation, as our friend todd brokaw called it, talking about your family, my grandfathers were in the war, even they were not early on this story. they weren't early converts to the defense of democratic values versus the horrors of dictatorship, particularly in europe. but we got it right. so what that tells us, seems to me, is that if they got it right and they were fall, frail, fallible people. we, as fall, frail, fallible people, can get our time right. >> jon meacham, thank you so much. we really appreciate it. >>> coming up in one minute on "morning joe," we'll go live to las vegas for the latest in the af