joining me now is msnbc political analyst eddie glaude. distinguished political scholar and professor at princeton university. msnbc contributor molly jong-fast, special correspondent for vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast. and former republican congressman denver riggleman, who served as a senior adviser to the january 6th select committee. y'all got some titles on y'all. honey, can i you know, professor cloud, let me just start with you. and i tried to anchor it a little bit of history. this isn't unlike anything we've seen before, because we're in a moment unlike anything we've seen before. but what say you? your response to last night and what we're seeing today? >> i thought your lead was perfect. symone. i think, you know, either donald trump is an existential threat or he's not. if he's an existential threat, we need to orient ourselves to him accordingly. and what what he did last night, it was more than hyperpartisan, right? it was, again, like you said, a thumbing of the nose. he is engaged in exorcizing, the unita

i want to bring in eddie glaude, a professor at princeton university. he is also an msnbc contributor. and we're going to talk, eddie, if we could, a little bit about this trade war that is really becoming very hot as of right now. eddie, how do you read this? >> i honestly don't i can't make sense of it. there is a sense in which. donald trump has this belief that. tariffs can be effective. most economists across the ideological spectrum disagree with it. he's going to bring a certain kind of pain to the american people. and i think this is an interesting contrast between what justin trudeau just said and what we're not hearing from from our president. he just told the canadian people that this is going to be rough, that it's going to have an impact on their economy. and then he promised them that he will be there. he will ensure that there won't be gouging. he will ensure that they're going to expand benefits. but what have we heard? we've only heard a dismantling of government agencies. we haven't heard any talk about social, you know, our obligations

joining us now, nbc, shaquille brewster in waukesha, wisconsin, eddie glaude. james mcdonald, distinguished university professor and an msnbc political analyst. jeremy peters is the new york times reporter and msnbc contributor. so, jeremy, look, you heard the president say, we are just getting started. the question is, is that a promise or a warning? >> just getting started. >> i mean. >> look, what they have accomplished here is very much under a huge question mark, because much of it has been stated by courts. others like the tariffs, the effects of which we have yet to see shake out. because look, what did president trump run on and win on? in large measure, the economy and prices? he's promised to bring those down. and what these tariffs threaten to do is bring prices up not just of eggs, which we know have kind of become this this symbol of an inflationary economy, but of television sets of avocados, i mean, you name it, cars. even things could get a lot more expensive. and i'll point you to a bit of reporting that we did in the times last night, and we i

david fear and charlie sykes and eddie glaude when we come back from elon musk's chainsaw wielding andump's betrayal of our democratic ally in ukraine, something our next guest called the greatest geopolitical mistake since world war two. senator angus king of maine will sound off in a moment. also ahead, dangerous new signs of the trump administration's attacks on two key pillars of america's democracy the rule of law and the freedom of the press. how these latest developments echo what has been ushered in, and other authoritarian regimes all around the world. deadline white house the world. deadline white house continues after a quick break. patients who have sensitive teeth but also want whiter teeth they have to make a choice one versus the other. sensodyne clinical white provides two shades whiter teeth as well as providing 24/7 sensitivity protection. patients are going to love to see sensodyne on the shelf. only if i had to. >> you've got a breach. >> i would do anything for you. >> i would do anything for you. >> thousands of innocent pe ♪ [suspenseful music] trains. [whoosh] ♪