to see the whole interview we do with gabor scheiring, you can go to democracynow.org.ursday, we will speak with mehdi hassan who left msnbc after his show was canceled. one of the most prominent muslim voices in american television. in october, a news outlet reported msnbc had reduced the roles of hasan two other muslim broadcasters on the network. that does it for our show. coming up next month, i will be speaking at a 75 anniversary celebration in berkeley. i can't wait to see everyone there in person on april 6. go to democracynow.org for details. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

amy: to talk more, we spoke tuesday with gabor scheiring, visiting fellow at the center for europeanat harvard university and assistant professor at georgetown university in qatar. green party member of parliament in hungary from 2010-2014. his new piece "i watched , hungary's democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament -- and i see troubling parallels in trumpism and its appeal to workers." i asked him to elaborate on what happened in hungary and the parallels he sees here in the united states. >> as the title suggests, there are quite a few parallels between the united states and hungary. what happened in hungary is basically now the country is the first authoritarian regime -- first in the european union. this democratic backbiting happened under viktor orbÁn's leadership who was elected in 2010 to lead the country, which is the same year i was elected to the hungarian parliament. back then we had really high hopes to fix the country, economy, and move toward sustainability. we had detailed policy plans. but within a few years, it became clear that viktor or