again, thanks to both of you this evening, jennifer rubin and ruth ben-ghiat. we appreciate your time. still ahead tonight, french president emmanuel macron is headed to washington next week with a message for donald trump. you cannot be weak in the face of putin. but first, kash patel once said he was going to shut down the hoover building. that's the fbi headquarters on his first day as fbi director. and while he didn't do that, he certainly made it a rough day at the office for hundreds of fbi employees. we'll discuss that next with the congressman, raja next with the congressman, raja krishnamoorthi of the house ever feel like a spectator in your own life with chronic migraine? 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. in a survey, 91% of users wish they'd started sooner. so why wait? talk to your doctor. botox® effects may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as trouble swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or m

again, thanks to both of you this evening, jennifer rubin and ruth ben-ghiat. we appreciate your time. still ahead tonight, french president emmanuel macron is headed to washington next week with a message for donald trump. you cannot be weak in the face of putin. but first, kash patel once said he was going to shut down the hoover building. that's the fbi headquarters on his first day as fbi director. and while he didn't do that, he certainly made it a rough day at the office for hundreds of fbi employees. we'll discuss that next with the congressman, raja krishnamoorthi of the house intelligence committee. >> look at this one under eye bag. it's gone. >> there's this. side and this side. >> have you seen these videos all over social media and said to yourself, how is that real? it's called plexaderm. and plexaderm is clinically studied to help reduce the appearance of under-eye puffiness, wrinkles and fine lines, with results that last up to ten hours. so don't wait. try plexaderm today don't wait. try plexaderm today for just aah, it's a good day to cough. o

ruth ben-ghiat, professor of history at nyu.esterday, i think it came from napoleon originally. he who saves his country does not violate any law. this is interesting from a guy like donald trump, who had once said that you could shoot somebody on fifth avenue and not lose any voters. you've commented on that. you said, this is where the law ends. the tyranny begins. >> yeah. this is a really frightening comment. and i worry that along the lines that ruth has just talked about, we are seeing efforts, i think, to sort of normalize this idea that the ends justify the means as long as i am doing what i was given a mandate to do by the electorate, then anything i do is therefore lawful because i'm doing it for the greater good. that is not how the law works. if you want to change something in the law, you can do that. we have constitutional amendment processes. we have the ability to pass legislation. the president does have significant powers under article two, but those powers are limited. and, you know, donald trump has said from

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also joining us, professor of history at new york university, ruth ben-ghiat garrett.s is a challenge. >> and you. saw it. >> i think in a lot of the conversations. >> you had in the. >> last half. >> hour where we are caught up in trying to wrap our heads. around this story as. >> it. >> unfolds. >> because we. >> are used. to thinking. >> of covering american politics in. >> the. >> frame of a. >> democracy, of a representative democracy with. >> rules and norms. >> and the rule of law.nd overseas. when we write, when we see. foreign correspondents from the us. >> write about. >> authoritarian regimes or politically. unstable regimes. >> we have. >> all of these. >> tropes and terms. >> that we're. >> much more. >> easily able to. deploy and define and. name that i. >> think we. >> are really struggling. >> to apply here. >> at home. >> even as we are. >> watching. >> you know, the. gravest threat to. american democracy that we have ever. >> seen play. >> out hour by. hour that, you know. >> elon musk is. >> staging a coup. >> on the american federal government. and