professor tim snyder. professor of history at yale university and the author of "on tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century". thank you for joining us. thank you for your time tonight

professor tim snyder. mr. snyder's joined this program a few times before because he literally wrote the book on how to recognize whether the authoritarian inclinations of this president are shifting toward -- shifting the country really toward authoritarianism. that book also tells us what we can do about it and what we can learn from other countries that have gone through something similar. the book is called "on tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth." here's lesson number ten. believe in truth. to abandon facts is to abandon freedom. if nothing is true, then no one can criticize power because there is no basis upon which to do so. if nothing is true, then all is spectacle. the biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights. so my question is what kind of spectacle might we expect when a leader like donald trump feels desperate? and i know who to ask. joining me now, tim snyder, professor of history at yale university and author of a new book "our malady: lessons in liberty from a hospital diary."

professor tim snyder. professor of history at yale university and the author of "on tyranny: 20 lessons from the 20th century". thank you for your time tonight sir. >>> we have much more ahead but i want to give you an update on a big story we're following tonight. hurricane delta. we're out of letters. that's why we're on the greek alphabet now. the storm made landfall as a category 2 hurricane in southwestern louisiana at about 7:00 p.m. eastern time tonight, just 13 miles away from where hurricane laura hit six weeks ago. more than 200,000 people in the area are now without power. some people who fled the last storm have still not been able to return to their homes, and it's currently making its way up the southeastern united states as a weaker category 1 storm. wind gusts in southwest louisiana have reached nearly 100 miles per hour. some areas are reporting deadly storm surges of more than eight feet of water. the storm's going to continue to head north through mississippi, then tennessee through the