house doors to victor orban in a way that ba rack obama house doors to victor orban in a way that barackrefused to do. but to make the talks conditional and some kind of action on hungary's relationship with china, the question is how you finesse that sort of diplomacy and whether the president is prepared to use that kind of leverage. and the body language and what he says in front of the press because the europeans will be watching closely for any signs that he is embracing what victor orban stands for seems to stand for within the european union and of course, reading some of the comments today from the officials were saying that this was inevitable. he is a nato ally, you can have them frozen out forever so at some point, the hungarian prime minister has to arrive. and they have just discussed with their particularly concerned about is him moving into the sphere of rush and china —— of russia and china. financial markets tumbled today because of the escalating trade war between china and the us — it was the first day of trading since president trump raised tariffs on more than two hu

victor orban is hungary's controversial leader — today, he's at the white house. written to mr trump to express their reservations. victor orban has repeatedly praised donald trump but he was snubbed by both barack obama and george w bush. we'll bring you live coverage from the meeting at the white house. china has escalated the trade war with the us imposing tarrifs on us products — global markets slide after that announcement. also on the programme. more shuttle diplomacy — us secretary of state mike pompeo makes an unscheduled stop in brussels to talk iran with the european foreign ministers. we are very

. >> reporter: the last time hundred karyn prime minister victor orban met one on one a american presidentice. >> well, i am delighted to welcome prime minister orban. >> reporter: but orban, heavily criticized by human rights organizations, returned to the white house. >> it's a great honor to have with us the prime minister of hungary. >> reporter: both presidents george w. bush and president obama shunned orban, who was once seen as a promising reformer. his reputation changed as he pulled his nation closer to china and erected a razor wire fence. >> probably like me, a little bit controversial, but that's okay. that's okay. you've done a good job. and you've kept your country safe. >> reporter: under his leadership, amnesty international has criticized hungary for its systemic crackdown on the rights of refugees and migrants, its rollback on human rights, instances of excessive use of force by police at the border, and insufficient recognition and prosecution of rape and other forms of sexual violence. >> president, thank you very much for the invitation. >> reporter: in a speech last

victor orban has done a tremendous job in so many different ways.hly respected, respected all over europe. littley like me, a controversial, but that is ok. you have done a good job, and you have kept your country safe. e will be discussing n.a.t.o. as you know, hungary is a proud member of n.a.t.o. we have really gotten to know each other a little bit and we will be discussing trade, very much so, and lots of other subjects. he will be meeting with representatives of hungary later on with the prime minister and we spend some very good time together. mr. prime minister, thank you very much for being at the white house. thank you. may i -- >> president, thank you very much for the invitation. may i just say that we are proud that so many hungarians conjugated to the tremendous progress of the united states. a very happy to be here again. 20 years ago was my first time here. i have some expectations for the meeting this afternoon. first of all, to strengthen our particular alliance and then, to discuss global political issues, because so many changes

. >> victor orban has done a tremendous job in so many different ways, highly respected, respected allt controversial, but that's okay. that's okay. you've done a good job and you've kept your country safe. >> no, not safe. safe from what? democracy? diversity? not respected all over europe. look at the organizations there and what they're saying about him. in 2015 orban trumped trump, he built this big ass fence and sold it as a way to protect hungary from an invasion of asylum seekers and then he tried to rebuild brussels, saying they owed hungary. it's as if he wrote a script for this president. i know the pushback, it can't hurt to be nice. it depends on whom you choose to be nice to and why. my argument is, we know why. and i don't need to say it because this president's own person says it. no irony, his ambassador to hungary, david cornstein, the u.s. ambassador there told the atlantic in a new interview trump "would love to have the situation that victor orban has." there you go. now, we call it out because you -- what you ignore you empower. so we call it out. you allow an admi

going to be playing a major role why is that it's not just viktor orban but it's also people like victor orbánhese far right candidates who have said that they're coming for brussels and that they're going to make their voices heard and remember that we didn't even mention the u.k. elections where the brics a party formed simply to get britain out of the european union came out on top and that party has said that they are sending any peace to brussels simply to make things more difficult so they won't be the only ones it is going to be very very hard to make compromises here in brussels and there are going to be new members of the european parliament who openly say they're here because they don't like it so we're going to see some very difficult negotiations on any issues and made even more difficult by the fact the british i mean he's will of course at some point leave and our correspondent teri schultz for us in brussels thank you so much. here in germany it was a rather miserable night for angela merkel's conservatives and her coalition partners the social democrats these parties make up th

the week begins, victor orban, the head of hungary meeting with the president.ime. >> the president made clear that he is very interested in reaching out to populist right-wing leaders. he sees a potential kinship. and this is a stark change from the obama administration which really tried to express -- he made clear the changes were in opposition to the values that the u.s. has. i think it's going to be an interesting meeting. you know, the president likes to speak on the fly. there's going to be a lot of, you know, eastern and central europe watchers who are very nervous, who have been opposed to this regime that they feel have trampled and done a lot of democratic backsliding. so i think it's going to be interesting, and i think it's impossible to predict where it's going to go. >> victor orban, the head of a liberal democracy coming to washington. john hudson will be covering. it pressure the time. >> thanks. >>> next, our producers are listening to the latest sunday shows. you can stay tuned to msnbc. intelligence committee chairman adam schiff explaining h

the model for many of these groups has been hungary, where the prime minister, victor orban, has enforcedy. at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, he ordered the construction of a fence along hungary's southern border with serbia and croatia to prevent migrants getting in. jean mackenzie reports from budapest. the gabor family have two passions, swimming and their prime minister. viktor orban has one popular support here in hungary, partly by giving financial help to large families. an ardent nationalist, orban has waged war on migrants. hungary was at the forefront of the refugee crisis and although most people were just passing through, within weeks he'd built a fence to keep them out. now giant eu election billboards tell people to support the prime minister's plan to support immigration. these posters are absolutely everywhere. voters are being bombarded with this message to stop migration. this is a country where last year, there were fewer than 700 asylum seekers. in the border town, the mayo is one of orban‘s most vocal critics. this is state tv? most of hungary's media now h

in hungary, the ruling fidesz party of prime minister victor orban did well becoming the strongest partyan election for them to lose, because overwhelmingly they are the strongest party in the country. as you can see from that, they have bolstered their position a little bit further. nick thorpe is in budapest following what in some senses, nick, is... well, ithink we have lost nick, i was going to say a fairly predictable result. geoff meade is with me, former europe editor of the press association. looking at the hungarian figures, that's pretty much as we would expect and viktor orban maintains a strong position here as well as back home. he does, he's one of those leaders that worries the leadership in this town. a bad boy? indeed. coming back to these results in terms of what was expected, the current eu leaders were thinking, are we going to the views of people like viktor orban translated into a monumental sweep through of the far—right and the anti—euro parties? looking at the results, that seems a bit ridiculous, but you can never tell because europe is a strange place in the se

and they're already in government so for example hungry feed us with victor orbán they're not part ofthat yet at least they're part of the conservatives of the european peoples party and also in poland the peace party that's also governed is not part of this right wing coalition if they were part of this coalition it would be significantly more powerful not powerful enough to take over the european parliament or to obstruct business there but the effect of course is that it makes all the other pretty parties have to work together which we've seen before in grand coalition big coalitions where the 2 biggest parties at the work together prime example germany and this usually at least that's what many say hurts democracy because people feel they don't have an alternative anymore between the left and the right and you won't have that in the european parliament that much anymore the alternatives now are between anti european or anti e.u. and pro european meaning pro e.u. as we know it yes so what do you think of that from max there how do you think we're going to see the successes that we

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after speaking with france's nationalist's marine la pen and victor orban, salvini said the vote was to try to change europe. nigel farrage's new brexit party came out on top. >> the scores you've seen for the brexit party today will be repeated in a general election and we are getting ready for it. thank you. >> and greece's leftist prime minister called snap elections for next month after a resounding defeat. >>> years of declining voter turnout came to an end signaling a renewed interest in european union policies. >> reporter: big headlines here at the european parliament election center was voter turnout. voter turnout came in at a whopping 50.5%, an 8% gain on voter turnout from 2014 and the first time in the history of these elections that voter turnout actually increased. they've been on a steady decline since the elections first happened in 1979. it was a figure i can tell you that will leave many eu officials pleased. vo low voter turnout long been seen as a signal of voter apathy. this showing that europeans are more enthusiastic about these elections. the so-called grand

. >> i traveled in 2004 to hungary with the late senator john mccain, and watched him scold victor orbancksliding and talk to the opposition and ensure them america would stand up if the universal rights and democratic progress they represented. that's awe gone now -- all gone now and when president trump embraces a faux ruler like orban, he sends a signal to opposition leaders all over europe and all over the world, fighting for democracy, that the u.s. is no longer on their side, and it's also a big thumb in the eye of all of the european allies that we have traditional stood by that orban is fighting against. it's a huge departure in u.s. foreign policy. it's really a departure away from the values that bipartisan groups in congress support, and that american presidents for the last 70 years have supported and you know, i think when we go to european countries they ask them for help on things like iran. it may look at us, while you're undermining our countries and wagging your fingers at us for doing the things that americans always stood for, and then you come ask us for help on some

ambassador there told the atlantic in a new interview trump "would love to have the situation that victor orban has." there you go. now, we call it out because you -- what you ignore you empower. so we call it out. you allow an administration to flout oversight, shirk constitutional mandates, bad mouth the judiciary, stack the courts with ideological exemplars. constantly seek wedge issues, carving the country into us and them. you mix in an increasingly hostile attitude toward longtime friends and warmth for perceived foes. where does it end up? most obvious point here is that you do not hear this president's pals saying orban is a bad guy, potus is nothing like him. they're saying the opposite. my argument is, enough with the rationales, enough with reaching for reasons for why this might make sense in some alternate reality. see it for what it is. this president says nice things about the people that he admires. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon starts right now. >> birds of a feather. i know it's cliche, but your mama always told you that, right, birds of a feather flock t

also this week, the president hosts far right hungarian prime minister victor orban who last met withite house 20 years ago. calling him a state-of-the-art ought kratt as his government erodes hungary's freedoms. in the foreground is the unresolved trade dispute with china. >> it's not china that pays tariffs. it's the american importers, the american companies that pay what in effect is a tax increase, and oftentimes passes it on to u.s. consumers. >> fair enough, in fact both sides will pay. >> it's a tariffs on goods coming into the country. the chinese aren't paying. >> no, but the chinese will suffer gdp losses and so forth with respect to a diminishing export market and goods that they may need for their own -- >> i understand that. but the president said china, it pays the tariffs. they may suffer consequences, but it's u.s. businesses and u.s. consumers who pay, correct? >> yes, to some extent. i don't disagree with that. again, both sides -- both sides will suffer on this. >> mack orman, it's -- i find it to be rather stunning to make larry kudlow make these arguments conside

president trump welcomed hungarian prime minister victor orban to the white house monday. the far-right nationalist leader is known for his hard-line anti-i-immigrant policies and rolling back democratic institutions and checks on his power. this is orban and trump speaking from the oval office. >> we have some similar approaches and i would like to express we are proud to stand together with united states in fighting against illegal migration, on terrorism, and to krista community's all around the world. pres. trump: i know he is a tough man, but he is a respected man on immigration. yoyou look at some of the probls they have in europe that are tremendous because they have done it it different way than the prime minister. amy: trump's predecessors, presesidents obama and george w. bush, declined to host orban over concerns about his leadership. orban has closed down hungary's southern border, building a razor wire fence to keep out refugees, many of them from syria, and deported refugees already in the c country. china announced monday plans to raise tariffs on $60 billio

. >> reporter: the president raised eyebrows when he praised victor orban, as he welcomed the prime minister to the oval office. >> people have a lot of respect for this prime minister. you look at some of the problems they have in europe that are tremendous, because they've done it a different way than the prime minister. >> reporter: it was another example of mr. trump embracing a foreign leader who has bashed immigrants and eroded democratic freedoms. >> respected all over europe, probably like me a little bit controversial, but that's okay. that's okay. you've done a good job. and you've kept your country safe. >> reporter: the president used the occasion to issue another warning to iran. >> i'm hearing little stories about iran. if they do anything, they will suffer greatly. >> reporter: the president said he'll be meeting with china's xi jinping and russia's vladimir putin at the g-20 summit last month. as for russia, the president predicted the u.s. would be getting along with moscow and he promised not to use any stolen information from a foreign government in the upcoming 2020 campa

knowing the president for a good 25 or 30 years that he would love to have the situation that victor orbanhe white house says this quote was taken out of context but steve bannon has described orban as trump before trump. trump's admiration of autocrats is a pattern. there's the philippine president best known for cracking down on civil liberties, he once favorably compared himself to hitler. there's egyptian president sisi visiting the white house in april, he has disappeared thousands of opposition, designated media organizations as terrorists and mainstreamed the use of torture. trump has praised the beautiful letter he has gotten from kim jong-un with whom he fell in love. he ran interference for saudi crown prince mbs after he was connected to the old blooded murder of jamal khashoggi and has refused to help congress get to the bottom of what happened. of course, he still can't bring himself to say a bad word about vladimir putin. all this matters because liberal democracy is under attack around the world. countries like hungary show how quickly freedoms can be rolled back. trump occu

on monday, hungary's far-right nationalist prime minister, victor orban, was at the white house wherehad done a tremendous job. and on thursday, brazil's far-right nationalist president bolsonaro spoke at an event in dallas. these two men and fellow travelers like donald trump and vladimir putin represent the growing global threat to the ideas of liberalism. but my next guest offers a full-throated defense of liberalism and says we need it now, more than ever. adam gopnik's new book is "a thousand small sanities." welcome, adam. >> thank you, fareed. >> the book began, you say, after the election of donald trump, when you went with your daughter for a walk. >> on the night of the election of donald trump, she was shaken, not because there had been a change in parties in power. i would not have sympathized or endured that for very long. changing parties in power is a crucial party of liberal democratic values, left to right, right to left, back again. she was concerned about the specter of a kind of new authoritarianism, even a predatory authoritarianism that she hadn't been prepared f

the host of victor orban, the dictator of hungary, who said he was a great guy and approves of what he's his country of hungary. there are a lot of signs that suggest that we're not exactly dealing with the free floating anxiety and -- >> why -- >> donald trump would love to be a dictator. >> i do think it's scary for history. he likes kim jong-un for no reason. >> right. >> he likes vladimir putin for no reason. he likes netanyahu, slightly different classification. he likes tough guys. >> yeah. >> well -- >> yet he won't talk to the ayatollah. he won't talk to people he should be doing business with. >> you never know whether it's following a totalitarian streak or being done clumsily. >> right. >> it seems often to be a mixture of the two things. >> right. >> but we know what's going to happen. some people are going to boycott the thing. there will probably be a protest there. the 4th of july is now even politicized. is it now going to be the trump liberty bell at the trump independence hall? >> i was talking to my producers today and we were trying to figure out what this is about. i

. >> brangham: it was victor orban's first visit to the white house in 20 years, and he found a like-mindedder in president trump. >> probably like me a little bit controversial, but that's okay, that's okay! you've done a good job. and you've kept your country safe. >> i would like to express that we are proud to stand together with the untied states fighting against illegal migration, on terrorism, and to protect and help the christian communities all around the world. >> brangham: in the 1990's, when he visited president clinton, orban was seen by many as a deic reformer, helping steer his country out of the soviet-era. he returned to power in 2010-- but this time, as a right-wing populist anisd nation >> ( translated ): european culture based on christian vonues must be given primac the european continent. europe's borders must be protected against the invasion of migrants. >> brangham: where president trump has called for a wall at the u.s.exico border, orban actually closed hungary's southern border with barbed wire after main syrian refugees surged almost 45 in 2015. >> ( translated

putin but that has not played any role -- like victor orbans. watching has any questions, send them our way and we will do our best to help. we are going to switch across to the uk and update you on brexit. 0ne we are going to switch across to the uk and update you on brexit. one of the big stories of this european parliamentary campaign, the fact that it parliamentary campaign, the fact thatitis parliamentary campaign, the fact that it is happening, which is a story in itself, is that nigel farage and his brand—new brexit party polling very, very well indeed. some polls are putting it ahead of everyone else. he didn‘t have the greatest of days campaigning. look at this picture from newcastle a little bit earlier, where nigel farage was milkshakenos brumadinho three, and he was very —— milkshaked and he was very disappointed and that is one part of the brexit party and the issue of funding is another, because most fry said it doesn‘t have members, it has supporters and they can support different amounts of money from paypal and other ways and th

we have seen president trump seemingly offering support for the likes of victor or bond -- victor orban or the brexit -- the brexit becaus the brexit cause. you argued earlier that at a time of greater international competition, having a european union that is able to take common positions on the russia sanctions or investment screening against china should be in the u.s. interest. how do you think washington is reacting to what we have been discussing about the parliament elections? cathryn: they would love to continue this game of them holding the string of the sweater in europe just walks away and then it unravels. i don't think that worked. i think bannon is trying to build this campaign on the inside. you had this odd politicization of the ambassador of germany, look,d grenell, who said i am here to support right-wing parties across europe, which caused a huge outrage, rightfully, across germany. but that did not fly, it did not hang together ultimately. and this is -- and this supposedly and that was being built, it also did not work and it likely will not work. we will see how th

victor is active in the right wing conservative fetus party of prime minister viktor orban he's also involved in the election campaigns outside parliament he plans a video for huge election rally held last year. god it's like the whole country came together on this one day. we felt strength and peace. we felt we were one country. to material motional absolutely. i want the old fart on the ball bounce nationalist populist rhetoric is popular with many young people obama's new electoral laws instituted in 2012 helped secure a 2 thirds majority in last year's parliamentary election despite winning just under 50 percent of the followed fiji has also has enormous influence over the hunky area media and the courts many independent researchers say that poses a threat to democracy but that doesn't seem to bother a lot of young people. to go. many of them support or bond because he portrays himself as a rebel who is defending the hungary's freedom. he says he's protecting the country against foreign enemies who threaten ungreased national identity. and national values and that's when all of t

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orbán is undermining democracy. how far will you go what is the. burning books also victor believes that the e.u.trategy is clear the. aristocrats in brussels aim to take complete control of all the member states. but hungary wants to remain sovereign and determine its own domestic policy in the political process cannot and will not accept that. the. victor remains firm in his political convictions and opposed to the illegal. but there are still dedicated pro europeans in hungary the momentum movement is the centrist political party that was founded 2 years ago. back then the government put up stop brussels posters. we went out and covered up the brussels with stickers so that the posters read stop moscow and stop. this going to get it's difficult to be an opposition party and hungry right now. the government plays hardball the way you'd never see in a normal democracy my father was fired from his job at a state run agency because of my political activity. fortunately he found another job. momentum has fielded candidates for the upcoming european parliament elections. the party has a practical re