it is strange the marriage between parts of the american right and viktor orban when orban has been so close to china over the years. obviously, china is anathema to that segment. host: is there an economic connection? guest: there is an economic connection. it is not unique to hungary. all over the world, china is using leverage to buy support in countries like hungary. host: julie on the republican line. caller: good morning. i have to say that the caller before me ask the question i wanted to ask. my point right now is this. why is it not ok to be conservative? why is it not ok to think a man and woman should be able to create a child? why is it ok for this country's catholics to think abortion should be in the law forever? codify it, codify it. why is it long for we to have our opinion, and the left, their opinion whether wrong or right, it is what it is. who cares what we think? the other part i wanted to mention was that our president wants to codify abortion. he is supposedly a catholic. no matter how you look at this, ok, abortion is death. host: we talked about abortion in the

you're right in your piece that, viktor orban, sort of, overlaps with the american right. but there are issues in which, hungary and orban diverge with the american right as well, did you talk about. >> yeah, and doing reporting, talking to hungarian journalists and others, you know, you found that abortion is legal there. it is restricted some, after i believe, 12, 15 weeks. but it's legal up to 24 weeks under certain conditions. they have universal health care. paid for and arranged for by the government. in addition to that, it is strongly, severely regulated. these are not stances that people at what's called cpac, this event, will embrace in any way, shape, or form. however, that is not the point. the point is you have tonally somebody, going to stand up what he calls, the global ruling classes, lumping together people in the media and academia, and independent outfits, as we've said before, people like the liberal, hungarian born, jewish philanthropist, george soros, who is a bogeyman for orban, just as he is for so many on fox, and someone in the american right. you

it was good of viktor orban to spell that out.white nationalist in viktor orban, and the american families at aipac have in mind, when the rage against immigration, and the great replacement. they want to take us back to the dark ages. let's say a bit about viktor orban, and why this is beyond a despicable choice for a speaker at cpac, in a long line of despicable choices of people that claim to be conservatives, but quite frankly stand for the republican right. as we go to the midterms, republicans can be proud of racism, and viktor orban going to cpac. perhaps backing a bill of rights, to use joe's words, and so on, and so on. i don't know where this is going, but i find it quite frightening. it does not appear to be dying. >>> viktor orban 72 has been shunned by most of europe. he is seen as too far to the right for europe. it seems he can find a home here in america, particularly at cpac. you can come to america and find yourself among friends. he is not only somebody who espoused views that have been described as nazi. one su

over his 12 years as prime minister, viktor orban has attacked the judiciary and taken over over the media and criticized civil society group and preventing others from campaigning and tienacting emergency powers that let him rule by decree. bit time he ran for re-election a month ago, his victory was a foregone conclusion and based his movement on an appeal to an explicitly white christian heritage for hungary. last week he delivered a speech in which he condemned quote race mixing saying european people should not mix with noneuropeans and doesn't wan hungary to become mixed race. one of his longest serving advisers could not stomach that speech and resigned and she called it a pure nazi speech. >>> andre after all of that, as viktor orban headed to the united states for a visit this week, can you guess what his very first stop was? a visit to donald trump's golf club. because when you are an autocratic leader being shunned by everyone in the westernin world, andes you're fresh off a speech thates even your close adviser calls pure nazi, never fear, the fine properties of the trump

cpac with viktor orban. i want people to research who viktor orban is. research him and if you are satisfied voting with republicans and trump [indiscernible] i thank you for taking my call. host: pamela in ohio, democrats line. go ahead. caller: i am calling about jim jordan. the supreme court of ohio has struck down the gerrymandered maps the republican party has gone through, so that forces us to only have jim jordan, who should not even be in there, he should have been prosecuted for his role in the molestation of the wrestlers at ohio state. also, the fact he was directly involved in january 6. he has done everything he can to skirt out of that. he is a dishonorable representative. i find it amazing the state of ohio is going to force us into this vote where the map is gerrymandered, which we voted on years ago to throw that out. host: is he your congressmen? caller: jim jordan. we live in ohio. i have to put down a zip code but i'm actually down the road, which is in his district. host: eric is next. republican line. caller: good morning. the most

[applause] >> conservatives welcome viktor orban's racist, anti immigrant, and anti-lgbtq rhetoric with, where he kicked off a conservative conference giving a 30-minute speech titled, how we fight. orban has become a familiar face to conservatives, and fox news viewers, ever since tucker carlson traveled all the way to hungry to interview the hungarian prime minister and to help spread his ultranationalist views. orban speech at cpac comes nearly two weeks after saying, quote, this is why we have always fought, we are willing to mix with one another but we do not want to become peoples of mixed race. and that speech led one of orban's closest spy have visor's to write, -- pure nazi, adding, quote, i don't know how you didn't notice that your speech you delivered is a purely nazi diatribe worthy of joseph gobbles. -- viktor orban to his new jersey golf course, calling him a friend. joining us now is peter beinart, professor of journalism and political science at the city university of new york. he's almost also an msnbc political analyst. so, -- orban's embrace of ethnonationalism, hung

this is not new rhetoric from viktor orban. for years, liberals have been warning about the danger of this. hun6 those are the words of vik all arriving after a widely condemned speech when he berates europeans for a, quote, mixed race society. he claims that country soon, have welcome migrants from outside of europe are, quote, no longer nations. they are nothing more than a conglomeration of peoples, adding, quote, we do not want to become peoples of mixed race. this is not new rhetoric from viktor orban. for years, liberals have been warning about the danger of this. yes, i would argue, fascist, leader. as the american far-right has embraced him. last year, fox host, tucker carlson, took his tv show to hungary for one week of shows, fawning over orban, and his policies, which are anti-immigrant, anti-lgbtq, and anti-freedom of the press. now, it is not just liberals who are condemning orban. it is a recent condemnation of the hungarian prime minister. quote, i didn't know how you noticed that you are presenting a pure nazi t

this is not new rhetoric from viktor orban. for years, liberals have been warning about the danger of this. yes, i would argue, fascist, leader. as the american far-right has embraced him. last year, fox host, tucker carlson, took his tv show to hungary for one week of shows, fawning over orban, and his policies, which are anti-immigrant, anti-lgbtq, and anti-freedom of the press. now, it is not just liberals who are condemning orban. it is a recent condemnation of the hungarian prime minister. quote, i didn't know how you noticed that you are presenting a pure nazi text worthy of gerbils, referring, of course, to adolf hitler's chief propagandist, joseph gerbils. that does not come from a left leaning msnbc host, or a democratic congressman. those are the words of viktor orban's own, long-standing advisor, who worked with him, for 20 years. he quit over that speech. can you guess where viktor orban is still welcome? even revered? that would be right here, in the u.s. of a. at the conservative political action conference, takin

the reality is viktor orban is a right wing dream for the republicans trying to destroy society. he's the continent's biggest proponent of white invasion theory. the biggest promoter of the organization of the republican party is tucker carlson. he took his show on the road to hungary for an entire week touting it as a bike con for america. >> small country with a lot of lessons for the rest of us. one last thing, because the example of hungary is so powerful, not just in europe but to the world, to the entire world, not simply the west, what you can do with a relatively small economy and not many people if you're serious about keeping your nation from being destroyed. >> in case you have any doubt that right wingers are fully on board with orban's theory. look at this. >> we have seen what kind of future the globalist ruling class has to offer. the globalists can all go to hell, i have come to texas. >> my pam is joining us tonight. professor shepley, i am going to start with you. i know your expertise is hungary and this sort of ultra nationalist, christian nationalist movement

there's putin, viktor orban, trump, desantis.able and getting what you want through force, that is the thing that apparently what much of the republican, what used to be called the conservative base but is now really the authoritarian base, is for. >> strongman who gets what he wants to force but also hits upon these divisive wedge issues and let's say it, crosses the line in a flat out racist language. he did it at home and he's doing it in dallas. and those remarks got cheered in that arena. tell us, just how worrisome is this and what does that say about where the republican party is right now in 2022. when tucker carlson goes to hungary and the leader comes here and get cheered? >> we need to see cpac for what it is. john is right about this being enamored with strongman, what is at the heart of it? we heard great placement theory. there are echoes of eugenicists theories, there are historical parallels, the know nothing parties of 1850s, david reed of pennsylvania, 1920, at the heart of the 1924 immigration act which created

donald trump has welcomed hungary's president viktor orbÁn to his golf club in bedminster, new jerseyad of the conservative political action conference, or cpac, which opens today in dallas, texas. trump is scheduled to deliver closing remarks on saturday, while orbÁn is set to speak today. cpac's warm welcome of orbÁn comes just days after he delivered a speech in romania that drew comparisons to nazi rhetoric. >> there is a world with european peoples are mixed together with those arriving from outside europe. that is a mixed race world. and then there is our world, where people from within europe mixed with one another. amy: so far, none of the prominent conservatives scheduled to share the stage with orbÁn at cpac have condemned his racist remarks. that includes far-right tv rsonalities sean hannity and glenn beck, senator ted cruz, and congressmembers lauren boebert, matt gaetz, and jim jordan. we'll have more on this story lar in the broadcast. a top justice department official said wednesday his agency has investigated more than 1000 threats to election workers over the past ye

cpac's day featured a speech by viktor orbÁn.efore that europeans "do not want to become peoples of mixed race. he spoke thursday for more than half an hour, drew multiple standing ovations, perhaps the loudest when he was condemning same-sex families. he said a battle is being fought for western civilization. >> you have midterm elections this year. congressional elections. european parliament elections. these two locations will define the two fronts in the battle being fought for western civilization. today we hold neither of them. yet we need both. you have two years to get ready. amy: on thursday, just before hungarian prime minister viktor orbÁn address to cpac in texas, democracy now!'s nermeen shaikh and i spoke with kim lane scheppele specializes in the rise and fall of constitutional government focusing on hungary. today we bring you part two of our discussion. she began by talking about the significance of viktor orbÁn addressing cpac. >> cpac is quitenternational and etc a lot ofhat is going from something called the b

there i saw such numbers, that is, these are excess profits, that is, when viktor orbán talks about uhentionally speaking, losses, he earns in parallel, well, in addition, there are corresponding gas contracts here. it was interesting that when hungary signed a new gas contract with gazprom with russia in september of last year, there in parallel in the same period was also signed by serbia and these two countries are quite interconnected and in fact with russia and precisely with regard to energy carriers, plus gas goes to them via one route through the turkish south stream and there it even reaches the point that uh, the question is who stores gas where, who sells gas to whom, because they have this russian gas that they get uh under a profitable contract and also sell to each other. here, for example, according to the information of uh, hungarian media, the last one is uh, there are even certain problems now they are appearing in hungary, because there are none of them . of course. also, as they say, for the record, i will only say to the other participants in our discussion that ev

course we're approaching, we're in that primary season, approaching the midterm elections, when viktor orbandonald trump and the far right wing of the republican party are really looking to shore up a vote that they know is critical and at risk. but critical to their success. >> orban of course has spoken about how he opposes mixed race society in europe. just two weeks ago declaring in a speech that we do not want to become peoples of mixed race. that speech was condemned by his own advisor who called it pure flaut nazi and resign. but he's hardly the only far-right person. what are these trends are we seeing both in europe and the u.s. right now? >> well, there is clearly a constituency that's pourtsuppor of the values, willing to be courted as you might say. but what's most interesting is it hasn't won out. people have been very concerned. you mentioned le pen. the numbers were very high. but the backlash against that speech, the july 23rd speech that orban gave that you referred to was very clear. he mentioned that when he came to texas. we heard from some people who attended the confere

it's the majority of it represented by senior cpac with viktor orban up there?ave to cater to that crew, because they are the most boisterous and fervent of the activists in base? >> this is the republican party, this is the mainstream republican party, unfortunately. i know a lot of my republican friends are holdouts, hoping that one day, and the bush era republican party will return. that is dead and gone. this is not the conservative political action committee or the coup convention. this has gone mainstream, thanks to donald trump, thanks to the cowardice of the mainstream republicans that we used to know, like shermichael and i used to look up to and respect. those folks have acquiesced to the crazy, and this is what you've gotten. if you look at the lineup of the d.c. packer mentions, these are people who are rejects, that never would have been allowed to step foot in any type of republican mainstream event. even cpac's icon to, just like shermichael, i am older than him. i have been going to cpac for a long time i have not step foot at a cpac since donald

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laura: republicans are doubling down on their love affair with viktor orban. is anti-immigration policies, in a recent xenophobic speech, orban likened migrants to a flood being forced upon hungary, and decried a mixed-race society. still, orban was welcomed with open arms by republican leaders. as seen here in video produced by his staff, orban trekked to bedminster, new jersey, where he met face-to-face with former president donald trump. >> we love hungary. >> ladies and gentlemen -- laura: and in dallas, texas, at the conservative political action conference, known as cpac -- >> viktor orban. laura: -- orban received keynote treatment. >> now the west is at war with itself. laura: he painted hungary and white christian americans as allies in the struggle against a progressive global order. >> i am here to tell you that our values, the nation, christian roots, and family can be successful in the political battlefield. we made these values successful and mainstream in hungary. don't worry. a christian politician cannot be racist. laura: and went on to provide

today's marquee speaker at cpac is viktor orban, the prime minister of hungary. quote, we do not want to become peoples of mixed ray. orban's long-time advisor slammed the speech and resigned, saying his comments were unacceptable, even by the standards of the most bloodthirsty racist. yet, cpac never pulled its invitation. our friend amanda carpenter spoke about what cpac has become. >> when i went to cpac as a young conservative in washington, i remember the stage welcoming leaders from ukraine who were pushing back against russian aggression, and those were the types of people who were celebrated, but i really think things changed under trump. under trump, there is a fascination, respect, obsession with strongmen on the international stage. and i think it has a lot to do with conservatives losing the arguments when it comes to the things like race, identity, and immigration here at home, and looking for support abroad to sort of bolster their positions. >> earlier this week, orban visited trump at his golf course in new jersey, and the former president will be

same time i will remind you that donald trump , a former president who calls himself a friend of viktor orban so potentially very influential in the next presidential election in the united states. so the situation is like this, meanwhile orban himself emphasizes that the western and right-wing forces are also european er, the extreme right may even have to prepare for the elections in order to strengthen their positions, he emphasizes this very strongly as a leader who came to power in a democratic way, but whose they accuse him of strengthening his power with far from democratic and certainly not liberal , not freedom-loving methods. activities brought even more changes for market participants, the new law on media, the adoption of which is one of the requirements for ukraine's accession to the european union, details were clarified by iryna solomko olha gerasimyuk, head of the national council for television and radio broadcasting, says the war has changed the media market of ukraine. as a regulator, the national council systematically receives appeals from television and radio companies w

. >> charlie, you mentioned viktor orban, the autocrat want to be leader in hungary. every year, cpac seems to be more and more about political theatre, but we saw orban as this conference. he opened it up. it's opening it up with a dictator want to be and closing it with a want to be in trump. let's listen. >> they're obliged to protect the christian culture of hungary. should protect the constitution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. family ties, family ties shall be based on marriage or the relationship between parent and children. to sum up, the mother is a woman. the father is a man. and leave our kids alone. end of discussion. >> charlie, we just heard you a few moments ago say this is not what the republican party is all about. but here you have american conservatives cheering a pro putin democracy, spouting nationalist rhetoric, anti-gay bigotry. it is a dominant force in the party though. is it not? >> well, look. there isn't a liberal pop list native movement. viktor orban, the la pen movement in france. italy, germany, brexit. and of course

the country systematically inhibits sanctions against russia, and the scandalous statements of viktor orbanlame it, the already tense relations between budapest and kyiv, and although the russian attack on ukraine , the local government condemned the military aid for the armed forces, they are in no hurry to transfer it, so why is orban so friendly with russia, we will ask my colleague, the bbc correspondent georgy erman, about this. i congratulate you , georgiy. you studied the topic of relations between hungary and kyiv. what is your opinion, is it possible to change the political vector of budapest regarding ukraine good evening in the near future the coming years - this is unlikely to be possible because hungary depends on russia in terms of energy, i.e. 85% of gas 60 five 80% of oil the country will receive directly from russia and also the nuclear power industry of hungary is essentially now being managed by a project that will be implemented with the help of a dewy a-and for viktor urban, all these projects and this energy cooperation with russia are very important because uh, these

viktor orban is an illiberal populist. he is part of a trans national movement. you call it for the alternative for germany and germany, le pen in france, ukip in the uk, trumpism in america, the five star movement in italy. there is democratic backsliding going on in hungary. i can't understand why cpac would give a platform to a man like this. yes, he does all of the dog whistles on, immigrants on, the lgbt community, and others. so, i am astounded that cpac would have a liberal populist speaking there. they might just want to change your name from cpac, too ill packed, because this is sick that they go down this path. as scott said, they should be talking about other issues. by the way, cpac, over the years, would have a straw poll for president. ron, or rand paul, would always win. of course, that is not reflective of the country, or the republican party, for that matter, but that is where these guys are. i think it is time that conservative leaders the turned their backs, and the platform people like this. orban is another one who also plays footsie with lat

they got a lecture on how to win from hungarian autocrat viktor orban, an appeal that consichted of just be more fascist. since then it's been about, well, what you would expect. >> over 54 countries have now been taken by the machines or are getting taken by the machines, and you never get to go back. >> it's like lincoln said. we're not going to be destroyed with foreign forces come on in. >> the militant left in the america are the modern day version of book burners. >> when i said i'm a christian nationalist, i have nothing to be ashamed of, and that will make america great again when we lean into biblical principles. >> it occurs to me that the biden fbi believes this is a room of dangerous radicals. and you know what, they are right. >> was that a tan suit on ted cruz? joining me is the president and show of votto latino and the author of why the we did it, a travel log from the republican road to hell." tim i, i need to start with you, it seems like a chef's kiss ending to republicans' very bad week is alex jones. now been hit with a $45.2 million penalty. that's just the penalty

but this problem is solvable, at least from the point of view of the hungarian prime minister, viktor orban last week made the statement that as a result of the current crisis in europe, the strong, perhaps even will not remain after the end of the war in ukraine, the eu will be weaker than before the war. while other countries and regions will win, firstly, the west cannot win the war in ukraine by military means. secondly, the sanctions do not destabilized russia thirdly their damage to europe is huge fourthly measures, did not line up behind the usa and ukraine most of the world defiantly does not support them chinese indians brazilians, south africa arab world africa it is quite possible that this war will put an end to domination. the west, here, urban is clearly not tormented by any offended complexes and phantom pains associated with the lost values, which are already brown in the fields, urban is hungary and is not enough. and if, as now, there is not enough gas, it supplies overcontract, everything is in order not to him, but to chancellor schultz, business representatives write he

>> well, as you mentioned, yesterday things kicked off with viktor orban are ban who delivered what we call at the post a trump in a hungarian accent and it was delivered by on the campaign trail from attacking george soros to talking about gender issues and migration and he was welcomed with a standing ovation as a hero and a model. >> so, talk to us about what's animating these attendees? what are you hearing? we've seen mike lindell and steve bannon at cpac. so is this idea of election denialism still front and center? that's the thing that's getting people juiced up? >> well, at this point it's sort of gotten blended over to what they see as the consequences of the election being lost or in their view, stolen. like former president trump has said ukraine wouldn't have happened, inflation wouldn't have happened. all of the things they see going on in the country now that they're unhappy about they trace back to the election that they viewed as stolen from them. >> so michael, you have folks like bannon, lindell and a host of other characters there, but you've also got folks like ric

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in hungary viktor orban has very successfully managed to dismantle democracy, to create electoral rules that have made it possible for him to change the constitution, to control the media, undermine judicial independence, all things that donald trump has tried to do. but he faces a very different system, a very different level of mobilization across society. and a set of norms that are far more embedded. so that i think is what we have to hope for. but they are very similar as individuals. >> you can see the rest of that interview in the next hour of "cnn newsroom." >>> beijing and washington exchange angry words in the wake of u.s. house speaker's trip to taiwan. and over the last few days china's put on a massive show of strength around the self-governing island. we'll have that story when we come back. lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose. tastes great in our iced coffees too. which makes waking up at 5 a.m. to milk the cows a little easier. (moo) mabel says for you, it's more like 5:15. man:n: mom, really? when you can't sleep... try zzzquil pure zzz's gummies. they h

from viktor orban at cpac and why a former german chancellor cannot seem to stay out of trouble. see you in a moment. ♪ /ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ >> this is focus on europe. i'm lara babalola, thanks for your company. it was a catastrophe of epic proportions the flooding that ripped through western germany last summer. no one saw it coming until it was too late. rivers, including the ahr, burst their banks and destroyed virtually everything in their path. dozens of villages were inundated homes and possessions washed away in an instant. more than 130 people died along the ahr river. the sheer amount of rainfall took residents by surprise. experts say the extreme weather event was caused by climate change. and it seems like a combination of the topography and city planning has made the region more vulnerable to rising waters much of the landscape in the ahr valley is still scarred. those living in the community of schuld have a lot work ahead of them. residents are yearning for normality as they face an uncertain future. >> abandoned, since summer 2021. a village on the river ahr a

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stuff like viktor orbÁn, the prime minister of hungary, who a lot of conservatives are looking to asxample of a guy who runs understandably democratic nation that is a member of nato that doesn't like immigration, that doesn't like race missing, that doesn't like transgender rights and doesn't like a whole lot of stuff -- that almost worries some people more because they are looking at the legitimate example of someone to follow. >> yeah, think about what is being celebrated at cpac. and of course this is all inspired by donald trump. and it was unleashed by donald trump. we have an authoritarian -- i mean, at cpac, when i had been there, used to criticize governments like castro's in cuba, chavez and maduro in venezuela, and now you are celebrating authoritarian dictators. and then the other image you showed of the insurrectionists in the jail cell, that is something else that apparently cpac thinks is worth celebrating, the fact that a group of americans, criminals who attacked the capitol and tried to interrupt a constitutional process -- i mean, the constitution is something that

meanwhile, the white house administration, meanwhile, comments on viktor orban's private visit to thees , emphasizing that no official contacts are planned with the swinging prime minister . the estonian authorities intend to demolish all soviet monuments. hot estonian leaders have been selected for the soviet heritage for 30 years and now they have decided, it seems, on the final attack of the base under the blow of the monuments of the great patriotic war. well, for example, a tank in narva that is protected by russian-speaking residents of the city is far from tallinn to narva, but the hasty local rulers intend to as soon as possible, he will throw himself under soviet tanks on pedestals in order to blow up historical memory . which haunts the authorities in tallinn will greatly undermine faith in democracy, because the fourth article of the constitution says what? that every person has the right to defend. yes, your values. however, this. how to see the minister of foreign affairs of estonia believes that the townspeople did not come to defend the values ​​and beliefs in narva sur

trump, steve bannon, ted cruz and so on, but so will a controversial foreign leader, hungary's viktor orbanining women's rights, lgbt rights, controlling the media and much more. cnn's ben wedeman is live in budapest. ben. >> reporter: john, despite all of that even the critics of the prime minister here concede that over the last 12 years some of his policies have managed to help improve the lot of many hungriness, yet despite that of late as the economy has begun to falter viktor orban has resorted to rhetoric reminiscent to some of his darkest days in this country's history. you could call it a meeting of like minds, video from his official -- donald trump tuesday at his bedminster, new jersey, golf club. on his way to this week's conservative political action conference in texas. the hard right anti-immigrant prime minister recently set off alarm bells with his speech laced with sinister undertones. we europeans, orban said, are willing to mix with one another but we do not want to become people's of mixed race. he has since come out insisting he isn't racist or anti-semitic. the damage

a conservative political action committee, they brought us barry goldwater, ronald reagan, now viktor orbanteve ban non, election deniers, conspiracy theorists, liars. the question is how do you win the fight.non, election deniers conspiracy theorists, liars. the question is how do you win the fight. liz cheney may lose her primary on august 16. her father who represents the conservative republican party spoke at cpac itself, this is part of the fight. >> our nation's 246 year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our republic than donald trump. he tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power. a real man wouldn't lie to his supporters. he lost his election and he lost big. i know it, he knows it, and deep down i think most republicans know it. from what will it take, how many cycles will it take? obviously the denying part, the conspiracy theorists are winning at the moment when/if how do the more principled republicans -- >> i think that liz cheney is in trouble in her primary. she could lose to her opponent who is sayi

they had the hungarian president viktor orban who is viewed as an autocratic figure.> i'm here to tell you that we should unite our forces. if you separate civilization from the judo christian heritage, the worst things in history happen. if traditional families are gone, there is nothing that can save the rest from going under. the globalists can all go to hell. i have come to texas. >> huge applause. this is a guy who has real disdain for democracy, getting a hero's welcome at a conservative political conference. >> the scholars will tell you he is basically the leading example of this type of sort of quasi democratic authoritarianism where a figure like this is able to get elected once and rig the rules in his favor so it's essentially impossible for the opposition to ever win an election again. we see, if we didn't know it already, that this is the clear aspiration of a lot of these figures who want to change the way elections are run and to have a greater say in who wins the election on behalf of the party that's counting the votes. the fact that they would actua

the ex-president himself is to speak at the conservative conference tomorrow and viktor orban, the

, i do think the take away from this particular cpac on france, as they embraced and celebrate viktor orbanamerica's conservative movement has embraced the replacement theory movement -- orban called it 2024, the fight for western civilization between western europe in the u.s. against the world. that is racist, that is something the american conservative movement now owns. as to the presidential straw poll. look, it's still donald trump's party. but i do think this happened in the past really six months, is going into this year, if donald trump got into the 24 gop nomination race, i'm not sure anybody else would get in. i think now is going to be a crowded -- i think desantis after november's as he's running, he'll do say with embracing trump. he'll say, if voters choose trump i look for to support him. pence, enough pence gets in if trump is in. but i think you'll see three or four republican candidates get in. but they're not there to challenge trump or trumpism. they're not the liz cheney, larry hogan wing of the party. that wing is dead. but they are willing to give it a shot because t

did an entire special about the republican party's embrace of hungary's authoritarian leader, viktor orbandespite that, he spoke at cpac last week, and here's a bit of that. >> i can already see tomorrow's headlines. far right european racist and anti-semite strongman, the horse of putin, holds speech at conservative conference. don't worry, a christian politician cannot be racist. >> i mean, as someone who went to hungary and dealt into these issues with viktor orban, what did you make of his appearance last week, the fact that he was there at cpac? >> i think it's despicable. we went there because hungary is being talked about at cpac, he's being held up on the pedestal, you go to hungary, and you realize why, and what is happening in hungary is not reflective of the america i was promised in schools or any of the values that we have, and you hear about orban coming to america, he's not stopping in d.c., going to cpac, a week after talking about how we shouldn't mix races, like you said, and frankly, i keep waiting for that moment where the backbone in somebody on that party at cpac, if

i see some in the media are trying to hold up viktor orban in hungry some sort of paradigm, a virtue and what we should aspire to. and i thought geez, my wife is part hungarian. but i never thought of hungary as the place that was the forefront of political or economic or technological advance. i mean, it's not. and why are we looking at hungary as the model? where the press has less freedoms come with the judiciary is also best independent because of politicians but it's hard to maintain a democracy, anybody can have an election. the old soviet union used to have elections. everybody voted and they controlled with the candidates but if you don't have free press, if you don't have an independent judiciary, if you don't have rule of law, what are we? what are we ask. >> guest: these are the erosion points. when the president of the traded as president trump did goes out and describes the needy as the enemy of the state, you are planting the seeds for really bad stuff. because in number of folks will latch onto that and then if you go into a messy economic economy, inflation or some ot

europeans fascists, russians use the word fascist to describe any european with the exception of viktor orban, but for any of us who advocates liberal democracy this immediately means that such russians are no different from those of pigs who come to estonia and tell us about the fascists, i give advice, learn some manners, take care of education, what the germans call kinderstaffe, one of the recent top stories on the twitter social network, your reaction to the tweet it specialist from russia who recently moved to estonia and de facto admitted on her page that she does not pay taxes, we will show this piece to our viewers. did you personally react to her random confession and it looks like she no longer lives in estonia? are you had any influence on this and is this a common story in estonia when russians who move to ukraine do not pay taxes, i do not know how widespread this situation is. by the way, i did not interfere in it, i just made a post on twitter. and i am read by many people, many different people, but i personally did not interfere in any way estonians have one of the highest t

they are coming to the white house, hungarian prime minister viktor orban.ve hungary orban also does not go into his pocket for a word, causing irritation among european liberals, in dallas, among the conservatives, the hungarian politician turned out to be his own on the board. us need less genders and more rangers less transvestites and more. chakov norriss orban is against anti-russian sanctions, he criticizes ukraine and the president is called the hungarian trump, and he, apparently, does not mind. in my opinion, stra. tegabalist leaders strengthens and prolongs the war and reduces the chances for peace without us-russian negotiations, there will never be more peace in ukraine and more people will die and suffer, and our economy will be on the verge of collapse. i can't tell you what to do. this is your decision, i will say one thing. we ukraine's neighbors really need strong leaders who can negotiate a peace sos we need america a strong leader last week also touched on the ukrainian conflict criticizing the actions of the biden administration in a radi

provided medical assistance and also helped with transport on february 24, hungarian prime minister viktor orbánmned russia's attack on ukraine and immediately noted that the country will not intervene in the war to help with weapons and does not support energy sanctions against russia, the neighbor was just here for shooting and according to the hungarian population, therefore hungary should remain on the side of the war with the question why so later the president of ukraine addressed orban. we did not even receive what everyone else is doing for the sake of peace did not receive vital transit defense aid did not see moral leadership did not see any effort to stop this war and the whole of danko hungarian political expert, writer, former diplomat. he headed the department of defense policy of the ministry of defense of hungary. in addition to these duties, he was also responsible for the arms control mission in the donbass and crimea since 2014. having traveled to ukraine half a hundred times after 2014, we felt what the incidents actually are. against the hungarian community and i think that

from the first days of the war. helped with transport on february 4, hungarian prime minister viktor orbáncondemned russia's attack on ukraine and immediately noted that the country will not intervene in the war, help with weapons, and does not support energy sanctions against russia were neighboring countries and these weapons can be used to shoot at the hungarian population, that is why hungary should stay away from the war with the question why the president of ukraine turned to orban later. we did not even get what everyone else is doing for the sake of peace. received the vital transit of defense aid we saw no moral leadership we saw no effort to stop this war and the whole danko hungarian political expert writer former diplomat he headed the defense policy department of the ministry of defense of hungary, in addition to these duties, he was also responsible for the arms control mission in the donbass and in the crimea since 2014. he traveled to ukraine half a hundred times after 2014. we felt that there are actually incidents against the hungarian community and i i think that this is