viktor orban has presided over a short backside of democracy. his government has removed judges, corrupt press freedom, and given orban the freedom to rule by decree. his party is also racist, islamophobic, and particularly hostile to lgbtq rights. or bonds increasingly autocratic rule has made his relationship with fellow democracies in the european union tense and combative for years now. but he has become a hero and a model for donald trump. and his supporters and the united states. so i guess that's nice. trump has repeatedly endorsed orban for reelection this year including in this new reported statement that he put out today. and just like his right wing american acolytes, viktor orban has long been a fan of vladimir putin. in fact, it just last month, even as putin's forces were amassing on ukraine's borders, orban was meeting with putin, in moscow, saying that putin's demands of ukraine in the west were totally reasonable and, besides, there was no way putin was actually going to invade ukraine. so, when putin did invade ukraine, viktor o

when you look at the foreign policy that viktor orban is carrying out, he has made it clear he wants to keep the country neutral and not get involved. hungarian tv talk about a conflict, not a war. the language is important. they wore means there is an aggressor in the country being invaded. you talk about two countries that bear some responsibility. orban said there is no weapons delivery from hungary, and he said he would veto any potential energy embargo on russia. a lot of this reflects his own personal contradictions. he was one of the western leaders who want to see vladimir putin before the war broke out, they were on good terms. they were drinking champagne and having a toast. he said he has a good working elation ship with russia, but the other big issue is that all of his neighbors including poland, the usually have close policy, they are incredibly hawkish on russia and point the finger at viktor orban, saying this is not the time to play best friends with a man who has triggered the war. dani: thank you, maria tadeo. over to china, where its manufacturing is playing into

this was on march and support for hungary's right-wing authoritarian prime minister, viktor orban. >>

think that is now waning well, i don't see it yet because we have of course peculiarities like viktor orban prime minister of hungary, who always begs to be a bit different. but then we see finally, when it comes down to the final vote he is, he falls in line. and and so i don't see the the unity crumbling yet. but it might come further down the road roman. and excuse me, i mispronounced your last name when i introduced you. but let me ask you this. um many observers have said from the e beginning that this conflict is really about russia versus the u. s. would you say that that is right and if so what could biden actually do to change russia's calculus? well i would disagree. i think it's a conflict between russia and the west, the west as a civilization and the worst as a system, political system and economic system. and this is how russia is has been seeing this conflict for years and years. so it's not actually knew the worst refused to see it like that the west has been looking at it as a conflict between russia and ukraine which is just a battlefield. um and i think to your question h

you know, if you look around the world, marine le pen, eric zemmour donald trump, viktor orban, a lothese populists, these new populist movements all expressed sympathy for putin at some point, you know, some earlier point, and many of them have been forced to retreat from that because it's obviously, you know, just a very cruel and kind of absurd position to take, in light of what people can see, you know, through their own eyes on their television screens. so, i think it has imposed a kind of moral clarity on the world where people could imagine that putin was just a nationalist like them, but, you know, still basically not that terrible a person and now i think they see the direction this kind of populist politics is leading. ok, let's talk about that moral clarity that you talk about, because 30 years ago, you said western liberalism had triumphed over all its ideological competitors and would end up as the single form of government over the long term. in your latest book, liberalism and its discontents, you recognise and analyse why liberalism has been in retreat. do you think wh

yes, hungary is showing some kind of independence, and viktor orban is probably the only european politician who, in this situation, said that it was interests. uh, hungary is the interests of the hungarians and hungary, and not the interests of ukraine there or anyone else. well, erdogan, he is not a member of the european union, he goes to nato, but he said that in turkey he does not collect any sanctions of his own, he does not want to freeze there without russian gas, that is, independence is manifested, but all the rest they just carry out in this situation american line to interest operates in the interests of america and not their own peoples. after all, this is how it turns out, and most, at least, governments act this way, uh, there were also statements in romania of this kind that we will not do anything to the detriment of our own population. ah, both in bulgaria and in bulgaria well, in bulgaria you have repeatedly shown even rallies that do not support the current government policy. from my point of view, the europeans were very much deceived. they apparently expected that if th

you've seen viktor orban criticize russia, and even moral avatars like the international in olympic committee has even acted against russia when it is usually so incredibly reactionary. what's going on now is russia is also interesting, the economy has cratered. demonstrations have taken place on the streets, not only in moscow and some liberal interactions in the -- but in many many russian cities. alex in the lonnie has called for more demonstrations from his prison cell. this may be in the end, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next month, but this may be the end of the putin era. i don't want to jump to any conclusions and be rash and make stupid predictions, but one has to ask who in russia is for this. who is really for this? except somebody that has been isolated and filled with anger and resentment towards the west, and his set's army on ukraine. who is a really for? >> what i want to go back to what ivanovich told you about ukraine and her experience with it. because what we're seeing it's hard for americans to decide how surprising is it that a country is rising up against an invasion,

and viktor mr orban spoke to reporters there.nd they are giving them opportunities to eat, to sleep, to get hot drinks and also helping them organise their transport onwards. teams of doctors are arriving here, volunteers from all over hungary. the response of the hungarian population i would say has been amazing, offering flats all the time, accommodation for those people who don't have anywhere to go. so pretty well organised response, hungry very much opening its arms. next let's go the the border with poland. around half of the refugees — some 500,000 people have fled there. kasia madera has been there since last week — watching more and more people arrive. just today alone at this crossing, i0,000 just today alone at this crossing, 10,000 people crossed into poland, i0,000 10,000 people crossed into poland, 10,000 people crossed into poland, 10,000 people in the space ofjust a few hours. bear in mind, we are talking about a displacement of1 million people in the space of eight days. the figures are huge, absolutely enormous,

you've seen viktor orban criticize russia, and even moral avatars like the international in olympic committeeacted against russia when it is usually so incredibly reactionary. what's going on now is russia is also interesting, the economy has cratered. demonstrations have taken place on the streets, not only in moscow and some liberal interactions in the -- but in many many russian cities. alex in the lonnie has called for more demonstrations from his prison cell. this may be in the end, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next month, but this may be the end of the putin era. i don't want to jump to any conclusions and be rash and make stupid predictions, but one has to ask who in russia is for this. who is really for this? except somebody that has been isolated and filled with anger and resentment towards the west, and his set's army on ukraine. who is a really for? >> what i want to go back to what ivanovich told you about ukraine and her experience with it. because what we're seeing it's hard for americans to decide how surprising is it that a country is rising up against an invasion, because co

. >> hungary's prime minister, viktor orban, had a message for the migrants themselves. >> the moral human thing is to make clear, please don't come. >> trevor: that's really strange. when it's syrians who are fleeing a war, it's, "we do not have space. do not come." but now there's space and people must come. what changed? when the syrians needed refuge, even the camera crew was drop-kicking families. now ukrainians are getting accommodations, they're getting visas, they're getting work benefits. which is a good thing, i'm just saying, where is their drop kick. we don't have to speculate. we don't have to speculate about why they're treating ukrainians so differently from refugees and the middle east. the prime minister of bull carry said,"these are not the refugees we are used to. these people are europeans. these people are intelligent. they are educated people." yeah. it's kind of a shocking thing to say. but at the same time, i will say, i'm impressed that the prime minister of bulgaria has found the time to get to know all one million refugees that have fled ukraine in the past

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positive sense, because over the past several years you have had the rise of populist leaders like viktor orban been very close to putin and who have praised him. and we may say you have one in the united states, our former president, saying that putin was a genius into this date can't think of anything negative to say about him. and so the political ramifications of the russian setback, i think, are going to be global. it won't just be confined to this country ukraine. i think it will reverberate throughout europe and frankly it will reverberate in the united states. >> and when do you think those reverberations will be felt? what sense of a timetable do you have? >> that is very hard to say. i do think that there were some possibility that you could have military developments in the coming we x that could be decisive. but i would be the first to say that i don't know that. i do think that the rate at which both sides can -- mean that it's a problem. i think that the russians -- because the sanctions, they've created a very large part of the entire army as protecting the whole of the largest b

there's been no stronger friend to putin in the european union than viktor orban, the hungarian primenuclear investments were fine. three, four days ago, he condemned the russian invasions, something the chinese and indians won't do, and also said he would support russia's decoupling from s.w.i.f.t. that's a big deal for a country like hungary. putin clearly misestimated the international response to all of this. he thought it would be divided in terms of nato, and he thought it would be much more amenable in terms of his buddies and the longer the war goes on and the humanitarian catastrophe continues, a million refugees from ukraine, the pressure is going to increase. >> fascinating stuff. we thank you for your insights. good to see you. >>> the results are in for the texas primary, setting up serious show downs for the fall. steve kornacki will break down what it means for texas and the rest of the country. down what it means for texas and the rest of the country. and 5g maps that are mostly gaps— they're switching to t-mobile for business and getting more 5g bars in more places. s

republicans have admired over the years, and subscribe to, whether that's falls in our brazil, viktor orbann the uae. the leaders that republicans have embraced, and the kinds of ideologies that they've embraced have last four years. particularly since trump took over the party. they are very much the types of people that were in line with vladimir putin. now, thus far, they've been kind of shocked. and what you've seen is them revert back to their instinctual hawkish political approach to foreign policy. but it's hard to make people forget what we all live through the last few years in this country, where the same kind of creeping ethnonationalism nationalist -- all the way to january 6th. i think president biden's task is to enlist republicans who try to tap into their desire to play constructive roles and providing things like support the ukrainians, but don't let them forget, don't let them walk away from the reality that in this democracy versus autocracy's battle, that ukraine is [inaudible] even on the wrong side. >> you know, the searing conflict has loomed large over everyone's per

this was a march in support of hungary's right-wing authoritarian prime minister, viktor orban.alist gatherings supporting him and his

we've seen it in europe with the rise of hungary's viktor orban who describes himself as a illiberalrat, and the forces that push for brexit. of course, it's been happening right here at home, donald trump, frankly, kind of an aspiring authoritarian, who admires authoritarian,'s and try to overturn a free and fair election. of course, putin's russia, where his fascist ideology and wounded national pride has turned into a brutal assault on the battlefield. putin is not only making a completely illegitimate land grab in the attempt to build back the soviet empire, he's also committing war crimes in ukraine, threatening to use nuclear weapons. this new land were on the european continent, pending pitting a dictator against citizens of a flawed but resilient democracy. it feels like the first new armed contract combat in a new chapter. we are seeing the entire global order that was built during that strange period of time, those 30 years after the cold war, sort of fold in on itself. another order comes down from russia, but the stakes are high and grave. ukraine has been an independent

watch as tucker goes one on one with prime minister viktor orban and exposes a truth behind the left's globalist ideals. so your success is a challenge to their worldview. tucker carlson originals hungary versus soros streaming now exclusively on fox nation. sign up today. >> we're out of time.e. break for a lot of people by thee way, in this country that may have gotten i you into an airport recently and if it has, you may. >>>> what's going on here where so many planes what's going on at the airport? don't we have a transportation secretary? wasn't a rhodesar scholar, wasnt he ? the mayor of south bend,ia indiana? what's going with ouroi transportation system? we noticed we're doing a segment monday. in the meantime, have a great happy and relaxing weekend with the ones you love. we will see you at welcome to this special edition of "hannity" friday night. i'm pete hegseth in for sean. and tonight, as the war in ukraine rages on , joe biden, he's in poland where he paid a visit to u.s. soldiers and had a battle of his own with a piece of hollow piano and pepperoni pizza. >> unfortuna

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hungarian prime minister viktor orban says that more military and guards will be brought to the border next week to accommodate more of the refugees that they expect to see coming in just a matter of days. now back here at the border, there is no continued sign of relief. the school says it did not have a choice in closing down. but that this is what is needed. this is what they will do. sandra. >> sandra: just a bigger and bigger story each and every day paired there are more and more refugees. so many of those countries taking in so many of them. alex hogan, thank you. you can join fox news and donating to the red cross to help. visit redcross.org/fox forward paired so far you have helped us raise over $10 million. donations help get resources to the people that needed they are still in ukraine. those who have been forced to flee their homes. >> bill: awesome. $10 million and counting. 3 minutes of trade. down before it open. right now we are trading lower. about 173. were seeing where it goes today. do not expect relief at the pump anytime soon. oil prices jumped to more than a hund

it is viktor orban's hungary and he faces actions next month. he is putin's puppet within nato. >> he has grown wildly in the last few days? >> he has, because public opinion among the public is pro-ukrainian. he is not letting lethal weapons go through. poland with the 330 mile border with ukraine and romania are the ones stepping up here. >> we still have a lot of angles to get to. we will get to clint watts at the board taking us through the maps, plus we will get insight on what it is like to deal with vladimir putin from the former national security adviser to president obama. >>> also ahead, the new reporting on the bipartisan push to ban imports of russian oil. >>> a little later, former president of ukraine petro poroshenko joins us right here on "morning joe." we will be right back. inner voice (furniture maker): i'm constantly nodding... ...because i know everything about furniture ...but with the business side... ...i'm feeling a little lost. quickbooks can help. an easy way to get paid, pay your staff, and know where your business st