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his latest piece "america has entered the weimar era." then we look at president trump's race to execute more prisoners before his term ends in an unprecedented lame duck killing spree. >> i think it is the callous brute force of the mentality of the trump administration that he just believese can use force and kill people. he can use violence and force to make his point. there is no need for these executions to happen. amy: on monday, a federal judge granted a stay of execution for lisa montgomery, who was set to become the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 -- almost years, but the trump 70 administration is appealing the decision. two men are also scheduled to be executed this week. we will speak with longtime death penalty critic sister helen prejean. stay with us. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. house democrats are inching toward removing president trump from power after he incited his supporters to attack the u.s. capitol last wednesday. on monday, the house adjo

is entering what i think will be the mark era you know other words an era very much similar to the weimar republic in germany in the 19th twenties where you had 'd conflicts electoral conflicts mixed with. street battles for the sermon who come out on top absolutely and professor people discuss that article in a great i detail i recommend hour of yours to check it out it's a very thought provoking read but bringing you a little bit back to your own political persuasions i am pretty sure that you are not a supporter of donald trump i think it's it comes out pretty clear in your interviews but would it be fair to say that the democrats dragged of politics is a little bit closer to your heart despite their recognition and i think you articulated if very clearly in your book that it was the alliance of the democratic party the neo liberal globalist corporate forces that ultimately created the conditions on the ground conditions for the rise of trump and trump as. well i would say so i mean i think that the movement represented by donald trump is very much of a far right extremist movement and

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from the weimar weimar and when hitler comes in one of the things he does is, the peoples court is theinstitution in munich at the time and hitler will create the people's court. and the big change he will do, he won't let them talk, he won't let them defend it stop as much as he was when weimar we were talking talking top. he will change that. so i think he raised a lot of good points about the antisemitism and the structural challenges that they would have. >> i have one and then a follow-up to what you just said. i am a lawyer, among other things. what was it about the law that gave hitler such an advantage? we have had other people here who talked about the third reich and how important was that lawyers cooperated with like the guy who ran pull in for instance was an important lawyer. there was something about the legal system that made the authoritarianism or totalitarianism of it easier. they came to work for hitler. and it all sort of fit in with the kind of law that they had. >> -- >> what was it about the law? >> i think as a couple of things. one thing that you have the defen

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guardians of the old order became the fellows of the new democracy they rejected the idea of the weimar republic and above all repudiated what they called the shameful versailles treaty and those who in their opinion were responsible for it the german social democrats who signed it. in mansion 1920 general votto fun loot fits led the army in an unsuccessful push to overthrow the democratically elected government of chancellor goosed of power. in response french troops and then occupied cities east of the rhine as well moroccan regiments marched into frankfurt a mine on april 6th 1920 there were clashes with demonstrators and the moroccans opened fire killing 9 people and wounding many more the incident in frankfurt was exploited as a welcome opportunity to ignite the smoldering german rage against the french occupiers. from spring 1920 on words nationalists revulsion and racists used every available means of propaganda and disinform ation to orchestrate a campaign against what they dubbed black shame none of the slogans or images used back then could be called innocent the toxins viewed

physical safety i feel a couple of thoughts as the tide you have to see the modern weimar republic andan obsession with race going hand in hand at the same time josephine baker was well in berlin orleans's with her banana dance in 1926 others in germany were worrying about the purity of the german race some will thirty's went as far as to consider forcibly sterilizing the children of the occupation. only a few biographies of occupation children are still known today one of them is about greg or butts who was born at the edge of the eiffel region in 1921 greg was father was an american infantryman stationed in the rhineland not a french colonial soldier he came from the philippines. grego barnes was the son of my eldest aren't who was born in 1906 at the time my cousin was born my aunt who was 14 years old if you think about it or even today that would be rather scandalous. but imagine what it was like in 1921 lived in a staunch we catholics or scientists where religion was dominant then it was far more shocking. here's. this is catalina kyra crego was mother this is a miracle i am my m

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then he first weimar the presidential memoir a promise land, former president barack obama reflects on his life and political career. after that and keep sharp neurosurgeon sanja gupta offers advice on how to maintain brain health. that's filed by the late basketball coach john thompson's autobiography, i came as a shadow. and wrapping up our look at some of the best selling books according to washington d.c. politics and prose bookstore, is twilight of democracy pulitzer prize winning historian and on the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism around the world. some of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch the programs online booktv.org. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ spigot good afternoon. and welcome to washington post live. i am carol emma national investigative reporter here at the "washington post". and i am privileged to have with me today former fbi director jim comey. welcome jim, we are going to talk about your book, saving justice truth, transparency and trust. but i'm really glad you could join us. subject thanks for having me carol it's good t

after what happened immediately afterwards was actually a strange thinning determination to maintain weimar democracy. over the next small number of years and this is just where we are right now with joe biden. this is not this is a very important event that happened yesterday that the rule of law was x. explicitly followed and joe biden is going to be the next president without any compromise of fundamental constitutional principles but it's the future of american democracy will very much depend on what joe biden does in the next 4 years oh i tend to answer that from the little going to the well we'll get to that so as ari that's ok i guess the president trump and cite yesterday's disowning. yes and how and how should he be held accountable. well there's there are truly different issues here. one is what is he going to do in the next 12 or 13 days is he going to pardon him shelf. which is a precedent shattering event. and which. which addiction this did happen with your diction gerald ford pardoned richard nixon not . which addiction didn't part himself so that is going to be a big issue h

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here, i'm not thinking about what you just quoted but i'm thinking of the collapse of the weimar republic1920's and the rise of fascism in the 1930's. similar arguments were made that democracy could not get the job done. the representatives were weak. they were indecisive. problems needed to be solved and we needed strong men and trump is one of those strongmen. so is orb on in hungary and so duteren and erdogan and in the philippines. these are authoritarians who recognize themselves in each other and draw support from each other can they draw to them significant numbers of people in their societies who feel disenfranchised and feel that the system, the democratic system, has not been working for them, and that they are therefore willing to look elsewhere. in this respect, it is not just an american problem. it's a global problem. and we need to look to history, especially the 1930's and 1940's, to a time when democracy was in crisis, and those who believed in democracy found a way to renew it. that has to be solved on a national level, global level. to the 1930'sok and 1940's, we are l

then he first weimar the presidential memoir a promise land, former president barack obama reflects one and political career. after that and keep sharp neurosurgeon sanja gupta offers advice on how to maintain brain health. that's filed by the late basketball coach john thompson's autobiography, i came as a shadow. and wrapping up our look at some of the best selling books according to washington d.c. politics and prose bookstore, is twilight of democracy pulitzer prize winning historian and on the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism around the world. some of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch the programs online

guardians of the old order became the fellows of the new democracy they rejected the idea of the weimar republic and above all repudiated what they called the shameful versailles treaty and those who in their opinion were responsible for it the german social democrats who signed it. in march 19th 20 general votto fun little bits led the army in an unsuccessful push to overthrow the democratically elected government of chancellor gustav power. in response french troops and then occupied cities east of the rhine as well moroccan regiments marched into frankfurt a mine on april 6th 1920 there were clashes with demonstrators and the moroccans opened fire killing 9 people and wounding many more the incident in frankfurt was exploited as a welcome opportunity to ignite the smoldering german rage against the french occupiers. from spring 1920 on words nationalists. and racists used every available means of propaganda and disinform ation to orchestrate a campaign against what they dubbed black shame none of the slogans or images used back then could be called innocent the toxins in this campaig