(Via Mediaite)
EXCERPT:
SCARBOROUGH: “I think he should probably give some -- pay some royalties to Mussolini's family trust, because when he starts talking about rooting out communist, Marxist, radical left vermin, destroying the country, it is -- it -- he's -- he's -- he's lifting it from Mussolini and other fascists from the past."
MEACHAM: "Yeah. And from the Third Reich. And using the 1930s as an example of anything is a fraught enterprise. So this is -- I'm saying this very --" [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: "It used to be. It certainly -- Jon, it -- Jon, it used to be. It used to be. I think we can at this point -- “
MEACHAM: "Fair, fair."
SCARBOROUGH: "-- with what -- what -- with what he has shown us, it's not so fraught anymore, when you have a guy that again, praising violence."
MEACHAM: "Yeah."
SCARBOROUGH: "And let me add to that what you just heard, praising violence against Paul Pelosi, praising dictators, Xi, Kim Jong-un. In this case, he praises a guy who -- who -- who despises Western democracy Orban. I -- I -- I think we can talk about the 1930s now, can't we?"
MEACHAM: "Well, here we go. Because to call your opponent's vermin, to dehumanize them, is to not only open the door, but to walk through the door toward the most ghastly kinds of crimes, and gives me no pleasure to start off a Monday morning talking about this, but I have a small plea to all of my Republican friends, and I live in Tennessee so that's redundant, right? I got Republican friends. For all of those folks, think, again, think anew about this. This is not about the age of the incumbent president. This is not about your opinion of the incumbent vice president of the United States. This is about your candidates' front-runner, your party's front runner, who is in fact now as clearly as you could do it --"
SCARBOROUGH: "Yeah."
MEACHAM: "-- is putting American democracy, human rights, the rule of law, below his own ambition. And the other thing is, it looked to me as if he were reading that off the prompter."