Aside from concerns that Donald Trump will want to emulate the autocrats that hold his fascination, the visit from Hungarian dictator Viktor Orban has some worried that the impressionable Trump is being manipulated by Vladimir Putin with Orban as a conduit. National Interest Editor Jacob Heilbrunn, author of "America Last: The Right's Century-long Romance with Foreign Dictators," joins MSNBC's Alex Wagner to discuss.
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of The National Interest and is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. He has written on both foreign and domestic issues for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Reuters, Washington Monthly, and The Weekly Standard. He has also written for German publications such as Cicero, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Der Tagesspiegel. In 2008, his book They Knew They Were Right: the Rise of the Neocons was published by Doubleday. It was named one of the one hundred notable books of the year by The New York Times. He is the author of America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.
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