The MSNBC host also says Democratic leaders “have effectively abdicated their leadership on this issue” MSNBC Chris Hayes was blunt during a commentary related to the wave of arrests and deportations of foreign nationals, calling the Trump administrations efforts to suppress or “punish” pro-Palestinian speech “the closest to McCarthyism in my lifetime.” That assessment came while discussing Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts PhD student who was abducted by immigration agents and sent to a Louisiana