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Erosion of basic civility, and democratic norms in our politics. not just here, but around the world. i want to take a moment just to say a prayer for a friend of mine, mr. paul pelosi. who was attacked. >> and then he turned to the states key races, and here is the message that obama hopes will ultimately convince voters and georgia and in other swing states to vote democratic. >> the fundamental question that you should be asking yourself right now is who will fight for you? who cares about yo...

Only a few hours ago he began tonight by addressing the news story today, that was a violent attack on house speaker nancy pelosis husband paul and the couples home, the speaker was in d. c. at the time, paul is expected to make a full recovery after undergoing surgery for a skull fracture. a suspect has been arrested at a press conference a while ago, the police said the attack was quote, intentional, the motive, still being investigated. here is what the former president said about all of that...

Problems that we have been struggling with for years. sometimes, it leads them to violence. and erosion of basic civility, and democratic norms in our politics. not just here, but around the world. i want to take a moment just to say a prayer for a friend of mine, mr. paul pelosi. who was attacked. >> and then he turned to the states key races, and here is the message that obama hopes will ultimately convince voters and georgia and in other swing states to vote democratic. >> the fundamental que...

Later. we like each other, we dont have to shut each other down. its not a good way to do business. you wont do that out of workplace. if you wouldnt hunter up people in the middle of a conversation, thats not how we do things. this is part of the point that i want to make. just basic civility and courtesy works, that is what we want to try to encourage. so, listen, thats okay. wait, wait, wait. quiet down. >> hold up, hold up, hold on a minute. listen everybody, you all up

It. all of us. the only way to save your democracy is if we together work for it. all of us. that starts with electing people who know you and who see you and who care about you, who understand what youre going through day in, day out. you did that two years ago when you sent joe biden to the white house. he is fighting for you every day. hes got your back. hes doing everything he can to put more money in your pockets, to make your streets safer, to bring back even more good paying jobs here to ...

Of just civility, acting right. including in our politics, our democratic norms. weve got politicians who work to stir up division, to try to make us angry and afraid of one another for their own advantage. all of it gets amped up, hyped up 24/7 by social media. a lot of times, those are for profit platforms and they find it more profitable to feed you controversy and conflict instead of facts and truth. sometimes it can turn dangerous. i want to take a moment to say a prayer for a friend of min...

We saw it get worse, of a breakdown of basic civility, basic neighbor linus and know where did you see it more than in our politics were suddenly you have politicians doing their best deliberately to stir up division, to make us angry and afraid of each other. just for their own advantage. all of this was amped up, hyped up, 24/7 on cable and then on social media. it finds that it is profitable to promote controversy and conflict instead of facts and truth. you got that? okay -- and were still s...

Want to get from the visit from the former president? he said, i want him to energize people. i want to turn people out. this is the first weekend of early voting here in wisconsin. they want to see that engagement, yes on the issues but also just getting people excited and focused on this election, especially an area like milwaukee, wisconsin. i want to listen to a little bit of what we heard from the former president, yes there were jokes on the issues. but then you go to reflect a little bit ...

And it feels like that basic foundation of our democracy is now at risk. and you know, sometimes away this gets reported is that its as if it is just the same on both sides. look, democrats, we may not be perfect. i am the first one to admit. no, hold on one second. i want to make this point. politicians just like all of us, we can make mistakes. nobody is perfect. but i know that somebody like -- i have worked with them, i served with them in the senate. they will still treat people who disagre...

Escalating attacks on innocents, innocents who have been targeted by putin and his army since this war began. all of that is whats fuelling these fears that a nuclear option is not off the table. considering russias despicable inhumane actions against ukrainian people, its hard to imagine any form of civility between the two sides. but this war has seen at least some brief moments of cooperation when it comes to prisoner exchanges. two american veterans fighting in ukraine who were captured in j...