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Warnings by his three intelligence chiefs, tell us our democratic system is being attacked by a foreign power, when he doesnt respond to that, that is not violating norms anymore. that is violating his oath of office to protect and defend the constitution. thats why i call it code red. >> so, tom, just to have people understand whats going on here, you wrote this and put it out online. this wasnt one of the typical things you were putting out in the newspaper and you thought you would get wide d...

Integrity of our democracy today is in the office office. author of the best seller, "thank you for being late." ironic, because this is always on time. code red? why? >> well, chris, we just experienced i would say the biggest threat or challenge to the integrity of our democratic system with the russian interference in our elections. we go back to 2014. and the presidents response to this has been basically appalling. appallingly inept and appalli appallingly basically inactive. we have to ste...

>> do you mind if i pass the microphone back to my daughter? because i think she has some nice solutions if that is okay with you. >> okay. im carson, a junior and i was at marjory stoneman douglas at the time of the shooting. and i know there are a lot of different solutions that we can go through to help eradicate this issue. but one that stuck out to me causes about all twas all the drills an protocols that my teachers had to go through. they knew what to do when code red was announced, but t...

I think she has some nice solutions. is that okay with >> sure. >> hi. my name is carson. im a junior. i was at marjory stoneman douglas at the time of the shooting. i know theres a lot of solutions to go through to help eradicate this issue. one that stuck out to me was about all of the drills and protocols that my teachers had to go through. they knew what to do once the code red for an active shooter is announced. through research i found that 32 states require drills. of those 32 states, mor...

But if he reads just one, we should all hope its this one which ends this way. this is code red. the biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the oval office. and joining us now, tom friedman. tom, thank you very much for joining us. i really appreciate it. my internal clock told me when i saw this column, this is out of sequence. hes not scheduled to write right now, is he? this isnt his day. tell us why you were moved to do this one. >> well, it was the holiday and i picked...

New york times columns. he travels the world trying to translate everything thats happening into clear concepts that readers around the world need to know. you might not agree with everything you read in friedman columns, but they are a search for the worlds best ideas and that is a search that is usually optimistic. those columns are read closely by leaders around the world, but it is entirely possible that the president of the united states has never read a tom friedman column. he sounds like ...

Microphone back to my daughter? i think she has some nice solutions if thats okay with you. >> sure. >> thank you. >> hi. my name is carson, im a junior, and i was at marjory stoneman douglas at the time of the shooting. i know there are a lot of different solutions we can go through to help eradicate this issue, but one that stuck out to me was about all the drills and protocols that my teachers had to go through. they knew what to do once the code red for an active shooter was announced, but t...

Freedman is a nonpartisan colum nis. he wrote, this is code red. the biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the oval office. >> well, we can get desensitized to trump behaving like trump, but we shouldnt. this is a long running, consistent attack on american institutions. and i think you can argue american principles. we used to be able to take it for granted that whatever the response was, whether we agree with it or not, the president of the united states would defend the...

That. >> i want to quote one more thing from the "new york times" op-ed piece. freedman is a nonpartisan colum nis. he wrote, this is code red. the biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the oval office. >> well, we can get desensitized to trump behaving like trump, but we shouldnt. this is a long running, consistent attack on american institutions. and i think you can argue

Defend america against a russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy. he adds, trump is either hiding something so threatening to himself or hes criminally incompetent to be commander in chief. it is impossible yet to say which explanation for his behavior is true. but it seems highly likely that one of these scenarios explains trumps refusal to respond to russias direct attack on our system, acquiescence that is simply unprecedented for any u.s. president in history. russia is not ou...