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Is doing. matt rivers has a preview from mexico city. >> reporter: mexican president andrea manuel lopez obrador. dpinding who you ask, is either a demagogue or a deity. plenty here love him. his consistently-high approval ratings built on a folksy image, a champion of the poor, bashing mexicans le elite and promisi redistribution of wealth. we said, even before taking office, that a transformation was needed to reverse mexicos breakdown, he said. and the way he wants to solve mexicos myriad pro...

We have to keep editing the number. this happened overnight. >> reporter: yeah. you know, brianna, its an ongoing problem in mexico, something the president of mexico has not been taking very seriously, that in addition to what hes doing. some critics are saying hes tearing down the fabric, as they say, of mexicos democracy. its something the united states is going to be watching very closely. >> reporter: mexicos president, depending on who you ask, is either demagogue of demon. hes showing an ...

Who depending on who you ask is either a demagogue or deity. plenty here love him. he is consistently high in approval ratings built on a folksy image, champion of the poor, bashing mexicos . we said even before taking office that a transformation was needed to reverse mexicos breakdown, he said. and the way he wants to solve mexicos myriad problems is by centralizing power in the presidency. mexicos democrat institutions are so broken, his argument goes, that only he and his party can be trus...

Rhetoric. even demagogue. trump pushed it in a way with havent seen at the presidential 4r level in modern history. i see the big lie as a metaphor for peoples distrust. disaffection and dissatisfaction. it is very real. we talk about it within the minority community. its just as real in white america and some ways being fuel for a sense of being a victim that has people ready to attack a capitol. i see more of that coming. not less. >> if you put those two things together you have a double legi...

Answers, i dont know how you cannot give them closure that they need, but not only them, but the members of congress, and the vice president of the united states was hiding for his life, and we deserve these answers. i understand that there is some disclosures of the past that might be disturbing, but they are looking at this going to biden administration before the midterms. >> paul, we all witnessed what happened january 6th, and still, you cant get the gop to investigate the truth, and it see...

What i found interesting about liz cheney interview, she refused, i put it to her and she refused to accept or acknowledge that. but its obviously true. could have most talented demagogue in world and cannot get people to believe something as profound as that. the soil was fertilized for this. >> i think youre totally right. and speaks to the question of how much continuity and how much discontinuity. impulses were there. the voting rights act struck down by the roberts court in 2013 i believe i...

>> yes, and really important point, chris. ive seen polling that shows 70% of republicans, i think youve sent 63% or 70% of republican voters to see biden as a legitimate. that didnt come just because of this one event where trump -- >> yes -- >> said the election was stolen. this soil was fertilized for years and years and years but republican elites and elected officials telling their electorate that fraud is rampant. its everywhere. youve got people in the inner cities voting, illegal immigra...

Opinions on the second impeachment of President Donald Trump seemed to divide along party lines here just as they did in Congress on Wednesday, at least among some of those

Opinions on the second impeachment of President Donald Trump seemed to divide along party lines here just as they did in Congress on Wednesday, at least among some of those

Today. >> not one republican house member voted to support either articles impeachment. we saw republicans very much together on this. this appears and is this the case to you that this is the party of trump, and as you see eventually, you know, trump wont be president. where does the republican party go from there when its become the party of trump? >> im not sure, because you see the, the sort of emasculation of the gop by donald trump. the only thing that matters, the only oriented principle ...