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Points in our political system, which is a strange patchwork for a modern country to have. and different states have different rules for how you vote, when you vote, which municipality is likelier to report. it is confusing to people. and everybody who works in politics knows this, the difference is that some people work in politics, they know that confusion is there and play upon it. so distrust in the system, and other people try to explain to people why this might seem strange but actually it...

Country to have where different states have wildly different rules for how you vote, when your votes are counted, which municipalities are likely to report first. its confusing to people, right? and everybody who works in politics knows this. and the difference is some people work in politics know that confusion is there and play upon it to sow distrust in the system. and there are other people who try to explain why this might seem strange and theres a process you need to let it work. i will sa...

Researchers identified a connection between low levels of media literacy and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in people who consume their news via social media.

>> reporter: he is facing distrust among some voters after being imprisoned in 2018 for corruption. those convictions were later overturned. david, da silva wont take office until january 1st and heard president biden called to congratulate him. >> welcome. great to have you on board. a halloween storm at home on the move. well time i

Has been doing some reporting on the extensive online footprint of the individual who has been apprehended. what can you tell us? >> this is a person who had a blog, and in that blog you saw constant conspiracy. in the conspiracy that you and i know very much about. the qanon stuff, basically this idea -- a lot of stuff about pedophilia and things like that as well. >> it also seems like from what i have been able to see, and the post itself, this is someone who went through a kind of ideologica...

Attack on republicans. but the people who are believing they did the wrong thing on vaccines, stole the election a few years ago, in the numbers game, if youre talking about 330, 340 million americans and you put out information, invalid information that tells even one tenth of 1% of people theyre right to distrust the government and they should go attack somebody, you cant control that, jim. you need politicians who say that information is not correct, the conspiracy theories are not correct, a...

Improving. >> what factors do explain this? >> well, theres certainly a question of implicit conscious or unconscious bias. whether people make assumptions when they see a white person collapsed on the ground versus somebody who may be black or hispanic. theres issues of cpr training in black and hispanic trainings. less available cpr done by dispatcher. and what about the mannequins and the videos we use to teach cpr, most are white males. we need to work on getting this to people where they ar...

And imagine a world where you say youd like it to be like 1968. 46 americans every day died in vietnam on average. dr. king, senator kennedy were killed. democratic convention descends into chaos and violence. george wallace gets 13.5% of the popular vote and carries five states in the general election in 1968. 1933, fdr comes into office at an hour of immense distrust and crisis both economically and in confidence in the institutions. heres the difference, and heres why i do think we are in a m...

The republican direction, in terms of polling and the issues voters care about. that district is being all but abandoned by national democrats. they are focusing on a suburban portland district, considered a much more safe democratic seat. its showing the fundamentals that were always in republicans favor were put off a little bit by the roe issue and gave democrats an issue to run on over the summer. thats receded and youre back to all of these fundamentals pointing in the republican direction....

Look like, right? we have seen the company trying to get a handle on world events until now. who knows what this thing will look like after friday? >> we will soon find out. jake ward, always great to see. oh thank you for joining us. when we come back, lets get excited on friday night invite panel is here. on the mature messaging with republicans hitting on fear, fear, and fear. and what happens when voters are motivated by fear? and hate and distrust, when the 11th hour continues. ♪ ♪ ♪ ...