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>> trey: good evening.in thank you for joining us. im trey gowdy and it is "sunday night in america" up your been saying it for months,r democrats will replace joe biden if they are convinced he will lose in november. n and thursday nights debate did nothing to change my mind. many democrats are in full blown panic over bidens performance. as the debate began, president biden looked feeble and lost. >> $500 billion, million-dollar side tyearo say in a 10-year pe. to wipe away the debt ...

is how can marco rubio be on the same ticket as trump because the constitution says and i have to say it right, that the elect tours from a state cannot vote for two candidates who are from the same state. they can only vote for one. >> they will make marco move right? >> that is the thing, does he have to move? how does the united states senator of florida move from florida? is that legal? we need a election lawyer to figure it out. i do not understand how they are talking about rubio...

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Democratic party. thats not what this is about. how does the movement against teaching real, accurate american history tie in to the growing threat of authoritarianism that were seeing in this moment? >> well, if we take the example of the virginia representative, and that legislation, which is all copy cat legislation, its all similar, they just copy and paste in from one state legislation -- legislator to another. what we saw in that was like, theyre saying, oh, well you teach the -- its okay ...

Teaching of so called divisive concepts. one of those band concepts is that virginia and the u.s. are, quote, systematically racist or sexist, which is a problem because the truth is, we are. systemic racism and sexism are totally real. the bill also requires teaching the u.s. founding documents, and it lists one of those documents as the first debate between abraham lincoln and frederick douglass. there is a slight problem here, the bill names the wrong douglass, frederick douglass, who was a b...

Good ole uncle abe, hes like i dont believe that black folks should be given basic citizenship rights. you can be an abolitionist and still believe in white supremacy. lets talk about these founding documents, all means, lets go, from the declaration of independence to the american constitution all the way to and through the lincoln/douglas debates. they dont want to have that conversation. they still want to deal with the mist of american exceptionalism. there may have been some things that ups...

Substantive candidate in the field and i think he offers a youd approach, both to the democratic primary and a ultimately the election. gillian: kim, a lot of republican sources out there saying really all this is going to do is insert a whole new level or degree of instability into this primary campaign. >> probably. but, you know, his strategy is flawed from the get-go. hes not going to iowa or new hampshire. we remember another new york mayor who tried that a long time ago and that didnt quit...

>> right. >> politics doesnt work that way. we have been mean and buck nasty in politics for a long time. i just finished a book about the lincoln/douglas debates. they were mean, don. no matter how long were out, we never talk to each other like that at any point in a night the way they did it as common course. i think you can look at president bush today for all his flaws, a one-term president, and that was a mark on him. but the way he conducted himself as president was a testament to not jus...

There were no thick on the site of the debate that organizers worried they werent going to be able to get the candidates safely through the giant crowds and up on to the stage, at least in enough time to start on time. so they improvised a solution. they had the candidates at knox college, they had them evade the crowd and just mysteriously pop up on the back of the stage as a kind of dramatic surprise by climbing through a window in the building nearest to the stage. thats how they got to the s...