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Happened inside when a majority of house republicans voted to overturn the valid results of a presidential election simply to curry favor with donald trump. it is that will vote, not the violence that almost broke the american system. we often here that unlike in fledgling democracies, americas institutions are strong. but as emerson said, an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. if people aof buz them, attack them, disregard them, these storied institutions will slow live collapse. s...

In their democracies, because there are lessons we dont have to reinvent the wheel entirely. >> masha, looking at the fledgling democraies of eastern europe, who are the good examples and who arent? and is it a mistake to do the cherry-picking the united states did with who was invited and who wasnt? >> its inevitable that the united states would make selections. theres always some sort of lodge that i can goes into it. and, you know, that logic, i think, in this case is quite questionable. its ...

Fledgling democracies. to try to help other countries stand up against aggression from russia. i mean, president bidens intervention in ukraine to try to stand them up as democracy, stand them up against corruption, have been weaponized and boomeranged against him as if he was the problem. there i wonder having lived through that and seeing how it is being put in a fun house mirror now. how that feels to you and what you think the american people should understand about that time. >> we can talk...

This point in time. >> congressman israel, when you hear the state gop chairman say hes so shocked, he threw up about it when he heard? is that credible? >> like, that movie character, shocked, shocked that something like this would happen. in the united states, we sent election observers to fledgling democracies. it appears now we have to do that in the united states. whats ironic here is president trump was ranting and raving about voter fraud. now it helps republicans. look at blatant county....

Department is hesitant to the do that. a bipartisan consensus youd think the president and his people would be eager to up our game. particularly online, to be able to ensure that america is taking the lead around the world in pushing back against false information, disinformation, that is, again, destabilizing particularly in some of these fledgling democracies. we have a difference of opinion i guess how to approach it. i think the same objective. and i understand the presidents frustration. w...

District attorney for six years and appalled to hear that, so antithetical to how the justice department is supposed to work. po more than that, i remember countless times part of a delegation meeting with retti e representatives of new fledgling democracies and not threatening to jail opposition if you win the election. thats what third world countries do. and to hear the republican nominee for the presidency say thats what we ought to do was just a shocking ignorance in terms of how our democr...

Many people have compared the arab spring with what happened in eastern europe after the fall of the berlin wall and basically the end of the soviet empire, and one of the things the president wants to ask and bring up is sort of this idea of best practices. what worked best. how did the western world back in the early 90s best support these fledgling democracies. what worked in the best ways when it came to developing the economies there and thats part of the conversation. of course, its a cont...

Chuck todd is traveling with the president. bonjour, chuck todd. >> reporter: bonjour. >> how are they doing? theres a lot to deal with there, the economic issues, the political issue, libya, to say nothing of the rest of the arab world. what is going on? >> reporter: where to begin. the president is rappi inwrappi meeting with the prime minister of japan where nuclear safety topic one in that conversation. then the wig woorking dinner wit started among all the nations of the g-8. and in those c...

Place -- about a protest that was agriculture place of a group that was supportive of the first world trade center bombing, the infamous blind shaikh was behind and tried for in the united states back in 1993. and, you know, of course theres a lot of worry that in these new fledgling democracies that what rises up and the powers that rise up will not be very friendly or receptive to the united states. so you bring up the obvious point. obviously they feel as if they assume that things will go pr...

They do this. they love american political consultants. a ton of them have made money over there. mark pence, stan greenberg and, of course, they go from them, a lot of these consultants go on to other fledgling democracies and make a heck of a lot more money overseas and that they do sometimes in american elections. >> interesting "2010" international style. thanks. coming up, who is calling mississippi governor haley barbour a fat red neck? plus, how times have changed. u.s. troops are surging...