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Else in our society if we no longer have a functioning democracy. >> this is essentially about a republican. if it remains so. having a functional democracy is an essential part of that. we watched insurrectionists take over the capital of the united states of america, one of the most revered institutions in the world. i was taken that day and put in a safe space with the leaders of congress, the five leaders in the house and the five leaders in the senate. i watched speaker pelosi and leader sc...

You dont have fining democracy then people will think what does this matter. okay fine we let go gas prices. what do this mean for indmrags. we talk about that all of the time. what this means for our democrat most important thing thats what we should be focused on. >> tell us about democracy? what is it? sum it up for us you. determine you use a lot what democracy is process by which government represents vote remembers and their concerns. voter representative they go to washington and they car...

To fool the public. to make you believe that your personal concerns like facts you cant buy food or drive anywhere they cant afford gas. those are not important. whats really important is some other thing that you should be terrified off. russia! . putin. it is whites they are going to get you! any one who worse rees about gas price or concerned how to feed his or her family gets lecture that actually you are just selfish. this pandemic. really? or whatever talking point is. watch. >> there some...

To fool the public to make you believe that your personal concerns like the fact you cant buy food or drive anywhere or the police wont come because they cant afford gas. not those are not important. whats really important is some other thing that you should be terrified of russias putin. its q on honest the white supremacists are going to get you in . anyoneor who worries about gasic pricese, anyone whos concerned about how to feed his or her family gets a lecture that actually youre just selfi...

Congresswoman, that i had heard anecdotally from some of my friends, and i can understand why it is reflected among the american people, is do the american people had the bandwidth right now for these hearings? since they are dealing with the pandemic of gun violence, soaring inflation and rising gas prices. how would you make the case that, frankly, i believe this as well, we cannot fix anything else in our society if we no longer have a functioning democracy. >> this is essentially about a rep...

Prices. you dont have a functioning democracy. i think the case, the biggest case that should be made is how do we save our democracy, how do we hold the people accountable who were trying to steal the democracy in order for us to be able to fix all of those problems that we have that are fixable because we have a functioning democracy and a republic and a republic that is intact. am i wrong? >> i dont think those are disconnected issues. when we think about what democrats want to do to, quote, ...

There is no evidence voters are holding this against republicans. but if he runs again, this is the great question. can he be trusted with the office again? should he be trusted with awesome power? thats when republicans and voters at large are going to have to do some soul searching about his impact on another administration. >> okay. im going to say this. i think that youre right in a lot of your assessment. i think much of what you said doesnt matter. i think what matters is what happened, wh...

>> yeah. i read that piece, it was chilling to me, knowing mark short well. and having worked with them and knowing the former vice president mike pence well -- when you read this, it sounds like you are reading something in atomic clancy novel. except for the fact that this is actual, real life. this happened in the white house. this happened in the united states. and in what is a democracy, a functioning democracy, for now. that is why this is so incredibly upsetting to process. every time i s...

Even participate. they said the questions were two slanted. one of those questions was, who won the 2020 presidential election? it was a multiple choice. the choices were trump, or joe biden. only jeff vargas agreed to reality, that joe biden won the election. what does that say of the state of democracy when none of the rest would answer? one of the front runners, david mccormack, he is a combat veteran. he was a paratrooper. he was a treasury undersecretary. went to princeton. if these candida...

Functioning democracy, voted to abstain on the measure condemning russia. the majority of the people who live in democracies have chosen in this great ideological struggle to sit on the fence. on one level this might seem a case of national interests trumping idealism. many of these companies have economic interests that would suffer were they to cut ties with moscow. india, for example, get most of its advance weapons from russia. south africa and brazil have trade relations with russia that wh...