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The trump presidency. >> if true, this would be the biggest presidential election story in history. >> trump alleged that 3 million people had voted illegally in 2016. >> you have people that are registered who are dead, who are illegals. >> youre now president of the united states. when you say -- >> of course, i want the voting process to be legitimate. >> what im asking, when you say in your opinion millions of illegal votes, that is something that is extremely fundamental to our functioning ...

Citizens, , they would be lookig into these policies. they would say, wait a second, d this doesnt make any sense. vi what do you mean youre going to keep giving us money and thats going to be enough? what do you mean how is welfare going to work if youre incentivizing people to marry their loved ones to marryir the father of their children? are these policies incentivizing families to break out? right. an educated person will look at these policies and understand that everything that theyre try...

He is refused to rule it out unlike other folks. and yesterday, a reporter asked him a simple question to choose aside, whos right, trump or mike pence? desantis refused to answer the question. >> where do you fall on the divide between pence and trump? >> im not -- ive -- ive. i had a great relationship working for -- i was actually governor for two years with the trump administration, i can tell you that we have a hell of a lot more done when donald trump was president that. now >> no, sorry, ...

Press, but thats what reporters do. theyre meant to irritate the president and the government on behalf of all of us to get information out of them to protect us against autocracy and authoritarianism and abuse of power. >> thats right. i mean, thats what we do. were doing our jobs. and that noise is the sound of functioning democracy makes. and ted, as you know all too well, going along with trumps attacks on the media you see death threats against journalists. you see, you know, people like, y...

Side? why dont we have russias side? im totally confused. >> clearly. ukraine is a democracy. russia is an authoritarian regime that is seeking to impose its will on a validly elected democracy in ukraine. were on the side of democracy. >> yeah, im for democracy in other countries, i guess. >> that was ohio republican con congressman mike turner taking tucker to school, saying the u.s. stands up against dictators who want to expand their borders by force because were the good guys. now sure puti...

Be president or leader of the republican party, it really cant beat trump side for practical and more reasons. although, more practically, honestly. practically, you just cant out trump trump. no one can be more sociopathic than him. thats his comparative advantage. just yesterday, the associate press reported that at one point on january 6th, trump was confused by staffers were excited as he was watching the unrest unfold. so hes sitting there, wondering, why isnt everyone else psyched about th...

Everyone on the popular front to understand that they are part of it and that not letting donald trump get anywhere near the levers of powers as an essential part of the project in restoring american democracy. again, this is simple straightforward stuff, but i think that some people would like to not understand it. that means it would be good, for instance, for the country, for trump to be defeated in the republican primary, or someone whos on the side of american democracy, at least at the mos...

Citizens they would be looking at these policies and saying wait a second, this doesnt make any sense, what you mean youre going to keep giving us money thats going to be enough? how does welfare work if your d incentivizing to marry their loved ones, can marry the hollow mike why are they incentivizing families to break down? and educated person would look at these policies and understand that everything that they are trying to do is to garner more power for themselves, to create more -- to gro...

There is a clear and easy exit for russia. perhaps this time there is. but perhaps in this game of brinkmanship, i think, it only ends one way, namely with escalation. >> this is precisely my worry, why i find the dynamics are somewhat recognizable to hawks in the u.s. -- the domestic local context -- who i think are almost always wrong. but you will sometimes see them make the argument that for credibilitys sake we have to do that. we threatened missiles and now we have to fire missiles, as if ...

Adequate enough. mcconnell, on his own record, is saying that he would rip support donald trump if he ran for president 2024. basically, the position is, look, all support donny soprano. it is kind of a bad guy. we [inaudible] you have two -- republicans for years said you cannot negotiate with evil. that was true. and thats what theyre doing. they are negotiating with evil. you have to pick a side. we are right, theyre wrong. are you for democracy or against democracy? >> mona, your thought? >>...