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Everyones gonna have to answer the question. are you for or against american democracy? cant be avoided indefinitely. but we are seeing even more people try to straddle that line. on friday, the days pence book out out against trump, the republican national committee decided to censure cheney and kinzinger for, quote, participating in a democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engage in legitimate political discourse. of course, they mean the democrats attempts to hold the january six riote...

Reveal that his wife had gotten paid this amount of money to lobby the court. so, this supreme court is for sale with clarence thomas. if you read about this in another country, you would say, thats not a robust democracy. thats some sort of third world dictatorship or at least a hybrid autocracy situation. this is outrageous. and i hope democrats step up their game even more in 2022. >> charles, ive got to put this in perspective of just our democracy here because theres no doubt our democracy ...

On Stage: Will and Chris, naturally. By Reality: That whole "Yale Law School free speech controversy"? Turns out accounts of protesters shouting down speakers were heavily exaggerated. Even the dean -- who concludes against the protesters -- supports this less sensationalist statement of facts. In Court: John Eastman's over-aggressive privilege claims ended with a court ruling that he triggered the crime-fraud exception working with Donald Trump. As A Functioning Democracy: Recusa...

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Ignore the rules and even the new laws we might put in place. >> i want to talk about this poll, this new poll from "the washington post" and the university of maryland finding 34% of americans think violent action against the government is sometimes justified. what does that say to you? >> well, it says that were in a sorry state because that number has been going up and there is also a partisan balance to that. were seeing more republicans than democrats and independents saying violence could ...

Much yamiche, stay with me. weve got to cover the other big news were watching on capitol hill. president biden all but confirmed that democrats are not likely to pass his human infrastructure bill, build back better, this year. and now the senates in-house referee, the parliamentarian, just threw cold water on their hopes to get immigration reform into that bill. now democrats are focusing on voting rights, with biden and vice president harris holding a zoom call with senators about it yesterda...

Issues? if we dont have a functioning democracy, nothing else even matters. >> you need to convince the leaders of the country, convince the people in the senate. look, i represent a working class district. im from a working class state in ohio. people, unfortunately, dont have the luxury to sit around and have a conversation about voting rights. theyre too busy getting up, going to work, trying to pay the bills. you have inflation. more of a squeeze there. and theyre scrapping. theyre fighting....

And here on this monday it is literally five weeks until the georgia legislature, the arizona legislature, and so many other state legislators come back into session and they have plans to do more voter fraud conspiracy legislation around fraud and kind of bad maga faction ideas. congress needs to act. this is not a partisan issue. this is about our democracy. we need the freedom to vote act, the john lewis voting rights advancement act passed by this congress as soon as possible. six weeks from...

Faction ideas. this is not about that issue, we need the freedom to vote act, we need this passed by the congress as soon as possible. in six weeks, from today. more states are reconvening and we still have not had congressional action. voters, they demand their democracy function. so we are not going to let them break the game. yes, you are correct, all these bills are passing, and theyre going to come back and pass more. so we are going to keep fighting those bills. but this is clear, congress...

Undermine fair elections. so you make it harder to vote, then you make it so that there is no attached vote for. because so many of the election results are predetermine, competitive seats were taken off the table. but it looks like it sets in states where that are basically 50/50, theyre drawing maps to give republicans 60% of seats, 70% of seats, in some cases 80% of seats. and theyre also taking almost all of the competitive races off the table. so once republicans take power, once they retak...