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American polls as 70% of americans want trump to be president again, even though every single day he denies the outcome of the last election which is the fundamental prerequisite of having a functioning democracy. if the losers dont accept the outcome of the election, you dont have a functioning democracy. increasingly you see republicans preparing for a coup in 2024, purging anybody from the you see them basically approving any means necessary to gain power. trump is holding up ashleigh babit a...

Texas. which you did not nullify roe, you did. you can say in a strict sense it did not overrule it. but roe is nullified on the ground in texas. again, things have plain meaning. second of all, its like, to the point, they know what they are about to do. thats the other thing that feels this way. they are going go in to this term and they can feel everyone waking up to what the court is. >> well, you think that is obvious though. we have had the b-team out here talking about they are not partis...

Jobs in the same way that justice alito is defending himself and his colleagues doing their job. its not the normal course of exchange in a liberal democracy, he is using the power of the pulpit to intimidate and incite others to go forward and take up a charge against this individual. its naming enemies. >> also, its, i mean, i agree with that, i also have -- i think that like adam and steve vladic, the law professor you were referring to who has done great work on this. they, they are in the n...

It as an independent institution. >> now, to me this is an encouraging development. fun trivia fact, shadow docket, coined by a former clerk of john rodgers, not a crazy liberal. and intimidate the court is a choice of words, because its just criticism. the level will of defensiveness here shows the criticisms of the court are getting to them. they hear it. they know that the public perception of them is bad. and thats a good thing. because guess what justices alito, we live in a liberal democra...

Banning phrases, concepts as a tool for stopping people from learning that history. >> well, i mean, these are the symptoms of a weak and fragile society. i cant think of anything more un-american than banning of ideas. im not a communist, but i want to understand what communism is about. im not an atheist, but i want to understand what that world view is about. in the 1930s the nazis banned reading books by albert einstein, or helen keller, banned reading books in french or english. and thats w...

If he does run and is nominee in 2024, can manipulate -- another poll number in our poll besides 78% is a slim majority of americans actually believe, believe that elections officials will overturn results for partisan purposes. you dont have a functioning democracy if you dont have buy-in to the results of a free and fair election. thats it. thats the core thing. and that is the doubt that donald trump has now sown into our democratic being. >> lets talk about the line that held on january 6th ...

So afraid of the orange man behind his computer ranting and raving. but until that happens im afraid youre going to see more people like this who i dont agree with on probably any policy issue, but at the end of the day, there are some things that are more important than policy disagreements, like who cares about our policy disagreements if we actually dont have a functioning democracy anymore. >> i want you to take a listen to what house speaker nancy pelosi said and get your reaction. >> i wou...

Of opinions within the weekly dish itself. howie: dissent used to be so central to journalism. now were talking about 9/11 this weekend, obviously and you can be pretty tough on yourself. you say that you were terribly wrong supporting the iraq war after the shock and trauma of 9/11. explain. >> well, i think ive underestimated the enormous activities of turning a middle eastern country into some kind of functioning democracy. i dont think i remembered conservative instincts about why culture ma...

Whatever? no paperwork for them, nobody was stopping them. and there are a lot to -- about to be a lot more people like this at the base. court mccoy is asked to hold up to 13,000 afghans. the governor of wisconsin aware of this? what are the people of wisconsin think about a question mark nobody cares what they think, it is not the country. oh, but it is. and you should be nervous watching. in a truly democratic system of functioning democracy, the people who wrecked afghanistan and humiliated ...

Would have this chaos with any retreat and that we thought. you know. and then he says no one told him about it beforehand. were likely to find a lot more of these kind of warnings. i push back on the larger picture, you know, for some reason we have had three presidents that have concluded that they dont want to fight in afghanistan. our combat role was largely done. and it seems to me that the definition of failure we have that because in 20 years we didnt transform afghanistan into belgium, y...