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Of light when the most recent campaign fundraising numbers came out earlier this week. there had been a handful of trump-endorsed candidates that werent doing as well as the more moderate, well see, the less pro-trump republicans running in those races. so i think there is still some light at the end of the tunnel. as one who is still a registered republican, if youre going to have a functioning democracy, you need two strong parties. right now were not headed toward a strong republican party, j...

Party into a cult of personality. >> i want to ask what is going on within the democratic party and joe mansion, senator joe mansion, your democratic colleague and the other chamber. you told new york we no longer live in a democracy. we live in a tyranny of joe mansion. it one thing to pursue bipartisanship but to pursue it for its own sake strikes me as si silly. joe mansion is representing his constituents in west virginia and generally not as prog progressive. why is it silly? >> there is no...

And i still have a hard time believing that he did what he did. if he gets 20 years in prison, hell be 70 years old before he gets out of there. trump doesnt care about any of those people that stormed the capitol for him. he doesnt care one minute about them. >> thats donovan crawls mother. shes recovering from leukemia. but you can see, pamela, how this disinformation, these lies, these deliberate lies have torn apart families and people like donovan crawl are facing, very, very serious charge...

Criminal charges in the capitol breach. >> over ran the capitol. >> we found him in ohio where hes awaiting trial. >> im with cnn. >> excuse me? >> im with cnn. >> oh, thanks, man, im good. how is your day? >> ive been talking to your mom and sister. they mentioned you might want to say something to us about -- >> about what? >> about your case and whether or not you feel bad about it. >> i feel bad about my case? >> feel bad about what you did? >> well, actually, the things i did i was hanging ...

Resembling a functioning democracy. we live under the tyranny of the filibuster. the filibuster made the senate a graveyard for police reform and gun safety, lgbtq equality, a democracy reform, voting rights enforcement. you name any closeause, it died the hands of the filibuster. >> i want to ask you because mansion came forward this past week to put forward his c compromise for the voting rights act. what is your reaction to that? >> i commend senator mansion for putting forward an alternative...

This emergency situation where weve basically very rapidly approved this new vaccine, it is a colossal error in public health judgment. >> tucker: a colossal error in public health judgment? from someone who works in public health. he did not say that lightly. in fact, his own son is currently being forced by the university of chicago to take the vaccine. hes arty been infected and recovered too. so hes thought a lot about it, he thinks its matters. after our conversation last night, he upload t...

Coronavirus and have antibodies against it. watch. >> i believe as we discussed before the vaccinating people in this emergency situation where weve basically very rapidly approved this new vaccine, it is a colossal error in public health judgment. >> tucker: "a colossal error in public health judgment"? from someone who works in public health. he did not say that lightly. in fact, his own son is currently being forced by the university of chicago to take the vaccine. hes already been infected a...

Elections, altogether. again, that reporting today from linda sow at -- at reuters. i mean, this is the stuff of nightmares, right? nightmare for election officials and poll workers, a nightmare for democracy. and these are the people who make democracy function. right? these are the people, who like check you in when you show up to vote and make sure that if you have any problem, you have somebody to ask for help and make sure you get to the right precinct, right? anytime you every show up to v...

Whether its dr. seuss or whatever stokes the outrage for your fundraising. whatever you are outraged about today wont matter when you cant get your heart medicine when the country has failed, and you are going to look back and say, my goodness, i got really outraged about nothing. >> well, also, i mean, for those who are, you know, worried about who is making these arguments and where their politics is, we, as a country, as a functioning democracy, we need two functioning-political parties. at t...

You cant get your heart medicine and the country failed and youll say my goodness i got outraged about nothing. >> for those who are, you know, worried about who is making these arguments and where the politics are, we as a functioning democracy, we need two functioning political parties at the very least and full throated arguments, difference of opinions have at it, all of that is what our democracy depends on but its got to be based on facts. its got to be based on, you know, support of democ...