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Doing? i should be the sign to everybody. hes not looking at a world for you. >> can i do some of these -- i might mess up the order of your show here, but when roe was first overturned, we saw abortion rise up to the top of issues. since then, we have seen it fall down. i know the democrats are making a big deal of abortion this year. you think its something that motivateshi voters? i dont think its going to be democracy. i wonder if its going to be abortion that trumps the economy, for lack of...

Have a great night. have a great night. >> we have never had a significant anniversary of d- day for democracy and western democracy felt is under threat and front as it does this year both in europe and at home. >> what do you make of donald trumps threats to jail his political opponents? >> we have to take donald trump at his word. i think there is nothing that will stop him from doing such things. >> the jury in hunter bidens trial was just dismissed for the weekend after emotional testimony ...

Corrective for something like this? a nonviolent offense like this? we are over incarcerating nonviolent offenders way too much in this country, and this is a prime example of somebody who should not be a judge. there are many other ways to make the situation work. >> cindy young is the clerk for esmeralda county in nevada. she is undergoing withering criticism and a recall petition. she is a republican trump supporter, and there are people in that county that believe that there was problems wit...

What is the question being asked is instructive to what the biden campaign should be trying to do, which is framing this beyond even needing to pay attention to the news day at today. its more a choice between extremism and not. i just wonder why we are not generally describing trump more as an extremist. mp like, forget about -- then again, lets not forget about the people on the ground doing good work. when it comes to what are we expecting out of this, do you want someone who feels like they ...

Actions by these local officials. these people, i think, democrats, republicans, non- partisans, are all heroes that make democracy still exist in this country and dont take it for granted. >> i am on a bipartisan crusade of my own. >> good luck with that. >> red panda is somebody you may know if you seen a basketball game. she happens to be the greatest halftime performer of all time. red panda is the older chinese woman who gets on a unicycle, gets elevated many feet into the air, balances bal...

I think the question of democracy is, how do you make , this a tangible, scarier thing? i think talking about democracy as a concept is a little pie in the sky. democracy dying in darkness didnt really work as a slogan for the washington post. >> but this week, with the s remembrance of d-day, it wasnt just the stark contrast between president biden and donald trump . it was also between donald trump and ronald reagan. ronald reagan gave one of the most important speeches of his presidency in no...

Going to be won by biden. all of our polling shows people are most concerned about inflation, they are most concerned about jobs and the co economy. democracy should be like this de wrinkles you get with the ice e cream cone. >> but we have a functioning democracy. you can throw your economy out the window. >> finish your thought. >> i was just going to say that if he doesnt win it on the record that he is running on, and -- >> which is a strong one. >> which is a pretty strong one. and a vision...

And trump goes straight to the gut and grievance. >> because people dont know what its like to not have it. i lived in russia for 6 years. they didnt understand democracy. they didnt know what it was like not to have the possibility of being randomly arrested. but can i just go back to the beginning of the show? all that stuff in this montage, did that happen just this week? and theres 151 days, which is 21 weeks if my math is right. i wonder if i have the stamina to make it if this is one weeks...

>> im just not going to go down that path, because im t somebody who doesnt have friends who are alive because of ronald reagans inaction about a.i.d.s.. i think about waxing back to people who laid the foundations for this, trump didnt come to m us in a vacuum. he came to us because people laid foundations for hatred and bigotry and sexism. i feel like so when we go -- i dont want to go back to the party that i could recognize of ronald reagan. but i do want to say people that we are leaving ou...

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