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Media platforms. it is not just the ways and which folks are able to monetize this type of content on platforms like twitter, and facebook. it is also all the ways in which tucker carlson and so many on cable are also allowed to do this at profit. we have an incentive structure which allows hate, disinformation, and racism to be profitable. and until government does the work, because essentially maria and teresa, this is not about freedom of speech. this is about what people are allowed to profi...

The will of the united states when, in fact, there is a broad bipartisan, non-partisan consensus that what we should be doing is supporting our allies in europe and strengthening our transatlantic security architecture and standing up for a free and independent ukraine and thats not terribly controversial in washington and here we have a major candidate for office on the issue. >> calling mitch mcconnell is in that group. for them, they are garbage republicans obsessed in ukraine. the polls are ...

>> what we are calling for is defund because we need to reprioritize. instead of saying lets give them more money for training, instead, lets take away some of that money. while nobody likes to pay more, on average, we have the money to do so. household savings hit a record high. >> you get the sense that american has gone to hell. declined qualities of life. apock palestinian particular yes there is a crime problem. the way it is described on fox you would be afraid to leave your house. >> at t...

>> we are going to see some benefit from the war. now the ceos aware of the obvious criticisms as he told the harvard business review last month, quote, while we are a defense company, our goal is to provide our country and allies with the most effective systems to try and prevent just such a conflict we are seeing in ukraine. nobody actually wins in a war. i mean he could argue hes just doing his job, but this is the incentive structure in our capitalist country. the u.s. spends more on defense...

Dealing with now? if youre not a disciplined person making sure you werent seeking out, right, information just because it agrees with what you believe, you can fall pray to disinformation easily. >> thats right. this is the new thing. the disinformation proliferation. you know, weve had partisan media before although not on the scale and scope weve been dealing with in recent decades but what is happening in the last several years is the added alloy of a social media alga rhythm that elevate an...

John, the first thing you point to here is hyper partisan polarization. walk us through what youve been seeing as a trend here in recent years. >> this is really the structural dynamic that leads to the insanity were seeing. bottom line, the incentive structure in the politics is all screwed up. it moves power to the extremes. take a look at this. the number of competitive congressional districts, you know, where the general election actually mattered where the candidates had to compete for vote...

Epidemic for your political gain. >> all happening, of course, at a time when the omicron surge is walloping this country. as we have reported, more than 1.3 million cases on monday. a world record. globally. im joined by capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and dr. megan rainy. ali, boy, dr. fauci gave senator paul a piece of his mind. we have seen this to a degray play out before, particularly with these two. >> this is a continuous sparring match every time fauci comes before this committee...

Compromise. thats gone out the window. and if you look closely, its important to say this is a s symmetric polarization. they moved further right than democrats have left and you can see that in the composition of the parties. we talk about being a divided nation evenly but independent voters make up plurality. democrats have gotten more liberal but split 50/50 between liberals and moderates. republicans, though, are 75% conservative. less than 25% moderate. so the power and the party is enormou...

Voters make up plurality. democrats have gotten more liberal but split 50/50 between liberals and moderates. republicans, though, are 75% conservative. o less than 25% moderate. so the power and the party is enormously off center and that creates the incentive structure where candidates want to play to the base and dont worry about reaching across the aisle. >> one alarming thing is they played this nativest backlash. there is almost this thinly veiled racism where there is at times that we see ...

Scale and scope weve been dealing with in recent decades but what is happening in the last several years is the added alloy of a social media alga rhythm that elevate and exacerbate and reward conflict, conspiracy theories, extremism and thats one of the things that made us go collectively insane where it seems incredibly difficult to reason together which is what democracy is based upon. the other dynamics are elevated by social media algorithms. designed to reward extremes. thats one of the re...