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Ukraine is defeating russia much larger military would send a powerful deterrent message as chinese leader xi jinping calculates the costs of invading taiwan. less importantly, mcfaul argues, the success of democratic ukraine and repelling autocratic russia would reassure small d democracies around the world that our ideas are gathering steam. small d democrats in belarus, burma, iran, and even russia would feel more emboldened. joining us now is michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia ...

They want a complete small d democracy, and by the way, i think it would actually work there. >> right. its sort of hard to put the tooth paste back in the tube. the younger generation has seen how the rest of the world looks. i know they try and contain what you have seen. but once youve seen freedom and a sense of how your life could be, for these young people, i dont think they want to go back living literally covered up, but where does it go in terms of how dangerous this gets for the societ...

Hurting the small d democratic process right now? >> look, im focused on the next six days here in colorado, i got to cover the entire state in one more time, to get out to all of voters, we are tied with independents right now, were going to win the hispanic vote here in colorado, theyre fed up with this economy and fed up with the price of gas, im not looking backwards, im looking forwards. >> i get that. i hear you. i know it is six days to the election, but if you win, you will be in the sen...

>> reporter: exactly. this is part of the good news coming out of the debate for fettermans team. check out this tweet from the candidate saying his team raised more than $2 million from small d donors. his campaign said its using that money to air ads highlighting dr. ozs debate answer that got a lot of attention, saying abortion should be left up to women, doctors and local political leaders. they believe that will have an impact. a lot of pro choice voters in the state of pennsylvania. theyre...

Rings: rings of power," theres so much resilience and tenacity. and i drew such inspiration from my 14 years of advocating for these brave women who are at the forefront of the fight for freedom and democracy. little did i know in that moment that just two months later i would be outside the federal building in los angeles giving a speech to 20,000 protesters who are standing in solidarity with the iranian people. and this global galvanization uprising in support of this movement is a watershed ...

Democrats in iran who are fighting for their freedom feel supported. >> small d democrats supporting democracy democrats. you understand the fear that comes with irans morality police. you had a run-in with them when you were just 12 years old. tell us about that. >> i was born in iran. 20 days after the revolution my parents had to escape. they were political refugees, opposed the islamic republic. i grew up in london. when i was 12, my mother took me to iran to visit family. i was walking down...

Distinctions -- i think thats one of the biggest problems. you need to be able to make distinctions very clearly, but he struggled with his speech, he struggled all week with. and if you cant do that to turn and let that semi-fascist record, as john harwood said on cnn, say that thats important and journalists should be able to say thats the right thing, thats ridiculous to me. howard: laura fink p im guessing you liked the speech, but what about media conservatives who say hes abandoning his ca...

>> and framed the whole speech around that. eva, you hear this talk about this being a political speech, and i dont think you could ignore any of the references to maga republicans there. but for supporters of joe biden, for some of the voters that youve been speaking to out on the trail there, if you do believe that democracy, small d, democracy is at stake, is this the type of defense that they have been wanting to hear? >> absolutely without a doubt. and something else that really stuck out t...

Our duty, in 2022 and beyond, then ages still to come will say we, all of us here, we kept the faith. we preserved democracy. we heeded our words. we heeded not our worst instincts but our better angels. we proved that for all its imperfections, america is still the beacon to the world, an ideal to be realized, a promise to be kept. theres nothing more important. nothing more sacred. nothing more american. thats our soul. thats who we truly are. and thats who we must always be. i have no doubt, ...

>> and framed the whole speech around that. eva, you hear this talk about this being a political speech, and i dont think you could ignore any of the references to maga republicans there. but for supporters of joe biden, for some of the voters that youve been speaking to out on the trail there, if you do believe that democracy, small d, democracy is at stake, is this the type of defense that they have been wanting to hear? >> absolutely without a doubt. and something else that really stuck out t...