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Its not happening in any other nation. we know this is about easy access to guns. we do need our lawmakers to act. i know were all waiting for cathartic moment in the senate. in the meantime were working as a movement to pass stronger laws and school boards and state houses. when we look at states, we know that laws were. states with longer -- with stronger gun laws have less gun death. i know its intuitive, but its also proven by data. thats what lawmakers should be acting. on not the strongmen...

Democracies of the world and standing up to autocratic much regimes and strongmen. this is designed to underscore the democratic -- the president is pressing the united states should deepen its ties to, counter quote, countries that do not share our values. hanging over bidens trip is another strong leader, vladimir putin. the united states is remaining heavily engaged in what some experts have described as a proxy war against russia and ukraine. the wests efforts to stand up to a volatile leade...

Reformer. hes now been there 20 years, locked up many of his opponents. hes now facing consequences of misgovernment. rampant inflation. he will have an election and maybe he could fall. the other thing with strongman leaders even those who face elections, balassinaro, and he showed with the election rejecting you can claim its a fraud, whatever, you can attempt to reverse that result. and i think that is a real danger in ea lot of these countries. >> well that is particularly chilling, one of t...

A succession of strongmen have only worsened the countrys glaring wealth inequality

Aspiring strongmen have become emboldened around the globe. theyre actively subverting democracy, theyre undermining hard-won human rights, theyre ignoring international law. worse yet, democratic backsliding isnt restricted to distant lands. right here in the united states of america we just saw a sitting president deny the clear results of an election and help incite a violent insurrection at the nations capitol. not only that, but a majority of his party, including many who occupy some of the...

Overturn the election results in 2024, if the democrats win the white house again. it is truly shocking to hear a sitting member of the senate advocate for such a plan, though actually, maybe a little less surprising coming from senator lee, given that he tweeted right before the 2020 election that he does not believe that the united states is a democracy. so, what do we do to save our institutions when the people constitutionally tasked with protecting them or in fact the ones who pose the bigg...

-- say something negative about donald trump during the presidency thats horrible. ts horrible strongmen that really love power as peter just said. they have a kind of conservative orthodox nationalists anti multilateral anti-lgbt in the case of putin, and they have for years been interacting with each other and supporting each other. so viktor orban in hungary -- in italy, le pen in france, and mr. trump and ideologically, those leaders that i just described have a lot more in common than peopl...

Now lets get this ran in the washington post, a paper that apparently unbeknownst to the editors who worked there is owned by billionaire oligarch jeff bezos, chinas biggest retailer and used as his personal platform to lobby the federal government and settle scores so jeff bezos can own the only news gathering operation in your nations capital and use it for business and ideological ends. but the idea of letting average people say what they want on twitter is a threat to democracy. and if you t...

0 protect yourself. identity theft protection starts here at liveblog .com. serious dangers to your breathing. give up your most ultra pure steam inhaler. it turns destroyed just pure effective steam happy sinuses blow breathing again my poor must do it. good evening and welcome to tucker carlson . tonight has there been look back a single 24 hour period since joe biden became the president when you havent been horrified by something you saw on the news? probably not. the cascade of absurdities ...

Civilians reported death. its the latest russian atrocity to shock the world less than a week after ukrainian forces found evidence of civilians tortured in bucha. president putin denying responsibility for the alleged war crimes, as one autocracy expert says, the gop is looking to him for cues. joining me now, ruth ben-ghiat. she is professor of history at new york university, and author of strongmen: mussolini to the president. ruth, why is putin resorting to this increasingly brutal attacks? ...