and the states to set their only ballot laws and get rid of 180 year custom of the filibuster and 150 years of the 9 person supreme court. sixty years of 50 states because they can t get another 4 senators. they are the radicals that want to change the constitution republic into a radical state. they are angry. they are terrified they will lose power. then the system doesn t work. when they get back power, the system runs beautifully. it s as simple as that. will: i don t know if it s as simple as that. you made something complicated simple for us. it s absolutely undeniable that one party looking to change the foundation of the american system you laid out the mean ways they are attempting to do so from the supreme court to the number of states in this country. yet they developed this verbal
that. by the way, we finally did a big thing, katy tur. you did. and there are a lot of people who hope that big thing continues into the new year. a lot of people hope it s permanent. quick question not a quick answer, so my producers are going to scream, hopefully you can do it quickly. do you still have faith in the system? you got to. look, even if you don t have faith in the system even if you lost faith in the system, that needs to be needs to force you to work harder to change it. you know, congressman lewis sacrificed his skull on the edmund pettus bridge to the billy clubs for the sake of the democracy. and you know, i think you just had a daughter. i have three daughters. women fought so they could get the right to vote. the self-evident right to vote for more than 100 years. so we are not entitled to lose faith in this. the system is corrupt. the system doesn t work. the system s not competitive with the totalitarian societies around the world right now. and we hav
they inflamed that story. rioters were loose on the streets and the media continued to keep this racist narrative as part of this story. right through to the kyle rittenhouse prosecution and trial. justice has been served. the jury has handed down a ruling. we have to stand back now. and ask the question. the hard question. warole did the media play in this? laura: raymond mentioned it, sean. so people understand what he is getting at. this is what we heard today from the media. the system doesn t work fairly for everybody. people have biases and bring them into the courtroom. these jurors bought self-defense. we talked about this judge. he is elected. he is a politician. he was not appointed there. sean, the judge is
democratic voters are. they think they have public opinion on their side. what you saw president biden talking about today was sort of saying, you know, to the middle class, the system doesn t work for you and i m going to fix that system and here is how. in a different sort of, more nuanced, calmer way, that s the argument that former president trump very effectively made. his argument was the system doesn t work and i m going to absolutely burn it all down. biden is saying the system doesn t work to, he s literally saying i m going to build back better and here is how. they think if they have the time and space to message this they cannot only get enough democrats on board they hope to pass it, but they can get the american public on board. i know on the vaccine mandate fight, that s another one they relish having with any critics, republicans in the state or anyone else. ashley fargo, thank you so much for your great reporting. it is great to see you, my friend. the next hour of
increasingly in other european countries, but i wonder if it s encroaching into western european countries, as well. service interesting that in 2016 it was, america s democracy was downgraded to a flawed democracy. and that s not just because of donald trump being elected, it was done before that. because the system doesn t work. and when the system doesn t work, as we saw under donald trump, somebody with autocratic tendencies can take advantage of it, as the story we were talking about earlier. they can take advantage by getting elements of that system to work in their favor, not in the favor of democracy. and i was wondering, it s not just as easy to look at countries like russia and to look at countries like turkey, nominally democracies where autocrats are increasingly taking power, but you re also looking at countries where you might not expect that to happen. countries that are democratic, but where the systems are being chipped away at or undermined in a way that means those d