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It's not going to happen overnight. but it takes optimism and you have to start, as dylan said, you have to bypass the legislation in congress and go to the people. if you don't have a leader who does it, maybe when cuomo runs for re-election and he wants to be president, he'll have to understand those of us in new york who want new york to be number one are not happy. >> the most interesting thing about the nature of this debate, whether it's talking about the 20th amendment or redistricting or these type of things, is that it takes us away from the race to the bottom of ideas about, you know...

Accelerating to support not only you, but all of us in this country who are desperate to see this debate for the 20th amendment proceed. >> well, this still is the issue. our job is to educate, to organize, and to put as much pressure on congress, so that they, in fact, pass a constitutional amendment to undo the disastrous, disastrous impact to our democracy that citizens united has done. >> connected to the kitchen table, if i'm sitting there looking at this election year, and i'm worried about health care for my grandmother, i'm worried about asthma in my daughter, i'm worried about heating...

To george washington. he gave an annual address. it doesn't need to be in person, though our third president, thomas jefferson, he had that delivered by hand, kind of mailed it in, if you will, carol. and it doesn't need -- >> he wasn't a good speaker, though, was he, thomas jefferson? he didn't like -- >> well, i'm not going to comment on that, but he did have it sent in by courier. also, doesn't need to happen in a joint congressional session, though that's what we see every year and what we'll see tonight. >> is there a reason why it occurs in late january or early february? >> yes. in fact...

For some time now, this has been a big date in u.s. history. january 20 has served as inauguration day for a number of presidents including john f. kennedy, ronald reagan, george w. bush, fdr, and our current commander in chief, barack obama. it was not always this way. if you want to sound smart, tell your friends inauguration day was on march 4 from 1793 until 1933. ratification of the 20th amendment in 1933 changed the start date of the president's term in office, pushed up to january 20. every inauguration since then has fallen on this date. for the world news, let's huddle up and talk a...

Washington thinks of that is hilarious. it is delusional. the very fact that trump says stuff like that says he is probably mentally ill, and not the guy sitting next to you on the bus battling about the trilateral condition. but suddenly they are not saying that anymore. why? because yesterday afternoon "the new york times" ran an anonymous op-ed that confirmed every single one of trump's supposedly paranoid claims. executive branch employees are in fact working secretly to stop the president's agenda. functionaries are actually conducting against him. it is all real. so how did washington re...