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Britain can be economically stronger. the reverse is the case. britain is already economically weaker, and we haven't left yet. and i think what you're seeing over the next few days is, again, that promise of brexit colliding with the reality of brexit. and when faced with that, either you compromise and accept that you told the british people a set of things that were not deliverable, or you go on refusing to do that, and the kind of political crisis continues. and i would say the political crisis continuing is the most likely option. there are other options. and the most likely outcome of al...

The country wasn't prepared bureaucratically to carry this out. and so what you have is a paralysis, which is really extraordinary. the country -- spanish politicians said to me a couple of days ago, you know, this was the country we looked up to. this was -- you know, this is the country that is the mother of parliaments, the most competent politicians. people who knew what they were doing. and suddenly they seem really unable to move beyond this vote that, as you say, we have now had once. we're going to have it again. we may have it a third time before we're done. >> george osborne, you wer...

That's what it takes, baby. geico®. great service from licensed agents, 24/7. on tuesday, the british parliament will vote on prime minister may's brexit plan. if it feels like that has already happened, well, it did. two months ago, and the vote was strongly against her plan. but she went back to the drawing board. more importantly, perhaps, there is a huge deadline looming, just 19 days away. march 29th is when britain is set to leave the union. so what happens on tuesday? joining me are two sharp observers, george osborne, chancellor of britain's finance minister and ann applebaum, a pul...

We shall see. we all hold back from completely prognosticating. jeffrey goldberg, i will ask you the question on the cover of your magazine, is democracy dying? >> i hope not. it is dying if we don't take care of it. that's sort of a through argument of a lot of the different articles we have in this special issue, which is to say we've lost some of the habits of democracy and if we don't restore those, if we don't refresh and resuscitate democracy and if we don't go back in some ways to how the founders viewed the constitution, how the founders viewed the organization of our government, then ...

Posetion to the united states. >> ann applebaum, bill browder, pleasure having you on. next we'll take you to russia for the latest news. [burke] vengeful vermin.