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1989. >> our top story, the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down the fall of the berlin wall was an incredibly important moment. >> sent around the world because it showed that the power of civic organization, the power of democratic ideas, the power of the language, of freedom, of the rule of law, and democracy could overcome even the most powerful. and what we had thought to be the most permanent form of dictatorship, the dangerous part is that we became convinced that it would go on forever do you think we take democracy too much for granted today in 2024...

That will be one thing, to the extent it begins to undermine it. and that context, one might wonder why democratic members of congress think it is a good idea at this time to invite prime minister netanyahu to congress. and give him the platform to stand up to president biden. but i think tools are there and if president biden, i hope, he will use them first of all now to bring this deal to a close, to bring the conflict to a close, but also should there be any backsliding. >> think you both of you, i appreciate the time you have taken to tell your stories. willie greenberg is -- josh paul is ...

Takeaway is here. Yeah, so i do at least one or two Focus Groups every single week. I talked to Swing Voters. I talked to democrats and progressives. But i really focused on sort of two times trump voters and people who are either, they voted for trump before and theyre out on him, or Swing Voters who may be voted for biden, but are backsliding like i really tried to figure out who is part of this election is going to be sort of the Determinant Voter and how theyre thinking about things. And then number one, takeaway that i have is theres this group called the doublehaters. The double doubters...

Voted for biden, but are backsliding like i really tried to figure out who is part of this election is going to be the determinant voter and how they're thinking about things and the number one takeaway that i have is there's this group called the double-haters. the double doubters, are the impacts on both their houses, right? they are frustrated with biden. maybe they voted for him last time, but they are right leading independence soft gop voters and they're not loving the job he's doing, but also they do not want to vote for trump. and so teasing out how that voter is going to go is a deep ...

Brian, can you please expand on that. i think it's a really, really important point to start off on. -- the story of election in 2024. on the one hand, you have more people go into the polls than ever before, in more elections, more populous countries. the united states, to india, to indonesia, starting tomorrow, bangladesh. on the other hand, you had a real risk in so many of these elections that you could see for the democratic backsliding that, even if you -- trappings of democracy, where you are actually seeing is the decay of democracy, and the fact these two things can happen simultaneou...