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on our house in terms of what we will end up doing to our fellow human being. >> if you think of a scale, on one side of the scale it's like the current situation in venezuela, which is quite dire, as it is in cuba, what would we do to even the scales, to get to a point where what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation. >> yes. >> it's unthinkable. >> a quarter of venezuela's gone. staggering, thank you my friend, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. on november 4th of 2008, america elected its first black president. senator john mccain had called sen...

the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. >> a little while ago, i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him. [crowd chanting] please. to congratulate him. on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. >> john mccain. gently, but firmly, and managing a crowd of republicans for booing the election of our nation's first black president. at the time, this was seen as an important moment, it wasn't as though statesmanship was exactly the norm in the republican party. it was...

I'm not sure, i think those really poor production choice. but i think, at a broader level, what we've learned here, the difference between the mccain video you showed at the top, and the trump era, is not that humans that republican base voters, but all, humans don't have darker angels, don't have darker impulses. but that donald trump, has let people feel like it's okay to let those out. to let their freak flag fly. that they like about him. what they like about donald trump, despite -- since, then he won in 2016 we'll allowing them to be their worst selves. they look back at that john mccai...

Since, then he won in 2016 we'll allowing them to be their worst selves. they look back at that john mccain video, not with nostalgia, but say that's a loser. that's a losers mentality. so, because trump happened to win, and a very narrow election, losing the popular vote, that affirmed this idea that they can do that, that this politics is fun. it's a big game of apprentice. it's a catskill standup act, they can enjoy when it demeaned women, when he says that a capitol police officer, is a thug. i think that's been the most, probably the most disappointing thing to learn about the entire trum...