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And his supporters in congress are acting exactly on that belief. >> i'm wondering is this more than an attack on the truth. how can we our democracy function. we can't even agree on what's real and fake. >> it's a huge assault on the truth and it feels like assault on the sanity. it really makes you question your what's up and down. when trump keeps saying read the transcript. it was a perfect call. we all read it. we know it wasn't perfect. we know that was a phone call with zelensky that is getting him impeached. he was demanding the president of ukraine investigate a political rival. he fl...

Work in the president's actions, and we have to stare it straight in the face because the president needs to be held accountable for this. otherwise we'll set a precedent that it's okay for this president, any future president to use the full power of his office to run around the world, you know, dredging up fake investigations against political opponents here at home, using foreign leaders as his proxies. we can't live in that world and have our democracy function. and unfortunately that's the story we're hearing today. >> congressman, thank you. >> my pleasure. president trump's only the f...

No, it isn't. >> the best progress we can make is find ways to work together and compromise and find ways to make democracy function. if we see leadership like we see from mitch mcconnell in the senate, donald trump take things to the extreme that's not a positive place. i'll give you one example of something that happened in the last few years, something that i think can make a difference in the city of baltimore is opportunity zones created by democrats who used to work for president obama and republicans working together. a combination of the democrats working together, scott and cory booke...

Compensation to the state of maryland for having done that. they said you don't deserve to get unemployment compensation, they enforced his contract to the letter. that is the kind of reach sinclair showed it will have if you cross them. it is a message to employees, do what we say, and say what we say. >> the fourth estate is part of our democracy. it is part of what makes our democracy function. it is -- has been held up for hundreds of years as one of the reasons why we exist and we have been successful, we have an outlet where we can push back on our leaders and hold them accountable, be t...

Press, which really -- the press is, in the united states, as our leaders have recognized going back to the days of the early republic, the last bastian of truth that makes democracy function, yes, we make mistakes and we need to admit our mistakes. we aught not to be too provocative, which we are sometimes with a president who is putting a lot of bait out there. and sometimes we take the bait and get a little petty. i would like to see a lot less of criticizing on our air, the president, for playing golf. let him play all the golf that he wants. i don't think that is our job. we've got a dead...