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The fight against communism. and now they're cozying up to the former head of the kgb. activity blocking legislation that would defend our elections from russian attack. what happened? republicans who know better in congress and they're there, they're quoted saying, yeah, we know this is kind of crazy, are still bending over backwards to shield this behavior from scrutiny or accountability or consequence. seem utterly unwilling to find a backbone to safe guard the institutions that make our democracy work. >> all right. coming up, will president obama's blistering assessment of the trump admin...

Congress, and they're there, they're quoted saying, yeah, we know this is kind of crazy, are still bending over backwards to shield this behavior from scrutiny or accountability or consequence, seem utterly unwilling to find the backbone to safeguard the institutions that make our democracy work. and by the way, the claim that everything will turn out okay because there are people inside the white house who secretly aren't following the president's orders, that is not a check. i'm being serious here. that's not how our democracy's supposed to work. these people aren't elected. they're not acco...

There, they're quoted saying we know this is crazy. are still bending over backwards to shield this behavior from scrutiny, accountability, consequence. seem unable to safeguard the institutions that make our democracy work. the claim that everything will turn out okay because there are people inside the white house who secretly aren't following the president's orders, that is not a check. i'm being serious here. that's not how our democracy is supposed to work. these people aren't elected. they're not accountable. [applause] they're not doing us a service by actively promoting 90% of the craz...

Instinct. i want to pick somebody who will be good for the country, who i feel comfortable with. when that predominates, our politics work. we'll see tomorrow. it's been important to note that conor lamb may succeed on issues like trade. he's saying identical things to what donald trump is saying. he's a national security democrat. he's sounding more traditionally. sort of reminds me of a scoop jackson democrat, 20 or 30 years ago. but if that message works in this race, i think you're going to see a lot of republicans get nervous. but again, my take away from this whole interview was, hear vo...

But the thing that everybody remembers is what was reported. this happens on twitter all the time. so i think that has caused trust in the media to go down. you can look at the pew study that came out recently about americans' trust in the media, and frankly it worries me because we need a news media industry in this country that is trusted by people in both parties. and right now, a lot of republicans don't trust it, and frankly a lot of democrats as we heard from president carter don't trust it either. we need the media to be trusted because it's a critical part of what makes our democracy w...