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That we own it is to control our destiny, our destiny in terms of how we vote and whether we vote and who we elect as our leaders. right now we have a deep leadership crisis where the people who are supposedly in charge are some of the worst offenders against democracy. so we need a complete rewrite in order that the next 20 years don t look like the last decade or 20 years has looked. it is not happening on both sides. i mean let me just say it. there is one party that is comfortable with autocratic moves like propaganda being pumped into their base of voters, like the refusal to stand up to disinformation, be it about a mask, be it about a vaccine, be it about a deadly insurrection. i mean, ben, how do you project anything close to that shining city on a hill or whatever way you want to describe the idea of ....
Pentagon correspondent. donny deutsch is here. the reverend al sharpton is still with us. we are still trying to get mark s shot up, elizabeth, but we were covering the end of the war in afghanistan and mark was on the air with us and said, you know, i m thinking about covering the pentagon on 9/11. i thought about how so many of us have been at this since that day, and i m going to put up your story on the front page of the new york times on september 12th. you were covering my old boss, george w. bush. that was your story. i want to ask you about that day, how often you think about it, what you remember from it and how it changed how you do the job you have now. well, i think about it i have thought about it the last few days. i was just downtown right at the washington bureau, which is just a few blocks from the white house as you know, and i remember that day. i had just moved to washington. ....
Rest in peace and know how very much we will also love you. another written from parents to a son who had been a firefighter. you are our shining star in everything we did. love mom and dad. how do you report on a story like that without being crushed by it? you know, it is so finney. i don t remember that as well as well, obviously i ve been refreshed by it now. but what i do remember, i remember that he went it was around the time of the u.n. general assembly. yeah, november 12th. right, the president stopped there first and it was very haunting. obviously i just spent some time reading those remembrances. you know, a lot of i do remember here is what i remember. september 14th i was on my first flight on air force one ever, was up to ground zero with president bush. remember, that was that first flight, he went up on a friday after 9/11 and we we had fighter jets escorting air force ....
That just doesn t cut it. this had to be recognized, should have been recognized as what is called a national security special event. we do it for the super bowl. we do it for far less than the certification of an electoral college vote and a peaceful transition of power for the presidency. it should have been done here. to see a regional fusion center left on its own hanging, to see people ignoring warning signs and signals speaks to not only the inability to see ourselves as a threat, and we talked about this before, we are so equipped to look at the other, right, the folks from some foreign land, folks with different skin color, the folks who have a different religion, those people are the threat, not us. so i m going to presume first a level of incompetence, an inability to see ourselves as a threat, but i want the select committee to presume that there might be something more nefarious here, which is that people at the top didn t want to pull out all the stops because ....
America when we are so inward turned and divided? i ll try to find the hope here, nicolle. because, first of all, i think that the core thing that i was trying to get at there and that you get at i think every day on this show is that there are a lot of issues that we have to deal with as a country. democracy is the one that we can t get wrong, and that has to be the core north star for everything that we do. and if we can fight through this, if we can show that you can go through this kind of authoritarian resurgence on one side of our politic, if we can fight through this and improve upon it, it is a very relevant example for the rest of the world that is dealing with it. that work of pursuing democracy can ripple out in a way i think will be a more relevant example to the world than issuing edicts about democracy from a mountain top. we have to fight through this moment we are in and we re america, we know how to do that. ....