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Rapid attackers off that were beating the hell out of police officers, that were destroying the u.s. capitol, that were trying to overturn an election, that were trying to find mike pence and hang him, that were trying to find nancy pelosi and assassinate her, that were trying to decapitate the federal government, the constitutional federal government by killing the second and third ranking members in that u.s. government. if donald trump just told them to stop it, it'd stop it. >> he couldn't. he couldn't do it, even when he begrudingly made some tape to go out to twitter. he couldn't say it....

>> yeah. you know, mike barnicle, ed brings up a great point. donald trump has done all this in the open. this isn't like watergate. he's done all of it in the open. six, nine months before the election, he started whining about a rigged election before the first person voted. it's what he did after ted cruz beat him in the iowa caucus in 2016. he ran around screeching and whining about a rigged election. we heard the call. americans have heard the call. he calls the secretary of state of georgia and says, "rig the election for me. how many votes am i behind? you can find one more vote than i'...

It up more so than the crime. with trump, most minds are made up. 40% of americans agree with trump. can the january 6th hearings change that? seems unlikely. part of the cure for today's partisan mutual loathing would be a display of the admiral objectively shown by the watergate committee. but the american stunned into forcing nixon's resignation seems almost as lost in time as the royal tyranny it expelled. ed luce, watergate seems quaint in comparison to a president leading, perhaps, the coup to overturn a presidential election. so it's true what you're referring to, that fox news will not...

David brooks writes this morning that this is not a conspiracy of silence, this is a political movement. which makes it so much more dangerous to american democracy and this republic of ours. >> joe, there's no doubt about it. both david brooks' piece and ed's piece get to the root of what we ought to be thinking about, and that's the stability of our democracy and what has already happened to damage our democracy and what might happen this fall and, certainly, in 2024. people are fooling around with the stability of government the way our government has always operated. jonathan, in the white...

Country have their minds made up on one side or the other. >> ed luce is writing about the fragmented audience, "america is two nations barely on speaking terms." in it, you write this, ed, "what should we make of the fact that america's tv channels all carried the live jubilee festivities of an elderly monarch but will part ways on the hearings for the assault on the capitol. the televised hearings will be hoping to emulate watergate. watergate, which took 50 years ago next week, to january 6th, is the measure of a transformed society. though nixon had been re-elected by a landslide, the u.s....