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Of americans at risk and you're putting american leadership in the world at risk. >> now, donald trump does say he's going to reverse a lot of these executive actions that obama has taken, whether it's on coal-fired plants or vehicle emissions. what could you do? he's president and he will have that power. >> i think that the strongest power in the united states of america is the will of the american people. and i think if the american people understand what's going on and what the consequences are of what's going on, they will realize that their future is at stake and that's the conversation ...

Ci ty of americans at risk and prosperity and you are putting american leadership in the world at risk. >> now, donald trump does say he's going to reverse a lot of these executive actions that obama has taken whether it is on plans or emissions. what can you do? he's president and he will have that power. >> the strongest power of the american people is the will of the american people. if the american people understand what's going on and the consequences of what's going on, they'll realize that their future is at stake, that's the conversation we intend to try into engage in. >> how? presuma...

Voter-to-voter contact as we could. so we believed then that we need americans to speak to each other on the issues of the day. and that's what we did then. we were on over 370 college campuses. we knocked with our partners on more than 10 million doors. we registered over a million people. so we'll continue the kind of grassroots, field work, the kind of grassroots citizen-to-citizen conversations that we did in 2016. >> but are you disheartened? you spent some say 69, $70 million, certainly the outcomes on the presidency and the senate and house of representatives have not been what you woul...

Distrust of the media, of our leaders, of even military leaders. like, there's -- what -- does that trust ever me bacack or is it lost? that't's in some ways the project, right? the project has to be building back up some of that very necessary trust. now, healthy distrust is good, right? learn that with the war in iraq or the financial crisis, right, i mean, the e was a lot of really smart authoritative people saying we got these models about housing derivatives and believe us, this is going to work. they were wrong. t when you sort of weaponize that distrust, when you spread it everywhere, y...

>> uh-huh. >> you know, like, you haven't conducted the experiments, right? >> no. no field work. >> you have not done the field work. you know it because of trust. and when that gets severed, you end up in a situation in which the entire public discourse goes completely, completely haywire. coming up, how the severing was public trust was amplified as the largest social media platform in the world became a hub for false news, right after this break. clicking around... the lowest prices on our hotels are always at hilton.com. so pay less and get more only at hilton.com. love or like? naughty...