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Happened inside when a majority of house republicans voted to overturn the valid results of a presidential election simply to curry favor with donald trump. it is that will vote, not the violence that almost broke the american system. we often here that unlike in fledgling democracies, america's institutions are strong. but as emerson said, an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. if people aof buz them, attack them, disregard them, these storied institutions will slow live collapse. so all our efforts must be devoted to making people act responsibly, even virtuously.

In their democracies, because there are lessons we don't have to reinvent the wheel entirely. >> masha, looking at the fledgling democraies of eastern europe, who are the good examples and who aren't? and is it a mistake to do the cherry-picking the united states did with who was invited and who wasn't? >> it's inevitable that the united states would make selections. there's always some sort of lodge that i can goes into it. and, you know, that logic, i think, in this case is quite questionable. it's extraordinary that we're still referring to the post-soviet countries as fledgling democracies...

Fledgling democracies. to try to help other countries stand up against aggression from russia. i mean, president biden's intervention in ukraine to try to stand them up as democracy, stand them up against corruption, have been weaponized and boomeranged against him as if he was the problem. there i wonder having lived through that and seeing how it is being put in a fun house mirror now. how that feels to you and what you think the american people should understand about that time. >> we can talk about the time but let's for a second talk about the tactic. what president trump is doing, we've ...

This point in time. >> congressman israel, when you hear the state gop chairman say he's so shocked, he threw up about it when he heard? is that credible? >> like, that movie character, shocked, shocked that something like this would happen. in the united states, we sent election observers to fledgling democracies. it appears now we have to do that in the united states. what's ironic here is president trump was ranting and raving about voter fraud. now it helps republicans. look at blatant county. 19% of absentee ballots were submitted by republicans. 51% went to the republican. that's impossi...

Department is hesitant to the do that. a bipartisan consensus you'd think the president and his people would be eager to up our game. particularly online, to be able to ensure that america is taking the lead around the world in pushing back against false information, disinformation, that is, again, destabilizing particularly in some of these fledgling democracies. we have a difference of opinion i guess how to approach it. i think the same objective. and i understand the president's frustration. we'd all like to have a better relationship with russia, but it requires them to change their behav...