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Prices. you don't have a functioning democracy. i think the case, the biggest case that should be made is how do we save our democracy, how do we hold the people accountable who were trying to steal the democracy in order for us to be able to fix all of those problems that we have that are fixable because we have a functioning democracy and a republic and a republic that is intact. am i wrong? >> i don't think those are disconnected issues. when we think about what democrats want to do to, quote, unquote, save democracy in this moment, it is about passing bills of protection that is going to r...

There is no evidence voters are holding this against republicans. but if he runs again, this is the great question. can he be trusted with the office again? should he be trusted with awesome power? that's when republicans and voters at large are going to have to do some soul searching about his impact on another administration. >> okay. i'm going to say this. i think that you're right in a lot of your assessment. i think much of what you said doesn't matter. i think what matters is what happened, what this means for our democracy. what this means for politics, i think that is secondary and, yo...

>> yeah. i read that piece, it was chilling to me, knowing mark short well. and having worked with them and knowing the former vice president mike pence well -- when you read this, it sounds like you are reading something in atomic clancy novel. except for the fact that this is actual, real life. this happened in the white house. this happened in the united states. and in what is a democracy, a functioning democracy, for now. that is why this is so incredibly upsetting to process. every time i see a new story like this -- i have great concern. i was concerned for mike pence's life. i was conce...

Even participate. they said the questions were two slanted. one of those questions was, who won the 2020 presidential election? it was a multiple choice. the choices were trump, or joe biden. only jeff vargas agreed to reality, that joe biden won the election. what does that say of the state of democracy when none of the rest would answer? one of the front runners, david mccormack, he is a combat veteran. he was a paratrooper. he was a treasury undersecretary. went to princeton. if these candidates won't acknowledge that joe biden is the president of the united states, do we have a functioning...

Functioning democracy, voted to abstain on the measure condemning russia. the majority of the people who live in democracies have chosen in this great ideological struggle to sit on the fence. on one level this might seem a case of national interests trumping idealism. many of these companies have economic interests that would suffer were they to cut ties with moscow. india, for example, get most of its advance weapons from russia. south africa and brazil have trade relations with russia that while are not crucial are significant. yet the idea of a grand logical crusade against autocracies lea...