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Insurrection, the day that donald trump plan to overthrow 245 years of american democracy, we now know he demanded to talk to vice president mike pence. we know this thanks to testimony obtained by the january six committee,. at the time, trump wasn't getting the pressure campaign trying to bully pence into, as trump himself said overturn the election. when they finally spoke trump belittled his vice president, according to reports, telling him, you don't have the courage to make a hard decision. i called pence a wimp. ivanka trump was in the room listening to all of it, reportedly, which is w...

Everyone's gonna have to answer the question. are you for or against american democracy? can't be avoided indefinitely. but we are seeing even more people try to straddle that line. on friday, the days pence book out out against trump, the republican national committee decided to censure cheney and kinzinger for, quote, participating in a democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engage in legitimate political discourse. of course, they mean the democrats attempts to hold the january six rioters accountable for their actions, as well as those who facilitated the riot. when asked -- kevin m...

Trump in the primary, there has been scuttle up to that a fact, he is refused to rule it out unlike other folks. and yesterday, a reporter asked him a simple question to choose aside, who's right, trump or mike pence? desantis refused to answer the question. >> where do you fall on the divide between pence and trump? >> i'm not -- i've -- i've. i had a great relationship working for -- i was actually governor for two years with the trump administration, i can tell you that we have a hell of a lot more done when donald trump was president that. now >> no, sorry, not good enough. no! no! no! you...

Interesting approach to have a novel approach to have a national republican committee take a position like that. so this is not a support or oppose this is just an observation that i thought that was novel and unique. honestly, that is an all-time great cowardly politician quote. it wasn't you, oh. i've seen more than a few in my day, and that is up there. the question is not gonna go away. not good enough, not gonna get away with that. i'm sorry. you can say that all you want, ron desantis, kevin mccarthy, you can hack, you can sprint down the hallways, tell them to sign up for an apartment. ...

>> exactly, yes. i found that comparison to 2003 rather disturbing. there was such widespread opposition. and it was in what we think of as a functioning democracy. if that could not prevent a war, at least under false pretenses, then what can we expect of russia? >> yes. >> russia has an entire state owned propaganda machine working to enforce these false pretenses and to whip up war sentiment. i also want to say a couple of things that sanctions. the threat of sanctions is not working the way it used to. especially when putin is looking back to weigh that way that crime yet worked out. this ...