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>> we it's incumbent upon everyone on the popular front to understand that they are part of it and that not letting donald trump get anywhere near the levers of powers as an essential part of the project in restoring american democracy. again, this is simple straightforward stuff, but i think that some people would like to not understand it. that means it would be good, for instance, for the country, for trump to be defeated in the republican primary, or someone who's on the side of american democracy, at least at the most elemental 11. even if this person has truly, truly, truly, truly genuin...

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 believe pence into, as trump himself said overturn the election. when they finally spoke trump a little to 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 ...

Support donald trump if he ran for president 2024. basically, the position is, look, all support donny soprano. it is kind of a bad guy. we [inaudible] you have two -- republicans for years said you cannot negotiate with evil. that was true. and that's what they're doing. they are negotiating with evil. you have to pick a side. we are right, they're wrong. are you for democracy or against democracy? >> mona, your thought? >> i mean, the part where i constantly feel as if i'm in a twilight zone episode is that trump's sociopath-y is so obvious, the fact that he wanted to watch and re-watch the ...

Republican party, it really can't beat trump side for practical and more reasons. although, more practically, honestly. practically, you just can't out trump trump. no one can be more sociopathic than him. that's his comparative advantage. just yesterday, the associate press reported that at one point on january 6th, trump was confused by staffers were excited as he was watching the unrest unfold. so he's sitting there, wondering, why isn't everyone else psyched about the violent riot i incited? guys, this is -- look! you can't fake that kind of thing. okay? so that lane is taken. the question...

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 new, huh. 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 appt. some...