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If he does run and is nominee in 2024, can manipulate -- another poll number in our poll besides 78% is a slim majority of americans actually believe, believe that elections officials will overturn results for partisan purposes. you don't have a functioning democracy if you don't have buy-in to the results of a free and fair election. that's it. that's the core thing. and that is the doubt that donald trump has now sown into our democratic being. >> let's talk about the line that held on january 6th and into the certification of the election. it was a handful of state election officials. it wa...

So afraid of the orange man behind his computer ranting and raving. but until that happens i'm afraid you're going to see more people like this who i don't agree with on probably any policy issue, but at the end of the day, there are some things that are more important than policy disagreements, like who cares about our policy disagreements if we actually don't have a functioning democracy anymore. >> i want you to take a listen to what house speaker nancy pelosi said and get your reaction. >> i would say to my republican friends, and i do have some, take back your party. don't let your party ...

Of opinions within the weekly dish itself. howie: dissent used to be so central to journalism. now we're talking about 9/11 this weekend, obviously and you can be pretty tough on yourself. you say that you were terribly wrong supporting the iraq war after the shock and trauma of 9/11. explain. >> well, i think i've underestimated the enormous activities of turning a middle eastern country into some kind of functioning democracy. i don't think i remembered conservative instincts about why culture matters and i think the execution of it we did unforgiveable things like torture prisoners. i could...

Whatever? no paperwork for them, nobody was stopping them. and there are a lot to -- about to be a lot more people like this at the base. court mccoy is asked to hold up to 13,000 afghans. the governor of wisconsin aware of this? what are the people of wisconsin think about a question mark nobody cares what they think, it is not the country. oh, but it is. and you should be nervous watching. in a truly democratic system of functioning democracy, the people who wrecked afghanistan and humiliated the united states and sacked america power forever will be punished badly in the midterms. they woul...

Would have this chaos with any retreat and that we thought. you know. and then he says no one told him about it beforehand. we're likely to find a lot more of these kind of warnings. i push back on the larger picture, you know, for some reason we have had three presidents that have concluded that they don't want to fight in afghanistan. our combat role was largely done. and it seems to me that the definition of failure we have that because in 20 years we didn't transform afghanistan into belgium, you know, a functioning democracy, you know, where rights are largely respected, means that it's a...