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John, the first thing you point to here is hyper partisan polarization. walk us through what you've been seeing as a trend here in recent years. >> this is really the structural dynamic that leads to the insanity we're seeing. bottom line, the incentive structure in the politics is all screwed up. it moves power to the extremes. take a look at this. the number of competitive congressional districts, you know, where the general election actually mattered where the candidates had to compete for votes in the middle, those have been cut in more than half since 1997 by design through the rigged sys...

Epidemic for your political gain. >> all happening, of course, at a time when the omicron surge is walloping this country. as we have reported, more than 1.3 million cases on monday. a world record. globally. i'm joined by capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and dr. megan rainy. ali, boy, dr. fauci gave senator paul a piece of his mind. we have seen this to a degray play out before, particularly with these two. >> this is a continuous sparring match every time fauci comes before this committee and comes before senator rand paul. but there is an incentive structure that kind of speaks to the...

Compromise. that's gone out the window. and if you look closely, it's important to say this is a s symmetric polarization. they moved further right than democrats have left and you can see that in the composition of the parties. we talk about being a divided nation evenly but independent voters make up plurality. democrats have gotten more liberal but split 50/50 between liberals and moderates. republicans, though, are 75% conservative. less than 25% moderate. so the power and the party is enormously off center and that creates the incentive structure where candidates want to play to the base ...

Voters make up plurality. democrats have gotten more liberal but split 50/50 between liberals and moderates. republicans, though, are 75% conservative. o less than 25% moderate. so the power and the party is enormously off center and that creates the incentive structure where candidates want to play to the base and don't worry about reaching across the aisle. >> one alarming thing is they played this nativest backlash. there is almost this thinly veiled racism where there is at times that we see you call this a backlash to globalization. >> that's right. look, what we described is triable poli...

Scale and scope we've been dealing with in recent decades but what is happening in the last several years is the added alloy of a social media alga rhythm that elevate and exacerbate and reward conflict, conspiracy theories, extremism and that's one of the things that made us go collectively insane where it seems incredibly difficult to reason together which is what democracy is based upon. the other dynamics are elevated by social media algorithms. designed to reward extremes. that's one of the reasons why that's one incentive structure that we need to get in control on all these dynamics. th...