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Authoritarian regime in the soviet union. he said, tear down this wall. he didn't say, good for you that you guys are authoritarians and your citizens have no rights. he stood up for democracy and stood up for the people who were suffering. in this case we have a president who has abandoned america's leadership as the guardian of democracy for good or not. >> michael, to jim's point, the people in the audience at the mar-a-lago thing were laughing. the president also likes to please the audience he's in front of. couldn't he just have been playing into that? >> sure, and it was kind of funny i...