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An election away from what the will of the people demonstrated, then the threshold question about a democratic republic falls away because what the framers would have said is that we were a popular government, that ultimately for all the checks and balances it was rooted in the people. if you have state-level, county level, even precinct level people who are willing to perpetuate a fraud on the democratic, lower case d, experiment, then the threshold requirement of a democracy breaks down. and then the question is what replaces it? right? and this isn't just -- i would say to our friends in th...

But over the last five years, the republican party as currently constituted has not been a partner for peace and governing in the united states and so as unfair as this is, the democratic party has an immense obligation facing it at this hour, which is if constitutional democracy, lower case d, cannot deliver, i'm not sure what happens. and again, i don't want to be hyperbolic i don't want to be alarmist. but sometimes hyperbole and alarmism are justified and if the democratic party, as again, as unfair and unjust as it seems to be that suddenly they have to do all the compromising, but someti...

Same level of support that he's had since the beginning of his presidency which seems unbreakable regardless of what the facts on the ground are. you might hate that or love that, it is what it. >> we did not hear from senate republicans after he made it comment yesterday. jon meacham, i want to appeal to your constitutional spidey sense when's hear the president saying i have an absolute right to do something, what do you hear? >> i hear an unamerican and undemocratic, unrepublican, lower case d, lower case r, impulse. i was thinking last night reading through all of this, i would urge folks ...

Weekend with what happened to the mccarthy hearings when welch finally said, sir, have you no shame. how impactful do you think admiral mcraven's comments were and the response to that? >> i think they were essential. i think they speak incredibly well of the admiral and of that broader national security community that i think signed a letter, bob gates among others, people who are, in fact, standing up and saying that as george h.w. bush said in other context, this will not stand. my fear is that to link these two themes that in a world where the tag line of the administration is there are al...