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People in front of you, people that are so different in what they think. and yet they decided to help solve their major differences under law. and when the students get too cynical, i say, go look at what happens in countries that don't do that. and people have come to accept this constitution, and they've come to accept the importance of a rule of law. and i want to make another point to them. i want to say, look, of course people don't agree. but we have a country that is based on human rights, democracy, and so forth. but i'll tell you what lincoln thought, what washington thought, and what...

We have a country that is based on human rights, democracy, and so forth. but i'll tell you what lincoln thought, what washington thought, and what people today still think. it's an experiment. it's an experiment. that's what they said. >> it's an experiment. how are we doing with that? how are we doing with that? the former-president barack obama told "the atlantic" magazine -- this was in 2020 and i quote here -- you can follow on your screen -- america is the first real experiment in building a large, multiethnic, multicultural democracy, and we don't know yet if that can hold. there haven'...

The eight-month, intensive study group for Worcester leaders, “Toward a More Perfect Union: Achieving our Multiracial, Multicultural Democracy,” which ran through December 2021.

On the seat of our democracy. so why these folks are doing this, i think it is a perverse tethering to the former president and a belief that maybe somehow, if we try to forget about all of this, they'll stay in power. >> congresswoman dean, there's a very actually startling photo of you in that gas mask up in the house gallery. congresswoman coleman, you were there that day. your reaction to senator johnson. >> i tell you, i went to the capitol thinking it was the safest place to be because i was evacuated from both my apartment and my office building because it was so close to the rnc. so i ...

Senators can go back home and face their constituents and say, we don't care about our safety. we don't care about our protecting the citadel of our democracy, and we don't care about protecting you all who might want to come visit. so i'm going to be hopeful and i'm not going to speak to the universe that the senate will not find a way to pass this. i think it's incumbent upon the majority leader in the senate to figure that pathway out and to do it. it is unconscionable that the republicans will not confront the truth here. it was before everyone's eyes to see and everyone's part to react to...