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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hello new york. thank you for joining us live at a town hall in new york city for this very special edition of why is this happening? he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart. and, admit it, he is taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, a beloved colleague, msnbc's, chris hayes. [applause] >> thank you! oh, stop. stop it. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> how are you? good? thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you, that is extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. ...

that is tonight's >> hello, new york. thank you for joining us at townhall for this very special edition of why is this happening. he is talk, he is smart, please give a warm welcome to my colleague, msnbc's chris hayes. >> thank you. hey, oh, stop. how are you? good. thank you. thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you. that is extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. that was a really hard 20 seconds for me, so thank you. it is amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i've got some family here. so, tonight we are going to talk about democracy, and that word...

This? >> the "a" block keeps getting longer. sorry. if you represent one of our advertisers, i'm particularly sorry. it has a real consequence in that regard. yes, i don't know. like i said, i do have this kind of one gear brain. and so i don't think i've changed very much in terms of the way i think about the news. i tried for awhile to pay attention to the visual elements that are on the screen while i am talking, but that didn't work. so, i gave up on that. that was like my big try, my big effort to try to notice what's -- >> no, i feel like you're very involved in the production elements. ...

We're seeing. >> yeah. but i do think, garrett, you make a great point that the twitter files are -- they have a life of their own. and you could just imagine many, many months of reading those out loud. i'm sure they'll borrow some of the production elements, and that's a good thing to watch for. garrett haake, thank you so very much for spending time with us today. frank, eddie, thank you for starting us off on this friday. andrew sticks around. there is much more to get to. the u.s. house of representatives is heading to far-right republican control, including the threat of all the video ...

Question. do they have to leave -- how much do they push him, in your view, having worked in these hearings? >> well, i would treat him as a hostile witness. in this sense. first of all, i would swear him in. he's coming in response to a subpoena. but i would ask him leading questions, and i would use the report, and i would use them not only to ask the question to have him affirm what he wrote, but to do it in such a way that there is a reader's digest for america in the one or two hours, depending how they carve up the time to make their point. and they should do what you do, ari. they shoul...