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and the humiliation that's come with that here in front of the whole nation. tonight we begin with how we got here, because everyone's been absorbing the days of chaos, headlines about the failure of the republican majority to get its work start in the its new congress. a story that really goes beyond politics and it's reaching people who don't always follow the swearing in or the speaker's race. if you approach this with fresh eyes as many americans have, saying what's going on over there? you may wonder why the big chaotic fight continues with rolling losses for republicans. why is...

One local professor shows her commitment to her students in refreshing, "old school" ways. Lindsey Snider, an English Instructor at Big Sandy CTC, ...

You can give timothy snider on this network, the better. because we are grateful to him, to his book on tyranny he put out a few years ago that sort of laid the frame work for what we're all going through right now. i think that -- and i hope, as i said before, that this is not going to -- this isn't going to end tonight or tomorrow, whether they leave done. so they won't be back till monday. this will continue. people are worried, well, how are we going to function as a country? we're fine. everybody is already stocked up through covid in their cup board, extra pop starts and different things...

When he said that today, i thought of tim snider's lesson ten from "on tyranny," which is believe in truth. quote, to abandon facts is to abandon freedom. if nothing is true, then no one can criticize power because there's no basis upon which to do so. he says, quote, you submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. that's from the new edition, the graphic edition of "on tyranny" that just came out this week, came out yesterday. the book is updated from its original publication in 2017 in a way this brings its lessons up to whe...

Or dead that undergirding all these lessons have to be values. we're not going to be saved by the system as it exists. we're going to be saved if we think about democracy as something that has a future which we care about, which we love, which has all kinds of little daily components to which we all contribute. so the one thing i like about the illustrated edition is that it brings out that hopeful element of the book. it's not just about the risks we face, but it also suggests things might be much better. >> yes, exactly. tim snider, professor of history at yale university, the best selling a...