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The time everything started to come closer into focus about the coordinated effort orchestrated by many republicans to overturn the results of the 2020 election and derail our democracy. and we're going to get to everything that happened this week in just a second. but first, i actually want to rewind a bit further to one of the weirdest moments of the trump administration. take a look. this was june of 2018, the start of hurricane season. donald trump and vice president mike pence visited fema headquarters to be briefed on hurricane preparedness. the first lady, who you see there, was also th...

Into this authoritarianism, to head off what they had seen happen in places where democracy actually fell apart. president biden has reportedly been citing their work since he was a candidate back in 2020. this week senate democratic leader chuck schumer invited the authors to present their work to the democratic caucus to illustrate the urgency of passing voting rights legislation to address growing threats to democracy. the final chapter of their book is titled "saving democracy." and it feels more relevant now than ever. joining us now is daniel ziplot and one of the aforementioned authors ...

Actually attended trump's rally. ten. the january six insurrection was proof, to many americans, of just how fragile our democracy is. with each day since then, the same forces who stormed the capitol, and stoked that insurrection, have been laying the groundwork to deliver the coup de grâce to that fragile system. while efforts to protect democracy are stymied in congress by moderate, iconoclasts, who may not be in denial about the outcomes of elections, but certainly seemed to be in denial about the seriousness and urgency of our current crisis. that begs the question, what do we do about i...

Administration, they wrote an incredibly -- how democracies die. in the book, goes to harvard political scientists, recognize the incipient signs of democratic decay in america. they compared to some of the same patterns that have played out another countries, around the world. countries, where the grand experiment of grand governance, had failed. despite the gloomy title of their book, they urged -- they used with knowledge and insight to come up with ways to stop american society from actually sliding into these authoritarianism. to head off with the head scene -- in places where democracy a...

It is brilliant in laying out all of the links from his first text to the actions that happened on january 6th and that continue to this day. and while there may not be a change in leadership in terms of it being a meaningful change in direction, i think there may be some civil suits that will follow and that will make this a bankrupt organization, and drive them out of business. that could have that effect, while some of the past leaders spend their time in jail which is where this case is heading right now. >> jill, i love when you recommend a little late-night reading to all of us. andy, ji...