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And threats, and the violence that are inherent in the trump republican movement today against everyone, from the individuals themselves in high office to folks like shea and ruby, who were revealed to have been intimidated and threatened. these are people who you never would've heard their names, you never would have known who they were, they were anonymous state election workers and volunteers who, when they didn't do what the trump organisation wanted, became the target of death threats and a smear campaign. and this tendency to violence and threats, this tendency to use the social media am...

Resolution, reaffirming the house's unequivocal support for nato founded on democratic principle. i was shocked to see that 63 of your house republican colleagues voted against that, voted against something that calls for supporting small d democratic values. what's going on with this big chunk of your party? >> yeah, that would be a question for them, jake. i don't understand the vote. i obviously cast the opposite vote to support nato. the nato alliance is critically important. you know, i will tell you, whoud i like to see nato be doing a lot more right now? yes. i don't think nato has step...

Fierce primary battle. she's not alone. how do they try to chart out a different course for the republican party? >> i have nothing admiration for liz cheney. i agree with her on almost nothing, but you can't think of any interest she has in what she's doing other than principle. it's very difficult to see how her political career is going to survive, but she just doesn't care. she's doing what she has to do, which i think is to put the choice forward to her party in the starkest and clearest terms and saying we have to make a decision about whether we are going to be a democrat, small d democ...

Anti-democratic decision. understand, the filibuster itself is an anti-democratic or un-democratic rule. the notion that the majority does not rule. it can be controlled by a minority. bypassing the filibuster rule happens all of the time in the senate and happened a couple of weeks ago. >> right. with the debt ceiling. >> with the debt ceiling. they do it all the time. they carve out exceptions. and what better exception than to have a functioning democracy. >> right. to be clear when you say democratic, you are talking small d, democratic. >> right. i am. the former big d democratic governor...

Plus since the january 6th attack on the united states capitol, the most important so far has been the arrest of this man. meet stewart rhodes the founder of the far right militia the oath keepers, a former army paratrooper who was honorably discharged after he was injured in a night parachuting accident. he then worked for libertarian congressman ron paul and went to yale law school. so far what would seem to be a kind of main stream conservative. according to the southern policy law center it's only when rhodes moved to montana that his believed turned a hard right away from small d democrat...