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You know, one of the things -- they're actually looking at something right now, don, it's kind of like pie in the sky polly anna, democrats are looking at changing the senate rules so it would actually be a filibuster like mr. smith goes to washington. and like there's no way this is going to happen, but i think it would be so important to have the discussion, and i'm not talking about, you know, ted cruz green eggs and ham style. >> yeah. >> talking about actually discussing what is at stake and hearing from both sides hearre see what they think. >> i think we're beyond that, it would be grea...

Also, an update on the hours long hostage stand-off at a texas synagogue. and my take on a dangerous rise in anti-semitism here in the united states. good evening. i'm mehdi hasan. of the hundreds of people who have been arrested in the year 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. he is a former army paratrooper who was honorably discharged after he was injured in a night parachuting accident. he then worked for libertarian congressman ...

Sterilize them, that tell them all this exotic, bizarre conspiracy every day. it's hard to pull them back into the small d democratic principles that founded our republic. it's hard to draw them out of that, in part, because outrage is an addiction. outrage triggers something every day that makes them feel special. it makes them feel like all the craziness that they're being told all the time has some sort of broader context. and it really doesn't. it's a cruel trick by people like fox and bannon and trump that these people are so far into this. they can't really extract themselves. >> okay. s...

Washington, the longest running show in television history. this is a special edition of "meet the press" with chuck todd. good sunday morning. happy new year. 2022 is here. benjamin franklin is credited with saying, yes, the founding fathers had created a republic if we can keep it. but nearly 250 years after america declared independence and one year since, the january 6th capitol riot, american democracy will survive only if we can keep it. in recent weeks we've learned that the riot was not merely an explosion of violence prompted by donald trump's speech, but the result of post-election...

They manage. this idea that this is sacrosanct that it absolutely has to exist in the u.s. senate is largely kind of a creation of the last 60 or 70 years. and i think if you have a commitment of small d democracy, as i know you do, there's really compelling reasons to look to get rid of that. >> yeah. and i think, you know -- >> let me go to anan first, linda, and then i'll get you. >> i think faz spoke movingly of senator reid's evolution and love of the institution. and i think part of loving an institution is having an honest relationship with it, the same way loving a person means having ...