MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams October 24, 2019 03:52:00
Your view have had reason to fear for the future of the republic? >> well, we've had a number of -- and this is not going to surprise anybody -- a number of extreme polarized moments, the 1850s is one. the 1960s is another one. we're in another one now. i would even say the late 7090s are another one where people actually talked about civil war, right, and anarchy. so there have been a number of moments where politics has been hyper polarized, and i think those are moments naturally when norms begin to be shattered. things begin to be disruptive in some way. in the 1960s, you had tv sort of sp...