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Former President Barack Obama told CNN Thursday that meeting with dictators or other anti-democratic leaders is just one of the complex facets of the American presidency.
Former president Barack Obama asserted that “anti-democratic sentiment” is not “unique to one party” during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that…
>> right after we secure the budget for next year, we have to pivot for voting rights. if we care will democracy, we have to pass voting rights legislation in the senate. it has already passed the house. the house has passed hr-1 and hr-4. and now pressure from the outside on every member of the senate as well as at the white house, whether it is organizing rallies, whether sit-ins, phone calls, emails, we have to continue to put pressure on the senate because we won't have a democracy which is already hanging by a thread without voting rights. >> thank you so much, congressman. congratulation...
The demands they took in. they told the white house folks are frustrated. do you understand why they seem to so calmly be walking into this? they too will not be able -- i don't know inthey get they cannot win re-election if they're banned from winning re-election. even if they get the numbers, they'll say no, we erase this off the books. do you think they get it? what do you want to see them do differently? >> not only do i think it's getting arth black voters. i think there's a larger question here. will we have a real democracy? will democracy be real in this nation when we're talking about...
Johnson and headed to major networks. you probably know him as a long time host on pbs. he's with me in new york for a special one on one interview. thank you for joining me. >> my pleasure. >> you have been around a little longer than me. you covered water gate and the clinton impeachment. on the eve of another impeachment inquiry hearings this weekend, do you fear for the country? >> for the first time in my long life, and i was born in the depression, lived through world war ii, have been a part of politics and government for all these years yes, for the first time because i -- a society, a...