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♪ [crowd chanting] obama! obama! - if there is anyone out there who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. [cheers and applause] - many americans felt like they had never been more optimistic about the future of the country than the night that barack obama was elected. - i can't believe it! - so help you, god? - so help me, god. - congratulations, mr. president. - thank you, sir. [cheers and applause] - not only had we never seen a viable black presidential candidate, we had only seen a limited number of black candidates winning statewide races, a very small numb...

- we used to operate from a common sense of what was true. now, we see that increasingly being frayed. - information now is bombarding us 24/7. - and i think we have to have a better understanding of the people who are putting things in front of us, and the biases of what other stories are being told, and which ones are not. - right now, we're in a disaster, and i think reporters are beginning to understand that democracy is on the ballot. nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. you get advice like: just stop. go for a run. go for 10 runs! run a marathon. instead, start small. with...

And when he told the president plainly that his investigation didn't come up with any goods, trump was very angry. - i'm gonna walk down, and i'll be there with you, to the capitol. [all chanting] usa! usa! usa! - beat me over the head! [crowd shouting] [crosstalk] - stop the steal! stop the steal! - fuck yeah! - i think perhaps one of the most fundamental examples of a difference about what happened were the events around january the 6th. i think that is a fundamental moment in this country's history. and as we have seen, there are people who have tried to downplay it. they have tried to marg...

Than they need me to tell them which candidate is better or worse. - i think a working democracy is open to all voices and a healthy conversation. - i think we need more educated consumers, to understand where their news is coming from, what kind of hidden or not-so-hidden agenda may be at play, and who they can rely on for facts and truth. ♪ - being an informed citizen requires that you do your due diligence in understanding what information you are getting and where you're getting it from. we are heading towards a make-or-break moment for this country and our democracy. - bad media breeds ...

To suspect that this would happen, and then, all of a sudden, it happened. - this former slaveholding republic has demonstrated to the world, beyond question, its commitment to democracy and-- - you started hearing irresponsibly exuberant statements like, "we're a post-racial society." - the politics of racial grievance died tonight. [crowd cheering] - in the face of that, we started hearing people kind of whispering, "this won't go over well. there's going to be a backlash to this." - there's never been a time when there wasn't a backlash to even the most miniscule of progress. i was working ...