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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 on a story about juneteenth, and upon emancipation of the last people in this country who were to be freed, there were editorials, letters to the editor, as we...

The 2020 elections, a lot of big feelings. and along with that came a lot of misinformation that i started noticing on social media. somebody says being a poll worker should be required, like jury duty. do you guys like that idea? i could either argue with strangers on the internet, [laughs] which is not effective, or i could start making some short, non-partisan, fact-based explainer videos that other people could access. i have found that people are actually very hungry for this kind of information. information they feel like they can share with their friends and neighbors, without necessari...

Mis it there. the director general of m15 has made a public apology. he wouldn't take any questions, he read out a statement that said look, gathering intelligence is incredibly difficult and i am profoundly sorry for this awful thing. he said it twice. he didn't take any questions. he did want to be trust dues pressed on the details with a view to say on the interest of national security a lot of this inquiry was held closed doors so that m15 intelligence officers and police officers could give counter and turned evidence in secret. you could say, great, this shows this is a working democracy...

- 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. migraine hits hard, so u hit back with ubrelvy u level up u won't take a time-out one dose of ubrelvy works fast it can quickly stop migraine in its tracks ...

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...