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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 marginalize it. they have tried to mainstre...

Between the promise of democracy and the peril of authoritarianism. - if i needed alternative facts, like, i would go to a ouija board. - it is completely clear that the vaccines don't really work at all. - the news has never been more real, yet we are living through the fake news age. fake news. ♪ - every single indicator, from every political scientist that ever has looked at any country in the world, is saying the u.s. is in big trouble right now. - when you think about how we're approaching journalism, getting a quote from one perspective and then getting a quote from another perspective...

♪ finally, a light scent that lasts all day. [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...

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.

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 ...