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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 disruption. there is great journalism...

And as i leave, in a few days, the nation's with strains, and challenges of other kind. including very real threats of the whole concept of a working democracy. the sanctity of our constitution, our elections, and the strength of the rule of law and another thing i could have never imagined is that young guy sitting in the gallery, one day this chamber itself, and the capital would be stormed by a lawless and violent mob. and i wonder what this 82 president pro tempore of the united states senate would love to say to the 33 year old version of myself nervously walking in for the first time on ...

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...

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 ...