hi, it s 4:00 in new york. president joe biden is set tonight to weigh in on the issue that is foundational to every other issue and debate we have in this country, democracy and the threats that loom over our democracy more than a year and a half after the ex-president tried to halt the peaceful transfer of power. it s an issue that would not be an issue if it were not for the fact that one of our country s political parties turned its back on democracy and decided to harness the terms of auto considerates. we are talking about the republicans. days before what could be the most important midterm election in history, president biden is putting concerns front and center with a speech just steps away from the u.s. capitol. nbc news can report, while the topic has been on the president s mind for quite some time, a number of developments have added to the urgency, including the growing suggestion by some republican officials that they may not accept the election results an
hi, it s 4:00 in new york. president joe biden is set tonight to weigh in on the issue that is foundational to every other issue and debate we have in this country, democracy and the threats that loom over our democracy more than a year and a half after the ex-president tried to halt the peaceful transfer of power. it s an issue that would not be an issue if it were not for the fact that one of our country s political parties turned its back on democracy and decided to harness the terms of auto considerates. we are talking about the republicans. days before what could be the most important midterm election in history, president biden is
issue for the country. at the same time, we see him reaching out and embracing auto considerates all over the world, whether it s duterte he is fascinated with people who don t have to deal with democratic institutions. i m not sure i would be as dark as the general was. i do think there s a resilience to our democracy. it s being tested right now. the president is the one who is testing it. carl bernstein, what do you think stands between a further slide to becoming what the general describes? i think that donald trump destabilized his own presidency. he has done it through hir tweets. he has done it through his lies. he has done it through undermining a legitimate
regime of 1952. then there are these egyptians who came into their own or who were important under the auto considerates, sadat and mubarak, then there were those born under the third of this auto crats, it could be argued that hosni is the worst leader they had in a long time. yes, the people wanted to retrieve their country from his dynasty and the people around him and his cronies. there was a moment i never said this at the time when i came to believe that these protestors were going to win. i wasn t sure, but i came to believe it. yes. the night that they were attacked by thousands of pro-mubarak thugs and mobs and they took corrugated steel barricades corrugated steel sheets from a nearby construction site, formed