very quickly the best of times would become the worst. in 1978, a group of communist army officers overthrow president daoud khan, the saur coup d etat. it began a generation of war and invasion the war we are still living with today. my parents were worried for our future. my sisters and i dressed in old burqas and plastic shoes. we managed to catch a bus across the border
in each state with possible apparatchiks named by trump and his loyalists, so that what we confront is in greater peril than we were in a year ago. right. there s a lot in that answer, professor tribe, butjust a couple of points i would make. number one, you refer to the republican effort at state level to limit the way in which voters can vote, which may well reduce turnout in some states, maybe they re democratic voters that they want to deter from voting, but they re doing it through constitutional means, they re not doing it by any local level coup d etat and i come back to my basic point, that the system has survived, and those people who used mob violence a year ago, they are now facing court charges. again, the system is working. well, i really wish i could agree with you. it is true that the system is
from voting, but they re doing it through constitutional means, they re not doing it by any local level coup d etat and i come back to my basic point, that the system has survived, and those people who used mob violence a year ago, they are now facing court charges. again, the system is working. well, i really wish i could agree with you. it is true that the system is being used to undermine itself, but what that is showing is that the system is designed in a way that depends on the goodwill of people. it is operated by people who, if they are loyal not to the constitution but to a particular despot or demagogue, can through using apparently lawful means, subvert the underlying democratic ethos of the system, it s. let me stop you, if i may. let me let me stop you, because, again,
the fact that these hearings are going to be televised soon, what type of historic spectacle, for good or bad, either, will that provide? first, happy new year, alex. i hope it s a good, healthy one for you and your family. look, this is a very important week. it s not just the release of the january 6th committee s report, which presumably will happen in the summer or fall. this is a critical week because, unfortunately, many, many americans, including some democrats, and democratic-leaning independents have forgotten what a signal event this was. what happened january 6th and the preceding events, the insurrection plus the coup, the attempted coup d etat which was planned by trump and his cronies. that s the first attempted coup d etat, arguably, since the end of the civil war when lincoln was assassinated and the conspirators there targeted other people.
a judge ruled the club was not liable but praised the men s bravery in coming forward. the president of kazakhstan has described the protests last week in which dozens are reported to have died as an attempted coup d etat. troops from russia are currently in the country at his request to restore order and today president putin said kazakhstan had been targeted by international terrorism, adding that russia would never allow revolutions to take place in the region. our correspondent steve rosenberg is in kazakhstan s largest city almaty and sent this report. driving into almaty, you see immediately this is a city on guard. we passed through several army checkpoints. they ve been setup to more attacks. in the city centre, reminders of the violence the authorities now say was an attempted coup. almaty last week. what had