democracy and what we need to preserve and protect. when you see other networks doing or prop began dan on social media, which i m sure is happening it s confusing and the type of models you see in countries like russia and nigh china where they push this confusing aauthoritarian one sided view. that is where we are headed. that is what the president is warning of and saying that if you, if we do not make a choice. if people do not stand up next week and moving forward that is what could potentially happen. i ll also say while he s not trying to speak to the republican party. certainly not. he s been around politics long enough to know that s not smart to do. he is a person that s going to offer a bridge. to republicans sitting out there and worried about inflation or taxes or maybe pro-life. whatever the issues are to say this is a defining moment and i think that is also part of what he was trying to convey tonight. david it strikes me that
the 2020 election. then in a democratic society you ve got to accept that. what else can you do? you really are positioning yourself outside of the constitutional order and the rule of law if you continue to try to claim that you somehow won. it s also, obviously, a psychological malady, too. you are cutting up against everything we understand about healthy mental functioning. there s no basis for what they are saying so they are spreading paranoia in the land. it s incredibly dangerous as we saw for mr. pelosi and what happened to him. congressman raskin thank you very much. we appreciate your time tonight. back with me i want to bring back in my panel. former white house press secretary jen saki. david pluff former obama white house senior advisor. thank you for being here. i want to go you david. there was a point the congressman made that i want to
our democracies in the global north, the global south, in the west, in developing countries as well. folks need to see that the disparities and our lives are closing and everyone has a chance to get to that starting line with an equal unfair opportunity to win the race. this is important. the other key areas i think we have to back to the space of values but the president took us to tonight. we have to come in our community that it is litigated through values and less specific issues that are kind of zero sum games by the electoral efforts. patrick gaspard, you re the best, thank you very much. appreciate you being here tonight. thank you. my panel is back with me. david, i want to ask you one sort of question. kind of the same idea. your former boss, president obama, was out there doing his thing, as only he can, in several states. and doing very well.
being in a room with people who worked their hearts out who had thrown everything. given all they had in the belief that george w. bush should not be the president of the united states any longer. many of us were opposed to the war in iraq. it was the reason i got involved in the first place. but in the end what we had to all do was to accept that he was going to be the president of the united states for four more years. there was no one around me, as many tears as you saw in those rooms, saying i m going to pretend he s a hologram and not the real president. there were children buried in the white house. the thing is the challenge here is that a it is a republican problem. at some point someone who is a republican or who still has standing with them has got to call them off. it s getting worse and worse as you just said, as david said.
in the white house. are they concerned about that very thing? that there might be violence, that there might be serious violence if this red wave that is being almost promised by some in the media doesn t happen? as the white house prepared for that? are they worried about it? yes. joy, i think that s why the president gave such a strong part of that speech focused on what the next week could look like. because he wants people, voters out there to hang in there and recognize that exactly as david said, exactly as matthew said, it could happen. this was our biggest fear going into 2016, ironically, because we thought hillary clinton would win and donald trump would challenge it. this is a playbook republicans of used in the past. they ve indicated they re gonna use it in the future. and when they say something, we should believe them. so the white house is worried about that. i think when the president s out there, what they also told me as we can expect to hear these things we ve thr