think about. you ve done it again tonight. thanks for your time. great to see ruth. if trump does run in 2024, there could be different people in positions of power to oversee elections in key battleground states, people who might be willing to find him the votes next time like this. i believe it was stolen, yeah. there you go. much more in a special report, when democracy in peril continues. why do people who live with generalized myasthenia gravis want a new treatment option? because we want to be able to get up and get ready for work. because the animals need to be cared for, and we like taking care of them. because we want to go out to dinner with our friends. because, in family photos, we want to be able to smile. a new fda-approved treatment for adults with generalized myasthenia gravis could help them do more of the daily activities they care about.
cnn.com/full circle or watch it on the cnn app at any time on demand. the news continues with jim acosta and democracy in peril. thank you very much. i m jim acosta, and this is democracy in peril. tonight as we continue our series, we have to consider this very serious possibility. we are going to take back america. this is so important. [ cheers and applause ] and in 2024, we are going to take back the white house. now, despite all of the lies donald trump tells, this could actually come true. remember 2015 and that escalator ride into all of our lives. a lot of people didn t take him seriously before that. there was a lot of disbelief he would actually follow through on his bluster of running the first time. so this time around, we might want to believe him. we have no reason not to believe he s running again, which means the nation would be facing the nightmare scenario of a wannabe
reminder, don t miss full circle, our digital news show that gives us a chance to dig into important topics. and have in-depth conversations. you can catch it streaming live at 6:00 p.m. eastern on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays. at cnn.com/fulp circle. watch it on the cnn app or at any time on demand. news continues with democracy in peril. jim? anderson, thank you very much. i m jim acosta, and this is democracy in peril. tonight we are going on offense against the lies. and when you think about the poisonous lies undermining our democracy, trump probably first comes to mind, or social media outlets like facebook or twitter. and of course the manure spreaders like fox, news max or oan. you re going to hear tonight from a former fox on what tucker carlson has been pulling lately, sounding like a mouthpiece for the russians at the bolshevik factory, as we described it last night. another carlson, gretchen carlson, no relation, will take us on down the fox rabbit hole.
and water. it is more than cookies and water. you know, look, they re making an effort that is essentially doomed to fail. but they re making an effort to repeal the new georgia law in the state legislature. we ve learned a lot from democrats in this state saying they want to hear the federal government act. the other reality on the ground is this is a weapon in democrats arsenal ahead of 2022. they re facing national head winds like joe biden s sinking approval rating, so they re going to use this rhetoric from republicans to paint the entire republican party as sort of the antidemocracy party. and perhaps hope that some republicans stay home because they still don t trust the process, which is what we saw the last time around. all right, sara murray, thank you very much. great report. thanks as always. we appreciate it. democracy in peril continues a. ahead, with the gridlock in washington, the upcoming battle over the opening on the supreme court. and what do democrats need
it s basically an argument that we re not the violent ones, the other side is the violent ones. and if you watch to the end of, you know, the extremely controversial tucker carlson documentary about called patriot purge that basically advances this narrative that the riots on january 6th were something that basically the protesters were tricked into, it ends with an admonition of, your enemies want you to turn violent, don t be tricked by them. now, you can disagree completely with the tucker carlson read on the situation, but that is not actually a call to arms. it s basically a way of backing away from what happened on january 6th. and i think that s i just think that s generally characteristic of the dynamics in our politics. there are a lot of people who really like to talk about 1776 and crises, crises of democracy, you just had senator klobuchar on making comparisons between