to understand that this experiment in democracy is not self-executing. it doesn t happen just automatically. it happens because each successive generation says these values, these truths we hold self-evident. this is important. we re going to invest in it and sacrifice for it, and we ll stand up for it even when it s not politically convenient. now, i want you to compare that to what former president trump had to say this weekend. i am not the one trying to undermine american democracy. i m the one that s trying to save it. what a contrast that is, douglas. anyway, trump incited an insurrection, continues to push the big lie. is this battle for the soul of the nation intensifying and playing out right in front of us now? it is intensifying.
intelligence-sharing wasn t where it should be. and as a result of that kind of revelation, we completely changed the way we were doing business. and as a result, the country s been safer since 9/11 in terms of attacks from foreign terrorists. so that s the same sort of work we need to do here. it s not a political thing. it s not democratic or republican. it s just in the interest of making the country and the capitol safe. i don t know why people can t get behind that. andrew mccabe, thank you, sir. thanks, don. republican-controlled state legislatures around the country not only putting new restrictions on voting but increasingly imposing their will on cities and counties run by democrats. let s discuss now. cnn senior political analyst mr. ron brownstein is here. good evening to you, sir. let s dive into your new analysis. republican-controlled states escalating their offensive against democratic-controlled cities. tell us what s happening. yeah. i mean, you know, there s b
i want to bring in cnn senior law enforcement analyst, mr. andrew mccabe, the former deputy director of the fbi. he is the author of the threat: how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump. thank you, andrew. good to see you. so we now have this bipartisan report on the security failures leading up to the capitol insurrection. but it ignores trump s culpability. is that a mistake? of course it is. what we have is apparently a detailed and broad-scope report, but what we don t have is a complete report. the report, as you mentioned, ignores the impact that the former president had on the rally that ultimately led to the riot. the report refrains from even referring to it as an insurrection. apparently that was a bad word they weren t allowed to use. and it doesn t even go so far as to call out the big lie. so with those kind of fundamental inadequacies, it s hard to see how we get much out of this. and i d also say, don, one of my
all-white presidents. and we seem to be going backwards right now into a kind of neofascism, and it s coming largely out of the red states in the south. so it s nerve-racking the and the thought with social media being part of this, people are, as obama said, in their own media silos. people are getting false facts, false information, and are coming to, you know, conspiracy theories run amuck. we are a nation in crisis right now, but we ve got all the good people that want to heal the country have to start pushing forward the politics of cohesion and not listen to the bombast of donald trump from the back of his golf court in florida, continually trying to divide our nation on race and class. yeah, or from a wedding, a stage crashing a wedding. i got to say i don t know i think i said something wrong. i think i should have said the arc of the moral universe.
you know, don, it was an incredible interview that anderson cooper did. i hope everybody watches it. barack obama was so careful with his words, but it s frightening. he s talking about democracy being chiseled away right in front of our very eyes right now. the interview really reminded me that history is going to look at our times, don, as the battle between barack obama s vision of america and donald trump s. it used to be for a while m jimmy carter became governor of georgia and then president, it was tabout the new south. we ve had george w. bush and mccain and romney and republicans. none of it matters anymore. it s really become a decision between whether you believe in donald trump s bigoted, prejudiced, mccarthyite vision of stopping immigration and being a fortress america or you are going to be part of that arc