interwar period in europe when you have far right parties rising in europe. in some countries the mainstream decided to reject the far right parties and unite to block anti-democratic parties from rising. in italy and germany, the center-right decided to try to co-opt far right parties and we all know what happened in those two countries. kim, to expand on ian s point, as i understand it, you believe that frankly it s too late to save this country. why is that? well, i m really very worried. if you couple joe biden s lagging approval ratings, the expectation that most people don t turn out at midterms, gerrymandering across the country, we re also seeing antivoting laws and a new wave of laws that are taking the sort
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our colleague glenn kirschner from this station has complained that garland should be doing more. it does look like he could be more front and center, protecting democracy in this moment. and absolutely these subpoenas have to be enforced, either criminally, civilly would take too long. jamie raskin has said publicly he hasn t ruled out the age-old notion of calling the sergeant at arms and having the congress itself enforce their subpoenas. this has to happen or the constitution itself becomes just a scrap of paper. donald trump mentioned the last round that if he won, he might not give up power if he were to be faced with a third term. that is the future of america, where the constitution itself, regardless of what s in there, becomes optional, because as ian says, there s no accountability. and we all need to be on the edge of our seats and vigilant and hold hands to make that not happen in this moment.
reporter and co-author of i alone can fix it, carol leonnig. and ian bassett, the executive director of protect democracy. carol, we ll start with you. donald trump, as you well know, he s held several rallies since the capitol insurrection but the one this weekend in iowa was different, i think, because of who was there lending their support. this one was attended by long time iowa senator chuck grassley, the iowa governor kim reynolds was there, there were members of the republican congressional delegation, otherwise mainstream republican officials, some of the very same people who just nine months ago were slamming trump for his role in the capitol riots, now only too happy to be seen supporting him. this is really a picture of where the gop is right now. carol? i m so sorry. i agree.