they ve made it clear that they re engaged in an ongoing effort to seize power by any means necessary, including through contingencies where they lose the election. that s the meaning of the eastman memo. number two, the democratic party s politicians from left to right do not make intimations towards violence. it has become routine on the right and inside the republican party. with republican members of congress pointing high caliber weapons at objects and firing them, the language of violence, the image of the gun, the idea that their countrymen are their enemies. and so, historically, we know, when you put all of that fuel on the ground and you start throwing sparks at it, that you can ignite a conflagration, and when you dehumanize people the way that this man and this
panic buttons aren t the answer, and the secret service can t protect 90,000 school board members. we have an autocratic movement teeming with violence and the intimations of violence in this country. and it s a threat to democracy, so let s look at that domestic terrorist, that criminal who desecrated the american flag by wrapping it around his head, who committed violence in the name of right-wing extremism. what is it that he has heard? he has heard that he lives in an occupied country with an illegitimate president who lost the election, who was put into power by millions of fraudulent votes, mostly black and brown votes out of the inner cities. he turns on tucker carlson and he hears that he s going to be replaced in a great plot where the democratic party is importing people from the third world to strip him of his
i don t think it s about this moment so much as it is about the country we re going to live in ten years from now, 15 years, 20 years from now, and that moment requires us to understand it s not some republicans. it s the overwhelming majority of one political party has capitulated to a cult of personality that is hostile to american democracy and is filled and teeming with extremists and making more and more intimations towards violence every day that you choose to examine. and so, what we have to understand is that despite whatever excesses you may see within it, we have one political party, the democratic party, that believes in democracy in the country and there s going to have to be the maintenance of an alliance that includes those disaffected republicans, independents, moderates, all the way to progressives that can stand for agreement on a compact that has always united the country on the question of how
into this matter. they spent several weeks looking into the matter and ultimately concluded there could be innocuous explanations for the contacts. but that was basically that. that was basically how to resolved. alfa bank and its kremlin-connected executives have always vociferously denied the allegations that they had anything to do with the trump campaign or any kind of election interference. in fact, alpha bank claimed in a pair of lawsuits that the allegations or the intimations in this reporting were all some sort of giant frame-up. they claimed that these computer scientists, these computer researchers fabricated these server communication records in order to smear their company and smear the trump campaign. here s where we get to tonight s breaking news because that quite baroque theory that the unexplained server look-ups between this bank and the trump organization, you know, they are not evidence of a and not
anything to do with the trump campaign or any kind of election interference. in fact, alpha bank claimed into a pair of lawsuits that the allegations or the intimations in this reporting were all some sort of giant frame-up. they claimed that these computer scientists, these computer researchers fabricated these server communication records in order to smear their company and smear the trump campaign. here s where we get to tonight s breaking news because that quite baroque theory that the unexplained server look-ups between this bank and the trump organization, you know, they are not evidence of a and not innocuous pings. alfit was forged fabricated, ok straighted by the clinton