successful and this is according to putin a country that shouldn t exist, it s an artificial border, should be part of russia but yet successful, how does he justify to his population that they don t have the rights, they don t enjy economic prosperity? an investment could be essential. that s probably the most important reason we should be investing. yes, we want to nuture democracy. russia is looking to undermine u.s. led order up end the international system that s allowed the u.s. to prosper and we need to win this win and support ukraine. so then how to win that i guess is the question, julia. there is this pipeline called nordstream that could allow them to send national gas to europe. that s on the table.
republican paty is doing is happening at local and state level outside of the shadow of washington directly to people activating the grass roots. this is a effort for the platform within the entire dna of the republican farty. they have effectively declared open warfare against emocracy and all we disagree about from budgets to build back better, none of that matters if the democratic process isn t in place like we should be. the republicans are making a bet that there is no way in a fair fight they can ever win and national election ever again so the only recourse they have is to throw democracy outside the door and invalidate votes. they re going after utah which they won and trying to invalidate the votes now. that tells you the lengths of
and i ll tell you, we re not going back to that. that s not going to happen and every time that we excuse the republican party s ways and try to normalize them, we re helping and aiding and abetting them and their effort to try to take out democracy. yeah. well, there is nothing normal about this. excellent reporting bryan shaw. thank you for being here. maya wiley and kirt, both of you thank you very much. up next on the reidout. we remember trump s memes with putin. nothing like that today as president biden confronted the russian leader on his hostile actions towards ukraine. also, congresswoman ilhan omar joins the racist attacks against her from the insurrection caucus and the far right s almost total control over the gop. plus. this battle has been going on for nearly three hours. amaing rarely heard audio from 80 years ago today when
legitimate period even if they get the result they want, they seem to want to just undermine the idea that elections in and of themselves are legitimate? what could be the purpose of that? it s become the greatest mobilizing tool, the right has ever had from organizing to the extent that they can have people believe what is obviously not true and organize and use them to their own ends. we ve already had a republican party that rather than contesting for the votes of voters are gerrymandering and using voter suppression tactics. this is a popular mobilization of the undermining of true democratic process. the point is about this democracy is we re supposed to be trying to get people to become adhering to our policies.
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