its doors, he founded ali baba online as all these businesses. all the businesses across the country could suddenly be connected with the western world. they sold everything from cars to high-end fashion and offers food delivery and financial services. it s china s amazon, google, ebay, paypal and more. by 2014, jack ma had arrived on the new york stock exchange to ring the bell. it was the world s biggest initial public offering. it s detailed in facebook, amazon, you name it. it unlocked a huge amount of economic potential. tech giants like alibaba showcased china s rise to the leading edge of economic and
mountain dew, chocolate croissants, trip to mexico. needed it a little warmer than that last couple days. rachel: can you explain that a little better, will? what are you going to be doing, explain that a little better? will: okay. really quickly, because i know we have a news show to get here. this 15 hard, do five things every day 75 days. drink a gallon of water. 10 pages of nonfiction. work out twice a day, have to be separated. take a picture of yourself. 75 days, straight, rachel, you have to do that. i kind of committed myself. they say in navy seal training the guys that ring the bell, meaning ones that quit had a little quit in them before they started. you have to have no quit to make it through hell week to become a seal. i have already got quit in me. i already know i m very nervous. [laughter]. pete: that is a lot, will. i would sign up for 75 soft
to your point, paul, i ve heard many s.e.a.l.s i ve heard people in other special forces, and they say they would have rather died than, in this case of the s.e.a.l.s, ring the bell, which is what they have to do to quit. instructors know that. they have folks in the training. the whole point is these people will take it to the line. so what does the navy need to look at and understand knowing they have candidates who would literally drop dead before they would quit. what do they need to know here? gosh, being an instructor, that s a tough question. because there were times that i thought that all the safety protocols that we put into evolutions was hindering their training. you get past that. you look at it and say, yes, i don t want anything like this to happen. because once we lose somebody in
that s what we have. that s what we have here. we talk to you and ring the bell. what are those steps? so ringing the bell is one of them because we have the same four steps in our arsenal of democracy. the informational one, we have to tell the truth, which you are doing here, right? and that is that unfortunately the vast majority of the republican party has become autocratic and we cannot deny that, whether we are politicians, whether we are reporters or whether we are american citizens. we have to tell truth. the second is legal, like the brave election workers in georgia are doing now because the law does have protections for us. the third is political, right? the midterms this year are going to be a referendum on democracy. and the last is personal. this is a moment for us all to be active citizens and reach out to our neighbors. and here s the weird thing. it may be tempting to demonize those who fall prey to a cult but we need empathy. because what the country needs is we nee
laws. people around the country are changing election laws. there s a personnel effort to remove people like brad raffensperger. and of course a recent poll showed today 30% of republicans say violence may be necessary to protect the country. there s a violent effort. last time was practice for the next time unless we do the necessary steps now to protect our democracy. well, i want to say in a minute what are those, because i feel like i ve again, we ending up in this place every night. i feel like it feels a little like covid in march of 2020 where it s like just ringing the bell. that s what we have. that s what we have here. we talk to you an ring the bell. what are those steps? so ringing the bell is one of them because we have the same four steps in our arsenal of democracy. the informational one, we have to tell the truth, which you are doing here, right? and that is that unfortunately the vast majority of the