us now are presenerennial. they ebb and flow. the task of a pure democracy is to make those forces ebb more than they flow. and democracy is a human enterprise and as human beings and i don t want to drag the bishop into this but we re fallen, frail and fallible. and i think that every day is a struggle between our better angels and our worst instincts. if i get it right 51% of the time, that s a heck of a good day and i don t have many of those. and the country is and i want some ambabe absolution. if you re feeling forgiving, your grace. yes. we re all accountable but
us deep into internet service protocol, because i don t want to go there more than anyone else but the higher level point you make is important. there was apparently willful deceit and mischaracterization to make it seem like people were committing crimes and if anyone made an honest mistake which again we re both journalists, we re all fallible, would report if they corrected themselves which they didn t, now you could go to a barbecue with anyone who watches fox they ll say i watched three days running that story, they didn t get the correction. how does that pollute our democracy and information environment? well, we can t have honest discourse in this country and honest political debate in the facts are perverted, you just can t do it, so if 10s of millions of people actually think the clinton and democrats
to do it s great to be 2 0 up, but we need to do hetten it s great to be 2 0 up, but we need to do better. we it s great to be 2-0 up, but we need to do better- to do better. we need to learn, and we need to to do better. we need to learn, and we need to learn to do better. we need to learn, and we need to learn fast. to do better. we need to learn, and we need to learn fast. we to do better. we need to learn, and l we need to learn fast. we can t make the same mistakes we ve made so far. but we have to absolutely believe and have that same attitude, as i mentioned, that we went about today with. because if we do that, i m convinced that we ve got what we need to win test matches over here. simon hughes, joe root says they need to learn from their mistakes, but where do they start with just six days to go before the boxing day test when they want to be competitive? test when they want to be competitive? test when they want to be cometitive? ~ ., ., ., ., competitive? we
american presidency at vanderbilt university. he occasionally adviser this president on historical matters, jon meacham we. gentlemen, good evening to you both. we flipped a coin, i m going to start with the same question to both of you. john your first. as long as we have all been alive, in my memory, our presidents have started the state of the union address, my fellow americans in the state of our union is strong. can we say that right about now? i don t think so. that s the problem of the age. democracy is very counterintuitive. this is a human undertaking. we are all fall, and were all frail, we re all fallible. and what is a democracy but to some of its parts. the world means the rural. and the role of the many can lead to complications, chaos and the remarkable thing about
address with some form of, my fellow americans, the state of our union is strong. can we say that right about now, john? i don t think so. certainly not with candor and with confidence. and that s the problem of the age. you know, democracy s very counterintuitive. this is a human undertaking. we re all fallen. we re all frail. we re all fallible. and what is a democracy but the sum of its parts? the word means the rule of the many. and the rule of the many can lead to complications and chaos. the remarkable thing about the united states, i think, and i think we ve all all three of us have talked about this and that we ve lasted this long. and i think that, you know, our mutual old friend ben bradley used to say when something happened and he didn t think it was a big deal, he would say, when the history of the world is written, this isn t going to be in it. well, the fall of american