that is tonight s hello, new york. thank you for joining us at townhall for this very special edition of why is this happening. he is talk, he is smart, please give a warm welcome to my colleague, msnbc s chris hayes. thank you. hey, oh, stop. how are you? good. thank you. thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you. that is extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. that was a really hard 20 seconds for me, so thank you. it is amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i ve got some family here. so, tonight we are going to talk about democracy, and that word, we have probably talk more about democracy in the last four or five years that and all of my time as a journalist before that. even that as a topic seems a little weird. america is the democracy and there is a certain kind of history your talk that is a certain part of american civic culture, deeply, almost kind of civic religion which roughly goes to the following. the founders rebelled against t
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what the republicans put out the other day, which doesn t deny any of the actions. this is all baghdad bob and joe isuzu in this thing. i mean the scary thing for donald trump is he s not sending his lawyers. they re not defending him. he isn t defending himself, and you got devin nunes running around ukraine and austria and god knows wherever else making phone calls. he s going to go to jail. i said this about giuliani, and so is nunes. they re violating allegedly. allegedly devin nunes doing all of that. but, listen, i ve got to ask you because you re a journalist. i m a commentator. you said the water got really high, right? so using that analogy, it s like the ship analogy, the water analogy. the president is clearly steering the ship, but you ve got people like the report
other day, which doesn t deny any of the actions. this is all baghdad bob and joe isuzu in this thing. i mean the scary thing for donald trump is he s not sending his lawyers. they re not defending him. he isn t defending himself, and you ve got devin nunes running around ukraine and austria and god knows wherever else making phone calls. he s going to go to jail. i said this about giuliani, and so is nunes. they re violating the campaign allegedly. allegedly devin nunes doing all of that. but listen, i ve got to ask you because you re a journalist. i m a commentator. you said the water got really high, right? so using that analogy, it s like the ship analogy, the water analogy. the president is clearly steering the ship, but you ve got people like the report makes it clear, pence, pompeo, perry, mulvaney. they were all either knowledgeable or active