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The i know talking to white house officials he s coming out talking about defending democracy. and also that he s going to be talking about what he sees as an alarming trend and that s an increase in threats to democracy and threats to political violence. some white house officials today said part of what the president was so struck by was what happened to paul pelosi when his home was broken into and you had the person beat him over the head with a hammer and you have some republicans, not all, some republicans defending that, making conspiracy theories about that. he s delivering the speech, president biden at what he sees as a critical time in the election. six days before americans go to the polls and we start to tally the ballots. saying if you don t support me, here s what you need to know about american democracy, some people have to win, some have to lose, and that s the way it has to be. do you know if it was one specific thing he saw? if he saw the ex-president on
White house is watching your show, nicole. it s on at a good time for them, all in their offices. i think it was the tape delay. i think it was on tape delay. but we talked about it. we need the president, we need his big bull horn to define what this means. what does it mean, what does it look like? and make sure that middle americans, understand that they have skin in this democracy game. this is not just a you know, as the congresswoman said, it s not the kitchen table, it s the entire table. and there s economic ramifications with the ideal of us losing democracy. if you think you have economic stress now and the economy is not great now. what do you think it s going to be if we lose democracy. so i m happy, although i agree, i would like to have seen it earlier, but i m very happy that the president and the white house is now using its big bully
Inflation and economy have taken center stage. he and democrats wanted to make sure voters don t lose sight of the fact that the fundamentals of our democracy are at state. there is a tendency to think that preserving democracy is an academic conversation, an academic pursuit. it is not. i ll be honest, the first thing i hear about on the street in my district where people are focused on what are more traditional kitchen table issues. but i believe that protecting our democracy is the ultimate kitchen table issue. in fact, it s not even the kitchen table. our democracy is the foundation of the home in which the kitchen table sits. and then the ultimate sign of country over party, slotkin made those comments while standing
Results of the elections they are in. that is the path to chaos in america. it is unprecedented, it is unlawful and it is un-american, as i said before you can t love your country only when you win. i ask you to think long and hard about the moment we are in. in a typical year we re not office faced with the question of whether the vote we ask will preserve democracy or put it at risk. we are this year. cornell, this is something you and i have gone back and forth on the last 12 months but this is the president putting it to the country. your vote will, in part, determine whether or not we continue to live in a democracy. yeah. no, when you were first, great reporting as usual from yamiche. but when you were asking about how did this come about? i was thinking, i feel seen, and i think we should feel seen because we ve been talking about this for the last, what, two months now. yeah. it seems like someone at the