tonight on the readout and if the republicans decide that Jim Jordan should be

the speaker of the house there will and I by the way I don't think that's

gonna happen I think he'll lose but if they were to decide that there would no

longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected republicans could

be counted on to defend the Constitution. Liz Cheney speaking the truth about

the republican leadership crisis which had esteemed professor who joins me

tonight says should be setting off alarm bells that democracy is in trouble

even Trump is being talked about as a potential speaker plus Trump's renewed

push to delay delay delay including a heavy dose of whining about being

unable to access all of the highly classified documents that he used to have

stashed in his insecure bathroom at Marlago and we begin tonight with the

power of eight eight republicans that is the band of eight who rejected Kevin

McCarthy going against hundreds of their fellow republicans all of whom voted

to keep the speaker in place which means eight people can take over an

entire institution pulling the plug on the house doing its job there's been a

lot of chaos this week hand-ringing and infighting and it's a scene that we

should be really worried about Daniel Ziblatt co-author of the new book

tyranny of the minority told the Washington Post quote if you want to know what

it looks like when democracy is in trouble this is what it looks like it should

set off alarm bells that something is not right Ziblatt is a professor of

government at Harvard so he knows a thing or two about what this work entails

emphasis on the word work this is work they don't call it public service for

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