Oct. 10 – Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Stephanie Grisham & Nick Clegg

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🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Chuck talks with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham about the former president's final weeks in office. He also sits down with Nick Clegg, Facebook’s VP of Global Affairs, on the reform needed on the platform. Yamiche Alcindor, Donna Edwards and David French join the Meet the Press roundtable.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, democracy in crisis.
0:04.7	It was very, very close to destroying our democracy.
0:09.8	New details from Senate Democrats on how former President Trump wanted to replace his attorney general
0:14.9	so he could overturn the election results.
0:17.6	He was really pushing the Department of Justice to bend to his political will.
0:22.3	Republicans are either staying silent or defending Mr. Trump's actions.
0:26.9	The president did the right thing. If he had made another decision, you would have had a problem.
0:31.8	I'll talk to one of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sheldon White House of Rhode Island,
0:37.0	and a former Trump press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, on, Sheldon White House of Rhode Island, and a former Trump
0:38.0	press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, on her time in the White House. Plus, Facebook and the
0:43.6	whistleblower. No one truly understands the destructive choices made by Facebook except Facebook.
0:49.4	Former Facebook employee, Francis Hogan, tells Congress, the company won't make its product safer because
0:55.0	profits come first.
0:56.5	I'm here today because I believe Facebook's products harm children, stoke division, and weaken
1:01.9	our democracy.
1:02.8	Facebook pushes back.
1:04.3	What you have here today is a former employee who didn't work on these issues, mischaracterizing
1:09.8	some documents that she stole.
1:11.6	I'll talk to Facebook Vice President, Nick Clegg.
1:14.6	And crisis averted, for now.
1:16.6	I am glad that their rinksmanship did not work.
1:19.6	The Senate agrees to raise the debt ceiling until December.
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