President Biden warns of threats to democracy

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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President Biden warned of the threat Trump and MAGA extremists pose to American democracy during a speech in Arizona. It comes as House Republicans held their first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing amid a looming government shutdown. And a look at the small group reportedly behind most school book challenges. Carol Leonnig, former Rep. Max Rose, Paul Rieckhoff, Katie Benner, Glenn Kirschner, Ali Vitali, Jon Allen and Lesléa Newman join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, the stark warning from President Biden, calling out threats to democracy from
0:06.1	MAGA Republicans in Donald Trump and the plea for all voters to put the country first.
0:12.4	And Donald Trump's New York civil fraud trial set to start on Monday, plus an update on
0:17.6	all the federal cases.
0:19.8	Then the rise in book bans, how just a handful of people are responsible for the majority
0:25.0	of objections on the LGBTQ books.
0:28.0	The author of one of the original band books joins us live.
0:31.5	As the 11th hour gets underway on this Thursday night.
0:43.1	Good evening.
0:44.1	Once again, I'm Stephanie Ruhl.
0:45.1	We begin this evening's broadcast with President Biden's stark warning of the clear and
0:50.1	present danger to American democracy.
0:52.8	The president sounded the alarm during a speech in Arizona about what he described as
0:57.4	the threat from MAGA extremists and he did not hold back today, launching a direct attack
1:03.0	on the former president and his entire party.
1:06.5	There's an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy.
1:12.6	The MAGA movement, there's no question that the days Republican party is driven and
1:17.0	intimidated by MAGA Republican extremists.
1:20.0	They're not hiding their attacks.
1:22.7	They're openly promoting them.
1:24.9	Extremists in Congress, more determined to shut down the government, to burn the place
1:29.0	down.
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