And while we're on the subject of threats to democracy, the craziest thing that happened in the Trump administration, in my view, in terms of threat to democracy is. And there was a New York Times story about this that The leading generals in our country were lying to Donald Trump about troop redeployments in Syria so that they could say that we were drawing troop levels down, but in reality we weren't. Right. They were staggering how they did the redeployments to hide from the commander in chief what they were actually doing with the military. (51:18–51:30)
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