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Kristen Welker: “You still seem so hopeful, despite the fact that this…”

Featuring: Kristen Welker, Host of Meet the Press | National

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Meet the Press Full Episode — July 5

Published | Video Starts at 14:01

Can you be, as authoritarians always do, convincing you it's better if everything's ordered or that our story is only one people and not other people? The whole story is this unbelievably wide variety of people who improbably come together. That's the headline. You still seem so hopeful, despite the fact that this continues to be the great experiment democracy. What gives you that hope, Kelly? Because I think that recipe is there. It's sitting in front of us. And we have been distracted by the shiny objects of superstition and conspiracy and us versus them. (14:01–14:13)

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