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Mark Warner: “If we allow each of these rights to slowly recede the kind…”

Featuring: Mark Warner, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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American Conversations: Senator Mark Warner

Published | Video Starts at 26:17

And you say, Mark, you know, you were. There was no problem at all here. This is all nothing. I would love to come back and be proven wrong, because the alternative is, If we allow each of these rights to slowly recede the kind of analogy of the frog in the boiling water, we're screwed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I think that water's boiling at this point, so. So let's go back and fight it. Thank you so much for being here. I hope you'll come again. (26:17–26:26)

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Asserts that allowing rights to erode gradually is dangerous, akin to a frog in boiling water.

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