hi i'm steve clements and i have a question now that trump's presidency has ended will he still be able to pull strings in american politics through the republican party let's get to the bottom line. with any world leader in history knows how to leave office with a bang it's definitely donald trump twice impeached banned from most social media and having inspired thousands to storm the u.s. congress the supposedly stop the steal of november's election he succeeded by the viking his people on political religious economic and geographic lines and now the business of healing in uniting the nation if it can be healed and united and even if it wants to be falls on the new president joe biden but there's no denying that trump's conspiracy theory rhetoric is still out there still captivating the imagination of untold millions in america from all walks of life and in congress itself so what's next for american politics and especially the republican party that donald trump lease behind my guest today is a prominent republican legal expert who's been talking about the dangers that trump poses to

hi i'm steve clements and i have a question do americans believe that their country is in the middle of a cold civil war let's get to the bottom line. for years more and more americans have been losing trust in their journalists and their politicians january 6th will go down in history as one of the days when mistrust spilled over into violent mayhem citizens following donald trump a dark vision of american carnage actually attacked the american capital people died it made americans wonder how fragile their democracy is for the 1st time in a long time ad covert to that equation joblessness economic anxiety inequality structural racism now all sides are angry and out of each other out political leaders they doubt the media and they doubt that social 'd institutions from any trust has been supplanted by anger fear and wild conspiracy theories trying to make sense of it all and by the way these tensions erupting in a deeply divided america are just happening here you can see trust eroding inside many other countries all over the world today we're talking to richard edelman who's global

hi i'm steve clements and i have a question will the pandemic lead us to rethink our relationship with nature let's get to the bottom line. today we take a step back from the usual ups and downs of american politics to talk about something much wider and crucial to our future the planet that we live on for tens of thousands of years humans and that means you me our ancestors have been manipulating the environment for economic gain it's just what we do we move mountains that shouldn't be moved cut down trees over fish eradicate diverse species from the face of the earth the world economy is not designed to promote environmental sustainability at least not yet in fact it's the exact opposite it's built for endless consumption of resources the question today is whether in the middle of this horrible pandemic can we push reset can we get back to normal in a way that restores balance with the natural world and we're talking to one of the most influential advocates for the health of the planet jane goodall has been a leading voice for conservation and protection of wildlife for decades ever

hi i'm steve clements and i have a couple of questions after a day of really unprecedented violence and chaos at the u.s. capitol is american democracy critically fractured or can it survive a white house encouraged assault on the people's house the united states congress let's get to the bottom line. it was supposed to be a day of historic ceremony a stylised traditional reading aloud of the electoral college votes of each of america's states and their acceptance in a joint session of congress instead it was a day where violence and chaos was sparked by a frustrated president drama at least half of americans see what he did as inciting an insurrection an attempted coup against the election of joe biden by a mob of his supporters after a night of tension between the president and his own vice president and cabinet who discussed amongst themselves the possibility of finding trump unfit for office and with lawmakers refusing to be intimidated and finishing their work overnight to certify the election results trump finally threw in a recognize the end of his presidency and committed to a p

steve clements has been on top of all of this from the very beginning. ocus on the capitol insurrection but also the growing threat of domestic terrorism. is this commission the solution to get to the bottom of what happened? >> i don't know if it's the solution but it becomes the predicate for actions that could be taken either to shore up better security provisions inside -- around and inside the capitol, the legislative branch of government that very clearly didn't happy what happened, or on the alternative, that there was some kind of conspiracy. remember the 9/11 commission, but i would also put in there the earl warren commission that investigated the aftermath of the john f. kennedy assassination. it looked at the possibility of domestic conspiracy, the 9/11 commission looked not only at our security procedures and the dysfunction between communication between intelligence agencies, but that was looked at a foreign adversary, this is looking at domestic adversaries. so we may need to look at both commissions as a model as to how we might proceed an

of the world we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter 0 hi i'm steve clements and i have a couple of questions after a day of really unprecedented violence and chaos at the u.s. capitol is american democracy critically fractured or can it survive a white house encouraged assault on the people's house the united states congress let's get to the bottom line. it was supposed to be a day of historic ceremony a stylised traditional reading aloud of the electoral college votes of each of america's states and their acceptance in a joint session of congress instead it was a day where violence and chaos was sparked by a frustrated president drama at least half of americans see what he did as inciting an insurrection an attempted coup against the election of joe biden by a mob of his supporters after a night of tension between the president and his own vice president and cabinet who discussed amongst themselves the possibility of finding trump unfit for office and with lawmakers refusing to be intimidated and finishing their work overnight to certify the election results

hi i'm steve clements and i have a couple of questions after a day of really unprecedented violence and chaos at the u.s. capitol is american democracy critically fractured or can it survive a white house encouraged assault on the people's house the united states congress let's get to the bottom line. it was supposed to be a day of historic ceremony a stylised traditional reading aloud of the electoral college votes of each of america's states and their acceptance in a joint session of congress instead it was a day where violence and chaos was sparked by a frustrated president drama at least half of americans see what he did as inciting an insurrection an attempted coup against the election of joe biden by a mob of his supporters after a night of tension between the president and his own vice president and cabinet who discussed amongst themselves the possibility of finding trump unfit for office and with lawmakers refusing to be intimidated and finishing their work overnight to certify the election results trump finally threw in a recognize the end of his presidency and committed to a p

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steve: have you considered home school college because that would probably be a lot cheaper. one of the things that drove this professor clements to respond to the president of the university was the fact that he had also seen on twitter so many people talking about the people who were involved in the. ainsley: the riots. steve: the riot, the looting, everything at the cap top on january 6th. in particular, state representative liz thompson, a democrat in new mexico, wrote on twitter that trump voters, trump voters should be forever branded with a scarlet letter for seditionists. now. ainsley: scarlet s. will: that's the university president? steve: this is a state representative. will: oh, wow. steve: it would be one thing if you brand the people who broke stuff and hurt people at the capitol with the scarlet letter s. because they broke the law. and it was terrible. but to say anybody who voted for trump should be branded with that scarlet letter s, that's extraordinary. >> 74 million people she is trying onto ostracize 74 million people? maybe. but that's not the way it works. ainsley: they want a voice 74, 75 million people