ready present chomsky i keep hearing this word party. i hear republican i hear democrat a lot and i have to ask you, i mean, is it too much focused on parties too much focus on party affiliation and partisanship? it seems that people might be caught up in this idea of winning at any cost rather than creating functional democracy, functional government, and safeguarding the protections that we're supposed to have in our society. is that an accurate assessment? well, if you go back to the days before the republican party addressed it off the spectrum, there was cooperation between the parties and i voted for republicans moderate republicans. but by no, that's just inconceivable. republicans have just become a denial list party. actually, this precedes trump. when prison obama was elected, and mitch mcconnell, senate leader for the republicans, and may be the most influential person in the party where obama was elected. mcconnell said street that i, that the republicans have one goal, make sure that he cannot achieve anything. make sure tha

the professor chomsky thank you so much for joining us on upfront. pleased to be with you here in the united states professor, you have talked about how 90 percent of the population is basically not represented by political leaders due to concentrated wealth and private power determining the outcomes of elections. 34 laws, restricting access to voting, were passed in 2021 alone. do we have a real democracy here in the united states? we have a mixed form of democracy. in some respects the united states is quite advanced. i don't think there's any country to protect freedom of speech, to the extent that the united states, those if you're moderately privileged, you're secure, say, from state authority and so on. on the other hand, the political system does not represent the population there or extensive studies in academic, political science, mainstream. which should ask a very simple question of what the relation between people's attitudes and opinions and the vote of their own representatives. straight forward turns out the for a large majority of the population by some studies up to 9

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we are well known chomsky called the fabrication of consent in the western world in nato countries. they want everybody to follow the same narrative because it's so much easier to manipulate after that. and we knew we've seen it in different boards in iraq. we've seen it in libya, we, even with the whole vaccine mandate, there's still room for the bay for discussion for discussion, all those which have the government ideas are entitled to speak on mainstream media . the do you think often is at fault here? i don't want to try and come across as oscar asking a loaded question here, but i've been working for on to, you know, on the frontline for 12 years and i've had a number of different people say to me, well, we don't like what you're doing. it all see it, and i thought other people say to me, you know what, your ruffling feathers around the world, you must be doing something right. but there is this general distrust in the media today. and i did spend nearly 10 years working for cnn before i came to international in moscow. and during my time at sienna and i was the recipient of 3

there was a guy named numb chomsky who wrote a book called manufacturing consent and it is scary how the news can get everybody on board for war. with no mention of past history. that is all i have. host: for past history of ukraine, a full-page spread here from usa today. it is the back page of usa today. as russian troops crossed over ukraine's border, we look at the history and relationship between the nations. the timeline there if you want to check it out, going back to 1991 after the vote for independence. ukraine sought to shed his soviet past. crane's desk ukraine's adopt -- ukraine's adoption of d communication laws led to renaming -- decommunization laws led to renaming. support for pro-russian parties decreased to below 20% since 2014 according to the central election commission of ukraine and then a focus on recent presidential elections there. that might be something you might be interested in checking out, all that history. it goes back to the mid-ninth century. to francis michigan, good morning. -- in michigan, good morning. caller: i think the european union and -- in

representative alexandria ocasio-cortez, senator elizabeth warren, nome chomsky, nikole hannah-jones, bill nye, the science guy, john legend, nick offerman. >> i also used to be really into acting, though i clearly wasn't good enough to go professional, but another kid i went to school with a few years below me was good enough. do you have that practiced? >> how is this? >> do you come up with this stuff yourself? >> i would never let someone who works for me run with that kind of messaging. it's a little too spicy. my full-time job is after our twitter exchange on friday, dan crenshaw graciously accepted by invitation to come on to show. >> i'm not sure where you're getting your data from. >> those are cvp numbers. >> the fakest thing about the "west wing" was that we had reasonable republicans. all they have is this kind of fashist street theater. >> there was nothing normal about january 6th. those people were not tourists. would you accept the logic that your former boss, donald trump, is an inciter of terrorism. >> i used to blindfully say avoid that like the plague. i no longer

the other, a broad popular front coalition of people ranging the ideological spectrum from leftist chomsky to republican congresswoman liz cheney who are invested in defending american democracy. a freedom to four of the right for people to choose their leaders. for, year mike pence has refused to pick a side between these opposing forces. yes, he opted out of -- he also never came out publicly rebuked trump until last week. >> president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and frankly, there is no idea more un-american than the notion that any one person can choose the american president. under the constitution i had no right to change the outcome of the election. >> that is correct, mike pence is right. yes, it took him over a year to muster the guts to say that and he's not really a hero, quite, in the story, but pence really saying that is not nothing, in fact, it's exactly what we need. so now the choice between american democracy being pro coup will be coming for everyone as much as every

it has a huge wide ideological spectrum from liz cheney to chomsky.le that were republicans and conservatives who have different views on a number of things who would kind of come together on this fundamental believe that these people were extremists and not invested in good governance at this time. >> that's right. you've seen dr. alison. variations this wonderful public health official. she's put a lot of time into trying to ensure -- the pandemic. the qanon folk and the right-wing folk out there were calling for her to be publicly hung. she was calling for mask mandates in schools and vaccine requirements when you go to a local restaurant. this really -- this is about civil decency. you're absolutely right. there were conservatives out there who said look, we can't have a society this course -- we can't have a mirror running around spouting a kind of nonsense and dangerous nonsense that i'm a cost with spouting. they come together. you've got brandon janice who's on the city council and then he had more liberal council members. but they all came to

there was a guy named numb chomsky who wrote a book called manufacturing consent and it is scary how the news can get everybody on board for war. with no mention of past history. that is all i have. host: for past history of ukraine, a full-page spread here from usa today. it is the back page of usa today. as russian troops crossed over ukraine's border, we look at the history and relationship between the nations. the timeline there if you want to check it out, going back to 1991 after the vote for independence. ukraine sought to shed his soviet past. crane's desk ukraine's adopt -- ukraine's adoption of d communication laws led to renaming -- decommunization laws led to renaming. support for pro-russian parties decreased to below 20% since 2014 according to the central election commission of ukraine and then a focus on recent presidential elections there. that might be something you might be interested in checking out, all that history. it goes back to the mid-ninth century. to francis michigan, good morning. -- in michigan, good morning. caller: i think the european union and -- in