How safe is our democracy?

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How safe is our democracy?

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66 minutes

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Mar 7, 2018

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Jon Favreau talks to former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power and legal scholar and editor of the new book "Can It Happen Here?" Cass Sunstein about whether or not authoritarianism can happen in the United States.

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Mar 7, 2018

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