When you look at the spread of these mistruths and the spread of the disinformation, you know, silence enables it. Silence enables the liar. And silence helps it to spread. So the first thing you have to do is say no, I`m not going to accept that we`re going to live in a post-truth world. It`s a toxin, Leslie, in our political bloodstream. Because when we allow that to continue to go on in the face of rulings of the courts, in the face of recounts, in the face of everything that`s gone on to demonstrate that there was not fraud that would have changed the outcome, then we all -- if we do that, we are contributing to the undermining of our system. And it`s a really serious and dangerous moment because of that.
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Liz Cheney discusses the dangers of misinformation and the importance of confronting falsehoods in politics.
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