Autocracy on the march including in US, say Bill and Hillary Clinton

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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary discussed the rise of autocracy and the global impact at a pro-democracy event in Berlin. - REUTERS

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00:00There's no way to sugarcoat it. There's no way to explain it away. Autocracy is on the

00:09march and we now have a government in the United States that has thrown in its lot with

00:18the autocrats, where there are no facts that are agreed upon, that happen right before

00:25your eyes and you have leaders telling you to ignore it, that Putin did not invade Ukraine,

00:32that Ukraine somehow brought it upon itself. Where there are no facts, there cannot be

00:40truth and where there is no truth, there cannot be trust and where there is no trust, there

00:47cannot be democracy and peace. And now we're fighting this rise in autocracy, where everybody

00:57says, oh, I'm so tired, I don't want to think about this anymore. Oh, I know it's unfortunate

01:03what's happening in Russia, but what can I do about it? And I really like this macho person

01:09who talks tough, acts tough, and relieves me of any of the burdens of thinking about

01:18all this stuff. I mean, I have a job to do every day, I've got bills to pay, I've got

01:23costs to worry about. What do I care? What do I know? That is the person we have to reach

01:31in every single nation represented here.

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