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the screen shot three times as I tried to get control of the group.
Three times, they were so intent on yelling at each other they
simply ignored me. There is a scene of me walking out, but what
you don’t know is I went to the executive producer and I said, “It’s
your group now; I give up. You don’t have to pay me. Consider this
a donation to CBS. I’m done.” The producer had been telling me
emphatically to tell people to stop talking over each other so they
could put it on the air and viewers would be able to hear what
they were saying. What he realized by that point was that talking
over each other was the least of his problems. There were several
moments we thought they may get physical with one another.
That’s the disaster we have created in American democracy today.
That may not be what happens in Washington state, but that is
what happens in Washington, D.C., and it’s a genuine tragedy.
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