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In her first news interview since leaving office, former Vice President Kamala Harris
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sounding off on President Trump's second term. Speaking with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about her new book, 107 Days, Harris blasted business
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leaders she says have failed to stand up to Trump after writing that she predicted how
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he would act if he won again. And I always believed that if push came to shove, those titans of industry would be guardrails for our democracy, for the importance of sustaining democratic institutions
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And one by one by one, they have been silent. they have been you know yes i use the word feckless democracy sustains capitalism
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capitalism thrives in a democracy and right now we are dealing with as i called him
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at my speech on the ellipse a tyrant we used to compare the strength of our democracy
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to common communist dictators that's what we're dealing with right now in donald trump
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and these titans of industry are not speaking up. Harris said she understands why some business
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leaders are bending to Trump, but insisted they have to, quote, stand up for the people who rely
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on them. She also pointed to the return of Jimmy Kimmel's show as proof of what she called
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the power of organized resistance
