David Letterman critica suspensão do ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ e alerta sobre autoritarismo

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00:00We all make mistakes. I mean, good Lord. And by the way, the condition of the United States of

00:06America has not been perfect from the time I was born to this very day. And before that,

00:12we know that the goal is not perfection. Mistakes are going to be made. Hopefully it will improve.

00:18I think, sadly, it's not going to improve. I'm not exactly in full mind understanding of what

00:23Jimmy said, what he was trying to say, and what mistake was made. This is something that was

00:28predicted by our president right after Stephen Colbert got walked off. So you're telling me

00:34that this isn't premeditated at some level. Well, I would ask you, what are the determining

00:38landmarks here? Authoritarianism, how is that different from a dictatorship? Does authoritarianism

00:44breed dictators? Is a dictator a special category? Where are we on that progress? Because I think

00:50we're inexorably headed in that direction. So I need you to tell me something encouraging that I

00:55can take home that will settle down my wife.