RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
CROSS: "All right, are you guys familiar with that urban myth that if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will instantly bow, but if you put it in a pot filled with pleasantly tepid water and gradually heat it, the frog will remain in the water until it boils to death. That is a fitting metaphor for our democracy right now. As our democratic norms erode within America, we must wonder, will this democracy survive? A Yahoo News poll says no. But perhaps when you build a nation on stolen land with stolen labor, it was never going to be a republic we could keep. So let's talk about the possible fall of democracy and what, if anything, can be done to keep it."