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Today: Todd Gitlin talks about "An Open Letter by Prominent Progressives and Conservatives to Save American Democracy From Trump's GOP;" Morris Pearl and Erica Payne on "Manchin Boasts to a Billionaire Tax Cheat That he Stopped the IRS From Taxing Them."