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A historic class of freshmen members of Congress has had to wait days just to be sworn in, all thanks to House Republicans who show no interest in, you know, governing.
One of those freshmen, @DeliaRamirezIL, discusses w/ @mehdirhasan — don’t miss their convo on @MSNBConPeacock.
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Eight votes later, the House GOP's utter chaos over electing a speaker is “not what we all signed up for,” @DeliaRamirezIL says. “But honestly, it’s worse than that … They’re paralyzing Congress and the American people.”
Watch her full convo w/ @mehdirhasan on @MSNBConPeacock.
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At the start of a new Congress, what was House Republicans’ first order of business? It wasn’t electing a speaker, @mehdirhasan says. Nope. In the GOP-majority House, it was saying goodbye to safety, reason and common sense. WATCH:
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg may have owned social media personality Andrew Tate in a now-viral Twitter exchange. But engaging with "creepy, horrid" trolls like Tate play right into their hands, @jsrailton says: “He was doing great marketing … [and] executing on a strategy.”
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“He’s in a weird, self-destructive tailspin at this point.”
@MollyJongFast tells @mehdirhasan the barrage of Elon Musk coverage won’t last forever: “This kind of attention tends to peter out pretty quickly."
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As the saying goes, "Don’t feed the trolls." But what are you supposed to do, @mehdirhasan asks, when one of those trolls is one of the richest people in the world *and* the owner of a hugely influential communications platform? What’s a Twitter-addicted journalist to do?
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Since his Twitter takeover, Elon Musk’s popularity and influence has exploded — and that’s posed a bit of a problem for the media.
How do we cover Musk without strengthening his dangerous rhetoric? Watch @MollyJongFast and @jsrailton discuss w/ @mehdirhasan on @MSNBConPeacock.
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Dysfunctional, divided, in disarray — no matter your word of choice, one thing remains the same: the Grand Old Party has become a joke.
@JulianCastro and @DavidJollyFL join @mehdirhasan to discuss. Watch their convo: peacocktv.com/mehdi
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House Republicans are in a state of chaos with the conference unable to elect a speaker. Should Democrats just sit back and watch the dysfunction, or is there room to capitalize on the crisis?
Hear @JulianCastro’s response to @mehdirhasan:
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.@DavidJollyFL says the House GOP’s chaotic speaker vote is “very telling of the state of the party."
“We have one chamber of our bicameral legislature that is now not functioning,” he tells @mehdirhasan. “That creates an image of instability across the world stage.”
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The new GOP majority Congress has been in chaos from the start. As @mehdirhasan points out, “This is what happens when the GOP as a whole becomes a party of extremists and nihilists.”
One thing is clear, Mehdi adds: “The Republican Party is broken.”
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"In the meantime, [Ginni Thomas'] husband remains on the highest court in the nation, ruling on cases not just related to the 2020 election, but cases that could change how our elections are conducted going forward," @mehdirhasan says. "That should be a national scandal."
Mehdi Hasan: "Ginni Thomas' name appears in the January 6th committee's final report exactly...zero times...The wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice being involved in an attempt to undo a free and fair election...somehow that doesn't merit a spot." on.msnbc.com/3QaxryG
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For someone who says he cares a lot about background checks and vetting, George Santos seems to be qualified at one thing: lying about his qualifications.
Just how many lies are on the GOP congressman-elect's resume? Give @mehdirhasan 60 seconds to tell you:
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On the first day of the new Congress, the incoming House Republican majority is starting with "an ugly street fight" over who should be speaker. The more Kevin McCarthy begs for votes, the less it appears to be working. (via MaddowBlog) msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show…
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For Palestinians, Israel’s new far-right govt “doesn’t make a huge amount of difference,” @PeterBeinart says. He tells @mehdirhasan: “Palestinians see no hope for gaining basic rights.”
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Amid the fixation on the start of the 118th Congress, @mehdirhasan says we can't gloss over Israel’s new ultra right-wing government and its members who “make our GOP look like a UC Berkeley a cappella team.”
Let him explain:
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In 2021 there was Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In 2019 there was Greg Gianforte.
There’s always one.
So which Republican will it be this time around, @mehdirhasan asks, who represents for better or worse (mostly for worse) what the party has become? WATCH:
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Hope Hicks complained in now-public texts that her former boss made his team “look like domestic terrorists” on 1/6. But @RinainDC isn’t buying it.
She tells @mehdirhasan: “She knew what kind of man she worked for … [and] you’re not honorable when you’re near [Trump.]”
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The Jan. 6 committee’s interview transcripts confirm what we all but knew for certain: The “best friend” in Ginni Thomas’s released texts is none other than her SCOTUS justice husband — and her outright concession was "remarkable," @mjs_dc tells @mehdirhasan. WATCH:
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Despite everything Ginni Thomas told the 1/6 committee, her name appears in the panel’s final report exactly zero times.
Meanwhile, @mehdirhasan warns, her husband still sits on SCOTUS — and is ruling on high-stakes elections cases.
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