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"Three of the most destructive events of my lifetime - the Iraq war, the Brexit vote, and the rise of Trump and his Big Lie simply could not have happened without Rupert Murdoch."
@mehdirhasan looks at Murdoch's decades of moving world events.
Watch: youtube.com/al5w-tyRYqM
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In tonight's #handover, @AymanM talks to @MehdiRHasan about softball interviews with bad-faith actors.
“The get is never more important than the content of the interview. If you are not prepared, do not do the interview just to boast that you got an exclusive."
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"The GOP don't care about being hypocrites. We saw this with Kyle Rittenhouse and them hosting dinners for police officers who killed black people." @MsPackyetti on the GOP rallying around Daniel Perry who was charged with killing a Black Lives Matter protester.
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.@mjs_DC makes his case for lawmakers to hold Justice Clarence Thomas accountable:
“This is not something that Senate Democrats should pass off to the Judicial Conference. This falls squarely within their jurisdiction and they need to act now."
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The GOP has a new hero: a man convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020. @MehdiRHasan calls out the Republicans who are rallying around Daniel Perry.
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“The cable companies are going to have to decide whether or not they want to give Fox News significantly more money.”
-@GoAngelo on how Fox’s carriage renewal negotiations will be impacted by the Dominion trial
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“If this case does not satisfy the Sullivan standard of actual malice…then no case will ever meet the Sullivan standard."
@catherinejross_ breaks down the the strength of Dominion’s case against Fox.
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“It’s not just an abstract legal case. This goes to the heart of protecting our democracy.” @MehdiRHasan breaks down Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against Fox, which is set to begin this week.
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Is the upcoming Dominion defamation trial an existential crisis for Fox?
@pastpunditry says the case has "real ramifications... they said there was a wall of church and state between news and opinion. That clearly isn't the case."
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With an estimated 100M monthly users, ChatGPT is breaking records with its growth. But its rise is bringing new urgency to the debate about the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence.
@GaryMarcus and @joshgans join @mehdirhasan to debate.
Watch: youtube.com/-mgYiNXdvzQ
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“I don’t think I've ever played to you a clip like the one I'm about to play to you.”
@mehdirhasan reacts to the demonizing, dehumanizing words from a Republican Florida lawmaker about transgender people.
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The GOP loves to ding Democrat-led cities on crime, like the House Republicans coming to New York for a hearing attacking DA Alvin Bragg and his “pro-crime, anti-victim policies.”
But as @mehdirhasan notes, many Republicans can find more violent places much closer to home.
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“A lot of you scientists talking about AI - they sound like Miles Dyson. And you know what happened to Miles Dyson?”
While the plot of Terminator is clearly fictional, @mehdirhasan just can’t help but ask, should we be worried about AI taking over the world?
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AI expert @joshgans says it’s good that the public has a chance to experiment with Chat GPT. But @GaryMarcus warns that doing so may mean studying “the horses after they left the barn.”
Watch their exchange:
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Justice Clarence Thomas’ undisclosed luxury trips and property sale to a GOP megadonor are just the latest in a long line of ethical controversies surrounding the Justice. @mehdirhasan examines the case for impeaching him.
Watch the full monologue here: youtube.com/uiCXzvNrJN4
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“Definitely trouble in paradise there between Musk and Taibbi.”
@MehdiRHasan talks to @AymanM after his recent viral interview with “Twitter Files” reporter Matt Taibbi, who has since left the social media platform following a feud with Elon Musk.
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"If George Soros had admitted to having a home full of Hitler memorabilia, would Fox and the GOP have given him a pass?" @MehdiRHasan on the GOP's silence of Clarence Thomas' ties to a GOP megadonor who reportedly collects statues of dictators.
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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Exonerated Central Park 5 member, @dr_yusefsalaam, explains how those words from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took on a new significance following Donald Trump’s indictment.
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In tonight's #minirant, @MehdiRHasan looks back at all the times the former president-turned-criminal defendant called for others to be locked up. Start the clock!
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"Six people were killed last week, three children were killed in Nashville, and Tennessee Republicans said 'we're not gonna do anything,'" @WajahatAli slams the TN Republicans who ousted two Black Democratic lawmakers on Friday.
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