Three years ago today, Oct. 5, 2020, the Mehdi Hasan Show premiered on Peacock. @mehdirhasan reflects on that first episode and the “crazy, actually crazy” things that have happened since.
In tonight's #handover, @MehdiRHasan and @AymanM call out GOP lawmakers looking to expel Jamaal Bowman for pulling a Capitol fire alarm after previously calling the January 6th riot "legitimate political discourse."
"Who are they kidding here?"
Climate scientist @MichaelEMann debunks Vivek Ramaswamy's claim that CO2 levels are low. "You have to go all the way back...4 million years ago to find CO2 levels, naturally, that were as high as they are today."
"The fact is that impeachment takes the air out of the room." @BarbaraBoxer says that this week's GOP-led impeachment hearing on President Biden distracts from the very real issues Americans are facing and that "it is a hearing about nothing."
"What people hear about the two candidates from the media they consume matters and Republicans spend a lot of time thinking about how to make voters hate Joe Biden... Senate Democrats aren't thinking on how to neutralize that threat." -@brianbeutler's 2024 advice for Democrats.
Congress avoided a shutdown, passing a stopgap bill that will fund the government for the next 45 days. But we’re bound to see this dance yet again when the money runs out on November 17. @mehdirhasan explains how the root issue of MAGA extremism is not going away.
Will Speaker McCarthy be able to count on @RepSwalwell 's vote if a motion to vacate moves forward? The Congressman says "not my monkey, not my circus."
.@RepSwalwell says he's not concerned about President Biden's age going into 2024. "He's 80... but you know what number is higher than 80? 91. 91 charges over 4 indictments and that's a lot more concerning to me than the president's age."
“I worry that the defenses Twitter built up… have been eroded under Musk.”
@yoyoel warns about the site’s ability to protect users and combat state-backed disinformation, especially given Elon Musk’s well-documented ties to Saudi Arabia