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Cops at precincts in Trump masks, armed so-called "poll watchers," emails threatening voters: "After four years of Trump," Mehdi says, "I guess this intimidation, this uncertainty, is the logical, if horrendous, next step."
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.@ambermruffin tells Mehdi she’s looking forward to seeing Trump in tomorrow’s presidential debate, mute buttons and all: "Will they shut him up when they know that he should shut up?"
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Mehdi: "If, God forbid, something were to happen to Congresswoman Omar, would [Trump] be culpable?"
"Yes," says @NeuSummits. "There's a clear line here... he targets [his political rhetoric] in a very vicious way."
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Mehdi straight up asks former Homeland Security Official @NeuSummits if Trump is inciting domestic terrorism.
"Yes," she says.
"You want me to say more?"
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"It makes me so angry," @ErikaAndiola says of Trump administration officials suggesting that the parents of 545 separated migrant children just don't want them back. "It's also a complete lie."
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.@robert_spalding insists that Trump's courtship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping is just talk. "At the end of the day, when I look at the administration and what they've done" on China, he says, "it is completely different."
Mehdi: "I think some Uighurs might disagree."
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Amid reports that Trump's business has a Chinese bank account, China hawk and ex-Trump adviser @robert_spalding tells Mehdi that any politician with ties to China would "need to be investigated, whether it's Joe Biden, whether it's President Trump, whether it's Ronald Reagan."
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Miss @mehdirhasan's powerful interview with Jon Stewart and @JohnFeal1?
Watch the entire conversation anytime on @peacockTV or here: youtube.com/watch?v=C3cpFwLe…
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Jon Stewart on getting benefits for 9/11 responders: "Mike Lee was one of the more difficult senators that John and I had to deal with down there, along with Mitch McConnell and, quite frankly, most of the Republican leadership"
WATCH the entire interview
youtube.com/watch?v=C3cpFwLe…
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It's absurd for the GOP to attack Joe Biden as a socialist, actual socialist @sunraysunray of @jacobinmag tells Mehdi: "He's not one of us. He's not a socialist. He's not even for Medicare for all."
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"I don't think so, she calls me lovely," @RoKhanna says of Nancy Pelosi's criticism that he has "no idea of the particulars" of Covid stimulus negotiations. "If you have that thin skin, you won't get anything done in Congress," Khanna tells Mehdi.
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.@RoKhanna on reports that Biden is eyeing GOP candidates for cabinet slots: "I certainly don't think John Kasich ought to be making policy on economic matters" in a Biden administration, but "it depends on what role."
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.@RoKhanna says Sen. Dianne Feinstein didn't understand that Republicans "were going to use any means to grab power," explaining to Mehdi why she shouldn't be Judiciary Chair if a Republican is in the White House.
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"The idea of civil strife doesn't come out of nowhere. There has to be a seed. And that seed has to be watered so it can grow."
Mehdi takes on Republicans' increasingly bitter rhetoric against quote-unquote "blue state America."
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Ground Zero demolition supervisor-turned-activist @johnfeal1 tells Mehdi what Americans can do to help responders: "I'm a strong believer that charity overcomes evil ... And I think we're going to start healing ourselves as a nation when more and more people can get involved."
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"I think one of the issues that occurs with the Republican Party, is nothing is real until it happens to them... For a Republican, an entitlement is just money spent on something *you* don't need. But if *you* need it, well then it's necessary and patriotic." -Jon Stewart
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Joining us tonight: Jon Stewart and @JohnFeal1
Streaming starting at 7PM on “The Choice” on @peacockTV
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Miss @mehdirhasan's interview with @SophiaBush?
Check out here interview and more anytime on @PeacockTV
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