Even though the vast majority of terror threats to Americans are *not* from overseas groups but domestic extremists, @MiaMBloom says, "We don't have a really good way of understanding when it's the terrorist living among us."
Mehdi asks Georgia Democratic Senate hopeful @ReverendWarnock which Republican he'd rather face if there's a runoff. "I've never been focused on who I'm running against," he replies, "I'm focused on who I'm running for."
.@imillhiser tells Mehdi that Joe Biden is being pragmatic in avoiding conversations about expanding SCOTUS, "but the Supreme Court right now presents an existential threat to a Biden presidency. It presents an existential threat to voting rights...we can't put this off forever."
Amid news that Mike Pompeo wants to have NGOs like Amnesty International declared "anti-semitic," @mehdirhasan asks: "What if we applied the State Department's own new definition of anti-semitism to this commander in chief?"
.@mehdirhasan: "The president of the United States has told more than 20,000 lies, untruths and falsehoods since coming to office nearly 4 years ago. And tonight he added to the list; oh, he added to it big time."
Asked why the Mueller investigation didn’t go deeper on Trump’s finances, investigator Andrew Weissman says, "The concern was, is he going to fire us before we even started... was he going to pull the plug?"
Columbia researcher @JeffDSachs tells Mehdi what the COVID pandemic and climate change have in common: "They're both a profound threat to humanity, and Donald Trump is either ignorant [of] or utterly lies about both of them."
.@syramadad on Trump's Covid misinformation: "It is honestly just disgusting... we are trying to do everything we can to save as many lives as possible, and at the same time we have to now fight this contagion of misinformation that is being propagated at the highest level."
If you love the hit show, House of Cards, you'll love my chat tonight on the @MehdiHasanShow with actor & Trump critic @michaeljkellyjr, aka chief of staff Doug Stamper. What's truth and what's fiction these days?
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.@AWeissmann_ joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss new reports of election interference and reports that the president is once again thinking about getting rid of his FBI Director
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