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Rep.-Elect @MondaireJones tells @Mehdirhasan what it means to be one of the first openly gay black Congressmen in the year 2020
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Democrats keep losing house seats. Why? Because of discussions of socialist policy? Talk of defunding police?
Or is the answer more nuanced?
"I want to have a data driven conversation" -Rep.-Elect @MondaireJones
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"We have a bad habit within the Democratic party of being afraid of our own shadow," @MondaireJones on why his party should not shy away from pushing the Green New Deal and Medicare For All despite pressure from the GOP
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Trump "is not going to stop this trajectory," says @IrwinRedlenerMD, "We'd be better off looking at the governors around the country, Republican and Dems, and appeal to their better judgment."
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Veteran federal prosecutors @glennkirschner2 and @LawProfButler disagree over whether and how the president could face criminal charges over his administration's response to handling the coronavirus pandemic
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Krugman: You can't have a discussion with GOP if everything is 'socialism' | The Mehdi Hasan Show youtube.com/watch?v=wMkqvluB…
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Don Cheadle Says Biden Climate Plan Does Not Go Far Enough, Hopes for More | The Mehdi Hasan Show - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=PjA0wfOF…
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Obama "eviscerated Trump at that WH correspondents' dinner back in 2011, and pretty much made mincemeat of that whole birtherism theory right then," says @larrywilmore. "That's what separates Obama from somebody like Trump, is Obama did it with class."
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Why does Mark Zuckerberg show such deference to Republicans? "I think it's mostly looking after the bottom line," says @oneunderscore__, who broke the story of Zuck's secret dinner with Trump. He adds: "It wasn't the only secret dinner he's had."
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Whatever happens in 2021, @AlexPadilla4CA says, the Senate filibuster should end: "The filibuster is no longer a matter of tradition, it has become a matter of life and death. And I'm -- as all public servants should be -- in this for saving and helping improve people's lives."
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Mehdi asks @AlexPadilla4CA if he would accept an appointment to Kamala Harris’ old Senate seat. “Important conversation to have with my wife first,” he laughs, but adds that he’s “flattered to be part of the conversation.”
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“Tommy Tuberville knows as much about American politics and history as I do about American football. And I know nothing about American football.” @mehdirhasan surveys the rantings of Alabama’s newest United States senator.
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"'Boy, did we screw up!' he writes. 'What a mess!' Thing is, he's still doing it." Magnate Charles Koch is crying crocodile tears over the right-wing dystopia he helped fund... and Mehdi is having none of it: “Billionaires. Gotta love ‘em.”
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“Trump still has a very loyal base,” says Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, and he could save “countless lives” from Covid by simply recommending masks. “Folks would do it because they listen to him,” she says, but ”the fact that he continues to dismiss this makes it all the worse.”
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.@EJDionne tells Mehdi that "Democrats need to have confidence" that they seem to lack, even in victory. Republicans don’t have that problem, he adds: “Even when they lose the popular vote, they declare themselves winners."
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Amid erroneous claims of widespread voter fraud in the United States, @AlexPadilla4CA joins us tonight.
Streaming starting at 7 PM ET on peacocktv.com
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Check out @mehdirhasan's full interview with @paulkrugman on whether Elizabeth Warren should be Treasury Secretary and how Democrats should think about Socialist policies and the Socialist label youtube.com/wMkqvluBc2M
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