Mehdi: “Are you as worried as I am that the Biden-Yellen admin is going to do the whole ‘we need to worry about deficits’ thing again?”
@AnandWrites: “We need to balance the budget as the 8 millionth priority, right now, & I don’t even know what the other 7.999 million are”
“I, right now, feel like America is on a first date with President-elect Joe Biden.” @AnandWrites shares his hope that Biden will turn out to be “Scranton Joe who feels for people more than Delaware Joe” in the White House
"The irony of pardoning that turkey, it just kills me. We come to absolute power in the hands of very venal frail human beings is what we come to. It’s loud and clear with Trump and Barr.” @helenprejean
Mehdi to Newsmax CEO: “You put Sidney Powell, a QAnon supporting lawyer for Trump, on air. … Are you proud of that?"
Ruddy: “She’s a prominent attorney that filed on this, she’s a former U.S. Attorney. I think the public can make a decision.”
Mehdi asks Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy about the site’s apparent double standard in its 2016 post-election coverage of a Trump ‘landslide’ and how it now seems to be avoiding Biden’s win by a much larger margin.
Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy joins us tonight to discuss the changing media landscape as President Trump continues to contest the election results.
Streaming starting at 7:00 PM ET on peacocktv.com
The Trump DOJ presses forward with capital punishment amid the transition.
Joining us tonight to discuss the addition of three more executions @helenprejean
.@BillPascrell blasts the Trump legal circle's stoking of election conspiracy theories. "When you listen to this woman, Sidney Powell?" he says of the attorney who claimed that dead dictator Hugo Chavez bankrolled Biden's win, "You gotta be kidding me! Chavez died 8 years ago!"
As Biden names old hands to his administration, Mehdi asks @wendyrsherman: "Where are the new voices?"
"I think we are in a time where we need seasoned experienced people who know what they're doing," she says. "These folks...they'll be able to hit the ground running."
"There is no place in the United States of America for a Republican Party that refuses to loudly and broadly denounce racism," says @NHJennifer, lamenting how the GOP, her one-time home, has opted "to be the party of the Trump rather than the party of Abe Lincoln."
"Trump continues to say he will win, though it's tempting to wonder if all of his election lawyers were sick the day they taught law in law school." @mehdirhasan considers the case of Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign attorney who "makes Michael Cohen look like Thurgood Marshall."
As Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy and Chris Christie both say Trump’s fight against the election outcome should end, Mehdi asks Reuters’ @jeffmason1: Is the GOP dam finally breaking?
“I don't know,” he says, cautiously, adding: “I'm waiting for Mitch McConnell.”
BREAKING: GSA Admin. Emily Murphy has informed President-elect Biden that the administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to letter obtained by @GeoffRBennett.
It’s like the Republicans “are in a suicide cult at this point,” @aasif tells Mehdi. “They’re just lemmings, just going to slaughter. They’d rather just get the thing and potentially die than have to go against Trump.”