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Mehdi explains Trump’s recent claim to Georgia supporters that Democrats will “take over your farm.” Spoiler alert: racism, South Africa and Tucker Carlson are involved.
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.@LinaAlhathloul, whose sister has been jailed and tortured by Saudi Prince MBS, says the prince’s modernization moves in the country are window dressing: “Whoever believes him is not informed anymore or is part of the coverup,” she says. “There are two Saudi Arabias now.”
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“The Swedes, in essence, relied on self-responsibility against the coronavirus… and it didn’t work.” Mehdi takes on Sweden's hands-off Covid model that so many U.S. conservatives touted to justify their policies -- and that’s now responsible for mass deaths in the Nordic nation.
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"It is very, very difficult to remember that we are at war in countries that we have been at war in for a very long time," says @SPMiles42, "and our media -- for a large part -- has done a terrible job of helping remind us of the consequences of that."
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Plenty of Republicans know Trump lost and wish he would stop, @senatorjen suggests: "In private, people just want it to go away. I think that they feel pressured not to say anything or not to actually just acknowledge reality."
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.@senatorjen says Rudy Giuliani’s appearance at a GA election hearing last week "was coordinated with Senate Republicans…The whole point was really just to kind of have OAN livestream this, and have Trump supporters watch it without any real way to refute what they were saying.”
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.@AGKarlRacine of Washington, DC, has prioritized tackling hate crimes. Is Trump contributing to their rise, Mehdi asks? ”I think there's no doubt about it. The tenor, the mood, the tolerance for violence, for hate speech, for division, has accelerated at an extraordinary pace.”
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Ivanka Trump says her family’s being railroaded by DC’s @AGKarlRacine and his investigation into overcharging. Not at all, he says: “Ivanka Trump's allegation is completely erroneous, incorrect, and typical of the Trump defense, which is [that it’s] always someone else’s fault.”
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With COVID-19 raging and Rudy Giuliani in the hospital, the Trump campaign’s attempts to undo the election have never been shakier.
@agkarlracine
@senatorjen
@SPMiles42
@linaalhathloul
& Neta Crawford join tonight to discuss that and more on peacocktv.com
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With the end of “the Kraken’s” legal challenge, Georgia certifies its election (again).
@senatorjen joins us live to discuss ongoing efforts to undermine confidence in the outcome and her audience with Rudy Giuliani
Streaming tonight at 7 PM
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After watching *that* video of the Michigan woman at the election hearing, @DavidHMandel laughs. “ Julia would have fired me if I handed in that scene,” he says. “Veep was funny because we had an idea of what a president is *supposed* to do,” but Trump has “destroyed satire.”
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Mehdi: “Are you gonna be bringing back ‘Veep’?”
@DavidHMandel: “Let me just say this -- we left a lot of room. We left a lot of wiggle room. In the finale, when we jumped ahead, we set up certain things...There was a method to our madness. We left a lot of openings.”
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"We always... sat around thinking, 'What could possibly happen?'" says "Veep" showrunner @DavidHMandel on how the hit sitcom’s writers seemed to weirdly presage real events. "But we had no idea they were just gonna steal so much from us during the Trump administration."
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Ex-federal prosecutor Berit Berger says the idea of preemptively pardoning somebody "hasn't really been tested in the courts," but a blanket Trump pardon "would probably hold up in a court of law... although it would strike a lot of people as odd.”
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With a new administration, a new Covid relief bill can be brought up in January, says @RepBarbaraLee -- but in the meantime, Democrats must accept the GOP's $908B compromise stimulus: "State and local workers need this funding."
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How did the GOP get so radical? Newt Gingrich “is a pivot point here… Newt deliberately moved toward a tribalism in our politics,” says @NormOrnstein. “That, along with the development of talk radio and the tribal social media, has made it so much worse.”
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.@NormOrnstein, who literally wrote the book on GOP polarization, “didn't think it would get this far,” he says, blasting "the complete moral cowardice, the abject failure of the overwhelming majority of Republican elected officials… This is a cult, Mehdi."
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Who better to talk about a year that felt straight out of Veep than Executive Producer @DavidHMandel?
Join us starting at 7 PM on peacocktv.com
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