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What is President Trump’s next move (and also what exactly is he doing all day?) now that the Electoral College has finalized the election?
Hopefully @jonathanvswan has some answers for us tonight.
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With just weeks left of the Trump admin., AG Barr is out. And the Electoral College sealed Biden’s win. @jonathanvswan, @DonaldAyer6, @celinegounder, & @TimothyDSnyder join @MehdiRHasan to break down what that means for the country and more tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @PeacockTV.
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There were 33 arrests at the pro-Trump protests on Saturday, far fewer than during the summer BLM protests. Is that a police double-standard? "Of course I'm concerned about it," says @AGKarlRacine. "That focus is important. But the real focus should be on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave."
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.@MsLaToshaBrown is all for Joe Biden's unity rhetoric, but "unity is usually a word for white comfort,” she says. “It means... we're going to keep white American comfortable. It doesn't matter how marginalized communities are treated, how they feel."
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Democracy prevailed today, says @CharlieSykes, reacting to Biden's speech. But the GOP's "ongoing attack on the election, it is delusional, it is dishonest, it is reckless, and it is seditious," he adds. "The problem is that a clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower."
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Joe Biden said tonight that it’s time for America to heal. “I absolutely agree with him, I think that's a part of the process,” says @MsLaToshaBrown. But to heal, "we've got to stop the pain" and "the constant threat of voter suppression."
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Pro-Trump protesters ripped BLM signs off Black churches in DC and set them on fire this weekend. "It is a hate crime," @AGKarlRacine says. But under DC's "peculiar jurisdiction," he complains, prosecuting hate crimes is not up to him; it's up to a Trump-appointed US attorney.
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Bill Barr "has done Donald Trump's bidding ever since he walked into the job," says @AGKarlRacine, and for Barr to get "out of the getaway vehicle now" suggests that "perhaps he does not want to be a part of the next series of wrongful events."
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Shouldn't it bother us, Mehdi asks former FDA chief Mark McClellan, that a Covid vaccine is "a huge source of profit for pharmaceutical companies?"
McClellan agrees. "We're gonna keep having debates about what the price should be," he says. "I think it's fair to ask."
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The first doses of the covid vaccine were given to US healthcare workers today, as a plague of political violence threatens democracy. @AGKarlRacine, Mark McClellan, @SykesCharlie, & @MsLaToshaBrown join @mehdirhasan to discuss this and more at 7 p.m. ET: youtube.com/irGbvhifdD8
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As the first vaccines roll out to frontline workers in America, joining us tonight former FDA Commissioner Dr. Mark McClellan
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With electors across the country casting their votes, @AGKarlRacine joins us to talk about the president’s effort to continue to dispute the election.
Join @mehdirhasan tonight at 7 PM
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This week, @SethMeyers welcomes @thechicks, @JamieTonight, @xtina, @AmandaSeyfried, @MrCraigRobinson, @mehdirhasan, @staceyabrams, @HollandTaylor, Kristen Wiig and @carrieunderwood!
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"Do you remember where you were on 9/11? We all do, right?" How about Wednesday? Or Thursday? Despite the 9/11-sized Covid death tolls the U.S. faces every day now, Mehdi is still waiting for the "wartime" response.
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The former head of construction for the Trump Organization tells Mehdi that losing the election is “killing” President Trump: “This manipulation of the voting system. This was all geared to get Trump in the office and he expected it would happen. So he’s angry about that, too.”
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And here are the House Republicans who wanted to overturn the elections in their own states.
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.@keithellison has little patience for Republican election conspiracy theories… and Democratic tolerance. "I will personally say that as a Democrat, lifelong, we put up with too much of this stuff... it's looking less and less like they have a better nature to appeal to."
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"If any attorney working at the Minnesota Attorney General's office filed a lawsuit with as little legal and factual and support as this," says @keithellison of the failed Texas suit to overturn the election, they'd be censured. "I'm wondering is there a price to be paid for it?"
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The CDC director says we could see 450K Covid deaths by February, but that's an underestimate, says @DrEricDing: "We are literally living in the worst case scenario that we could have imagined several months ago." As for Covid truthers, he scoffs, "You can't fudge body bags."
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