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Convictions of police for excessive force are rare -- only five officers have been convicted of murder in the past decade and a half, @deray tells @mehdirhasan -- and in the Chauvin case, “the defense understands that they just need one person on the jury” to side with them.
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Opening statements in the trial of George Floyd’s accused ex-police officer killer were “predictable,” Cardozo Law’s @ekownyankah tells @mehdirhasan. While prosecutors presented the “utterly heartbreaking” video of Floyd’s death, defense attorneys were looking to “smear him”:
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As the deadline for the Amazon union vote in Alabama approaches, @fshakir joins @mehdirhasan to discuss one of the biggest fights for collective bargaining in years. Tune in at 7 p.m. ET on @peacocktv and live: youtube.com/P8I4OhCIGdk
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President Biden is getting high marks from many progressives in his first 100 days. But is his foreign policy feeling a little too familiar? @RepSchakowsky joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss at 7 p.m. ET on @peacocktv and live: youtube.com/P8I4OhCIGdk
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Attorneys in a Minneapolis courtroom made opening statements in the trial of Derek Chauvin this morning. @ekownyankah and @deray join @mehdirhasan to unpack what we learned and what it means for the rest of the trial at 7 p.m. ET on @peacocktv and live: youtube.com/P8I4OhCIGdk
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If the West Wing influenced a generation of lawmakers with its message of noble bipartisanship, Josh Lyman tells @MehdiRHasan that world doesn’t exist anymore: “The fakest thing, in retrospect,” says @BradleyWhitford, “is that we had reasonable Republicans.”
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“My first instinct is yes, absolutely. We need to put whatever pressure we can” @BradleyWhitford tells @MehdiRHasan about Hollywood boycotts in Georgia amid new voting restrictions. But ultimately, he says he’ll “follow the lead of Stacey Abrams.”
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“Was this about getting a better president than Donald Trump?” Parkland survivor @cameron_kasky asks @MehdiRHasan about Biden and gun reform. “The Joker would be a better president than Donald Trump.”
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“The conditions I lived in were not acceptable, but they certainly did not resemble anything like the conditions that kids are living in at our border here in the United States of America.” @IlhanMN tells @MehdiRHasan about the 4 years she spent as a kid in a Kenya refugee camp.
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GA Republicans passed a new law effectively rigging the next election in their favor. But the threat to democracy in the U.S. is not just from voter suppression laws, it’s from senior members of a party that continues to incite violence against their opponents. Start the clock!
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.@IlhanMN was among the congressional Dems who visited the border on Friday. “I was your age when I first came to the U.S., she recounts of her conversation with a 12-year-old boy. “He lit up,” she tells @MehdiRHasan, “realizing there are lawmakers … who understand his journey.”
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Parkland shooting survivor @cameron_kasky reacts to @LindseyGrahamSC ‘s comments on AR-15s: “The suggestion that a twerp like Lindsey Graham can be some sort of tough guy fending away apocalyptic invaders is just the narrative that they sell.”
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Opening statements in the trial of Derek Chauvin over the death of George Floyd begin in Minneapolis on Monday. “We’re holding our breath,” Rep. Ilhan Omar tells @MehdiRHasan
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She went from law clerk to household name investigating a cancer-causing chemical in Hinkley, CA. Find out why @ErinBrockovich is now warning that a global sperm-count crisis in on the way:
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President Biden said today that passing gun reform is “all about timing.” But @brianlemek says we should seek change now. "What are we all waiting for?"
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“We could have done so much more,” @DrEricDing says about the failed U.S. Covid response in 2020. Hear him talk with @MehdiRHasan about the shocking number of American lives that possibly could’ve been saved (out of 550,000, so far):
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The U.S. political system usually only deals with immigration in a short-term way. "If we know there is going to be an emergency every year, is it really an emergency?" @ErikaAndiola asks @mehdirhasan.
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“This chemical has been in the environment for decades, and then you wait for science to catch up.” @ErinBrockovich shares her frustrations about the “forever chemicals” now causing havoc with @MehdiRHasan.
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The president set a new goal of vaccinating 200m Americans by the end of his first 100 days. Yet no one asked him about Covid at his news conference. @DrEricDing told @MehdiRHasan there’s a lot he wanted to hear from Biden, including the alarming situation in Brazil. WATCH:
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Immigration questions dominated at Biden's first news conference. “Those questions were not really coming from a place of understanding,” @ErikaAndiola tells @mehdirhasan. "It was honestly really painful to watch."
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