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A new book, “Empire of Pain,” follows the Sackler family from its humble origins in Brooklyn, through the Oxycontin scandal that fueled the opioid crisis. Author @praddenkeefe joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV
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“We need to talk tonight about policing in America...about who our heavily armed and armored law enforcement officers deem a threat to public safety, and who they don’t.”
Watch @mehdirhasan discuss “the black men at traffic stops versus the white mobs at the Capitol”:
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Jasmila Žbanić’s Bosnian war drama “Quo Vadis, Aida?” is up for a Best Foreign Language Oscar, and the story is relevant today: “My film is showing that war is not a solution to anything,” she tells @mehdirhasan. “In war everybody is a loser...there are no winners in any war.”
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It’s a @Booker4KY lightning round: M4A? “Absolutely.” $15 minimum wage? “That's the floor.” Filibuster? “Bye.” Watch him answer more in rapid fire…on a Green New Deal, defunding police, abolishing ICE, and the biggest question of all: Is he running against Rand Paul?
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Former state rep. @Booker4KY is mulling a run against Sen. Rand Paul.
“We have two very very terrible senators here in Kentucky,” he tells @mehdirhasan. “And both of them have really profited off our poverty and our pain, and make a mockery of us.”
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Michigan has one of the worst Covid-19 trend lines in the country. Why isn’t state leadership considering another lockdown? @mehdirhasan presses Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist:
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WATCH: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants his state's mail-in ballots to potentially be rejected because of signature mismatches. “But,” @mehdirhasan asks, “how about his own?” Introducing a GOP voter-suppression measure that even a GOP governor can’t beat:
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Michigan companies like Ford Motors are speaking out against GOP voter-suppression efforts. “It’s really great and empowering and encouraging to see that,” @LtGovGilchrist says. “It happened too late in Georgia. But it’s happening at the right time here in Michigan.”
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“The last picture that my son has on his camera is the officer who turned around and shot him,” says Oscar Grant’s mother, @WandaJohnson. Daunte Wright was killed by police in similar fashion; his family, Johnson says, “will never be able to have the justice that they deserve.”
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Could Sen. Rand Paul face a challenger in the 2022 midterms? @Booker4KY, who announced Monday that he’s forming an exploratory committee for a Senate run, joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss at 7 p.m. ET on @peacocktv and live: youtube.com/uks2UU49dKo
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Michigan Republicans are planning a controversial tactic to go around Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s expected veto on new restrictive voting laws. @LtGovGilchrist joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss at 7 p.m. ET on @peacocktv and live: youtube.com/uks2UU49dKo
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12 years before Daunte Wright was killed by police, Oscar Grant was killed in a gun-taser “mixup.” Grant’s mother, Rev. Wanda Johnson (@OscarGrant4Life), joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss policing in America at 7 p.m. ET on @peacocktv and live: youtube.com/uks2UU49dKo
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Always watch @esglaude:
"It happens over and over again. We are the reason why we're killed.... It's our fault we're subject to humiliation. It's our fault that we're treated like dogs."
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.@GovindPersad worries that the FDA’s pause on the J&J vaccine will interfere with “individual decisions between patients and providers”: “In a pandemic, you have to compare the risk that you're facing from Covid with the risk that you're facing from a vaccine.”
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“You're allowed to be as racist, as ideologically abhorrent and disgusting, as you want to be,” The Atlantic’s @AdamSerwer says of Tucker Carlson, but “the point of the Great Replacement/white genocide argument is to justify violence against people who are not white.”
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WATCH: Tucker Carlson spent *twenty-one* minutes last night doubling down on a racist anti-immigrant conspiracy theory. “This is the mainstreaming of neo-Nazi hatred in America,” @mehdirhasan says. “So what can be done about it?”
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Derek Chauvin’s defense began with an expert saying he used “reasonable” force kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. That expert testified for the cop who killed Laquan McDonald, @OakCliffLawyer notes: “If you pay his hourly fee, he will show up at a case and defend a police officer.”
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As Biden plans an Afghanistan exit, some hawks say we must stay to improve women's lives. “It's an argument with which I'm deeply sympathetic,” @EmmaMAshford says, but it's “not the reason the U.S. went into Afghanistan. It’s not even the reason we stayed there for 20 years.”
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The U.S. has paused the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine to investigate reports of blood clots -- a sound measure, but “There's no question that this is red meat for the anti-vaccine lobby,” Dr. @PeterHotez tells @mehdirhasan. He explains how:
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.@AdamSerwer joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss the mainstreaming of white supremacy in the media at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV
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