Streaming weekly on msnbc.com/mehdi, and Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on @MSNBC.
Joined October 2020
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“A spectre is haunting Washington: the spectre of Trumpism.”
From purges of party leadership to renewed lies about the insurrection, @mehdirhasan recounts a banner day for the Republicans…and the ghost that’s always in the room with them:
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One Capitol rioter is using Fox News as a criminal defense, claiming he suffered from “Foxitis.” @MrKRudd joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss the influence of Murdoch-owned media outlets around the world tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacocktv and live: youtube.com/cthuD8Lgzxk
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Today, Pres. Biden met with Congressional leadership to try to get something done on infrastructure. @SenWhitehouse joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss at 7 p.m. ET on @peacocktv and live: youtube.com/cthuD8Lgzxk
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With Liz Cheney ousted from House GOP leadership, and an impending party exodus from 100+ past leaders, will the Republican party as we know it survive? @timobrien and @OliviaTroye join @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss at 7 p.m. ET on @peacocktv and live: youtube.com/cthuD8Lgzxk
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WATCH: Free advice for NYC mayoral candidates, from @mehdirhasan: “Running for office isn't the same as being on ‘The Price Is Right’. You don't get any credit for giving the lowest bid without going over.”
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“54% of the American people support DC statehood,” @EleanorNorton notes.
But several GOP senators have suggested that Maryland absorb DC instead.
What does Del. Norton think about that?
“I invite the senators to ask Maryland.”
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Even Israel’s leading human rights group has accused the nation of apartheid, and Jerusalem’s deputy mayor says the aim is to settle more Jews in the heavily Palestinian parts of East Jerusalem. Here’s what Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Elad Strohmayer says to that:
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As she faces removal from GOP leadership for insufficient Trumpiness, Rep. Liz Cheney has gotten a lot of love from the media for “her dedication to the truth.”
“But,” @mehdirhasan says, “Let's not forget who Liz Cheney really is.” Here’s a reminder:
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Is Joe Biden a boring president? “I think there's a distinction between boring and avoiding melodrama,” @jmeacham tells @mehdirhasan. “He is actually governing...I think that he is actually doing the job that 81 million Americans hired him to do.”
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Rep. @BettyMcCollum04 has introduced a bill to bar U.S. aid to Israel from funding abuses in occupied territories. “What we have seen is total nonaccountability for U.S. taxpayer dollars,” she says, adding that dollars shouldn’t go “to demolish homes in a Palestinian area.”
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At least 33 people are dead after unrest, rocket attacks, & airstrikes rock Israel and the Palestinian territories. @BettyMcCollum04 joins @mehdirhasan to discuss new legislation that would restrict Israel's spending of US aid at 7 pm on @peacocktv & live: youtube.com/iNkmtGi6GLY
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With midterms looming, & the GOP’s introduction of restrictive voting bills, will President Biden be able to shepherd some of his biggest campaign promises through Congress? Historian @jmeacham joins @mehdirhasan to discuss at 7 pm on @peacocktv & live: youtube.com/iNkmtGi6GLY
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In a new @usatoday op-ed, @RepTomColeman points out that D.C. statehood used to have bipartisan support. Tonight, @EleanorNorton joins @mehdirhasan to discuss why she believes D.C. statehood can still pass at 7 p.m. ET on @peacocktv. peacocktv.com/channels/the-c…
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“Revenge is a dish best served live on Newsmax.” -- @mehdirhasan
Watch this. You won’t regret it.
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.@Sam_Rasoul is running for lt. governor of VA; if he wins, he’d be the first statewide elected Muslim in the history of the South. “When I first ran for office,” he tells @mehdirhasan, “I was knocking on a man’s door…”
It’s quite a story. Watch the rest, and Mehdi's reaction:
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WATCH: Want to hear @mehdirhasan try to list all the things Republicans have decried as “cancel culture” in 60 seconds?
Of course you do.
Also: Horses.
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Can Biden & moderate Senate Dems be persuaded to junk the filibuster? Secy. Pete Buttigieg doesn’t answer directly. "You campaign in poetry and you govern in prose," he tells @mehdirhasan, adding that "there's a poetic quality" to Biden's ambitions... and his pragmatism:
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The current violence in Israel and Gaza is “enabled by Netanyahu's racist and anti-Palestinian rhetoric,” @RashidaTlaib tells @mehdirhasan. “This is an apartheid system. Israel's own prominent human rights organization has declared it, and so has Human Rights Watch.”
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"One word you hear a lot when you cover Israel-Palestine is the word 'clashes'. 'There are clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem tonight!' It's a word, personally, I cannot stand."
Let @mehdirhasan explain why:
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At least 20 people died, and hundreds were injured after tensions in Gaza and Jerusalem came to a deadly head Monday. @RepRashida joins @mehdirhasan at 7 pm to discuss what steps the US can take to end the violence. Tune in on @peacocktv and YouTube: youtube.com/KDxhJhP8vXg
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