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Mehdi asks whether drones will impact President Obama’s legacy for years to come.
@brhodes defends why it was a necessary tool against terrorism, but adds “If you have to do things in secret, I don’t think that’s healthy for democracy.”
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As Israel preps for a new prime minister, former Obama staffer @brhodes talks about the longterm challenges of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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It’s easy to call Covid-19 conspiracy theorists names like deluded and unhinged, but @mehdirhasan says we need to call them what they are: dangerous.
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.@mehdirhasan: Did it take leaving the WH and writing a book to realize flaws with U.S. foreign policy and its influence on the rest of the world?
Watch Obama’s former Deputy National Security Advisor @brhodes’s answer:
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In a @politico poll 29% of GOP voters say it’s somewhat or very likely that Donald Trump will be reinstated as president this year.
@monacharen says this kind of thinking has “become sort of a ticket of admission” in the modern Republican Party.
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.@BarbMcQuade takes us inside Don McGahn’s closed door testimony.
She tells @mehdirhasan that creating a false document to deny Trump’s call to fire Robert Mueller is “classic obstruction of justice.”
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If you can believe it, the “audit” and recounting of more than 2 million 2020 ballots in Arizona is! Still! Happening!
@mehdirhasan explains why Republicans from across the country are increasingly taking interest.
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BREAKING: Former Trump WH counsel Don McGahn’s closed-door testimony has been released, 2 years after he was subpoenaed.
@BarbMcQuade joins @mehdirhasan to spell it all out tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/_S1IaEC2J9U
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President Biden is in the UK on the first foreign trip of his presidency.
@brhodes joins @mehdirhasan to discuss his G7 trip and his new book “After the Fall,” about the threat of democracy in the U.S. and abroad.
7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/_S1IaEC2J9U
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Grab your popcorn for this one and watch @AnandWrites and Art Laffer debate taxing America’s top earners.
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When young people understand the truth of American history, a truth that some white conservatives are trying to make it illegal to teach, @ClintSmithIII says it “blows up the American myth of meritocracy.”
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Imagine the largest max security prison in Germany was built on a concentration camp, with 75% of the prisoners Jewish. @ClintSmithIII tells @MehdiRHasan that he found a similar situation in Louisiana, where 3/4 of prisoners in Angola are Black and it’s on a former plantation:
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The richest people in the U.S., like Elon Musk, Michael Bloomberg, and Jeff Bezos, didn’t pay income tax in certain years over the past couple decades, according to a @propublica report.
@mehdirhasan crunches the numbers:
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Why is the Biden Justice Department taking up Trump’s defense in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case?
@JoyceWhiteVance walks @mehdirhasan through the complicated situation President Biden’s DOJ is facing.
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.@AnandWrites says economist Arthur Laffer, through advocacy of supply-side and trickle-down economics, is “an architect of this legacy of misery in this country.”
Watch Laffer’s response:
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“Taxing billionaires’ income, rather than their wealth, is like giving medals in a pie-eating contest according to people’s shoe size.”
@AnandWrites with a 🥧 zinger on @propublica’s report that the nation’s wealthiest, in some years, paid no income taxes.
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“How the Word Is Passed” is about how the country comes to terms with (or doesn’t) its past of slavery.
@ClintSmithIII joins @mehdirhasan to discuss his new book.
Tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/iR8Xk-MWA0M
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President Biden's DOJ is seeking to defend former President Trump in E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit over defamation in rape denial.
@JoyceWhiteVance helps explain why tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/iR8Xk-MWA0M
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New reports reveal some of the U.S.’s wealthiest people pay nothing ($0❗️) in income tax.
@AnandWrites and Art Laffer join @mehdirhasan to break it down.
Tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/iR8Xk-MWA0M
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