What Sen. Joe Manchin is saying publicly about filibuster reform is at odds with what he’s saying privately. @MehdiRHasan asks if it matters in the long run:
The GOP has been intent on abolishing OBAMACARE for years. In tonight’s mini-rant, @MehdiRHasan counts the many ways they’ve tried in only 60 seconds.
Start the clock! ⏱
.@mehdirhasan: How do Democrats get “so easily hammered” on police issues, while Republicans remain unscathed even when they disrespect police officers?
@RepSwalwell: “Because we don’t punch back hard enough.”
While Donald Trump wasn’t the only president to surveil journalists during his time in office, @RepSwalwell points out a key difference: “Obama’s DOJ doing that was wrong. However, I don’t believe there’s evidence that the DOJ under President Obama was doing it to be vindictive.”
.@brianstelter used to believe that you could qualify Fox News' daytime programming as journalism, even if you couldn't say the same of its primetime opinion shows.
But as he tells @MehdiRHasan, that channel isn't recognizable any more.
House Dems are no longer trying to obtain records of Trump’s private conversations with Putin.
@RoKhanna tells @MehdiRHasan “Sometimes looking backwards is necessary to look forwards.”
.@mehdirhasan: The U.S. & Russia possess 90% of the world’s nuclear arms. Based on what we heard today, are we safer after Biden and Putin have met?
@RoKhanna says we’re “marginally safer,” but not as safe as we were under Reagan.
The setting of today’s historic summit between Pres. Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin was the same, and the stakes were just as high as when Reagan and Gorbachev first met in Geneva in 1985, but as @MehdiRHasan points out, that’s where the similarities end.
WATCH:
“This Russia is appealing to our worst sides. This Russia shows us what we can become, and what we ought not become.”
@TimothyDSnyder compares the view of the USSR during the Cold War and the view of Russia today.
Putin turned to whataboutism, invoking the insurrection and BLM when asked about the crackdown against opposition in his own country. Sound familiar?
@TimothyDSnyder: “Sometimes you can’t tell who’s borrowing whose talking points.”
WATCH: Pres. Biden is speaking now and will answer questions from the press.
Then, @mehdirhasan brings you live coverage and analysis.
Tune in here: youtube.com/watch?v=zIfMJ5ct…
.@OliviaTroye says it’s “negligence” and “irresponsible leadership” that allows conspiracy theorist Rep. Paul Gosar to have a seat in the House of Representatives.