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Another day, another astounding new book about the chaos of the Trump presidency.
Tonight, @PhilipRucker and @CarolLeonnig join @mehdirhasan.
Live at 7p ET on @peacockTV and YT:
youtube.com/7OEsC2iEGEM
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Speaker Pelosi rejected Jim Jordan & Jim Banks for the Jan 6 commission and GOP House Leader McCarthy says GOP will launch own probe. @RepAdamSmith, former member of the Benghazi select cmte. joins @mehdirhasan with his insights.
7p ET on @peacockTV & YT:
youtube.com/7OEsC2iEGEM
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Watch the full interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=YECs4nd6…
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.@AnandWrites calls the billionaire space race a charade meant to distract.
The world’s richest men want you to “look up at the rocket in space,” he says, “and not notice that they’re busting unions right here below where your eye is looking.”
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The last billionaire to space is still… filthy rich. Why are the world’s richest men racing each other to the outer atmosphere just because they can?
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.@arimoin says the country really needs to focus on monitoring the # of new Covid cases.
“Breakthrough disease, where people are either symptomatic and highly symptomatic, that’s something we need to be tracking much better.”
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.@JoeTrippi says he’s been going up against Republicans like Stuart Stevens that he’s joining on the Lincoln Project for decades. “I would get in a trench with him any time to stand up to this authoritarian movement ... and fight them.”
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There are ranking members of House committees and there are *wrecking* members. @mehdirhasan and @JoeTrippi discuss Jim Jordan’s appointment to the January 6th commission.
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A Trump associate was arrested on federal charges for illegally working with a foreign entity, and no, it’s not Paul Manafort.
@glennkirschner2 breaks down his biggest takeaways on Tom Barrack’s case.
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.@AnandWrites cautions people from rooting too hard for the billionaire space race without looking at the deeper context of unfair labor practices that shot him into the cosmos in the first place.
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Oh, how the tables have turned.
5 years ago today, Ted Cruz was booed at the 2016 RNC for detailing his concerns about then-candidate Donald Trump.
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“You cannot democratize space when you have not democratized Earth.”
@shannonmstirone with the take of the day on Bezos’ trip to space:
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Breakthrough cases of Covid-19 are growing in the U.S. Should vaccinated people be worried?
@arimoin has some answers tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/7lG3QevH_jc
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BREAKING: Thomas Barrack, the chairman of former President Trump's 2017 inaugural committee, has been arrested on federal charges. @glennkirschner2 joins us live tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/7lG3QevH_jc
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The GOP is accused of twisting the words of MLK Jr. to further its agenda. @mehdirhasan can’t even imagine it. Oh, wait. Yes, yes, he can imagine it:
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Author @MichaelCBender describes the throughline of the reporting in his book about the Trump presidency. Trump’s generals were shocked at how violent the then-president had become. They “thought he’d become unhinged really.”
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How do you convince someone who’s vaccine-hesitant to get the jab?
@DrRobDavidson tells @mehdirhasan the key is primary care doctors. People trust them and are most likely to listen to their advice.
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Not everyone can give a behind-the-scenes peek at how Trump is spending his days at Mar-a-Lago. As author @MichaelCBender tells @mehdirhasan, the ex-president’s biggest question these days is finding out if paying club members enjoyed the chicken or the fish:
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The country is remembering civil rights icon John Lewis one year after his death. That includes Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who refuses to end the filibuster to save voting rights. But sure, @mehdirhasan says, tell us more about how John Lewis is your hero:
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How does @gregoryjackson respond to the criticism that community violence interruption programs take up too many resources?
He encourages people to look at the real cost of violence, because “the dollars are there, the urgency is not.”
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