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The first hearing for the House select committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6 attack is set for Tuesday. @MehdiRHasan presents the 5 key questions he wants to see answered. WATCH:
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Do Fox and the Murdochs have blood on their hands for all the disinformation they’ve propagated?
@TurnbullMalcolm: “They certainly have contributed to blood being shed.”
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.@mehdirhasan asks @TurnbullMalcolm if he has a msg for Trump from one former conservative world leader to another. But the ex-Australian PM says Trump isn’t even a conservative in the first place.
“He’s anything but a conservative. He’s a populist, an authoritarian populist.”
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Do the folks at Facebook know their app is helping to spread and incite violence?
Author @sheeraf tells @mehdirhasan that “the warnings were there.”
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Sean Hannity criticized Joe Biden for kissing up to dictators. Really makes you yearn for Trump, since he never did anything like that, right? Right?
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Edward Snowden called the global investigation known as the Pegasus Project into smartphone surveillance the “story of the year.”
One of its journalists, @skirchy, puts it in context.
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Biden says abolishing the filibuster would “throw Congress into chaos,” despite the GOP assault on voting rights. @RepDean tells @mehdirhasan that the filibuster’s Jim Crow vestiges are another reason it has to go:
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Should Donald Trump be subpoenaed in the House select cmte probe into January 6th?
@RepDean says yes, so we can find out “what did Donald Trump know and when did he know it?”
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As Speaker Pelosi ponders the size and shape of the January 6 Select Committee, @mehdirhasan sits down with former impeachment manager @RepDean about how far the investigation should go.
Tune in at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV: peacocktv.com/watch/playback…
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Tune in on @peacockTV here: peacocktv.com/watch/playback…
We're so used to U.S. conservatives denying climate change & democracy and hugging Rupert Murdoch, we forget not all conservatives are like that.
Check out my fascinating interview with conservative ex-Australian prime minister @TurnbullMalcolm tonight on @peacockTV from 7pm ET:
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In a new piece for @MSNBC, @mehdirhasan asks, "dare we dream that the next 25 years in America start to look more like the Roosevelt era and less like the Reagan one?"
msnbc.com/msnbc/america-s-ec…
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Why don’t we talk more about U.S. foreign agents?
@ryangrim says it’s in part because “American foreign policy matters more to foreigners than it matters to people here in the United States.”
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UAE ambassador to the U.S. Yousef Al Otaiba is sometimes dubbed “Brotaiba” because of the influence he has on American foreign policy.
@AkbarSAhmed talks to @mehdirhasan about how Otaiba’s influence has only grown.
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As lawmakers and other officials push for people to get vaccinated, Covid survivors who are still dealing with symptoms are being forgotten.
@mehdirhasan delves into ‘long Covid.’
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A common excuse for not getting vaccinated is not knowing what the side effects might be... but what about the long-term effects of having Covid?
Noreen Jameel describes having long Covid and tells @mehdirhasan “my life expectancy has been shortened.”
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Is he running?
@PhilipRucker tries to answer the question of whether or not Trump will mount a comeback in 2024. (Spoiler alert: “It’s very much an open question.”)
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How reliable are the sources narrating life inside the Trump WH?
Author @CarolLeonnig says she and @PhilipRucker were “on guard” for interviewees like Ivanka Trump attempting to make themselves look better and rehab their images.
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“Jim’s a smart guy, but he is unbelievably dishonest.”
@RepAdamSmith served on the Benghazi select committee with Rep. Jim Jordan and says there’s a reason Republicans want him in all hearings. “He has a very specific mission here: he is going to bully witnesses into submission.”
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