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A Senate slumber party for “vote-o-rama” might sound fun, but last night’s performative partisanship on meaningless votes was anything but. @mehdirhasan recounts what you probably missed:
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“It’s scary as heck. If you aren’t terrified, you aren’t paying attention” is how @paulkrugman feels about the future of American democracy… 😅
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Lawmakers love to use the national debt as an excuse for not passing legislation, but @paulkrugman is sure that “many senators really haven’t done the math…They really don’t understand that this is not a big deal.”
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Another partisan showdown looms over the "debt ceiling" — a self-imposed spending limit, and a stumbling block unique to the U.S.
"Nobody [else] does this. It's insane," says @paulkrugman, adding, "There's a widespread sense that Obama got rolled" by GOP debt ceiling threats:
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Confronted with fmr. acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen’s testimony that Trump pushed him to cast public doubt on the election, Republicans like Sen. Chuck Grassley say Trump was just bouncing ideas off “his closest staff.”
Does that wash?
Fmr. Deputy AG Donald Ayer: "No!"
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Comedy writer and car devotee @SpikeFeresten joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss electric cars, the Biden plan, aaaaand maybe a bit of Seinfeld.
Tune in at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/kjCSlJIkLaw
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Is the $3.5T budget proposal just a numbers game to lawmakers like Manchin and Sinema, when it could actually help people who are struggling? Economist @paulkrugman joins @mehdirhasan tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/kjCSlJIkLaw
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.@mehdirhasan: “Do you believe there is a straight line from 9/11 and the institutionalized Islamophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment [to] the rise of Donald Trump?"
@attackerman: "Quite a straight line."
He explains the argument from his new book, "Reign of Terror":
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If Afghanistan is already on the brink of collapse again amid U.S. troops withdrawing, what have we been doing there for two decades?
@mehdirhasan chronicles what the War on Terror has *not* achieved.
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One country’s trash is another country’s would-be treasure...
As the rest of the world waits for vaccines, states across the U.S. are throwing out thousands of jabs that are expiring:
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In Duval County, Florida, where Trump got 48% of the vote in 2020, only 4% of kids have opted out of a school mask mandate.
Even in very conservative FL counties, says @NikkiFried, "parents are saying 'Listen: When it comes to my kids, I'm putting my kids before politics.'"
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Behind the scenes of the infrastructure deal, Mitch McConnell is courting Sens. Manchin and Sinema to hold fast on the filibuster. The WH is hoping they'll back a big reconciliation bill. "These two things can't both be right," @Leahgreenb says. "Someone's gonna get screwed."
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Cuomo's resignation is an "earthquake moment in New York politics," says longtime critic @ZephyrTeachout. "It was the first time in Andrew Cuomo's career that, when he did the political math," he came up losing. "He saw the Assembly was gonna impeach him."
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As U.S. troops continue their exit from Afghanistan, journalist @attackerman discusses his new book that traces the path from 9/11 to the rise of Trump.
Watch tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/4CxhgdTrccs
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NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo has resigned, and the state will be led by its first female governor.
Cuomo’s former primary rival @ZephyrTeachout and state Senator @Biaggi4NY join @mehdirhasan to discuss the road ahead.
Tune in at 7p ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/4CxhgdTrccs
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t making many friends with his anti-mask rhetoric.
Agriculture Commissioner @NikkiFried talks about some schools' push to defy his ban on mask mandates tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/4CxhgdTrccs
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Tune in on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/4CxhgdTrccs
Spencer’s on the @MehdiHasanShow tonight! From 7pm ET on @peacockTV
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Now that we have your attention, watch the full interview with climate scientist Linda Mearns, coauthor of a new U.N. report out today on the dire state of global warming...and what humans can do to mitigate it before it’s too late:
youtube.com/VNb0SgPXuP0
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Tfw you just really want to be interviewed by @mehdirhasan too
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