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.@mehdirhasan asks, “How on earth does our government, and our economy, get through this week?” Dems are scrambling after the GOP blocked a bill to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling to avoid a default. Plus Manchin is publicly calling Biden’s agenda “fiscal insanity.”
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Our tech gremlins weren’t too kind to us this evening, but @douglaslondon5 assures @mehdirhasan he wasn’t one of them 😉
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Former CIA spy @douglaslondon5 joins @mehdirhasan tonight to talk the changing game of espionage and how recruiting for the CIA changed after 9/11.
Join us at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/PSbEqzM4zeU
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Rikers Island has been known for some time for its horrific conditions, and the pandemic is only exacerbating the problem.
@JumaaneWilliams joins @mehdirhasan to discuss what can be done.
Tune in at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/PSbEqzM4zeU
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Dems are trying to move their spending bill through Congress, keep the gov’t open, and wrangle centrists for their votes.
Yet some Congress Members are using this crunch time to… play ball? ⚾️
Tune in tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/PSbEqzM4zeU
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“The normal problem is what he’s facing within his own party,” says @eosnos of Joe Biden. The other problem, which Osnos deems “abnormal,” is the GOP “willing to risk the credibility and the financial stability of the U.S. for the purposes of a political win.”
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“The Great Replacement Theory” is a racist, far-right belief that has made its way into the conservative mainstream thanks to Fox News and Tucker Carlson.
@mehdirhasan has a deep-dive into how we got here.
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.@CoriBush appeals to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for her vote to help pass the Biden agenda, in light of reporting that she is seemingly beholden to corporate donors.
"I am speaking to her humanity and I hope she hears me. I hope she hears me."
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“Tom Cotton should resign.”
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson has a strong message to the Republican Senator from Arkansas, who asked Gen. Milley today why he hasn’t resigned over the Afghanistan withdrawal. WATCH:
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Gen. Mark Milley confirmed speaking to authors of books about the Trump presidency that offer accounts he stood up to the then-president.
@mehdirhasan asks, “How messed up is American democracy that a general is our last line of defense?”
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House progressives and speaker Nancy Pelosi appear headed toward a standoff over the infrastructure bill and Pres. Biden’s budget.
@CoriBush talks to @mehdirhasan about whether they can come to an agreement before Thursday’s votes.
7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV: peacocktv.com/watch/playback…
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Gen. Mark Milley faces Congress in person over America’s rapid departure from Afghanistan + more.
@ColJackJacobs and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson join @mehdirhasan.
Tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV: peacocktv.com/watch/playback…
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.@JamaalBowmanNY voted yes on the Iron Dome funding bill. He explains why:
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As someone who experienced police brutality firsthand, @JamaalBowmanNY tells @mehdirhasan how disappointing it was that Congress couldn’t pass police reform:
“It’s even more demoralizing to the Black community because it shows, once again, that Black lives do not matter.”
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Does Nancy Pelosi have @JamaalBowmanNY’s vote on the $1.2T infrastructure bill this week? Not until the party’s centrists fulfill their promise to pass the $3.5T reconciliation bill full of benefits: “We have negotiated and worked on this in good faith for several months.”
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Who’s *against* free hearing aids for seniors? Centrist Democrats insist they’re not… but they’re in no hurry to vote for that, universal pre-K, expanded Medicare, higher taxes for the wealthy, and everything else in that $3.5 trillion spending bill you may have heard about:
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Did the #MeToo movement change anything in Hollywood?
Freida Pinto says yes, but “the work just has to continue. It just can’t stop there, and there’s a lot more to be done.”
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Workplaces have had to make major changes for Covid, and Hollywood is no exception.
Actress Freida Pinto tells @mehdirhasan what filming a movie during the pandemic was like:
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Reliably red states are less vaccinated and have more Covid cases than reliably blue states. Chartified, that trend “looks like a Civil War map from 1861,” says @PeterHotez. “It’s the epidemic among the Confederacy.”
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“We do not know whether this democracy will survive past the next election.”
@monacharen takes stock of the “revolutionary time” the country is currently living through:
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