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A new SCOTUS term offers a critical turning point… which path will the justices take?
@importantmeagan weighs in tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/ZbHkwnfMd8E
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Just a day after a Facebook whistleblower comes out of the woodwork, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp see outages worldwide.
@Moonalice joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss.
7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/ZbHkwnfMd8E
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Last week, as the U.S. crossed 700,000 Covid-19 deaths, Sen. Ted Cruz dribbled back into the world of basketball to come to the defense of NBA stars who are refusing to get vaccinated. @MehdiRHasan goes on offense in this #minirant. WATCH:
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"My full-time job is not to post. It's my part-time [job]."
@AOC talks to @MehdiRHasan about her video dunking on Sarah Palin that was brought to Mehdi’s attention by his teenage daughter.
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez faced criticism from both the right and the left after her “present” vote on additional funding for Israel's Iron Dome defense system.
@AOC tells @MehdiRHasan about the events that lead to her decision and if she has any regrets. WATCH:
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Since Biden took office, are we closer or further away from full-blown fascism in America?
“We were basically there under the Trump administration,” @AOC tells @MehdiRHasan. “The election of Joe Biden essentially paused our descent into the complete upending of our democracy.”
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"Getting down to the low 2s, that is something that I think is going to be quite difficult."
@MehdiRHasan asks @AOC if she would accept less than $3.5 trillion for Biden’s budget reconciliation bill. WATCH her entire response:
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.@AOC’s responds to Rep. Gottheimer’s claim she’s part of a “far-left” House faction that blocked Biden’s agenda:
“I do math and 95 [House Progressives] is larger than 9 which is the number of Democrats who signed onto a letter threatening to sink the entire infrastructure bill."
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The House has delayed the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. But don’t worry, they managed to get something bipartisan done last month, passing a bill for hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending for defense. @MehdiRHasan takes on America’s warped priorities:
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Is America’s future just a game to Congress? That's what it seemed like last night. @mehdirhasan offers a reminder that displays of bipartisanship at a baseball game are no substitute for the real thing:
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The real cost of white-collar crime is “unseen and actually uncalculated,” says @jentaub.
But research shows that “fraud and embezzlement alone can cost up to $800B a year.”
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.@JumaaneWilliams has suggested that NY Gov. Kathy Hochul partially enabled former Gov. Cuomo as his lieutenant.
“It’s not about any one person, it’s about the infrastructure that’s there, that people enable this type of behavior, either explicitly or by silence.”
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We’ve analyzed many theories about America’s 45th president. But as @mehdirhasan points out, @jentaub is our first guest to posit this scenario about prisoner/candidate Trump:
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Vaccine mandates are getting a bad rap, and the media is partially to blame. It’s time for a new approach:
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.@CoriBush was among lawmakers who shared their personal abortion stories today. Watch some of her testimony here:
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Before he’d agree to a compromise figure on the infrastructure bill, @repmarkpocan would want to know:
“What does that [amount] buy? So are we gonna keep the childcare provisions? Are we gonna keep negotiating for prescription drug prices?”
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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/rtHYUWX2uaU
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There are reports of the CIA going rogue with plans to kidnap and perhaps even kill Julian Assange.
But CIA veteran Douglas London challenges the truth of those reports and tells @mehdirhasan the agency’s processes are “a lot more boring” than people think.
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American intelligence agencies are being scrutinized after drone strikes in Afghanistan that killed innocent civilians.
@mehdirhasan asks Douglas London, the CIA’s former head of counterterror operations in that region, if he was party to any of those decisions:
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“97% of that [debt] balance was on the books before Joe Biden became president,” says @FeliciaWongRI about the myth of Republican fiscal responsibility. “Frankly, 25% of it was due to Donald Trump’s tax cuts.”
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