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Kellyanne Conway is the latest ex-Trump official with an image to rehabilitate and a memoir to sell. And while she actually acknowledges in it that Trump lost the election, she hasn’t always had the best relationship with the truth. Roll the tape!
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Why hasn’t the Biden admin. made more progress on rejoining the Iran nuclear deal?
“The political will is not there. It’s not that they don’t want the deal,” @tparsi says. “It’s just that they don’t want it bad enough so they’re willing to pay the political price.”
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“Add Elise Stefanik & her soul to the ash heap of souls that have given away their integrity & their character to the Trump train," @TaraSetmayer tells @mehdirhasan. “It’s clear the political power of MAGA is a hell of a drug.”
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Rep. Elise Stefanik was once a rising star of the center-right. Now she’s proudly ‘ultra-MAGA’. @mehdirhasan says Stefanik’s path from moderate to MAGA was no accident, and “it represents everything that is wrong with the Republican Party.” WATCH:
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As the world reacts to the Uvalde massacre, Mehdi says: We don’t have to live like this here in America — after all, the rest of the world doesn’t.
Take it from @WendellPierce, who describes the culture shock from going to a country with no guns to one with lots:
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.@RoKhanna says there is “widespread outrage in the Indian American community,” and wants an investigation into a bullying incident at a Texas school, after a widely-shared video showed a student being put in a headlock. bit.ly/3lMK6JD
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.@RoKhanna says Dems should “force the vote” on single, common sense gun reform measures.
“Do this for two weeks. Do this for three weeks,” he tells @mehdirhasan. “Show just how extreme their positions are, and put them on record.”
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“It’s not rocket science. If you restrict access to the most deadly kind of weapons, deaths go down,” @mehdirhasan says. “It may not save all the lives. The shootings do not stop. But the size of the massacre — the number of people killed — drops.” WATCH:
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“There’s no doubt any of our rights should be enjoyed equally by all citizens," @adamwinkler says. “The problem is that the NRA has pushed a vision of the Second Amendment that has no basis in history ... and, unfortunately, is going to be adopted by the Supreme Court.”
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We live in an America where “everyone carrying guns, everywhere, is seen as a hallmark of our exceptional liberty. And the mass murder of innocent children or shoppers is simply the recurring price of that freedom,” @mehdirhasan says.
But, he adds, it wasn’t always like this:
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Yes, the U.S. once had an assault-weapons ban. (It expired.)
Now, in the wake of massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde, some Dems want to revisit the federal ban — and one of those lawmakers, @RoKhanna, joins @mehdirhasan to discuss.
Catch their convo tonight on @MSNBConPeacock
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The pro-gun lobby sees the Second Amendment as “America’s first freedom.” So how do we fight a hardline, far-right gun culture that’s left generations of schoolchildren in America traumatized and unsafe?
@adamwinkler joins @mehdirhasan tonight on @MSNBConPeacock to discuss.
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George Floyd's murder two years ago sparked massive racial justice protests and hopes that Congress would do something on police reform. But as that legislation languishes in the graveyard that is the U.S. Senate, @mehdirhasan asks, how do we achieve change?
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.@davidcicilline says the key to passing background checks legislation is to get rid of the filibuster.
“We allow a minority of the Senate to control the agenda by use of the filibuster,” he tells @mehdirhasan. “It’s wrong [and] it’s undemocratic."
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Unlike what the gun lobby says, there’s a consensus on many common sense gun reform proposals in America.
“But none are reaching Joe Biden’s desk,” @mehdirhasan says, “as Republicans in multiple states are ... putting more guns in more places, and in more untrained hands.”
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.@igorvolsky says he wants to see Joe Biden and other top Democrats "put up a fight" over gun legislation: "I want them to break this cycle of expectation that we have that after a mass shooting, nothing happens."
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Beto O’Rourke confronted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a news conference on the Uvalde shooting. “Good for him,” says @JulianCastro.
“We need more people, in a civil way, to offer up this kind of protest ... [and] not let them get away with their NRA blueprint responses.”
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Experts cite a “social contagion” factor around mass shootings, but “It’s about not giving perpetrators the stage they’re looking for," says @jillkpeterson. "These are public performances meant to go viral. If we can … focus on policy change, that’s much better.”
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“Every morning when I drop my kids to school, I do a silent prayer,” @mehdirhasan says. “How about we ... create an America where we don’t have to offer that prayer in the morning before school, and we don’t have to offer ‘thoughts and prayers’ for massacred kids after school?”
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A horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is the latest predictable tragedy in America. We need more than “thoughts and prayers,” Mehdi says, to enact change.
@igorvolsky, @JulianCastro & @jillkpeterson join him for an important convo — tune in tonight on @MSNBConPeacock
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