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Not all Democrats are fighting back against GOP nonsense the way @RepSwalwell does. He tells @MehdiRHasan that he believes Democrats have to do better “because it’s existential” and he’s “afraid that never before has it all been on the line.” WATCH:
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“Smart men without any moral compass are extremely scary,” is how @AndrewWarrenFL tells @mehdirhasan he’d respond to anyone who tries to argue that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t as bad as Trump. WATCH:
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After consistently trailing Democrat Mandela Barnes in midterm polls, Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson is trying to “rebrand” before November. But @mehdirhasan isn’t quite ready to move on from Johnson’s anti-science, anti-democratic words. Here are the receipts.
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Fans of HBO’s hit “Succession” keep close tabs on the long-simmering relationship between Roman Roy, played by Kieran Culkin, and Gerri Kellman, played by @j_smithcameron. She tells @mehdrhasan how that storyline came together.
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How did a “peace Democrat” like Tulsi Gabbard end up guest-hosting for Tucker Carlson?
Actually, @mehdirhasan says, it’s a meeting of the illiberal minds, and a boon for the far right’s aim of defining who’s a “good” leftist… and who’s not.
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“When the president does it, that means that it’s not illegal.” That’s what Pres. Nixon told David Frost in 1977. @mehdirhasan warns that in 2022, even Democrats have internalized that way of thinking when it comes to Donald Trump.
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She plays a lawyer for a right-wing media company on HBO’s hit series “Succession.” But in real life, @j_smithcameron warns that we’re not paying enough attention to what right-wing lawmakers are doing at the state level.
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Student loan forgiveness sounds great, but people often ask: who will pay for it? Former Ohio state senator @ninaturner explains why she says it should be part of our “social contract.”
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As Vermont’s sole congressman, @PeterWelch fought to get at least some prescription price benefits into the Inflation Reduction Act.
As a Senate candidate, he vows to @mehdirhasan that he’ll take more action on medical costs… and on the Senate filibuster.
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The anger and ire on the right following the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago has spurred unprecedented warnings of real violence. GOP politicians and right-wing media hosts must know that it’s reckless, but there are no signs that they’ll calm the rhetoric.
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As President Biden weighs another extension of the student loan repayment freeze, @ninaturner and @SykesCharlie debate whether he should forgive student loans entirely.
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.@WSJ reports the U.S. is ruling out releasing billions of Afghan central bank funds in the near future. Afghan-American journalist and NBC News int’l affairs correspondent @AtiaAbawi says “It’s criminal.”
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How can Democrats push back against an increasingly extremist GOP? @Milbank tells @mehdirhasan, "it's an asymmetric fight because the Democrats are playing by the traditional rules, and those rules have been tossed out the window by Republicans."
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What would the Republican party look like after Trump? In his new book, @Milbank notes that Trump is a symptom and not the cause of the party's decades-long tilt toward extremism, a journey that will continue with or without Trump.
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Could a former American president ever see the inside of a prison cell, @mehdirhasan asks.
“I’m very skeptical,” @Milbank says. But “if we don't have the rule of law, we don't have anything else.”
Watch the full interview on @MSNBConPeacock:
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YouTube is a big driver of disinfo & can lead to radicalization. But it's not just the algorithm, “We're talking about scale,” director @Winter tells @mehdirhasan. It has to "deal with making the enormous amounts of money they’re making… & what’s going on in our world.”
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Liz Cheney may lose her job in Tuesday’s WY GOP House primary. But it shouldn’t be shocking, given how “the Cheneys have always used Wyoming,” says @NicholsUprising: “Dick Cheney wasn't born there. Liz Cheney wasn't born there.”
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Liz Cheney is on track to lose her House seat in Tuesday's primary. And while @mehdirhasan appreciates her work investigating 1/6, he notes "she spent years adding to the GOP's cynicism & xenophobia, back when Trump was still obsessing over his Celebrity Apprentice ratings"
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@TaraSetmayer calls Republicans “profiles in cowardice” for not calling out far-right violence and threats against the FBI after last week’s Mar-a-Lago search.
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We've seen it time and again: Trump's violent rhetoric has inspired physical violence. And as @mehdirhasan explains, when the right doesn't call Trump out on it, when they pretend to ignore the consequences of his words, they clear the way for further violence.
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