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“If we’re gonna talk about the power to influence elections,” @petersgoodman tells @mehdirhasan, “[Citizens United] just totally ripped off the checks that we had on the process.”
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President Joe Biden has initiated plenty of programs and issued many sanctions to go after Russian oligarchs’ assets, but loopholes remain. As @davidsirota tells @mehdirhasan, we know what we need to do about it, but the appetite isn’t there in DC:
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Today in bad-faith attacks, Sen. Josh Hawley accused Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of being soft on child-porn offenders. @mehdirhasan brings receipts about new levels of cynicism and hypocrisy from the Missouri Republican:
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“It would be shattering one of the last glass ceilings in our government,” says the first African-American woman to serve in the Senate, Amb. Carol Moseley Braun, about confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Since some Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Cmte. seemed to dip into the Southern segregationists’ 1960s playbook, @mehdirhasan uses the wayback machine to see how Thurgood Marshall’s 1967 confirmation hearings can preview what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faces:
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Confirmation hearings began today for the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. Former Senators @russfeingold and Carol Moseley Braun debrief with @mehdirhasan on the historic day.
7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/zryRgzJJ2Sg
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Are loopholes that American oligarchs helped to create making it difficult to track down the wealth of Russia's billionaires? @davidsirota and @petersgoodman weigh in tonight with @mehdirhasan at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/zryRgzJJ2Sg
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A senior NATO intelligence official says the war in Ukraine is on the verge of a stalemate, as Russia continues to shell the battered city of Mariupol. Ukrainian member of Parliament Maryan Zablotskyy joins the show.
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.@mehdirhasan: “Putin, inspired and energized by a philosopher who has been dubbed a total fascist, is now himself behaving in a fascistic way." on.msnbc.com/3N5Tsg1
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Americans overwhelmingly support efforts to sanction Russia in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. @MehdiRHasan asks @SenatorCardin if such a development might change the way lawmakers view the BDS movement against Israel.
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Do press briefings on Ukraine reveal an unwitting media bias towards conflict, combat, confrontation, and escalation? @MehdiRHasan tells @AymanM that what's often missing are questions from reporters about diplomacy, peace and the prospects for negotiations. WATCH.
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.@SenatorCardin says Vladimir Putin should be tried for war crimes.
But the U.S. isn’t a member of the International Criminal Court. So, @MehdiRHasan follows up by asking, where should he be tried?” WATCH:
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So what would Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin think of his devotee, Putin?
“This invasion of Ukraine is very much in the spirit of the kind of thing that Ilyin would be supporting,” @TimothyDSnyder tells @mehdirhasan.
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Denazification is Russia’s stated and supposed reason for invading Ukraine. MmmHmm… @MehdiRHasan introduces pot to kettle in tonight’s #minirant:
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“To understand what’s going on in Ukraine right now, what’s going on inside of Russia, too, and what’s driving Vladimir Putin, we need to talk about a man named Ivan Ilyin,” says @mehdirhasan. Let him introduce you to the Russian autocrat’s favorite fascist philosopher:
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Quick, someone call the Gazpacho Police! America’s Queen of Disinformation 👑 is at it again with takes about the invasion of Ukraine that give Putin a run for his money.
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“We really need to reckon with the United States’ own role in weakening that order and commit to strengthening it,” reflects @mattduss on learning from the past, “If we really want to draw the right lessons both from Iraq and from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
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.@PeterBeinart notes the great importance of international law, and the grave danger of unbridled power.
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Could fighter jets be sent to Ukraine without it being seen by Moscow as an escalation?
“You don’t want to create and start World War III,” says @RepGregoryMeeks, who adds that an air defense system might be an acceptable alternative.
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