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show, the trump family investigations no one is talking about. jared kushner. did he shape u.s. foreign policy to help his own bottom line? then kyrsten sinema steals the pot light. we will try to make sense of the senator attention seeking party switch. and the quote unquote twitter files. elon musk's latest attempt to cause controversy is just a big nothing burger. i will explain why. ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm mehdi hasan. welcome to the show. tonight, we need to talk about a political scoundrels. a scandal too many people have been ignoring for far too long. a political scandal involving a president and the family member accused of using his proximity to the president to reagan not millions but billions of dollars. no, i'm not talking about hunter and joe biden. instead, i'm talking about jared kushner and donald trump.

hunter never worked in the white house. but trump's son-in-law, jared, did. kushner was granted multiple job titles and responsibilities. he was supposed to solve america's opioid crisis. he was tasked with setting up a shadow private sector to covid task force. he was put in charge of brokering peace in the middle east, something for which he had zero experience. but, hate, he said he read 25 books. 25 books by himself. he failed that almost all the tasks he was given. he made sure he cashed out. this week, we learned democrats in the senate and the house are finally renewing their investigations into one potential kushner conflict of interest. and it will shock you. no joke. it's villainy that, if true, is straight out of a hollywood movie. i'm talking doctor evil in austin powers. let me explain. in short, the investigation seeks to find out if jared kushner sought to interfere or influence the trump administration's foreign policy to grow his own business

interests. here is how that might have happened, how it might have played out. this is what's being investigated. this building here is 605th avenue, it used to be 666 fifth avenue, before the devilish address was changed according to -- it was bought by the kushner family in 2007 not before the -- jury was in charge of the company while his father was in jail for tax evasion and witness tampering. jarred paid a whopping 1.8 billion dollars. a record no one had ever paid. and no one had ever paid that much for the building that much. it was called a huge and reckless risk by the new york times. that turned out to be totally true. once the real estate market crashed, the building was underwater financially. the commissioners struggled and struggled for nearly a decade to get out from under the massive debt. when one refinancing deal proved not to be enough, that kushner company sought help from the saudi government, they also turned to the chinese

government and more than once they hoped elevation would come from the gulf nation of qatar. by the spring of 2017, when the kushner companies approaches but qatar directly to try again, jared kushner is nearly in the white house. this time he's the trump administration's point man on the middle east. but wait, mehdi, you are saying, jarred does not work at the kushner companies at that point anymore. he's at the white house. he's put his financial holdings into a blind trust, right? well, not quite. jarred may have been at the white house but he did not put his assets into a blind trust, which is a basic ethical if not legal rule. he transferred ownership of his holdings to some of -- his mother in charge of his trust fund. according to the washington post's reporting, he kept assets valued between 132 million and $407 million. not really an ideal ethical wall now, is it? in april of 2017, jarred's father, charles, now out of prison, back in charge of the

family company, struggles to cover to make his big pitch for a bailout. father kushner wants just under one billion dollars. the qatari's turned him down. they were citing dubious business logic, for the new yorker. they have money but they don't think they will make their money back. but charles tells the washington post he turned them down because he did not want to create a conflict of interest for his. and why did he travel all the way to doha just to meet with the qatari? he said he did it out of respect but it's an awfully long way to go to rack up flyer miles. -- jerry kushner traveled to saudi arabia for trump's first foreign trip to saudi arabia. the official schedule is a private dinner that jared kushner and steve bannon attend with top saudi and uae leaders on the agenda at that dinner, according to congressional staffers who spoke to the guardian, the plan by the saudis and the uae to impose a blockade on the other. it would be strange for the

u.s. to side with a uae -- since qatar is home to a massive u.s. military base. maybe that's why the american secretary of state is left out of the meeting. trump's secretary of state, i don't know, i'm just asking. i know that tillerson was incensed to hear about the dinner after the fact, testifying to congress that it made him angry because he did not get to have a say and the state's views were never expressed. only two weeks after that dinner, the blockade of qatar begins with the support of the u.s. government, with president trump's support. it would continue for 43 months. in august 2018, more than one year into the blockade, a qatari linked financial firm bails out the kushner companies. but they assert qatar have no knowledge of that deal. the deal with kushner company was worth 1.2 billion dollars. it was shortly before that time that kushner entered the negotiations to get the blockade lifted. as i said, kushner fails at nearly everything he does. that blockade is not lifted for

another year and a half, until january 2021. jared kushner says in his memoir he was not responsible for saudi arabia's severing of ties with qatar, but he, quote, try to convince them to -- try to lift the blockade. he makes no mention of brookfield at all. the idea that kushner could've been driving the blockade of qatar supporting the blockade, as trump's appointment in the white house, all because his family company could not get bailed out of the country of qatar, could not be bailed out by qatar, if true, that is outrageous. if true, this is one of the biggest scandals in modern america. the geopolitics of that blockade were huge. the qatari, for nearly four years, suffered massive sanctions from neighbors. the federal finance committee states and its -- senior white house officials from participating in matters directly affecting their own financial interest. remember, this is all separate to and in addition to the controversy over kushner getting two billion dollars

from the saudis for his new investment firm after leaving the white house. the question is whether the democrats in the senate, because they've lost the house come january, are going to see this investigation through. or will they simply shrug and allow donald trump and his son and law to carry on with one major financial and political scandal after another while the republicans obsess over hunter biden. for more on this, let's turn to two journalists who have covered jared kushner and his ties with gulf countries extensively. -- the new york times bestselling author of kushner inc., the publisher of vicky ward investigates on substack, also with us is ryan grimm, who has written about kushner at d.c. bureau chief for the intercept. vicky, let me start with you. you literally wrote the book on jerry kushner's financial -- his moneymaking scandals, how big is this jared kushner 666 fifth avenue investigation by congress? it feels pretty huge. the idea that u.s. foreign

policy could've been changing based on his bottom line that allies were being allegedly extorted free cash, that the u.s. secretary of state is getting mad that the president summit is having meetings he's not a part of. >> it's very, very serious that, as you said, it doesn't have the sex appeal of hunter biden, and the missing laptop, nude photos. it does not have that. a as you very well demonstrated, it's a complicated story. but that does not mean it's a very, very serious investigation. if there were such a conflict of interest, if he did conduct foreign policy in the middle east, particularly switching sides on that blockade of qatar by the saudis, basically to bail out his family business, that is a criminal offense. you know, the optics of all of this were always there. my book, kushner inc., does, as

you say, i show the kushner's financial problems as this ticking time bomb against, i sort of write the chapters in parallel, you have the ticking time bomb of this building and of a loan that was due and what jarred was doing in the middle east side by side. i could always see that there were lots of parallels. rex tillerson, you know, was rightly furious that jared kushner appeared to be conducting foreign policy that was very dangerous. >> he's not just conducting foreign policy because he disagrees with tillerson. he's doing allegedly for financial gain. ryan, it's not just the qatari. kushner gets two billion dollars from the saudis after leaving office for his immense investment fund. -- advisers are questioning wondering why kushner is getting this money, according to the new york times. you've reported in the past on the close ties between kushner and mbs. what is going on there? >> --

also reported that people advising mbs and people advising this fun said this is absurd. in fact, he got a copy of the perspective going around wall street. it was just laughable. all it was was a chart of their connections kushner had made during his white house days. there was no sense of how it was going to actually make any returns. mbs overruled everybody else and just gave them this two billion dollars for this fund that he started right after he left. one thing i would add to your great narrative, joshua kushner, his brother, met with the qatari's, that same week that the commissioners did. this is something the intercept reported to. also hit them up for money for his thrive capital fund. the qatari said no. now, whether or not you can draw a direct connection to the qatari's turning him down and him using u.s. foreign policy

to benefit his own company is still something that needs to be investigated. but we do know, and i think vicky's reporting has borne this out as well as my own, that the qatari's feel like it did. and they deeply regretted not making the payoff. sources, qatari sources told me later if we had known the cost we would be blockaded as a result, that would've made us look a little differently at this investment. -- lou some money -- >> all we have to do is invest in the kushner. vicky, i'm not one of these people who downplays hunter biden's grifting. he's clearly someone who has tried to influence, make many of his last name and connections to the white house. when you put hunter biden in burisma, ukraine, next to jared kushner and other jerry kushner and saudi arabia, and china, and japan, how do they stack up side by side, political scandal wise? >> and there is no comparison. jared kushner was the senior

official in the white house. hunter biden is not in the white house. jared kushner was, as you say, running everything. but particularly foreign policy. and that's what makes this really just on a different scale and to ryan's point, one of the things that is so interesting about this wrapped up investigation from congress, it's a smoking gun, really the timing of the emails. jared kushner was talking, it emerges, in emails congress now has. april 2016 with brookfield, it is firm that has the categories so majorly in it, that was long before he went anywhere near the white house so why did the qatari, why did brookfield not want to do that but -- if it had made great economic sense then, that would've been the moment to do it. >> very good point. ryan, last question to you, democrats have lost the house

when -- they have the majority, to continue investigating the scandals. how would you rate the democrats ability to both investigate and make noise about the sheer level of trump family corruption uncovered in recent years? >> beautiful. i'm glad that financial service committees finally doing something. i'm glad ron wyden is making progress. but if you compare the monumental scandal that we are talking about here with hunter biden, and i agree with you, i think hunter biden, that entire thing that was serious corruption, it needs to be investigated. but if you compare the level of awareness around the hunter biden scandal, even now among democrats and independents, forget republicans obsessed with it, they have done an incredible job of making that big story. arguably, the kushner corruption is massively more important to the american people because it may have driven u.s. foreign policy and

may have put american troops in harm's way. that's just a start with. it doesn't get the same coverage is pitiful. >> all for his bottom line. hey, we haven't even talked about don, eric, and ivanka. that's still for another day. vicky ward, ryan grimm, thank you both for your reporting. coming up, a party pooper and party deserter. kyrsten sinema with her exit from the democratic party. what does it all mean? ll mean? that's the real question. with fidelity income planning, a dedicated advisor can help you grow and protect your wealth, even when you're not working. they'll look at your full financial picture and help you create a flexible strategy designed to balance growth potential and guaranteed income. so you can stop worrying about the future and enjoy the life you've created. that's the planning effect. from fidelity.

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biggest shocker of 2022. kirsten sinema announced she's leaving the democratic party. i bet you didn't see that coming. i mean, what could've made us think the arizona senator would ever leave the party that helped her win federal office? could it have been when she posted a picture of herself that -- meant as a message to her

critics in the party? or could it have been when she voted against raising the minimum wage in partially policy with the most exaggerated thumbs down on camera. or was it the numerous times senator sinema defended the filibuster, doing the democrats chances of passing legislation to protect voting rights or codify roe v. wade. the big question now though is what do the democrats do next. run against her in 2024 and risk splitting the vote and letting a republican in? joining me now is msnbc political analyst -- and democratic strategist and msnbc contributor, kurt mandela. thank you both for joining me. the dems, they win this huge victory. they increase their majority in the senate. raphael warnock's man of the moment. kirsten sinema the sights now is the time to quit the party. now is the time to get attention back on her. politics and ideology aside, pretty awful behavior, is it not? >> it absolutely is. what's also truly awful, even

though we can't avoid it, is that right now we are doing the exact same thing that kirsten sinema wants us to do, because we are talking about kyrsten sinema. this is precisely why she chose this moment and this time when the democrats were excited about increasing their numbers in the senate. she said, wait a minute, enough people were not talking about. me now television stations, writers, we all have to be shifting our conversation to her choices that do not reflect the voices of her voters in arizona in the future of the democratic senate. i used to be a teacher so i understand a lot of negative attention seeking behavior. there are people who just want the spotlight. they don't care about whether or not the choices they make are actually positive in order to get that spotlight. i've seen tweet threats from her, i've seen articles, interviews with her. i cannot tell you what she actually stands for. the only real thing i heard is

that she said she stands with the growing number of arizonans who reject partisan politics. meanwhile, nearly two thirds of arizonans are registered with a party. i don't know what he's talking about. i don't think she knows what she's talking about. she's clearly trying to avoid a primary challenge and trying to make sure that she can hold whatever party -- power she can over the party. >> kurt, britney mentioned primary challenges. attention seeking behavior as well. i would love not to talk about kyrsten sinema but the reality is, come 2024, the crucial arizona senate race, if it leads to a three-way race between a now independent cinema, democratic reuben gaye who has put his toe in the water, and republican kari lake, could that give lake or another republican a win if a split vote allows a republican through? >> you know, i will buck and veteran always them here, mehdi. i don't think that it does. the voting base that sinema

could really pull from is more of that john mccain republican which would be votes away from kari lake. the one thing we have to keep in mind here is that a candidate like ruben to take votes in a very specific group, no other candidate can tap into, that's the latino vote and the young gen z vote. that could really boast or the campaign. if you have a three-way scenario, let me just -- i don't think sinema will run again. i think she needs to go and get on the board of pharmacy or cash -- her interest have been lining up favors with a big money people so she can also catch out. but if she doesn't, i think they put a coalition of voters, the same coalition that -- upheld democrats nationwide in the last election. a >> very good point. she's independent now of the democrats, whether she's independent or big pharma corporations is a big question. sinema was asked by cnn's jake tapper of her move will impact

the democrats majority in the senate. have a listen. >> what you're doing today does not change that? it is still basically going to be 51 to 49? >> i know you have to ask that question, jake. that's kind of a d.c. thing to worry about. >> britney, a d.c. thing to worry about? seriously, how much more tone-deaf can you can't, control of the senate affects millions of peoples lives, the future of our democracy. >> it affects millions of peoples lives, and she knows that, which is why she's choosing an interview like that to gaslight the american public and specifically her voters. i've heard it argued multiple times over the day or so and she voted with president biden 93% of the time and therefore we should not be worried about what she's going to do moving forward. the only value of the convictions i can see kristen sinema having our ones of self promotion. it's easy to vote with 93% of the bills if you use your outsized power to water down the legislation before it ever reaches the court. it's easy to say, well, i voted

with the president 93% of the time, or democrats 93% of the time, and conveniently allow people to forget how she stood in the way as you've already set of voting rights legislation moving forward and the codification of row we've eight. we already saw young arizona advocates do multiple hunger strikes against this woman and the ways in which she has been backing the very things her supporters, her donors, her voters, her volunteers all thought for when they fought for her to be in the senate. that's nothing but some strategic gaslighting. i think it's incredibly dangerous. it shows us exactly who she is. >> yes, it does. quick last question for you, kurt, talking of desperate attention seekers in the senate, what is joe manchin thinking right now? >> he's someone that's also gotten a very tough reelection coming up. he's one of the most targeted races we are going to. see i think manchin keeps doing what he's been doing. what sinema has done is strengthened manchin's hand and the democratic caucus in the

senate because there was this conversation about the warnock win meant that he would have less sway. well, not with sinema being more of an x-factor, that means manchin has a lot more cards on the table than he would have at this didn't happen. i think we will have a lot of -- people we just saw in the last year with manchin and sinema trying to hold sway and dictate the terms of legislation that goes forward. >> thanks, curt. sitting in front of a tree for ruining all of our christmases, appreciate that final thought, mentions power. kurt, britney, appreciate you both, thanks for coming on the show. still ahead, a 23-year-old artist executed. nearly a dozen protesters have been sentenced to death first ending up to the iranian government. i will speak to the biden -- special envoy for iran. in older adults. it's one more step towards taking charge of your health. so every day, you can say... ♪ youuu did it! ♪ with centrum silver.

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23-year-old activist and artist who was executed this week by the iranian government. his crime? joining the protests against the death of 22-year-old mahsa amini under custody of the country's so-called morality police. iran's revolutionary court claimed the attacked a police officer with a knife and found shekari guilty of what they call -- waging war against god. he is just one of at least 11 protesters who have been sentenced to death so far by the iranian government. what rights activists call sham trials. it's all a part of the iranian government violent crackdown on protests that have engulfed the nation for months now.

we have -- robert malley, the special envoy for iran about what the u.s. government could or should be doing. rob malley, thanks so much for coming back on the show. you are a long time iran watch, or even before your time in government on this issue, first with president obama, now for president biden. were you surprised by the size and scale of these protests led by women and girls against a government of iran, the mandatory dress code? >> first, mehdi, great to be back on your show. listen, i think the whole world is watching. as you say, young people, girls and women, others, who are demonstrating in different ways, showing great creativity, great courage, great boldness and great stamina. i think that is something i don't know if people expected it. they are not surprised by the depth of the anger but the courage to do what they do is

quite remarkable. >> rob, where do you think this ands? does this and with the reform of the iranian political system or a full scale revolution against it? >> frankly, i don't know and i won't get into that kind of speculation. i think you know and that we are not very good about predicting how these events begin and how these events and. we saw it in 2011 with the arab uprisings. you know, it could end in many different ways. at this point, one of the questions is will the iranian leadership listen to these people or kill them? so far, it has chosen the latter course. >> rob, it's a good point you make about speculations. let's talk policy. let's talk rhetoric, even. what is the role of the united states in all of this. what should the u.s. government, your administration, be doing, if anything? because barack obama was relatively silent on the movement in iran in 2009, something he now says he regrets. in 2017 there were big economic

protests in iran, donald trump came out loudly to condemn the iranian government. in both situations, nothing we did or didn't do seem to have an impact on the ground in iran. how much leverage, influence do we have when it comes to iran, especially given our own sordid history of toppling a democratic government in that country in 1953? >> we have to be humble about what the u.s. can do. this is not going to be decided in washington, brussels, or anywhere else, other than in iran. the course of this page of history that the iranian people are writing will be decided by iranians themself. one could be humble and still be consistent about one's values. in this case with biden and this administration have been doing is speaking on behalf of the fundamental rights of young people and taking steps, whether sanctioning those responsible for human rights abuses, putting the spotlight on what's happening in iran, and recently but -- to make clear that we are not

but -- to communicate with themselves and with the outside world. i think that's what we've been doing and i think you've seen many multi lateral -- that country's north, south, east, west have joined the support for the fundamental rights of the iranian people. >> i think people, of course, will support sanctions on people carrying out human rights abuses. they don't want sanctions to harm the iranian population as a whole. some would argue u.s. sections have done that in recent years. you mention working with allies, the western world who are all condemning this, all watching. are there specific steps that could be taken, for example at the u.n., hillary clinton, former secretary of state, has called for iran to be ejected from the u.n. committee on women's rights or other committees that iran sits on, other bodies, is that something the u.s. government is pushing towards, trying to isolate this government further in the national community? >> first, you've seen the u.s. -- the u.n. has created a fact finding mission. i think you spoke about it on one of your recent shows. that's one important step and

the other one will be a vote to kick iran off of the commission on the status of women. of course, it makes no sense for iran to be sitting on a commission whose role is to promote the rights of women when they are doing exactly the opposite. that vote will be on wednesday and we are supportive of the -- we are leading the charge to kick iran out of that commission. >> robert, the area you are responsible for, the nuclear deal, that doesn't seem to be much movement on nuclear negotiations. what do you say those in washington and lee, easy, who say we would be mad to rejoin the iran nuclear deal now and, quote unquote, reward iran while the iranian government is cracking down on protesters. you are a diplomat. what is the link in your mind if any -- over the nuclear issue and iran's escalating repression at home? >> i'm going to make two points. right now, given everything iran has done in the nuclear -- turning down deal after deal, i think our focus, and we've said this many times, he's on what's

happening in iran and on iran's support, military support, probably the only country certainly added scale military support from russia full invasion of ukraine. that's what we are focusing. on at the same, time that biden administration can do more than one thing at once. it can support the fundamental rights of the iranian people. it can counter iran's activities in the region that are harmful to u.s. interests, home full to his neighbors, and they can do everything in its power, ideally through diplomacy, ultimately through diplomacy, to make sure iran does not acquire nuclear weapons. we have to do all three because all three are in our national interests. they certainly could be a catastrophe -- president biden is committed not to allow that. he also believes, as do we, that the best way to do that is through diplomacy. >> quick last question and 30 seconds left. was joe biden too slow to push for a new deal back when he came to office in 2021? he said on the campaign i will rejoin the deal but he didn't pretoria prioritize it when he came into office and here we are in 2022. >> listen, it took a few weeks

for the new administration, there were many other things going on, covid, climate change that he had to confront. within a matter of i think it was a month, we were saying that we were prepared to rejoin the deal. we had said that earlier. we were prepared to rejoin the negotiations. iranians rejected our participation, directing the talks. since then, you can take the first month, there's been almost two years since then where there been negotiations with time after time, not us but the european union putting on the table, everyone had agreed to it. us, and the e3, germany france and the uk, russia, china, iran rejected it. one could look back and historians could look at the first weeks of the biden administration, let's look at the 16 months or more since then and i think in that case it's very clear why there is no deal. >> iranians of course would say they can trust america because it was trump who pulled out. those are negotiations we will keep having with him. rob malley, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> next, what an increasingly

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i know, i know what you're thinking. twitter is not the real world. who cares? the problem is that what happens on twitter does not stay on twitter. consider that donald trump himself said he would not have won the 2016 election without the platform twitter gave him. by now, i'm sure you've heard that the new twitter owner and richest man on planet earth, elon musk, has personally invited donald trump back onto the platform. although invited is not really the proper way to describe the series of groveling memes he has posted to his profile begging the former president to return. -- he's ensured that one of the

most prominent not season america has had his account restored, it was a suspended account, it's not restored. and now musk has repeatedly cozied up to qanon and pizzagate types like -- >> god believes in sovereignty and national identity and the sanctity of family and all the things we've lived with from the beginning of time. he knows the open border is satan's way of taking control of the way -- the world through all these people who are his stooges and servants. the ones who want us eating inspects, cockroaches, of a die on children -- >> what a charming person who is not at all completely untethered from reality. meanwhile, musk this week also suggested that twitter's former head of trust and safety was a pedophile, a vile, baseless attack that will direct all sorts of hate towards him, and openly gay jewish man. his go to smear for his perceived enemies. this days, he seems to be playing to the qanon gallery by

constantly claiming that others are soft on child -- on the frontline, given the fact that one of his first actions as the owner of twitter was to disseminate the team -- and not move for a man seemingly so obsessed with pedophiles, where patel have we seen this type of behavior before? this manner of blasting allies deemed inadequately loyal, the gleeful sadism and launching faceless hordes of political enemies, the cheeky winking of bonkers -- we saw it with donald j trump, of course. musk has copied every single page of trump's public. frankly, on twitter musk had a better impression of trump then ron desantis says. this brings me to the topic that the chief to it really, really wants us to talk about this this week. the quote unquote twitter file. mask recently showed a mountain of internal twitter documents with a gaggle of independent journalists. they want you to believe that they're explosive --

as big as the pennington papers, wikileaks, and watergate all rolled into. when they aren't. tonight, let me run through and debunk each of their biggest claims. first was this a sordid tale of big tech censors gusting the first amendment? at the heart of the quote unquote scandal is and then candidate joe biden having his people reach out to twitter in order to remove nude pictures of his son hunter biden from the platform. pictures that, it must be emphasized, were posted non consensual and possibly illegally. somehow, in musk's mind, this is a first amendment issue? twitter is a private company, last time i checked, private citizens -- was not president in october 2020 when his campaign reached out to twitter. has musk read the first amendment? is there a right to see hunter biden nude? next up, do the twitter files show evidence of left-wing bias on twitter? no. in fact of the whole twitter discriminates against conservative line that elon or

his spin merchants, conservative journalists, like the spout, is literally the opposite of the truth. not only do they not demonstrate with any data -- the amplify more than left-winger is by twitter but musk and co-actually released a few too many files, but showing the regime had a happen -- for the -- ex gop governor mike huckabee for fear of blow back from the right. i don't poke the right-wing bear, they would. say this of course is backed up by a host of studies, including an internal review but done by twitter itself last year, confirming that its algorithm promotes right-wing politicians more than left wing politicians. next, was this all a secret conspiracy that needed uncovering? take barry weiss, hyper ventilating about a secret cabal of old twitter employees, including the boss's meeting to discuss rules for the platform. yes, because company executives never have meetings to take contentious decisions and never in private, am i right? consider this inadvertently

hilarious tweet from another spin merchant, sorry, independent journalist, michael schellenberg, or who breathlessly reports that senior officers at twitter discuss taking action against trump on january the 7th. no mention of why that day, january the 7th, is rather important. i mean, who knows what happened on january this -- sixth. it's important to know that in the midst of all of this clown airy, former twitter employees have had their private emails and messages released. they've been harassed and threatened. they understandably concerned about their safety going forward. musk justifies these leaks on the basis of transparency. sunlight is the best disinfectant, he says. where are his files? related to him and his internal communications, how can they have not been released? how come he's reportedly threatening to sue twitter employees who dared to lead to the press? oh, the hypocrisy. -- coming up at the top of the hour with a man, democratic congressman mondaire jones on

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you have a size of the mehdi hassan show on peacock, post every evening monday through thursday, now it's time to hand it over to a minimal housing. amen, we can go, you said to me that a france beats england, i have to be beat -- sadly my beloved england lost, to one to france yesterday. so i will see eat a small croissant, which i'll eat, because it was only a big mini victory, a man, england out played france, you know that, so i eat the clock crossing over to you. >> while you enjoy that nice buttery croissant, over there, i have to say, and i will admit that england definitely outplayed france. france did not show up to play. but such as the game, my friend, you get some lucky breaks here and there. mbappé was not on top, for harry kane mr. penalty kick,

the referee, i think you're right, he definitely was not in top form. but all this really had me thinking, which is this is what makes the champion a champion. because we've heard time and time again, that england was a powerhouse of soccer, i know you've been saying it's coming home, and it has not been coming home since 1966. why do we still call england a powerhouse of soccer football, when they're simply not winning trophies? i will say this is perhaps the most promising generation of english player that i've seen. they're young team, they've a very bright future, but at one point you have to win if you're gonna be called a powerhouse. >> i agreed, sometimes you have to, when the point out that neverland of portugal there also consider big teams. these fires of our young, players like soccer and vote, in the one good thing is to have to eat across on also bad, i'm glad you didn't go to escargot that other thing i'd say is that the only simple

lining of a gloomy note is that on wednesday like most muslim americans i know i can now freely support morocco against france him and i assume you will be doing the same. >> i will be supporting morocco without a doubt i am all in on morocco and we'll see how it plays out. they're having a cinderella story. i do want to ask you, very quickly, you do know the english press better than i do, is harry kane gonna get let off a little bit easier than the way the english press went after macaya saka jordan santo and marcus rash for the penalties that they missed in the european championship? because we all remember the vile commentary that there is subject to online i haven't seen that against captain harry kane rightfully so he should not be that you know the bridge has better than i do. >> it's funny, look at the press you've got light line hearted the reason that they're gonna le