and has always told us to keep our feet planted on the ground and hold our heads high. very good advice. she taught me so much about being a mom myself as well. i want to say thanks to my mother-in-law, marianne, a retired first grade teacher who had such a rock in our lives as well, and to vivian matthew, thanks for making me a mom. a very happy mother's day to all the moms out there, to my mom squat across the country, that does it for me today. we will be back here next sunday at noon eastern. be sure to follow the show on twitter, tiktok, and instagram. stay where you are because there is much more news ahead on msnbc. >> tonight on the mehdi hasan show, donald trump and george santos both charged with

multiple crimes, neither dropped by the republican party. have the gop no shame? plus, the texas father who lost a son in the uvalde massacre kicked out of the state capital this week for demanding some action on gun reform. he will join me to share his story and his message. and elon musk, lisa styled free speech absolutist caves to an authoritarian government demand that he censor his tweets. actions speak louder than words, elon. good evening. i'm mehdi hasan. on wednesday, the house was debating an unemployment benefit fraud bill, legislation to help incentivize states to recover funds stolen during the coronavirus pandemic. the stunning case of cosmic irony, that bill being debated on the same daisy that one of its co-sponsors found him self indicted for that very same crime. yes, that's right. justice finally caught up with

now infamous serial liar and fabricator george santos. on wednesday, federal prosecutors in new york announced a 13 count indictment against the republican congressman from new york. is alleged crimes range from money laundering, wire fraud, lying to congress, and public theft of funds. that includes a charge of fraudulent claim of $24,000 in covid unemployment benefits. the shameless santos came back to the house on thursday to vote for his bill, against that kind of fraud. i kid you not. if you are having trouble keeping track of the sheer number of santos's fabrications and lies and exaggerations, i don't blame you. there's been a lot of them. back in january, i try to sum up his web of lies in just 60 seconds. start the clock. george santos said he elect -- at the drop out before he could graduate because his parents couldn't for the face. turns out that was false. cnn -- he had a degree from brew college, from and why, even he's never graduated from university --

he now admits he didn't, he owns 30 properties, part of his family's real estate portfolio, humanity, doesn't he claimed he founded animal rescue -- the irs has no record of such texas -- he claimed he lost for employees in a pulse nightclub attack, the new york times found no proof of that. he claimed to be biracial, half, black half white, he hasn't. call themself jewish, a proud american jews, now he is catholic. he said he was jewish, whatever that means, his grandparents were holocaust survivors, belgian immigrants fled the devastation of world war ii europe -- they were born in brazil, those grandparents were ukrainian descent, his family -- cnn professional genealogy guests have no sign of jewish ukrainian heritage -- and in july of 2021, santos said 9/11 claimed my mother's life but he said his mother died in 2016. yes, 15 years after 9/11. that's not even all of them. i didn't have time to include santos is ridiculous flea false claim that he helped produced broadway's spider-man musical, yes theatrical disaster panned by critics and played with cast

member injuries. yes, that one. despite all, this i could count on just one hand and the number of non new york gop house members that have called this week for santos to resign from congress. unsurprisingly, that very shortlist does not include how speaker kevin mccarthy. this week, a host of charges against santos were made public, mccarthy still refused to call on him to resign. the speaker -- if santos were found guilty of the house ethics committee found the congress broke the law. but here's the thing, santos has already admitted to his crimes. at least some of them. on thursday, the congressman signed a deal that would prosecutors and brazil confessing to stealing a checkbook to buy clothing and ten issues back in 2008. he agreed to pay restitution and fines if prosecutors agreed to drop a criminal case against him. that's right. santos is now a self confessed criminal and that is still not reason enough for the republican party to drop him. should we be surprised?

and there is no shame in the modern gop. i've said it before, you can't shame the shameless. let's put santos to one side for a moment. last week, the de facto leader of the gop and the front runner for the party's nomination, former president donald trump, was found liable for dana faye shunned and sexual abuse. what was the reaction from republicans? a resounding rebuke? of course not. i should note there were a couple of -- utah's mitt romney and -- trump's disaster was the latest example of why he is unfit to be president. again, those two are part of a small, very small gop minority and in fact a lot of republicans in the house and senate actually doubled down in their support for trump. alabama senator tommy tuberville said rather disgustingly that the new york jury verdict against the ex president, quote, makes me want to vote for him twice. yeah, that's how you respond to sexual abuse. espond t liability for sexual abuse.

even former trump critics like senator marco rubio and lindsey graham are again falling over themselves to defend trump. rubio called both the jury and the case a joke. graham went after the entire new york legal system, tweeting it was off the rails. you have trump's 2024 competition, his presidential rivals would take a chance to take a shot at the disgraced front runner, right? think again. ron desantis dodging and downplay when asked about the verdict last week. >> i've been pretty busy. i know there is different stuff in the news. we've been busy on monday sticking it to the ccp. >> too busy! to notice the former president was found liable of sexual abuse. his former vice president, mike pence, choosing his words very carefully. >> it my four and a half years serving alongside the president, i never heard or witnessed a

and behavior of that nature. so again, i have no knowledge of those allegations or the veracity of them. i wouldn't want to comment on a civil judgment. >> mike pence continues to search for a spine. here is the thing, republican politicians are reflecting the preferences of the republican base. this was how the crowd of republicans and supposedly undecided voters in new hampshire that cnn put together for their town halls slash trump rally on wednesday night responded to the former president mocking sexual abuse and again defaming e. jean carroll. >> what kind of a woman meet somebody and brings him up and within minutes you are playing hanky panicky in a dressing room, okay. i have no idea who the hell. she's a whack job. >> and they are laughing at sexual abuse. it is six stuff.

when it comes to the republican reaction to the george santos indictments, and to the trump sexual abuse verdict, what is so revealing and so ironic it is about the people in america on the, right the senators, the house members, the ordinary voters who get so mad, so mad when they are called deplorable, so mad if you say they are members of a cult, keep acting again and again in public without any shame or remorse like a deplorable cult. here to discuss, mort associate professor of political science at florida university and author of black ethnics, -- msnbc daily and tom nickel, staff writer for the atlantic magazine. thank you for joining me this evening. tom, and a new piece for the atlantic, you say we are in a quote post shame america. the republican body standing proudly behind figures like -- how did the gop get here, tom, to the specific point?

>> one thing to understand about today's gop is if they think of themselves, despite having had unified government in 2016, despite being quite powerful across the country in state houses and legislators, they think of themselves as this beleaguered minority that is being put upon and castigated and looked down upon by people, ironically, by people who they claim they don't care about. it drives them crazy. it drives th emanytime something like this happens, people on the right circle the wagons and say we cannot admit any fault, any wrongdoing. our guy is our guy, our tribe is our tribe. in fact, all of them know privately that if this were a democrat, they would be having collective any resumes and their minds would be blown. it comes from that sense of being this put upon minority that really has to defend

itself at all costs against everything. >> i have no doubt in my mind many -- cnn audience knew what trump did with e. jean carroll but still decided to laugh along with him because, as you say, they feel put upon. christina gray, a moment ago i described the republican body as a deplorable cult. words that really upset a lot of conservatives and snowflakes. how else do you describe the kind of blind loyalty that we see? whether george santos or to donald trump. >> i would say sycophant. as tom laid out so cleanly for us, we have people who believe this. if they don't, they won't deviate from the plant. what is so deplorable as we have so many republican elected leaders who know that donald trump is bad for this country. before he was president, he was accused two dozen times of sexual assault or sexual misconduct. they knew that information. they know he is bad for the

economy and his own money, he's a grifter, a snake oil salesman. they know all these things. they will still get out there in lockstep with donald trump either because they are afraid or they believe this cult can help them somewhere down the line. and what they need to realize is, everyone that has ever worked with donald trump, either ends up in prison, is going in person, has been in prison. they are left holding the bag. donald trump is the only one who's never left holding the back. we see, even with the e. jean carroll case, he's still -- we will see if he even pays that money. we know donald trump never paid his debts. >> very good fight. hayes, some democrats said the cnn town hall was good for the democratic party. it could be providing fodder for attack, as we have it by now -- using clips from the town hall. i worry to myself, did they learn nothing from 2016, even if that stuff works and it didn't really work in 2016, kind of worked in 2020, at what

cost normalizing that kind of misogyny and bigotry on primetime tv to get a few attack ads? >> i agree completely. one of the things that's hard to parse about the cnn town hall is the idea that anyone learned anything new about donald trump, his policies. the one take away with that is that he hasn't changed at all. despite the number of indictments in new york, and the investigation against him, despite the losing streak that he's been on, nothing about him, his demeanor, the way he has campaigned, the way he wants to connect to the base, the way he wants to connect to voters, the way he wants to present himself, has changed. if that is the only good thing about this town hall, it's hard to see how america was served by that. we have lived through this for over half a decade now. it is really heartbreaking to really put together how many years we've had to be dealing with this at this point. if you don't know who donald trump is at this point, you have awoken from a coma and welcome to 2023. i hope you enjoy that town hall.

otherwise, there is no real point and putting that. >> you wake up from a coma and the guy from home alone to vice president and found liable of sexual abuse that might be president again? go back into that coma. hayes, you mentioned that we didn't learn anything. you are right, across the board. one thing trump did say policy wise what he said, yeah, america should default on its debt. i wonder, as a follow-up, what should be the democratic party response to that? shouldn't it be a hardening of the democratic position on no negotiations with crazy republicans whose leader says default on the debt? in recent days, we've seen a softening from the white house instead, with democrats around biden saying to reporters, well, there is a deal, covid money, austerity, we want to cut spending as well. i think they are going in the wrong direction. >> i completely agree. especially since -- you are right, there was one real moment of truth during that town hall that slipped by a lot of people. it was that moment when trump was answering about the debt ceiling.

he was asked by kaitlan collins, what has changed? in 2019, i believe it was, when their debt ceiling was about to be reached, you said it would be terrible to use that negotiating lever. he answers, i'm not president now. and that really should just and the debate over what is actually at stake here and what republicans believe here. they are only doing this because of democrats in office. and that was a very real moment of truth telling from donald trump, probably accidentally. >> it was a very -- >> they are hardening their stance. >> it was a very revealing truth. it also reminds us -- tom, i gotta ask you, i'm guessing, we don't have time to get into it, you and i have very different views on budget and the history of american deficits and debt. but putting that to one side, wouldn't you agree that the right way to deal with hostage taking in the gop is not to give into their demands for ransom without any kind of standing up? >> yes, especially because the gop demands aren't rooted in

any kind of policy. there was a time, i worked in the senate 30 years ago, there was a time where republicans and democrats, you and i, we could all have arguments about what should the tax rate be? how much should we be spending on defense? republicans aren't interested in those debates. they are interested in winning, live owning, trying to push joe biden into a corner. it's a strange thing to realize that even in power, if you ask republicans what they want, they can't tell you. they just know what they don't want. and their goals are all negative. >> nihilists. >> i think you are absolutely right. there is no negotiating about this. there is no actual position to discover and know midway to get to. republicans will keep changing their minds based on how much owning the lives they think they are doing. >> last word to you, christina. great does look like --

if a default is to be avoided, it will be through some kind of deal rather than joe biden doing what he said he was considering doing, which is invoking the 14th amendment and ignoring -- get limit. >> absolutely. you know, it frustrates me because joe biden didn't learn much from his eight years serving under president barack obama. this is the same republican party and that -- made him a one term president, and they would say no to anything proposed. we saw obama consistently trying to be conciliatory. he tried to move the needle. he tried to meet them halfway. he even gave him things they wanted and they still did not agree with him. he kept changing his policies to try and get them to work with him, to like him, whatever the psychology behind his strategy was. it never worked with republicans. we've seen joe biden do the same thing. pretty frustrating. he will never give credit to the democrats. they are the party of no. >> well said. i do have people in the white house watching this thing

because we're very close to a default. this is serious stuff. to engage in ridiculous tactics with hostage taking is not the right way forward. christina great, hayes brown, tom nichols, appreciate you all. coming up next, i will speak to a father of one of the students who was tragically murdered in the uvalde mass shooting last year. he was kicked out of the texas capital this week because he wanted some very basic gun reform. reform (bobby) my store and my design business? we're exploding. but my old internet, was not letting me run the show. so, we switched to verizon business internet. they have business grade internet, nationwide. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. i told myself i was ok with my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok. and i was done settling. if you still have symptoms after a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel,

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>> the men in that video is brett cross, a parent who tragically lost his son, uziyah, in last year's robb elementary mass shooting in uvalde, texas. tragically, uziyah was one of

the 19 students and two teachers killed that day. since then, brett cross has become a fierce advocate for gun control and reform. he was chanting, to 7:44 in reference to h b 2744, a bill which would raise the age requirement for semiautomatic wharf -- from 18 to 21. a modest proposal. he was protesting because texas republican-led legislature had chosen not to put that bill on their calendar. he was kicked out of the chamber. this was just days after the mass shooting in allen, texas, that left eight people dead, three of them children. nearly two weeks after a man was arrested for killing five of his neighbors, including kids, with an ar-15 rifle in cleveland, texas. texas has become almost ground zero for mass shootings in america right now. what is the governor, greg abbott, doing about it? offering thoughts and prayers and blaming mental health issues. anything but the guns. brett cross joins me now.

brett, thanks so much for coming on the show. let me start by saying we are so sorry for your loss last year in uvalde. we are filled with inspiration by your activism. tell us briefly what happened earlier this week, what happened at the state capital? >> i had gotten there at about nine in the morning to try to talk to the legislators about putting it on the calendars, which i already knew was a long shot. it was about 10:00. the officer came up and said, i'm about to pull out a decibel meter and check the docible. if you are over 85 decibels, and then you are out. that's it. >> bizarre. they use a sound monitor to get rid of you, just because you are too loud and calling for reform. i'm guessing they don't do that for everyone else. let me ask you this, brett. president biden put out an op-ed in usa today calling on congress -- then assault weapons and

immunity for gun manufacturers, bring back background checks of all gun sales. is that what you want to see happen, ideally? is that enough for you? >> yeah, i would love to see that. in texas, we have to fight for what we think is even remotely possible to achieve. i think a federal ban would -- we would be able to do that. these people have to come together and see that these are children being slaughtered. they need to put aside, this isn't a left issue, this isn't a right issue, this is children dying. that's what the senators and house reps need to realize. >> yes. i've got to ask, the governors heavily involved in this. how much do you hold the do nothing, in my view, republican governor of texas, greg abbott, responsible for the increase in mass shootings in your state on his watch, including, of course, uvalde, where you lost your son,

uziyah, so tragically. >> i honestly think he is going for a three pete. he has won every single time he's been elected into office, school shootings. i think that's what he is going for, honestly. at this point, he wants to say it's about mental health except a month before uvalde happened, you've got $211 million cut from mental health. he doesn't care. what he cares about is getting money into his pockets. when the nra is funding him, that's all he cares about. >> one last question for you, brett. one last point for you to consider, just for our viewers. tell us about uzi, tell us what he was like. >> he was amazing. i don't know if i've ever met anybody that had as much love in their heart as he did. honestly, we as humans need to be more like him. all he wanted to do was help people. all he wanted was for people to

smile. that's what i strive for every, day to be more like my son. >> brett, as one parent to another, i am so sorry and so angry for your loss. i appreciate what you've done. thank you for coming on our show tonight. >> thank you, sir. >> coming up, is elon musk for or against free speech online? he says one thing and then does another. on twitter, i will explain. don't forget you can listen to the mehdi hassan show anytime free wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts (christina) with verizon business unlimited, i get 5g, truly unlimited data, and unlimited hotspot data. so, no matter what, i'm running this kitchen. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. (psst psst) ahhhh...

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enjoy the go with charmin. >> it's been a rollercoaster five days for former pakistan prime minister imran khan who was ousted in a no confidence vote in parliament last year what he has called a coup. on tuesday, the 70-year-old now opposition leader was arrested and drugged dramatically dragged from court by paramilitary troops on corruption charges that he

denies. his arrest then sparked nationwide protests and violence that left at least ten of his supporters dead, dozens more injured. on thursday, pakistan supreme court ruled con's arrest unlawful. he was released on bail for two weeks and was accompanied by supporters as he returned to his residents. on saturday, he sat down for this interview with sky news. >> they are petrified of elections. the gap between us and all the other parties are so huge now that they are petrified that they will be wiped out. they have decided that the only way they will allow elections is if i'm inside jail or killed, two attempts on me. and most of my senior leadership should be jailed as well. this is what they have done. they have used this to put the entire leadership in jail. >> so, what does the future hold for imran khan, for his party, and for pakistan.

joining me now is a former minister from imran khan's cabinet and a former leader of his party, the pti. thank you for joining me on the show tonight. what is the situation in pakistan tonight? in recent days we have seen a great deal of demonstrations, we've seen violence, human rights watch has said the pakistani government has used excessive force against protesters but they have also said that some forced protesters have used violence as well. >> where it stands tonight in particular, mehdi, there is a huge force of officers and different forces outside imran khan but's residents. we have given the call for protesters and our supporters to come outside imran khan's house as imran khan has recently said that he believes they are going to try to humiliate him by arresting his wife, the former first lady. and then putting another case

on imran khan to try to expel him from the political landscape of pakistan. so this is what we predicted even 12 months ago is what they're going to try to do is illuminate imran khan in one way or another, whether be physical or disqualified from politics altogether. so this is the plan that they are trying to follow. unfortunately there is still, from the minute that he got bail the aide did not let him of court for three hours taking instructions from lord knows where and making one excuse after the other but after that they have still arrested and continued to arrest not only our top leadership. but women, children, they were arrested one of our local leaders, a 13-year-old child because he was not at home. they've arrested leaders parents. my own father is on the run because of the fear that if

they can't catch me or another leader they will catch their children or wives for their parents. so this is the kind of fascist treatment we are facing at the moment in pakistan. >> so, you mentioned, and that sounds awful and i mentioned human rights watch report. let me ask you about the actual charges. you said he's out on bail. the former prime minister is facing some pretty serious corruption charges of receiving land, i believe, worth millions of dollars as a bribe from a real estate tycoon and getting it via charitable trust. >> look, let me make it clear. there is no land received by imran khan. there was a trust and the trust is still there. corruption is when you receive illegal gains. there is a university there which is teaching around 400 or 450 students on all subjects including islamic spirituality

and others and it's basically a businessman has given a donation and he has built a university on it. there's nothing more to it. it's a totally clean transaction, it's got nothing, there's no gaining of imran khan. it's a trust that can be removed and taken any time. the prime minister can takeover the trust at the moment. so there is nothing of the sort. however, if there was something, and we want to make this very clear if there was something they wouldn't need to arrest imran khan the way they did. they would have sat by and let the law take its course. they would have let the judges, the supreme court of pakistan, the high court gave a particular verdict or orders to arrest him. they would not have the margin -- >> that's a fair point. >> paramilitary troops. -- >> that's a fair point, i don't think anyone is disputing that the government has a political issue with imran khan.

i was asking about the charges themselves. but let me put this to you. it's very difficult for those of us outside of pakistan to adjudicate who is right, who is wrong, who is corrupt, who is in corrupt because everyone in pakistan is accused of each other of corruption and corruption is rampant. you yourself had to resign from the government a few years ago over corruption accusations that i know you denied. your leader, the former prime minister, got arrested for corruption. his predecessor was convicted for corruption. the current prime minister was indicted for money laundering which he was eventually cleared of. isn't ripened bipartisan corruption the real issue here? >> well it is a real issue and we are the only party in pakistan that has that as their political ethos and our entire party election campaign and imran khan's 27 year old struggle in politics is all anti-corruption.

as far as it goes for imran khan i'm not going to bother wasting time on my case. as far as calm goes or anyone in this cabinet. whenever they have been accused or a slight charge they have resigned from the cabinet positions like myself until they got completely cleared and imran khan, given his opposition. despite 150 cases they put on him, every child and every grown-up in pakistan and outside of pakistan knows that imran khan is not corrupt. there is nothing they could put on him, they put hundreds of thousands of terrorism's -- they view this corruption at the university which has given free education to children, 450 plus of them. as far as it goes for that, when you compare it to the others you have people who have laundered billions of dollars outside of pakistan. their assets have increased tenfold every year. in pakistan.

-- >> as i say, it's very clear that there is corruption ran rampant across the board in pakistani politics, sadly. one last quick question for you. what message do you have for the biden administration which hasn't said much about imran khan's plight or his arrest. who, of course, mr. khan accused without any real evidence of being behind his removal from office last year? >> i would say for president biden's administration or for the rest of the world watching at the moment, and i will repeat the words of imran khan. at the moment, democracy is in an absolute low and we are not demanding anything. imran khan he's being either shot at or expelled from the political landscape. but all we are asking is one single thing for all pakistanis within and without of pakistan and that is transparent free and fair elections. a stable pakistan that a democratic pakistan suits the entire region and the world.

if you want to go tour to pakistan which has no democracy and is literally flirting dangerously with default then the path we are on in the last few months shall continue. but if you want a stable pakistan you have to give the people the right to choose their leader that's what we are asking for. >> we will have to leave it there on that note. thank you so much free time tonight. we're >> coming up, free speech king elon musk's censoring speech on his own platform in what almost amounts to election interference in the turkish presidential election. i'll explain, don't go away. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪♪ choosing a treatment for your chronic migraine - 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours

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there aren't many platforms left that allow free speech. the last big one remaining in the world, the only one's twitter. >> yes. twitter is the only big platform for free speech left on planet earth. it's a narrative that the boss of tesla starlink, and yes, twitter, elon musk himself has pushed from the very beginning, he was buying twitter to say free speech, that he himself was a free speech absolutist. here's a quote from a little over a year ago, a startling has been told by some governments, not ukraine, to block russian resources. we will not do so unless at gunpoint. sorry to be a free speech absolutist. must container so publicly devoted to free speech and standing up to those who suppress it and the chief twitter herself tweeted on friday afternoon, i'm adamant about defending free speech, even if it means losing money. bravo.

bravo. what is this. hours later, twitters global affairs account tweeted, in response to the legal profit -- put remains available to the people of turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in turkey today. and casey want to wear, today was election day in turkey. president erdogan is facing the biggest challenge yet in his two decades in power, state run news agencies are suggesting the latest figures show the race could go to a runoff. leading up to today and for years at the autocratic turkish president has been no friend to the free press or to free speech. and naturally, all this lead some to question musk's move, including this bit of snark from noted centrist pundit met iglesias. quote, the turkish government asked twitter to censor its opponents right before an election and elon musk implied. it should generate some interesting twitter files reporting. in fact, not a word of condemnation from the so-called twitter files reporters, not surprising as they also said

some nothing when mascara -- narendra modi's government to block on twitter and unflattering bbc documentary about modi, cover up a government imposed internet blackout across the northern state of punjab, and silence the accounts of -- something about iglesias's tweet touched a nerve. quote, did your brain fall out of your head, iglesias, musk tweeted. -- or limit access to some tweets, which one do you want? plenty of folks on twitter have pointed out musk seemed to think that irate response no doubt doused in -- was a burn, a repossessed, and a gotcha. it was a gotcha but not against iglesias and his critics, but against musk himself. musk put in writing on his own website under his own name a clear message for all autocratic and repressive governments around the world to see and act on. threatened to shut down twitter in your countries, and achieve

to it will do whatever you want. he will limit whatever tweets you like. his army of fans might say, what was he supposed to do? to which the answer is, maybe be a free speech absolutist. wait to be held at gunpoint. be willing to lose money. we're at the very least, follow the example of other social media companies. jimmy wales, the founder of wikipedia, took to twitter and took the i'm not the air to an admirable -- detailing how his team stood for their principles and fought all the way to the supreme court with turkey when the erdogan government threatened wikipedia. even twitter itself under its old management who musk claims were to censorious and didn't care about free speech, they stood up to erdogan. in 2014 and one again, at the turkish supreme court. just to be clear, when fbi agents asked old twitter to take down some tweets containing election misinformation and old twitter

agreed to some but refused to take down others, that is the end of free speech, a victory for the deep state, the ultimate censorship and elect election interference. when the turkish government says take down some tweets 24 hours ahead of a crucial election and put a rolls over and complies, and that is musk following the law. free speech be dammed. i don't know. is this musk just preferring foreign autocratic governments like erdogan's or motives to our own? or is it just about the money for him? surely his capitulation couldn't have anything to do with stuff like this, could it? he has no financial conflict of interest here, right? either way, it's capitulation, to quote tech journalist and musculature -- being a persistent -- upon which year other businesses are dependent has a very vichy france vibe. guess what? you can't crown yourself the grant -- of free speech while criminally caving to the demands of for

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tonight as ever and if you want to watch me tomorrow night i was sitting in for chris hayes 8 pm eastern live here on msnbc. now it's time to handed over to my good friend ayman mohyeldin. ayman, good evening. before i go, daniel penny the 24-year-old man who put jordan neely in a fatal chokehold on the new york city subway was charged on friday with second degree manslaughter and the response, ayman, from conservatives has been to treat him as both a victim and a hero. in fact, governor ron desantis tweeted out a link to a crowd funding site for pennies defense saying we stand with good samaritans like daniel penny. ayman, i'm a muslim but i've read the bible. i've read the gospel of loop, the parable of the good samaritan who help the injured traveler after a priest and another man failed to do so.

i don't remember the good samaritan choking the traveler to death. >> i think it's safe to say we should stop pretending that republicans are the party of god. they are not a party that demonstrates compassion in the spirit of christiana day. whether it is on immigration or helping the homeless, instead they are a party that now openly champions vigilantism. this is the party that embrace kyle rittenhouse and daniel penny, and daniel perry, not to be confused with daniel penny. daniel perry was the racist army sergeant who was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing a protester at a black lives matter rally. what do republicans do? they don't condemn the racists for murder. greg abbott, the governor wants to pardon him. this is now the party that stood behind george zimmerman, who killed trayvon martin. a boy walking with skittles. so they are not about to change their tune and side with justice for the homeless man killed on the subway. they are rallying to daniel penny's defense which has now raised more than $1 million

since he was charged with that manslaughter. and by the way, that money is being raised on a christian crowdfunding side that has become the go-to site for four right-wing causes in america like the legal defense funds for kyle rittenhouse, the january six rioters, and whistleblowers who spread anti vaccine disinformation. >> maybe they should fund free bibles that you get in hotel room to trump supporters to actually read the parable of the goods barrington. >> it's great to see you as always my friend enjoy the rest of your evening off. coming up, on ayman. the stench of desperation. republican plans to smear president biden are failing and this week was their most embarrassing charade yet. plus, stopping another santos congressman richie torres joins me to discuss his legislation that would block politicians like santos from lying to voters and the hits, well, they just k