now i hand it over to mehdi hasan. mehdi, i want to know what was on your ipod in 2000 >> i had a feeling you'd ask me that and i'm pleading the fifth and taking it to my grave. what are you talking about? i love the idea of always being on the twitter and not an ipod. i love the distractions. i am aducted. >> this is what distinguishes you and me. thank you so much. >> who needs music when you have twitter? see you later. go listen to something cool while i tweet and do a tv show. >>> tonight on the mehdi hasan show, the qanon crazies take las vegas but they're also taking over the republican party. it is no joke. i'll talk to two experts about the threat posed to american democracy right now. >>> plus democrats are perhaps days away from finally striking a deal on biden's build back better plan but which policies will make it into the final deal and which won't? i'll ask democratic senator tina smith. i speak to iconic activist about the importance of the health care fight not only for his own life but for all americ

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i'm mehdi hasan. september was supposed to be the month in which congress passed hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending and guess what? the house did. by a vote of 316-113. now you might be scratching your head and saying didn't the bipartisan infrastructure bill fail to come to a vote on thursday night? isn't the budget reconciliation bill nowhere near ready for a vote? you're right on both counts. i'm not talking about those bills. i'm talking about a bill that flew quietly under the radar in the house like a stealth bomber on the occasions in which it actually works. a bill which authorized $740 billion for the defense department. $768 billion total for defense. ka ching ka ching. see president biden submitted a $715 billion budget to congress for the defense department to which members of both parties said, as if. and just threw in $25 billion extra they found under the couch cushions presumably. yeah. in a supposedly divided congress they gave bipartisan support to spending even more mon

time for "the mehdi hasan show." hey, mehdi. >> hello hello. funny meeting you here. in person or via whatever technology we use these days. >> remote. >> have a great rest of your sunday. tonight on "the mehdi hasan show" it is election day in virginia on tuesday. but it is not just about the candidates for governor on this ballot. the republican party is going full authoritarian and full culture wars to try and win. i'll explain what

>> he doesn't, mehdi. problem in the first case when they tried to block the book the judge said that the interpretation of the nondisclosure agreement to apply to mary's book made no sense. it was overbroad. he gave it a very narrow interpretation. that is the first thing. the second thing is donald trump has brought this lawsuit against his niece mary for what she wrote in her book, too much and never enough, and for what the "new york times" published in pulitzer prize winning article that exposed fraudulent business and tax schemes by donald trump and his siblings and father. donald trump's lawsuit against mary trump is lengthy but does not challenge one word of mary trump's book, not one word of the "new york times" -- he basically admitted all of that was true and it was an extraordinarily important story. the third thing is mary trump has her own lawsuit pending against donald trump in new york seeking tens of millions of dollars that donald trump and his siblings ripped off from her and she is chal

see you soon. >>> tonight on the mehdi hasan show.iggest of all and could decide not just the results of the midterms but the next presidential election as well. i'll explain how. plus former president trump is holding his own court. we'll get to the what and why with mary trum's attorney. and finally, a south asian super hero. i'll speak to acclaimed comedian actor and now muscle bound star. >>> good evening. i'm mehdi hasan. we are a little over a year away from crucial midterm elections in this country. if republicans win back the house they could block not just joe biden's entire agenda but also the certification of the next presidential election in 2024. for that, they need to flip five just five democratic seats next november. now, what if i told you that republicans could win back

i'm mehdi hasan. nine months after the storming of the united states capitol, the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election is still under way. we are in the midst of a rolling coup. almost every day republicans pass more voter suppression laws. they purge more and more election officials and they entrench the big lie that the election was stolen. just check out this weekend. >> and the republicans have to stay strong. you have to stay strong. you have to fight. bring our country back. >> do you feel that enough has been done for a free and fair election for these congressional races in 2022? >> we are making great improvements. and as you say, 18 states. but we've also been able to stop hr-1 where the democrats would have greater control of our election, of what we could actually say, a speech czar to make the democrats have greater control when it comes to federal election commission. and these states is where the rules need to change. we need to clean the rolls up like in los angeles the

now i hand it over to mehdi hasan. me that and i'm pleading the fifth and taking it to my grave. what are you talking about? i love the idea of always being on the twitter and not an ipod. i love the distractions. i am aducted. >> this is what distinguishes you and me. thank you so much. >> who needs music when you have twitter? see you later. go listen to something cool while i tweet and do a tv show. >>> tonight on the mehdi hasan show, the qanon crazies take las vegas but they're also taking over the republican

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good to see you this morning, mehdi. >> she was chronicled in that hbo movie a few years ago starring company like you said. they say they unfairly made billions while her family got nothing which is outrageous when you think about it. i'll be talking to henrietta's grandson along with benjamin crump. also joining me is congresswoman sherrice davis. we think of certain demographics and native-americans are also impacted by this voter suppression across the country, as well. and i don't know what you're bingeing lately, mehdi, but whatever it is it might be coming to a screeching halt because we will talk about a looming worker strike in hollywood and what it means for our weekend plans when we spend 12 hours on the couch watching one program. so i'm going have my friend yvette nicole brown, and a busy jam-packed hour on "the cross connection." >> i have a shortage of goods delivered to my house and now a shortage of tv which is not what i want to hear on the weekend. >> thank you, tiffany. always good to see you, too. stay tuned for more right after "velshi," "the cross connection" st

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. >>> tonight on "the mehdi hasan show," senator elizabeth warren joins me live.time in the trump administration at the national security council. she testified against trump at his first impeachment trial and tells us why she went to work for him in the first place. >>> plus, abu zubaydah. i'll talk to the man who captured him, former cia intelligence officer and former whistle-blower john kiriakou.

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