i'm mehdi hasan.was the biggest question in the country this week, that liberals, conservatives and those in between seemed to be asking. is america a racist country? it started when tim scott, the only black republican in the senate made this his battle cry in his party's response to the president's address to congress on wednesday night. >> hear me clearly. america is not a racist country. it's backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. >> senator scott's rather unambiguous message on the thorny issue of racism in america put the first black and south asian vice president on the spot and kamala harris, like a good politician, also denied that america is a racist country. >> i believe that we need to -- first of all, no, i don't think that america is a racist country, but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today. >> joe biden was also asked about racism in america by nbc's craig melvin. >> i watched the rebuttal f

now i hand over to mehdi hasan. i've got to ask you which of the incentives would have pushed you over? >>> fries, burgers, food, going out, eating out, all of that is going to win me over all the time, over the money. it's the food. >> i just want free stuff. you could have got me a free pen and i would have gotten the vaccine. >> i would have got it any way and pocketed the free stuff. alicia, great message to end with. get your vaccine, listen to alicia menendez and everyone else. get your vaccine. thanks so much. >>> tonight on "the mehdi hasan show," do these people look like tourists to you? come on. we knew the gop would try to rewrite history. we just didn't know it would be this soon. i'll talk to former top trump white house official who accepts the election results. my conversation with her is ahead. >>> plus many of us have seen this haunting video, congresswoman jayapal hiding. that was on january 6. what's her message to republicans who want to move on. i'll ask her. >>> israeli/palestinian conflict sh

i'm mehdi hasan. on tuesday, it will be a year since a 46-year-old man drove to a minneapolis convenience store where he bought a pack of cigarettes with a $20 bill. store employees, who believed that store was counterfeit, called the cops. for less than $20, that man was arrested, handcuffed and pinned to the ground. pinned to the ground and had one officer place a knee on his neck. please, he said, i can't breathe, he said. mama, he said. i'm about to die, he said. nine minutes and 29 seconds later, when the officer's knee was finally removed from his neck, that man would no longer have a pulse. he was murdered. a lot of things have changed since the killing of george floyd in 2020. for one thing, the officer who killed him is behind bars. derek chauvin is the first white police officer in minnesota to be convicted of killing a black person. police brutality and racism in what's believed to be the biggest protest movement in american history. the president at the time george floyd was killed, who se

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i'm mehdi hasan. the republican party is working hard so that come 2024, it can rig the next presidential election in its favor. that's not beating around the bush. that's what's going on here. first, assuming they win back the house next year, gop can block the certification of the 2024 results if they don't like them. but that means also getting rid of any republicans in congress who aren't on board. if you voted in favor of impeaching donald trump, if you said the election wasn't stolen, the republicans are coming for you. ask liz cheney, who is about to lose her leadership position. ask mitt romney, who got booed by republicans back in utah. we'll talk more about the liz cheney angle to this story later with linda chavez. the second element to this gop strategy for 2024 is even more crucial and disturbing. an all-out assault on voting rights and on election officials at the state level. trump is encouraging the purge of state election officials, who defied him by, you know, following the election

right now it's time for "the mehdi hasan show." hi, mehdi. >> hi, alicia.m glad we no longer have president cheato. sl have a great rest of your sunday. >>> tonight on "the mehdi hasan show," the anniversary of george floyd's death is tuesday but skong not ready to pass legislation in his name. what will it take? >>> the january 6 bill may come up in the senate, but will republicans use to filibuster to block the commission on the insurrection? >>> an accomplished woodworker but today he will give us the master class on why americans

for now i hand it over to mehdi hasan. "armageddon," i thought, that's going to happen for real. >> we lived through a pandemic, now we have the cicadas and space trash. >> now you just have to relax tonight for the rest of the weekend. thank you so much, alicia. >> thank you. >>> tonight on "the mehdi hasan show," republican war on democracy continues. i'm reveal what is happening in each state and joaquin castro will talk to me about the voting restrictions happening in texas. >>> and the republican party trying to oust liz cheney this week. >>> and the director for covid response, andy slavitt is here to answer my questions about the guidance on masks and vaccines. >>> in this movie, a black man has to relive a fatal police encounter over and

for now i hand it over to my colleague mehdi hasan. hello, mehdi. >> hello, alicia. figures. >> plus joe biden won the 2020 election. it's not even up for debate. so why is the gop still trying to rewrite history? georgia congresswoman nekima williams. >>> also a crime against humanity. that's what one prominent author calls india's covid crisis. i'll talk about the suffering in her country. >>> how can the country convince doubters to get the shot? i'll ask the science guy, bill

rounds of us till a teaser during the war is egypt qatar and the united nations have played a role in mehdi ating between the warring factions but we also have heard again from the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu last night in the statement that the operation would take as long as necessary so at the moment we have no indication when those mediation meditation efforts will see any results tony thank you so much w's jerusalem correspondent tonya kramer. well within israel the conflict is fueling confrontations in some communities as mobs those of arabs and jews confront each other on the streets simmering tensions in several mixed cities are boiling over into violence for there was a brutal attack on the streets of. a group of far right israelis pull an arab man out of his car and b 10 was mob attacks as well in the city of this surveillance footage shows palestinian youths attacking an orthodox jew. elsewhere clashes erupted between arabs and israeli police. the violence is fueling fears that israel could be headed for civil war. jews and arabs who live side by side in israel's so

and the united nations has played a role in mehdi ating between the warring factions but we also have heard again from the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu last night in the statement that the operation would take as long as necessary so at the moment we have no indication when those mediation meditation efforts will see any results tony thank you so much w's jerusalem correspondent tonya kramer well for more on the humanitarian situation in gaza let's bring in latish he's gaza director of the un relief and works agency responsible for the welfare of palestine refugees he joins us from gaza city thanks for being with us mr small to give us a sense of the humanitarian situation in gaza right now. good morning to you terry and thank you for giving me others over to join it is we'll talk about this situation is a mixture of things there is this bear yesterday was the 1st day or eat off them ramadan and i think people are in despair that they cannot celebrate this religious festivity that is so important there is people terrifying after 3 days and 3 nights of intense rockets from

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. >> i want to bring in mehdi hasan, the host of the mehdi hasan on nbc. so -- you have 35 votes, which is not nothing in these days. but the glass half empty is that more republicans voted against this commission them voted to not see the electors. so things are moving in the wrong direction in terms of the percentage of the republican caucus voting the wrong way on these elemental questions. voting >> it's a very good poie you may, chris. it is moving the wrong direction. in the last four months have been really bad for the republican party. by extension really bad for american democracy. i'm old enough to remember when liz cheney won her first vote to stay on in leadership. and every bone celebrated. and everyone said see, there still republicans willing to do the right thing. and the same issue is happening now, as you say. deceiving the electors is one thing. now four months later looking into the violence that happened that day. on the one hand, as congresswoman mcgovern pointed out it should've been unanimous. they should've been, in an ideal world

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. >> reporter: spicy mehdi hasn't seen her mom marta, an essential worker, in over a year. she's about to give her mom the shock of a lifetime a little reveal that we're in on. >> it's a cake we're celebrating. can you read it? >> it says happy grandmother's day. >> to have something good come out of this time of separation, to have -- i just feel very fortunate >> the reaction that she had was everything that i wanted and more of course i had to give you a spicy surprise >> reporter: a mother's day they and so many other mothers will never forget. new memories being made on this very special day. to all moms and grandmothers, have a happy mother's day that's "nightly news" for this friday. thanks for watching. please take care of yourself and each other. >>> right now, at 6:00. fully vaccinated but you still get covid. it's happening. we will tell you what you need to know. also, some dos and don'ts for moeekend. >>> plus, a city council meeting gets heated in the south bay. >> everybody's watching right now. >> yeah, i understand. and you are yelling. >> can we have a bre

and mehdi hasan.t where things are right now, and your estimation of how much the establishment professional class of who the democratic party, which has to be the obstacle to this, gets it? >> chris, where the why start. you're asking me from my concern from zero to 100 it is 10,000. it has been very clear that the republicans don't want a fair democratic society, they will do everything in their power to either suppress the truth, as timothy snider was saying or to make sure that the maximum of americans who are eligible to cast a fair ballot cannot do that. i think that the challenge is that so many people who were part of the movement are no longer in leadership positions. i'm thinking of anita gupta, kristen clark, but then there's also someone else. and stephanie chirac. there are a lot of vacancies right now in our system right now. while the progressive base, people should be calling members of congress and filling up those town halls just like we did when we're fighting for the aca, when we'r

. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ s >> tonight on "the mehdi hasan show" is the question that seems to be on everyone's mind,points but we'll give you the true facts and figures. >> plus joe biden won the 2020 election. it's not even up for debate. so why is the gop still trying to rewrite history? my conversation with georgia congresswoman nekima williams. >>> also a crime against humanity. that's what one prominent author calls india's covid crisis. i'll talk about the suffering in her country. >>> america has hit a vaccine call. how can the country convince doubters to ge

. >> good evening, mehdi. i hope you enjoy your memorial day weekend off. >>> in the meantime, hello to you. good the see you tonight. . . . . ,, the. journalist is roman predecessors. he got a pat -- news channel and. belarus let's go to matt bradley. hey, matt. >> yeah joshua, there is a reason why belarus is so commonly referred to as the last dictatorship in europe. 's of it's because of stuff like this. and what we saw during the presidential election, and immediately after the election lofty -- last year. horrible police brutality, mass arrests, protests in the streets and many called a rigged election. that's exactly why this young man in russia -- he was detained on the flight from greece to lithuania. the authorities have said they are going to be prosecuting a lawsuit against the russians for essentially stopping this plane in mid air. they actually scrambled a fighter jet, and told ryanair that they needed to ground this flight in belarus and maybe there was a bomb on it and they need security. usin

. >> good evening, mehdi. thank you very much. good to be with you tonight. fi. that is how one republican described the parties and fighting over loyalty to donald trump. this week could be crucial to the gop's future. plus, >> i still want to make sure we don't declare victory prematurely. >> doctor anthony fauci says we could still declare victory over covid-19, but that is getting tougher with vaccinations slowing down. his answers to your vaccine questions are just ahead. also, april's jobs report was not what washington or wall street had hoped, how will it affect president biden's policy plans? congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan joins us live, and breaking details about the cyberattack on the nation's largest gasoline pipeline. it could point to one of america's top adversaries. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to the week. today the white house spent part of mother's day doing some damage control. after a disappointing job report last month. >> we are making bold moves, but there is a long way to go, and we h

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