right now it is time for the mehdi hasan show. i know you didn't know how i was going to bring that all back to politics. but we did. >> i like the way you did. i'm not going to talk about seat lion but i am going to say isn't it amazing angela merkel leaves office after a decade in charge of germany and america has still never elected a woman leader. >> you know that is a note i can get behind. have a great show. >> have a great rest of your sunday. >>> tonight on the mehdi hasan show the fate of biden's agenda will be decided this week and decided in the senate by democrats. will they reach a deal with themselves? or throw it all away? plus, award winning film maker and activist michael moore is here, who has become a surprising left wing supporter of president biden. what does he make of the budget deal and the withdrawal from afghanistan? and don't mess with law professor tulson. senator ted cruz learned his lesson the hard way this week in the senate. you'll see how she handled him on voting rights and you'll see me talk to h

mehdi hasan needs no introduction, i'll give him one anyway.s host of "the mehdi hasan show" which immediately preceded this show. jonathan allen is senior political reporter for nbc news digital and the co-author of "lucky: how joe biden barely won the presidency." johnathan, the democrats have had a rough week. they're getting another piece of bad information just within the last hour or so because we've just learned the senate parliamentarian ruled against allowing the democrats to include a pathway to legal status for an estimated 8 million undocumented illegal immigrants in their massive social spending plan, definitely a setback for democrats. does this effectively stop them from passing anything on immigration? >> it's an enormous setback. i think for insiders on capitol hill, its surprising that the parliamentarian would rule that immigration policy changes aren't really within the framework of budget guidelines. the expedited process called reconciliation where you can do things with [ inaudible ]. it does seem to be a moment where tha

joining me now, the host of the mehdi hasan show right here on msnbc. i am sure ow viewers are very excited to see you a little early, so take me back to the spring. you interviewed senate majority leader chuck schumerment he said the deadline to pass voting protections was probably by august or so. i don't know about you, mehdi, but time for me has become a flat circle. i am going to remind you we are now in the middle of september. we have this new slimmed down version of a voting rights bill. how do you think this is all going to play out with manchin and sinema? >> alicia, thanks for having me on. i think it's -- i am with "the new york times" editorial board. there is no time to waste. it may already be too late in some areas. when it comes to things like gerrymandering, it is already happening. republicans are already doing it since the new census results came out. we have already seen some of the biggest most important states in the union, texas, florida, georgia passing repressive new voter laws. so there is no time to waste. i don't understand

i'm mehdi hasan. have you ever had to guess how many jellybeans are in a jar? it's not easy, right? sometimes the question is part of a contest. sometimes it is a problem solving exercise to teach you how to use things like the height and diameter of the jar to help estimate a number. many times throughout american history the question of how many jellybeans are in a jar has been a racist tool of oppression. in 1890 mississippi lawmakers gathered in jackson to find a way around the 15th amendment which gave african-americans the right to vote. the white judge who presided put the matter bluntly. we came here to exclude the negro. nothing short will answer. the mississippi lawmakers adopted two measures to make voting all but impossible for black people in mississippi. one was a poll tax. you had to bring the equivalent of $58 in today's money to vote. the other was a literacy test. registrars could ask arbitrary questions to decide if prospective voters were smart enough to vote. white people always seemed to get the simple questions. black voters, well, black voters were asked such

right now it is time for the mehdi hasan show.that all back to politics. but we did. >> i like the way you did. i'm not going to talk about seat lion but i am going to say isn't it amazing angela merkel leaves office after a decade in charge of germany and america has still never elected a woman leader. >> you know that is a note i can get behind. have a great show. >> have a great rest of your sunday. >>> tonight on the mehdi hasan show the fate of biden's agenda will be decided this week and decided in the senate by democrats. will they reach a deal with themselves? or throw it all away? plus, award winning

joining me now is mehdi hasan whose show streams daily on peacock and sunday nights at 8:00 p.m.an, served as an officer in the u.s. army with combat tours in afghanistan. and anne-marie slaughter who is the director of policy planning at the state department in the obama administration. she's now the ceo of the public policy think tank new america. great to have you all. max, i want to start with you, as a new yorker, as someone who served in that war that has now ended, what you think we have learned in these 20 years. >> chris, it's great to see you. you know, i think that over the last 20 years, there's been incredible sacrifice, incredible leadership, and that should not be understated. but what we have also seen over the last 20 years is incredible overreach. some of it with disastrous consequences. i don't think that did anything to improve our national security. and those lessons learned, we can't let them be learned on the sacrifices associated with them to be in vain. we can preserve our national security while leading with our values. but also want to make other slight

do not go away >>> good morning, i'm mehdi hasan in for my good friend ali velshi.rrection and the attack on the united states capitol. today there is another far right rally taking place at the capitol. in defense of those arrested for trying to violently overthrow the election on january the 6th. in a sense heights like they celebrate the confederacy. dubbed justice for j 6 a title made from a lie created by pa far-right group called look ahead america. and many of the same racist and anti-american and anti-democracy far-right groups congregated petition capitol, breached the capitol are back again. in a statement the organizers say the rally is call out the quote, teernicle and inhumane treatment of the political prisoners that's how they describe the people describing people vitamin violently assaulted the capitol. tom manager to a who taq took the position of police chief in july. says there has been chatter. the security fencing e

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