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 america

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

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tonight on "the mehdi hasan show" it is election day in virginia on tuesday. ballot. the republican party is going full authoritarian and full culture wars to try and win. i'll explain what

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

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 the house next year without winning a single extra vote. how you ask? because republicans right now are taking advantage of the once every decade post census redistricting process to redraw congressional maps in a way that gives them a partisan political advantage. it all goes back to signer of the declaration who in 1812 as governor of massachusetts signed a bill that created a misshapen district that stretched from boston to the new hampshire border before hooking around again to the coast and looked like a salamander and, hence, gerrymander. over the decades both parties have gerrymandered seats but on the republican side right now and in recent years it has been intense and brazen. just listen to th

i'm mehdi hasan. nine months after the storming of the united states capitol, the attempt to overturn the results telephone 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

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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.