. >> tonight on the mehdi hasan show. from nixon to trump, the cost of loyalty to a criminal president. we will get into the new charges and new defendant in the classified documents case. plus, conservative justice samuel alito says that the supreme court cannot be regulated. clearly somebody who is not read the constitution. and it just a stop. that is the mention from some black conservatives to run desantis as he defends teaching the benefits of slavery. ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening. i am mehdi hasan. have you heard of the rosemary woods stretch? it is named after this woman, rosemary woods. the longtime secretary of richard nixon. woods became her career with nixon in 1950, went long before his time with the white house. she was so close to the family the nixon's daughters referred to her as aunt rose. in 1974, route woods was thrust into the national spotlight during the watergate scandal when investigators discovered a mysterious 18 and a half gap on one of the tapes handed over from the nixon white house. the tape was belie

washington tonight on the mehdi hasan show. the former trump official sounding the alarm about the dangers of another trump presidency. miles taylor joins me on that. plus, save the date. the ex presidents growing legal troubles are now colliding with the gop primary calendar. and the people of israel pushing back against a power grab by prime minister benjamin netanyahu. but what about the occupation? >> welcome to the show, i'm mehdi hasan. it is good to be back from a two-week break. i was in the uk visiting friends and family were a lot of people kept asking me the same two questions. one, can donald trump really win again? and to, will really be the end of american democracy if he does? my answer double foes questions was yes, he can win again, and a second trump term will be an existential threat to american democracy, in a way that even his first scandal ridden can traverse a plagued fascist like term was not. next time around if there is a next time around and that seems increasingly possible considering right now donal

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good evening, i'm mehdi hasan. perhaps the two most important weapons in american politics right now are not 435 and 500, the number of house members in congress. or 40 and 44, the pulling the embers for joe biden and donald trump respectively in the latest survey. but six and three, that is the ideological division on the highest court in the land. six conservative justices versus three liberal justices. it is how we all powell fruit supreme court cans to vote on a lot of the biggest issues that come before them. six against three, before we get those cases tonight, cases that have offended economic policy in this country, and tens of millions of americans, it is worth pointing out, of those six conservative justices, five appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote before securing the oval office. three by a president who incited an insurrection against the united states. two, brett kavanaugh and cleanse thomas were credibly accused of sexual misconduct, which they deny. to, new gorsuch and amy coney barret

more of the mehdi hasan show right after this. right after this ♪♪ voltaren.nly way we can get our baby to sleep, so when our windshield cracked, we needed it fixed right. we went to safelite.com. there's no one else we'd trust. their experts replaced our windshield, and recalibrated our car's advanced safety system. they focus on our safety... so we can focus on this little guy. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ >> hundreds of thousands of israelis have taken to the streets across tel aviv and jerusalem to protest benjamin netanyahu's plan to strip power away from this supreme court. lawmakers gathered inside the knesset, the parliament to debate the bill that would curtail the courts powers. this months-long debate over judiciary finally raptor the vote expected tomorrow. now, we have to acknowledge that these are in many ways inspiring images as people march and camp out in 90-degree heat. for many of the palestinians watching, the protest might seem a little self serving. while israelis are undoubtedly standing up for their own rights, the

someone else of doing is something donald trump himself has done or might do, or, as my colleague mehdi hasan puts it, every accusation is a confession. . and nobody knows more about that side of trump that my next guest. michael cohen he's a former lawyer and fixer for president trump. he is the host of the podcast mea culpa and political beat down, and the author of revenge, how telling trump weaponize the u.s. department of justice against his critics. michael, thank you so much for joining me this friday night. >> good to see, you alex wagner. >> sorry to take you away from dinner. >> that's okay. for you, anything. this is, i think, a little bit more important then -- >> well, we all have our standards. first of all, this indictment that we all just got from jack smith -- the superseding indictment -- i think, is really illustrative for the american public at a certain kind of behavior and mentality. to be sure, we have heard some of this behavior before, but the notion that trump is lobbing these accusations that people for crimes that he himself may be guilty of -- is that something, t

i am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes.end up behind bars and next year for conspiracy to obstruct justice. and if he does, it may very well be because of a new testimony by someone identified by the justice department, only as trump employee 4. now that we have had all weekend to digest the new superseding indictment for donald trump from doj special counsel jack smith and the classified documents case, employee number

. >> tonight on the mehdi hasan show.t into the new charges and new defendant in the classified documents case. plus, conservative justice samuel alito says that the supreme court cannot be regulated. clearly somebody who is not read the constitution. and it just a stop. that is the mention from some black conservatives to run desantis as he defends teaching the benefits of slavery. ♪ ♪ ♪

washington tonight on the mehdi hasan show.ers of another trump presidency. miles taylor joins me on that. plus, save the date. the ex presidents growing legal troubles are now colliding with the gop primary calendar. and the people of israel pushing back against a power grab by prime minister benjamin netanyahu. but what about the occupation? >> welcome to the

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the continuation of the competition hosted by bangkok, thailand, mehdi saberi threw 19 meters and 98 centimeters in the second weight. hasan the silver medal in the 100 meter run with a time of 10 seconds and 23 hundredths of a second. he stood in the third place and the bronze medal was won by iran's 100 meter runner farzaneh fasihi with a time of 11 seconds and 39 seconds . kurd himself, as well as hamida esmailnejad, another representative of our country this event took the fourth place with a time of 11 seconds and 46 hundredths of a second and failed to win a medal, but in the semi-final stage of the 400-meter hurdles competition, mehdi succeeded by registering a quorum of 49 seconds and 71 hundredths of a second as the first person from the finish line will be crossed and the final will be held tomorrow evening. the 25th edition of the asian athletics championship will be held from july 21 to 25 . saeed afrooz won the gold medal in javelin throwing f34 mardan managed to win the gold medal by setting the world record of 40 meters and 27 cm, and also won the paralympic quota. for gold, a silver and a bronze , it benefi

206 hossein rasoulian was sixth in the discus throw before this is mehdi sabri and weight throw with farzaneh fasihi in 100 meters and hasan taftian in 100 meters won the silver medal . iran's volleyball team under 16 years old, in the continuation of the central asian championships in uzbekistan 3 and kazakhstan, defeated the movie grih ahmad, a young man wearing 57 kg. after the defeat against milad valizadeh in an international competition in belgrade and the failure to reach the runner-up of the national team , iran was repeatedly noticed in the virtual space and on the official page of the world wrestling federation. discovery order any possible violation of the case will be detailed to the competent institutions and the food contract. this investigation will be done on other clubs as well. mohammad amin tabatabai won the title of iran's super grandmaster in the fifth round of the hungarian chess competition by defeating his indian opponent and passing the rating of 2700 . beside parham, maqsoodlou did it himself. thank you very much for your companionship. have a good night and sleep today, sunday , the 25th of july,

previously , mehdi saberi won the silver medal in the weight throw and farzane fasihi won the silver medal and hasan taftian won the bronze medal in the 100 meter sprint . the efforts of iran's youth to reach the semi-final stage of this tournament, hosted by manama, bahrain , from 20:30 p.m., our country's youth volleyball team will face argentina against the students of momeni moghadam, who, after defeating ehsan and thailand, confirmed their participation in the semi-final stage. victory against bulgaria as the leader to they reached the semi-finals. in the other match of this stage, the teams of italy and bulgaria will face each other from 17 and 30 minutes . the statistics of the iranian beach volleyball teams from advancing to the semi-finals of the asian under-21 competition , remaining in the quarter-final stage. until this morning, the team of our country, with the combination of mehdi alizadeh and alireza zamani, lost 21 results to kazakhstan and failed to advance to the semi-finals. this team won against the teams of 12, singapore, 2 and vietnam. pasandi and habib naseri 20 australia lost

previously, mehdi saberi won the silver medal in the weight throw, and farzane fasihi won the silver medal in the 100 meters sprint. hasan taftian they won a bronze medal , in the name of god, good afternoon, girls' basketball in less than 16 years, the asian cup will face iran in the semi-final stage of this competition. tonight, the basketball girls of our country will face the hong kong team. in the other match of this stage, the philippine and malaysian teams will meet . this tournament will be hosted by jordan. the iranian women's national football team lost to the host team in their first match in the russian camp . they left the result to russia. the second meeting the iranian and russian women's national teams will be held on tuesday, july 27th. maryam azmoun is preparing to participate in the second round of the olympic qualifying tournament in asia. hamedan's teammate won the women's field hockey tournament. in the final match of the competition, hamedan 's host team won the championship with a 2-0 victory over east azerbaijan. from it to the end of this competition was held with the participation of 18 teams i