good evening, i am mehdi hasan. years, ago i launched the show with a very stark warning about the danger imposed to american democracy by one donald j trump. tonight, on the very last edition of the mehdi hasan show, yes, our last show. i want to begin by again warning you all about the threat to our democracy from donald j trump. the donald trump who was running for president again, who's leading joe biden in some of the polls. and who continues to make violent authoritarian unconstitutional threats about his political opponents. the donald trump who three years ago yesterday incited a violent assault on the united states capitol as part of a desperate but coordinated attempt to try and stay in office. and yet these days, according to a new washington post marital poll, the percentage of americans that think trump has a great deal of responsibility for the january 6th attack is at just 53%, down from 60% two years ago. the country is in trouble, there's no denying that. let's start tonight by going back two or thr

. >> yes, as our dear friend, mehdi hasan, i'm very sad to know will not be our colleague anymore, but journalists, we would not know. it will just be a black hole and we would not know what's happening there. we are so thankful for that, they're taking so many risks. let's talk about what's happening in the region. antony blinken is there. it seems sort of unrealistic to even have these conversations about normalization, how it could still be possible, how could there still be a day after. when it looks like what really might be the day after is a wider war that spills into lebanon and neighboring iran. how likely are we going to see this conflict spread beyond the tragedy in gaza? >> well, i think we should listen to the words of the u.s. secretary of state, who continuously warns that this is a very serious situation, they are concerned, u.s. officials, that the war may spread. israel today acknowledged that they killed a senior member of hezbollah, a senior commander of hezbollah and lebanon. and that follows the assassination of hamas's deputy chief in beirut last wednesday. they

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