some time with us. hide and go leak. that s the focus of tonight s angle. laura: we all love playing hide and go seek at least i did as kids. especially as the sun was setting on a beautiful summer day. well, it s winter time and the adults in charge in the senate are still playing games. this one is called hide and go leak hide of the text senate border deal and leaking out pieces transparent attempt to sat phi critics. it s a classic senator theater of the absurd move with oits cast of characters including the man tapped by mitch mcconnell to be lead actor that s oklahoma senator jim lankford. is he trying mightily to convince you that biden will really enforce new laws under a new bill even though he doesn t use the. language biden would not be compelled. not be compelled to act to close the border. unless a threshold number of about 5,000 migrants had been logged in one day. which, by the way has happened many times during the past month. this is not letting 45,000
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trump cornered his desperate attempt to control the narrative ahead of potential indictment his niece, mary trump, is here along with professor - plus, zero accountability. 20 years to the day afte george w. bush launched hi illegal iraq war also tonight, march for ou lives cofounder david on th gun reform movement, and o president biden s new executiv order. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. picture the scene. a cult leader gathers hi followers in waco, texas, as law enforcement closes in. described as a pathologica liar and cinman, the cul leader rails against the government, rages against th godless left, and depict himself as the chosen one. his disciples eat it up. they worship him they even vowed to give thei lives for him. now, am i describing david koresh, the infamous leader wh was killed along with 75 of hi cult members in the fbi sieg of his waco compound in 1993 or, i might describing forme president donald trump because trump we ll be hosting his first mcc
happening? what s your response t questions like that from reaga who don t want to hear thi about their great hero and there is obviously a lo of unanswered questions abou this story ben barnes, the person who tells us this, the forme lieutenant governor of texas a very prominent figure, a democrat, a long time majo figure in american politics. at one point lyndon johnso said he would be the next he would be a president of the united states someday, he wa that influential at times. there was no reason i ca imagine that he is making this up that does not mean he know everything and would admit tha himself. he doesn t know whether reagan knew about this, for instance. he doesn t know whether john connally took this trip to the middle east at the direction of, say, bill casey, the campaig chair. he knows they ve met with bill casey and discussed after th fact he doesn t know whether th message got to the iranians. they met with arab leaders i various countries, egypt, saud arabia, t
everything and would admit tha himself. he doesn t know whether reagan knew about this, for instance. he doesn t know whether john connally took this trip to the middle east at the direction of, say, bill casey, the campaig chair. he knows they ve met with bill casey and discussed after th fact he doesn t know whether th message got to the iranians. they met with arab leaders i various countries, egypt, saud arabia, those kinds of places, lebanon. he didn t know for a fact it got to the iranians. he doesn t know if the iranian acted as a result. there is a limit to how much h is able to tell us we never heard this stor before, most of us, because he has kept this quiet for 43 years mostly he s been embarrassed abou this, he didn t realize that was the purpose of a trip. as a democrat, he was afraid h would be criticized by fello democrats if he admitted t having been part of this he wants to clear the air. president carter is now in hospice, heading in theory toward his last chapters