that, who doesn t live in community with someone like that, and has a perception of who we are based on falsehoods and lines. it is a win-win situation across the board when they get it right, as you pointed out. have a great rest of your evening, alicia. great to see you. same. tonight on the mehdi hasan show, a major, major victory tonight for the democrats and for our planet. the senate have passed inflation reduction act, capping of a historic week for the presidents joe biden, former white house chief of staff mick john podesta is here to explain what this all means. plus, disinformation wars. alex jones finally paid the price for his years of dangerous, toxic lies. but what about his gop enabling enablers? and covid, monkey pucks, and now polio? how these illnesses expose the fault lines and our unequal society? a powerful new book breaks it down. plus, my take on the latest violence in gaza. good evening. i am mehdi hasan. we begin tonight with brea
major foreign policy win this, week when he announced the u.s. has conducted a drone strike that killed al-qaeda leader ayman al-zawahiri. it even received where praise from supposedly straight news fox and, who called it a huge win for the u.s.. but when the primetime conservative propagandists got on air, the praise stopped, and the real fox showed up. now, you would think the quote unquote public america network with celebrated the death of a foreign terrorist battey. i mean, it s not like they would celebrate when republican president does it, right? the elected president, they loathe them. they re capable of acknowledging and accomplishment no matter what it is. trump is bad. trump killed baghdadi. therefore, killing baghdadi was bad. biden gave a speech boasting that he has killed and al-qaeda figure in afghanistan.
you reminded them about killing baghdadi and his associates, reminded them about killing soleimani, and you reminded him about the caliphate that you destroyed. you reminded him about killing the al qaeda leader in yemen, and that you said that if they didn t follow these are their words every i, every t crossed, every i dotted, every comma and period, that you would obliterate them and use every means available to you to do that, and you brought this up at the beginning and numerous times throughout the process. also that your deal was conditions on the ground based, and it included you keeping control of bagram air force base. can you tell us first about the call, and then the deal? well, it was a tough call, and it started out by saying they will be hit harder than any country has ever been hit in the history of the world, if they do anything, and in particular kill our soldiers or even try to kill our soldiers.
plan and took the military out first. now it is a very sad day for our country into great embarrassment beyond embarrassment, it is a very dangerous day for our country. sean: mr. president, let me go, because joe biden brought it up in his exchange with our own peter doocy today, and that is that he inherited your plan, and i want to go over it, because i had both secretary of state mike pompeo, also a former cia director, and i had your chief of staff mark meadows on my radio show. they have both been on this television show. and they went into great detail about what your plan was, and maybe the biden administration, democrats look to released transcripts of calls i would love this one to be released that in no uncertain terms, not once but on numerous occasions, but before any negotiation began, that you got on the phone with the leader of the taliban and you made it as clear as day, you reminded them about killing baghdadi and his associates, reminded them about killing so
to defeat and capture were on the loose. but there was one whose movements were being followed very closely. last night the united states brought the world s number one terrorist leader to justice. abu bakr al baghdadi is dead. he died like a dog. he died like a coward. the world is now a much safer place. reporter: after years hunting the founder and commander of isis, president trump didn t try to disguise his happiness. capturing or killing baghdadi has been the top national security priority of my administration. reporter: the u.s. had finally got him. when eight american helicopters swooped down on baghdadi s hideout. the pentagon released limited footage of the assault showing u.s. forces firing on what military officials said was a