and certainly kept you out of political life later. but that s not there anymore either. whether you can prove or not prove quid pro quo, that absence of revolving door that you described is compelling. well, the shame issue here, i think, is compelling, ali, because obviously, the republicans, particularly trump partisans, are aware that it is shameful to use government service or family connection to government service, to make private gain for yourself, and have private business game. because they use this as a way to try to attack president biden s family, for example, all the time. they know that this is something that is shameful and terrible, and that nobody should ever want to do, and they try to pin all sorts of stuff with that kind of a category on all sorts of democrats. they know it s wrong. but when they do it, they re assuming, you know, there is assuming that if we bring it up, that there shame will, that there shame isn t operable. it s a strange phenomeno
our show as part of the trump effect that he was able to install so many of these judges, and they continue to put policies into place from the bench that he supported endorsed. e supporte endorsed it s mad, i m glad you highlighted that you have a great rest of your day today on the mehdi hassan show, republicans are doubling down on races in the wake of the buffalo mass shooting. at the same time they re trying to blame democrats for two of those top democrats, former president joins me live plus we must teach kids about racism, republicans are silencing of the president of the national association, and then the conversation with director john apatow, on the legacy of comedy giant george karlyn. good evening on time mehdi hasan, it s been a full weekend since a match weekend brutally shot and killed ten people at a grocery store in a prominent black neighborhood in buffalo. seven days since we learned that a quote unquote, manifesto linked to the accused government
and my conversation on the enduring legacy of george carlin. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. it s been a full week now. since a mass shooter brutally shot and killed ten people at a grocery store in a predominantly black neighborhood of buffalo, new york. seven days since we learned that a quote-unquote manifesto linked to the accused gunman embraces the vial great replacement conspiracy theory, which promotes fears that the people of the west, read, white people, are being replaced by so-called white genocide. a week removed from one of the worst racist massacres in modern american history and how is the republican party responded? well, top republicans have doubled down on their support for the horrific conspiracy theory that was used to justify mass murder. let us count some of the ways, shall we? comments resurfaced after the shooting in which conservative congressman matt gaetz expressed his support for replacement theory and gaetz tried to insist he had been speaking i
trying to reach the us. the current dire economic circumstances meet this exodus is more acute than it had been for many years. the russian defence ministry says its forces are in complete control of the vast steelworks in the port of mariupol, following the surrender of the ukrainian soldiers defending it. fighters from the azov regiment were holed up inside the plant for weeks, while the city suffered constant bombardment. meanwhile, the president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky has said that the donbas region in the east of the country has been completely destroyed. he said it was like hell . jeremy bowen has the latest. explosions. the russians are shelling severodonetsk, as they try to encircle it. more than 100,000 people lived in the city before the invasion. now, it s one of russia s biggest targets. this is russia using the methods it perfected in syria and chechnya. heavy bombardment to try to break the will of its opponents. ukrainian rescue crews can still operate
ahead in a moment. but we re going to begin in buffalo. where in the wake of saturday s supermarket terrorist attack, president biden has just finished delivering remarks about the rise of ideologies in america. the president renewed calls for stricter gun laws and urged americans to reject racism. white supremacy is a poison. it s a poison. [ applause ] it really is. running through our body politic. it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. those remarks the president didn t just condemn americans spreading hate, he called those silent complicit. and he also issued this warning about the threat white supremacy posed to our country and the democracy. the american experiment in democracy is in a danger like it hasn t been in my lifetime. it s in danger this hour. hate and fear are being given too much oxygen by those who pr