Welcome to a Special Thanksgiving Edition Of Th Show to what i am coming the Mehdi Hassan Book Club via oprah. Bucks and all have been mainstay of the show giving me a chance to dive deep into a subject. Book segments helping me understand the male strip of this relentless news cycle so we will revisit some of our famous conversations wit authors this year. How the media needs to cover elections when one party i campaigning against democrac how Marjorie Taylor greene has gone from the fringe to th center of the Republican Party and how outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi consequentially one o the most consequential speaker of our lifetimes may have bought the Opportunit To Convict president donal trump. We start the day about books particularly the endless strea of tellall books about donald trump. What was to all of them was no the what or the when if that i with so many crucial whereas relations wait for a Boo Publishing date . I want to show you an old news we cover from almost 40 year ag
i ll be back tomorrow. some answers are now greetings everyone, you ar watching simone. this is a big week and the assault on women s bodil autonomy from supreme court to stat legislators and relentless efforts to chip away at access to abortion care, even in blue states i m talking to governor jake and say of washington s date about how he is fighting bac for what he calls an issue o freedom. donald trump is spending mor time dealing with his lega problems lately, giving second deposition in new yor and this time, he actually answered questions but he is fighting progress and othe investigations it is really hard to keep them all straight so we will brea it down for, you don t worry plus now that the expel that tennessee lawmakers are back i action, they have a lot of wor to be done for the democracy that they are fighting for we will take a look at wha is next the movement they have inspired i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. it s been a very busy wee
welcome to a special thanksgiving edition of th show to what i am coming the mehdi hassan book club via oprah. bucks and all have been mainstay of the show giving me a chance to dive deep into a subject. book segments helping me understand the male strip of this relentless news cycle so we will revisit some of our famous conversations wit authors this year. how the media needs to cover elections when one party i campaigning against democrac how marjorie taylor greene has gone from the fringe to th center of the republican party and how outgoing speaker nancy pelosi consequentially one o the most consequential speaker of our lifetimes may have bought the opportunit to convict president donal trump. we start the day about books particularly the endless strea of tell-all books about donald trump. what was to all of them was no the what or the when if that i with so many crucial whereas relations wait for a boo publishing date? i want to show you an old news we cover from almost
perception of a conflict o interest you know i have good friends, have dear friends of justice thomas likes to say but they shouldn t give me things lik buying my house an refurbishing it at no cost they don t get me trips, fin it stretch to new zealand or indonesia for me you have to ask yourself, what is it about this relationshi that causes harlan crow to spend so lavishly on his frien clarence thomas? it s because they want to se him come out certain ways an certain cases? and so even that access, i think it s problematic and ought to be disclosed so tha the public at least have confidence that they know wh the justice are spending tim with that s, right the problem here if we have time is that the situation highlights the lack of checks and balance with the supreme court and the judicial branch in particular. you and i both work in the executive branch there are inspectors general and expected or branch and you also of congressiona
happened you have to think i they had to use that moment to really call subpoenas, and chase things down. could they have convicted trump? nobody likes to questio their heroes, and this is part of the problem because the people who back the democrat had, and going after trump the two times do not want to loo and say, did they make mistakes? was it flawed? because it s difficult to do that it requires self examination and it s easier to just blam the other side for being a fault. but our reporting shows that there were these moments, an it s not just our reporting. the january six committee just wrapped up its hearings, they re covering the sam ground of subject matter i impeachment too. look how differently they re doing it they re going after subpoenas, fighting them in court, they r pulling in republican witnesses, they re doing everything tha they didn t do the first time. indeed. and here we are, except for the fact that one bi difference low, is that they have of finlay pres