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
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
main attraction. the book is called weapons o mass delusion. when the republican party lost its mind, by robert draper and writer for the new yor times magazine if you are at all careers just how much power a once fringe figure like marjorie taylo greene is about to wield within the next republican -controlled house. the book is a must read. up next! we turn our attention to the leadership of the democratic party, and how they actually botched donald trump s impeachment. don t go away! say hello to your fairy godmother, alice. and, long lasting gain scent beads. try gain odor defense. be gone, smelly everything! try gaiget it.defense. slip it, cuff it. check it. high blood pressure silently affects millions of americans.
jewish identity in america, bu that would look at this idea that we re not jewish enough that we are doing it wrong that somehow we re not upholding these traditions i the right, way but that ha been core to many people experience as jews i don t think this i necessarily unique to american jews, i think everyone has a identity and one of your identity is, it s where it will be in thi country have grappled at it at some point but i choose this questioning, and this the bathing, and this throwing a label across th political aisle with eac other. and holding it ourselves, bu that s been a constant in th american experience. it s only in this ruleboo that i saw that the members of congress founded the - and the jewish cabinet of th clearly the questions of jewis identity are not new ones in america? no exactly, that s why wrote the book, because i thin we are in this moment right no
as antisemitic violence reache new heights nationally and as they are openly challenged by not choose, on their loyalties to america and even whether they ar sufficiently jewish, it s in this new environment by a ne book by the statesma journalist, emily, comes out and it couldn t come out any sooner it s called bad juice, a history of jewish american politics and that densities. i spoke to emily last month. emily joins me now, she s the senior u.s. editor for the new statesman magazine, and th new author of the 2020, book the influence of sorrow. thanks for coming back on th show we are talking about jewis american identity, i don t wan to talk about donald trump jus yet. let s talk about you you interviewed hundreds o people for this book, and yo write about how many of them predicated what they said by identifying themselves as quote, unquote, bad juice and you seem to sympathize wit that, if self doubt at the cor of jewish identity in america? i wouldn t say it s the cor