appointee, investigating the missing text messages. plus, new details about trump lawyers, talk into the justice department about january 6th. blas i know everyone is talking about political pawn, and politics, but that is far from this courtroom. the truly unacceptable sentencing of britney griner. nearly a decade in a russian prison. plus, a verdict reached in the alex jones defamation trial. you are saying that everything is true, but it isn t. your beliefs do not make it true. that is what we are doing here. the millions of dollars he owes for his sandy hook lies. when all in starts, right now. good evening, from washington d.c., i m mehdi hasan, in for chris hayes. cast your mind back to two years ago. the summer of 2020, donald trump, still an office. federal agents, being sent into american cities like portland, and seattle, and using war tactics against protesters for racial justice. i was in this seat, filling in for chris hayes, for the first time. we sh
but unlike the new american president, this guy had been ruling his country for 40 infamous years. his excellency, more market duffy, leader of the revolution, president of the african revolution, king of kings of africa. gaddafi raged on for 95 minutes and eight seconds, a diatribe against the wind from a jumble of handwritten notes, waving a copy of the un charter and then pretending to wrap it up. it should not be called the security council. it should be called the terror council. muammar gaddafi made no mention of the pan am bombing over locker b, or [inaudible] president kennedy. we want to know who killed him. somebody by the name of lee harvey. and then another, jack route ruby, killed harvey. why did he kill him? [inaudible] the un and the white house. i would try to wouldn t try to better part of the afternoon. the speech from the libyan dictator muammar gaddafi was weird. weird, weird. he called for the un headquarters to be relocated to libya so
but it is an important story and it continues to play out. i m glad you in been have that conversation. have a great night, my friend, and we will see you tomorrow. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. if you would allow me, i would like to take you back in time, back to september of 2009. as a new american leader was making his first appearance at the annual united nations general assembly. president barack obama was just eight months into his first term. and the big un meeting was kind of his big debut on the global diplomatic stage. he and his secretary of state, hillary clinton, were greeted warmly by american allies as they announced a more cooperative approach to international affairs as opposed to the with us or against us attitude of the prior administration. president obama was not the only world leader attending his very first un general assembly that day. another first timer got almost as much attention as obama.
harris: needs to be part of larger strategy. i think he needs to have a strategy to get the opinions on board. part of what s going on is the iranians have somehow divided somehow divided the u.s. and europe. you need to have the french do business with the iranians what we are trying to put sections on them and starve them and try to impact their behavior that way. then you have the saudis in the middle of all this, of court. when they shut down u.s. property, a u.s. drone, we didn t do anything. so i would be respond now? i think we need to make that clear. when they didn t u.s. interests directly. melissa: good thing there s a big u.n. meeting next week where anybody can sit in on the security council and try sort through what really happened. alex: trump is saying he wants to meet with the iranians here in new york next week. harris: he said it wouldn t happen without conditions. alex: but why would even put that on the table given the behavior we ve seen from the iranian
dismiss parts of it, not all of it. and bounce it off other people. when wbolton didn t defend trump on the meetings with the taliban, when he didn t defend him with the constituency that trump cares about, like the evangelicals, et cetera, that was it for him. and now i think we learned that. but i tell ya, between the countries no longer sharing critical intelligence with us because they are uncertain, america is on an island globally in a weird way. ten days before the big u.n. meeting. all right. stick around. up ahead, north carolina is on my mind. we have domestic politics that could be a big deal. why today s special election could signal what is coming in 2020. easy for you to get your windshield fixed. teacher: let s turn in your science papers. tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first. student: i did mine on volcanoes. teacher: you did?! oh, i can t wait to read it.