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
personnel from the u.s. embass evacuated overnight from sudan s capital city o khartoum a former army general is gonna join me and what it took to ge embassy officials out what the future holds for the war tor african nation plus, new nbc news polling wit a fresh look at the upcoming presidential election, and wha they re saying about president biden just days away fro announcing his reelection bid. and why governor ron desantis hopes of being a presidentia contender may have already failed we ll take a look at all o those numbers, plus, could w see donald trump take th witness stand this week? a hint, the answer has nothing to do with elections coming up in the next, our special guest, senator alex, right here in california joining as well. you don t wanna miss tha conversation, we re gonna ge his thoughts on what he like t ask the chief justice of the u.s. about ethics concerns a the highest levels of th supreme court. we begin with that breakin news, overnight, out of sud
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
towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo of those times you could never publicly kerrigan and i have a history professor who s goin to join us at the end of the show who revealed all of tha to me today. i am just so shocked, that those cowboy movies were, in some ways, inaccurat apparently it is a good reminder to al the originalist who wants to basically, rewind time back to the 1718 hundreds, that they may not have liked the gun laws. and nobody was questioning, nobody was saying that s un-american, that unconstitutional, everybod just went along with what it was. irony deep irony, lawrence those were the days thank you alex, - thanks lawrence a federal courts of appeals has agreed to hear attorne alvin bragg s appeal a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary comm
zero public consequences until today, when he was asked about it publicly. representative scotty campbell handed in his resignatio today. that does it for us, we ll see you again tomorrow now it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell, goo evening, lawrence. good evening, alex, i learn something today about what w call the wild west the old wil west that there was way more contro in the wild west, in those towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo a federal courts o appeals has agreed to hear attorney alvin bragg s appeal. a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary committee in accordance with a subpoena issued by the chairman republican, jim jordan we report on that case her last night, the appeals cour has given alvin bragg unti tomorrow to file his appeals briefing