good evening. i m mehdi hasan. picture the scene. a cult leader gathers hi followers in waco, texas, as law enforcement closes in. described as a pathologica liar and comment, the cold later rails against th government, rages against th godless left, and depict himself as the chosen one. his disciples eat it up. they worship him they even vowed to give thei lives for him. now, am i describing david - the infamous leader who wa killed along with 75 of hi cold members in the fbi sieg of his waco compound in 1993 or, i might describing forme president donald trump because trump we ll be hosting his first mccartney of 2023 in waco, next weekend, on the 30t anniversary of the waco siege. and, while of course, trump is not accused of the kind of her horrific crimes and delusion that correct was, he is him choosing waco to host maga rally right now is just a little too on the nose for me. but, will he even be there i waco next saturday he doesn t seem to think so. the former pre
trump cornered his desperate attempt to control the narrative ahead of potential indictment his niece, mary trump, is here along with professor - plus, zero accountability. 20 years to the day afte george w. bush launched hi illegal iraq war also tonight, march for ou lives cofounder david on th gun reform movement, and o president biden s new executiv order. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. picture the scene. a cult leader gathers hi followers in waco, texas, as law enforcement closes in. described as a pathologica liar and cinman, the cul leader rails against the government, rages against th godless left, and depict himself as the chosen one. his disciples eat it up. they worship him they even vowed to give thei lives for him. now, am i describing david koresh, the infamous leader wh was killed along with 75 of hi cult members in the fbi sieg of his waco compound in 1993 or, i might describing forme president donald trump because trump we ll be hosting his first mcc
there is a limit to how much h is able to dallas. we never heard this stor before, most of us, because he has kept this quiet for 43 years mostly he s been embarrassed about, this he realized that was th purpose of a trip. as a democrat, he was afraid h would be criticized by fello democrats if he admitted t having been part of this he wants to clear they are now in hospice, heading in theory toward his last chapters i would say, you can t sa this, but i will say it, i seems to me bizarre that the would meet with the reagan campaign chair who would guy g on to be this cia director, bu apparently never reached ronal reagan i found it amazing that if i is true how america would be different country today of jimmy carter had been reelected, not ronald reagan. amazing to think about tha historical counterfactual. peter baker, thank you for you reporting. i appreciate you coming on thank you still ahead, conservative complain about wokeness so muc but it s lost all meeting, hasn t it?
happening? what s your response t questions like that from reaga who don t want to hear thi about their great hero and there is obviously a lo of unanswered questions abou this story ben barnes, the person who tells us this, the forme lieutenant governor of texas a very prominent figure, a democrat, a long time majo figure in american politics. at one point lyndon johnso said he would be the next he would be a president of the united states someday, he wa that influential at times. there was no reason i ca imagine that he is making this up that does not mean he know everything and would admit tha himself. he doesn t know whether reagan knew about this, for instance. he doesn t know whether john connally took this trip to the middle east at the direction of, say, bill casey, the campaig chair. he knows they ve met with bill casey and discussed after th fact he doesn t know whether th message got to the iranians. they met with arab leaders i various countries, egypt, saud arabia, t
state legislatures it is important for people t realize, i think we talked about problems that the gu reform movement faces, we ar very reactive. we are not proactive yet this is an effort to try t help make the movement mor proactive, to help generate an dialogue and action before there is an instance of gu violence if we are only reacting afte there is gun violence, we ar taking one step forward and tw steps back constantly. that s why we are marching again on the five year anniversary, to show peopl around the country, especially state legislatures, where we can see what we can get throug the courts now, so when i do eventually outlive the supreme court, thank god, because i m younger person, along with the rest of my generation, we ca see what we can get rule constitutional and basically reverse engineer the tool th conservatives used for their issues and for people that want to be involved with that, i would sa to text action to 954954 once again, that s at 954, 954