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
personal i had a close relative who was a doctor in the army who has deployed to iraq, had to leave her small child and then got t afghanistan, had to leave both her kids michael kelly, a great man who had been my boss was coverin the war and was killed in th war. there i started seeing homeles iraq veterans on the streets o new york starting in the first essay wrote expressing regret, i think it was in 2007, then i wrote a whole book a coupl years later, basically tryin to understand how i could ve made such a catastrophic error in judgment. i really didn t think that i could write about foreig policy at all, having been wrong about something of tha magnitude. of course, it wasn t just you. a lot of people got it wrong what was behind, do you think, that u.s. media consensus in the run up to the war? why did so many journalists an commentators not ask tougher
liberal hawk, even a year later, in 2004, you are putting out a editorial in your magazine tha said, on iraw, we feel regre but no shame in 2010 you are still bein called an unrepentant libera hawk you are talking about ho saddam has not - has bothered you when did you decide, peter, got it wrong, completely wrong and actually feel bad about it feel, quote unquote, shame i think the shame began a bit earlier and it was partl personal i had a close relative who was a doctor in the army who was deployed to iraq, had to leave her small child and then got t afghanistan, had to leave both her kids michael kelly, a great man who had been my boss was coverin the war and was killed in th war. there i started seeing homeles iraq veterans on the streets o new york starting in the first essay wrote expressing regret, i think it was in 2007, then i wrote a whole book a coupl