good evening. i m mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. it s the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to know how much our politics has changed, here is the great irony. the joe biden of the 1980s and 1990s would probably have voted against it. don t take my word for it. take his, from 1984. what happens if every tax dollar that we pay, 50 to 60% of it is just going to pay the interest on the debt? he will be paying for what we lived on. we should be investing to allow him to be able to live on something. here he is in 1988, decrying, quote, stories of welfare mothers driving luxury cars and leading lifestyles that mirror the rich and famous. biden s words
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here s my colleague and friend and she joins me now. simone, good to see you my friend. let s talk about this. no doubt, there is the elephant in the room. donald trump standing after ten hearings after supporting all of these election deniers and tires who didn t win. then he s running for president and he put out this nft cards of him in a superhero costume. they have lost value. donald trump is having a rough time, right now. he is having a rough time, and i think, kudos to the good journalism of the january six committee who has stayed on the story and dug deep to get the details about what happened actually happened. we talk about the nft cards, for example. they still sold out in less than a day. well, that s true. my question so i wonder if the former presidents stat scheer has the medulla among officials, i think that is true within the republican party. but where does he stand with
new york times today, trump is significantly diminished, a shrunken present on the political landscape. and quote. simone tan townsend served as a deputy assistant to president biden as well as chief spokesperson to vice president harris. she is the host of simone on peacock and msnbc. here s my colleague and friend and she joins me now. simone, good to see you my friend. let s talk about this. no doubt, there is the elephant in the room. donald trump standing after ten hearings after supporting all of these election deniers and tires who didn t win. then he s running for president and he put out this nft cards of him in a superhero costume. they have lost value. donald trump is having a rough time, right now. he is having a rough time, and i think, kudos to the good journalism of the january six committee who has stayed on the story and dug deep to get the details about what happened actually happened.