Tonight whether Republican Civil War is over no matter what senator ben sasse saying. And then Jared Bernstein on why democrats are ignoring experts who blew the response to the last recovery. Is bidens new progressive Foreign Policy here to stay . Is the socalled Bullhorn Lady is taken into custody, the Cell Phone Surveillance helping to track down insurrectionists. All in starts right now. Good evening from washington, d. C. Im Mendi Hasan In for chris hayes. The former president having lost and inspiring an insurrection is facing his second Impeachment Trial next week and his successor is telling cbs news tonight that his predecessor cannot be trusted with the nations top secret intelligence. Let me ask you something you do have oversight of as president. Should former President Trump still receive Intelligence Briefings . I think not. Why not . Because of his erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection. Youve called him an existential threat, youre called him dangerous, youve ca
Now that we are done with the holiday, i would like to give a special shoutout to all the turkeys who survived this year. No one eats turkey after this weekend, right . So hes safe. Hopefully. I want to hear this story, though. That unlikely duo. Right now we begin this half hour with the latest developments in the coronavirus emergency. Health experts are warning that the u. S. Is entering a dangerous new stage of the pandemic. So far there have been nearly 13. 4 million coronavirus cases in the u. S. And almost 267,000 deaths. States and communities begin new restrictions today. This morning harsher restrictions are about to take effect for more americans. As Health Officials brace for another deadly surge in coronavirus cases. I believe that the next 6 to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest weeks in modern american medical history. A threeweek stayathome order begins today in los angeles county, where more than 5,000 cases were reported sunday. People in the county are now being ur
Interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All after words programs are also available as podcasts. It is so good to talk to you. Another book journalist. How do you primarily think of yourself these days . Guest i still very much see myself as a book critic. This book is just sort of an extension of that work. These days i feel like i am a political journalist and just using books as a means to that kind of work. Is that something that you steered clear of . I didnt have a sense that i wanted to necessarily be an author or write a book. Reading other peoples books was plenty and i learned a little bit if i went through the process of writing a book it would be sympathetic to the authors and ruin me for my day job but i think that its been useful to see that side of the process and all the work that goes into creating that product i usually get at the tail end. Do you think its going to change . I think it almost has to. I want to see i suspected it had to in some way
I focus mainly on the prism. You call this a book also about the intellectual history of the trump era, a title some might consider to be a timely oxymoron but what do you mean by an intellectual history . Theres a lot of ways to imagine. Theres been a common exercise during the trump years of trying to find that one book from 1973 that anticipated everything or this one essay that saw it coming and ive done that myself but that isnt the kind of book i wanted to write. I wanted to grapple with the insiders and academics and journalists and how they were thinking about this moment in real time so maybe a better way to explain it is to think of it as a snapshot of an intellectual moment future historians can look at to get the sense of how we thought about trump in a moment. Its interesting you talk about books that oversimplify things, this is how we got here, this is how its happened. There was an increased interest in sales and in particular, novels with brave new world and postapocal
Like im a political journalist use the book says a means to that kind of work. Obviously this is your first book did you know you always wanted to write a book as a critical or is that something you steer clear of . I do not have a sense i wanted to necessarily be an author or write a book reading other peoples books plenty in the process of writing a book to be far too much sympathetic warning me for my day job that has been useful to see with that side of the process is like and all the work going to finish that finished product i get at the tail end. With that change your approach is a book critic . I think it has to i know how it will. I want to see when im back into the swing of reviewing books but in some ways just beyond sympathy for authors i hope you will give me a better sense of the decisionmaking of where the book covers or how many chapters. I hope will make me better at my main job. Now you know the answers but before you get too far away he ran on read 150 books. What do