trend. we will discuss. plus a lot can change in three days. elon musk sows chaos and spreads dangerous misinformation as he takes over twitter. and a master class on messaging. former president barack obama shows democrats what they need to do in these final days before the midterms. good evening. i am mehdi hasan. we begin tonight with the effort to kill a top california democrat. i m not talking about house speaker nancy pelosi and the brutal attack on her husband with a hammer by a home intruder. i ll come to that in a moment. actually, i m talking about congressman eric swalwell, a really dark case for the justice department that was concluded on friday. a pennsylvania man, that we are choosing not to name in an effort not to glorify his actions, pleaded guilty to making threats to kill the congressman and at least three different swalwell staffers he claimed he had ar-15 rifles and wanted to travel to d. c. to shoot the congressman from california, to kill him.
name. how barnes may need to dig up his own birth certificate before adding this. remember, the good old days, when that was the craziest thing that people said. [laughs] think about that. that wasn t that long ago everybody was like, that some crazy stuff. now it doesn t even make the top ten list of crazy. and in georgia, he owned in on the joke, the joke candidate the republicans were running for office. let s do a thought experiment. let s say are at the airport, you see mr. walker you say, hey, there is herschel walker. heisman winner, let s have him fly the plane. [laughs] you probably wouldn t say that. you d want to now, and does he know how to fly a plane. when he s right, he s right. so, what s the message for democrats, drop the planning drop the counting points, drop the bipartisan bs, and caught the gop for the extremists they are. and go on the offense, the best defense is a good offense. oh, also, don t take my word for it. take barack obama s. coming up, at the
that wasn t that long ago everybody was like, that some crazy stuff. now it doesn t even make the top ten list of crazy. and in georgia, he owned in on the joke, the joke candidate the republicans were running for office. let s do a thought experiment. let s say are at the airport, you see mr. walker you say, hey, there is herschel walker. heisman winner, let s have him fly the plane. [laughs] you probably wouldn t say that. you d want to now, and does he know how to fly a plane. when he s right, he s right. so, what s the message for democrats, drop the planning