you know, have not gotten invitations recently, mehdi, to get out to iowa. but i was happy to see the dmz finally make a change, and put south carolina first. i agree we should have a primary calendar that looks more like america, you are very bold at the time to go to iowa and talk about something other than ethanol. appreciate you, appreciate you show, have a great rest of your sunday night. thanks, mehdi. tonight, on the mehdi hasan show, a racing black history from our classrooms. ron desantis is leading the charge, but the effects will be felt across the country. when will liberals fight back? and, what we ever get any real, genuine reform of the police? i ll speak to new york congressman and squad member jamal bowman, who s himself a former victim of police violence. plus, new victims on that suspected chinese surveillance balloon, and this year it is idiocy of the responses from some republicans. good evening, welcome to the show, and congratulations
the country. when the liberals fight back? will we ever get any real genuine reform from the place? i ll speak to new york congressman and sworn member, who is himself a former police violence. and more on that surveillance balloon from china and the sheer it is sea of the response from some republicans. good evening. welcome to the show. congratulations on surviving another week in the life of our public. 70s of craziness, mainly from the republican party. mainly, i mean, no words that more true these days and the right-wing state that has become the lip artery for extremism. america s country within the country, florida, land of sunshine. and the leadership of that tropical autocrat in training, governor ron desantis. perhaps we could start calling florida america s very own mini hungary, authoritarian narcissistic bully. because in only the last seven days, mind you, ron desantis and florida republicans have managed to, on monday, introduce a bill to make it illegal to
already ramping up its assault tonight. plus, a major update to a story we ve been following. the fbi now investigating congressman george santos for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars meant to help a veteran s dying dog. this is the $17,000 that sontose claims he spent in florida reportedly doesn t add up either. hunter biden s attorneys now calling for a criminal investigation into rudy giuliani and others over the laptop found at a delaware computer repair shop. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, half a million more russian fighters. that s what ukraine is bracing for tonight, 500,000 more russians and a major onslaught. here s ukraine s defense minister with the chilling warning. translator: officially, they announced 300,000. but when we see the troops at the borders, according to our estimates, it is much more. we think that they have already mobilized 500,000. 500,000. it sounds huge on an absolute basis, and if it pans out, it is huge. just to give y
it is the first day of black history month. happy black history month, everybody. or as ron desantis calls it, month. good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. we re going to get to what is happening down in florida. there you key caitlan is live on capitol hill. president biden face s a series of investigations. also moments from now, the gop is gearing up to kick congressman omar off of a key committee. big questions on whether or not they have enough votes. they believe they do. they face some pushback from republicans. also hunter biden with a counter offensive. the president s son demanding investigations into those who access data from his personal laptop. what is behind this really aggressive new legal strategy. we ll get to all that in a moment. we re going to begin with breaking news out of ukraine. there is heavy shelling this morning. live to sam kylie. sam, hello. what are you hearing? well, hearing is quite literally what we ve been doing here,
slow start, putting it bluntly, quote, welcome to the seinfeld congress. it is a show about nothing. the vote on congresswoman omar is one of the political squabbles unfolding while the nation ticks a day closer to defaulting on its debts. house speaker kevin mccarthy met with president biden yesterday, but there doesn t appear to have been any progress on the debt limit. the president did strike this optimistic tone while speaking this morning. start treating each other with respect. that s what kevin and i are going to do. not a joke. but a good meeting yesterday. we ll get latest ahead. also this morning, day four of that deadly ice storm across the south. cars are spinning out of control on highways. thousands of flights delayed and canceled. and in texas, nearly half a million people are facing the bone chilling cold without power. it is scary. definitely scary. i can say that. it is very slippery out here. probably one of the worst. we ll get an update from