that, who doesn t live in community with someone like that, and has a perception of who we are based on falsehoods and lines. it is a win-win situation across the board when they get it right, as you pointed out. have a great rest of your evening, alicia. great to see you. same. tonight on the mehdi hasan show, a major, major victory tonight for the democrats and for our planet. the senate have passed inflation reduction act, capping of a historic week for the presidents joe biden, former white house chief of staff mick john podesta is here to explain what this all means. plus, disinformation wars. alex jones finally paid the price for his years of dangerous, toxic lies. but what about his gop enabling enablers? and covid, monkey pucks, and now polio? how these illnesses expose the fault lines and our unequal society? a powerful new book breaks it down. plus, my take on the latest violence in gaza. good evening. i am mehdi hasan. we begin tonight with brea
sentences a lot of black tape! we shall see, who knows. we shall. 24 hours have a good show, have a good show. thank you. one reason that the national archives knew that donald trump did not hand over all presidential records when he left the white house was that some of the most famous documents of the trump presidency were not delivered to the archives after joe biden s inauguration day. first among them was the very first document donald trump received as document, a handwritten letter from president barack obama to his successor. that, by tradition, as everyone knows, is tucked into a drawer in the desk in the oval office for the incoming president. it was public information on inauguration day in 2017. that president obama left that letter for donald trump, who said, it was, quote, a beautiful letter. he actually said that about the president obama letter to him. and then, there were the letters that became, possibly, the most famous presidential letter
said, it was, quote, a beautiful letter. he actually said that about the president obama letter to him. and then, there were the letters that became, possibly, the most famous presidential letters in history. the trump love letters. i got a very beautiful letter from kim jong-un, he really wrote beautiful three page, i mean right from top to bottom, a really beautiful letter. donald trump never said very much about the text of those letters from the north korean dictator. but he was never shy about the feelings expressed in those letters. we fell in love. okay? no, really. he wrote me beautiful letters. and they are great letters. we fell in love. for most of us, and that was just more trumpian the thundery. that was just donald trump opening up like that about love letters from a murderous dictator, was, for the most of us, just another one of those moments when we knew he was crazy but we did not know he was that crazy. but imagine imagine you are a senior archi
aides in the trump administration including former chief of staff mark meadows. a spokesman for trump did not immediately respond to request for comment. attorney general garland sat down for a rare and exclusive interview with nbc s lester holt and defended the justice department against criticism it is working slower than the house select committee s investigation into january 6th. look, the justice department has been doing the most wide-ranging investigation in its history, and the committee is doing an enormously wide-ranging investigation as well. it is inevitable that there will be things that they found before we have found them, and it s inevitable that there will be things we find that they haven t found. the justice department has from the beginning been moving urgently to learn everything we can about this period and to bring to justice everybody who is criminally responsible for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power. you said in no uncertain terms t
cities like charleston and pittsburgh and el paso and christchurch in new zealand that have been tragically been victimized by racist rampages and violent extremism fueled by racial hatred. the conversations across this country today do nothing for the families of the victims. they do not erase their pain or ease their horror of the loved ones violent deaths, but at least we have a quorum willing to acknowledge the problem. the ideology that fuels saturday s mass shooting no longer sits on the absolute fringes of our society. ten people were gunned down, three others injured at a supermarket by a shooter who traveled more than 200 miles to target a predominantly black neighborhood in buffalo, new york, a shooter who according to police this morning would have continued with his rampage if he had not been stopped and arrested by police. 11 of the 13 victims were black. the dead range in age from 32 years old to 86 years old. the shooter wrote a lengthy, in which he was inspir