show, trump versus desantis. fascism versus fascism. is this what the grand old party has been reduced to in 2024? really? but, congressman jamal bowman, one of the lone defenders of tiktok, will be with me to argue against congress trying to ban it. and filmmaker an activist michael also join me on the show tonight. 20 years off from his famous anti-iraq war oscar speech. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. as we read the tea leaves ahead of the next election, the 2024 presidential election, the week we ve just enjoyed have proven to be most clarifying. well the democratic presidential nominee is almost certainly gonna be joe biden, not a lot of internal party infighting for him incite the republican nominee will be certainly one of two men. donald john trump golf club slash wedding venue mar-a-lago, and ron desantis out of tallahassee. that s it. that s the choice. forget about nikki haley, mike pence, its former president trump versus ron desantis. this week has ser
with the attachment does not meet the definition of a machine gun under federal law. they determined that the trump administration overstepped its power when it issued the ban back in 2018. that ban came after the deadliest mass shooting in modern us history. 60 people were killed in las vegas and hundreds more injured when a gunman used a bump stock attachment to fire more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition in about 11 minutes. while more than a dozen states and washington dc have already banned them, friday s supreme court ruling sends the decision back to individual states to determine their own regulations for bump stocks. donald trump s campaign weighed in on the court s decision, saying in part: meanwhile, vice president kamala harris had this to say. it was stocks that resulted in 60 people being dead in las vegas, nevada, on1 60 people being dead in las vegas, nevada, on 1 october. and what the court did today is really rolling back the important progress to be made to h
so, yeah. it was a lonely time, i think it s fair to say. michael, let s just remind ourselves. you won the oscars for your film a bowling for columbine, about gun violence. to get decades later, is the gun violence situation even worse now, and you feel? what could president biden be doing right now on gun reform that he isn t, given deadlock in congress, it s better at sandra? of course it s for us. we started making boeing for columbine after the shooting 99. and we all sat down, my crew and i, just said, we have to do something about this now. this will not be the end of what just happened in columbine. remember, there s not been a school shooting of that size, of that many deaths, that magnitude, before. and said to the staff, i said,
senator harris with her words and we heard from the democratic front-runner joe biden saying he s offering thoughts and prayers but it s up to congress to address the gun violence situation in woodford from bernie sanders elizabeth warren and many democratic hopefuls talking about what s been happening at we also have statements from the attorney general offering full resources and making it weird that justice will be brought in this case. anita: mark in new jersey bringing reaction from the white house and many of the democratic candidates on the campaign trail everyone expressing their condolences for the 20 people who lost their lives tonight in el paso texas and of course their families. leland. leland: varying degrees of politicians on this campaign trail that made this somewhere between very political and not so political. beto o rourke was walking that line in his earlier press conference outside of a hospital
he s offering thoughts and prayers but it s up to congress to address the gun violence situation in woodford from bernie sanders elizabeth warren and many democratic hopefuls talking about what s been happening at we also have statements from the attorney general offering full resources and making it weird that justice will be brought in this case. anita: mark in new jersey bringing reaction from the white house and many of the democratic candidates on the campaign trail everyone expressing their condolences for the 20 people who lost their lives tonight in el paso texas and of course their families. leland. leland: varying degrees of politicians on this campaign trail that made this somewhere between very political and not so political. beto o rourke was walking that line in his earlier press conference outside of a hospital there in el paso, texas.