- thank you. - very excited. we re gonna go talk to people about happiness. - oh, oh, beautiful. you guys are going to like it. - are we gonna find some happiness here? - of course. - yeah? - i can feel it. - ok. - trust me. [chuckles] [horns honking] - if the point of this journey is to find happiness, i need to force myself out of my comfort zone. so i m visiting one of the statistically most optimistic countries on earth. this place is an avalanche of smiles and cheeriness. i well, i can t get past the feeling that all this positivity is gonna be the end of me. [nicky blitz blast off ] - getting too close, better pull on back what if i travel the world, - what if i travel the world, explain what makes some places happier than others? i m looking at the ways that where we are effect who we are. it has been said that [inaudible] is the chief force of unhappiness. well, that is okay. i m already unhappy, so i have nothing left to lose. holman le pen here s some
good evening. i m mehdi hasan. the insanity defense. that is what the trump legal team seems to be offering this week in the wake of special counsel jack smith s stunning and damning 45-page indictment, excuse, me of the former president, charging him with conspiracy to defraud the united states, obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to violate rights. all charges fueled by his lies per the indictment. the trump team saying, though, he wasn t lying, he truly believed he won the election. which, if he truly believed that, would of course be insane. but it s not true, as smiths and item notes, trump was informed by members of his own campaign and legal teams that he had indeed, lost there was no massive fraud involved. trump himself is quoted in the indictment telling mike pence after his own vice president told him that he, mike, pence had no constitutional authority to reject the vote on january the 6th, quote, you re too honest. best o
I go in search of bliss, the more things become complicated. happy places, sad places, places that seem happy despite having plenty of reasons to be said, it s all a bit overwhelming. liu [speaking in a non-english language] tonight on the mehdi hasan show, debunking the trump defense, the ex president s legal team is straw manning, what abouting, and straight-up lying in response to the third indictment. then, the other coconspirators, they might not be on jack smith s naughty list, but we are calling out trump s republican enablers in congress. and the sad circus. how the gop chairman of the house committee chasing after hunter biden was kind of humiliated by his own star witness.