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
rishi sunak has appeared before mps in parliament on his first full day as prime minister, and announced yet more unravelling of liz truss s plans. the government s economic statement due to be delivered on monday has now been pushed back by almost three weeks to november the 17th. the delay did not trouble the financial markets. in fact, the pound rose again against the dollar and is currently trading at $1.16 up around 1.2% although that s also being driven a weakening dollar. the ban on fracking in england is back in place after it was briefly lifted by the former prime minister, and the decision on whether to link a rise in pensions with inflation is up for discussion again. rishi sunak had to defend his decision to reappoint suella braverman as home secretary, less than a week after she was forced to leave the role for a data breach. let s hear their exchange. he asked about the home secretary. the home secretary made an error ofjudgment, but she recognised that, she
odessa. for the third time in ten days, the ukrainian authorities are deeply concerned about the disconnect of eight nuclear reactor at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. which is 20 miles south of the city of 700,000 people, because they say that it has been disconnected, forcing the use of the backup power, the diesel generating system in order to cool the nuclear reactor. now, this is happened three times in the, past and every time it has happened the concerns over a nuclear meltdown increase. now, there are two un inspectors still on the site. they re supposed to be there permanently, or at least for the foreseeable future. so it will be interesting to see who they ll, blame or whether they go public with what s going on there. meanwhile, the ukrainian president zelenskyy has been claiming relatively limited success saying that it least two villages in the south, during the southern offensive here have been captured. and one village in the east. now, these villages
former president s legal team, slows down the investigation into the thousands of pages from mar-a-lago on august 8th, hundreds marked classified. after a nearly two-hour court session and a long weekend to think about it, she made her decision writing a special master shall be appointed to review the seized property, manage assertions of privilege and make recommendtations and evaluate claims for the return of property. she continues the government is en joined from further review and use of the materials seized from plaintiff s residence, pending review. the government may continue to review the materials seized for purposes of intelligence classification and national security assessment. to determine the classification levels of the documents will not stop, it will continue. doj can continue its classification assessment. actual investigation slows down. no comment from the department of justice at this hour but it is certainly possible for the doj to appeal the ruling to