a really tight vote there. indeed. benjamin netanyahu looks like he s gone. isn t it interesting. people say voting doesn t matter, my vote doesn t count, yet america and israel have both gotten rid of benjamin netanyahu and donald trump in some pretty tight votes. have a great rest of your sunday. we ll see you soon. this week made it clear, american democracy is in crisis. the latest assault happening in texas. is the white house taking it seriously enough? my one on one with beto o rourke. plus, why maya is soaring to the top of the new york mayoral race. what s behind the surge of maya? i ll ask her. mike pompeo said the trump administration was the toughest on russia. really, he said that. and islamophobia, leading to real-world violence and murder. i ll talk about it. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. since this show launched in october, i ve been warning about the crisis of democracy that is engulfing this nation. i m sorry to have to report this to, but the pas
story. fbi director chris wray testifying on capitol hill. now, this is the first time that he is speaking in this forum, pressed adversarily by senators since that report came out we brought you on the january 6th riot. there was quite the political on display, even though their job would be to just focus on the safety and security of the capitol. you think that would be hopefully the kind of thing that people could get behind regardless of party, but that wasn t the case. democrats pressed on why the fbi wasn t also investigating donald trump. also pressing why the fbi is part of an independent doj investigation that has touched on donald trump s lawyer rudy giuliani. have any of these words been reviewed to determine whether or not president trump s words should be referred to the department of justice as contributing to the violence of the insurrection on january 6th? i m not aware of any investigation that goes specifically that. did you sign off on the raid on may
and highly sought after because of the mental strain of the year following when he decided to come out. so i hope that things continue, least say optimistically, to get better. anderson, appreciate your report as always. i m chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. how about now, democrats? have you had enough? mcconnell did exactly what we knew they would do. they tanked even the suggestion to debate the need to curtail state efforts to send voting rights back 50 years. they won t even allow debate. nothing to fix, says senator mcconnell. really? if there is nothing to fix, then why don t you say that to all the red states that say they must pass these laws to fix fraud. why don t you say that to them? because you re playing the game, and it is ugly and obvious. and i want you to hear the words of a leader made for today, nailing the reality of this moment. i think the tragedy is that we have a congress with a senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the
anderson sat down for an exclusive interview with former president barack obama to talk about fatherhood, leadership and his legacy. you can catch it tonight at 11:00 right here on cnn. a lot of news tonight. it continues. let s hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. thank you, john. there are too many question marks in this doj situation. and they are not needed. let s be clear. if there were a clean explanation for what trump was up to at the doj with this obviously politically motivated probes, bill barr would be telling us how we have it wrong and we are the danger, not him, et cetera. and trump would be talking a red streak. instead, bill barr, the former ag claims he can t recall anything about the probing that he was at the center of. and that was clearly about targeting trump s political opponents. instead, barr told politico he doesn t recall getting briefed, that doj prosecutors did any of this. wasn t aware of any congressman s records being sought in a
also what he didn t say. despite speaking for over an hour, the president never uttered the words entrepreneurship, individualism, liberty, and he used the word freedom only once during a section about china. and this week, in his national day of prayer proclamation, biden did not even use the word god. not once. that is because joe and his radical base value of government dependence all else. dependence on government handouts. government programs, government solutions. according to biden, government is the answer to all of our problems, and now, we are seeing the results. after a disappointing jobs report, the unemployment rate just went up. according to biden, we are right on track. watch this. listening to commentators today go [laughs] as i was getting dressed, you might think that we should be disappointed. but when we passed the american rescue plan, i want to remind everybody, it was designed to help us over the course of a year, not 60 days. a year. we nev