- 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
months, the former president of the united states has been indicted, arrested, and a range. and let s face it, we ve become oddly familiar with how this all goes. there s the release of the indictment itself, helicopters following black suvs, and of course, the court sketches, all followed by a barrage of deranged posts on truth social. there s a bit of a rinse and repeat feeling that starting to set in. but this one did feel different, because it is different. it felt bigger, because it is bigger. the indictment filed by special counsel jack smith this week detailed the ways in which an american president engaged in a criminal conspiracy from the oval office to subvert the will of the people. of course, like any criminal defendant, trump is innocent until proven guilty. there will be a trial, and his legal team will mount a defense. but no matter how it ends, this is the one that historians will be talking about 100 years from now. trump is now facing four criminal counts in
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
Honest. best of all, one of trump s own top lawyers stood outside the courtroom at trump s arraignment on thursday and said this in front of cameras, recording her. i think everybody was made aware that he lost the election, but that doesn t mean that was the only advice he was given. oh. everybody was made aware that he lost. there goes the insanity defense. but trump and his supporters in the gop and on fox have not given up with their nonsense defenses. they ve spent the past week straw manning, what about,-ing and straight-up lying in response to jack smith s latest indictment of the former president. tonight, let us start by debunking the top five desperate defenses of donald j trump. and number, one this is the most popular one, this indictment of the former president, they say, is a criminalization of free speech, of political speech. donald trump had a first amendment right to say he didn t lose. how dare the doj violate that?