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.
Search for inside with jen psaki wherever you get your podcasts. we ll be back here next sunday at noon eastern. stay right where you are because there is much more news ahead on nbc msnbc. ahead on nbc - msnbc. tonight on the mehdi hasan show, and debunking the trump defense, the ex president s legal team is straw manning, what about, 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.
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? listen to the folks on fox. they are criminalizing
The cost of victory. and how much are we willing to pay for it? how much are we willing to pay for it? richard is saying what s the cost of doing nothing? no one is suggesting doing nothing. no one in the political system is saying we ll completely withdraw. it s a question of what is going to be the impact of allowing isis to persist and not truly destroying them as opposed to what is the cost of actually trying to really defeat them on the ground, and that is the conversation that s a much more real one that we need to really have and both sides are straw manning too much? it s not a straw man. we need to understand more of what we need to do. we are doing something, but what more do we need to do and why? why? okay. why is a good one and then, of course, recognize that some guys are going to get caught and tortured and burned alive and humiliated before the world and then they will be killed. we have to face that eventuality because it s going to come. richard clarke, thank
Isis to persist and not truly destroying them as opposed to what is the cost of actually trying to really defeat them on the ground and that is the conversation that s a much more real one that we need to really have and both sides are straw manning too much? it s not a straw man. we need to understand more of what we need to do. we are doing something, but what more do we need to do and why? why? okay. why is a good one and then of course recognize that some guys are going to get caught and tortured and burned alive and humiliated before the world and then they will be killed. we have to face that eventuality because it s going to come. richard clarke thank you so much and ian bremer thank you so much. a rather grim skipgs of a war that doesn t seem at this point winnable. texas has been devastated by devastating flooding. houston, the fourth largest city, is under water and stark contrast to the severe drought going on in california. is there a climate aspect to all of this? an