Podcast Episodes featuring Mehdi Hasan

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December Democratic Debate Special | Mehdi Hasan (Rebroadcast)

Noah Jackson Hour - December 31, 2019 09:00 - 24 minutes
Trevor covers the sixth Democratic presidential debate, and The Intercept's senior columnist Mehdi Hasan weighs in on how the candidates performed. Originally aired December 19, 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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NATO’s “brain death”

Pod Save the World - December 04, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22.1K ratings
Tommy and Ben talk about Trump’s trip to London for the NATO summit, including his dustup with the French President and the health of NATO in 2019. Then they discuss the Iranian government’s crackdown on protestors, Trump’s visit to Afghanistan, Ben’s trip to Hong Kong, the expanding trade war, ...

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Amanpour: Charles Barkley, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Mehdi Hasan and Dr. Deepak Chopra

Amanpour - October 16, 2019 18:54 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
Charles Barkley, former NBA Player, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the political firestorm that has engulfed the NBA ever since the manager of the Houston Rockets tweeted support for the Hong Kong protests. Brittany Packnett Cunningham, co-host of "Pod Save the People", and Mehdi Hasan, col...

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The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan on cowardly journalists, liberal racism, and impeaching Trump

Decoder with Nilay Patel - June 12, 2019 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
Mehdi Hasan, a columnist at the Intercept and host of its weekly podcast Deconstructed, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher. In this episode: How Hasan got into journalism; the timidity of the American press; cold comforts in the “horrible, horrible moment” of the Trump presidency; the Intercept and...

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Mehdi Hasan | Trump's Witness Tampering; Wisconsin GOP's Power Grab: A Closer Look

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast - December 07, 2018 06:40 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 3K ratings
Seth takes a closer look at the how Donald Trump along with Republicans in Michigan and Wisconsin pose a threat to democracy. Then, journalist Mehdi Hasan talks about his unique advantage in interviewing Trump's proxies and the main difference between the British and American press. A...

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Saudi murders and the war in Yemen

Pod Save the World - October 31, 2018 07:23 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 22.1K ratings
Tommy talks with The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan about the international community's response to murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the catastrophic Saudi-led civil war in Yemen.

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Trump, Brexit, and Racial Grievance with Mehdi Hasan

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast - August 28, 2018 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 7.6K ratings
Donald Trump’s victory wasn’t the only 2016 election result to shock the world. Just months earlier voters in the United Kingdom made history when they opted for Brexit, thereby initiating the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. While the two elections took place on opposite sides of t...

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White House extremists

Pod Save the World - June 01, 2018 00:34 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 22.1K ratings
Tommy talks with journalist Mehdi Hasan about a troubling series of hires on Trump's National Security Council staff of individuals with far-right, paranoid, Islamaphobic views. Then they talk about the situation in Gaza now that the protests have ended and TV cameras have left.

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Introducing Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu - April 02, 2018 21:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
We'd like to introduce you to The Intercept’s newest podcast, Deconstructed. Every Friday, journalist Mehdi Hasan unpacks the most consequential news event of the week, challenging the mainstream media’s tired takes. As a Brit, a Muslim, and an immigrant based in Donald Trump's Washington, D.C.,...

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Presenting: Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan

Intercepted - March 23, 2018 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.7K ratings
In the debut episode of The Intercept’s new podcast, Mehdi Hasan sits down with independent senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to discuss why the mainstream press ignores so many of the economic issues that affect the lives of average Americans: poverty, homelessness, and in...