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Tempers flare on MSNBC as Mehdi Hasan argues with Israeli official: Your government ‘killed children’

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan launched into a heated argument with Israeli official Mark Regev, an advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, live on his show Thursday.

Hasan accused the Israeli government of killing children and of spreading propaganda and false information in the wake of the Israeli-Hamas war. 

“They’re dead, Mark,” Hasan said, arguing that he has seen Palestinian children “with my own lying eyes being pulled from the rubble” from bombings. “But they’re also people your government has killed. You accept that, right? You’ve killed children? Or do you deny that?” 

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“No, I do not,” Regev responded. “I do not. I do not. First of all, you don’t know how those people died, those children.”

“Oh wow,” Hasan said in return.

Hasan also claimed that the Israeli government was peddling “disinformation” in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israeli, American and other citizens. 

“I agree with you. We shouldn’t blindly believe anything Hamas says,” he said. “But why should we believe what your government says either? Your military spokesman on Monday pointed to an Arabic document in the basement of a Gaza hospital and claimed it was a guardian list on which every terrorist writes his name. But that was false.” 

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In another tense exchange about casualty numbers, Hasan told Regev that he was avoiding his question on the issue.

“But you’re dodging my question, Mark,” Hasan said. 

“I’m not sure that’s true,” Regev returned. 

Hasan also pointed to a tweet from Israeli diplomat Ofir Gendelman who made a post “from a Lebanese short film” that the MSNBC host said was another example of “endless disinformation” from the Israeli government. 

When Regev attempted to disagree with Hasan’s accusations, the two launched into another back-and-forth argument. 

“Allow me to answer your question!” Regev told Hasan, raising his voice. “I’m answering your question directly, if you’ll allow me. We originally said in the atrocious Hamas attack on our people on Oct. 7, we had the number at 1,400 casualties, and now we’ve revised that down to 1,200 because we understood that we had overestimated: we made a mistake. There were actually bodies that were so badly burned, we thought they were ours. In the end, apparently they were Hamas terrorists.” 

“When we make a mistake, we admit it,” Regev said. 

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MSNBC historian pleads with audience: 'Vote as if your life depends on it – because it might’

MSNBC contributor and NBC News historian Michael Beschloss called to “vote like your life depends on it” during an appearance on “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart” during which he also told the host, “I don’t know” if the country will survive this. 

Capehart discussed President Biden meeting with Beschloss and other journalists and historians to discuss the “trends toward autocracy” worldwide and the threat of losing democracy in the country. Beschloss agreed with Biden that this could be “a battle for the soul of America” comparable to the Civil War and Nazi Germany.

“If we were living in 1940 you and I would have said, ‘There is a serious danger that America would not be a democracy because A. there are people from within who want to make this an authoritarian system. And B. the Nazi Germans, the Italians, the Japanese, were living in a world where fascism was on the march,’” Beschloss said. “What we all said to the president was, this, 2022, is like a moment like that.”

“And therefore, this midterm election, and the presidential election of 2024, they said it was always the most important election in history. It’s pretty close to it. I would say to our friends, who are watching us today, vote as if your life depends on it. Because it might,” he added.

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Several Democrats and media pundits have invoked the mantra “vote like your life depends on it” for midterm and presidential elections. Former President Barack Obama similarly told young people to “vote like your life depends on it, because it does” last November to combat climate change.

Beschloss implied that the threat increased after the FBI raid against former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home based on Trump and the GOP’s response afterwards.

“What, you know, what is even worse than that? Kevin McCarthy, threatened—the possible next Speaker of the House if the Republicans win—threatened an attorney general, and said, ‘You better lay off,’ essentially, ‘You better lay off Trump, or else there’s going to be violence.’ When have we ever seen that before in American history? And even reports that Trump himself tried to send a message to Merrick Garland, that unless you get some kind of immunity, you’re going to have a civil war. That’s a threat. No one should make it, [especially not] an ex-president of all people,” Beschloss said.

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“And your last answer is truly the most frightening thing that I’ve heard, or that we can even contemplate. Are we going to survive this?” Capehart asked.

“I don’t know,” Beschloss answered.

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Jonathan Capehart’s paper, The Washington Post, previously published a piece from fellow columnist Max Boot that warned Trump returning to the presidency would be the “death knell” for democracy.

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Dave Rubin: MSNBC, CNN, rest of liberal media 'desperately need' Trump to run in 2024

Conservative political commentator and talk show host Dave Rubin said the mainstream media “desperately need” former President Donald Trump to run again in 2024 because it can resuscitate their ratings, while simultaneously causing disarray among the Republican Party.

Speaking with Fox News Digital at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, Rubin characterized outlets like MSNBC and CNN as a “televised mentalist institution” that is filled with “activists” and “propagandists.” He also accused them of burying and making up stories in coordination with Big Tech. But Rubin said these outlets, despite their loathing of the former president, really want him to come back into the spotlight. 

“Even the CNN propagandists, even Don Lemon and Jake Tapper and [Brian] Stelter and [Jim] Acosta who pretend to hate Trump, pretend he was Hitler, treated him completely unfairly, hide stories that go against Biden—they want him to run because he brings them ratings,” Rubin said. 

He added there is a “very twisted and perverse incentive structure” that ties the media and Trump together. 

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“They wanted to destroy him because it kept their ratings up, and they wanted to look like the good guys and the defenders of freedom,” Rubin told Fox News Digital. “And on the other hand they need him now. They desperately need him.

The “Rubin Report” host characterized Trump as a “shock to the system” for a media on life support, and predicted that they would “go all in on the craziness” because it gets them viewers. He also noted that another reason the media wants Trump to run is because it could “drive a wedge” between the former President and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, R.

“Whether DeSantis runs or not, they want Trump to be this sort of destructive force throughout the Republican Party because they love two things: they love ratings and the destruction of the Republicans,” he said.

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Rubin said he is “hopeful” Trump and DeSantis can work something out ahead of the election and said it seemed Trump would run for president again, based off the energy and what the former president has hinted at. 

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital on Sunday that the media would “lose their minds” and said he anticipates wall-to-wall coverage of everything Trump has done wrong, without acknowledging what he has done right. Nevertheless, Donalds didn’t think it would make an impact on many people who have already made up their minds on him.

“If you haven’t made up your mind about him, you probably haven’t made up your mind about Coke or Pepsi either,” he said. 

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A number of attendees at TPUSA this past weekend agreed that a Trump 2024 run would trigger a media “meltdown.”

“I hope the media explodes,” said one attendee. 

Recent polling from the Tampa event shows many grassroots conservatives are still backing Trump. 

TPUSA polled conference attendees on who they would vote for in 2024 if Trump decided to launch another White House run. The straw poll was sponsored by Turning Point Action, the affiliated 501(c)(4) of TPUSA.

A whopping 78.7% attendees said they would vote for Trump.