112: Mehdi Hasan - Win Every Argument

The Mary Trump Show

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mary Trump welcomes author and journalist Mehdi Hasan to discuss the principles of debate, the moves you can deploy to defeat an adversary and convince an audience, and the best ways to make winning arguments against the radical Right. They also tackle the importance of bringing your best game to the fight, and the role journalists play in raising the level of political conversation.

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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to tonight's episode of The Warrior Trump Show.
0:14.8	I am so happy to have back Mery Hassan, host of the Mery Hassan Show on both MSNBC and
0:20.3	PCOQ, but more importantly for our purposes, Mery.
0:24.2	The author of brand new win every argument, the art of debating, persuading and public speaking.
0:31.8	I'm so happy to have you here.
0:34.6	Welcome back.
0:35.6	Thank you for having me and it's nice to be the other way around.
0:38.8	Normally I'm interviewing you about your wonderfully successful books.
0:41.9	Oh, thank you so much.
0:43.2	But based on, I guess it was today's New York Times review of your book, Yours is also going
0:50.2	to be off to a great start.
0:52.6	So congratulations.
0:53.6	Thank you for having us across.
0:55.1	Thank you.
0:56.1	Yes, but honestly, I so enjoyed reading it for a couple of reasons, one because it's completely
1:03.9	different from the kinds of books you and I probably have to read all of the time.
1:10.2	And despite the fact that it's sort of ancillary to a lot of what's going on right now, it's
1:16.0	also quite relevant to a lot of what's going on in terms of how information gets out there,
1:23.2	how people perceive information.
1:25.3	So the first question I want to ask, because I really do want to go deep on the book because
1:29.2	it's fascinating.
1:30.8	And I think anybody should read it, even if they're not particularly interested in debating
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