How to Resist: Live with Ilhan Omar and Michael Moore

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In a live taping of The Intercept’s Deconstructed podcast, host Mehdi Hasan is joined by two of America’s leading progressive voices: first-term Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, and documentarian Michael Moore, whose latest film, “Fahrenheit 11/9", takes an incisive look at the 2016 election and the crisis of American democracy in the Trump era.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Mehdi Hassan. Welcome to only our second live show here in Washington,
0:12.7	DC. Tonight with the impeachment inquiry intensifying and the 2020 Democratic primary
0:18.1	heating up, I'm going to speak to two of America's leading progressives, I think it's
0:22.3	fair to say, with very strong views on the future of the left, more broadly, and the Democrats
0:27.6	in particular, how we can continue to resist the ongoing trumpification of US politics
0:33.6	and what regular citizens can be doing to make their voices heard. So without any further
0:38.4	ado, I'm going to introduce my two very special guests here at George Washington University
0:42.6	and Washington, DC, for this Deconstructed live show. My first guest, give it up for
0:47.1	author activist, campaigner, general trouble maker and Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore.
0:54.1	Hey.
0:58.1	Oh.
1:00.1	That is very nice. Thank you.
1:05.1	Thank you.
1:09.1	And our other guest who's come straight from voting on Capitol Hill is a certain congresswoman
1:18.1	from Minnesota, representative Elhan Omar.
1:27.1	Michael Elhan, thanks for coming on Deconstructed. So lovely to have you here in DC. You're from New York,
1:40.1	you're from DC, you're in DC. Thank you for me.
1:43.1	A little bit. I work here.
1:44.1	You work here.
1:45.1	From Minnesota.
1:46.1	Minnesota.
1:47.1	You're happy to be here in DC? Do you like coming to DC, Michael?
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