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The Breakfast Club

INTERVIEW: Mehdi Hasan On Mamdani's Mayoral Win, Combatting Hate, Government Shutdown + More

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy

4.414.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Today On The Breakfast Club, Mehdi Hasan On Mamdani's Mayoral Win, Combatting Hate, Government Shutdown. Listen For More!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:23.7

Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. You're all finished or y'all's done? Good. Good. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Shalameen the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes. He's here to talk about a lot, especially post-election coverage, ladies and gentlemen, Mehdi Hassan. Welcome. Great to be back, guys. How are you, man? How do you feel, first of all, I know y'all was partying all last night? Yeah, you got to be tired. Partying, I was doing a live stream. It was very noisy in Brooklyn. You can imagine there was some noise made at this historic election night event and the voice took a hit.

0:40.2

But yeah, it was very historic. We were there all night. We were alive all night. I want to ask you a question. First of all, have you seen this? The front page of the post this morning. Let me see. Okay. It says on your marks. Get set. Zo. Socialist, Mondani wins race for mayor, the red apple. What do you think of that?

0:54.8

What I think is it didn't work during the election campaign.

0:57.4

I can't believe they're still trying this shit. I mean, the New York Post, Rupert Murdoch, they tried. They threw the kitchen sink at this guy. And it didn't work. He won a majority of the vote. In the last days, they were like, if only Sleewa pulls out, the whole campaign was Sleeward pull out.

1:13.0

Doesn't matter if Sleaw had pulled out.

1:14.2

He won more than 50%. majority of the vote. In the last days, they were like, if only Sleewa pulls out, the whole campaign

1:11.9

was Sleeward pull out. It doesn't matter if Sleawood pulled out. He won more than 50% of the vote. You won a majority in New York. You won more than a million votes. It's been, I think, something like they said, 60 years since a New York mayoral candidate won over a million votes. so none of this stuff worked

1:26.3

they'll keep going after in the billionaires

1:28.3

and I pointed out last night

1:29.6

Duranam Dhani did not just a million votes. So none of this stuff worked. They'll keep going after in the billionaires.

1:28.3

And I pointed out last night, Duran Mundani did not just be Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa.

1:34.6

Zeranman, Bill Ackman and Michael Bloomberg and Reed Hastings and James Murdoch and the Walmart

1:41.3

woman and the Home Depot guy and DoorDash and Airbnb and all the billionaires

1:45.3

and corporations who threw all that cash at him, he beat them all.

1:48.2

What do you think about Bill Lackman reaching out last night? What did you think of that?

1:52.3

First of all, it was a very short tweet. Bill Ackman writes these war and peace, Tolstoy tweets,

1:57.4

very short tweet. I tweeted last night, thoughts and prayers to Balatman and Elon Musk.

2:02.2

This guy spent his entire campaign attacking. He suggested that Zoroamandani is some crazy

2:07.5

jihadist terrorist radical. And for people that don't know who he is, he's a hedge fund manager,

2:12.3

he's worth about $10 billion. I envy the people who don't know who he is. I wish I didn't

2:16.1

know who he was. But he spends a lot of money and time online. And what's interesting is it's why people hate politics in this country, right? It's so cynical. He spent the entire campaign saying, the guy is a terrorist. He hates Jews. Like the most extreme incendiary rhetoric. And then he wins. He's like, hey, man, I'll work with you. You need me?

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