Mehdi Hasan Wants You to ‘Win Every Argument’

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Mehdi Hasan says he has been arguing all his life, and he’s made a career of it as a formidable interviewer known for challenging presidents and prime ministers on his MSNBC and Al Jazeera news programs. To him, a good-faith debate is not only the “lifeblood of democracy” but it’s also fun, and he wants us all to learn the craft. We’ll hear how to captivate and persuade an audience, use pathos and humor and handle low-information interlocutors. Hasan’s new book is “Win Every Argument.” Guests: Mehdi Hasan, journalist and host, "The Mehdi Hasan Show" on MSNBC and Peacock - His new book is "Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading and Public Speaking" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.6	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, Medi Hassan wants to make a great
1:21.2	debater out of you. The host of MSNBC's The Medi Hassan Show has made a career of challenging
1:26.1	presidents and prime ministers in tough interviews where he's clearly done his homework.i Hassan show has made a career of challenging presidents and prime ministers
1:28.1	in tough interviews where he's clearly done his homework.
1:31.0	To Hassan, a good faith debate is not only the lifeblood of democracy, but it's also fun.
1:36.2	We'll hear his tips for persuading and captivating an audience using pathos or humor effectively
1:41.6	and how to handle people who believe in alternative facts.
1:44.9	Hassan's new book is Win Every Argument.
1:47.4	He joins us after this news.
2:19.1	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. You may already be a fan of Medi Hassan's hard-hitting interview style, but just to give you a sense of it. Here he is in 2019 on his Al Jazeera show asking Eric Prince, why he didn't tell Congress about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower.
2:23.8	How come you didn't mention that meeting to Congress, given it so relevant to their investigation?
2:31.5	I did as part of the investigations. I certainly disclosed any meetings. The very, very few I had. Not in the congressional testimony you gave to the House. We went through it. You didn't mention anything about August 2016 meeting in Trump Tower.
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