Today there are thousands of people in this country who can't afford to go to a doctor.

Today there's a mom waking up who can't afford affordable childcare for her little one.

There are senior citizens of myle away from here who are trying to survive by 12,000

nausea socials. It should be a huge deal. Does anybody give a shit about them? Does anyone cover them?

The answer is no.

Welcome to Deconstructed, a new weekly show from the Intercept that's all about presenting the facts,

doing the deep dive and perhaps above all else, picking up the BS and pure spin that passes for

news and analysis these days. We're here to have a brutally honest conversation about what's

happening in American politics and culture both at home and abroad. My name is Mehedi Hussin

and Washington DC has been my home for the past three years. Yep, I'm an immigrant, a brown

Muslim journalist in Donald Trump's America. I hit the Trump trifecta, lucky me.

What I hope to bring to this show though, from here in the nation's capital, is an outsider's

perspective. A different take on the discussions and debates that dominate the headlines here in the US.

This won't be a show that bows to soggy political consensus or lazy conventional wisdom.

Some of you may know me already from my TV interviews, which can often get pretty heated.

Would you kill the family of a terrorist suspect? Yes or no?

I would have to see what the circumstances of that situation was. Are you kidding me?

Three attorneys general said it wasn't torture. Do you think it's torture? Mehedi, you're the

eighth person to ask me that. That doesn't change the reality that you're avoiding a very simple answer.

But I'm really excited about joining the world of podcasting because as much as I love the heat,

this show is going to be focused on shedding some light, having deeper conversations with people

whose voices we really all need to hear more from, as well as giving my own take. Yep, my own take.

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