In this week’s episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by New York City Comptroller and former New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander to discuss Zohran Madani’s win in the city’s democratic mayoral primary, his arrest by DHS, and his future in a potential Mamdani administration.

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In this ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’ interview, House Democrat Joaquin Castro does not hold back on criticizing Trump's bombing of Iran, telling Mehdi that Trump and Netanyahu have now given Iran, “an incredible incentive to become like North Korea, that the world feels that it can’t really mess with because they’ve got nuclear weapons.”

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In this segment of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi sits down with top UN official Tom Fletcher, who has traveled to conflict zones across the world but says ‘nothing was as bad as going to Gaza.’

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In this "Mehdi Unfiltered" interview, Mehdi challenges Democratic Congresswoman and ‘Squad’ Member Summer Lee on her party’s dismal polling, with Lee telling Mehdi that her party is, “still waking up late.”

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In this week’s episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by UNICEF spokesperson James Elder to discuss his observations from his latest visit to Gaza, the risk of famine in the region, and why aid distribution has become a ‘death trap.’

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In this week’s episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by 'Game of Thrones' star Liam Cunningham to discuss Gaza and his advocacy for the people of Palestine.

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In this week’s episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by law professor and podcaster Leah Litman to discuss her new book 'Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes,' and break down the influence of Republican justices on US politics, why “they view themselves as victims and use that to victimize everyone else,” and the decades-long strategy the GOP used to roll back key rulings like Roe.

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In this segment of Mehdi Unfiltered, Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something and author of When We’re in Charge: The Next Generation’s Guide to Leadership, speaks to Mehdi about the US’s gerontocracy problem and how younger leadership could revitalize the Democratic Party.

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In this segment of Mehdi Unfiltered, Greg Grandin, historian and author of America, América: A History of the New World speaks to Mehdi about what the US can learn from Latin America when it comes to fighting fascism. 

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Just weeks before last year’s US presidential election, California Congressman Ro Khanna, the so-called ‘rep for Silicon Valley’, told Mehdi that he’d be “surprised” if billionaire Elon Musk joined the Trump administration in an official role.

Now, over six months later, Musk has become perhaps one of the most powerful people in the United States government, with Khanna now saying that Musk – who has said he will be stepping back from DOGE – “needs to be held accountable.”

“I was surprised, but I turned out to be both right and wrong. Wrong obviously that he joined, right that he'd get quickly frustrated and exhausted and leave,” Khanna tells Mehdi. “He's the only person I know who's gone from 65% approval to 35% approval… He went on a cultural crusade. And what he didn't realize is that Americans will cheer you to put rockets up in space, but they don't want those folks making decisions for them.”

In this wide-ranging interview, Mehdi and Ro Khanna discuss the congressman’s online feuds not only with Musk, but also Vice President JD Vance. When Mehdi asked Ro Khanna why he spars with JD Vance so often, whether it’s because he sees Vance as the heir to Trump or just because he finds Vance annoying, Khanna replied, “probably the latter.”

“JD is the only one who's making some pretense of trying to give an intellectual justification to what Trump's doing. Even Trump doesn't say, ‘I want to deprive people of due process.’ He says, ‘I don't know about it.’ JD Vance is saying, ‘No, no… an immigrant shouldn't have due process in this country,’” Khanna says to Mehdi.

Mehdi also presses the congressman on his own party, with Khanna admitting that Democrats were too cautious in this past election, despite President Donald Trump constantly endorsing extreme policies, such as pardoning Jan. 6 rioters and buying Greenland.

“If you get one person promising sweeping change and the other party saying, ‘well, we're basically going to give you what you've had for 40 years,’ people keep rolling the dice and saying, ‘let's roll the dice because what we've had for 40 years hasn't worked,’” Khanna tells Mehdi.

Khanna also calls for the “loudest condemnation” of the Netanyahu government’s actions in Gaza and reveals what he thinks the next Democratic presidential nominee should say about Israel and Gaza. (Will that be Khanna himself? Mehdi, of course, asked the question!)

Paid subscribers can watch the half-hour interview to hear Mehdi and Ro Khanna discuss the congressman’s plan to help Democrats try and win back MAGA voters, the recent fighting between India and Pakistan, and, yes, whether or not he is laying the groundwork for a presidential bid in 2028.

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