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Hasan sits down with FORMER Senate candidate and CURRENT Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed to talk about Medicare For All, AIPAC, and why he won't hesitate to straight up call Pete Hegseth a beta.
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Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Hasan Minhaj
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Prashanth Venkataramanujam
Executive Producer/Director: Tyler Babin
Executive Producer/Showrunner: Scott Vrooman
Producer: Kayla Feng
Producer/ Copywriter: Annie Fick
Cinematographer: Austin Morales
Editor: Will Feinstein and N/V Moore
Segment Producer: Andrew Durso
Talent Coordinators: Tanya Somanader and Kori Schulman
Executive Assistant: Samuel Piland
0:00 Monologue
3:16 Ad
4:23 What’s Abdul doing with his Trump Bucks?
5:36 How Abdul scrambles MAGA men
7:21 Bullying bullies
13:50 Bill Clinton on Abdul’s political talent
18:07 Political consensus vs. Public consensus
22:25 Running on gas prices
25:40 Ads
28:56 Medicare For All
35:53 How to make lifesaving drugs cheaper
39:32 Mike Rogers says Abdul wants to steal your healthcare!
42:38 Mike Rogers is a Patriot Act fan (not that one)
45:17 How revolving door corruptions works in DC
47:23 AIPAC spending against Abdul
50:33 Ads
54:23 Trump’s trade war with Canada
58:48 The “strategic insanity” of the Iran war
1:00:58 AI data centers
1:03:23 Tanks, school buses and firetrucks
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Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know is a long-form interview podcast hosted by two-time Peabody Award-winning comedian Hasan Minhaj. The show features in-depth conversations with politicians, public figures, financial experts, scientists, intellectuals, authors and celebrities. Rather than sticking to standard talking points, Minhaj aims to ask deeper, more probing questions that reveal personal perspectives and challenge conventional narratives. The tone is direct and curious, and focused on uncovering what guests really think beyond rehearsed answers.
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