In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Erik Prince, the founder and former CEO of Blackwater, on his security firm’s performance during the Iraq w ar, the “exit strategy” he’s proposing for the w ar in Afghanistan, and his support for US President Donald Trump.
During the early years of the Bush administration’s so-called ‘War on Terror’, Blackwater grew into one of the most profitable private military contractors in the US.
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Why exposing him he is sweating feeling pity for eric but one has to face what he bows
Killing random people in their country because you trying to influence their rulers…. Wait isn’t that what the US calls terrorism
How about you first fix America and leave the other countries alone
The amount of bullshit that came out of his mouth
” we didn’t employ Angels, we employed veterans.”
Praise the time when we employ Angels🙏🏿
Any speech of Mehedi Hassan should be dubbing in Bengali. I personally like this man and his speech.
biggest terrorist nation?
Host seems to have a strong view against the guest.
how did they convince this dude to come on the show to incriminate himself and make him look like a fool, a shady backdeal murder for hire maggot
Afghanistan and the rest of the world has only one solution and that’s to force pakistan to stop creating extremists in their 30000 madrassas.
when i close my eyes its like a slightly smarter trump is speaking, they have very similar voices
We are taught the US Military fights for our freedom but when you go outside the US and fight that seems fishy.
Legends say that little erik is still having nightmares because of this interview.
What a nice liberal audience. This isn’t one sided at all…
If Hitler got charged for what he did and he had Mehdi as a lawyer he would get away with it
Mahdi Hasan great work love u me also a journalist in Pakistan so watching u fallow u
I would hate to be an interviewee of this dude. I would have soiled my pants.
Again, he accuses before knowing all the facts, dumb moronic and arrogant! This is not journalism !!!!!
Blackwater is a necessary evil.
It may appear heroic the way he interviews his guest’s, but not letting them answer any questions in full is just badgering, bullying and very one sided, I think your praise is somewhat misplaced!
How people in that audience clap after a meeting where all what was discussed was a disgrace.
Blackwater are active in Afghanistan but they failed. The government of Afghanistan had a deal with this guy secretly to crush Taliban! So they started rapid night Raids but they failed! They tried every trick there was on the Table to crush Insurgents(Taliban) yet they failed! All of the deals aren’t made public or the public isn’t aware at all!
Eric Price Black Waters Commander, He Illegally trained Mujahadeen Freedom Fighters, Eric Prince, what a rude dude you are, Eric Prince is sitting there while at the same time, he, himself is arming ISIS to Slaughter Trillions to this day stealth trojan horse Proxy War Operation
Well they should stop sending terrorists everywhere around the world if they don’t want us to abuse them
What a great journalist! keep it up man.
“I don’t know if they got the transcript wrong.” 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Mehdi’s questioning is relentless , just the way it should be to get an answer . Good on him .
I am not a fan of BlackWater, but this was NOT a debate, this was a roast, it was 1000 vs 1.
YA’JUJ & MA’JUJ HAD BEEN RELEASED FROM DZULQARNAIN BARRIER SINCE PROPHET MUHAMMAD TIME.
That moment when you go on a tv show for money and end up in jail for getting exposed
“May the eyes of cowards never sleep” Khalid ibn Walid RA
Only if US leaders could mind their own business and leave the rest of the world alone.. there not men enough to do the hard work themselves so they start to bully n terrorise other countries, some for oil and some for valuables, they have killed unaccountable amounts of innocent people and still there’s no stopping them. The US have destroyed most of the world especially the middle East and wherever there are black people. there’s just no stopping them! And on top the leaders come one stupid after the other! God help us all.
If the isis chief fits into a suit trouser and tie and of course clean shaved….. He will be legalized automatically 😂😂
Why would somebody like Erik Prince even go on this show? It’s just a pr disaster no matter how he answers the questions….
He is a punk who is about to be sued by someone that will level him.
Mehdi Hassan doesn’t let the guest answer questions he keeps intefering and its annoying but the guest doesn’t loose his act
Do your research…. The host is killing them.
Nooooooooo One Wants To Take Their Own Responsibility For Their Actions……. smh!!!!
Medhi Hassan is a phenomenal journalist who stands above all others. His skills is questioning and heckling to get answers from his guest is quite legendary.
Wait till Blackwater starts to police American citizens. Thank God I’m Canadian
Prince family that paid 400 million to get their positions…sociopathic narcissists maybe?
We see your lying, smug face when questioned about the secret meetings Eric. I wonder what goes through a sociopaths mind at moments like those.
The show finished with the question if Eric sleeps well at night. Sociopaths have no problem with that
sheikh hasina is an oppressors and hypocrite also all of her party members like her same rubbish.
HASSAN A FU=UCKING IDIOT
Tim and Prince go hand-in-hand but he already knows is. This is about to blow up in their face because I am not someone to be played with and despite their many efforts too discredit my family, I have always landed on my two feet, broken or not. The one is a suspect in a multiple murder case and an attempted murder that happened almost twenty-five years ago and they were proven to be connected to the identity of the people listed in the reports and they know it. You are out of time to deliver my children but, then again, you already know that.
” The road to tyranny, we must never forget begins with the destruction of truth”
These people are nothing but tyrants and the people accepting it are no better than them.
In the name of Pre emptive measures,America went to wage two biggest wars and after years of fighting,got back as a loser with loads of loans on her back and pounds of shame
The host is all second hand reporting.Hearsay, wanna be . You are on their list now.
Effeminate beta-male’s trying to ‘out snark’ an alpha with nothing but emotion and anecdotal evidence… There is no difference between the modern, liberal male and a female, period.
Omg no one want to be in Eric’s place
Is this the mehdi we were waiting for during the end of times..👀
Erik Prince is a sharp guy
He’s a BLUNT fool
I can only say . We might be not the angels but .If you think that PMC-Companies made the big money , you can’t be more further from the truth. Hallibraton is the big winner here
An interview with an legal terrorist…
You are executioners period! North America has committed the worst war crimes in the entire history of mankind! Years of war crimes, years of killing children and families, of totally destroying ‘others’ countries! These monsters are just more assassins doing whatever they want for money. The complicity of silence, the cowardice of those in charge of the country is a travesty!!!
Saw a TikTok
“Here is the thing” yeah here is it. You are a big liar…
Thought it was an organization that extracts ur!ne from blck peeple…
Am I I only the only one who noticed the similarity of voice between skal from witcher3 and colonel tim?
The US again! Just is how their justify the war! Disgusting!
The US called them Black Water, but they should be called Terrorist.
You can notice the racism in Erik Prince words. He is just a contract killer, who does not care about others but money.
Mehdi hassan is great. However, it is clearly obvious that he is pro Islam which I think is fair that he is a muslim himself. However, my opinion is that when it comes to the muslim guests on the show, he is so much more lenient. I just wish he was unbiased. The show would be so much better.
Their recruiting criminals
NATO and UN are criminals
No answers for anything omg. Can’t even lie thought were experts ye right!!!!
Are you Chinese weapon of war?
One of the nice talk show in this planet. True questions has putting to the criticism by the mahadi Hasan. But most of time answer not clear so we general people comes to know really who are the devil leaders of this world.
Whenever he was gonna lie he starts with ” look “
Mehdi Hasan is extraordinary.
The host needs to learn when to talk and when to listen instead of the constant interrupting.
That’s how the host have an unfair upper hand on the arguments. Can’t wait for the guest to complete a sentence. I would say it’s very rude of the host.
When the guest is constantly lying and contradicting what he has previously said, it’s important for the host to interrupt and correct the lies that the guest is speaking. You can constantly see that the moment prince starts to lie, hassan interrupts to correct him and prince ends up changing his answer.
Edit: not to mention that the guest doesn’t have anything stopping him from interrupting and speaking up as well. It just goes to show that he is absolutely baffled and is finding it hard to come up with something to say to cover up his lies with more lies.
Scumbag
War has always been for profit. Why should this be any different.
Lies,, lies more lies,, devils strategy
ISIS / Al Qaeda now / black water /… are hands of USA in the regions.
This guy is in all for the money but what cringes me is the fact that he cannot admit that his former company employees ( Blackwater) caused much damage including the killing of innocent civilians. He’s a narcissistic on the same level as Hitler and Lenin.
Money is the war
They are afraid of Mehdi in the mainstream media. Joy Reid is the only one that is not afraid to have him on.
Folks, these are the people who are playing chess, while poor folks are forced to play checkers.
al jazeera is biased
Why called it black water, it should be called white water.
Whether people like it or not Erik Prince is an honorable man. The insurgents are the ones mainly responsible because theyre always using civilians for cover when it comes to killing innocent people. Watching this is like watching CNN
Prince=Nazi
I feel prince used to take the lunch money of the other kids in his school
Saudis and isrealis will be sad as their master is exposed .
Thank god that Mike wasn’t Muslim. Otherwise his group would have another name.
Black water = the black hand of USA
His voice sound is similar with trump 🤣😂
Mr Hasan, you aren’t a mathematician, and you clearly know as little about war strategy. Btw, I am a Prince advocate, I do know a thing or two about conflict though.
Satan’s army is not small. There will be a lot of the likes.
Judgement day is definitely going to come & there you will put forward your genuine innocence & answer the killing of innocent people.
Americans wants to sell their own drug thats why the wall is for. Americans love cheap labour
Eric Prince you and your owners are murderers.
Like pbs
My man this is the beast defeat I have ben sen
Eric should be garlanded with footwear. He does not even feel the pain of innocent people in trying to justify his company’s income.
Does not he believe in the Day of Judgement?
I lost brain cells listening to this “interview”
Tyrant
Towards the end he was so tired he basically gave up trying
The iraqi people are ready to give trump a oil well if he gives us prince we only want prince
For iraqi people this is like watching osama bin laden defending himself