-led congress, and why it really matters for everything from health care to global and national security, to the balance in your 401k. plus, i will talk to yuri salk, the adviser to ukraine defense minister about a very important week for ukraine, and a new evidence that ending roe was not enough for the anti abortion lobby in this country. the war against reproductive rights rages on, and it s worse than you would think. i will call this week s meeting of the velshi banned book club comes together. it is a celebration of mother daughter love and it has been banned. i will talk to the author, graceland, about why the story is so important. ahead. velshi starts now. . good morning, i m ali velshi, it is saturday january 21st. it is two years of the day since president biden s presidential moderation. we begin with a dire warning to the present day, but to do so, let s go back in history to this famous exchange. little did i dream you could be so reckless and so cruel ask
news from ukraine, where a series of explosions rocked the capital city of kyiv this morning. ukraine says, the russian missile attack is targeting critical infrastructure. we will go live to ukraine for the latest. plus, the house under republican rule. we will look at the chaos the gop has brought in congress in its first week in charge of the house, and the latest on the investigation into president biden s handling of classified documents, and what s behind the double standard in how the biden case is being treated compared to the case of a certain twice impeached ex president. then, the featured author for today s edition of the velshi banned book club is a story to herself, and author, yes, but also a filmmaker. folklorist and voodoo expert among many other things. we will dive into zora neal hearst in, their eyes were watching god, next hour. velshi starts now. and good morning. it s saturday, january the 14th. we are one week into hundreds 18th congress. in four
A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of Political Correctness in Campus Craziness and. The out set, this will come as a surprise to clinton defenders its a crime we ought to take seriously if anyone lies under oath. We believe in punishing crimes. And donald trump jr. Lied. Tucker i dont know that. I dont know if cohen is telling the truth. I dont know why cohen would hire trump in the first place. The Core Accusation that its immoral to meet with the russian source to get dirt on your opponent is what Hillary Clinton did. But its treason when trump does. Explain how that works. What the email to don jr. Said it is how the russian government hopes to aid your father. That was in the email. If that email had gone to barack obama or Hillary Clinton the same people in congress who
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The answers. What this means is the end of the Trump Presidency and not the United States tis. Itself. Nothing is as momentus as this. Don juniors meeting with a russian lawyer. Who knew about this meeting . What were they wearing when they met . Its on the questions like these that the face of nations hang. The huffing and the puffing. That puts donald trump in a conspiracy on this issue before the fact. That evidence on its face, if it was supported would be an impeachable offense. He had prior knowledge the russians were seeking to do this and gave them a green light. Until now we have not had a smoking gun that placed donald trump sr. The presidency in the
same people in congress who spent 3 years investigating who wrote the Talking Points would have hearing after hearing. Congress needs to do its job and have a hearing. Tucker we know the russian government aided the Clinton Campaign by giving false information to christopher steele. We dont know that. Tucker they testified before
speaker mccarthy. he and i and our teams, we were able to get along, get things done. the final vote of both chambers was overwhelming, far more bipartisan. you heard the president say no one got everything they wanted, so let s talk about what some of those things are that people who didn t vote for this bill wanted, right? you have conservative republicans who actually said the spending cuts in this bill, the 1.5 trillion dollars or so, did not go far enough. you remember, the republican passed bill at 4.5 trillion dollars, nearly five spending cuts over the next years. you look at the left side, progressives, democrats who did not vote for this bill, and it s largely because of work requirements. although president biden was able to hold the line on medicaid, for example, this does make it harder for americans without dependents to access food stamps, that age rises from 49 to 54. they will have to work and qualify for that benefit. that s one of the things that progressives imp