alarming place. new details are emerging about the man being called the most dangerous trump official you never heard of. and why the danger to democracy is not over. and i ll be joined by two texas lawmakers who fled the state to block a republican voter suppression bill and are now subject to arrest thanks to an escalating fight with their republican governor and colleagues. you won believe how much a handful of mega rich families benefitted from some very specific almost bespoke tax cuts that were larded into the failed president s tax bill. there s secret documents that tell the shocking story and i ll talk to the reporter who unearthed them. velshi starts now. good morning. it is saturday, august 17th. we begin with breaking news.
medical doctors and public health authorities. in our local community. we were advised to start school with all the mitigation factors that we could employ. masking was one of them. so, we are following the advice of the local officials who are in touch with the conditions of the spread of covid-19 in our community. that is a decision that we went with the last week. to start school with the mask mandate. and to reevaluate it based on current conditions from august 17th. we thought it was the best decision based on medical information, local medical information. what about the threats that you just heard me read from governor desantis? well, i do not know how legal it is. will our decision was made before the threat came down. i still stand by the vote that i took on august third. as an elected official, i have
her ninth year teaching sixth grade science in alachua county where students are heading back to class today. i think it s important to model safety with the kids and make sure that they feel safe with me. then i have a two-year-old daughter at school who is starting school this year, and so i need to be able to protect her and her classmates. reporter: her school board will reevaluate its decision to require masks on august 17th. it does make you pause, but our goal is the health and safety of our students and our staff. so we think we re within the guidelines of the law. reporter: tina certain with a member of the board that voted for the two-week mandate and could now lose her salary over it. i am actually just trying to stand firm on that and provide a safe learning and work environment. reporter: a safety issue that doctors say could be a matter of life and death. i think bringing together large numbers of children, congregating them in classrooms with masks being op
underrepresented and forced into a bystander rule, suffers mightily in silence. we are going to be dealing with the consequences of the trump administration, the pandemic, and particularly the insurrection of january six for a very, very long time, just as we are going to be confronting the fact that 74 million people wanted four more years of whatever they thought they got in the last four. joining us now, mary trump, author of the new book the reckoning. our nation s trauma and finding a way to heal, which comes out on august 17th. thank you very much for joining us tonight, we really appreciate it. it s great to be here, lawrence. it seems diagnostic lee you ve widen the focused on the patient you are examining in your last book, and in that book your focus was wide enough to include your family members.
which has repeatedly putting the losing republican candidate in office and a divided senate in which one half of the membership represents 41 million fewer citizens than the other, we are a nation in which a vir lint minority has an out-sized voice and the majority underrepresented and forced into a bystander role suffers mightily in silence. we are going to be dealing with the consequences of the trump administration, the pandemic, and particularly the insurrection of january 6th, for a very, very long time, just as we are going to be confronting the fact that 74 million people wanted four more years of whatever they thought they got in the last four. joining us now is mary trump, author of the new book the reckoning: america s trauma and finding a way to heal . it comes out on august 17th.