american economy hostage. lifesaving health care denied or delayed, we will talk to one of the doctors behind a new study showing a pattern of serious health complications caused by post roe abortion ban. and a dire warning from the u.n. s top weather and climate scientist and what we can do about it. plus the velshi banned book club goes to court. this week we ll talk to two previously featured authors of banned books who have joined with free speech activists, parents and the largest publishing house in the country and hauling book banners to federal court. velshi starts now. good morning, it is saturday may 20th, i m ali velshi. as the old saying, goes if i don t succeed, stop following the republican playbook. you would think that after one bad election cycle the gop would have regrouped and reassessed its shortcomings so it could rebound. it s been nearly seven years since the republicans last truly significant wind. donald trump s electoral college victory in 2016. sinc
that means interceptions, and we ve heard them late at night just after 1:00 a.m. we heard those explosions, and what that is is air defenses intercepting missiles and the air. that means debris. so earlier this week, 25 fragments of debris came down on the capitol starting fires, a couple of injuries, causing serious damage. i do have a couple of updates, just on this moment that we are in right. now ali, as president zelenskyy is in hiroshima as he s meeting with g7 leaders and all the other world leaders on the sidelines, we have seen unprecedented era tax which he just walked us, through we re seeing unprecedented success in air defenses. when i speak with military analysts, the air defenses cannot keep up at this level. which is of course, players didn t zelenskyy knows. this his team knows. this which is why he s in europe last week. which is why he is in japan this weekend. why he s in saudi arabia yesterday, but we are also hearing from the military about a counter offensive