Sensitive site expiration is done. To be thanks very much, we appreciate it. Kristen oleary is the former director of Hostage Recovery for the United States. Hes a Senior Vice President of Global Affairs for the group. Coming up, donald trump continues to take a page out of the authoritarian playbook as his legal troubles grow. Ill speak with the woman who wrote the book on authoritarian leaders. Ruth joins me. Then, with israel and Hezbollah Trading Fire over lebanons threatens to spill over into the region. Well go to lebanon for the latest on the ground. Plus, lbj and by the former vice Prime Minister of israel, another hour of velshi begins right now. Good morning to you, it is sunday the 22nd. With wars regime between ukraine and russia, israel and hamas, and threatening to spill into other continents, Global Leadership is critical. Were facing our own crisis of democracy in her own home, one that is easy to overlook when the news of the worlds war. Legal peril facing the twice im
Very first interview since taking the job. Also today, the domino start falling as those trump allies plead guilty and agreed to testify against their codefendants. The law firm of our back to tell us what it means for the case against the codefendant in donald trump. And later, my oneonone conversation with senator Raphael Warnock. I got his view on the war in the middle east, and that high profile legal case playing out in his home state. This week felt like a real Inflection Point in so many ways. Because we are all living in a country grappling with growing threats of antisemitism, islamophobia, and deep, deep divisions over how the United States government should respond to a growing conflict in the middle east. And, meanwhile, we have a Republican Party revealing itself wholly incapable of governing, even amongst themselves. And as we digest all of this and, believe me, this is a lot to digest. I think about something President Biden said in his address to the nation on thursday