speeches in each precinct before the caucus goers vote for their candidate of choice. in a secret ballot. no early voting. no absentee voting. no veil in voting in this instance. the process can take a little while, but this, year could be the coldest iowa caucus ever. current forecast for monday night include record sub-zero temperatures, which, of course, could affect turnout. at this point, a force of nature might be the only thing that could prevent donald trump from winning the state. the latest poll of iowa conducted by suffolk university earlier this month shows the former president leading the pack with 54% of likely republican caucus goers saying they plan to support him. his closest rival, nikki haley, is 34 points behind. a 20%. if these numbers hold, trump has the opportunity to smash the record for the largest margin of victory in iowa gop history for a non incumbents. that s a record currently held by bob dole, who won the 1988 caucuses by 13 points. over pat ro
short on. matching its rhetoric, with the kind of support ukrainians to win this war, not just for ukraine, but for the u.s. and u.s. national security. we re gonna watch then very closely, president biden arrives in the region on monday. he will be delivering an important speech on tuesday. we ll see if any of that changes. colonel, may we not be talking about this and a year, or at least be talking about it as history, retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, is the former director of european foreign affairs at the national security council. he s the author of the important book, here right matters. an american story. should, ahead more on the war in ukraine as we approach the one year anniversary another hour of velshi, live from kyiv, begins right now. begins right now good morning to you, it is saturday, february the 18th, welcome to our new home. a 10 am and 11 am eastern, our show is celebrating three years on the air this weekend. we thank you for watching u
a formal complaint against a teacher in guilford county, north carolina for a signing this book to her ap english class. for anyone else targeting this book in classrooms around the nation, i urge you to read it. cover to cover. calling salvage the bones quote, trash garbage and pornography, and quote, like those two parents did, proves to me they didn t read it. we featured nearly 70 books on the velshi banned book club, and there are few that are as compelling, as thought-provoking, as this one. this is the sort of literature that should be assigned to every english class in america, discussed esch family dynamic, pick apart the, writing and i solutions to nature, and decide what survival looks like. you will be better for it. i know i am. i m joined now by jesmyn ward, the only woman in the only black person to win the national book award for fiction twice. she is the author of numerous all-important books, including today s velshi banned book club feature, salvage the bones.
marcia script, author of numerous books, including today s velshi banned book club feature, winterkill. marsha, think you, thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the premise for winterkill, you say that your book was inspired by your grandfather. tell me a bit about that, please. my grandfather was a member of the communist party in canada, and he had lost track of his mother and sister. he came before the first world war, so he joined the communist party to be able to go back to the soviet ukraine, to try to find his family. so, one of the main characters is alice, whose father it s a communist member and did go back to ukraine to help stalin with his plan, which a lot of communists of the time, who were canadian and american, thought sounded really good. because communism, honestly, it