fragile democracy takes us to wisconsin, or a conservative majority supreme court just made it harder for its own citizens to vote, in a move that just happens to align quite nicely with the agenda of a certain twice impeached former president. and the velshi banned book club is in session, with a historical fiction title for younger adults, that has gotten parent so out of that it was the subject of a viral video, of an angry mom calling for its removal. velshi starts now. good morning, i am ali velshi. it is sunday, july 11th, 18 months and five days since a group of anti-american insurrectionists attacked the united states capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government and destroy american democracy in the name of a former president. mind you, that attempt is still ongoing in other ways. more on that later in the show. but luckily for america, the january 6th select committee continues its vital work in investigating that insurrection. and this morning, we are g
hearing on tuesday. as trump s former white house counsel, cipollone was in the room for many of the key events during trump s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. cipollone s name has come up extensively throughout the six hearings the committee has already held. but it was after we heard from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson late last month that the pressure really ramped up on cipollone to testify, under oath, before the committee. i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out onto west exec saturday morning and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, calf city. keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. there are developments today of potential new testimony the committee may hear from two other individuals who were closely aligned with trump. here s the headline for my paper, the washington post. trump considers wavin
Republicans are mired in a fight with one another that has set us on the path towards a devastating Government Shutdown that is now just six days away. A small group of House Republican extremists are continuing to hold up any sort of meaningful action on the matter with their refusal to even consider a short term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution. That is a measure that could realistically be brought to the floor of congress over the next few days before the funding runs out next saturday at midnight. Instead, republican holdouts want to consider each appropriations bill separately. A more time consuming an extensive process that would definitely take more than a week. Ahead of a call with republicans yesterday afternoon, Speaker Mccarthy expressed a bit of hope, telling reporters what he thinks when it gets down to crunch, time the holdouts will, quote hopefully move off. A few hours later, however the louisiana congressman this man here and ally who wasnt struggled in t
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