mississippi. at least 23 people are dead and officials say more are likely trapped in the rubble. we will have the latest on the rescue mission, another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning to you, it is saturday march 25th, as 11 a.m. in the east atm in the west. i am ali velshi. for the past, week donald trump has been relentlessly attacking alvin bragg, the manhattan district attorney investigating the stormy daniels hush money payment for which the former president could possibly face a historic indictment. let s jump that aside for a moment because despite the attention and the vitriol, that trump percent alvin bragg s way since last saturday, there actually were not a lot of developments in that investigation in the past week. trump was not arrested, as he claimed he would be one week ago today. their grand jury only met once this week on that matter but in contrast, a pair of recent other court rulings in other cases found that trump may not be as privileged a
[applause] a mother of liberty, ended the velshi banned book club s not about whether you feel connected with jose, and jody because 19 minutes, or if you re moved by the language in shakespeare s attempts, it s not even about whether you ve read those books at all. as grace lin says, read if you choose to. the velshi banned book club is about freedom. freedom to learn, to think, to experience something about the confines of your imagination, all in the pages of those books. i ve said many times before, the core tenant of the velshi banned book club s reading as resistance. what does that look like? that looks like grace lin. landed her decades long got ultimately the books that protect those two impossibly fragile things. i am joined now by graceland, the pro rating activist who delivered a viral speech defending our access to. she is a highly esteemed member of the velshi banned book club. grace, it is an honor to talk to you.