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
he s an orphan now. stories like this are horrific to all of us. as a father, as a human being, my heart is broken for aiden, for the mccarthy family. what s worse is to see the reactions of republican politicians when stuff like this happens. we are overwhelmed by gop extremism. every day brings a new crop of ghastly statements, bold face lies and bonkers, offensive conspiracies. from republican officials, and candidates. it s difficult not to become numb to them. it s tempting to just ignore them. this is the political party that could be in control of congress in a matter of months. so, though i would much murdered voided, and i hate talking about her, we have to start today with gop congresswoman, marjorie taylor greene. she spoke in a clip from her podcast about that mass murder in highland park. a clip that went viral on twitter this week. but here s what i have to say. i mean, two shootings on july 4th. one in a rich, white neighborhood and the other a fireworks disp
And said he had been a creep. Migrant crisis, yesterday, if you we re migrant crisis, yesterday, if you were watching, we were talking about italy saying it needed more help from other European Countries in dealing with the thousands arriving, today, austria has announced it is prepared to send its army to its border with italy to stop migrants from coming in. We are told 750 troops are on stand by. The italians are not impressed, you will not be surprised to hear. The austrian ambassador ambassador in italy has been summoned. I have been speaking with the europe editor of the Bbc World Service about whether they summon World Service about whether they summon him or not, what the italians can actually do about this. They do not have leveraged but there is a bit of Sabre Rattling going on. They have moved the soldiers onto stand by, they have put armoured vehicles on stand by, there is no suggestion yet that they will close the border. They have been talking between themselves, the two
And said he had been a creep. Migrant crisis, yesterday, if you we re migrant crisis, yesterday, if you were watching, we were talking about italy saying it needed more help from other European Countries in dealing with the thousands arriving, today, austria has announced it is prepared to send its army to its border with italy to stop migrants from coming in. We are told 750 troops are on stand by. The italians are not impressed, you will not be surprised to hear. The austrian ambassador ambassador in italy has been summoned. I have been speaking with the europe editor of the Bbc World Service about whether they summon World Service about whether they summon him or not, what the italians can actually do about this. They do not have leveraged but there is a bit of Sabre Rattling going on. They have moved the soldiers onto stand by, they have put armoured vehicles on stand by, there is no suggestion yet that they will close the border. They have been talking between themselves, the two
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Justice that the president s lawyers have said publically and said it once again today that the president will not answer any questions about obstruction of justice and other issues that the special prosecutor Robert Mueller would like to question the president about. Regular viewers of this hour know i for one believe President Trump was never going to submit to any questions by my prosecutor under any circumstances, even back when the president said the chance of him doing that was 100 . So he said those things under oath. Would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of this . 100 . I would be glad to tell him exactly what i just told you, jim. 100 . That was a year ago. And now the chances of the president submitting to an interview with Robert Mueller is almost officially publically zero percent. Although the president s lawyers continue to play the public game
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