we re gonna discuss lord of the flies. another hour of velshi, begins right now. good morning, and this sunday august 14th, i am velshi, it s been a week since the fbi has conducted mar-a-lago, as donald trump tried to branded, and we learned it is the third time that we know of, that representatives of the american government have to go visit former president trump s west palm beach hideaway, where he has been stashing a highly sensitive documents, that belong to the united states. back in january, the last archives collected 15 boxes from mar-a-lago, after they realize the trump administration, some things they never handed over. during that first round of retrieval, were documents that were marked classified. this was just a small sign of things to come. we know that this past spring, the department of justice quietly subpoenaed donald trump for any and all remaining records that he had in his possession. it s an important point, trump keeps talking about a raid, where the
secret service exchanged texts on the and around the date of january 6th. what we re learning and why they weren t saved. more than 85 million people under heat alerts today, and mother nature is only cranking up the heat as we go through the weekend. where we can see dozens of records set for tomorrow. and the white house says president biden s covid symptoms have improved, but we still haven t heard directly from his doctor how he s doing. we ll be joined live by dr. anthony fauci this hour for an update. good morning to you and welcome to your new day. it is saturday, july 23rd. food to b good to be with you, alex. good to be with you, amara. we haven t done this in a while. no, we haven t. we begin with the latest on the fallout of the january 6th commission hearing. it s about donald trump s refusal to call after the attack on the capitol. 187 minutes, donald trump watched televised carnage at the capitol while refusing pleas from everyone around him to cal
if he was going to hold onto the white house. that was the big issue. we are covering it going into election night. it was a huge deal when biden won arizona. arizona. are you 100% sure of that call and when you made it and why did you make it? absolutely. we made it after basically a half hour of debating it. we finally called it right now. nbc news is projecting that when every last vote is counted in the state of arizona, joe biden will be awarded 11 electoral votes. joe biden your projected winner in the state of arizona. trump and his allies were enraged over exactly that call, especially the fox news call to arizona. it was seen as kind of the nail in the coffin as a state that the trump folks would need to win or somehow continue to cast as too close to call, which might offend these plots you re hearing about. fox later fired the staffer who accurately called arizona for biden. it was close. they were separated by 10,000 votes. biden won with 1.6 million votes
And corruption. Just two gop senators broke with their party to vote for conviction. Texas senator a democrat, called out his republican colleagues lack of courage today on msnbc. What happened here was and a tossup. This was an easy bank shot. Every one of these republicans saw this evidence that they should have all voted for conviction, but they made the Political Choice rather than the expedient choice rather than the hard decisions. Sometimes you have to risk the consequences when its about integrity when its about justice. Clearly, there was no justice indexes today. Donald trump, ken paxton ally, wasted no time in congratulating paxton. Trump posted on social media the texas House Speaker republican should resign for pushing this disgraceful sham. Paxton is back to worth. He reports the verdict reached saturday after a twoweek trial in the senate chamber, clears the way for paxton, a three term republican, to return to a position he has used to advance and conservative agenda th