-led congress, and why it really matters for everything from health care to global and national security, to the balance in your 401k. plus, i will talk to yuri salk, the adviser to ukraine defense minister about a very important week for ukraine, and a new evidence that ending roe was not enough for the anti abortion lobby in this country. the war against reproductive rights rages on, and it s worse than you would think. i will call this week s meeting of the velshi banned book club comes together. it is a celebration of mother daughter love and it has been banned. i will talk to the author, graceland, about why the story is so important. ahead. velshi starts now. . good morning, i m ali velshi, it is saturday january 21st. it is two years of the day since president biden s presidential moderation. we begin with a dire warning to the present day, but to do so, let s go back in history to this famous exchange. little did i dream you could be so reckless and so cruel ask
their success in reducing abortions in texas by 99%. that is an attention grabbing headline, but deeply misleading. texans haven t stopped seeking out abortion care. they ve just stop seeking it out in texas! that is not a surprise, considering how the states draconian anti abortion laws have pushed texas one step closer to becoming a police state, where pregnant bodies and all women of reproductive age are looked with unwarranted suspicion. the states laws have also forced trained medical professionals to stop providing safe abortion care and to close down their clinics. instead, many texans are now making long and costly trips to other states to get an abortion. trust women, a clinic that offers abortion care in wichita, kansas, said this week that 70% of its patients are now coming from nearby texas. that s two states away, and it s not a short trip. first women s wichita clinic is about 20 miles from the nearest part of the texas border, a four hour drive one way. gwinnett closures
chris can t anticipate when he s going to be feeling okay like today or feeling like this. gosh! he s spending a lot of time just trying to figure out whether he qualifies for medicaid under the republicans limited expansion. he has a message for the state lawmakers who haven t made it easy for him to get coverage. have some heart. people do benefit from this. and if you think that they don t deserve health care, like there is something missing here. so you are saying they need a ct scan of their hearts. they should get a ct scan of their hearts to see if there is anything in there. this is a moral issue. i m not going to lie. i left you day feeling pretty bummed. not just about our health care system but about democracy. then a few months later, something unexpected happened. the trump administration told utah it is not paying for 90% of its limited expansion unless the state goes all in and expands
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rolled up in uniform. the texans haven t been trained. what do they have? they have this commitment. for the most part you put a bunch of eachs together taken in ad hoc defense. brian: they felt good early on. when the flag went up how did travis answer. with a cannon shot. it was an active bravado and something that said we are not going to back off. but they thought they were going to be reinforced. the idea if they could be strong enough and keep the mexicans from bringing up their full force they would get reinforced and the problem would not be fatal. brian: how far away were the