Sensitive site expiration is done. To be thanks very much, we appreciate it. Kristen oleary is the former director of Hostage Recovery for the United States. Hes a Senior Vice President of Global Affairs for the group. Coming up, donald trump continues to take a page out of the authoritarian playbook as his legal troubles grow. Ill speak with the woman who wrote the book on authoritarian leaders. Ruth joins me. Then, with israel and Hezbollah Trading Fire over lebanons threatens to spill over into the region. Well go to lebanon for the latest on the ground. Plus, lbj and by the former vice Prime Minister of israel, another hour of velshi begins right now. Good morning to you, it is sunday the 22nd. With wars regime between ukraine and russia, israel and hamas, and threatening to spill into other continents, Global Leadership is critical. Were facing our own crisis of democracy in her own home, one that is easy to overlook when the news of the worlds war. Legal peril facing the twice im
The government will shut down if no budget is passed, mccarthy has announced he would open an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. Now that is a gambit that is certain to fail. And i dont just mean that mccarthy cant possibly get by the removed from office, which would involve not just an impeachment in the house, but a trial in the senate, i mean that it is unclear if mccarthy can even win an Impeachment Vote in the house. It is unpopular gambit with a smaller meeting faction of the Republican Party that still cares about governing, which is probably why mccarthy opened the Impeachment Inquiry without holding a vote as customary and as he had earlier indicated that he would do. Why would the speaker of the u. S. House of representatives third in line in the presidency, launch a presidency that appears to be both strategically and politically unwise . Easy. Because he owes that important job to a small band of farright conspiracy peddling wing nuts who belong to the cult of donald
continue to skyrocket. according to pen america the first half of the 2023 school year there have been almost 1500 instances of books being removed. back in february, my next guest started a weekly segment prompting him to launch a podcast. the main focus of the velshi banned book club podcast is to raise awareness about each authors where and why these stories are important. here is how one of the authors put it. my hope is that in instead of a leaning into this fear that your kids are going to be exposed to something and a book that they re likely already exposed to in the world, parents would lean into the idea of compassion and being interested and other people stories. joining me now, msnbc host ali velshi. you are on the other side of this? right how does it feel? totally different energy. while we have you, hear why