one person who used to work for donald trump and one person who is willing to speak out against them. spoiler alert, they re not the same person. plus, speaking as a current republican front one or, we have brand-new reporting on two separate investigations into the twice impeached ex president. and will head to florida, they that currently looks every bit the picture of a trumpian dystopia thanks to trump s own closest competitor, governor ron desantis. then i ll call to order today s meeting as a velshi banned book club, featuring a very important book by a very brave offer who s been targeted for his work. not just by a book banners, but by the taliban. velshi starts now. good morning, it is saturday during the third, i m ali velshi. if you can believe, if the iowa caucuses which kick off the republican primary season are only about seven months away. the candidates lining up to be the 2024 republican presidential nominees have been filling up for the past couple of mont
cutting people off of food stamps is actually good for the poor, but you put more money in military, and then the last thing, velshi, what they do is they raise all these culture wars because they don t want people to actually see that the same people that are attacking the lgbtq community and attacking women and attacking transfer of, guess what america, they re blocking you having 1 million there walking you having health care, they re blocking to be a little pill your bills. we must look closer and deeper at this, and anytime somebody attempts to our use that you save the world economy by cutting people off of food stamps, many of them are working, if you want people to be off to some zippy them amid living wage. cut loose and raise more money for war, that is a tremendous moral contradiction. we have to be careful, even in the compromise, what we re setting up people to argue in the future. sometimes what politicians want set a precedent and then when
republicans, and whenever it warrants, the president is always happy to pick this up. the guantanamo bay announcement today. senior officials, available for repatriation. a targeted timeline for that? is there a broader goal for closing guantanamo bay? secretary psaki: yes, our goal is to close guantanamo bay. i can tell you that i think you know some of us, but for others who are following it, 39 detainees who remain. 17 are eligible. ten are involved in the military process. and they have been convicted. this individual who we announce the transfer of, have been started moving through during the obama-biden administration and was on pause for some period of time over the last four years. i don t have a timeline for you.