We even saw that famous trump baby blimp in the sky. The visit included normal president ial duties, you know, like taking his entire family, including his four adult children, their spouses, and even treasury secretary steve mnuchin. And a trump trip wouldnt be complete without a handful of twitter attacks. One target, london mayor sadiq khan, duchess Meghan Markle, and actress bette midler. Go figure. Back in washington, Speaker Pelosi is still refusing to let the house to begin impeachment proceedings even though theyre calling for it. While shes holding out, pelosi told senior democrats privately that she simply wants to see trump behind bars. So democrats plan to kick start investigations next week, reinvigorate inquiries and set up hearings and schedule contempt votes. More on that later in the show. But lets start with the president embarrassing all of us with his trip overseas. Joining me now, danielle moodiemills, host of woke af on serioirius xm radio and know nick purr. He t
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Club arthur s, george m. johnson, and ashley ho perez, are among at least 160 titles about race and lgbtq identity that have been challenged or removed from library shelves. but this week, johnson and perez, along with other authors and parents, the free speech errors and the publisher pen would random house. filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the bush bans on the grounds of violating the first amendment. i ll talk to both authors about being banned, fighting back, and reading as resistance. that s 10 am tomorrow morning. i hope you ll join us. the 11th hour with my friend stephanie ruhle begins right now. y friend stephanie ruhle begi tonight,k ticking, white house negotiators leave the capitol after more talks on the debt ceiling. we are breaking that down, and shaking things up with a friday night cap. as well as their mvp picks of the week. then, montana, now the first state to ban tiktok. but how exactly can it be
If we don t, if ukraine falls, i think you can expect more of the same from other leaders. we have demonstrated that we are not serious enough about standing our ground. that business about expecting more from other leaders is important. autocracy around the world is not shrinking. ambassador, always a treat to see, thank you so much, marie yovanovitch form united states ambassador to ukraine during trump and obama administrations. the velshi banned book club s motorway, we re talking a two familiar faces, one of our first ever authors in the club, george m. johnson the author of all boys aren t blue. and ashley ho perez, the author of out of darkness. johnson and perez s book have been challenged again and again across the nation. they, along with p.e.n. america and penguin random house, took matters into their own hands, and filed federal lawsuit against the school district in florida. the last time perez was on, velshi banned book club, back in july of last year, i asked her about
You characterized our works, one of the things that we re trying to draw attention to, over and over, even as our books deal with these incredibly painful issues, they are bridges to hope and redemption as well. for our characters, for our lives that we portray, but also, for readers. i think that one of the things that these folks in florida want to stop, is young people seeing queer lives, black lives, non dominant lives as possible. and we are here to make sure that kids do see those lives as possible. i would have thought that you were writing would ve done the job, your both very popular on the circuit. you ve been interviewed by a lot of people, it s a lot of bragging rights for me. george, when people say, oh, i just saw this book, by ashley hope perez or george m. johnson, every talk to them, it s good. tell me, now, how this came to be. you georgia, long with several