republican party. then, i will be joined by legendary author of a darkly dystopian and eerily oppression to book, that is as relevant today as it was when it was first published in 1985. the one and only, margaret atwood. two will join me for this week s meeting of the velshi banned book club, to discuss her frequently banned blockbuster book, the handmaids tail. velshi starts and now. good morning to you. i am ali velshi. it is, sunday may the. first it is day 67 of russia s unprovoked invasion of ukraine. we begin this morning with breaking news. because just hours, ago the house speaker nancy pelosi led a small delegation, a congressional delegation, on a trip to kyiv. she met ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. she spent about three hours on the ground in the capital. pelosi is now the highest ranking u.s. official to visit to kyiv. since the start of the war in february. this comes about a week after the defense secretary lloyd austin, as the secretary of state anth
marjorie taylor greene s. that is explain exchanged at least 80 to text with sean hannity, many of which involved coordinating messages on election day. even jimmy thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, has been exposed in this batch of new text messages. in multiple text messages thomas raised the issue with meadows of various efforts of conspiracy theories that involved overturning the results of the election. and these are only the text messages that meadows willingly provided to the committee last year, before he stopped cooperating. and is still locked in a legal battle with the january six committee, by the way. in a court filing this just yesterday, meadows lawyers a cool used to the january six committee of leaking the text messages, to quote, vilified him publicly. it is against his attempts to compel him against this investigation. there is a good chance that the communications between trump allies may become key exhibits of the january six commi
Atwood who penned the handmaids tail. another hour velshi begins, right now. handmaid tail another hour good morning, it is sunday may the. first i am ali velshi. mark meadows text messages are a preview of things to come. a lot of people are going to have a lot of explaining to do. the 2319 text messages that meadows has turned over to the january six committee or at least to cnn earlier this week. and offered a candid insight into the coordination between various right-wing figures in their desperate efforts to keep donald trump in power in the weeks after the 2020 election. it has revealed donald trump s chief of staff directly involved in working to overturn the election, as well as a sprawling web of other people who were directly in touch with the white house, as the insurrection was underway. there are text messages from republican congress members like ted cruz jim jordan,