insane last night. reduced to one word, that was my judicial opinion, about the texas abortion law, she was pretty, gray she departed from the unprecedented gentility language, and so i m really thankful for that. because she kind of spoke for those of us who are frustrated by the limits on language, in the way those guys speak. her first line is, the courts order is stunning. and the whole dissent is amazing. it s only three and a half pages, everybody should read, it but you notice when you get to the very end of, it she says, the court should not be so content to ignore a constitutional obligations not only the rate to women, but also the sanctity of its presidents in the rule of law period, i dissent period, justice kagan s dissent, will also give you blisters, but at the end of kagan s dissent, she says i respectively dissent. she s like no i just doesn t. yes, i would forget to use that word respectfully a lot. i would just, i would just oops, i forgot to say re
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
that we ve together a narrative of what led to the insurrection. democratic congressman, and january six committee member jamie raskin said, quote, it will really blow the roof off the house. the committee is setting the bar high for what people can expect to come out of these hearings. especially, as more bombshell to revelations continue to leak about the conduct of the key gop figures. in the past week, audio recordings and text messages between republican members of congress, members of the trump administration, and other conservative firebrands have exposed the extent of the right-wing coordination to deny joe biden the presidency. they have also exposed disunity and rancor within the republican party in the days after the insurrection. that was most apparent in the comments made by house minority leader, kevin mccarthy. this happened just days after trump supporters breached the capitol. listen to this. let me be very clear to all of you. i am very clear to the presid
decision by texas governor greg abbott to bus thousands of migrants to new york and washington, d.c.. and the controversial ruling in florida that has abortion rights activists furious over the decision to block a perilous 16-year-old girl from getting an abortion, if i think she isn t mature enough to handle up. state senator lauren joins me live. lawmakers are calling on social media companies to address the increased threats to law enforcement after the fbi search of mar-a-lago almost two weeks ago. house oversight committee leaders sent a letter to eight tech firms, instead meta, truth social, and gab, just to name a few, urging him to take immediate action to address the surge in violent online threats. now, it s unclear if those companies have responded to those letters, as of right now. it comes just as of yesterday a republican candidate seeking a house seat in florida, luis miguel, had his twitter account permanently suspended after he tweeted that all floridians w