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
as journalists, we have a duty to bear witness when our nation is in peril to shine a light on the dark path that donald trump and his enablers lead us down. that is the moment at which we find ourselves this morning. i ll admit to being a little surprised late last night that anything donald trump can say can surprise me anymore. but this is some nasty stuff. last night s speech was dangerous for the truths that donald trump told as it was for the lies. there were lies, but the truth is that we are dangerously close to donald trump rising to power again and finishing what he s started when he tried to overturn the results of the last presidential election, and take over the government in contravention of the will of the american people. and if you listen closely, to his 90-minute speech from last night, he was basically openly plotting how it was going to weaponize the government by cleaning house and firing anyone that his administration considers an enemy, or insufficientl
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This is the end of our time on tv today. this conversation with margaret how it is going to continue. and soon you are going to be able to access the extended conversation, exclusively on nbc s streaming network, peacock. stay tuned to our show s twitter account for the details. we are going to let you know as soon as the extended conversation, which i m about to have with marker that wood is available. just watch my twitter handle at ali velshi, and that velshi msnbc on twitter, for the details. until, then i m thrilled to announce the next featured book and the author for the velshi banned book club, white fragility by robbyn deangelo. pick up a new copy or re-read your own. send his comments, questions, and reactions to my story at velshi.com. one more exciting programming note. next weekend is the launch of msnbc s newest program simone, hosted by the one and only simone sanders. watch simone on saturday and sunday s 4 pm eastern, beginning next weekend right here on msnbc. that do