September 22nd, im Lisa Menendez with Michael Steele and symone sanders tounsened. Harris anticipates a Debate Round two but trump is running scared. Putting the courts Immunity Ruling under the microscope. And breaking overnight, new escalations between Israel And Hezbollah as iran says the region is on the brink of war. A lot to get to this sunday morning. Grab your coffee, settle en, and welcome to the weekend. Just 44 days until the Election And Donald trump is making up new excuses to avoid a second debate. Heres what he said after harris accepted a debate proposed for october 23rd. The problem with another debate is that it is just too late. Voting has already started. Now she wants to do a debate right before the election with cnn because she is losing badly. She has done one debate, i have done two. Its too late to do another. I would love to in many ways but it is too late, the voters are out there. Well, it was not too late for Donald Trump to debate in late october in 2016 a
Thats what we have all these prosecutions happening across the country. Jenna griswold, always great to see you. Thanks for being with, us thanks for the things you do to keep our elections actually safe. She is the Secretary Of State, for colorado. Coming up in our next hour, were gonna call to order a Special Edition of the Velshi Banned Book Club. Ominous discuss with two call scholars, one of americas most important most divisive documents, the constitution of the United States of america. Were gonna dig deeper into the section of that same constitution that legal experts say disqualifies donald trump from holding the office of the president ever again. Another hour of velshi begins right now. Right now. Good morning, its saturday, august 19th. Im ali velshi. In the span of just 12 months, the twice impeached President Donald Trump has been charged with a total of 91 felony count. Stemming from criminal cases against. Tim he remains firmly at the top of the field of the republican
florida. that was a classified documents case. a continuation of what we have become so used to in this case. trump appointed judge, eileen cannon entertaining wonky and far-fetched attempts i trump s legal team to dismiss the case. the afternoon focus on a motion brought by special counsel jack smith. the centered of one of the most dangerous lies donald trump has ever told you might recall back in may trump seized upon a righteous conspiracy theory percolating in far right circles , a theory based upon an extreme mischaracterization of the fbi search one warrant on mar-a- lago. he claimed that president biden and the fbi were, quote, locked and loaded to take me out during the 2022 search of mar-a- lago. he posted the biden authorized the fbi to use deadly lethal force. what truck tried to portray as an attempt on his life just a distortion of the standard language that companies every search for the false narrative was based entirely on this, the fbi s policy on the use
just some of the horrifying consequences for women all over the country, after the supreme court decision overturning roe two years ago today. plus, multiple hearings today on trump s purloined classified documents as trump s favorite judge entertains an absurd argument that special counsel jack smith was illegally appointed. and we begin tonight in the midst of a heat wave. amidst the sweltering heat that is shattering records worldwide. saudi arabia announced yesterday that at least 1300 people have died making the hodge, the islamic pilgrimage due to extreme heat. and 100 million people in the u.s., nearly a third of the country, spent much of last week under a heat advisory. these temperatures are not normal. they are the direct result of the climate crisis we re currently living in. and scientists have sounded the alarm. quote, these heat waves are the fingerprint of climate change, experts said, and are a glimpse of what s to come as human induced climate change c
The very speech hes got to give. Hes got to explain why we shut down the government. I think he has to offer up a plausible explanation for why we didt it and where hes going from here. We got the audience, the people know its shut down. This will be the night to do it. Interesting stuff. Well be watching your coverage. See you tonight. Welcome to this very special edition of the beat. Let me start like this, the state of the union odelayed. We all know that, we are three hours out. The later date came after Speaker Pelosi took away trumps prime time address. She will be standing behind him, invisible to the nation, a reminder, a divided government and democratic resurgence, democrats say theyre riding high after forcing trump to reopen the government without wall funding. They are touting the other big speech tonight. Democrats tapping Stacey Abrams for the high profile job of balancing the goals of countering a president , who we know lies more than any in history and providing an af