people who are rescuing animals from dangerously high waters. and eons disastrous aftermath. plus the supreme court s new term begins tomorrow with the new justice on the bench. some say that one of the cases on the docket could be the biggest threat to democracy since the january 6th insurrection. i ll go in-depth with the journalist who s been sounding the alarm about this case for months. later, we ve heard so many stories about election workers facing violent threats and false claims, would you believe, that actually inspired people to sign up to work holds? i ll speak live to someone who made that exact choice. good sunday morning to all of you. i m katie fang. we begin this hour right here in florida, where rescuers continue to search for survivors in the wake of hurricane ian. the death toll is tragically growing to 73 s search teams reach more areas of the community initially cut off, including in pine islands where our amazon news team got a closer look at the devast
and a special sunday edition of the velshi banned book club brings us a beautiful, lyrical story of love and identity, a novel about mexican born texas raised gay teens that we ll feel universal when you read it. my conversation with the author, who will discover the secrets of the universe, it s one that you will not want to miss. velshi starts next. good morning to you, i am ali velshi, sunday, october 2nd. we have reached a new phase in the ever winding investigation into the insurrection of the u.s. capitol. tomorrow, marks the high profile trial seven from the january six so far. it s a rare case in u.s. history, or something called seditious conspiracy is charged, meaning the defendants are not discharged violent crimes but an effect on our country. opening arguments in the seditious conspiracy trial, this man, you oath keepers founder, stewart rhodes and four other individuals with the far-right booker said to begin tomorrow, hundreds of alleged interactions are bein
get people there as you make the plan. the question from house republicans asked and answered. but wait a second. i m so confused. yeah. you know, i m just a dumb country lawyer, michael steele, but they asked the question. they sure did. after steve scalise had known the answer. he was there. so he said that s a great question, why won t they answer whether nancy pelosi called the national this is so terrible and they won t answer. he was in the room. he was in the room where it happened. the room where it happened. i mean, come on. so low. willie, just bad faith. outrageous that steve scalise is going, are we going to get out of this alive or not, and scalise is in there. and then scalise holds a press conference and this committee is we can t be on this committee because, you know, they won t even ask the question did nancy ever call the national guard. scalise was there when she was saying, hey, pretend like this was the pentagon. pretend like
everyone else. this was a plot against american democracy and hearing by hearing, the january 6th committee has shown that donald trump was the architect. it goes further. not only did this start last summer, we know convincingly. what was he after on the 6th of january, we saw it in film, heard it in testimony. it leads you to assume that what donald trump wanted on the 6th of january was violence. that s why the national guard didn t come. that s why schumer and pelosi were forced to get on the telephone and plead with the governors of virginia and maryland for god sake to send their national guard from other jurisdictions, and what was trump after? he was not only after trying to win the election. i think he wanted violence so he would have the pretext to declare martial law. you know, the number of times we have all heard him at these large rallies saying i ve got
watching the katie phang show. i will be back next saturday and sunday on 7 am eastern, right here on msnbc. you can also catch new, original episodes of the katie phang show on the msnbc hub on peacock on thursdays and fridays. velshi is coming up next. s coming up next today on velshi, the justice department is about to make its strongest case yet that the january 6th insurrection was not a random explosion of the violent protests, but a carefully crafted plot against american democracy. plus, the january six committee is not done presenting evidence of donald j trump s central role in that plot. congressman member jamie raskin joins me in the news to talk about what is next, and then vladimir putin just lost control of the key ukrainian city in a region that he literally claimed as russian territory just one day ago.