yesterday afternoon, this man, the speaker, mike johnson, unveiled his plan to fund the government s, which involves a novel and untested approach called a laontiing resolution, or see our. under this plan, funding for some service agencies, such as military a veterans programs, and the department of transportation and urban development, among, others will be extended a current levels until the first ne, ich is january 19th. meanwhile, funding will be extended until february the 2nd, a couple weeks later, for the rest of the government, including the department of state, just, as health and, human services. it ll be a clean bill. no other provisions will be attached. meaning it will not include funding for ukraine, for israel, or border security. these are the three main sticking points with divisions in congress recently. it didn t take long for republicans to once again come out against their own parties proposal. just minutes after johnson announced the latter rcr, at leas
starts right now. nobody heard anything you said. i don t know why you bothered with that. coming up on the weekend, we ve got this, and pierogi is on the set. what s the story? who is pierogi? he is his dog. he came into visit. he was in the control room and he came into visit. he was in my shot first and then he was like, i m the one with the dog. i was like, give him the dog then. she did. all is forgiven. we are in a rush and sometimes you show up and you don t tell your friends you are there, but you run into them walking out of your hotel or something. that is kind of what has happened, right, because you guys are right there. all is forgiven. you guys have a good time. that was a fantastic show and ia look forward to seeing you tomorrow, because i have no idea what s on your show tomorrow. i was just looking at pierogi. pierogi, have a great time. kyle, thank you for having pierogi join us this morning and velshi starts now. good morning, it is saturd
seems at once a long time and a short time, but when you think of everything that happened since we had our first conversation, it really is remarkable. the way that government is using state power to mandate our ignorance. even as we see the effects of this playing out in our society every day. i left a lot of stuff out, including stuff that happened to you. you don t play, nor do you think you are a victim of this whole thing. in fact when we spoke a few months ago, i want to play back what you said to me about this. let s listen. no one is more surprised at what 1619 has become, symbolically, and what i have become symbolically. this was a work of journalism to me and i hoped people would read it, but i did not think it would spawn this backlash we have seen with all of these anti-critical race theory laws that began as 1619 project laws and have become this cultural
erosions of civil rights. it s not incidental that the same states that are introducing the anti-critical race theory, anti-1619 project laws are also introducing voter suppression laws. these things are going hand in hand. the textbook you were just reading from, this is part of the lost cause narrative. the lost cause narrative is what justifies jim crow. it is a narrative that really erases the cause of the civil war. it really tries to saying black people were not ready for self rule, that black people could not self govern. that then justifies the enactment of laws that denied black people the right to vote and denied black people their citizenship right. i m really concerned what these laws mean, outside of the fact that they re antithetical to the first amendment. that is going to lead to some very, very troublesome policies. we should really be concerned