Analyst, and lethal reuben, former litigator and msnbc legal analyst. up next, the former president is portraying himself as a martyr, employing a political strategy used throughout this history, and it is hardening his support from his base. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning to you saturday, august 7th, i will begin this hour with a fast-moving case against the former choice and peace, quadrupling in died, it insurrectionist president. and 18 others in fulton county, georgia. after holding elected office for just one term, donald trump has been impeached twice. he has been indicted four times and for district or sections. he faces 91 felony counts, including being accused of heading up a criminal enterprise. his mugshot is a visual representation of how trump has corrupting american politics for the last eight years. how often he d disregard of the norms, tested the rule of law, and push democracy to the brink
I m breaking my cell phone out because of all the incidents we ve been seeing, just like this one. too much booze, passengers restrained by tape. what is happening in the air? we re going to speak to the head of the flight attendants association coming up. we do say good morning, everybody, it is saturday, august 7th. i m kendis gibson. i m lindsey reiser, have you felt that way when you ve been flying? i m probably the person they re about to tape and restrain on most flights. so you re the person they cut off at the airport. exactly. this kendis guy. things have gotten so wild the faa is now stepping in, and actually just kind of desperately asking for airports to step in, we re going to dive into all of that. and monitor people, right, flight attendants have been taking self-defense classes. we re going to dive into that
Protect their kids education. i protect jobs by not letting the federal government lock us down. regarding the insurrection, preparing to send out subpoenas any day now, this as another republican joins. we can t worry whether we have an r or d next to our name. it s time to look at it in a fact-based way on what happened january 6th. u.s. men s basketball winning their fourth straight gold. we ll also talk to an olympian trail blazer, who s helped pave the way for big changes. and for only a second time in its history, the peace corps is being mobilized for a mission right here in the united states. good morning, everybody. it s saturday, august 7th. i m lindsey reiser.
Governor orders the legislature back in session today for the sole purpose of pushing through a voter suppression package that democrats have fled the state twice to block. we ll talk to one of those democrats next. then with a rash of republican governors making what could fairly be described as pro-covid policies, we ll talk to one state official fighting against her own state government to try keep her fellow citizens alive. plus the star witness in the president s first failed impeachment, a man who risked everything and lost much, trying to blow the whistle on the president who was trying to corrupt the government for his own political gain. velshi starts now. good morning. it s saturday august 7th. i m ali velshi. the ex-president has been out of office for 200 days as of today. we re learning more and more about the coup that could have
We re so happy to say welcome to your new day here and to have your company. it is saturday, august 7th. i m christi paul. i m boris sanchez. thank you for spending part of your morning with us. christi, always a pleasure to be with you. you, too, boris. we want to talk about the health officials who say the u.s. is at a crucial moment. hospitals overrun with unvaccinated patients and the delta variant is spreading. the country has tools to get the virus under control. that s the most tragic aspect of all of this. it is preventible. yet for the first time since february the united states is averaging more than 100,000 new infections a day and deaths are also on the rise. the virus spreading quickly through unvaccinated communities and as we look at this map, you can see all the red in the southeast where vaccination rates lag behind the rest of the