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MS NOW, Ali Velshi

News, Ms Now, News Commentary, Ali Velshi, Versant, Politics, Versant Media, Government, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Texas Republicans work through the holiday weekend to pass a legislative assault on democracy, a conservative calls out the cancel culture of Donald Trump’s Republican Party, a Republican governor has a million dollar idea to promote vaccinations, and more

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on Velshi, breaking news out of Florida this morning where police are searching for three gunmen after a mass shooting overnight.

0:08.3

Then we're going to touch down in Texas where Republicans are working overtime this holiday weekend to push through a legislative assault on voting rights in time for Memorial Day.

0:17.1

Plus, what's next now that Republicans have blocked a commission to investigate the January 6th insurrection?

0:23.2

I'll talk to the retired Army lieutenant general whose review of capital security after the riot

0:27.8

called the situation unsustainable and called for hundreds more officers to be brought in.

0:33.4

Then I'll talk to one Republican governor whose million-dollar idea has his state's vaccination

0:38.0

rate soaring and a meditation on so-called cancel culture with a conservative who says

0:44.0

he is literally being canceled for insufficient loyalty to Donald Trump.

0:48.9

Valshi starts now.

1:01.1

Good morning. It is Sunday, May the 30th. I'm Ali Velshi, and we begin this Memorial Day Sunday with horrific breaking news out of Miami-Dade County, Florida, where there has been

1:06.4

a second mass shooting in as many days. At least two people are dead. More than 20 are wounded

1:12.2

after three gunmen opened fire indiscriminately into a crowd after around midnight after a venue

1:19.3

hosting an event. The Miami Herald reports that the suspects were armed with assault rifles and

1:24.1

handguns. They escaped the, and they remain at large.

1:28.0

In addition to Saturday's other mass shooting in Florida, this latest act of gun violence

1:32.3

comes just days after last week's mass shooting in San Jose, California.

1:36.9

And in fact, as you can see, the White House's flag is still at half-mast in honor of those

1:42.7

victims.

1:43.6

Let's get right to NBC news correspondent,

1:45.6

Sam Brock, who is in Miami. Sam, what more to me know? Coast to coast, tragedy upon tragedy

1:53.0

this morning, Allie. Good morning. I'm fortunate to be with you under these circumstances.

1:57.4

Let me describe to you how the director of Miami-Dade Police is characterizing what happened.

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