Today on Velshi, a key Russian supply route and a potent symbol of Vladimir Putin's

illegal land grabbing up in flames tonight. Plus, several polite requests, a subpoena and an FBI

raid may still not have been enough to get back all the documents of Donald Trump improperly

removed from

the White House, why the Justice Department thinks he still has his hands on documents that do

not belong to him and that he shouldn't have. All of this as several extremists charged with

planning and leading the capital insurrection stand trial for seditious conspiracy, all claiming they were simply awaiting

orders from Donald Trump. And she was once Republican royalty. But now this woman, Congressman

Liz Cheney, says she is prepared to break a 40-year Republican voting streak to keep election-denying

big lying members of her own party out of power.

What's behind Cheney's choice to take such a lonely road and who's backing her on that journey?

Then you're not going to believe this week's selection for the Valshi Band Book Club has ever even

been banned. Girls Who Code is a series written for middle schoolers. It's kind of a babysitters

club, but with computer science instead of babysitting. There's not a single thing that is remotely

controversial about these books, but the book banners came for them. We'll talk about why the book

banners are threatened by girls getting into science and more.

Velshi begins now.

And good morning to you. I'm Ali Valshi. It is Saturday, October the 8th. It is day 227 of Russia's war in Ukraine.

We begin today 4, 4,450 miles away from Kiev. That's the Ukrainian

capital, which Vladimir Putin thought his army could capture in three days. Let's start in a tiny

village of Gamble. It's in America. It's on the northwestern tip of the St. Lawrence Island in Alaska. It is very

far from the fighting in Ukraine. Gamble's actually only about 40 miles by sea from Russia's

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