Today on Velshi, the trial of Derek Chauvin, is set to enter week number three.

We've all heard of that blue wall of silence, but after a number of police have testified against Chauvin, could that wall be crumbling?

The Texas legislature is hopping on the crowded voter suppression bandwagon with its latest bill headed to the governor's desk.

Officials swear the bill is colorblind, but critics say it is Jim Crow in a tuxedo.

And 140 national security leaders signed a letter demanding a 9-11-style commission to review

and investigate the Capitol riot on January 6th.

One of the signatories, a former Trump administration

official, joins me live. And NASA, about to make history on Mars. The helicopter, ingenuity,

is expected to make the first ever controlled flight on another planet this week. I am ready to geek out.

I hope you are, too. Velshi starts now.

Thank you. I am ready to geek out. I hope you are too. Velshi starts now. Good morning. It is Sunday, April the 11th. I'm Ali Velshi. We have a big plate of news to serve up to you this morning, including the latest on President Biden's goal to get gun violence

under control, a live look from Guatemala as to why so many migrants are trying desperately

to get to the United States. Something really cool NASA is doing on Mars today and the nation's

most anti-transgender legislation, which is set to go into effect against the wishes of one

state's Republican governor. We're also learning new details regarding the January 6th insurrection.

According to a previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use

that was obtained by the Associated Press and vetted by current and former government officials,

as the insurrectionist former president failed to do anything about the attack on the Capitol,

in fact, cheered it on in social media.

Former Vice President Pence, who was hiding in a secure room at the Capitol from the pro-Trump extremists

who wanted to hang him, urgently and desperately demanded that the acting

defense secretary, acting because the country didn't have a confirmed one at the time, to

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