Democracy at Stake
Velshi
MS NOW, Ali Velshi
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Velsi with a slate of draconian new voting restrictions taking effect in key states |
| 0:08.5 | and dozens of Trump endorsed election deniers running for office this year, the insurrection |
| 0:14.1 | is coming to a ballot near you and democracy itself is at stake. |
| 0:17.5 | I've got an incredible slate of guests who will take us into every part of this |
| 0:21.5 | crucial battle this morning. Democratic Whip Congressman Jim Clyburn, the Reverend Dr. William |
| 0:26.6 | Barber, and two state attorneys general who are ringing the alarm bells and drawing up plans |
| 0:31.6 | for how to rescue our fragile democracy, Michigan's Dana Nessel, and Pennsylvania's Josh Shapiro. |
| 0:37.2 | Plus, news has been coming fast and furious this week from the multi-front January 6th investigations. |
| 0:43.3 | We'll have the latest from seditious conspiracy charges to why Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy |
| 0:48.2 | might regret his many changes of heart on the riot and who's to blame for it. |
| 0:52.6 | And the very same Trump-stacked Supreme Court |
| 0:56.1 | that's on the cusp of allowing states to oversee forced pregnancy and childbirth has just ruled |
| 1:01.8 | that it's not okay for the government to force employees of large companies to get vaccinated |
| 1:06.9 | or tested before coming to work, what the latest ruling means and why so many big businesses |
| 1:11.7 | actually liked the regulation. |
| 1:14.4 | Then a debate on how to talk to dangerous conspiracy theorists when democracy itself is at stake. |
| 1:20.3 | I'll be joined by two of the best debaters I know to grapple with how or even whether |
| 1:25.4 | we should be engaging with the growing class of post-Trump |
| 1:28.4 | figures known to peddle dangerous lies, but who also walk the corridors of power and hold sway |
| 1:34.7 | over millions of American voters. Velshi starts now. Good morning. It is Saturday, January the 15th. I'm Ali Velshi. Democracy is at stake, |
| 1:51.2 | as President Biden and the Democrats make another big push for voting rights legislation ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 1:57.8 | Day on Monday. And despite ramping up their messaging to emphasize the need |
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