Today on Velschie, it's a bad sign when your lawyers need lawyers, it's a worse sign when your lawyers plead guilty to a crime in which you are a co-defendant and agree to cooperate with the prosecutors who've charged you in a sprawling racketeering case.

We'll talk about how Donald Trump just moved one step closer to being held accountable for trying to overturn an election.

Plus, we are covering the war between Israel and Hamas from all fronts.

Our reporters are on the ground in Israel and Lebanon this morning to get the very latest on the state of war and the danger of the conflict expanding.

And we'll tell you about the growing humanitarian disaster resulting from

Israel's bombardment of Gaza. But I'll also talk about a way forward and out of this

decade's long conflict with Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian politician who's been at the negotiating

table for peace before and with former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes about the

role America can and should play in trying to revive a just and enduring peace between Israelis

and Palestinians. Then I'm going to pull back the curtain and talk about how we cover this war,

including the complicated and difficult work of verifying images and facts

from the front lines. But we begin this hour here in the nation's capital, with America's

role in the world amid a growing leadership crisis in our own house, a house that Donald Trump built.

Valshi starts now.

Music that Donald Trump built. Velshi starts now. Good morning to you. It is Saturday, October the 21st. I'm Ali Valshi. Today marks two weeks since Hamas executed the most deadly single-day

attack on Israel in the nation's history, setting off a brutal and deadly war, and in a matter seemingly unrelated, but critical to how that resulting war in the Middle East may end.

It's been 18 days since the United States House of Representatives has had a properly elected speaker.

Thursday night, fresh from his trip to Israel,

President Biden addressed the nation,

speaking passionately about those suffering in the wars in Ukraine,

in Israel, and Gaza.

He spoke of America's place in the world,

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