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Hostile Witnesses

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

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

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

How Democrats (and Liz Cheney) are going to investigate the attack on the Capitol while most House Republicans are acting like hostile witnesses, the woman who provided boxes full of documents to prosecutors weighs in on the Trump Org indictments, and Donald Trump himself probably did not consult a lawyer before he decided to speak out about his company's legal trouble

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0:00.0

Today on Velshi, they're tasked with investigating the insurrection that could have killed them on January 6th, but almost half their colleagues are starting to look like hostile witnesses.

0:11.2

The brand new chair of the House Select Committee to investigate the attack on the Capitol joins me this morning.

0:16.6

Plus, we're keeping a close eye on the site of that tragic apartment building collapse in Florida,

0:21.7

where officials are rushing to demolish the rest of the building before high winds from Tropical Storm Elsa

0:27.3

threatened to topple what remains of the partially collapsed condo.

0:31.5

The mayor says the demolition will happen as soon as possible.

0:34.7

That could be today.

0:36.0

Then she met with prosecutors investigating the Trump organization

0:39.6

and turned over boxfuls of financial documents

0:42.8

before watching her former father-in-law marched into court in handcuffs.

0:47.1

Jennifer Weisselberg joins me in just a few minutes.

0:50.1

And Donald Trump addressed the charges against him and his company, CFO Alan Weisselberg,

0:55.5

for the first time in detail last night. And let's just say, his remarks do not appear to have

1:00.9

been vetted by a lawyer. Velshi starts now.

1:09.7

Good morning to you. It is Sunday, July 4th. Happy Independence Day. I'm Ali Velshi. There is a lot you should know before you start your holiday.

1:17.0

And we begin with a bizarre yet scary situation which unfolded over the course of several tense hours in Massachusetts,

1:25.0

partially closing sections of I-95 during the heavy holiday rush.

1:29.4

State police say that early yesterday morning, a state trooper stopped to check on two trucks

1:34.4

that were stopped in the emergency breakdown lane on I-95 about 15 miles north of Boston.

1:40.6

Turned out, the trucks were heavily, they were filled with 11 heavily armed men clad in military tactical gear who told the officer they were on their way from Rhode Island to Maine for, quote, training.

1:53.3

The officer called for backup. Two of the men were taken into custody. Some fled into the nearby woods and the rest took refuge in their truck. Eventually, negotiators were able to get them all to turn themselves in.

2:05.3

During the standoff, thousands of residents were forced to shelter in place.

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