Good morning. Today on Velsche, not guilty on all charges, a headline that stung but was not

unexpected. What the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict means for a country already awash with armed white

men who see fit to deputize themselves as amateur police. Plus, she's pitching herself as Donald

Trump in heels and says she's using Glenn Yonkin's winning playbook to oust a moderate Democrat from Congress, what to expect from the next wave of Republicans.

And President Biden's signature spending plan is painfully close to the finish line at a time when he could really use a win.

What's it going to take to make it happen?

And then deniers of history take note.

The groundbreaking 1619 project is now a best-selling book. Nicole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the MacArthur Genius,

who created it, joins me to talk about resetering American history and becoming a human flashpoint

in the process. Belelshi starts now. Good morning. It is

Saturday, November the 20th. I'm Ali Velshi. Police in Portland, Oregon declared a riot overnight

when a crowd gathered outside the Justice Center to protest Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal

and protests also broke out in Brooklyn outside of Barclay Center and, of course, outside of the

courthouse in Kenosha. The nation is bracing for more potential unrest. After hours of

deliberation over the course of nearly four days, a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all five

charges that he faced for fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during anti-racism

protests in Wisconsin last year. The parents of Anthony Huber, one of the men killed by Rittenhouse,

released a statement reading in part, quote, today's verdict means there is no accountability for the person who murdered our son.

It sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town,

incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.

Justin Blake, the uncle of Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed after Kenosha.

Police shot him in the back several times, igniting a wave of protests against police brutality,

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