Today on Velshi, brand new reporting on a certain failed former president's proclivity for destroying documents,

just as the evidence tying him to multiple schemes to overthrow the election stacks up.

There's one person I can think of who might have firsthand knowledge in this arena.

The former Trump aide, Omarosa Managolf Newman, famously claimed in her tell-all

book to have seen Donald Trump chewing up a piece of paper as his former fixer Michael Cohen

left the Oval Office. Omarosa joins me later in the show. Plus, I'll be joined in just a few

minutes by a man who is currently suing a handful of Donald Trump's inner circle,

accusing them of running an intimidation and retaliation campaign against him

after he became a whistleblower and a key witness in Donald Trump's first impeachment.

Then we'll introduce you to one of the moms who organized together and fought back

against attempts to remove a book about racism from a

school reading list. Spoiler alert, the moms won. You'll want to hear how they did it and learn

how to push back against book banning in America. Velshi starts now.

The morning, it is Sunday, February 6th. I'm Ali Valsi. We've been calling him the insurrectionist

former president and the failed former president, both being accurate descriptions for the reality

TV host turned 45th president of the United States. And now we're learning that we can add

another moniker,

shredding former president. Let's just call him the shredder for the moment. That's not about

his guitar skills or his downhill skiing skills. This morning's Washington Post describes

the former president's obsession with shredding paper, including briefing, schedules,

articles, letters, memos, both sensitive and

mundane, all in violation of the Presidential Records Act. The Post adds that, quote,

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