Today on Velsche, the biggest lie yet.

Donald Trump's Republican Party calls the insurrection legitimate political discourse.

In just a moment, I'll talk to the man who told us that January 6 would happen almost two years before it did.

Michael Cohen's got first-hand experience as Donald Trump's fall guy, and he warned us that his former boss would not go peacefully if he lost the election.

The twice-impeached ex-president's former fixer joins me next. Plus, huge job numbers beat everyone's expectations this week as the recovery continues.

But what is this booming economy doing for

black Americans? I'll talk to the vice president of the St. Louis Fenn and introducing the

Velshi Band Book Club. Nicole Hannah joins Jones joins me later in the show to inaugurate a brand new

series where you can help us fight the forces working to pull books off library shelves.

There will be an assignment, so take notes. Velshi starts now.

And good morning to you. It is Saturday, February the 5th. I'm Ali Velshi.

For most Americans, the attack on the

Capitol on January 6th of 2021 was one of the most shocking events in recent history.

Now, some would like you to believe it was a relatively spontaneous turn of events, except it wasn't.

What we've learned since then is that it was stoked by an active plot to deny

Joe Biden the presidency. Memos unearthed by the New York Times and the Washington Post this week

continue to shed like on the intricate, desperate, and months-long effort that preceded the events

of that day, and they link those efforts to Donald Trump himself.

According to the New York Times, quote, 15 days after Election Day in 2020, James R. Troopus,

a lawyer for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, received a memo setting out what became the rationale

for an audacious strategy to put in place alternate slates of electors in states

where President Donald J. Trump was trying to overturn his loss. But the November 18th memo

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