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0:00.0 | Today on Velsia, the story of a symbol of election deniers and capital rioters on display at the home of a Supreme Court justice keeps getting worse. |
0:13.0 | The disturbing new context being offered by the justice himself. |
0:17.0 | Plus, the new tactic being employed to target so-called real Republicans and convince them |
0:22.4 | that their party is not dead. |
0:25.0 | I have a lot of questions for two of the people behind the latest effort to salvage our two-party |
0:30.5 | system. |
0:31.3 | Then who's behind the group spending tens of millions of dollars in Democratic primaries to |
0:36.2 | try to oust the most progressive candidates. |
0:39.3 | Velshi starts now. |
0:44.7 | Good morning to you. It is Saturday, May 18th. We begin this morning with a stunning new |
0:53.1 | revelation that has revived concerns |
0:54.9 | about the ethical standards of one of America's most important institutions, the Supreme Court. |
1:00.6 | This week, the New York Times published a report that cast fresh doubt about the impartiality |
1:06.0 | of a second Supreme Court justice possibly linked to the politics of January the 6th. |
1:12.2 | The report was published as the country awaits a pair of decisions from the high court that could |
1:16.8 | have an impact on January 6th related prosecutions, including the federal election interference |
1:22.6 | case against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. |
1:27.8 | Now, central to the New York Times reporting is a photograph, this photograph, of an upside-down |
1:33.5 | American flag on a residential property owned by the Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. |
1:40.6 | Now, historically, flying the flag upside-down has been known as a signal of distress. Sailors at sea |
1:47.5 | understood this sign as an emergency. It's since been co-opted as a political symbol for a variety of |
1:52.8 | causes and protest movements, a symbol to indicate deep disapproval of a particular issue or a politician. |
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