Today on Velshi, thought you could no longer be shocked by allegations of misconduct against our failed former president?

An enterprising reporter rises to that challenge and joins me next with the damning new revelations that she has unearthed.

Plus, with alarming new data showing that the delta variant might spread just as easily from fully vaccinated people

as it does among the unvaccinated. The life or death fight against COVID-19 just entered

a new phase in America. The hardest part might not be the science itself, but convincing

Americans to believe in the science after the damage done by the Trump administration and the

continuing barrage of disinformation coming from conservative quarters.

Then, inspired by the landmark March on Selma of 1965, a group of church leaders and

Democrats will walk the final mile of their voting rights march across Texas this morning.

We'll take you there live for the very latest from Texas and from Washington, D.C.,

to which Texas Democrats have fled in order to stall a Republican voter suppression bill

and to plead for federal intervention.

And there is a high bar for getting the U.S. Senate to work on a Saturday,

but that's what's happening today. The Senate will be in session waiting for the final

bipartisan infrastructure bill and will be there for it. Velshi starts now.

Good morning. It's Saturday, July the 31st. I'm Ali Valshi. We begin this morning with a number of

stunning new revelations about the twice-impeached ex-president. Apparently, his efforts to overturn

the election results of 2020 were even greater than we knew. Just 11 days before a violent mob of

his mage-added supporters would

attack our nation's capital, the ex-president appears to have attempted a coup of his very own.

In brand new reporting from the New York Times, notes from top DOJ officials reveal that the

former president pressed the Justice Department, the Attorney General himself, to declare the election

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