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The Big Lie's Command Center

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

Ali Velshi, Government, News, Politics, News Commentary, Versant, Ms Now, Versant Media, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

New details on the ex-president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a potential breakthrough in the Democrats' dealmaking, and a powerful conversation about race in America

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0:00.0

Today on Velshi, inside the so-called command center where the failed former president's

0:06.2

inner circle gathered in the days after the election to plot to overturn the results.

0:12.2

Brand new bombshell reporting out from the Washington Post.

0:14.9

I'll be joined by one of the reporters who broke that story.

0:18.1

Meanwhile, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection

0:21.7

is moving forward as fast as ever. California Congressman Pete Aguilar is here in studio with me

0:27.6

to talk about what's happening and what's coming next. Plus, as Democrats reportedly near a deal

0:32.9

on the two big Biden agenda spending bills, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown joins me to talk about what's

0:38.6

getting cut and how progressives are getting Joe Manchin on board. Then I took a road to Jackson,

0:43.7

Mississippi this week to have a fascinating and important conversation about how we teach history

0:48.9

in this country and reckoning with the racism that's shot through it. A new Velshi across America coming up.

0:55.1

Velshi starts now.

1:02.4

And good morning to you.

1:03.9

It is Sunday, October the 24th.

1:05.8

I'm Ali Velshi.

1:06.6

We've got new developments as Democrats negotiate President Biden's ambitious,

1:12.3

multi-trillion-dollar build-back better social spending plan. Today, the president is set to meet with West Virginia

1:17.8

Senator Joe Manchin, who's been one of the main members of the party pushing to lower the

1:22.7

price tag on that bill. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will also be part of that meeting. And to lower the

1:28.7

price, Democrats will have to make some difficult choices about what stays in the bill and what goes.

1:34.6

The Detroit Free Press reporting that just yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in part,

1:39.3

quote, the ingredients for legislation will all be here by Sunday. Hopefully the decisions will be there,

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