The Boycott Begins
Velshi
MS NOW, Ali Velshi
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Velshi, voter suppression is going to cost the state of Georgia. |
| 0:06.0 | Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is here to talk about Major League Baseball's decision to pull the All-Star game out of her city over the new anti-voter |
| 0:15.0 | laws passed by Georgia Republicans. |
| 0:17.0 | Plus, another attack at the Capitol, retired Lieutenant General Russell Honoré, |
| 0:21.5 | who was charged with reviewing Capitol securities here to talk about what happened and what |
| 0:25.7 | needs to happen to keep the Capitol safe. He warned his fans that they'd get so tired of winning |
| 0:31.2 | with the heat turning up under literally dozens of lawsuits and investigations. Maybe the former |
| 0:36.0 | president himself is just tired of winning. |
| 0:38.8 | And as jobs numbers blow past expectations and President Biden rolls out a $2 trillion infrastructure bill, |
| 0:46.6 | the Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh, here to talk recovery. |
| 0:50.1 | Velshi starts now. Good morning. It is Saturday, April 3rd. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Ali Velshi, a blockbuster move by Major League Baseball during its opening week in protest of a new Georgia law aimed at making it hard for some of its citizens to vote. |
| 1:10.0 | A law, critics critics argue is racist |
| 1:12.4 | aimed squarely at minority voters and designed to make sure Democrats can't win stateside |
| 1:17.5 | contests again. In response, the MLB has just announced it's moving the 2021 All-Star Game |
| 1:24.4 | and 2021 draft out of Atlanta to a still yet to be determined location. |
| 1:30.1 | The announcement comes just two days after President Biden weighed in on the draconian new law |
| 1:34.7 | and suggested he would support a boycott over it. |
| 1:38.8 | It's just not right. |
| 1:40.6 | This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they're doing in Georgia and 40 other states. |
| 1:46.2 | What it's all about? Imagine passing the law saying you cannot provide water or food for someone standing in the line to vote. |
| 1:56.0 | Can't do that? Come on. Or you're going to close a polling place at five o'clock when working people just get off? |
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