The Coup That Could Have Been
Velshi
MS NOW, Ali Velshi
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Velshi, unmasking, the Trump insurrection is still happening day by day. |
| 0:05.6 | Every day, new details that fill in an increasingly alarming picture of how imperiled American democracy was and still is. |
| 0:13.7 | The very latest on the mounting evidence against the former president and his cronies and a roadmap for prosecuting the most impeached president in U.S. history |
| 0:22.5 | from some of our nation's top legal minds. |
| 0:24.8 | And we're just hours away from the start of the next big battle for voting rights as the Texas |
| 0:29.4 | governor orders the legislature back in session today for the sole purpose of pushing |
| 0:34.7 | through a voter suppression package that Democrats have fled the state |
| 0:38.4 | twice to block. We'll talk to one of those Democrats next. Then, with a rash of Republican |
| 0:43.2 | governors making what can fairly be described as pro-COVID policies, we'll talk to one local |
| 0:48.5 | official who's fighting against her own state government to try to keep her fellow citizens |
| 0:52.8 | alive. Plus, the star witness and the failed former president's first impeachment joins me later in the show, |
| 0:58.5 | a man who risked everything and lost much to blow the whistle on a corrupt president trying |
| 1:04.5 | to leverage the power of the U.S. government for his own political gain. |
| 1:09.1 | Valshi starts now. |
| 1:11.6 | Thank you. for his own political gain. Velshi starts now. |
| 1:21.6 | Good morning. It's Saturday, August the 7th. I'm Ali Velshi. The ex-president has been out of office for 200 days as of today. We're learning more and more about the coup that could have been. |
| 1:26.6 | New information now |
| 1:28.0 | revealing just how hard he fought to subvert the will of the people and overturn the 2020 |
| 1:33.5 | election results. According to materials reported by ABC and not yet verified by MSNBC or NBC News, |
| 1:41.0 | Jeffrey Clark, who was the acting head of the Justice Department Civil Division at the time, |
| 1:45.9 | wrote emails that essentially would have laid out a roadmap for Georgia Republicans to overturn |
| 1:51.5 | the will of the state's voters. Clark's message intended to tell Georgia election officials |
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