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The Fight Continues

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

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

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Red flags ahead of the Capitol riot, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine unpaused, and what comes after the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict in the fight for justice in America

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today, on Velshi, new questions about what's being called a massive and historic intelligence

0:07.6

failure ahead of the Capitol riot, why so many red flags were missed beforehand, and why

0:13.2

mountains of evidence still aren't being used by prosecutors.

0:16.6

Plus, he was there with George Floyd's family to breathe in the relief of the guilty

0:20.7

verdict,

0:21.3

and then two days later, he grieved with another family mourning the loss of another black man killed by police.

0:27.9

The Reverend Al Sharpton will join me shortly, and I'll talk to two women who've been touched by our racist policing and justice system

0:35.1

about what the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict means to them.

0:38.3

Deborah Watts, whose 14-year-old cousin Emmett Till, was lynched in 1955,

0:43.5

and Samaria Rice, whose 12-year-old son, Tamir, was killed by police in 2014.

0:48.9

We'll join me later in the show.

0:50.7

Velshi starts now.

1:03.5

Good morning. It is Saturday, April the 24th. I'm Ali Velshi. We begin with some breaking news in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Following a new safety review, the FDA and

1:08.9

the CDC have lifted the recommended pause on the emergency

1:12.7

use authorization for Johnson and Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, meaning that vaccinations

1:17.9

with the one-shot viral vector vaccine can resume. A week and a half ago, the agencies

1:23.4

halted the use of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine after six women developed a rare blood clotting.

1:29.1

However, these cases are extremely rare occurrences, and an independent advisory committee says the

1:34.4

vaccine is safe, and the benefits far outweigh the risks. When the news about ending the vaccine

1:39.8

pause broke, chief medical advisor to President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was being interviewed by my

1:45.2

colleague Alicia Menendez for a special edition of American Voices airing tomorrow here on MSNBC.

1:51.7

Here's how Fauci reacted.

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