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The Growing Power Of The Resistance

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

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

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ali speaks to Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) & State Rep. Justin Jones (D-TN)

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0:00.0

Good morning. It is Sunday, March the 8th.

0:09.3

Explosions were seen over Tehran overnight after President Trump warned of a ramping up of attacks.

0:14.1

And there's new reporting from Reuters that the committee inside Iran charged with selecting a supreme leader, has come to a consensus.

0:21.4

We're going to watch very closely for news of who they've selected.

0:25.2

We'll be monitoring the war closely this morning, and later in the show, we'll talk about

0:28.7

the high-stake standoff in Iran and around the Pentagon's use of artificial intelligence

0:33.7

in warfighting, which is spilling over into questions of mass surveillance of American citizens.

0:39.3

But we begin this hour back home with a power shift in America, a rising resistance that's

0:44.9

already beginning to wall off Donald Trump's power and hold over this country.

0:49.8

As public opinion has turned on the Trump administration, some Republicans have turned on it too.

0:54.7

The GOP's narrow majority in Congress means it doesn't take much to create something that starts to look a lot like an opposition party,

1:01.2

one that wields real power in the push to hold Trump's corrupt and lawless administration to a call.

1:06.9

We saw that power unleashed this past week against the Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noem,

1:11.5

and Democrats are not wasting time looking for their next targets.

1:15.0

The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who's lost the public's trust with her handling of the Epstein files,

1:19.8

is now facing the very real threat of impeachment.

1:22.9

And five Republicans recently joined Democrats on the Oversight Committee in voting to subpoena her to force

1:28.1

her testimony on her handling of the Epstein case. And the two congressmen who led the effort to

1:33.7

pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Democrat Roe Kana and Republican Thomas Massey,

1:38.8

have been threatening to hold Bondi in contempt of Congress, which would allow the House to punish her,

1:44.0

including potentially calling on the sergeant the House to punish her, including potentially

1:45.3

calling on the sergeant-at-arms to take her into custody. Kana has said that up to 20 Republicans

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