Today on Velshi, Texans are rising up this weekend in protest against Republican efforts

to make Texas one of the hardest states to cast a ballot.

And the news out of the bizarre and dangerous partisan recount in Arizona gets even stranger

why the Maricopa County Sheriff is now weighing in.

Plus, my interview with legendary

author Michael Lewis on his astounding new book about the underground network of experts who

were sounding the alarms last year as the Trump administration was telling us everything was

fine in the face of COVID. You have not heard these stories before and you won't want to miss

them. And as the Republican Civil War breaks open, conservatives on one side of the fight are hinting that they are open, they're about to open a new battlefront next week.

And then, imagine the worst thing you could try to do to tackle lower than expected jobs numbers.

Stay tuned to find out what Republican governors are doing, and then let's

mail them all some common sense. Velshi starts now.

Good morning. It is Sunday, May 9th. Happy Mother's Day. I'm Ali Velshi, and as we begin the show this

morning with a sentence that has never before been uttered in human history, but it's nonetheless

a bit of real news relating to the anti-democratic effort to overturn last year's election results.

The foam pillow guy is holding a frank rally tomorrow at the Corn Palace. Yes, Mike Lindell, famed for

pillows and for advising the insurrectionist former president to invoke martial law and overturn

the results of the election. That guy is holding a rally in support of Frank, who is not a person

or a hot dog, as I was hoping it might be, but is instead an

online platform that Lindell created to push his many ridiculous conspiratorial beliefs, which

include but are not limited to, the election being stolen, and COVID-19 vaccines being a, quote,

depopulation bioweapon.

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