Today on Velsch, as new indictment decisions loom for the already twice-indicted, twice-impeached ex-president,

Donald Trump's legal team is hard at work.

We'll have the latest on Team Trump's tactics and what they mean for the 2024 presidential race.

Plus, you'll be surprised to learn who is benefiting most from President Biden's economic agenda and the anatomy

of a conspiracy theory. If you haven't been watching much right-wing media, you probably don't

know why Republicans seem so preoccupied with questions about the FBI and the January 6th

insurrection this week. We'll decode it all ahead.

Then it is a cultural touchstone, a remarkable award-winning debut novel

and the target of book banners.

Angie Thomas joins me later in the show

to talk about her crucial work, The Hate You Give.

Velshi starts now.

Good morning. It's Saturday, July the 15th. I'm Ali Velshi. The future does not look so

bright for Donald Trump. At the moment, he's facing a total of 71 felony counts,

stemming from a number of criminal charges related to the two cases for which he's so far been

indicted. The Manhattan District Attorney's hush money payments probe and the special counsel

Jack Smith's federal case involving the mishandling of classified documents. Trump and his team

have noticeably been struggling to find a defense in the latter case.

At times, they've offered contradictory excuses to explain why it was that Trump illegally retained

government records and seemingly obstructed federal authorities from retrieving those records

for many months.

If convicted in that case alone, he could face a years-long prison sentence,

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