Today on Velshi, what progressives are now poised to give up in order to get Senator Joe

Manchin to support some version of the Biden agenda. Plus, the big lie is on the ballot in 2022,

how the insurrectionist ex-president's campaign to undermine democracy is creeping into the midterms.

And overnight, 17 Americans, including some children, have reportedly been kidnapped in Haiti.

We'll bring you the very latest.

And then the shocking story of a county in Tennessee where black children were jailed for a crime that doesn't exist.

And he's about to retire from his post as the longest

serving director of the National Institutes of Health. He led the effort to map the human genome and

fought tirelessly against COVID, even under an administration that was actively pretending

that it would go away on its own. Francis Collins is here to talk all about that and more.

Velshi starts now.

Well, good morning.

It is Sunday, October the 17th.

I'm Ali Velshi.

Will it stay or will it go?

That's the question ringing throughout Capitol Hill this week as Democrats negotiate which programs will remain in President Biden's ambitious social spending plan and which ones will be sacrificed.

It appears that a key climate measure that would help reduce greenhouse gas pollution is on the chopping block, and West Virginia

Senator and so-called moderate Democrat Joe Manchin is the one who put it there. It's a roughly

$150 billion policy known as the Clean Electricity Performance Program, which would reward

energy companies that transition away from fossil fuels

like coal and natural gas to clean energy, like solar and wind. It would also find companies

that refuse to make that transition. The program could help cut emissions by as much as 50% by 2030,

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