peter kassig, we have others robert levinson. a lot of the hard work of the levinson family. the legislation that has ended our affairs, the look at cases of americans who are arrested abroad and see if they meet criteria for wrongful detention. all of those things together plus the current families bring our families home campaign. all of these folks, they desperately caught in this ordeal of their loved ones who has been taken hostage ironically detained. so it's thanks to a lot of people, we stand on their shoulders. >> a lot of people say they stand on your shoulder, thank you for the hard work we are doing diane. diane, foliage and would be proud of what you have done. she is the mother of the late journalist james foley. the founder of the president of the james w for the legacy foundation. we are following the aftermath of a deadly tornado and

mississippi. at least 23 people are dead and officials say more are likely trapped in the rubble. we will have the latest on the rescue mission, another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning to you, it is saturday march 25th, as 11 a.m. in the east atm in the west. i am ali velshi. for the past, week donald trump has been relentlessly attacking alvin bragg, the manhattan district attorney investigating the stormy daniels hush money payment for which the former president could possibly face a historic indictment. let's jump that aside for a moment because despite the attention and the vitriol, that trump percent alvin bragg's way since last saturday, there actually were not a lot of developments in that investigation in the past week. trump was not arrested, as he claimed he would be one week ago today. their grand jury only met once this week on that matter but in contrast, a pair of recent other court rulings in other cases found that trump may not be as privileged as he likes to

believe himself to be. giving jack smith who is the justice department special prosecutor, major breakthroughs and both of his trump related investigation. now yesterday, the u.s. district court judge ruled that mark meadows, trump's former chief of staff and the seven other people you see portrayed on the screen here, former white house trump aide officials must comply and provide their testimony in relation to smith january six investigation. trump and his legal team tried to block their group of former aide from participating and smith inquiry by claiming executive privilege over their testimony. and assertion that judge have rejected in her ruling. about a week ago, howell made a similar ruling ordering one of trump's lawyers evan corcoran, this man to testify in smith other investigation. the one involving the classified documents case. more importantly, ruling that he could not assert attorney client privilege. that is fundamentally different

from the executive privilege claims. a power and privilege that only a sitting president has but for howell to find that the attorney-client privilege no longer applies to corcoran in that case means that the justice department provided sufficient evidence to overcome something known as the crime fraud exception. meaning that the court and prosecutors averaging to believe that donald trump committed a crime through his lawyers. an appeals court upheld his ruling over the weekend yesterday, corcoran appeared at the federal courthouse in washington d.c. and testified before the grand jury for about three and a half hours. it's been a devastating few weeks for trump and his team. they have been dealt many legal setbacks as the multiple criminal and civil investigations continue to close in on the former president. as that from the manhattan da stormy daniels case, and the justice department when trump investigation, there is also the election interference probe in georgia. led by the fulton county district attorney fani willis. and response of these

developments, trump had unsurprisingly begun publicly attacking and harassing the prosecutors who are investigating him using his account on the social media platform truth social to launch a series of increasingly unhinged an ominous post about those prosecutors. and alas of it, is trump's gone from calling on his supporters to protest and quote take our nation back to raising the spectrum of violence suggesting there will be quote potential death and destruction and quote if he is indicted. trump has taken particular aim at alvin, bragged the first black person to had the minute the's offense from trump is called a races, an animal and human scum. all within the last seven days. trump even went as far as to post a link that featured a suggestive split screen image showing a photo of brag next to one of trump himself holding a baseball bat. that post was eventually delayed yesterday afternoon around the same time that news broke that the manhattan da's office received a letter addressed to brag that contained a suspicious white

substance. and a time for the know that lead quote alvin, i will kill you. , sadly we have seen this before. trump is using the same type of suggestive's and dehumanizing language to roll up his base like he did in the weeks leading up to the insurrection. i was from, now donald trump will hold his first official campaign rally of the 2024 election season. and he is holding it in waco, texas of all places. you remember waco, 30 years ago federal government agencies were involved in a 51 day standoff against religious separatist group known as the branch the video in which ended in tragedy. it's a curious and provocative place to kick off the campaign and to stir up anti government feeling as donald trump and to escape accountability tries to become the head of the american government again. now as ahead of former trump aides are ordered to cooperate the justice department january six investigation, one notable figure is still fighting his subpoena.

that is the former vice president mike pence, like others who may be running out of options too. joining me now is the former go -- and counterterrorism adviser to former vice president mike pence. olivia, good to see you again. thank you for being with us. what these recent court rulings ordering people in the trump orbit to testify, how much longer do you think like this will continue to fight the subpoena in the testify? >> good morning, ali. i think this will continue on for quite some time. i think in the court of public opinion, unfortunately for mike pence, she looks terrible. it's awful, he looks like a coward and it looks like he has something to hide which i believe that he really doesn't. he should be telling the truth and be willing to cooperate with this entire process. i think in the court of trumpism, the court of the fox news viewers, the court of the republican body, face mike pence knows that that, future that political prospects for him is that risk here. i think he needs sort of this

judicial process to kind of push him along so that he can perhaps at some point cooperate. i would not be surprised if he continues to challenge this and that makes it go all the way to the main court. he is very calculated and meticulous when he makes our decisions like this. i just don't see this very easily. >> in reference to that news last, night you tweeted quote which ones we'll lie under oath to the mob boss? do you think any of those people still remain so loyal to trump that that might be a possibility? this is serious. if you are told the executive privilege hasn't, work you will have to testify and you lie. it's a whole different ball game. >> it is a whole different ball game and i 100% believe that some of these people will likely line. i think that is something that is actually something that some of us who assumed and the trump white house that are still in touch who are watching this and layout incredibly this is, do you think this people are capable of. you're looking at the most

inner loyal circle. these are the people that were willing to do anything for donald trump. i think it'll be interesting to see how the circle plays out. i think some of them and i think you want a political future, who may surprise you. i am wondering what stephen miller will do to be honest with you because i think he has an extremist agenda that he wants to keep pushing and look to other potential presidential contenders to continue to push back. when you're looking at mark meadows, and others there and that circle, dan scavino. these are people that were willing to do the bidding the entire time. i think that they have the most to lose here and i think it's a circle that when you are tied to the mob boss, that's our goes down together. >> it's interesting because in one sense, some of those people may go in and plead the fifth. everything i say is likely to incriminate me. speaking to him last night, you were on the with -- who said look jacks mitt the

special prosecutor has the ability to say to these people i will give you immunity. you tell us what you know and we will not prosecute you. at which point, do you think they will still be prepared to possibly go to jail for donald trump? at that point if they are immune from prosecution, they kissed their political future goodbye but at least my go to jail? >> i think immunity will matter. i think in the situation and like they are caught. there are so many testimonies, so much testimony out there but when i look at the january six transcripts, i looked at robert o'brien's transcript, that was incredibly disappointed with somebody that served at the national security adviser to the president of the united states at the time. where he said only can't recall repeatedly a lot of these conversations. where he blatantly says that he did not have any conversations with kathy hudson. that is nice to me because anybody in the west wing who has to talk to mark meadows had to have these conversations with cassidy hutchinson, including me he was going into advise i'm very sensitive matters especially on homeland security issues. you talk to cassidy beforehand.

and then she would kind of negotiate when that meeting would take place, or she would pass messages to him. it will be very interesting to see how immunity plays a role in this. i do think that given that, if that protects them from the wrath of what they will encourage, from circles which is what everybody is intended by by donald trump was very public when it goes after you and effects you. as natalie had been on the receiving end of that. it is intimidating and it's bullying? right i think with immunity, hopefully some of these people will wake up and just say you, know i have got nothing outs to lose. i'm in the middle of this and i can't get out. it's time to tell the truth. >> olivia, thanks as always for being with us it's good to talk to. let's see how this all unfolds in the coming days. olivia troye, former senior aide to former vice president mike pence. still ahead on velshi, israel is in a crisis over a plan judicial overhaul including a new bill making that much harder to remove a prime minister from office. a report from jerusalem is coming up next plus it is critical that americans know

that their cash is safe inside of the walls of a bank. and it's up to congress to prove it to them. i will speak with representative maxine waters, ranking member of the financial services committee on what can be done. and we have today's meeting of the velshi banned book club. this time with a member instead of an author. 100 year old grace, land we featured lynn beautiful quilt. it's an intricate depiction of a bookshelf full of band or challenged books, if you weeks ago but if you don't remember her from that quick mention on the show, you will probably know her name now. lynn delivered a speech to 500 people at a school board meeting that instance gone viral. >> bandit books and burning books are the same. both are done for the same reason. fear of knowledge. fear is not a freedom. fear is not liberty. fear is control.

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mr. benjamin netanyahu was accused of breaking the law for his effort to overhaul the judiciary's authority. and it open letter to netanyahu, the attorney general said quote, last night you publicly announce that you intend to violate the ruling of the supreme court and act contrary to the opinion of the legal adviser to the government, that statement is illegal and contaminant from the -- end quote. the republican nomination within response to netanyahu's defiant speech on thursday it doubling down on his controversial plan to scale back the role of the country's supreme court, and an extremely unpopular proposal that has sparked some of israel's biggest wish to issue -- the announcement remarkable marks the escalation in the crisis that has consumed israel ever since the government announced its proposal, earlier this year. critics say the plan changed undermine democracy and threatens israel security, and

the growing number of military reserves are refusing to serve in protest. there's a also saw tens of thousands of israeli demonstrators -- uk demonstrations that escalated since the -- average government passed a law which strips the port of power that the car is a prime minister unfit for office. -- joining me now is an independent journalist bid in jerusalem with two decades of experience covering the israeli government, this really penicillin, conflict and america's relation in the middle east. thank you for being with us, again. this is a complicated issue that you and i need to talk about a lot to get to the bottom of it. last night you tweeted, quote it now appears likely that netanyahu will be declared in contempt of court, and we'll be acting illegally as early as sunday or monday. and quote. what do you mean by that? >> that tanya who's going in a

really complicated situation. he is, at this moment, and indicted camilla on child. what this trial behind the scenes it continues to plug way in this district court. so, in order to be able to even run for office as an indicted criminal, he was forced to step a conflicts of interest agreement that supreme court determined would allow him to run for office without too many conflicts of interest, which was decided upon they attorney general who is the top civil servant, and israel, basically. and he passed a law wednesday night in the middle of the night that basically said, it's possible to remove him from office, even that say he has a stroke, they only person who can remove him from office as he himself, or -- where he has an inevitable

majority. so he took advantage of that new law, within hours as to clear that he was going to involve himself in the matter of the regime change clause, let's say in -- conflict of interest again. >> this feels, it doesn't simply to a lot of americans. a leading politician involved in a totally illegal issue and how those legal issue sort of start to dominate the way they are, the proposing things go in politics aside. it was a connection here between netanyahu's legal employments, on the things that he's proposing. >> well, there are a lot of connections. but the first and fundamental one is he created a government, a coalition government with extremist anti death we could, this theocratic nationalist parties who have their own hands. they themselves wanted -- the israeli judiciary, and no

one else will sit with him in a coalition as long as he's a [inaudible] stems from the fact that he is on trial for corruption charges. moreover, it seems more and more clear that he's trying to put himself in a position where he'll be able to -- directly the judges who are likely to [inaudible] >> wear hearing subtle but distinct rumblings from america, from blinken and biden. generally speaking, america is a very strong supporter of the state of israel. they're indicating that this is not something that they want to continue to see happening. >> that's right. and i actually think that it's getting less, and less subtle. if we look at normal diplomatic ties between countries who are close allies, blinken and biden recently bought a phone call --

basically schooled netanyahu on what their current democratic values, and emphasize that that is the entire basis for the huge alliance for the united states. the issue about pushing his real these days, is that we're now in a dichotomy. because as long as the white house maintains its position, a majority of israelis feel that they are supported by the white house. you see more and more signs the israeli protests that they biden saved us. so of course. the white house, so far, the state department have taken a really delicate an interesting line of continuing to show support for israel while more and more clearly, telling netanyahu that he should watch in terms of turning in really democracy off. >> i think the only thing you

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he believes we are quote, past the point of no return, and quote. and then hope sustaining offers session can already be in the rearview mirror. all this comes against the backdrop of a stressful two weeks in the banking industry, and what you saw the failure of two banks, silicon valley bank, and signature bank. in the wake of those failures, we have been increasing calls for the federal deposit insurance corporation, the fbi say, to ensure all bank deposits, eliminating the $250,000 per account cap that it generally covers, or currently covers. treasury secretary, janet yellin, says she will not consider any plans to ensure all customer deposits right now, at least not until it's approved by congress. joining me now is a democratic congresswoman maxine waters, of california. she represents the states 43rd congressional district in the los angeles area. she's the highest ranking democrat on the house, financial services committee. and a great friend of russia. congressman, good to see this but. >> delighted to be with you, this morning. >> let's talk about --

there's a whole bunch of things to talk about, but first of all, thanks. there are still americans who are worried, maybe not legitimately, so but they're worried about their money in the bank and whether the bank's going to fail. and playing run is just psychological, it may have nothing to do with. fact do you think your bank's going to fail, your take your money out. one of the things that has to be on your mind, to pretend, california's not to stop that from happening again. >> well, let me just say this. i think the american people should take a look at what happened a couple of weeks ago in silicon valley and understand that there was a potential for bank bombs on regional banks all of this country. however, your government did something good. the feds got together, the treasure got together, fdic, they all got together, and they worked over basically a 38-hour period of time and they prevented that from happening. they prevented that from happening, they ensured all

other posits at the silicon valley bank, and the way that they handled that avoided the possibility of bank runs. they closed down that bank, first on psych regulator stepped in. they closed down, the feds, again and they fdic all moved in with the treasury and they handled what could've been a catastrophe. they closed down signature bank. so uterine kept some of the same problems, a little bit different, they were too much involved in crypto, i believe. but anyhow. they saved a bank run on small banks, and again, regional banks. we still got some things that have to be done. we have to make sure that there are regulations that will depart the depositors on protect the investors. some of the members of congress on both sides of the aisle voted for some legislation --

that was deregulation. we've got to hear. that a -- we're trying to convince many of our members. it turns out that it is harmful, so we're coming back in a bipartisan way and we're going with mr. mchenry and we're going to hold our earrings, and we are going to come up with legislation to secure the deregulation that should not have taken place in the first place. >> you said something interesting, you said it's bipartisan. that doesn't tend to happen with banking regulation, it's one of those few things that democrats tend to think there should be more regulation, saw with the case, i probably can think there should be less. has everybody have enough of the taste of this to say, let's just -- i mean in my opinion banking is the safest industry in the world. because you give people money, you take money from the positives, and you want to talk to people, and you make money in between, it should be more strictly regulated than it is but it never ends up happening.

>> it really should be but i am very optimistic between the failure of crypto with ftx, between the failure of silicon valley bank, between the father of signature and all of that, i think that we have an opportunity to basically say i told you so, so we've got to correct this. we've got to make sure that there are the regulations that will protect the people, the depositors, and people who depend on their bank to keep their money safe. >> let me ask you about this battle between inflation and interest rates. you talk to constituents who hate both. nobody wants her interest rates, and nobody wants inflation. but we don't seem to have a better plan right now. you heard what elizabeth warren says, she saw the federal reserve is not doing what it should. what do you think would happen, would you think can happen? >> well, you know, and raising interest rates is the traditional way.

it's supposedly the -- that is the way by which he'll contain inflation. it has not been working in the way that it should. now, what he did, what powell's did in this last right, he try to keep a lot. just 25 basis points. but of course, it doesn't look good right now. it may be a rather recession. he's got everything that he possibly. can everybody's got to weigh in. if there is a better answer, we don't have it now, this is all that we have, this is containing inflation. it's a rise in interest rates. i don't like it, my constituents don't like it. young people who want to buy a house -- there are some people of course who make money off of rising interest rates, but the average person does not, so, now. where the point in time in the history, we got to do

everything that we can to bring down inflation and can change the rise and interest rates. >> congresswoman, good to see you, as always. thanks for joining us, democratic congresswoman maxine waters of california. right after the break, we've got to may's meeting of the velshi banned book club. our guest this week is not an author, but for the first time in the columbus history we are talking to one of our members. 100-year-old grace lam, one defendant access to books and democracy in a speech in front of a florida school board meeting that hasn't gone viral. she joins me, next.

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moving stories like 100-year-old grace lin. she's a passionate supporter of the freedom to read and to access books. lynn created this beautiful quilt by hand depicting a bookshelf, featuring the covered of band and challenged books, including some of our own features like beloved, like tony more sat, and she was kissing, by david love with that. we showed you a photo of when her called on bush if you weeks ago. if you don't remember her from that quick appearance, you probably recognize her now, because this week she addressed 500 people out of school board meeting in martin county florida, -- not just her, but to our very democracy as well. her speech has gone viral. >> good afternoon, folks. i am grace nguyen. and i have lived in -- for over 33 years. i am 100 years young.

i'm here to protest our schools district book binding policy. my husband, robert nichols, was killed in action in world war ii. defending our democracy. constitution, and freedom. one of the freedoms, that they not seize crushed was the freedom to read the books that they banned. they stopped deep free press, band and burned books, in response to the book banning throughout our country, and wharton county. last year, during the time i was 99 i have created this quilt to remind all of us that these --

up so many more books that are banned or targeted made to be proudly displayed and protected, and read if you please do. the quilt was shown on national tv as part of a level she's banned book club segment. banned books, and burning books are the same. both our time for the same reason. fear of knowledge. fear, is not freedom. fair, is not liberty. fear, it's control. my husband died as a father of freedom, i am a mother of liberty. banned books made to be proudly displayed and protected from school boards like this. thank you very much, thank you.

[applause] >> a mother of liberty, ended the velshi banned book club's not about whether you feel connected with jose, and jody because 19 minutes, or if you're moved by the language in shakespeare's attempts, it's not even about whether you've read those books at all. as grace lin says, read if you choose to. the velshi banned book club is about freedom. freedom to learn, to think, to experience something about the confines of your imagination, all in the pages of those books. i've said many times before, the core tenant of the velshi banned book club's reading as resistance. what does that look like? that looks like grace lin. landed her decades long -- got ultimately the books that protect those two impossibly fragile things. i am joined now by graceland, the pro rating activist who delivered a viral speech defending our access to. she is a highly esteemed member of the velshi banned book club. grace, it is an honor to talk to you.

yet i have correspondent, you semi emails in the past, let's actually speak to in person, it's a big deal for us. thank you for being with us this morning. >> it's a big deal for me to! to talk to you now a. thank you for all the things that you deal, ali. >> let's start with the quelled. you included a number of titles on the quilt. a lot of beautiful detail, what inspired you to do that? >> seeing the different things that came up about the start of banned books and targeting them, we hear a lot. i have friends who did their research for me, my point clare pinellas, research the books that were bad. they did the digitizing on the computer and those were sent over to my computerized selling

the sheet, and i executed the color and so on and shows various things variance to the flag, as you've seen on there that denotes wonderfully people of the lgbtq community and many others as you can see are there. and there are so many more on one little quote. but many of the people that sought were very excited about it. you know, the main thing is if you bury history, you're going to have to repeat history again, don't you think that is true,

ali? >> well you, this is the compelling part about your speeches that you've lived that history. i know from your correspondents with me that you are very committed to this, but then you brought up your husband. who that, i believe, at the age of 27 years old and action, it world war ii, fighting for liberties that we appreciate today. you really understand, that were destined to repeat it, you brought up not seabrook burning. you're saying that these path that we are not does ultimately the road democracy. -- you almost implied that don't wear them if you don't, but you can't stop people from being able to access books. >> that is true. and i repeat, every human being is just as important as any other. our children who maybe a little different from the other

children need to be recognized by their classmates and honors. they are and that's only one case that i can think about. we need to know is just as important as any other kind. and we should and we should treat them that way. >> great, we talk a lot about on the shot about democracy and the challenges to. what message is that people need to get about, the search with about a, a redshirt, about helping some of register to vote. but one of things always come up as that people should go to their school board meetings and they should participate. 100 years old, you are demonstrate what this looks like. if you are not everybody has to share your view of anything, about any of these books what you show up after all these years losing her has been a world war ii, you start, eight

at 100 is your job to show up and express your view. >> they did. is it's important for any of us to be in a position of helping and right up in the corner on top is one book i wanted to mention, fahrenheit for 51. a good book to read if you can get a hold of what. it's bad. >> let's talk about, a lot of people who get these books band or her move to get them banned, their argument is maybe they haven't read some of these books. it seems to be boiler plate, it saves to be an attempt to keep your kids away from being exposed to start things, as opposed to looking at the other way, the empathy, they look at the experience that you read about that you didn't actually

live. that seemed to be the message we're trying to get across the people at that meeting. >> that is quite true. and, of course, we need to express strongly that our school board should be open and what they're doing. we need more the numbers, we need to know what they're voting for, or approving, or not. they audience needs to know. >> right, people often say to us, you know the business, don't you get tired of all the stuff you have to report on and the constant battle, and i guess next time somebody says that today i'm gonna introduce them to you and say, grace linn is not hard, she's not getting tired. thank you so much for being with us, my friend, grace linn. the 100-year-old that fighter, they have more velshi hefter this break.

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this looks like it may have been a mobile home that was back there, this is what remains of these peoples homes. their clothes, their shoe shown here. there is a tree that has been operated back there. and the cars this is what a lot of the cars that we're seeing -- completely blown out, there is so much damage here for so many people in silver city, and we've seen some more damage than we are just there in rolling fork's, as if a little while ago you drive by all of the city buildings in the downtown area. the windows are just blown out and the police department of the public library. schools. you think about what it's going to take to rebuild those communities and that is what people are coming back to today, and meaning to think through and figure out. this tornado touched down last night at around 9 pm eastern time in rolling fork, and it's really bearing the bulk of this damage.

this tornado lasting for around 80 miles of destruction. as we mentioned some 23 people have been confirmed dead. there are dozens of people who have been injured and there are four people missing. a number that could potentially rise as people are checking on people, and looking to see if they're going to hear back from them or not. we spoke to some residents here who looked out the window and saw, as this tornado was coming towards them, they sheltered in closets and in bathtub and thankfully they were able to survive. but they talk to us about neighbors -- then began checking on the neighbors and saying that their name a neighbor of theirs had died because they house had just caved in on that person. as we know, certain rescue efforts are still underway. officials have said that the priority is the preservation of life. we're getting reports that there are still people who are trapped in these. so officials are working very

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the msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex reports, we begin with some breaking news. more severe weather happening right now as heavy rain and strong winds are battering parts of the southeast. it comes after some devastating tornadoes tore through mississippi overnight, killing at least 23 people and injuring dozens. search and rescue teams right now looking for people trapped in the destruction, to try to help survivors. >> i had to sail into the middle part of the house,