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then and almost prophetic conversation with the one anomaly margaret atwood. we've got a special edition of the velshi banned book club coming up. bill she starts now. >> good morning to you. it is saturday, september the 4th. having lived a weekend. i'm ali velshi. we talk as you know a lot on this show. about how imperiled our democracy is after the lawlessness of the trump administration, the damage caused by the insurrection on january 6th. the ongoing minutes of the big lie and the slow boiling threat of another coup that comes along with it. but whether or not on trump's prosecuted. whether or not he runs for president. we are living in a changed america. for one thing, the threat of violence now -- ignored or excused or even defended by trump and republican leaders who are still too cowardly to take a stand against insurrectionists ex president. the idea of political violence is being normalized. he held newspaper published a piece this weekend underlying its stark terms what this new post trump post january 6th world looks like. the number threat in ve

-- >> i hear you -- >> because it feels too real to me now -- >> i got you -- >> this is what margaret atwood times, about the make believe world that she created. she said, any totalitarianism always has views on who shall be allowed to have babies and what shall be done with the babies. it has been going on for a really long time. so, what you are saying is really true. i do want to play a clip and this is a clip, specifically, of aunt lydia, and this is an episode two, this is not a spoiler, anybody who hasn't seen, it put your fingers in years ago, law, law, law. -- >> it's a tragedy, of commander waterford's death. our good lord has found a way to grace us with opportunity. this is your moment to shine in the sunlight of the spirit, girls! a chance to impress pre-spread prospective commanders, to do his good works, and to make yourselves truly worthy. oh, bless it be this day! >> what strikes me about aunt lydia is her fanaticism, her true belief in the system, but also the fact that you realize that she gains power from the system. and that is one of the reasons she seems to stick with

legislation that per heads of full account of american history embeds books by 20 morrison and margaret atwood included getting i rid of irs agents making sure that, quote, women stick to women's sports, and sticking it to china and the pandemic. immigration bans, irs attacks, parental rights laws that send your inclusive turkey, also abortion, but also not really abortion. on that topic, president biden today made sure the gop's position remained top of mind. >> in 46 days, america is going to choose, republicans when control of the congress, abortion will be banned. but if you give me two more democratic senators in the united states senate, i promise you -- i promise you, we are going to codify roe. >> [applause] >> 46 days till midterms. we need to be crystal clear about what is on the ballot because there is a heck of a lot of stake that's on the ballot. >> joining us now is jennifer palmieri, i called her to. and former white house communications director in the obama white house former communications director for hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, and now co-host of the circu

then and almost prophetic conversation with the one anomaly margaret atwood. starts now. >> good morning to you. it is saturday, september the 4th. having lived a weekend. i'm ali velshi. we talk as you know a lot on this show. about how imperiled our democracy is after the lawlessness of the trump administration, the damage caused by the insurrection on january 6th. the ongoing minutes of the big lie and the slow boiling threat of another coup that comes along with it. but whether or not on trump's prosecuted. whether or not he runs for president. we are living in a changed america. for one thing, the threat of violence now -- ignored or excused or even defended by trump and republican

we'd be in some version of margaret atwood's dystopic gideon by virtue of the infrastructure that medgar evers represents for black literature, the schomburg. so when we ask the question, what's the impact on students of color it is devastating because we are are the consequences of the exposure and the importance of black literature regardless of how right wing lunatics have defined as crt? and we know exactly as marlon has and maaza has so articulated, so today that, you know, you get to see the scaffolding of colonialism if you and therefore the the possibility for it is exactly what comes with that exposure. thank you. so our next question is the panelists have talked about various of writing fiction, nonfiction, comedy. i'm curious about how and whether you think about genre in terms of telling our stories. i i'll jump in i just feel i feel like every single person this panel right now speaks to the multiple genres in the stories of blackness and i think the dolan you were talking about oral storytellers in your family and i think we all have that and i. i don't remember any stories