another hour of velshi, live from tuscaloosa alabama, starts right now. tuscaloosa alabama, start right now. good morning, it is saturday at augusta. six i am ali that she lived in tuscaloosa alabama for the special edition of velshi across america. post-roe alabama. it was my privilege to sit down with a group of alabamians who've been working the frontlines of the police battle here in the south, since the fall of roe v. wade. and the end of abortion rights. for millions of americans who live here. we heard last hour with these folks and their patients and their fellow citizens are up against. threats, harassments, a potential jail time. not to mention the lives and livelihoods at stake, and the risk of dying in force childbirth. later this hour, we will hear why, and how they are pushing ahead. continuing the fight in a place that looks as hopeless as anywhere in america, for abortion rights. they do not use the same tactics and strategies, and you will probably be surprised by some of what they are planning. you will definitely learn some things becau

another hour of velshi, live from tuscaloosa alabama, starts right now.. good morning, it is saturday at augusta. six i am ali that she lived in tuscaloosa alabama for the special edition of velshi across america. post-roe alabama. it was my privilege to sit down with a group of alabamians who've been working the frontlines of the police battle here in the south, since the fall of roe v. wade. and

look at mentioned, i am in tuscaloosa for today's special edition of velshi.e to get through the 755 pages of the bill which was released late last night. like for us, nbc news intrepid news team has. i want to dive into it a little bit. upfront, the bill is the

this week and i mean tuscaloosa, alabama, a state that has been without safe and legal abortion careortion. within hours of the supreme court's ruling. alabama and post a total abortion ban

look at mentioned, i am in tuscaloosa for today's special edition of velshi. i have not been able to get through the 755 pages of the bill which was released late last night. like for us, nbc news intrepid news team has. i want to dive into it a little bit. upfront, the bill is the largest climate investment in u.s. history, putting forth more than 300 billion dollars for climate clean energy investment, including a methane reduction program, which rewards farmers and ranchers for reducing methane emissions. environmental justice block grants, a climate bank provision to make investments in clean energy technology, and energy efficiency. an extension of the electric vehicle tax credit. guaranteed wage rates for clean energy jobs, in four billion dollars for drought funding, one of several items of the democratic arizona senator kirsten sinema negotiated into the bill in order to end her hold out for. it on drug pricing, the inflation production act gives medicare the power to negotiate some prices with drug companies for the first time, with the goal of loweri

and i met with a panel of doctors, activists, organizers and lawmakers in tuscaloosa to hear firsthand this law means firsthand, and from where they fear things might be headed next. it's not going to stop with abortion limitations. here is robin marty, who ran one of the few abortion clinics in the state until the end of roe v. wade. >> we don't believe that birth control is going to be accessible or available or legal in alabama for too much longer. because there's too much control right now. there is too much control in the legislature to overturn it. birth control is already extraordinarily impossible to get in alabama. for the most part, the only place you can get it, if you are -- low income and uninsured is from a county health department. and it's a two, three, four month wait, in order to get into see somebody for. so although -- >> let me just be clear on this. if you do not have health insurance or other coverage, and you would like -- you are a woman who would like to be on birth control in the state of alabama, you could wait 3 to 4 months to get an appointment? >> absolut

last, week and i went inside one of those clinics, the west alabama woman center in the city of tuscaloosaforced to stop providing abortions the day that rovers world back. i spoke with the clerks operations director, robbyn marty, she informed me where the abortion fight is headed next. >> if i walk in here and i see you, your honor showed us as medication abortion is extremely safe and effective. and i say can i get some? >> no. i cannot say anything, if i were a regular person, i would say something like a person can go to aid access dot org and obtain medication abortion without needing a prescription and have that trip to them regardless of whatever it is. illegal state or an illegal state. a person as running a lot of risk of surveillance and should be very careful. that be something i can say if i were a regular person. i am not a regular person so i cannot say that to a patient. i cannot say that to anyone. honestly, wearing the shirt is a risk and i do it on purpose because i know that this is one way to make a conversation happen and make people think about this. i cannot provide

last week, you know, i visited alabama women center in tuscaloosa that can no longer provide abortionget one. the facility still provides crucial services for the community, prenatal care, contraceptive care, annual exams, and other things. when i arrived at the clinic i was caught off guard. something that turned me around and i came to realize that the confusion was manufactured deliberately. >> we all arrange that we would meet here and so i pulled off, i put in my gps and pull up, and i pulled up in front of a place with a different name. >> women's choice. >> women's choice, yeah that's where i pulled up in front of. i thought to myself that knowing that you knew i was coming here, you wouldn't give me the wrong name for where we were going to go. >> me that was near place. >> that was not. >> it's not this clinic, it's right next door to you. >> it is. this choice is one of many so-called crisis pregnancy centers. they are organizations that pretend to be legitimate medical centers. they often locate themselves right in front of our across the street from places that provide abo

i am ali velshi, welcome to a special edition of the velshi live from tuscaloosa, alabama, we have beena close watch this morning as well on capitol hill, where senators have been up all night voting on amendments to the democrats landmark inflation reduction act, which is eventually expected to pass. that will be a major win for president biden. we will talk to the

host: let's talk to rob calling from tuscaloosa, alabama. good morning. caller: listen, i wanted to say to the lady who called in about the border being open, she sounds like she is from europe someplace. everybody came here from somewhere accept the african-americans. we were brought here to take care of the europeans who could not take care of themselves. some good people came from europe, but the good people did not leave europe came here. do not think they were all good people. let these people know everybody came here from somewhere. columbus named -- except of the indigenous people and columbus named them indians. germs came in and killed the indians. everybody came from somewhere. i am being repetitive now, but you need to know just like how the europeans crowded this country, someone else is going to crowded. -- to crowd it. host: let's go to our next caller from virginia. caller: anyway, the reason i called, i just heard liz cheney say that she would do anything to stop trump from running again. does that mean kill him? does that mean invade his

i did not know myself but somebody else brought it to my attention -- about rosewood, florida, tuscaloosa, oklahoma. i always say, white people say black people will tear up stuff, but where did they learn it from? every time a black person would be successful, white people would get jealous and try to destroy that. now a lot of things that did not make sense to me, it makes sense now, when i go to work and i see people acting certain ways or you can't advance on a certain job regardless of education or experience. now it makes sense to me. host: thank you. we will leave it there. professor? prof. anderson: this is why i write these books. my first two books were academic books. eyes off the prize and bush while radicals. they were for an academic audience. my writing style is very accessible. it translates really well into being able to provide these rich histories, well-documented rich histories for a broader public because there is so much we are not taught in schools, and we are seeing that push again. in florida, there is the push not to have the kinds of history that can talk about

it is --doing work on this, tuscaloosa, friday before bama, auburn. thanksgiving.e go to little -- little river canyon, we see the fall foliage of alabama. jonathan: very cool. we can watch real football. tom: after we watch uba. jonathan: they do not play good football, tom. tom: they are. jonathan: they are good for what? tom: family network, jon. i do not know what he is talking about. jonathan: this is bloomberg. ritika: u.s. and taiwan following through on a promise to deepen ties to fight opposition from china. the countries will start formal talks on a trade and economic initiative this fall. there trade will be more said -- symbolic than substantive. in the u.k., the summer of discontent is about to get worse. britain's face some of the most widespread disruption yet due to strikes on rail burgers -- rail workers and bus stops. that will be a eight day straw -- strike by. workers. more legal problems for the long time cfo of the trump administration -- trump organization, expected to plead guilty to tax fraud. bloomberg has learned he will not implicate the

host: let's talk to rob calling from tuscaloosa, alabama. good morning.: listen, i wanted to say to the lady who called in about the border being open, she sounds like she is from europe someplace. everybody came here from somewhere accept the african-americans. we were brought here to take care of the europeans who could not take care of themselves. some good people came from europe, but the good people did not leave europe came here. do not think they were all good people. let these people know everybody came here from somewhere. columbus named -- except of the indigenous people and columbus named them indians. germs came in and killed the indians. everybody came from somewhere. i am being repetitive now, but you need to know just like how the europeans crowded this country, someone else is going to crowded. -- to crowd it. host: let's go to our next caller from virginia. caller: anyway, the reason i called, i just heard liz cheney say that she would do anything to stop trump from running again. does that mean kill him? does that mean invade his home? w

with at first baptist church in pensacola in meridian, mississippi, and the church i went to in tuscaloosaked, okay, so he said that i should go to jail and that i should be convicted of murder, and he spread this horrible, hateful lie that really hurt the family and the husband was begging him to stop. and he wouldn't stop. the cruelty is just extraordinary. so tell me, why did you vote for him? and there were no good reasons. one of my closest friends said, because of regulations. what are you supposed to do with that? i'm sure, i'm sure you experienced the same thing, people in your church, people that you grew up with, your neighbors, despite the hatred level against you, they're still part of that political cult. >> yeah, you know, there's really two kind of categories of people. close friends stood with our family, stand with our family to this day. and then you take one degree removed from close friends, and the primary anger that they feel or the primary sense of grievance that they feel when you describe all of this is that anger or grievance that i have used the action of the few