Texas State Representatives Gene Wu and Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos address the Texas Attorney General's pledge to punish Democrats who fled the state in protest of Trump's redistricting push; Ben Rhodes weighs in on Trump's announcement that he will host Vladimir Putin in Alaska next week; the Trump Administration is building its own police state in America as it ramps up recruitment for ICE employees.
On the campaign trail Trump promised his supporters he would be their retribution, and now he is following through; the president of a key Jewish-American lobbying group is now speaking out about Israel's conduct in Gaza; and on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Ali has an important conversation about how America's use of atom bombs changed the course of history, and why the world is now much closer to nuclear warfare than we've been in decades.
As Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton vows to punish the state's Democratic lawmakers for fleeing the state, Congressmen Lloyd Doggett, Jasmine Crockett, and State Rep. Ann Johnson discuss the threats to democracy posed by the Texas gerrymandering push; former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes discusses Trump's upcoming in-person meeting with Vladimir Putin and the consequences of the war in Ukraine; and ‘The House on Mango Street' by Sandra Cisneros is the subject of this week's Velshi Banned Book Club.
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