grown into something larger an more fruitful than we uppe match and. the velshi banned book club wa created in response to the targeting a removal of so many important books from libraries and school curricula across th country. according to p.e.n. america, and nonprofit organization the champions the freedom to rea and write in the united states from july 2021 to june 2022, there were 2532 instances of individual books been banned that s a shocking number what the figure doesn t make clear is the types of book that have been fans. as we begin to compile our own list of banned literature, or feature for you, with author from margaret atwood to a clear pattern emerged. it became apparent that th most frequently targeted boo shared at least one of the sam three topics sexuality or gender, and sexua identity, race, and bodily autonomy including sexual and physica violence we re moving books that deal with these three very real topics sends a clear message t readers that those
and that s us, by the way. went away but maybe you can see, maybe you can t, this is belle isle, to the top of the screen is you will see it in a moment is going to be canada. that s, it right there on the horizon. behind us, is detroit, michigan. and we are right in the middle of the detroit river, 9 am in the, east examine the, west i am ali velshi, coming to 16 days before election day in belle isle state park in detroit michigan and we re bringing you a very special edition of velshi 2022 on friday. i had an enlightening conversation across the political spectrum, as the election day approaches, i m gonna share more of it with you in just a bit. we kick off this hour with breaking news. brand-new msnbc news polling, showing you the voters recognize that high stakes, next month s midterm elections, registered voters are expressing high interest in the election. tied for the highest ever, ever, in the decades long history of this poll, 57% of registered voters say this
in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government they ve given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnn s sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very important issue. i want to begin with you here, sara. you ve been going through the inventory documents from this mar-a-lago search. tell me what is standing out to you? well, i mean, certainly it s the volume. they say there are 11,000 government documents that are not classified. but also, when you dig in to the classified documents you, have you 103 documents. we re now learning that amounts to hundreds of pages in these documents. but 18 of those are top secret. 54 are secret. 31 are confident
assassination attempt. another hour of velshi begins right now. ght now. good morning, saturday august 20th. not am in the 6 am in the west, i m ali bell. she hardly a day passes without a development in the investigation that is somewhat connected to donald. trump that is because there are no fewer than four current and ongoing criminal investigations. related to the president himself, relative to have ever set of inquiries across multiple states. it all culminated in an fbi search of his private awaits us in palm beach florida. let s go to, new york where trump spent the vast majority of his life and career before he became president. he is facing a pair of inquiries into his company s business practices. when is a civil case which is headed by the new york, state attorney general letitia james. he was looking into whether the trump organization lied about the value of its assets, either to receive loans from the bank or to avoid paying its fair share of taxes. trump appear
ndnu prepares you for careers in classes start year-round. advance your career at ndnu dot edu today. msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to the new report. we begin with new developments in the mar-a-lago search. this is from the doj. they talk about what could happen if surveillance video of the fbi search of mar-a-lago gets released. the doj officials say that the department would hope that caution and carry would be used by anyone with access to that footage. last hour, former trump lawyer michael cohen gave his thoughts on how trump could approach this situation. if they believe that the tape that benefited them, i promise you that tape would have already been released as we are speaking right now. obviously, they know that it does not. there are thousands and thousands of cameras thrilled mar-a-lago. i can assure you that at the time the rate was taking place, they were watching the raid. they were watching the fbi agents going through the property. that c