-led congress, and why it really matters for everything from health care to global and national security, to the balance in your 401k. plus, i will talk to yuri salk, the adviser to ukraine defense minister about a very important week for ukraine, and a new evidence that ending roe was not enough for the anti abortion lobby in this country. the war against reproductive rights rages on, and it s worse than you would think. i will call this week s meeting of the velshi banned book club comes together. it is a celebration of mother daughter love and it has been banned. i will talk to the author, graceland, about why the story is so important. ahead. velshi starts now. . good morning, i m ali velshi, it is saturday january 21st. it is two years of the day since president biden s presidential moderation. we begin with a dire warning to the present day, but to do so, let s go back in history to this famous exchange. little did i dream you could be so reckless and so cruel ask
let s go back in history to this famous exchange. little did i dream you could be so reckless and so cruel asked to do an injury to that land. let us not assassinate this land, senator. you have done enough. we have you no sense of decency, sir? e those famous lines uttered by the lawyer joseph wells on june 9th 1954, effectively marks the end of mccarthy-ism and the investigations that wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy was conducting as chair of the senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, which was created initially to investigate government fraud and waste, but which he quickly turned into a political path project to investigate what mccarthy claimed was communist infiltration at all levels of the government. the origins of the mccarthy investigation can be traced back to post world war i, and the olbermann committee, which
there is also a political aspect of this. you ve often seen that in hearings. i was looking back some of these i witnessed some of them and read about and the 1950s mccarthy hearing where he was pushing the idea that there were communists in the army and the lawyer, the counsel for the army, said have you no sense of decency, sir? the air went out of the mccarthy investigation. go to watergate and john dean talking about the cancer on the presidency and alexander butterfield talking about the secret taping system. go to the famous hearing the confirmation hearing for clarence thomas for the supreme court. anita hill made a very impressive performance but in the end clarence thomas called it a high-tech lynching. it often doesn t come in the opening statement or any kind of prepared remarks. it comes in the give and take