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to pay their respects as the queen s body will lie in state for another 2a hours. away from westminster, today s other headlines: a man has been charged with attempted murder after two police officers were stabbed in london s leicester square. in sport, son heung min scores a stunning 13 minute hat trick as tottenham continue their unbeaten run in the premier league. it s sunday 18 september. you re watching bbc breakfast from westminster. the us president, joe biden, has arrived in the uk ahead of the queen s funeral tomorrow morning. it is as today marks the fourth full day of the queen s lying in state, with people warned the waiting time is now at least 1a hours. this is the queue, not far from where we are at westminster. you can see it is moving pretty quickly at the moment. it seems like the authorities are keen to get people through as quickly as they can right now so that they can get through the huge numbers which still remain and which are likely to build as sunday ....
news from ukraine, where a series of explosions rocked the capital city of kyiv this morning. ukraine says, the russian missile attack is targeting critical infrastructure. we will go live to ukraine for the latest. plus, the house under republican rule. we will look at the chaos the gop has brought in congress in its first week in charge of the house, and the latest on the investigation into president biden s handling of classified documents, and what s behind the double standard in how the biden case is being treated compared to the case of a certain twice impeached ex president. then, the featured author for today s edition of the velshi banned book club is a story to herself, and author, yes, but also a filmmaker. folklorist and voodoo expert among many other things. we will dive into zora neal hearst in, their eyes were watching god, next hour. velshi starts now. and good morning. it s saturday, january the 14th. we are one week into hundreds 18th congress. i ....
relatively easy time passing its rules package, its first order of business, but the rules package includes provisions like the motion to vacate, which makes it easier to remove the speaker, kevin mccarthy. it also gets rid of pandemic era changes like proxy voting, it imposes rules and limiting spending and blocking tax increases. house republicans also passed a pair of disingenuous and deceitful antiabortion bills that were designed to push propaganda rather than addressing real concerns about women s reproductive rights. their decision to pass these bills during the first week of that new term, and despite the overall unpopularity of their antiabortion positions, demonstrates how they seriously are about governing in general. republicans made it clear months ago that they intend to use their tenure to investigate democrats. the rules package includes a provision that allows the house to create a new subcommittee to investigate the origins of covid and to scrutinize t ....
Storytelling, about how we tell the story of our countrys past. Why do we want to believe one version and not another . Maybe because it makes us feel safe at night. There is one episode of americas history that is told very differently, depending on who you are and where you live. It is the story of our civil war and what came after. The Hot Winds Of War blew across the land. Made of it, a country divided. Friend turned into foe. Brother fought against brother. It was such a long and drawn out struggle. And the feeling on both sides was so intense. Were all just romantics, lost in contemporary times you might say. Every one of us feels like we were born 125 years too late. To introduce myself, my name is rachel boynton. This is nelson walker. We are independent documentary filmmakers. Were making a film about how we tell the story of the civil war. Were filming in different schools all over virginia and were going to place this ....
. . pete: there it is. we asked, you delivered. yesterday was k-9 anthem day. today is the felines. they got their shot, they delivered. we have a squirrel in there. rachel: i will be hoppest, pictures kept coming up, that is really cute, super cute. when the pictures coming up, i asked the producers did we about to msnbc to get these? this is a dog channel and a baby channel. it worked. pete: halfway through i looked at you, this is a stretch. i don t i this the viewers will like it. joey: those are perfect. rachel: did dave give you that? on your own? joey: i have my own dad jokes. pete: thank you very much. no stock photos in there the a all. those are all viewer photos. yesterday, when i said send cat photos. i was inundated, i forwarded over to ariel who put this together. rachel: my mom is cat person. pete: gwen, one of our cats, storm and trooper. joey: cat people are surprisingly pretty normal. rachel: the cat people. [laughter] joey: they re normal. pete: cur ....