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When the weather gets colder and dryer because it turns to mist better then. >> thank you for helping us clear it up. dr. bedelia, boston center for emerging infectious diseases, policy and research. still ahead, my conversation with a group of locals in a mississippi town where a tweet caused a flurry of controversy for graduating teens. plus, jena griswold, staving off a sham audit in her state. that and more coming up. another hour of "velshi" starts now. good morning. i'm ali velshi. it is saturday, june 19th, juneteenth. the very first federally recognized observance of this holiday...

Time for schumer to do what is necessary, to put this into perspective. and that is forget about -- change the rules if you will, when it comes to constitutional issues. if you want the filibuster issues of legislation, how high to build a wall, whether or not the wall ought to be built, those are not constitutional issues, filibuster them all you want. when it comes to my right to vote as a citizen of the united states, it should not be subjected to the filibuster of any one person. >> i want to ask you about a tweet you sent in celebration of juneteenth. i think that it is very relevant with...

The 14 who voted against it are those who scream most loudly about cancel culture and juneteenth is the ultimate response to cancel culture. we have canceled hundreds of years of black history in this country. and symbols are important, holidays are important. and it is really important that we recognize juneteenth. i'm so thrilled because i have a day full of activities here in the district, different juneteenth celebrations in different communities, and i was so happy to be able to come back from d.c. this weekend and say hey, we actually got something good done in d.c. and it is a federal h...

Today marks the inaugural juneteenth federal holiday, america's 11th federal holiday signed into law by president biden on thursday. >> this is a day of profound in my view profound weight and profound power. by making juneteenth a federal holiday, all americans can feel the power of this day and learn from our history. great nations don't ignore their most painful moments. great nations don't ignore the most painful moments. they don't ignore those moments of the past, they embrace them. >> following a year's long push, passage of the juneteenth federal holiday legislation actually came toget...

Two years after president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, the union army general gordon granger announced in an address in galveston, texas, that the union had won the war and all enslaved americans were free. this week president biden signed into law a proclamation declaring this day a federal holiday, america's 11th federal holiday. >> this is a day profound in my view, profound weight and profound power. by making juneteenth a federal holiday all americans can feel the power of this day and learn from our history. it is not going to be fulfilled so long as the sacred right to ...