The California wildfires are playing into a growing insurance crisis, Mark Zuckerberg is getting fact-checked on his motivations for ending fact-checking on Meta, what Donald Trump's sentencing means, and a timely analysis of Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic ‘Fahrenheit 451' with author Lois Lowry and fascism expert Jason Stanley.  

Orange County Fire Chief Brian Fennessy on advanced fire-fighting and prevention technology; what's next in Trump's hush-money case with Melissa Murray and Lisa Rubin; the heads of PolitiFact and Snopes discuss what the end of Meta's fact-checking program means for the spread of disinformation; Lois Lowry and Jason Stanley join the Velshi Banned Book Club to discuss Ray Bradbury's ‘Fahrenheit 451'

Former CIA Director John Brennan weighs in on Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to serve as Director of National Intelligence, Nobel Prize-winner Maria Ressa shares crucial lessons for reporting on a government that's hostile to the free press, and why this week's selection for the Velshi Banned Book Club, John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" is still so relevant to American life and politics that it's still being banned.