MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi brings his sharp analysis and perspective to weekend mornings.
U.S. Strikes Back Against Iran-Backed Militias
Ali Velshi is joined by Sen. Tim Kaine, former U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, former U.S. State Dept. senior adviser Vali Nasr, Senior Fellow at American University of Beirut Rami Khouri, Director of Research at The Soufan Group Colin Clarke, Huff Post’s Akbar Ahmed, NBC’s Dan De Luce, NBC’s Antonia Hylton, NBC ’s Trymaine Lee, NBC’s Keir Simmons, President & CEO of “Visit Philadelphia” Angela Val
2/3/2024 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 32 seconds
THE TRIALS & CAMPAIGN OF DONALD J TRUMP
Charles Coleman is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, former Manhattan Asstistant District Attorney Catherine Christian, Political Analyst on SiriusXM Ameshia Cross, Executive Director of BlackPAC Adrianne Shropshire, Republican Political Strategist Rina Shah, former Rep. Charlie Dent, NBC’s Matt Bradley, former U.S. Attorney in Michigan Barbara McQuade, former Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Melissa Redmon, Taxation Chair and Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Dorothy Brown, Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair Molly Jong-Fast, Host of SiriusXM’s ‘The Dean Obeidallah Show’ Dean Obeidallah
1/28/2024 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 27 seconds
$83.3 MILLION & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by Investigative Reporter with The New York Times Susanne Craig, Special Correspondent with Vanity Fair Molly Jong-Fast, former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, Criminal Defense Attorney Danny Cevallos, Opinion Writer with Washington PostJennifer Rubin, Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Award winning Science Fiction and fantasy author Nisi Shawl, Award-winning Fiction Writer, Poet, & Editor Sheree Renée Thomas
1/27/2024 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 30 seconds
Two Days Until the New Hampshire Primaries
Ali Velshi is joined by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), former Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, former Rep. Charlie Dent, GOP pollster Frank Luntz, Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson , Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times, The Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell, Lincoln Project senior adviser Stuart Stevens, and Prof. Kermit Roosevelt from UPenn Law School
1/21/2024 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 59 seconds
THE ALARMING STATE OF THE GOP PRIMARY & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by Staff Writer with The Atlantic Tom Nichols, former Republican Strategist Matthew Dowd, NBC News’ Ali Vitali, NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, Professor of Law at NYU Melissa Murray, Staff Writer with The Atlantic McKay Coppins, Opinion Writer with Washington PostJennifer Rubin, NBC News’ Anna Schecter, Dean of Columbia Journalism School Jelani Cobb, Assistant Professor of English at University of Alabama Taylor Brorby
1/20/2024 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 48 seconds
Countdown to Iowa
Ali Velshi is joined by Zack Beauchamp, Senior Correspondent at VOX, Michele Goodwin, Professor of Constitutional Law & Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Founder & Host of the ‘Black Diplomats’ podcast, Karen Attiah, Award-winning Columnist at The Washington Post, Steve Benen, Producer of The Rachel Maddow Show, Rev. William Barber II, President of Repairers of the Breach, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, and Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney
1/14/2024 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 38 seconds
The GOP Primary
Ali Velshi is joined by Ana Marie Cox, Political Columnist at The New Republic, Jeffrey Rosen, President & CEO at the National Constitution Center, Akbar Ahmed, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent at HuffPost, Oona Hathaway, Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, Michael Shure, Political Journalist, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D) Washington, and Jesmyn Ward, Author of ‘Salvage The Bones’
1/14/2024 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 35 seconds
Perception vs. Reality
Ali Velshi is joined Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, Norman Ornstein from the American Enterprise Institute, retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Foreign Policy’s Ravi Agrawal, The Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor, Eugene Scott of Axios, NBC’s Jonathan Allen, Asaf Zamir - former Consul General of Israel in New York, Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb and Princeton University’s Eddie Glaude Jr.
1/7/2024 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 33 seconds
Three Years Since January 6th
Ali Velshi is joined by Secretary Shenna Bellows, (D) Maine Secretary of State, Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett, (D) U.S. VI, Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government at Harvard University, Joanne Freeman, Professor of American History & American Studies at Yale University, Secretary Jena Griswold, (D) Colorado Secretary of State, Judge J. Michael Luttig, Fmr. Federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Zack Beauchamp, Senior Correspondent at Vox, and Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University
1/6/2024 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 24 seconds
A Year in Review
Guest host Charles Coleman Jr. is joined by Rep. Jim Clyburn, Rep. Bennie Thompson, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, former Rep. Joe Walsh, Republican strategist Rina Shah, labor union president Sara Nelson, Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast, radio host Dean Obeidallah, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, Vox’s Ian Millhiser, historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss
12/31/2023 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 37 seconds
Dodging Accountability
Guest host Charles Coleman Jr. is joined by former Rep. David Jolly, The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, Watergate Assistant Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, independent journalist Noga Tarnopolsky, Mini Timmaraju from Reproductive Freedom for All, Dr. Uche Blackstock, Dr. L. Ebony Boulware, Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center for Justice, and criminal defense attorney Danny Cevallos.
12/30/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 35 seconds
“Chapter F”
Ali Velshi is joined by Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post, Joe Walsh, Fmr. Republican Congressman, Avner Gvaryahu, Executive Director of Breaking the Silence, Molly Jong-Fast, Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair, Dean Obeidallah, Host of SiriusXM’s ‘The Dean Obeidallah Show’, Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State, José Andrés, Co-Founder of the World Center Kitchen, and Elizabeth Price, Mother of Hisham Awartani
12/24/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 47 seconds
Trump and the 14th Amendment
Ali Velshi is joined by Noah Bookbinder, President & CEO of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, Barbara McQuade, Fmr. U.S. Attorney for Michigan, Sarit Michaeli, International Advocacy Lead for B’Tselem, Judge J. Michael Luttig, Fmr. Federal Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Aaron David Miller, Sr. Fellow for the American Stagecraft Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Bill Browder, Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, and Oleksiy Goncharenko, Ukrainian Parliament Member
12/23/2023 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 37 seconds
The Immigration Issue
Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett (D) U.S. Virgin Islands, Noga Tarnopolsky, Independent Journalist, Leslie Reagan, Author of ‘When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973’, Michele Goodwin, Professor of Constitutional Law & Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law, Barbara McQuade, Fmr. U.S. Attorney in Michigan, Ryan Reilly, Justice Reporter for NBC News, and Bill McKibben, Contributing Writer at The New Yorker
12/17/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 17 seconds
America’s Immigration Debate
Ali is joined by Lisa Rubin, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Andrew Kirtzman, President of Kirtzman Strategies, Amb. William B. Taylor, Fmr. U.S Ambassador to Ukraine, Steven Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East & Africa Studies at Council on Foreign Affairs, Michelle Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist at The New York Times, Robin Marty, Operations Director at West Alabama Women’s Center, Tara Palmeri, Senior Political Correspondent at Puck News, Melissa Redmon, Fmr. Fulton County Deputy District Attorney, Amb. Michael McFaul, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow at Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy & International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Dara Lind, Senior Fellow at American Immigration Council
12/16/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 25 seconds
Trump’s “Dictator For One Day” Threat
Ali Velshi is joined by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, (D) Maryland, Rep. Jamie Raskin, (D) Maryland, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, (D) Texas, Caleb Silver, Editor-In-Chief at Investopedia, Erica Newland, Counsel at Protect Democracy, Franklin Foer, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Jeremy Ben-Ami, President & Founder at J Street, and Dr. Jamie Justice, Executive Vice President of the Health Domain at XPRIZE Foundation.
12/10/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 4 seconds
What happens if Trump wins the White House again?
Ali Velshi is joined by Michael Cohen, Principal at Crisis-X, Michael McFaul, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Hanan Ashrawi, Fmr. Official Spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to Middle East Peace Process, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Barton Gellman, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Joe Walsh, Fmr. Republican Congressman, Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post, Diana Buttu, Fmr. Spokesperson at Palestine Liberation Organization, and Stephen Chbosky, Author of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”.
12/9/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 11 seconds
Trump’s Legal Deluge
Ali Velshi is joined by Paul Butler, Professor at Georgetown School of Law, Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at Washington Post, Asaf Zamir, Former Consul General of Israel in New York, Aaron David Miller, Sr. Fellow at American Stagecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Barbara McQuade, Fmr. U.S. Attorney, Rina Shah, Principal and Founder of Rilax Strategies, Rep. Summer Lee (D) Pennsylvania, and Melissa Murray, Professor of Law at NYU.
12/3/2023 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 11 seconds
Trump and January 6th
Ali Velshi is joined by Olivia Troye, Fmr. Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to VP Mike Pence, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Ronen Bergman, Staff Writer at The New York Times Magazine, Charles Blow, Writer & Executive Producer of ‘South to Black Power’, State Rep. Justin Jones (D) Tennessee, Michael Steele, Fmr. Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Stuart Stevens, Senior Adviser for The Lincoln Project, Noga Tarnopolsky, Independent Journalist, and Emily Van Duyne, Author of ‘Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation’
12/2/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 12 seconds
3rd Hostage Swap
Charles Coleman Jr. is joined by Stuart Stevens, Senior Adviser at The Lincoln Project, Rina Shah, Principal and Founder at Rilax Strategies, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D) New York, Molly Jong-Fast, Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair, Dean Obeidallah, Host of SiriusXM’s ‘The Dean Obeidallah Show’, Rick Wilson, Co-Founder of The Lincoln Project, Tara Setmayer, Fmr. GOP Communications Director, Ameshia Cross, Political Analyst at SiriusXM, Aaron David Miller, Sr. Fellow at American Stagecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Caitlin Dickerson, Pulitzer and Peabody Prize-winning investigative reporter, and Philip Bump, National Columnist at the Washington Post
11/26/2023 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 12 seconds
Israel and Hamas Set to Swap Hostages
Charles Coleman Jr. is joined by Anthony Coley, Fmr. Director of Public Affairs at the U.S. Dept of Justice, Danny Cevallos, Criminal Defense Attorney, Christopher O’Leary, Senior Vice-President at Global Operations at The Soufan Group, Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director of The Advancement Project National Office, Carol Anderson, Professor of African American Studies at Emory University, David A. Graham, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) Texas, Noga Tarnopolsky, Independent Journalist, and Brian Bond, Chief Executive Officer at PFLAG National.
11/25/2023 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 28 seconds
Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook
Guest host Charles Coleman Jr. is joined by Yale University’s Joanne Freeman, Zack Beauchamp of VOX, independent journalist Noga Tarnopolsky, political strategist Lauren Harper, Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval, historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Yale University’s Jason Stanley, Aaron David Miller of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Alisha Haridasani Gupta from The New York Times and Prof. Chris Bobel from the University of Massachusetts Boston
11/19/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 16 seconds
The Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code
Ali Velshi is joined by Judge J. Michael Luttig, Fmr. Federal Judge at U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Prof. Laurence Tribe, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School, Diana Buttu, Fmr. Palestine Liberation Organization Spokesperson for Negotiations Support Unit, Melissa Murray, Professor of Law at NYU, Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate, Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State, Noah Bookbinder, President & CEO for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, David Ignatius, Award-winning Foreign Affairs Columnist at The Washington Post, and Emily Drabinski, President of the American Library Association
11/19/2023 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 42 seconds
Democracy on the Ballot
Ali Velshi is joined by Steve Benen, Producer on The Rachel Maddow Show, Stuart Stevens, Senior Adviser at The Lincoln Project, Peter Beinart, Editor-at-Large at Jewish Currents, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator of “the 1619 Project”, Norman Ornstein, Senior Fellow Emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, Fmr. Rep. Charles Dent, Executive Director & Vice President of the Congressional Program at Aspen Institute, Dr. Nahreen Ahmed, Medical Director at MedGlobal, Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post, and Rick Wilson, Co-Founder of The Lincoln Project
11/12/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 29 seconds
Election Take-Aways
Ali Velshi is joined by Michael Steele, Fmr. Chairman, Republican National Committee, Lynn Hastings, Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory flr UN OCHA, Molly Jong-Fast, Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair, Dean Obeidallah, Host of SiriusXM’s ‘The Dean Obeidallah Show’, Fmr. Rep. David Jolly, Fmr. Florida Republican Congressman, Jonathan Allen, Senior National Politics Reporter at NBC News, Yonatan Zeigen, Son of Missing Israeli Peace Activist, and Dorit Rabinyan, Award-winning Israeli Author, “All The Rivers”
11/11/2023 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 59 seconds
Blinken Meets with Palestinian President
Ali Velshi is joined by former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Majed Bamya, former federal judge Michael Luttig, former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party David Pepper, former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, Washington Post Opinion Writer Jennifer Rubin, Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, NBC’s Josh Lederman, NBC’s Aaron Gilchrist & NBC”s Erin McLaughlin.
11/5/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 39 seconds
Trump on the Trail while on Trial
Ali Velshi is joined by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, California Rep. Ro Khanna, Yale international law professor Oona Hathaway, Tufts University international law professor Tom Dannenbaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, New York Times Investigative Reporter Susanne Craig, NBC’s Ali Arouzi, NBC’s Meagan Fitzgerald & NBC’s Josh Lederman
11/4/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 39 seconds
Who Will Flip on Trump Next?
Guest host Charles Coleman is joined by Rep. Gregory Meeks, Rep. Madeleine Dean, former Sen. Doug Jones, former RNC chair Michael Steele, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, defense attorney Danny Cevallos, former GOP Communications Director Tara Setmayer, Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart, NBC’s Jay Gray, NBC’s Steve Patterson, and best-selling authors David Baldacci & Michael Connelly
10/29/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 51 seconds
The Path Forward
Ali Velshi is joined by David Graham, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post, Amb. Majed Bamya, Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN, Christopher O’Leary, Senior Vice-President of Global Operations at The Soufan Group, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Tzipi Livni, Fmr. Israeli Vice Prime Minister, and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D) New York.
10/22/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 36 seconds
Fighting the Fog of War
Ali Velshi is joined by Norman Ornstein, Senior Fellow Emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, Ray Smock, Former Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Barbara McQuade, Former U.S. Attorney in Michigan, Fred Smith, Jr., Professor of Law at Emory University, Fmr. Pennsylvania Rep. Charles Dent, Joanne Freeman, Professor of History & American Studies at Yale University, Hanan Ashrawi, Fmr. Official Spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to Middle East Peace Process, and Eric Carvin, Director of Social Newsgathering at NBC News.
10/21/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 9 seconds
A “Manufactured Crisis”
Guest host Charles Coleman is joined by Rep. Gregory Meeks, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Bloomberg Opinion’s Tim O’Brien, former Assistant U.S Attorney Maya Wiley, NYU law professor Melissa Murray, Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin, The Grio’s April Ryan, The Boston Globe’s Renee Graham, Eugene Scott from Axios, NBC’s Julie Tsirkin, and NBC’s Sahil Kapur
10/1/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 2 seconds
Government Shutdown Looms
Guest host Charles Coleman is joined by Rep. Dan Kildee, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross, Republican strategist Rina Shah, defense attorney Danny Cevallos, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, The Lincoln Project senior adviser Tara Setmayer, The Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols, Politico’s Sam Stein, NBC’s Julie Tsirkin, and NBC’s Antonia Hylton.
9/30/2023 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 18 seconds
American Politics on the Knife’s Edge
Ali Velshi is joined by Bob King, Fmr. President of the UAW, Dr. Peter Hotez, Co-Director for Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, Lisa Rubin, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Melissa Redmon, Fmr. Fulton County Deputy District Attorney, Rep. Debbie Dingell, (D) Michigan, Adm. James Stavridis, Fmr. Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, Michael Hirsh, Senior Correspondent, Foreign Policy, and Steve Benen, Producer of The Rachel Maddow Show.
9/24/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 25 seconds
America’s New Battlefront: State Courts
Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Don Bacon, (R) Nebraska, Maria Ressa, Nobel Prize winner and journalist, Devlin Barrett, Justice Reporter at The Washington Post, David Graham, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Fmr. Rep. Charlie Dent Executive Director & Vice President of the Congressional Program at Aspen Institute, Fmr. Gov. Mark Sanford, (R ) South Carolina, Lindsay Dougherty, Vice-President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and David Polonsky, Award-winning Illustrator of ‘Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation’.
9/24/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 42 seconds
Chaos in the GOP
Ali Velshi is joined by Joe Walsh, Former Republican Congressman, Tom Nichols, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, John Brennan, Former Director of the CIA, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) Texas, State Rep. Ann Johnson, (D) Texas, Stuart Stevens, Senior Adviser at The Lincoln Project, Charlie Dent, Executive Director & Vice President for the Congressional Program at Aspen Institute, Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, Sara Nelson, President of Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, and Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor.
9/17/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 14 seconds
SPECIAL COUNSEL SEEKS GAG ORDER AGAINST TRUMP
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News’ Shaquille Brewster, NBC News’ Priscilla Thompson, Emory University Law Professors Fred Smith & Kay Levine, Fmr. Asst. Watergate Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, lead plaintiff in lawsuit against Idaho’s abortion law Jennifer Adkins, ‘Tyranny of the Minority’ co-authors Steve Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, Fmr. Superior Court Judge Carol Lam, NYU Professor of Law Melissa Murray and Host of ‘Roland Martin Unfiltered’ Roland Martin.
9/17/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 53 seconds
TRUMP THE DISQUALIFIED & BIDEN ABROAD
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News’ Raf Sanchez, NBC News’ Janis Mackey Frayer, NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell, Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School Laurence Tribe, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA), former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), Producer on The Rachel Maddow Show Steve Benen, former Chair of the National Bar Association PAC A. Scott Bolden, Director of the Climate Risk Initiative at the UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment Dave Jones, Law Professor and Historian at UC Davis Law School Mary Ziegler, Operations Director at West Alabama Women’s Center Robin Marty
9/10/2023 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 19 seconds
TRUMPWORLD LEGAL LATEST & THE 14TH AMENDMENT
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News’ Matt Bradley, Senior Legal Affairs Reporter at Politico Josh Gerstein, Professor of Law at Emory University Fred Smith, Jr., President and CEO of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Noah Bookbinder, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele, MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin, Legal Fellow and Courts Correspondent at Lawfare Anna Bower, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law Emeritus at Emory University Morgan Cloud, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, Senior Reporter at NBC News Brandy Zadrozny
9/9/2023 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 18 seconds
THE 14TH AMENDMENT
Ali Velshi is joined by Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, former Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party David Pepper, NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, former Federal Judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig, Host of MSNBC’S Politics Nation Rev. Al Sharpton, Independent Journalist Noga Tarnopolsky, Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents Peter Beinart
9/3/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 15 seconds
COMMUNISM OR COSTCO
Ali Velshi is joined by Staff Writer with The New Yorker Sheelah Kolhatkar, Staff Writer with The Atlantic Anne Applebaum, former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO Adm. James Stavridis, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University Jason Stanley, former Senior Analyst for Domestic Terrorism at the U.S. Deptartment of Homeland Security Daryl Johnson, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute James Pethokoukis, Fmr. President of Estonia Toomas Ilves, Founding Legal Director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School Burt Neuborne, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)
9/2/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 44 seconds
THE POLITICAL FIGHT AHEAD
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Marissa Parra, MSNBC Political Analyst Brittany Packnett Cunningham, former Federal Prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, State Rep. Tanya Miller (D-GA), Professor at Georgetown School of Law Paul Butler, Author of “How to be an Antiracist” Ibram X. Kendi, Fmr. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), Opinion Writer at The Washington PostJennifer Rubin, 2024 GOP Presidential Candidate Fmr. Rep Will Hurd, Little Rock Nine member Dr. Terrence Roberts, Director of Education Innovation and Research at the NAACP Dr. Ivory Toldson
8/27/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 40 seconds
SURRENDER, BUT DON’T GIVE YOURSELF AWAY
Ali Velshi is joined by former Special Counsel to Donald Trump Michael Cohen, NBC’s Trymaine Lee, NBC’s Antonia Hylton, Attorney Dean Obeidallah, former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Catherine Christian, MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, former Chairman of the Republican National ConventionMichael Steele, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Shakespeare Scholar at Harvard University Jeffrey R. Wilson, Research Fellow and Dean for Welfare at Magdalen College, Oxford Sophie Duncan
8/26/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 51 seconds
TRUMP & OUR FRAGILE DEMOCRACY
Ali Velshi and is joined by Political Investigations Reporter with The Guardian Hugo Lowell, former Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), Assistant Professor of Law at Widener University Quinn Yeargain, State Rep. Tanya Miller (D-GA), Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University, Fred Smith, Jr., Opinion Writer at Washington PostJennifer Rubin, Political Reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein, Reporter for The Wall Street Journal Jim Carlton, Senior Adviser at The Lincoln Project Stuart Stevens, Host of MSNBC’S ‘Politics Nation’ Rev. Al Sharpton
8/20/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 31 seconds
OUR FRAGILE DEMOCRACY
Ali Velshi and is joined by former Federal Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School Laurence Tribe, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, former Ted Cruz Campaign National Spokesperson Rick Tyler, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, NBC’s Steve Patterson, Law Professor and Historian at UC Davis Law School Mary Ziegler, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University Akhil Reed Amar, President and CEO at the National Constitution Center Jeffrey Rosen
8/19/2023 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 10 seconds
IMPENDING CHARGES?
Charles Coleman is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by NBC’s Steve Patterson, Political Investigations Reporter at The Guardian Hugo Lowell, Professor of Law at NYU Melissa Murray, Fmr. U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, Fmr. Representative Joe Walsh (R-IL), Co-Founder of The Lincoln Project Rick Wilson, Reporter for ProPublica Brett Murphy, Senior Writer at Slate Mark Joseph Stern, Fmr. Asst. Watergate Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, Executive Director & Founder at James Madison Project Mark Zaid, Producer at The Rachel Maddow Show Steve Benen, Founder of Rilax Strategies Rina Shah, Rapper Bun B, Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University Imani Perry, Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University Marc Anthony Neal
8/14/2023 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 44 seconds
PROTECTION ORDERS & WILDFIRES
Charles Coleman is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by NBC News’ Ryan Reilly, Senior Executive Editor of Bloomberg Opinion Tim O’Brien, President and CEO of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics Noah Bookbinder, NBC News’ Monica Alba, Opinion Writer with The Washington PostJennifer Rubin, Columnist with The New York Times Michelle Goldberg, NBC News’ Steve Patterson, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter Charlottesville Don Gathers, Author and Poet Caroline Randall Williams, Professor at Georgetown School of Law Paul Butler, Criminal Defense Attorney Danny Cevallos, Fmr. Florida 9TH Judicial Circuit State Attorney Monique Worrell, NBC News Senior Reporter Ben Collins, Founder of Algorithmic Justice League Dr. Joy Buolamwini
8/12/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 26 seconds
Trump’s Long List of Lies
Ali Velshi is joined by Judge J. Michael Luttig, Fmr. Federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, David Pepper, Fmr. Chairman, Ohio Democratic Party, Maya Wiley, President & CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D) Mississippi, Secretary Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, Paul Butler, Professor, Georgetown School of Law, and Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney.
8/6/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 31 seconds
SERIOUS & STILL HAPPENING
Ali Velshi is joined by Opinion Writer for The Washington PostJennifer Rubin, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Operations Director at the West Alabama Women’s Center Robin Marty, former Senior Investigative Counsel with the January 6thCommittee Marc Harris, Staff Writer with The Atlantic Tom Nichols, Professor of History & American Studies at Yale University Joanne Freeman, former Senior Advisor to VP Mike Pence Olivia Troye, Author of “Persepolis” Marjane Satrapi.
8/5/2023 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 37 seconds
Dangerous Loyalty to Trump
Ali Velshi is joined by Michael Cohen, Fmr. Special Counsel to Donald Trump, Caleb Silver, Editor-In-Chief at Investopedia, Christopher Browning, Professor of History Emeritus at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Eden McLean, Historian and Professor at Auburn University, Catherine Christian, Former Assistant District Attorney for Manhattan, Elizabeth Holtzman, Former Congresswoman, Ebony Twilley Martin, Executive Director at Greenpeace USA, Zack Beauchamp, Senior Correspondent at Vox, and SteveBenen, Producer for The Rachel Maddow Show.
7/30/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 8 seconds
Indictment Watch
Ali Velshi is joined by Barbara McQuade, Fmr. U.S. Attorney in Michigan, Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett, (D) U.S. Virgin Islands, Lynsey Barron, Fmr. Asst. U.S. Attorney in Northern District of GA, Frank Luntz, Political Strategist & Pollster, A. Scott Bolden, White Collar Criminal Defense Attorney, Lisa Rubin, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Noga Tarnopolsky, Independent Journalist, Tess Bridgeman, Co-Editor-in-Chief at Just Security, and Maulik Pancholy, Author of ‘The Best At It’
7/29/2023 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 50 seconds
The True Victim of Trump’s Indictments
Ali Velshi is joined by Judge J. Michael Luttig, Fmr. Federal Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Hon. Dick Gephardt, Fmr. House Majority Leader, Jerry Goldfeder, Director at Fordham Law School Voting Rights and Democracy Project, Prof.KimberléCrenshaw, Author of ‘#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence’, Matthew Seligman, Lawyer and Legal Scholar, Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post, Sean O’Brien, President of International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Kristy Greenberg, Fmr. SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief, and Andrew Weissman, Fmr. FBI General Counsel.
7/23/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 22 seconds
INCOMING INDICTMENTS & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by President & CEO of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics Noah Bookbinder, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Staff Writer with The Atlantic Anne Applebaum, History Professor at Yale University Timothy Snyder, former U.S. Attorney in Michigan Barbara McQuade, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer, former RudyGuiliani Associate Lev Parnas, Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University Imani Perry
7/22/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 56 seconds
PERILOUS TIMES & THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Ali Velshi is joined by Senior Adviser for The Lincoln Project Stuart Stevens, Co-Founder of The Lincoln Project Rick Wilson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants- CWA, AFL-CIO Sara Nelson, Ret. U.S. Army Colonel Colonel Jack Jacobs, former CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Jeremy Butler, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, former Republican CongressmanJoe Walsh, President and CEO of The Wildlife Conservation Society Monica Medina, Senior Reporter for NBC News Ben Collins, Co-Founder of Elevation Partners Roger McNamee
7/16/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 14 seconds
THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF DONALD TRUMP
Ali Velshi is joined former U.S. Attorney in Michigan Barbara McQuade, SeniorColumnist for The Boston Globe OpinionKimberly Atkins Stohr, former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO Adm. James Stavridis, Leader of the Digital Threat Analysis Center at Microsoft Clint Watts, Vice President at the Centre for Information Resilience Nina Jankowicz, former Federal Prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, Opinion Writer with Washington PostJennifer Rubin, NBC News’ Marissa Parra, President and CEO for Physicians for Reproductive Health Dr. Jamila Perritt, author of “The Hate U Give” Angie Thomas
7/15/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 45 seconds
PRIMARY POLITICS & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by 2024 Presidential Candidate fmr. Rep. Will Hurd (R- TX), Staff Writer at The Atlantic Adam Harris, Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS), fmr. Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party David Pepper, fmr. U.S. Attorney in Michigan Barbara McQuade, NBC News Senior Executive Editor for National Security David Rohde, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania Michael Mann, Co-Host of ‘Déjà Newsw/ Rachel Maddow’ podcast Isaac Davy Aronson
7/9/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 1 second
DONALD TRUMP’S HOUSE & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by Producer on The Rachel Maddow Show Steve Benen, fmr. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA), Fmr. Director of European Affairs for the United States National Security Council Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (Ret.), Co-Founder of Elevation Partners Roger McNamee, Vice-President Centre for Information Resilience Nina Jankowicz, Senior Politics Reporter at Axios Eugene Scott, Senior Adviser for The Lincoln Project Stuart Stevens, Co-Director of Breaking the Silence Avner Gvaryahu, Justice Correspondent at The Nation Elie Mystal, Award-winning author of “Lawn Boy” Jonathan Evison
7/8/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 54 seconds
The Future of the GOP
Michael Steele, in for Ali Velshi, is joined by Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post, Fmr. Gov. MarkSanford, Fmr. Governor of South Carolina, Dr. Uché Blackstock, Founder & CEO at Advancing Health Equity, Dr. David J. Skorton, President & CEO at Association of American Medical Colleges, Rina Shah, Principal & Founder at Rilax Strategies, Tara Setmayer, Senior Advisor at Lincoln Project, April Ryan, White House Correspondent& Bureau Chief at The Grio, Jennifer Horn, Fmr. New Hampshire Republican Party Chair, Barbara McQuade, Fmr. U.S. Attorney for Michigan, Sen. Gary Peters (D) Michigan, Melissa Gira Grant, Staff Writer at The New Republic, and Neal Katyal, Fmr. U.S. Acting Solicitor General.
7/2/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 8 seconds
The Supreme Court’s Ethics Problem
Michael Steel, in for Ali Velshi, is joined by Judith Browne-Dianis, Executive Director at Advancement Project, Jeannie Suk Gersen, Contributing Writer at the New Yorker, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Fmr. Rep. Joe Walsh, Fmr. Republican Congressman, Fmr. Rep. Charles Dent, Executive Director & Vice President for the Congressional Program at the Aspen Institute, Adam Harris, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Imani Perry, Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University, Alyse Adamson, Fmr. Asst. U.S. Attorney, Joshua Kaplan, Reporter at ProPublica, and Michael Waldman, President & CEO at Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law.
7/1/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 39 seconds
ARMED REBELLION IN RUSSIA
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News’ Richard Engel, Kelly Cobiella, Ali Arouzi, Matt Bodner, Director of Research at the Soufan Group Colin Clark, host of the ‘Black Diplomats’ podcast Terrell Jermaine Starr, Commander inf the Ukrainian Armed Forces Mamuka Maulashvili, professor of International Affairs at The New School Nina Khrushcheva, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Adm. James Stavridis, fmr. Rep. Jane Harmon, President of the Eurasia Group Ian Bremmer
6/24/2023 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 47 seconds
POLICING & POLITICS
Ali Velshi is joined by Civil Rights Attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, Democratic Strategist Peter Fenn, Fmr. Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC), Fmr. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), Fmr. Gov. Bill Weld (R- MA), Attorney General of Minnesota Keith Ellison, Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, ‘The Grandmother of Juneteenth’ Opal Lee, Author of “The Power Of One” Frances Haugen
6/18/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes
Trump’s Legal Woes
Ali Velshi is joined by Barbara McQuade, Professor at University of Michigan Law School, Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post, Elizabeth Holtzman, Former Congresswoman, Juno Dawson, author of ‘This Book Is Gay’, Michael Steele, Former Chairman of the RNC, Charles F. Coleman, Jr., Civil Rights Attorney, Michael Waldman, President & CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, and Soledad O’Brien, CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions.
6/17/2023 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 26 seconds
THE INDICTMENT OF DONALD TRUMP
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News Garrett Haake, NBC News Ken Dilanian, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), National Security Attorney Bradley P. Moss, Staff Writer for The Atlantic David Graham, Senior Advisor for Lincoln Project Tara Setmayer, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, U.S. Army Colonel (ret.) Yevgeny Vindman, former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance
6/11/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 48 seconds
THE INDICTMENT OF DONALD TRUMP
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News Ken Dilanian, former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Mary McCord, Former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI Frank Figliuzzi, Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett (D–U.S. VI), former Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, former Representative Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY), White House Correspondent for The Independent Andrew Feinberg, MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin, NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John O. Brennan, Opinion Columnist with The New York Times David French, Executive Director and Founder of the James Madison Project Mark Zaid, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Correspondent with The New York Times Charlie Savage, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School Laurence Tribe, Professor of Law at NYU Melissa Murray, former Representative Charles Dent (R-PA), former Representative Joe Walsh (R-IL)
6/10/2023 • 2 hours, 8 minutes, 50 seconds
INVESTIGATIONS & RETRIBUTION
Ali Velshi is joined by Senior Politics Reporter at Rolling Stone Asawin Suebsaeng, Opinion Writer at The Washington Post Jennifer Rubin, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center Fatima Goss Graves, Professor of Law at NYU Melissa Murray, SeniorColumnist at The Boston Globe OpinionKimberly Atkins Stohr, Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, President and CEO of The Wildlife Conservation Society Monica Medina, Founder and Executive Director at IllumiNative Crystal Echo Hawk
6/4/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 33 seconds
THE GROWING GOP PRIMARY FIELD & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by former U.S. Attorney in Michigan Barbara McQuade, former Rep. Joe Walsh, President and Senior Lecturer at Repairers of the Breach Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Fmr. Rep. David Jolly, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Producer for The Rachel Maddow Show Steve Benen, NBC’s Molly Hunter, former Federal Prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, Co-Editor-in-Chief for Just Security Tess Bridgeman, Author of ‘The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan After the Americans Left’ Prof. Hassan Abbas.
6/3/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 25 seconds
DEBT CEILING DEAL
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Julie Tsirkin, NBC’s Monica Alba, NBC’s Matt Bradley, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), Fmr. Democratic Nominee for Texas Attorney General Rochelle Garza, Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Fmr. Governor of Ohio (R) Fmr. Gov. John Kasich
5/28/2023 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 43 seconds
DEBT CEILING DEADLINE APPROACHING
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Ryan Nobles, NBC’s Monica Alba, NBC’s Molly Hunter, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), State Sen. Mia McLeod (I-SC), Director of Economic Policy Studies at American Enterprise Institute Michael Strain, Opinion Writer at The Washington PostJennifer Rubin, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia Caleb Silver, Fmr. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA), Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), Pulitzer Prize-winning Artist/Illustrator and Author of ‘Maus’ Art Spiegelman.
5/27/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 57 seconds
STANDOFF & SUMMIT
Ali Velshi is joined by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), NBC’s Molly Hunter, Producer on The Rachel Maddow Show Steve Benen, Senior Editor at Politico Michael Schaffer, President & CEO at the National Constitution Center Jeffrey Rosen, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), State Sen. Megan Hunt (D-NE), NBC News Technology Correspondent Jake Ward, Co-Founder of Elevation Partners Roger McNamee
5/22/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 13 seconds
LOSING ISSUES & RECKLESS GAMBLES
Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA), NBC’s Molly Hunter, Fmr. 9-term congresswoman from CA Jane Harman, Professor at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at University of California, San Francisco Dr. Katrina Kimport, Professor at University of California, Irvine Law Michele Goodwin, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Fmr. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, New York Times Best-Selling Author of ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ George M. Johnson, Author of ‘Out of Darkness’ Ashley Hope Pérez
5/20/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 35 seconds
THE POWER OF ONE, AND MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Julie Tsirkin, Co-Founder of The Lincoln Project Rick Wilson, Fmr. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley CollegeKellie Carter Jackson, Founder & CEO of TransLash Media Imara Jones, Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC), Mexico Country Director of the International Rescue Committee Rafael A. Velasquez Garcia, Senior Editor at Slate Dahlia Lithwick, Fmr. SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief Kristy Greenberg
5/15/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 51 seconds
LIES & ACCOUNTABILITY, AND MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Julia Ainsley, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Staff Writer at The Atlantic Tom Nichols, Staff Writer at The Atlantic Caitlin Dickerson, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), former Chairman of the Republican National CommitteeMichael Steele, Senior Correspondent at Vox Zack Beauchamp, Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign William Browder, Author of ‘They Called Us Enemy’ George Takei
5/13/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 20 seconds
MASS SHOOTING IN TX & MORE
Michael Steele is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by NBC’s Morgan Chesky, NBC’s Guad Venegas, NBC News National Security Analyst Clint Watts, CEO & Founder of Their Future Our Vote Dr. Annie Andrews, Staff Writer The Atlantic Caitlin Dickerson, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Fmr. Rep. Joe Walsh, Senior Adviser of The Lincoln Project Stuart Stevens, Ret. ATF Special Agent in Charge Jim Cavanaugh, Fmr. Firearms Executive Ryan Busse, Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Fmr. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro, Host & Managing Editor of ‘#RolandMartinUnfiltered’ Roland Martin
5/7/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 49 seconds
AMERICA’S SPLIT-SCREEN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC), former Director of European Affairs for the United States National Security Council Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alexander Vindman, NBC News’ George Solis, MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele, Political Columnist for The Washington Post Karen Tumulty, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), President & CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health Dr. Jamila Perritt, Lead Plaintiff, Texas Abortion Ban lawsuit Amanda Zurawski.
4/30/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 1 second
THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY & MORE
Velshi is joined by Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones (D), Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson (D), South Carolina State Senator Sandy Senn (R), Fmr. Florida Republican Congressman David Jolly, Republican StrategistRina Shah, Oklahoma State Rep. Ajay Pittman (D), California Assemblymember Alex Lee (D), former Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to VP Mike Pence Olivia Troye, Wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza Evgenia Kara-Murza, Author of “Fates and Furies” Lauren Groff
4/29/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 25 seconds
PRIMARY POLITICS & EMERGENCY EVACUATIONS
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Ali Vitali, NBC’s Courtney Kube, NBC’s Meagan Fitzgerald, Political Journalist Michael Shure, Professor and Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University Danielle Allen, Executive Director at Texas Library Association Shirley Robinson, Governor of Washington Jay Inslee (D), Chairman & CEO of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation Howard Buffett, Professor at University of California at Irvine Law Michele Goodwin, Law Professor and Historian at UC Davis Law School Mary Ziegler.
4/23/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 44 seconds
SCOTUS STAY & MORE
Velshi is joined by Senior Correspondent at New York Magazine Irin Carmon, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign William Browder, Technical Lead for XPRIZE WildfireJay Stalnacker, President & CEO of the Center for Reproductive RightsNancy Northup, SeniorColumnist at The Boston Globe OpinionKimberly Atkins Stohr, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Mattei, Opinion Writer for The Washington PostJennifer Rubin, Senior Adviser at The Lincoln Project Stuart Stevens.
4/22/2023 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 43 seconds
Time of Reckoning in the GOP
Sam Stein subs in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), actor John Leguizamo, Politico’s Kyle Cheney, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast, GOP Strategist Rina Shah, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, and Fatima Goss Graves of the National Women’s Law Center.
4/16/2023 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 31 seconds
THE FIGHT FOR ABORTION ACCESS
Maria Teresa Kumar subs in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Professor at University of California at Irvine Law Michele Goodwin, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Fmr. FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissman, Visiting Professor of Political Science at NYU Shanghai Ray Suarez, Opinion Writer at The Washington Post Jennifer Rubin, Political Strategist Shermichael Singleton, Operations Director at West Alabama Women’s Center Robin Marty, Fmr. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Carol Lam, and author of “You Sound Like A White Girl” Julissa Arce
4/15/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 52 seconds
Republican Overreach
Ali Velshi is joined by Catherine Christian, Former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, Carol Lam, Former Superior Court Judge in San Diego County, April Ryan, White House Correspondent & Bureau Chief at The Grio, Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post, Cynthia Alksne, Former Federal Prosecutor, John O. Brennan, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency, and Julia Alvarez, Author of ‘How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents’.
4/9/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 6 seconds
Abortion Pill Ruling
Ali Velshi is joined by Former Sen. Doug Jones, (D) Alabama, Irin Carmon, Senior Correspondent at New York Magazine, Nancy Northup, President & CEO at the Center for Reproductive Rights, David Cay Johnston, Professor & Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law, Michele Goodwin, Professor at University of California at Irvine Law, Lisa Rubin, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Rev. Al Sharpton, Host of MSNBC’s Politics Nation, Jalal Abukhater, Palestinian Writer based in Jerusalem, and Dan Kaufman, National Best-selling Author at ‘The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics’.
4/9/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 15 seconds
How History Will Remember Trump
Ali Velshi is joined by Jonathan Allen, Senior National Politics Reporter at NBC News, Elizabeth Holtzman, Former Congresswoman – Judiciary Committee member who voted to impeach Nixon, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History NYU, Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer The Atlantic, Hugo Lowell, Political Investigations Reporter The Guardian, Carol Lam, Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney, Peter Beinart, Editor-at-Large at Jewish Currents, and Michael Beschloss, NBC News Presidential Historian.
4/2/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 16 seconds
DONALD THE INDICTED
Ali Velshi is joined by Independent Journalist Michael Shure, former Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon Kim, former SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief Kristy Greenberg, Professor & Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law David Cay Johnston, NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News Emilie Ikeda, former U.S. Attorney in MichiganBarbara McQuade, MSNBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin, Executive Editor forNewYorker.com David Rohde, former Federal Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig, Professor of History & American Studies at Yale University Joanne Freeman, Opinion Writer at The Washington PostJennifer Rubin
4/1/2023 • 2 hours, 6 minutes, 39 seconds
TRUMP VISITS WACO & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard, NBC’s Molly Hunter, former SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief Kristy Greenberg, Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), Author of “Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right” Matthew Dallek, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Washington Correspondent at The New York Times Charlie Savage, former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, former FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair, Fmr. Governor of Ohio (R) John Kasich
3/29/2023 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 57 seconds
TORNADO & TRUMP
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Priscilla Thompson, former Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon Kim, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Carol Lam, Editor and Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion Bobby Ghosh, Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Dorothy Roberts, Founder & President of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation Diane Foley, former Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to VP Mike Pence Olivia Troye, Independent Journalist Noga Tarnopolsky, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Proud Member of the #VelshiBannedBookClub Grace Linn
3/26/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 48 seconds
AWAITING INDICTMENT & IRAQ
Ayman Mohyeldin is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by NBC’s Garrett Haake, Investigative Reporter at The Washington Post Carol Leonnig, Fmr. SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief Kristy Greenberg, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Professor at University of California Irvine Law Michele Goodwin, Law Professor and Historian at UC Davis Law School Mary Ziegler, former Federal Prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, former U.S. Attorney in Michigan Barbara McQuade U.S. Army Colonel (ret.) Yevgeny Vindman, former Director of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Lori Bettinger, Opinion Writer at The Washington PostJennifer Rubin, and Contributing Editor at The New Republic Ana Marie Cox
3/20/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 41 seconds
INDICTMENT INCOMING?
Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart are in for Ali Velshi and are joined by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, NBC’s Garrett Haake, NBC’s Michael Beschloss, NBC’s Julie Tsirkin, Executive Editor,NewYorker.com David Rohde, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, Fmr. Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterrorism Advisor to VP Mike Pence Olivia Troye, Sen. Tina Smith (D- MN), Advisor of Renew Democracy Initiative Rina Shah, NBC News Senior Politics Editor Digital Amanda Terkel, Fmr. Asst. Watergate Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, Fmr. Asst District Attorney for Manhattan DA Rebecca Roiphe, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter at The Washington Post Carol Leonnig, House Judiciary Member during the Nixon impeachment Elizabeth Holtzman, Fmr. U.S. Attorney Carol Lam
3/18/2023 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 43 seconds
Trump’s Revenge
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D) Pennsylvania, Maj. John Spencer (Ret.), Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, Madison Policy Forum, Imara Jones, Founder, TransLash Media, Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett (D) U.S.V.I., Noga Tarnopolsky, Independent Journalist, Nancy Northup, President & CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights, and Rep. Adam Schiff (D) California.
3/14/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 52 seconds
RAMIFICATIONS, REPERCUSSIONS, & RETRIBUTION
Ali Velshi and is joined by NBC’s Dasha Burns, NBC’s Erin McLaughlin, Executive Editor for News atNewYorker.com David Rohde, Fmr. U.S. Attorney in Michigan Barbara McQuade, Fmr. FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, Fmr. Advisor, Palestine Liberation Organization Diana Buttu, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), President of BancAlliance Lori Bettinger, Author of ‘Ready or Not’ Meg Cabot
3/12/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 12 seconds
CPAC 2023 & THE SPLINTERING GOP
Michael Steele is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss, SNAP Deputy Director for the Food Research & Action Center Gina Plata-Nino, former Mike Pence aide Olivia Troye, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, Marc Hearron of the Center for Reproductive Rights, historian Kellie Carter Jackson, and former Republican strategist Rina Shah.
3/4/2023 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 49 seconds
Live from Ukraine
Ali Velshi is joined by Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy, Karolina Ashion, Ukrainian-Nigerian Journalist, Lesia Vasylenko, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Bill Browder, Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, and Toomas Ilves, Fmr. President of Estonia.
2/26/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 1 second
ALI LIVE IN KYIV, UKRAINE
Ali Velshi is in Kyiv, Ukraine and is joined by NBC’s Erin McLaughlin, Fmr. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, U.S. Army Colonel (ret.) & Fmr. Deputy Legal Adviser an Senior Ethics Official at the White House National Security Council Yevgeny Vindman, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget A. Brink, Ukrainian Author ‘Grey Bees’ Andrey Kurkov
2/25/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 12 seconds
One Year Later
Almost one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ali Velshi is live from Kyiv with the latest on the war and stories from the people he’s met on the ground – from refugees to government officials, to ordinary Ukrainians coping with life under attack. Ali is joined live on the ground by Members of Parliament Kira Rudik and Yevheniia Kravchuk, as well as NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and NBC News Correspondent Erin McLaughlin. He also speaks live with former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Oona Hathaway, professor of international law at Yale. And you’ll hear from Inna Tokareva – a Ukrainian refugee Ali first met nearly a year ago on a train platform in Hungary as she was fleeting Russian violence.
2/20/2023 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 54 seconds
Live from Ukraine
Ali Velshi is joined by Adm. James Stavridis, Fmr. Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, Iuliia Mendel, Fmr. Press Secretary to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Fmr. Sen. Doug Jones, (D) Alabama, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Fmr. Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer, The Atlantic, Inna Sovsun, Member, Ukrainian Parliament, Stuart Stevens, Senior Adviser, The Lincoln Project, and Marsha Skrypuch, Author, ‘Winterkill’
2/18/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 37 seconds
SUBPOENAED & SEARCHED
Sam Stein is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Professor at Georgetown School of Law Paul Butler, Fmr. Press Secretary to Fmr. House Speaker John Boehner Brendan Buck, White House Correspondent at Politico Eugene Daniels, Pentagon Correspondent at The New York Times Helene Cooper, Professor and Chair of the Dept. of African American Studies at Princeton University Eddie Glaude, Jr., Fmr. Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to VP Mike Pence Olivia Troye, Fmr. U.S Ambassador to China Amb. Gary Locke, and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)
2/12/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 25 seconds
The Implications of the China Balloon
Ali Velshi is joined by Bobby Ghosh, Editor & Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, Imani Perry, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Michael McFaul, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, John Brennan, Fmr. Director CIA, Judge J. Michael Luttig, Fmr. Federal Judge at U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and Kimberlé Crenshaw, Executive Director and Co-Founder at African American Policy Forum.
2/6/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 37 seconds
GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT UNDER REPUBLICAN HOUSE RULE
Ali Velshi is joined by Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, President & CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights Maya Wiley, Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett (D – U.S. VI), Editor-in-Chief of Investopedia Caleb Silver, Former U.S Ambassador to Ukraine (2006-2009) Amb. William B. Taylor, Pulitzer-Prize winning Reporter at The New York Times Magazine & Creator of ‘The 1619 Project’ Nikole Hannah-Jones
2/5/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 16 seconds
What comes after the death of Tyre Nichols?
Ali Velshi is joined by Marq Claxton, Retired NYPD Detective, Lynsey Addario, Photojournalist for The New York Times, Kira Rudik, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Kris Mayes , Arizona Attorney General, Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I) Vermont, Errin Haines, Editor-at-Large at The 19th, and Roland S. Martin, Host & Managing Editor of ‘#RolandMartinUnfiltered’
1/29/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 30 seconds
THE TYRE NICHOLS BODY CAM FOOTAGE & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Antonia Hylton, NBC’s Sam Brock, NBC’s Deon Hampton, Retired Police Captain of the Montgomery County Police Department Captain Sonia Pruitt, Professor of Georgetown School of Law Paul Butler, former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO Adm. James Stavridis, Host of MSNBC’s Politics Nation Rev. Al Sharpton, former Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, and New York Times Bestselling Author of “Two Boys Kissing” David Levithan.
1/28/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 9 seconds
Debt Ceiling Drama
Ali Velshi is joined by Fmr. Rep. Fred Upton (R- Michigan), Charlie Savage, MSNBC Contributor, Robin Marty, Operations Director at West Alabama Women’s, Jenice Fountain, Executive Director at Yellowhammer Fund Center, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, President & Senior Lecturer at Repairers of the Breach, Rep. Don Bacon (R- Nebraska), Andrei Kozyrev, Fmr. Foreign Minister of Russia, and Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University
1/15/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 24 seconds
CHAOS OF THE NEW CONGRESS
Ali Velshi is joined by Opinion Writer at The Washington Post Jennifer Rubin, Journalist & former Congressional Candidate Michael Shure, former FBI General Counsel & Distinguished Senior Fellow at NYU Law Andrew Weissmann, former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, former Democratic Congressman Max Rose, former Senior Advisor and Chief Spokesperson for VP Kamala Harris Symone Sanders-Townsend, New York Times Bestselling Author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Bestselling Author Imani Perry.
1/15/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 3 seconds
CONGRESSIONAL CHAOS & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss, former Director for European Affairs with the National Security Council Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Michigan Secretary of StateJocelyn Benson, Professor of History & American Studies at Yale University Joanne Freeman, NBC News Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez, Staff Writer with The Atlantic Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times Bestselling Authors of ‘All American Boys’ Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
1/8/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 47 seconds
A New Speaker
Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R) New York, Rep. Annie Kuster (D) New Hampshire, Ian Bremmer, President & Founder of Eurasia Group, Eugene Scott, National Political Reporter at The Washington Post, Fmr. Rep. Mark Sanford (R) South Carolina, Michael Steele, Fmr. Chairman of the Republican National Convention, Brennan Leach, Aide who carried votes on January 6th, 2021, and Kris Mayes, (D) Arizona Attorney General
1/7/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 33 seconds
TRUMP’S TAXES AND LEGAL TROUBLE & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter for The New York Times Susanne Craig, NBC News Foreign Correspondent Matt Bradley,Filmmaker and Director of “The Corridors of Power” Dror Moreh, former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman,former U.S. Attorney in Michigan Barbara McQuade, Host of Black Diplomats podcast Terrell Jermaine Starr, Opinion Writer at The Washington PostJennifer Rubin, former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh
12/25/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 24 seconds
THE JANUARY 6 REPORT IS HERE & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News’ Shaquille Brewster, former House Impeachment Inquiry Majority Counsel Rep-Elect Daniel S. Goldman (D-NY), Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett (D – U.S. Virgin Islands), Ukrainian Parliament Member Kira Rudik, Host of ‘The Dean Obeidallah Show’ Dean Obeidallah, Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair Molly Jong Fast, NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss, Rep. Gwen Moore (D- WI), former U.S Ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
12/25/2022 • 2 hours, 2 minutes, 58 seconds
ALL THE TRUMP INVESTIGATIONS EXPLAINED & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by former U.S. Attorney & Professor at University of Alabama School of Law Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney & Professor at University of Michigan Law School Barbara McQuade, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia Caleb Silver, National Political Reporter at The Washington Post Caroline Kitchener, Principal Policy Associate of State Issues at Guttmacher Institute Elizabeth Nash, former Chief of Criminal fraud section at the DOJ Andrew Weissman, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Rabbi of Temple Beth-El in Richmond, Virginia Rabbi Michael Knopf.
12/18/2022 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 52 seconds
POTENTIAL CRIMINAL REFERRALS & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by Professor at Georgetown School of Law Paul Butler, Former National Security Advisor Amb. John Bolton, Fmr. Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg & Co-Founder of Elevation Partners Roger McNamee, Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Kim Budil, Washington Correspondent at The New York Times Charlie Savage, Co-Founder at Foundry Strategies Rick Tyler, Fmr. Supreme Allied Commander at NATO Adm. James Stavridis, Lecturer of Social Sciences at Boston University & Lecturer of Government at Harvard University Christopher Rhodes, CEO of PEN America Suzanne Nossel.
12/17/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 58 seconds
SPECIAL SUNDAY MEETING & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by former House Impeachment Inquiry Majority Counsel Rep.-Elect Daniel Goldman (D-N), Senior Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion Tim O’Brien, Professor of International Law at Yale Law School Oona Hathaway, Staff Writer at The New Yorker Sheelah Kolhatkar, Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, Niece of Donald TrumpMary Trump, NBC News’ Ali Arouzi, Staff Writer at The Atlantic Caitlin Dickerson, Senior Editor of Slate Dahlia Lithwick, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center Jeffrey Rosen.
12/11/2022 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 16 seconds
GRINER BACK HOME & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by former CIA Director John Brennan, Editor of The Maddow Blog Steve Benen, Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, former Federal Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig, Former U.S. Attorney Jill Wine-Banks, Founder and CEO of Translash Media Imara Jones, Author of ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ Jonathan Safran Foer.
12/10/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 14 seconds
Days Away from the Georgia Runoff
Ali Velshi is joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, NYU Professor, Maya King, New York Times Reporter, Maj. John Spencer, U.S. Army (Ret.), Amy Watson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor, Sonia Pruitt, Retired Captain with the Montgomery County Police Department, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, (D) Wisconsin, Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Opinion Writer, Toomas Ilves, Former President of Estonia, Karen Attiah, Washington Post Columnist, and Brandy Zadrozny,NBC Senior Reporter
12/4/2022 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 30 seconds
POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard, Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz SE Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and Co-Founder of Rappler & Author of “How To Stand Up To A Dictator” Maria Ressa, Fmr. Chairman of the Republican National Convention Michael Steele, Fmr. Senior advisor to fmr. Vice President Mike Pence Olivia Troye, Democracy Reporter at The Washington Post Matthew Brown, Fmr. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Hag-Seed” Margaret Atwood.
12/3/2022 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 11 seconds
Honoring Native American Heritage Month
Ali Velshi is joined by Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, Jeremy Duda, Journalist at Axios, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Rebecca Nagle, Cherokee Nation Author and Writer, Carol Leonnig, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter at The Washington Post, Rep. Diana DeGette (D) Colorado, Dr. Irwin Redlener, Founding Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, Tim O’Brien, Senior Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, and David Cay Johnston, Co-Founder of DCReport.org.
11/27/2022 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 59 seconds
THE WORLD’S ON FIRE
Ali Velshi is joined by Fmr. Supreme Allied Commander at NATO Adm. James Stavridis, Editor and Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion Bobby Ghosh, Fmr. Federal Prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, Host of the ‘Lost in Panama’ podcast Mariana Atencio, Politics Reporter at The New York Times Maya King, Host and Managing Editor of ‘#RolandMartinUnfiltered’Roland S. Martin, Co-Founder of Elevation PartnersRoger McNamee, Host of ‘The Dean Obeidallah Show’ Dean Obeidallah, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
11/26/2022 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 52 seconds
DEMOCRATS MAINTAIN THE SENATE
Ali Velshi is joined by Columnist & Editor, MSNBC Daily Hayes Brown, NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss, host of "Politics Nation" on MSNBC Reverend Al Sharpton, Niece of Donald Trump & Host of ‘The Mary Trump Show’ podcast Mary Trump, Fmr. Republican Congressman & Host of ‘White Flag with Joe Walsh’ Fmr. Rep. Joe Walsh , Opinion Writer with The Washington Post Jennifer Rubin, Trump’s Fmr. Personal Attorney & Host of ‘Mea Culpa’ podcast & Author of “REVENGE” Michael Cohen, Nevada Secretary of State- Elect Cisco Aguilar (D), Michigan Secretary of StateJocelyn Benson (D), Investigative Reporter at Reckon News & author of “NO CHOICE” Becca Andrews, Research Fellow at Institute to End Mass Incarceration & Executive Director at Families United for Freedom Rachael Bedard, MD.
11/14/2022 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 27 seconds
High Stakes Midterm Elections
Ali Velshi is joined by Jessica Boehm, Phoenix Reporter at Axios, Tara Setmayer, Senior Advisor at The Lincoln Project, Rep. Sharice Davids, (D) Kansas, Alencia Johnson, Founder & Chief Impact Officer at 1063 West Broad, Jill Filipovic, Journalist, Rep.-Elect Mike Lawler, (R) New York, Michael Shure, Political Journalist, Rep. Tom Malinowski, (D) New Jersey, Eugene Scott, National Political Reporter at The Washington Post, Rep. Jahana Hayes, (D) Connecticut, Rep-Elect Ruwa Romman, (D) Georgia, Joanne Freeman, Professor of History & American Studies at Yale University, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU.
11/12/2022 • 2 hours, 20 minutes, 10 seconds
2 DAYS UNTIL MIDTERMS
Ali Velshi is joined by Editor of The Maddow Blog & Author of “The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics” Steve Benen, Columnist & Editor of MSNBC Daily Hayes Brown, Host of “Field Report with Paola Ramos” Paola Ramos, Campaign Manager for Protect Kentucky Access Rachel Sweet, NBC News’ Dasha Burns, NBC News’ Matt Bradley, NBC News’ Mark Murray, host of “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart” Jonathan Capehart, Interim Executive Director & Deputy Director of the ACLU of Kentucky Amber Duke, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D), Co-Hosts of the “Gaslit Nation” Podcast Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior.
11/7/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 2 seconds
Countdown to Midterms
Ali Velshi is joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Jocelyn Benson, (D) Michigan Secretary of State, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D- Wisconsin), Ernest Moniz, Co-Chair & CEO of Nuclear Threat Initiative, Michael Steele, Fmr. RNC Chairman, Joe Walsh, Fmr. Rep. Republican Congressman, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Fmr. NSC Director for European Affairs, Eddie Glaude, Jr., Professor and Chair, Dept. of African American Studies, Princeton University, and Reza Aslan, NYT Best-selling Author, ‘Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalism’.
11/6/2022 • 2 hours, 3 minutes, 39 seconds
Special Edition of “Velshi Across America” From Michigan
Ali Velshi is joined by Barbara McQuade, Fmr. U.S. Attorney for Michigan, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan), Reza Aslan, Author of ‘An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Bakersville’, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, (D- Michigan), Kym L. Worthy, Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney, and Dr. Gregory Goyert, OBGYN based in Detroit.
10/23/2022 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 26 seconds
VELSHI ACROSS AMERICA: LIVE IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Ali Velshi is live in Detroit, Michigan and is joined by Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), NBC News Correspondent Cal Perry, Writer at Large with the New York Times Magazine & author of “Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind” Robert Draper, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-MI)
10/23/2022 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 49 seconds
THE INTERVIEW TO SAVE DEMOCRACY
Ali Velshi is joined by Fmr. Federal Judge with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig, Editor of The Maddow Blog & Author of “The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics” Steve Benen, Founder of the “Me Too” Movement & author of “Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Tarana Burke, Founder of Ukraine Children’s Action Project & Founding Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University Dr. Irwin Redlener, Trump’s Fmr. Personal Attorney & Author of “REVENGE: How Donald Trump Weaponized the Department of Justice Against His Critics” Michael Cohen, Senior Markets Correspondent at CNBC Business News & Author of “Shut Up and Keep Talking: Lessons on Life and Investing From the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange” Bob Pisani, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Colorado Secretary of State Secretary Jena Griswold(D), President and CEO of the National Constitution Center & Law Professor at George Washington University Law School Jeffrey Rosen.
10/16/2022 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 59 seconds
A Letter to the Women of Iran
Ali Velshi is joined by Olivia Troye, Fmr. Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to VP Pence, Barbara McQuade, Fmr. U.S. Attorney in Michigan, Rep. Tom Malinowski (D) New Jersey, Nicole Hockley, CEO of Sandy Hook Promise, Julia Boorstin, Senior Media & Tech Reporter at CNBC, Carol Leonnig,Investigative Reporter at The Washington Post, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, (D) U.S. Virgin Islands, Kira Rudik, Ukrainian Parliament Member, and Alex Gino, Award-winning Author of ‘Melissa’.
10/15/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 23 seconds
MIDTERMS AND DEMOCRACY, & MORE
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News Senior International Correspondent Keir Simmons, Pulitzer Prize-winning National Political Reporter with The Washington Post Amy Gardner, Fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law Matthew Seligman, Author of ‘Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever’ Nomi Prins, Senior Editor at Slate & Host of the ‘Amicus’ podcast & Author of ‘LADY JUSTICE: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America’ Dahlia Lithwick, Co-Director for Center for Vaccine Development at the Texas Children’s Hospital & Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine Dr. Peter Hotez, Editor of The Maddow Blog & Producer for The Rachel Maddow Show & Author of ‘The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics’ Steve Benen, Candidate for Louisiana Congress 1stDistrict Katie Darling, Editor-at-Large for The 19thErrin Haines, Politics Reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Shannon McCaffrey, Trump’s Fmr. Personal Attorney & Host of the ‘Mea Culpa’ podcast & Author of ‘REVENGE: How Donald Trump Weaponized the Department of Justice Against His Critics’ Michael Cohen
10/9/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 54 seconds
Crude Awakening
Ali Velshi is joined by John Brennan, Former CIA Director, Rep. Sean Casten (D) Illinois, Chris Miller, Associate Professor of International History at Tuft’s The Fletcher School, Barbara McQuade, Fmr. U.S. Attorney for Michigan, Fmr. Rep. Joe Walsh, Joe Cirincione, National Security and Nuclear Expert, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, NSC Fmr. Director for European Affairs, Ryan Reilly, Justice Reporter at NBC News Digital, Rep. Michele Rayner-Goolsby (D) Florida, and Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code.
10/9/2022 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 50 seconds
BACK AT IT
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News’ Ali Vitali, Ukrainian Parliament Member Kira Rudik, Vice President of Russia and Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace Amb. William B. Taylor, Fmr. Federal Prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, Author of “LADY JUSTICE: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America” Dahlia Lithwick, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter with The New York Times Susanne Craig, Pennsylvania Attorney GeneralJosh Shapiro, Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz SE Mohamed El-Erian, President of BancAlliance Lori Bettinger.
9/25/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 53 seconds
The “Why” Behind all the Book Bans
Ali Velshi is joined by Lesia Vasylenko, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Sen. Tim Kaine (D- Virginia), Ray Suarez, Visiting Professor of Political Science at NYU Shanghai, Andy Campbell, Author, ‘We are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism’, Michael Cohen, Trump’s Fmr. Personal Attorney, Negar Mortazavi, Iranian-American journalist, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Fmr. Director for European Affairs at National Security Council, and Suzanne Nossel, CEO, PEN America.
9/24/2022 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 43 seconds
All Eyes On Arizona
Ali Velshi is joined by Maj. (Ret.) John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at Madison Policy Forum, Charlie Crist, Democratic nominee for Florida Governor, Lara Setrakian, Co-Founder & CEO of News Deeply, Thelma Pannell-Dantzler, Mother of Phillip Pannell, Natacha Pannell, Sister of Phillip Pannell, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Host of ‘Black Diplomats’ podcast, Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Sen. Patrick Leahy, (D) Vermont, and Secretary Katie Hobbs , Arizona Secretary of State
9/19/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 57 seconds
Trump Associate Subpoenaed by Grand Jury
Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D – U.S. Virgin Islands), Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney, Nancy Northup, President & CEO for Center for Reproductive Rights, Dara Lind, Immigration Reporter, Jacqueline Alemany, Congressional Investigations Reporter, Daniel S. Goldman, Former House Impeachment Inquiry Majority Counsel, Caleb Silver, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Stephanie Land, New York Times Best-Selling Author of ‘Maid’, and Sarah Smarsh, Author of ‘Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.
9/18/2022 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 8 seconds
THE STATE OF THE WORLD
Ali Velshi and Chris Jansing are joined by NBC News’ Rehema Ellis and Tom Llamas, Editor and Columnist for Bloomberg Opinion Bobby Ghosh, History Professor & Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Social Sciences at Boston University Arianne Chernock, Award-winning historian & NBC News Royal Contributor Suzannah Lipscomb, Executive Editor at Newyorker.com David Rohde, Justice Reporter for NBC News Digital Ryan Reilly, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee & Fmr. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Michigan Secretary of StateJocelyn Benson (D), Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R- NY), President and Founder of the Eurasia Group & GZERO Media Ian Bremmer, Queenship and Royal Studies historian at the University of Winchester & Founder and Director of the Royal Studies Network Elena Woodacre, Niece of Shireen Abu Akleh Lina Abu Akleh.
9/13/2022 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 53 seconds
THE END OF AN ERA
Ali Velshi and Chris Jansing are joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning National Political Correspondent at The Washington Post Mary Jordan, Fmr. Royal Editor for ITV News & Author of “Queen Elizabeth II, A Celebration of Her Majesty’s 90thBirthday” Tim Ewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Correspondent for The New York Times Charlie Savage, Fmr. U.S. Attorney in Michigan & Professor at the University of Michigan Law SchoolBarbara McQuade, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. and Sweden & author of “The Power of Giving Away Power: How The Best Leaders Learn to Let Go” Fmr. Ambassador Matthew Barzun, Fmr. Supreme Allied Commander at NATO Adm. James Stavridis, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D- WA), Royal Historian & author of “Elizabeth: Queen and Crown” Sarah Gristwood, NBC News/MSNBC British Historian Andrew Roberts, co-authors of ‘”Queen Elizabeth II: An Oral History” Deborah Hart Strober & Gerald Strober, Professor at the School of Public Affairs & School of Education at American University & author of “Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right” Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University & author of “The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World” Kehinde Andrews, Professor at NYU School of Law Melissa Murray.
9/10/2022 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 13 seconds
A Never Before Aired Conversation with Margaret Atwood
Ali Velshi is joined by Ryan Reilly, Justice Reporter at NBC News Digital, Eddie Glaude, Jr. Professor and Chair of the Dept. of African American Studies at Princeton University, Joanne Freeman, Professor of History & American Studies at Yale University, Dr. Daniel James Baker, Executive Director of Lenox Hill Hospital, Caleb Silver, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia, Amb. Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative, Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D) Illinois, Michael Beschloss, NBC News Presidential Historian, Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism School, and Margaret Atwood, Author of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale
9/5/2022 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 20 seconds
The Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi
Ali Velshi is joined by Charlie Savage, Washington Correspondent at The New York Time, Barbara McQuade, Former U.S. Attorney for Michigan, Bradley P. Moss, Partner at Mark S. Zaid, P.C., Michael Kirk, Filmmaker, Lt. Gen. RusselHonoré, Former Commander for the Joint Task Force Katrina, Dr. David Priess, Former CIA Officer, Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett, D – U.S. Virgin Islands, Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, Olivia Troye, Chief Political Strategist at Renew America Movement, and Rina Shah, Principal & Founder of Rilax Strategies
9/4/2022 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 15 seconds
RISK ASSESSMENT
Ali Velshi is joined by Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, former RNC chairman Michael Steele, retired Maryland police captain Sonia Pruitt, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Princeton’s Eddie Glaude, The New Yorker’s David Rohde & Sheelah Kolhatkar, Charlie Savage of The New York Times, The Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin, Prof. Leslie Reagan, MSNBC anchor Lindsey Reiser and NBC News Correspondents Scott Cohn & Meagan Fitzgerald.
8/28/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 18 seconds
“PROBABLE CAUSE”
Ali Velshi is joined by Democratic Representative Stacey Plaskett, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, former CIA officer David Priess, Center for Reproductive Rights’ CEO Nancy Northup, author Ellen Hopkins, New York Times photojournalist Lynsey Addario, Brookings senior fellow Andre Perry, Carol Leonnig of The Washington Post, NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali, and CNBC’s Annie Nova.
8/28/2022 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 52 seconds
Country Over Party
Ali Velshi is joined by Ryan Reilly, Justice Reporter for NBC News Digital, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi,(D) Illinois, Nastya Shpot, Ukrainian high schooler, Ben Collins, Senior Reporter at NBC News, Julie Burkhart, Founder & President of Wellspring Health Access, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Fmr. Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, Katie Benner, Justice Department Reporter at the New York Times, Rep. Don Bacon (R) Nebraska, Frank Luntz, Republican Political Strategist & Pollster
8/21/2022 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 39 seconds
Six Months in Ukraine
Ali Velshi is joined by Olivia Troye, Chief Political Strategist at Renew America Movement, Evan McMullin, U.S. Senate Candidate for Utah, Rep. Spencer Wetmore (D) South Carolina, Akhil Reed Amar, Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, Inna Sovsun, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post, Tim O’Brien, Senior Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Non-resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, Homi K. Bhabha, Professor of Humanities, English & Comparative Literature Departments at Harvard University
8/21/2022 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 16 seconds
FBI Raid Sparks Far-Right Rhetoric
Ali Velshi is joined by Jane Harman, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita at the Wilson Center, Dr. David Priess, Fmr. CIA Officer, Caitlin Dickerson, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Matthieu Aikins, Pulitzer Prize-winning Contributing Writer at New York Times Magazine, Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Correspondent at The New York Times, Barbara McQuade, Fmr. U.S. Attorney for Michigan, Joanne Freeman, Award-winning Historian & Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, Jon Allen, Senior National Politics Reporter at NBC News, and Rutger Bregman, Historian.
8/14/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 seconds
A SEARCH, WARRANTED
Ali Velshi is joined by Fmr. CIA John Brennan, Trump’s Fmr. Personal Attorney Michael Cohen, NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament Nataliya Pipa, Deputy National Editor at The Washington Post Philip Rucker, National Security Attorney Bradley Moss, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D- WI), Fmr. Rep. Joe Walsh, and NBC News’ Emily Ikeda.
8/13/2022 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 38 seconds
Ali Velshi reports the latest on the fight for Abortion rights, the Inflation Reduction Act, and more
Ali Velshi is in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and is joined by NBC News’ Ali Vitali, Law Professor at the University of California – Irvine Michele Goodwin, Maternal-fetal medicine specialist Dr. David Hackney, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Wisconsin Attorney General (D) Josh Kaul, Editor of The Maddow Blog Steve Benen, Democratic Candidate for Kansas Attorney General Chris Mann, NYT Bestselling Author of ‘Speak’ Laurie Halse Anderson, and Molly Jong
8/7/2022 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 47 seconds
Post-Roe in Action in Alabama
Ali Velshi is joined by Nancy Northup, President & CEO at Center for Reproductive Rights, Sen. Bob Casey, (D) Pennsylvania, Adm. James Stavridis, Fmr. Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, Fmr. Sen. Doug Jones, (D) Alabama, Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz SE, Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at Washington Post, Michael Steele, Fmr. RNC Chairman.
8/6/2022 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 49 seconds
Michael Steele is in for Ali Velshi and reports the latest on the January 6 Select Committee’s investigation and more
Michael Steele is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Justice Department Reporter for The New York Times Katie Benner, Fmr. Chief Spokesperson for the DOJ Matthew Miller, Economics Reporter for the WSJ Amara Omeokwe, Fmr. Pence Senior Advisor Olivia Troye, Fmr. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Politico National Correspondent Betsy Woodruff Swan, Rep. AdamKinzinger (R-IL), Co-Founder, Ukraine Children’s Action Project Dr. Irwin Redlener, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), and Scholar-in-Residence at the Mark Twain Center, Matthew Seybold
7/31/2022 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 15 seconds
Sam Stein Guest Hosts for Ali Velshi
Sam Stein is joined by Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Tim O’Brien, Senior Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, Carol Leonnig. Investigative Reporter at The Washington Post, Dr. Uché Blackstock, Founder & CEO of Advancing Health Equity, Jonathan Kott, Founder of Majority Makers, Nancy Northup, President & CEO of Center for Reproductive Rights, Dr. Melissa March, OB/GYN - Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Ryan Reilly, Justice Reporter at NBC News Digital, and Jacqueline Woodson, Author of ‘Brown Girl Dreaming’.
7/26/2022 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 48 seconds
Sam Stein is in for Ali Velshi
Sam Stein speaks with Daniel S. Goldman, Former House Impeachment Inquiry Majority Counsel, Rep. Ann McLane, (D) New Hampshire, Rep. Peter Welch, (D) Vermont, Clint Watts, NBC News & MSNBC National Security Analyst, Barbara McQuade, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Philip Bump, National Correspondent at The Washington Post, Michael Steele, Former RNC Chairman, Dr. Peter Hotez, Co-Director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, Sapphire Garcia-Lies, President of Kansas Birth Justice Society, and Elizabeth Nash, Principal Policy Associate of State Issues at Guttmacher Institute.
7/24/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 11 seconds
Insider Risk
Sam Stein is joined by Ryan Reilly, Justice Reporter at NBC News Digital, Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney, Joanne Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, Manuel Oliver, Founder of Change The Ref, Michele Goodwin, Law Professor at University of California – Irvine, Secretary Jena Griswold,(D) Colorado Secretary of State, Irin Carmon, Senior Correspondent at New York Magazine, Dr. Tani Molhatra, OB/GYN- Maternal and Fetal Medicine at UH Cleveland Medical Center, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Olivia Troye, Chief Political Strategist at Renew America Movement, Peter Beinart, MSNBC Political Analyst, and Aimee Allison, Founder & President of She The People.
7/17/2022 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 36 seconds
Sam Stein is in for Ali Velshi
Sam Stein is joined by Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter for The Guardian, Barbara McQuade, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Zack Beauchamp, Senior Correspondent at Vox, Dean Obeidallah, Host of SiriusXM radio's ‘The Dean Obeidallah show’, Meridith McGraw, National Political Correspondent at Politico, Nancy Northup, President & CEO at Center for Reproductive Rights, Mary Ziegler, Professor at UC Davis Law School, Hagar Chemali, Fmr. Spokesperson for U.S. Mission to the UN, Mary McCord, Fmr. Acting Asst. Attorney General for National Security at U.S. Department of Justice, Ben Collins, Senior Reporter for NBC News, Kira Rudik, Ukrainian Parliament Member, and Tony Plohetski, Investigative Reporter at Austin American-Statesman.
7/16/2022 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 2 seconds
Ali Velshi reports the latest on the January 6 Select Committee’s investigation and more
Ali Velshi is joined by Justice Reporter for NBC News Digital Ryan Reilly, Fmr. January 6thSenior Investigator John Wood, Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin Ben Wikler, NBC News Technology Correspondent Jake Ward, Political Strategist & Pollster Frank Luntz, Senior Legal Affairs Reporter for Politico Kyle Cheney, Host of ‘The Mary Trump Show’ podcast Mary Trump, Michigan Attorney General (D) Dana Nessel, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), and author of “Out of Darkness” Ashley Hope Perez.
7/10/2022 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 52 seconds
Ali Velshi reports the latest on the January 6 Select Committee’s investigation and more
Ali Velshi is joined by Justice Department Reporter at the New York Times Katie Benner, Fmr. House Impeachment Inquiry Majority Counsel Daniel S. Goldman, Fmr. Resident Legal Advisor at the U.S. Embassy Moscow Tom Firestone, MSNBC Legal AnalystBarbara McQuade, Founder and Chair of the Trans Affirming Alliance Celeste Fiore, Esq, Director at the Red River Women’s ClinicTammi Kromenaker, Professor of Constitutional Law at the NYU Law School Kenji Yoshino, Politico National CorrespondentBetsy Woodruff Swan, Senior Correspondent at New York Magazine Irin Carmon, Personal Technology reporter The Washington PostTatum Hunter, and NBC News’ Meaghan Fitzgerald.
7/9/2022 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 15 seconds
50 Years Since Watergate and Washington is Back in Scandal
Sam Stein is joined by Katie Benner, Justice Department Reporter at the New York Times, Barbara McQuade, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett (D – U.S. Virgin Islands), Caleb Silver, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia, Secretary Jena Griswold (D) Colorado Secretary of State, Elizabeth Holtzman, Fmr. U.S. Congresswoman, Michael Conway, Counsel of U.S. House Judiciary Committee in the Impeachment Inquiry of President Nixon, Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Kyle Cheney, Senior Legal Affairs Reporter at Politico, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D- PA), Lexi Churchill, Research Reporter, ProPublica at Texas Tribune Investigative Unit, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Fmr. Director for European Affairs at National Security Council, Robin Rue Simmons, Founder & Executive Director at FirstRepair, and Robert J. Patterson, Professor and Inaugural Chair at Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University.
6/19/2022 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 43 seconds
The Nation Reacts to January 6th Hearings
Michael Steele is joined by Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Joyce Vance, Professor at University of Alabama School of Law, Olivia Troye, Chief Political Strategist at Renew America Movement, Clint Watts, Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute & Alliance for Securing Democracy, Michael Cohen, Trump’s Fmr. Personal Attorney, Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Jacqueline Alemany, Congressional Investigations Reporter at The Washington Post, Rep. David Cicilline, (D) Rhode Island, Michael McFaul, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Lizz Winstead, Founder & Chief Creative Officer at Abortion Access Front, and W. Kamau Bell, Comedian.
6/18/2022 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 53 seconds
Michael Steele is in for Ali Velshi and reports the latest on the January 6 Insurrection and more
Michael Steele is joined by Politico National Correspondent and MSNBC Contributor Betsy Woodruff Swan, MSNBC Legal Analyst and Fmr. U.S. Attorney for Michigan Barbara McQuade, Rep. Ann Kuster (D-NH), Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fmr. Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to VP Pence Olivia Troye, Senior Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion and MSNBC Political Analyst Tim O’Brien, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), Fmr. Rep. Joe Walsh (R- IL), Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett (D – U.S. Virgin Islands), and NBC News’ Antonia Hylton, Ellison Barber, and Stephanie Stanton
6/12/2022 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 20 seconds
Ali Velshi reports the latest on the Fight for Democracy, Gun Control, and more
Ali Velshi is joined by Editor of The Maddow Blog Steve Benen, Founder of Change The Ref Manuel Oliver, NBC News National Security Analyst and Former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI Frank Figliuzzi, Senior Legal Affairs Reporter for Politico Kyle Cheney, Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of California, President of the Independent Firearm Owners Association Richard Feldman, Congressional Reporter for The Guardian Hugo Lowell, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita at the Wilson Center Jane Harman, and NYT best selling author of “Nineteen Minutes” Jodi Picoult.
6/5/2022 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 39 seconds
Ali Velshi reports the latest on the Fight for Democracy and more
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Opinion Columnist with The Washington Post Radley Balko, Co-Director of ‘The Janes’ Tia Lessin, Co-Director of ‘The Janes’ Emma Pildes, Reporter Heidi Przybyla, Politico National Correspondent and MSNBC Contributor Betsy Woodruff Swan, Fmr. Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Attorney for the Sandy Hook Families Joshua Koskoff, and Contributing Editor for Wired Brendan Koerner
6/4/2022 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 36 seconds
Alicia Menendez is in for Ali Velshi, and reports live from Uvalde, TX
Alicia Menendez is joined by NBC News’ Ken Dilanian, Liz McLaughlin, Erin McLaughlin, Deon Hampton, Sam Brock, Shaquille Brewster, NBC News/MSNBC Terrorism Analyst and Ret. ATF Special Agent in Charge Jim Cavanaugh, MSNBC Political Analyst and Fmr. United States Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Julian Castro, Brennan Center Fellow Eric Ruben, TX State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, Co-Founder & CEO of Sandy Hook Promise Nicole Hockley, Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice and MSNBC Political Analyst Mary McCord, Co-Founder & Executive Director of Guns Down America Igor Volsky, and Co-Founder of Orange Ribbons for Jaime Fred Guttenberg.
5/28/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 3 seconds
Ali Velshi reports the latest on President Biden’s trip abroad and more
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News Foreign Correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer, Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law Susan A. Thornton, Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research & Associate Director at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Political Strategist and Pollster Frank Luntz, Former Foreign Minister of Russia Andrei Kozyrev, Former Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Services, University of California, San Francisco Dir. of Research, UCSF’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health Dr. Diana Greene Foster, Professor of Center for African American Studies at Princeton University Imani Perry, andChair of the Deptment of African American Studies at Princeton University & MSNBC Political Analyst Eddie Glaude, Jr.
5/22/2022 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 55 seconds
The Rise of “The Great Replacement” Theory
Ali Velshi is joined by Larry Platt, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director at The Philadelphia Citizen, Ned Foley, Director of Election Law and Constitutional Law Chair at Ohio State Contributing Columnist at The Washington Post, Heather Long, Economic Columnist and Editorial Board member at The Washington Post, Spencer Glendon, Senior Fellow at Woodwell Climate Research Center, Ian Bremmer, President & Founder at Eurasia Group & GZERO Media, Steve Benen, Editor at The Maddow Blog, Michael Steele, Former RNC Chairman, Caleb Silver, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia, and Karen J. Greenberg, Director at Fordham University’s Center on National Security.
5/21/2022 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 22 seconds
Maria Teresa Kumar fills in for Ali Velshi
Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by NBC News Correspondent Jesse Kirsch, NBC News & MSNBC National Security Analyst Clint Watts, Host and Managing Editor, #RolandMartinUnfiltered Roland Martin, Professor of Law, Sociology, Civil Rights and Africana Studies at University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, NBC News Foreign Correspondent Erin McLaughlin, U.S. Charge D'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine Kristina Kvien, President & Founder of Futuro Media, Anchor & Executive Producer of Latino USA, Host and Producer of the now Pulitzer-winning ‘Suave’ podcast Maria Hinojosa, NBC Senior Reporter Ben Collins, NBC News National Security Analyst Frank Figliuzzi, President of Color of Change Rashad Robinson, President and CEO of the NAACP Derrick Johnson, Chairman of The Human Rights Foundation Garry Kasparov, Political Columnist Ana Marie Cox, and Founder and CEO of TransLash Media Imara Jones.
5/15/2022 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 12 seconds
Ali Velshi reports the latest on the fight for women’s rights, the war in Ukraine, and more
Ali Velshi is joined by Co-Founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights and co-author of ‘Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom’ Kathryn Kolbert, Democratic Representative Barbara Lee of California, NBC News Foreign Correspondent Kelly Cobiella, NBC News’ Mike Memoli, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, Chair of Religious Studies at University of Pennsylvania and author of ‘White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America’ Anthea Butler, Democratic Representative Judy Chu of California, Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist for The New York Times Lynsey Addario, Democratic Representative Sharice Davids of Kansas, and Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington and author of ‘White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism’ Robin DiAngelo.
5/8/2022 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 53 seconds
A Post-Roe Future
Ali Velshi is joined by Robin Marty, Operations Director at West Alabama Women’s Center, Nancy Northup, Center for Reproductive RightsPresident & CEO, Maksym Borodin, Mariupol City Council member, Petro Poroshenko, Former President of Ukraine, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) Wisconsin, Fatima Goss Graves, National Women’s Law Center President & CEO, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D) Massachusetts, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Melissa Murray, Professor of Law at NYU, and Mary Ziegler, Professor at UC Davis Law School
5/7/2022 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 43 seconds
Ali Velshi reports the latest on the War in Ukraine, and Margaret Atwood joins the show
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Raf Sanchez and Erin McLaughlin, Executive Editor of The New Voice of Ukraine Veronika Melkozerova, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Producer and Director of FRONTLINE’S ‘The Power of Big Oil’ Dan Edge, Fmr. House Impeachment Inquiry Majority Counsel and MSNBC Legal Analyst Daniel S. Goldman, Rep. David Cicilline- (D-RI), Political Editor and COO of the Kyiv Independent Oleksiy Sorokin, and Award-winning Author of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Margaret Atwood.
5/1/2022 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 15 seconds
Fight for Democracy
Ali Velshi is joined by Jonathan D. Katz, Director of Democracy Initiatives, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law and Sociology at University of Pennsylvania, Kenneth S. Rogoff, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Harvard University, Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Joyce Vance, University of Alabama School of Law Professor, Lesia Vasylenko, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Roger McNamee, Co-founder at Elevation Partners, and Sinan Aral, David Austin Professor of Management at MIT.
4/30/2022 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 41 seconds
Biden’s Climate Goals A Year Later
Ali Velshi is joined by Daniel S. Goldman, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Bill Browder, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Founder and Host of ‘Black Diplomats’ Podcast, Frank Luntz, Political Analyst, Communications Consultant & Pollster, Toomas Ilves, Former President of the Republic of Estonia, Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Washington), and Nic Stone, Author of “Dear Martin”.
4/24/2022 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 39 seconds
Ali Velshi is back in New York City
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Raf Sanchez and Kelly Cobiella, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Politico National Correspondent Betsy Woodruff Swan, Ukrainian Parliament Member Inna Sovsun, MSNBC Political Analyst and Publisher of The.Ink Anand Giridharadas, Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett (D – U.S. Virgin Islands), Founding Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and NBC/MSNBC Public Health Analyst Dr. Irwin Redlener, Principal Policy Associate for State Issues at the Guttmacher Institute Elizabeth Nash, and the Director of the Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Clinical Access Project duVergne Gaines.
4/23/2022 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 35 seconds
Special Guest Host
Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by Oleksandra Matviichuk, Chair at The Center for Civil Liberties, Lisa Yasko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, Dr. Ebony Hilton, MSNBC Medical Contributor, Toby Fricker, Chief of Communications and Partnerships at UNICEF, David Miliband, President & CEO of International Rescue Committee, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post Foreign Correspondent, Clint Watts, NBC News & MSNBC National Security Analyst, Joyce Vance, University of Alabama School of Law Professor, and Marina Jenkins, Director of Litigation & Policy at the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
4/18/2022 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 49 seconds
Maria Teresa Kumar with the latest on the War in Ukraine, and more
Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by NBC Foreign Correspondent Raf Sanchiz in Lviv, Ukraine, President, German Marshall Fund Heather Conley, Political Editor and COO of the Kyiv Independent Oleksiy Sorokin, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine and Deputy Director of the Ukrainian World CongressSviatoslav Yurash, Co-Executive Director of Trust Women Rebecca Tong, Actress Oliwia Dabrowska, Chairman of The Human Rights Foundation,Garry Kasparov, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine and Leader of Holos Political Party Kira Rudik, Founder of the World Center Kitchen Chef José Andrés, and Politico National Correspondent Betsy Woodruff Swan.
4/16/2022 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 42 seconds
Ali Velshi live from Lviv, Ukraine
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Molly Hunter in Kyiv, NBC’s Raf Sanchez from Lviv, Fmr. Director for European Affairs, National Security Council retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Editor, Geopolitical Intelligence Services and former Chief Editor & Executive Director of the Kyiv Post Brian Bonner, Member of Ukrainian Parliament Dmytro Gurin, Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, Emergency Coordinator,Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors without Borders Alex Wade, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Representative of Jordan to the United Nations & former Ambassador of Jordan to the United States, and Professor, Practice of Law and Human Rights, The University of Pennsylvania Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, Political Editor and COO of the Kyiv Independent Oleksiy Sorokin, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, and Russian American Historian and author of “Blowing Up Russia” Yuri Felshtinsky. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, founder and host of ‘Black Diplomats’ podcast Terrell Jermaine Starr in Ukraine, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine Lesia Vasylenko, UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Madison Policy Forum Major (ret.) John Spencer, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign William Browder, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of “Putinomics” Chris Miller, and Ukrainian Refugee Nastya Shpot.
4/10/2022 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 59 seconds
Ali Velshi live from Lviv, Ukraine
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Raf Sanchez from Lviv, NBC’s Molly Hunter in Kyiv, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center Jane Harman, Executive Editor, The New Voice of Ukraine Veronika Melkozerova, Senior Staff Writer with The War Zone Howard Altman, Vice-Chairman of IHS Markit Daniel Yergin, President & CEO of the International Rescue Committee and Fmr. Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom David Miliband, Washington Post Foreign CorrespondentIsabelle Khurshudyan, Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and Member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for Department of State Oona Hathaway, President & CEO of the National Women’s Law Center and President of the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund Fatima Goss Graves, andBoston Globe Columnist and MSNBC Political Analyst Kimberly Atkins Stohr.
4/9/2022 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 36 seconds
Bearing Witness in Ukraine
Ali Velshi is joined by Andrei Kozyrev, Former Foreign Minister of Russia, Toomas Ilves, Former President of the Republic of Estonia, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post Foreign Correspondent, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D- Vermont, Inna Sovsun, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Former Director for European Affairs at National Security Council, Kristina Kvien, U.S. Charge D'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian Journalist, and Major (Ret.) John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, Madison Policy Forum
4/3/2022 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 49 seconds
Live from Lviv
Ali Velshi is joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Sudarsan Raghavan, Correspondent at Large at the Washington Post, Oleksiy Goncharenko, Member of Ukrainian Parliament, Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Angela Stent, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, Kira Rudik, Ukrainian Member of Parliament, Serhiy Kiral, Deputy Mayor of Lviv, and Nate Mook, CEO of World Central Kitchen
4/3/2022 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 44 seconds
Live from Warsaw, PolandLive from Warsaw, Poland
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Jacob Soboroff from Lviv, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, founder and host of ‘Black Diplomats’ podcast Terrell Jermaine Starr in Ukraine, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine Lesia Vasylenko, UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Madison Policy Forum Major (ret.) John Spencer, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign William Browder, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of “Putinomics” Chris Miller, and Ukrainian Refugee Nastya Shpot.
3/27/2022 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 14 seconds
Live from Warsaw, Poland
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Ali Arouzi, Kelly O’Donnell, Jacob Soboroff, and Gabe Gutierrez. Also, former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, Washington Post Correspondent Sudarsan Raghavan, Ukrainian Member of Parliament Inna Sovsun, Professor of International Law at Yale Law School Oona Hathaway, President of the German Marshall Fund Heather Conley, Executive Editor of The New Voice of Ukraine Veronika Melkozerova, President & CEO of the International Rescue Committee David Miliband, Staff Writer for The Atlantic Caitlin Dickerson, Distinguished Fellow and president Emerita at the Wilson Center Jane Harman.
3/26/2022 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 57 seconds
Live from Budapest, Hungary
Ali Velshi is joined by Clint Watts, Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute & Alliance for Securing Democracy, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Founder and Host of the ‘Black Diplomats’ Podcast, Olena Sotnyk, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, David Miliband, President & CEO at International Rescue Committee, Angela Stent, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Isobel Yeung, VICE News Correspondent, Kira Rudik, Ukrainian Member of Parliament, Rep. Tom Malinowski, (D) New Jersey, and José Andrés, Founder of World Center Kitchen.
3/20/2022 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 34 seconds
War Crimes
Ali Velshi, reporting live from the Nyugati rail station in Budapest, Hungary, is joined by NBC's Molly Hunter and Gabe Gutierrez in Lviv, Ukraine, the Kyiv Independent's Oleksiy Sorokin, Ukrainian members of parliament Lisa Yasko and Sviatoslav Yurash, retired U.S. Army Major and chair of Urban Warfare Studies for the Madison Policy Forum John Spencer, NYU history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Yale Law School's Oona Hathaway, founding director of Columbia's Center for Disaster Preparedness Dr. Irwin Redlener, and UNICEF's Joe English.
3/19/2022 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 47 seconds
Stories from the Border
Ali Velshi is joined by Sudarsan Raghavan, Correspondent at Large for Washington Post, Lisa Yasko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, David Miliband, President & CEO and International Rescue Committee, Amb. William B. Taylor, Russia and Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace Vice-President, Heather Conley, German Marshall Fund President, Inna Sovsun, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Former Director for European Affairs at National Security Council, and Petro Poroshenko, Former President of Ukraine.
3/13/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 20 seconds
Updates from the Ukraine Border
Ali Velshi is joined by Garry Kasparov, Chairman at The Human Rights Foundation, Helene Cooper, Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon Correspondent at The New York Times, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Founder and Host of the ‘Black Diplomats’ Podcast, Irwin Redlener, Founding Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University’s Earth Institute, Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukrainian Minister of Culture and Information Policy, Amb. Michael McFaul, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition politician, Oleksiy Goncharenko, Member of Ukrainian Parliament, Lynsey Addario, Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist at The New York Times, and Evelyn Farkas, Fmr. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia.
3/12/2022 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 11 seconds
Live from the Ukrainian Border
Ali Velshi is joined by Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Former Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, Sudarsan Raghavan, Correspondent at Large at the Washington Post, Inna Sovsun, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Malcolm Nance, MSNBC Terrorism Analyst, Bobby Ghosh, Editor & Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Founder and Host of The Black Diplomat’ Podcast, Dr. Brian Klaas, Associate Professor at University College London, David Miliband, President & CEO of International Rescue Committee, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, Rep. Gregory Meeks, Democrat of New York, Heather Conley, President of German Marshall Fund, Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies at NYU, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU.
3/6/2022 • 2 hours, 22 minutes, 30 seconds
As Russia's War in Ukraine enters Day 10, Ali Velshi is live from the Hungary-Ukraine border
Ali Velshi is live from the Hungary-Ukraine border, and is joined by Olena Sotnyk, Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine; the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder; Clint Watts; Lisa Yasko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Chris Melzer, Senior External Relations Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or the UNHCR; Jane Harman; Ian Bremmer; Kira Rudik, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; former Energy Secretary Ernsest Moniz; former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor; Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA); Ambassador Adrejs Pildegovics, Permanent Representative of Latvia to the United Nations; Dr. Irwin Redlener.
3/5/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 13 seconds
The Inaugural Meeting of the “Velshi Banned Book Club”
Ali Velshi is joined by Matt Zapotosky, National Security Reporter at The Washington Post, Symone Sanders, Former Senior Advisor & Chief Spokesperson to the Vice President, Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pennsylvania), Yoruba Richen, Director, Writer, and Producer of ‘American Reckoning’, Dawn Porter, Executive Producer of ‘American Reckoning’, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), Fatima Goss Graves, President & CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, and George M. Johnson, New York Times Bestselling Author of ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’.
2/13/2022 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 55 seconds
The Shredding President
Ali Velshi is joined by Jeremy Peters, Author of“INSURGENCY: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted”, Rep. Hank Johnson, Democrat of Georgia, Sen. Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, State Rep. Michele Rayner, Democrat of Florida, Khloe Joiner, Founder of “A Book and A Smile”, Jacqueline Alemany, Congressional Correspondent at the Washington Post, Rep. Jim Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, Deuel Ross, Senior Counsel at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Eddie Glaude, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.
2/12/2022 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 31 seconds
Reframing American History
Ali Velshi is joined by Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Fmr. NSC Director for Eastern Europe, the Caucuses, and Russia, Geoff Bennett, MSNBC Political Contributor, Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, (D) Pennsylvania, Keiawnna Pitts, Founder and Chief Community Catalyst, Round Rock Black Parents Association, Nola Haynes, Director, Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) Adjunct Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Pepperdine University, Omarosa Manigault Newman, Former Senior White House Official & Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Boston Globe Columnist, Rep. Barbara Lee (D) California, Imani Perry, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, and Jelani Cobb, Director, Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights at Columbia University.
2/6/2022 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 47 seconds
Rudy Caludy
Ali Velshi is joined by Michael Cohen, Former Personal Attorney to Donald Trump, Eugene Scott, National Political Reporter at The Washington Post, Dr. Ala Stanford, Founder at Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, Nikole Hannah Jones, Pulitzer Prize Winning Staff Writer at the New York Times Magazine, Yamiche Alcindor, Anchor & Moderator at ‘Washington Week’ on PBS, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, Democrat of U.S. Virgin Islands, Helene Cooper, Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon Correspondent at The New York Times, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, and William M. Rodgers III, Vice President and Director at Institute for Economic Equity for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
2/5/2022 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 13 seconds
Ukraine in Context
Ali Velshi is joined by Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor & Legal Correspondent at Slate Magazine, Nancy Northup, President & CEO at Center for Reproductive Rights, Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Rep. Madeleine Dean, (D) Pennsylvania, Jake Ward, NBC News Technology Correspondent, Matthew Seligman, Fellow at Center for Private Law at Yale Law School, Jim Obergefell, Lead Plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), that legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States, Lev Parnas, Former Associate of Rudy Giuliani, Wajahat Ali, Columnist at The Daily Beast, and Errin Haines, Editor-at-Large at The 19th.
1/31/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 22 seconds
Republicans Take Aim at Books
Ali Velshi is joined by Olatunde C. Johnson, Professor of Law at Columbia University, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Garry Kasparov, Founder and Chairman at Renew Democracy Initiative, Eric Hirschberg, Founder of Will Work for Change, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Boston Globe Columnist, Katie Benner, Pulitzer Prize-winning Justice Department Reporter at the New York Times, Caleb Silver, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia, Ian Bremmer, President and Founder at Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, Eddie Glaude, Princeton University Department of African American Studies Chair, and Timothy Snyder Professor of History at Yale University.
1/29/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 56 seconds
The Future for Ukraine, The Republican Party, and the Climate
Ali Velshi is joined by Kyle Cheney, Legal affairs reporter for Politico, Olivia Troye, Former Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to VP Pence, Dr. David Skorton, President & CEO at Association of American Medical Colleges, Bonnie Schneider, Author of “Taking The Heat: How Climate Change is Affecting Your Mind, Body, & Spirit and What You Can Do About It”, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, Katie Benner, Pulitzer Prize-winning Department Reporter at New York Times, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, Representative for the U.S. Virgin Islands, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Fmr. NSC Director for Eastern Europe, the Caucuses, and Russia, and Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State.
1/23/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 12 seconds
Tension at Home and Overseas
Ali Velshi is joined by Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Rep. Joaquin Castro, (D) Texas, Olivia Troye, Fmr. Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to VP Pence, Ari Berman, Senior Reporter at Mother Jones, Steve Benen, Editor at The Maddow Blog, Carol Leonnig, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter at The Washington Post, Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney, Adm. James Stavridis, Fmr. Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, Tammi Kromenaker, Director of Red River Women’s Clinic, Elizabeth Nash Principal Policy Associate and Interim Associate Director of State Issues at Guttmacher Institute.
1/22/2022 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 10 seconds
Crisis Averted in Texas
Ali Velshi is joined U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, former OSHA chief David Michaels, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, Politico’s Betsy Woodruff Swan, and NBC’s Morgan Chesky.
1/16/2022 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 56 seconds
Democracy at Stake
Ali Velshi is joined Rep. Jim Clyburn, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, former majority counsel for the House Impeachment Inquiry Daniel Goldman, Rev. Dr. William Barber, The New York Times Pentagon Correspondent Helene Cooper, SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah, former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh, former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance, and NBC’s Jake Ward.
1/15/2022 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 25 seconds
What Can Be Done To Save Democracy?
Ali Velshi is joined by Dana Nessel, Michigan Attorney General, Rep. Mondaire Jones, Democrat of New York, Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine & Director at Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery, Ian Bremmer, President and Founder of Eurasia Group & GZERO Media, Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University, Sen. Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, Trey Grayson, Former Kentucky Secretary of State, Alencia Johnson, Democratic Strategist & Chief Impact Officer of 1063 West Broad, and Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at The Washington Post.
1/9/2022 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 1 second
The Fight for Democracy
Ali Velshi is joined by Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Joanne Freeman, Award-winning Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D) South Carolina, Roger McNamee, Author of ‘Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe’, Karl Racine, Washington, D.C. Attorney General, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Dr. Ala Stanford, Founder of Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, Olivia Troye, Fmr. Homeland Security, Counterterror & COVID Advisor to VP Mike Pence, Michael Steele, Fmr. RNC Chairman.
1/8/2022 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 59 seconds
From Washington, D.C. to Wall Street
Ali Velshi is joined by Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Kyle Cheney, Legal affairs reporter for Politico, Dr. Peter Hotez, Co-Director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney, Deborah Watts, Cousin of Emmett Till, Gov. Steve Bullock, Former Governor of Montana, Marina Jenkins Litigation and Policy Director at National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at The Washington Post.
12/28/2021 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 40 seconds
Christmas with “Velshi”
Ali Velshi is joined by Dr. Ebony Hilton, Critical Care Anesthesiologist at University of Virginia, Rep. Susan Wild, Democrat of Pennsylvania, Dr. Lipi Roy, Medical Director of COVID Isolation & Quarantine Sites for Housing Works in New York City, Andy Slavitt, Fmr. White House Senior Advisor for COVID Response, Andre Perry, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution.
12/27/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 59 seconds
“Complete bullsh*t”
Ali Velshi is joined by Philip Bump, National Correspondent at The Washington Post, Rep. David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island, Dr. Rick Bright, Senior Vice President of Pandemic Prevention and Response at The Rockefeller Foundation, Nse Ufot, CEO at New Georgia Project, Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania Attorney General, Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Founding Director at Boston University Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law, Sociology of Civil Rights and Africana studies at University of Pennsylvania, and, Errin Haines, Editor-at-Large at the 19th.
12/19/2021 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 6 seconds
On the Ground in Kentucky
Ali Velshi is joined by Mayfield City Council member Barry McDonald, Lt. Dean Patterson of the KY State Police, vaccine specialist Dr. Peter Hotez, WSMV reporter Ryan Breslin, tornado survivor Kyanna Parsons-Perez, Kentucky State Sen. Whitney Westerfield, Rep. Stacey Plasket, Misty Thomas from the Kentucky Red Cross, and Colorado’s Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
12/12/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 55 seconds
Insurrection Investigation
Ali Velshi is joined by Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Democrat of Illinois, Mark Simon, Author of ‘Attacked! A Memoir of Extreme Bullying’, Caitlin Dickerson, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Alex Gibney, ‘The Forever Prisoner’ Filmmaker, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Rep. Judy Chu, Democrat of California, Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning global health journalist, Dr. Willie Parker, OB/GYN, and Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney.
12/5/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 15 seconds
Omicron, Abortion, and Arraignment
Ali Velshi is joined by Mary Ziegler, Author of ‘Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present’, Alencia Johnson, Founder & Head of Impact at 1063 West Broad, Dr. Rick Bright, Senior Vice President of Pandemic Prevention and Response at The Rockefeller Foundation, Nancy Northup, President & CEO at Center for Reproductive Rights, Melissa Murray, Professor at NYU Law, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, and Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Founding Director at Boston University Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research.
12/4/2021 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 18 seconds
The Party of Big Government
Ali Velshi is joined by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, The 19th's Errin Haines, West Alabama Women's Center Communications Director and author of "The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America" Robin Marty, NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray, Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick, early Facebook and Google investor and author of the book "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastophe" Roger McNamee, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, NBC's Jonathan Allen, Josh Lederman and Jacob Ward, and Adam Harris, author of the new book "The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal -- and How to Set Them Right."
12/4/2021 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 32 seconds
Back to Court
Ali Velshi is joined by Loyce Pace, HHS Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, Rep. Alma Adams , Democrat of North Carolina, Caleb Silver, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia, Marc Levinson, “The Box” Author, Betsy Woodruff Swan, National Correspondent at Politico, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Democrat of Illinois, Dr. Peter Hotez, Co-Director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, Marina Jenkins, Litigation and Policy Director at National Democratic Redistricting Committee, Errin Haines, Editor-at-Large at The 19th, and Donna Edwards, Fmr. Democratic Congresswoman of Maryland.
11/28/2021 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 49 seconds
Omicron Fears Spread the Globe
Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Troy Carter, Democrat of Louisiana, CK Hoffler, CEO of The CK Hoffler Firm, Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, Dr. Rick Bright, Senior Vice President of Pandemic Prevention and Response at The Rockefeller Foundation, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Democrat of Missouri, Brittney Cooper, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, and Ben Jealous, Former President and CEO of the NAACP.
11/27/2021 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 3 seconds
Bullish on “Build Back Better”
Ali Velshi is joined by Jena Griswold, Colorado’s Secretary of State, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate, Carlos Gutierrez, Former United States Secretary of Commerce, Heather Boushey, White House Economic Advisor, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, Paul Waldman, Senior writer at American Prospect, Former Rep. Max Rose, Democrat of New York, and Fomer Rep. Debbie Mucarsel Powell, Democrat of Florida.
11/21/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 1 second
Not Guilty on All Counts
Ali Velshi is joined by defense attorney Danny Cevallos, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, retired Police Captain Sonia Pruitt, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, Congressman Don Bacon, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah Jones, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Republican strategist Rick Tyler, The Washington Post's Eugene Scott, and NBC's Antonia Hylton, Meagan Fitzgerald, and Liz McLaughlin.
11/20/2021 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 13 seconds
Ripple effects of Bannon indictment
Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, former Mike Pence aide Olivia Troye, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, attorney Kim Motley, American historian Joanne Freeman, activist Melissa Bumstead, The Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig, Errin Haines from The 19th* News, and executive director of the Advancement Project Judith Browne Dianis.
11/14/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 31 seconds
Indicted
Velshi guest host Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Senator Mazie Hirono, Politico’s Kyle Cheney, The New York Times’ Katie Benner, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, former trial attorney Kimberly Atkins Stohr, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, NPR’s Tim Mak, NBC’s Liz McLaughlin, Congressman Ritchie Torres, and architectural and urban designer Amy Stelly.
11/13/2021 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 36 seconds
Subpoenas Coming
Ali Velshi is joined by Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos, Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan, MSNBC's Hayes Brown, former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Philadelphia City Councilmember Isaiah Thomas, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, New York Times technology reporter Cecilia Kang, and Wilson Center fellow Nina Jankowicz.
11/7/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 13 seconds
It Really Is Infrastructure Week
Ali Velshi is joined by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Congressman Dan Kildee, Investopedia's Caleb Silver, the New Yorker's Sheelah Kolhatkar, Politico's Kyle Cheney, The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig, NYU history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, NBC's Leigh Ann Caldwell and Kristen Welker, MSNBC columnist Dean Obeidallah, Princeton professor Imani Perry, and former federal prosecutor Paul Butler.
11/6/2021 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 31 seconds
Scary Polling
Ali Velshi is joined by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, NBC's Mark Murray, Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan, former Congressman Joe Walsh, political strategists Alencia Johnson and Rina Shah, NBC's Mike Memoli and Molly Hunter, the Boston Globe's Kimberly Atkins Stohr, and Gleaners Food Bank CEO John Elliott.
10/31/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 18 seconds
Opportunity Cost
Ali Velshi is joined by White House Council of Economic Advisers member Heather Boushey, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, Congresswoman Judy Chu, The Ink's Anand Giridharadas, President of the New York City Uniformed Firefighters Association Andrew Ansbro, The Guttmacher Institute's Elizabeth Nash, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig, NBC's Brandy Zadrozny, and The Wilson Center's Nina Jankowicz.
10/30/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 21 seconds
The Big Lie's Command Center
Ali Velshi is joined by Congressman Pete Aguilar, Senator Sherrod Brown, the Washington Post's Philip Bump and Jacqueline Alemany, Professor Kellie Carter Jackson, Transhealth CEO Dallas Ducar, Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer, the New Yorker's Sheelah Kolhatkar, and Bloomberg's Tim O'Brien.
10/24/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 55 seconds
Calling Out the Lies
Ali Velshi is joined by "Civil War" filmmaker Rachel Boynton, Mississippi high school history teacher and principal Antwayn Patrick, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, Congressman Ritchie Torres, Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan and Tara Palmeri, early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, Dr. Peter Hotez, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, and Roland Martin.
10/23/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 10 seconds
Will Bannon’s loyalty to Trump cost him his freedom?
Ali Velshi is joined by NIH director Dr. Francis Collins, Rep. Debbie Dingell, Rep. Mondaire Jones, former NJ governor Christine Todd Whitman, former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Guttmacher Institute’s Associate Director of State Issues Elizabeth Nash, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, PBS Washington Week moderator Yamiche Alcindor, Politico’s Betsy Woodruff Swan, and NBC’s Raf Sanchez.
10/17/2021 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 25 seconds
Democracy Hanging in the Balance
Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, author Timothy Snyder, Rev. Dr. William Barber, executive director of the Feminist Majority Foundation Katherine Spillar, abortion rights advocate Dr. Willie Parker, Carol Leonnig from The Washington Post, The New York Times’ Katie Benner, McKay Coppins from The Atlantic, and NBC’s Scott Cohn.
10/17/2021 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 36 seconds
It's Always Infrastructure Week Now
Ali Velshi is joined by Senator Mazie Hirono, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, author and poet Caroline Randall Williams, science journalist Laurie Garrett, Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan, NPR's Asma Khalid, retired police captain Sonia Pruitt, and NBC's Brandy Zadrozny.
10/3/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 9 seconds
"Criminal Referrals"
Ali Velshi is joined by Congressman Jamie Raskin, Congressman Jamaal Bowman, Congressman Mondaire Jones, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Trust Women's Rebecca Tong, #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, the Washington Post's Philip Bump and Carol Leonnig, NBC's Jacob Soboroff and Stephanie Stanton, Dr. Peter Hotez, and former SEC economist Lori Bettinger.
10/2/2021 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 26 seconds
Bills, Bills, Bills
Ali Velshi is joined by Senator Debbie Stabenow, Congressman Jamie Raskin, Congressman Pete Aguilar, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, retired police captain Sonia Pruitt, author & historian Adam Tooze, children’s book author Brad Meltzer, political strategist Juanita Tolliver, The Washington Post opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin, and The New York Times’ Katie Benner.
9/29/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 12 seconds
The Biden Agenda Hangs in the Balance
Ali Velshi is joined by Congressman Ritchie Torres, Congresswoman Cori Bush, Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan, MSNBC's Hayes Brown, the author of "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive," Stephanie Land, Dr. Bernard Ashby, the Atlantic's Caitlin Dickerson, former Republican Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, Facebook critic (and early investor) Roger McNamee, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, and co-hosts of the Southlake podcast, Antonia Hylton and Mike Hixenbaugh
9/26/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 11 seconds
The Fight Ahead
Anand Giridharadas, in for Ali Velshi, is joined by Congresswoman Gwen Moore, Congressman Sean Casten, Rev. Dr. William Barber, Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan, the Washington Post's Philip Bump, Center for Reproductive Rights President & CEO Nancy Northup, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, the New York Times' Katie Benner, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, Professor Dorothy Brown, and John Brown, a Missouri man who was evicted from his home and is traveling to Washington to help make the case for a federal eviction moratorium.
9/19/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 59 seconds
Another Far-Right Rally
Mehdi Hasan, in for Ali Velshi, is joined by Reps. Madeleine Dean and Stacey Plaskett, NBC's Ellison Barber, Julie Tsirkin, Garrett Haake, Antonia Hylton, and Brandy Zadrozny, MSNBC hosts Yasmin Vossoughian and Kendis Gibson, former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, former adviser to Mike Pence Olivia Troye, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Carol Leonnig, and author of the book "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe," Roger McNamee.
9/18/2021 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 59 seconds
The astroturfers coming after your rights
Maria Teresa Kumar, sitting in for Ali Velshi, is joined by Congressman James Clyburn, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, former presidential candidate Julian Castro, Mother Jones' Ari Berman, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, abortion rights activist and author Robin Marty, MSNBC Daily's Hayes Brown, The 19th's Errin Haines, Punchbowl News founder Anna Palmer, NBC's Antonia Hylton, captain of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team Somaya Faruqi, founder of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team Roya Mahboob, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association Dr. Georges Benjamin, and Alabama resident Dorothy Oliver, who went door-to-door and helped get her rural town 94% vaccinated.
9/13/2021 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 31 seconds
The New Abortion War
Ali Velshi is joined by President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights Nancy Northup, Miriam Camero from RAICES, Congresswoman Judy Chu, Congressman James Clyburn, New York Magazine senior correspondent Irin Carmon, the Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus, Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Dr. Uche Blackstock, Penn State professor and scientist Michael Mann, Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, and New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg.
9/5/2021 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 58 seconds
The March on Washington
Mehdi Hasan, in for Ali Velshi, is joined by Woke Vote creator DeJuana Thompson, president of the African American Intellectual History Society Keisha Blain, Congressman Mondaire Jones, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, Congresswoman Terri Sewell, NAACP President Derrick Johnson, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, NBC's Ali Arouzi and Josh Lederman, the New York Times' Helene Cooper, former interpreter and veteran Said Noor, and NBC's Antonia Hylton.
8/28/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 50 seconds
Bracing for Tropical Storm Henri
Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Rep. Gregory Meeks, Rep. Ritchie Torres, TX State Rep. Jasmine Crockett, former Obama Health Policy Director Dr. Kavita Patel, Whole Woman’s Health Alliance president Amy Hagstrom Miller, Abortion Access Front founder & CCO Lizz Winstead, “Shots at the Shop” director Dr. Stephen Thomas, Rev. Dr. William Barber, NewYorker.com executive news editor David Rohde, The Washington Post reporter Anne Gearan, editor-at-large of The 19th* Errin Haines, NBC News meteorologist Bill Karins, and NBC correspondents Janessa Webb and Kathy Park.
8/23/2021 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 43 seconds
"Move away from the microphone"
Mehdi Hasan, sitting in for Ali Velshi, is joined by Congresswoman Susan Wild, Dr. Irwin Redlener, former White House aide Olivia Troye, NPR's Asma Khalid, the New York Times' Helene Cooper, photojournalist Lynsey Addario, Dr. Richina Bicette, the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, Afghanistan War veteran Kiyoshi Mino, journalist and author Spencer Ackerman, and former FBI agent Clint Watts.
8/21/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 6 seconds
Trump's Plot Unravels
Ali Velshi talks to Congressman Jason Crow, Senator Bob Casey, NBC News Foreign Correspondent Kelly Cobiella, human rights attorney Kimberley Motley, Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan and Eugene Daniels, the Boston Globe's Kimberly Atkins Stohr, the Washington Post's Ruth Marcus, Dr. Kelechi Iheagwara, Travis County, Texas Judge Andy Brown, Texas State Rep. Gene Wu, ProPublica's Justin Elliott, NYU's Cristina Beltran, and NPR's Ray Suarez.
8/14/2021 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 15 seconds
Subversion
Ali Velshi is joined by New York Times reporter Katie Benner, Austin Mayor Steve Adler, Dr. Howard Koh, The 19th’s Errin Haines, the New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, early Facebook and Google investor Roger McNamee, and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
8/9/2021 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 53 seconds
The Coup That Could Have Been
Ali Velshi is joined by retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Sen. Mazie Hirono, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchia, the Rev. Dr. William Barber, Roland Martin, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Dr. Peter Hotez, Alachua County, FL school board chair Leanetta McNealy, Punchbowl News’ Anna Palmer, the Boston Globe’s Renee Graham, NY1’s Gloria Pazmino, and #MeToo founder Tarana Burke.
8/7/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 23 seconds
Subpoena Power
Ali Velshi is joined by House Select Committe Member Rep. Pete Aguilar, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Rep. Mondaire Jones, NIH Director Francis Collins, NPR political correspondent Asma Khalid, historian Anne Applebaum, Dr. Ebony Hilton, MSNBC producer and blogger Steve Benen, Interim President and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute DeJuana Thompson, and MSNBC Dailey editor Hayes Brown.
8/1/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 13 seconds
"Texas, you don't have a baby daddy named Voter Fraud"
Ali Velshi is joined by Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, Congressman Hank Johnson, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, New York Times reporter Katie Benner, Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker, Dr. Rick Bright, Dr. Celine Gounder, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.
7/31/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 4 seconds
If One of Us is Chained, None of Are Free
Ali Velshi is joined by House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn, Sen. Bob Casey, Sen. Alex Padilla, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep. David Cicilline, NC Attorney General Josh Stein, Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, The 19th* Editor-At-Large Errin Haines, Princeton University’s Eddie Glaude and NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard.
7/25/2021 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 30 seconds
Democracy’s Last Stand
Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Debbie Dingell, Rep. Barbara Lee, Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett, virologist Dr. Rick Bright, political columnist Rami Khouri, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, activist Rev. Dr. William Barber, NBC News senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny, webseries host Roland Martin, and Roger McNamee, an early investor in Google and Facebook.
7/24/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 5 seconds
Counting Down
Ali Velshi is joined by Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, NBC News Correspondent Tom Costello, NBC News White House Correspondent Monica Alba, and Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchia.
7/11/2021 • 43 minutes, 52 seconds
The Big Lie Can Be Used Against You
Ali Velshi is joined by Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan, Congressman Jason Crow, Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold, Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins-Stohr, Texas State Rep. Rhetta Bowers, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts, Dr. Peter Hotez, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, and Roger McNamee, an early investor in Google and Facebook.
7/10/2021 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 43 seconds
Hostile Witnesses
Ali Velshi is joined by Jennifer Weisselberg, Congressman Bennie Thompson, Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill, Congressman Pete Aguilar, Congressman Don Bacon, PBS Washington Week moderator Yamiche Alcindor, former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance, The 19th Editor-at-Large Errin Haines, The Rachel Maddow Show producer Steve Benen, President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center Fatima Goss Graves, and President and CEO of the National Constitution Center Jeff Rosen.
7/4/2021 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 43 seconds
Trouble in Trumpworld
Ali Velshi is joined by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, Senator Bob Casey, New York Times investigative reporter Susanne Craig, Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold, former federal prosecutor Kan Nawaday, The Advance Project's Judith Browne Dianis, Dr. Ala Stanford, civil rights attorney Kristen Gibbons Feden, and former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne.
7/3/2021 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 28 seconds
An extremely fragile trillion dollar deal
Ali Velshi is joined by Sen. Alex Padilla, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Congressman Jamaal Bowman, Congressman Andrew Garbarino, NPR political correspondent Asma Khalid, NBC News White House correspondent Monica Alba, Rev. Dr. William Barber, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, the Cuban Ambassador to the U.N. Pedro Luis Pedroso, Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins-Stohr, The 19th Editor-at-Large Errin Haines, NBC News correspondent Morgan Chesky, and the mayor of Surfside, FL, Charles Burkett.
6/27/2021 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 3 seconds
Party out of Power
Ali Velshi is joined by Senator Tim Kaine, Representative Stacey Plaskett, Representative Jim Himes, Representative Charlie Crist, former Representative Barbara Comstock, Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson, and Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.
6/26/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 1 second
Tragedy and Mystery in Florida
Ali Velshi is joined by Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Florida Congressman Carlos Curbelo, Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, Surfside Commissioner Charles Kesl, structural engineer Joel Figueroa-Vallines, architect Kobi Karp, geophysics professor Shimon Wdowinski, former Miami-Dade fire chief Dave Downey, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy-Armstrong, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard, and NBC News National Reporter Deon Hampton.
6/26/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 4 seconds
Battle for the Ballot
Ali Velshi is joined by Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Joyce Beatty, Rep. Sharice Davids, NIH Director Francis Collins, Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchia, Boston Globe columnist Renee Graham, comedian and author D.L. Hughley, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, and the New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb
6/20/2021 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 57 seconds
Juneteenth
Ali Velshi is joined by Congressman James Clyburn, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, Senator Mazie Hirono, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, NBC Tehran Bureau Chief Ali Arouzi, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, NBC News correspondent Antonia Hylton, Rutgers Professor Brittney Cooper, and Roland Martin.
6/19/2021 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 45 seconds
Biden on the World Stage
Ali Velshi is joined by Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer, Bloomberg columnist Bobby Ghosh, former spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Hagar Chemali, Rev. Dr. William Barber, Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker, NBC News Foreign Correspondent Matt Bradley, and Mississippi high school students Layla Temple and Ikeria Washington.
6/13/2021 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 41 seconds
Is America Back, Though?
Ali Velshi is joined by Congressman Peter Welch, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, Washington Post columnist Max Boot, Gillian Tett of the Financial Times, The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, George Vrandenburg of Us Against Alzheimer's, and NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander.
6/12/2021 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 22 seconds
The Authoritarian Dream
Ali Velshi is joined by Congressman Jim Clyburn, Congressman Mondaire Jones, Congressman French Hill, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, New York Times reporter Katie Benner, Thomas Bollyky of the Council on Foreign Relations, the New Yorker’s Sheelah Kolhatkar, the New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb, founder of the Progress Network at New America Zachary Karabell, The 19th’s Errin Haines, NBC’s Jake Ward, and NBC’s Kerry Sanders.
6/6/2021 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 10 seconds
The Insurrection Is Not Over
Ali Velshi is joined by former impeachment manager Rep. Stacey Plaskett, presidential historian Michael Beschloss, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Washington Post reporter Philip Bump, New York Times reporter Matt Apuzzo, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchia, former federal prosecutor Kim Wehle, Investopedia’s Caleb Silver, the Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, and the one and only Bill Nye the Science Guy.
6/5/2021 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 28 seconds
Block the Vote
Ali Velshi is joined by Texas State Rep. Jessica Gonzalez, Roland Martin, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, former Congresswoman Jane Harman, former Congressman Joe Walsh, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb, The 19th Editor-at-Large Errin Haines, and MSNBC Daily’s Hayes Brown.
5/30/2021 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 24 seconds
The Party of Insurrection
Ali Velshi is joined by former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, former RNC Chair Michael Steele, former Republican consultant Shermichael Singleton, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchia, Pulitizer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett, president of the Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer, author and attorney Hannibal B. Johnson, Tony Award-winning director and producer Bartlett Sher, and Arizona Republic reporter Jen Fifield.
5/29/2021 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 42 seconds
Putting Unity over Honesty
Ali Velshi is joined by California Senator Alex Padilla, Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin, California Representative Barbara Lee, former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker, Errin Haines from the 19th*, The Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig, NBC’s Kelly Cobiella, and MSNBC Public Health Analyst Irwin Redlener.
5/23/2021 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 29 seconds
Inside the GOP’s January 6 Calculus
Ali Velshi is joined by Delaware Senator Tom Carper, U.S.V.I Representative Stacey Plaskett, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, Center for Reproductive Rights CEO Nancy Northup, Ronald Greene’s family lawyer Lee Merritt, award-winning humanitarian Hanan Ashrawi, Ronen Bergman from The New York Times Magazine, Katie Benner from The New York Times, NBC’s Richard Engel, MSNBC’s Hayes Brown, plus Anne Gearan, Jennifer Rubin & Eugene Scott from The Washington Post.
5/22/2021 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 37 seconds
Facing Hate in America
Ali Velshi is joined by a roundtable of citizens and leaders from the AAPI community for a powerful conversation about race and anti-Asian violence. Also joining the show: Congressman Bennie Thompson, Senator Bernie Sanders, Congressman Jason Crow, Congresswoman Judy Chu, Congressman Andrew Garbarino, Academy Award-winning producer of the new documentary “Crime of the Century” Alex Gibney, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Washington Post White House correspondent Anne Gearan, and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Katie Benner.
5/16/2021 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 7 seconds
Florida Man's Legal Woes
Ali Velshi is joined by former governors Bill Weld and Christine Todd Whitman, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, former RNC Chair Michael Steele, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, Avner Gvaryahu of Breaking the Silence, the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Washington Week moderator Yamiche Alcindor, former senior Capitol HIll aide Rina Shah, Ryan Streeter of the American Enterprise Institute.
5/15/2021 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 43 seconds
The Premonition
Ali Velshi is joined by author Michael Lewis, NIH Director Francis Collins, Congressman James Clyburn, Congresswoman Grace Meng, Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins, Washington Post reporter Eugene Scott, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Arizona Republic reporter Jen Fifield, MSNBC Daily writer and editor Hayes Brown, and Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin.
5/9/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 26 seconds
The Real Voter Fraud in Arizona
Ali Velshi is joined by Senator Bob Casey, Senator Debbie Stabenow, White House Economic adviser Heather Boushey, former federal prosecutor with the Southern District of New York Kan Nawaday, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Carol Leonnig, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, Commissioner with the Federal Election Commission Ellen Weintraub, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, The 19th Founder Errin Haines, and New Yorker staff writer and Columbia University professor Jelani Cobb.
5/2/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 1 second
Breaking Down the Rudy Raid With A Guy Who’s Been There
Ali Velshi is joined by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Congressman Mondaire Jones, Congresswoman Sharice Davids, former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Republican policy consultant Rina Shah, and The Washington Post’s Barkha Dutt.
5/1/2021 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 15 seconds
The First 100 Days
Ali Velshi is joined by White House Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, NBC News Senior Reporter Brandy Zadrozny, Arizona Republic Reporter Jen Fifield, The 19th Founder Errin Haines, Rutgers Professor Brittney Cooper, Dr. Ala Stanford, and police officer Patrick Skinner.
4/25/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 17 seconds
The Fight Continues
Ali Velshi is joined by Rev. Al Sharpton, Samaria Rice, Deborah Watts, L. Chris Stewart, former Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee, St. Cloud, MN Police Chief Blair Anderson, Hayes Brown, and Fordham Professor Christina Greer.
4/24/2021 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 25 seconds
Better Policing is Possible
Ali Velshi is joined by civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, former Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Princeton professor Imani Perry, New York Times reporter Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, NBC’s Jake Ward and Anna Schecter, San Francisco Fire Department community para-medicine chief Simon Pang, Errin Haines of The 19th, New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb, Yale professor Joanne Freeman, and Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild.
4/18/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 11 seconds
The First Flip
Ali Velshi is joined by retired police captain Sonia Pruitt, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, Bloomberg columnist Bobby Ghosh, Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, and Dr. Peter Hotez.
4/17/2021 • 39 minutes, 42 seconds
Crumbling of the Blue Wall
Ali Velshi is joined by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Mayor Brandon Scott of Baltimore, former homeland security adviser to VP Mike Pence - Olivia Troye, former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, the first trans person elected to office in Arkansas - Evelyn Rios Stafford, award-winning civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, Roland Martin, PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah and MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin live from Guatemala.
4/11/2021 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 13 seconds
Fighting the Gun “Epidemic”
Ali Velshi is joined by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn, St. Louis Mayor-elect Tishaura Jones, The New York Times justice reporter Katie Benner, criminal defense attorney Yodit Tewolde, Investopedia’s Caleb Silver, Sheelah Kolhatkar of The New Yorker, Errin Haines from the 19th*, and MSNBC’s Ali Arouzi & Hayes Brown.
4/10/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 34 seconds
Caught, Cornered, and Digging In
Ali Velshi is joined by Georgia State Representative Erica Thomas, Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown, The 19th’s Errin Haines, the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, retired police captain Sonia Pruitt, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Washington Post reporter Michael Scherer, former Citigroup executive Ray McGuire, MSNBC’s Richard Lui, and Dax Valdes from Hollaback bystander training.
4/4/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 5 seconds
The Boycott Begins
Ali Velshi is joined by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Georgia State Representative Donna McLeod, Retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Katie Benner and Carol Leonnig, Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins, former prosecutor Yodit Tewolde, reporter and self-proclaimed infrastructure geek Jeremy Hobson, and Dr. Irwin Redlener.
4/3/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 4 seconds
8:46 The Trial of Derek Chauvin
Ali Velshi is joined by Rev. Al Sharpton, Floyd family attorney L. Chris Stewart, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Minneapolis City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, American University Law Professor Jenny Roberts, and a special panel of Black leaders from Minneapolis who share their hopes and experiences leading up to the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd.
3/28/2021 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 56 seconds
Jim Crow 2.0
Ali Velshi is joined by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Congresswoman Angie Craig, former NRA lobbyist Richard Feldman, Andrea Young of the Georgia ACLU, Professor Christina Greer and Professor Cristina Beltran, Professor Dorothy A. Brown, Dr. Ani Nalbandian, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, and award-winning journalist Caitlin Dickerson.
3/28/2021 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 35 seconds
What’s a Regular Republican to Do?
Ali Velshi is joined by Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy, former Principle Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon, New Georgia Project CEO Nse Ufot, former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, Princeton Professor Imani Perry, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Carol Leonnig, former senior Capitol Hill aide Rina Shah, the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, Pro-Publica’s Dara Lind, Dr. Lipi Roy, and Hyattsville, Maryland police officer Edgar Andrickson-Franco.
3/21/2021 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 55 seconds
Help is Needed
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were already planning to visit Atlanta as part of their ‘Help is here’ tour promoting the just-passed Covid-19 relief bill. But after eight people in the Atlanta area – most of them Asian American women – were gunned down amid a wave of anti-Asian violence around the country, Biden and Harris turned their attention to the AAPI community where help is needed. Ali Velshi covers this story and much more as he’s joined by Congresswoman Judy Chu, Congressman Andy Kim, figure skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen, Georgia State Senator Michelle Au, former U.S. Attorney and MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance, the Brookings Institution’s Molly Reynolds, Maria Hinojosa, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Katie Benner, and Dr. Nahid Bhadelia.
3/20/2021 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 26 seconds
Three Months Later
Ali Velshi takes us back to the dark days when the rollout of the first Covid-19 vaccine gave us hope. The improbable journey the country has taken since then has seen drastically lower infection and death rates, a failed insurrection in Washington, and finally a transfer of power. Ali takes on this story and the rest of the week’s big headlines with Dr. Angela Chen, who diagnosed New York City’s first Covid case, NBC’s Vicky Nguyen who has been following the outbreak of hate crimes against Asian Americans, Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Jahana Hayes, Congresswoman Susan Wild, George Floyd’s cousin Tera Brown, former Attorney General for the Oglala Sioux Tatewin Means, the ACLU’s Meagan Burrows, Professor Carol Anderson and founding mother of The 19th, Errin Haines.
3/14/2021 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 49 seconds
“Help has arrived”
Ali Velshi breaks down the historic American Rescue Plan, Republicans’ brazen new attacks on voting rights, the investigation that seems to be zeroing in on Donald Trump, and more. He’s joined by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), NIH Director Francis Collins, Austin Mayor Steve Adler, the New Yorker’s Sheela Kolhatkar, the Brennan Center’s Wendy Weiser, the New York Times’ Katie Benner, Brittney Cooper, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, George Floyd family attorney L. Chris Stewart, and Joyce Vance.
3/13/2021 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 46 seconds
One Year Later
Ali Velshi hosts a special hour on a year in the Covid crisis – including a frank and moving conversation with hospital workers who share what life has been like on the frontlines of the battle against the virus. Plus one of President Biden’s top Covid advisors, Andy Slavitt on where the fight is going. And Dr. Ala Stanford and Dr. Camara Jones. Plus, everything you need to know about getting your covid relief funds, and why the SHE-cession is so much worse for women of color.
3/7/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes
Countdown to Covid Relief
Ali Velshi checks in on the Senate’s marathon session to get President Biden’s $1.9 trillion covid relief bill passed and rounds up the latest developments on the Capitol riot investigation – including new ties to the White House. Plus, a breakdown of Republican efforts to restrict access to the ballot – and why your vote could be in danger, even if you don’t live in a state where Republicans are pushing these new restrictions. Ali Velshi is joined by Senator Debbie Stabenow, Senator Sherrod Brown, Congresswoman (and former impeachment manager) Madeleine Dean, retired police captain Sonia Pruitt, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Katie Benner, The Brennan Center’s Myrna Perez, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, Dr. Dona Murphey, Yamiche Alcindor, Joyce Vance, Alexis Collins, Molly Reynolds, and Katie Engelhardt.
3/6/2021 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 42 seconds
The GOP War on Voters, The False Idol of CPAC, and the Ex-President’s Niece
Besieged by investigations and lawsuits but beloved by his cult-like following, Donald Trump shows his face in public again. Ali Velshi discusses Trump’s hold over the Republican Party with the ex-president’s niece, Mary Trump. Plus, a sobering look at some of the hundreds of voter suppression measures being pushed by Republicans – as the very party embracing the Big Lie that the last election was rigged sets out rig the next election. And your vaccine questions answered. Ali is joined by Mary Trump, Congressman Jim Clyburn, Senior White House Advisor Cedric Richmond, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, Errin Haines, Imara Jones, and Dr. Uche Blackstock.
2/28/2021 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 48 seconds
The 3rd Vaccine, the Next Threat to the Capitol, and the CPAC Cesspool
As the twice-impeached former president gets ready to show his face for the first time since slinking out of office in January, and amid developments in a number of investigations into his conduct in and out of office, Ali Velshi talks with Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen about what’s likely weighing on Trump privately and what we can expect to see in public this weekend. Ali is also joined by Congressman Jamaal Bowman and Senator Bob Casey to track the progress of the Covid relief bill. Plus Dr. Ala Stanford answers your vaccine questions. Ali Soufan, Helene Cooper, and Malcolm Nance break down the U.S. airstrikes on Iranian-backed militia targets in Syria and the ongoing investigation into the deadly Capitol riot of January 6. Heather McGhee explains why racism is costing Americans trillions of dollars. And Keisha N. Blain, co-editor of the new book 400 Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 joins Ali to discuss how the racial disparities we see today are legacies of slavery and colonialism.
2/27/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 53 seconds
Velshi Across America: Live from Birmingham, AL
Ali Velshi talks with activists and ordinary Birmingham residents about growing up and living their lives in a city steeped in the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement. He’s also joined by Rev. Dr. Carolyn McKinstry, who survived the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, Brittney Cooper, Errin Haines, Andre Perry, Jelani Cobb, Congressman Mondaire Jones and more. Plus former impeachment manager Del. Stacey Plaskett explains why she thinks new reporting from the New York Times and Washington Post shows that Donald Trump “was in fact not only an instigator but a planner of the attack on January 6.”
2/22/2021 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 39 seconds
Flyin’ Ted, Black History, and the Case Against Citizen Trump
As Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tries to untangle himself from the web of poor choices and lies that led him to flee to Cancun during a statewide emergency, then slink back home, blaming the episode on his young children, Ali Velshi checks in with local and state officials who stuck around Texas to help their fellow citizens: Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, and Mayors Michael Evans and Larry Wallace, Jr. Velshi is also joined by Congressman Bennie Thompson, who’s suing former President Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Dr. Ebony Hilton, Civil Rights veteran Galyn Vesey who participated in one of America’s first lunch counter sit-ins in Wichita, KS, and a panel of activists and ordinary folks from Birmingham, AL who reflect on Black history in their storied city and across the country and what it means to be Black in America today.
2/20/2021 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 29 seconds
Sham Trials, Political Acquittals, and the Post-Impeachment Future
Guest-host Mehdi Hasan tackles the morning after Donald J. Trump’s historic second acquittal for high crimes and misdemeanors. He is joined by Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Joyce Beatty (D-OH) as well as Professors Brittney Cooper, Christina Greer, and Carol Anderson, the Nation’s Elie Mystal and more.
2/14/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 50 seconds
Impeachment, Black Power, and the Lasting Impact of Insurrection
New reporting shows Donald Trump’s election lies have cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars as the countdown to his second impeachment trial begins. Plus details on the unspoken toll of the Capitol insurrection. Congressmen James Clyburn and Mondaire Jones and Congresswoman Maxine Waters join Ali Velshi to talk about impeachment, the fight for Covid relief and more. And New York Times columnist Charles Blow and famed anti-racist scholar Ibram X. Kendi discuss their new books – a call to action for Black Americans to shore up political power, and a collection of groundbreaking essays by 90 contributors re-asserting the history of African America.
2/7/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 35 seconds
Impeachment, Covid Relief, and Civil Unrest
Democrats are poised to push through President Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief package, with or without Republican support – but who will actually receive those much-needed $1,400 checks? Biden says he’s willing to negotiate on the income cutoff for recipients, which could mean fewer people getting checks in this round of relief. Meanwhile, there are new arrests and charges in the January 6 Capitol insurrection as the clock ticks closer to the historic second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump. Ali Velshi discusses these stories and more with White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein, terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah Jones, Washington Post reporter Eugene Scott, Dr. Camara Jones, Deborah Watts, Axios reporter Alexi McCammond, Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Dickerson, Dr. Andre Campbell, and Alexis Collins.
2/6/2021 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 32 seconds
Introducing: Velshi
MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi brings his sharp analysis and perspective to weekend mornings.