Episode 922 Ali Velshi on Impeachment, Elon Musk and so much more!
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
See JL Cauvin and I co Headlining City Winery In Pittsburgh PA on Oct 11
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Ali Velshi is an MSNBC Anchor and Business Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.
Velshi has covered a wide range of breaking news events and global affairs throughout his career, including U.S. presidential elections, ISIL and the Syrian refugee crisis, the Iran nuclear deal from Tehran, the tensions between Russia and NATO from Eastern Europe and the High Arctic, the debt crisis in Greece, the funeral of Nelson Mandela, and the global financial crisis.
Before joining NBC News and MSNBC, Velshi hosted “Ali Velshi On Target,” a nightly primetime show on Al Jazeera America. Before that, he served as CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent, anchor of CNN International’s “World Business Today” and host of CNN’s weekly business roundtable “Your Money.” Velshi also co-hosted CNN’s morning show, “American Morning.”
An award-winning journalist, Velshi was honored with a National Headliner Award for Business & Consumer Reporting for “How the Wheels Came Off,” a special on the near collapse of the American auto industry. His work on disabled workers and Chicago’s red-light camera scandal in 2016 earned him two News and Documentary Emmy Award nominations, adding to a nomination in 2010 for his terrorism coverage. Additionally, Velshi has taken his economic analysis to “Oprah,” “The View,” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
Velshi is the author of Gimme My Money Back (Sterling and Ross, 2008) and co-author with CNN’s Christine Romans of How to Speak Money (Wiley, 2010).
Born in Kenya and raised in Canada, Velshi graduated from Queen’s University in Canada, which bestowed an honorary Doctorate of Laws upon him in 2016. Velshi splits his time between New York City and Philadelphia. Active in the community, Velshi serves on the Board of Trustees of the Chicago History Museum, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also volunteers with New York’s Center for Urban Community Services homeless outreach program
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to today's episode. I think you're going to really like my |
| 0:04.9 | conversation with MSNBC's Allie Velci, who I have known since he was CNN's Allie |
| 0:11.2 | Velci. I'm Pete Dominic and it's time to stand up and be right now. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello there friends. I hope to see you tonight at our standup with Pete Dominic. |
| 0:24.6 | Happy hour hanging out. Well that's what I've been calling it since |
| 0:28.6 | March 2020 that we began doing this going on three and a half years now and we |
| 0:36.2 | always have a great time. There's usually 50 or 60 people there we go for like three hours |
| 0:42.3 | sometimes and I'm really looking forward to tonight's hangout because I don't know |
| 0:46.4 | feeling just kind of disconnected a little bit lonely over the past week so I always look forward |
| 0:52.3 | to seeing folks at the hangout that it's tonight at 8 p.m. if you are a standup subscriber for |
| 0:58.2 | his little is five dollars a month you can join us and be a part of the hang where everybody is |
| 1:06.6 | welcome. So I hope to see you tonight at eight east look the link in your email if you're a |
| 1:11.4 | subscriber if you're not getting it let me know stand up with Pete at gmail.com and I will send it |
| 1:16.8 | to you. Also I will be with Dale Covan co-headlining city winery in Pittsburgh on October 11th so if |
| 1:24.9 | you're in and around that area of PA western PA maybe you'll come out to the show we should have |
| 1:31.2 | a good time and my final little plug or note is that you got to buy Kevin richburg's honey Kevin |
| 1:37.5 | long time listener the show always hangs out with us on Thursday nights I'm sure we'll be there |
| 1:41.6 | tonight I hope at least and many of you have bought his sweet honey and I've seen some of you |
| 1:49.7 | posting saying it's the best honey that you've ever had so if you want to get it you can find a |
| 1:55.9 | link in the show notes he still has some left it's 20 bucks and you should get a jar of it because |
| 2:01.8 | it is absolutely delicious Kevin is one of the best guys I've ever met my life he needs the money |
| 2:07.9 | and you need to honey so let's go folks there's still a few left and I really want him to sell out |
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