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Velshi

The Undecider-in-Chief

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

News, Ms Now, News Commentary, Ali Velshi, Versant, Politics, Versant Media, Government, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Charles Coleman Jr. is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair Molly Jong-Fast, fmr. Rep. Joe Walsh, NBC News International Correspondent Matt Brad ley, fmr. U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, author of “Olive’s Ocean” Kevin Henkes

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0:00.0

Good morning. It's Saturday, June 21st, and you're watching Velshi on MSNBC.

0:13.7

I'm Charles Coleman Jr. sitting in for my friend Alley, and we've got a lot to talk about.

0:18.6

We begin this hour with the divided MAGA movement and the president sitting in the middle

0:23.0

of it.

0:24.0

Now we've seen Donald Trump's impulsiveness on display before.

0:27.3

Take for example his up and down on again, off again tariffs.

0:31.2

But this week the president is subject to deep divisions on several critical issues, from

0:36.3

the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran

0:38.6

to his brutal immigration crackdown to his prize spending bill, which is looking bigger,

0:44.3

but less beautiful by the day. And Trump is coming out of it looking less like the decider

0:49.6

that George W. Bush famously claimed to be, and more like the undecider, punting, flailing, and

0:55.5

reversing his own decisions. On Capitol Hill, deep disagreements remain on the one big,

1:01.5

beautiful bill, the centerpiece legislation to fund his agenda. After Senate Republicans unveiled

1:07.5

their version of the bill, Republican Congressman, Chip Roy said that it is,

1:12.2

quote, definitely dead if it were to come over to the House in anything resembling its current

1:18.2

form. Not exactly an endorsement. It has also been called a potential nightmare scenario,

1:24.1

political suicide, and stupidity this week. And that's by Republicans. So the White

1:30.4

House has punted on Trump's very publicly declared July 4th deadline to get it passed and signed.

1:37.1

Conservative division also spilled into the open this week on the question of Iran and whether

1:42.9

the U.S. should get involved in Israel's

1:45.2

escalating conflict with the country. This divide was perhaps best personified by an interview

1:51.8

that was conducted by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who was actually against U.S.

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