Velshi

Ali Velshi is joined by Democratic Candidate for U.S. Congress in Wisconsin Rebecca Cooke, fmr. Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, President & CEO of International Rescue Committee David Miliband, and fmr. Chair of U.S. Council of Economic Advisers Jared Bernstein.

Transcribed - Published: 24 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Thom Hartmann, David Pepper, Lydia Polgreen, State Rep. John Waldron (D-OK), and co-anchor of MSNBC’S ‘The Weekend: Primetime’ Antonia Hylton.

Transcribed - Published: 24 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), fmr. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, and SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah.

Transcribed - Published: 24 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Contrarian Jennifer Rubin, Staff Writer for The Atlantic Tom Nichols, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich

Transcribed - Published: 23 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Political Columnist for The New Republic Ana Marie Cox, Author of “Cemetery Boys” Aiden Thomas

Transcribed - Published: 23 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by National Security Attorney Bradley Moss, Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA), Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University Eddie Glaude, Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University Imani Perry

Transcribed - Published: 23 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by former Estonian president Toomas Ilves, Bishop William J. Barber II, Media Correspondent at The New York Times Michael Grynbaum

Transcribed - Published: 17 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign Bill Browder, Russian Opposition Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, The New Yorker’s David Kirkpatrick, Co-Director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital Dr. Peter Hotez

Transcribed - Published: 17 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by fmr. U.S. Ambassador to NATO Victoria Nuland, former. Metropolitan DC Police Officer Michael Fanone, President of Repairers of the Breach Bishop William J. Barber II, Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents Peter Beinart, University of Toronto professor Jason Stanley

Transcribed - Published: 17 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, New York Times opinion columnist M. Gessen, Executive Director of ACLU DC Monica Hopkins, and New York Times bestselling author Angie Thomas.

Transcribed - Published: 16 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Yale University professor Joanne Freeman, award-winning investigative reporter Radley Balko, economics professor Justin Wolfers, Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones

Transcribed - Published: 16 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Chair of the Human Rights Foundation Garry Kasparov, Executive Director of ACLU DC Monica Hopkins, Presidential Historian Jon Meacham

Transcribed - Published: 16 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by former Trump Org. Executive Vice President Barbara Res, TX State Rep. Rafael Anchia, Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream - Ben Cohen

Transcribed - Published: 10 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, political scientist Norm Ornstein, Investopedia’s Caleb Silver, and Abbe Lowell (defense attorney for NY Attorney General Letitia James)

Transcribed - Published: 10 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by The Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin, The Bulwark’s Sam Stein, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum and acclaimed photojournalist Lynsey Addario.

Transcribed - Published: 10 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson (D), Rep. Jasmin Crockett (D-TX), and author of ‘The House on Mango Street’ Sandra Cisneros

Transcribed - Published: 9 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor, MSNBC Legal Correspondent Lisa Rubin, J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami, author of ‘The Devil Reached Toward The Sky’ Garrett Graff

Transcribed - Published: 9 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by TX State Reps. Gene Wu (D) & Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos, former Obama Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, University of Toronto professor Jason Stanley, investigative journalist Radley Balko.

Transcribed - Published: 9 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair Molly Jong-Fast, Co-Founder at The Lincoln Project Rick Wilson, John & Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School Rebecca Henderson, Professor of Government & Sociology at Harvard University Theda Skocpol

Transcribed - Published: 3 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Senior Correspondent at Vox Ian Millhiser, Economist Joseph Stiglitz, Host of ‘Going for Broke’ podcast Ray Suarez, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College Kellie Carter Jackson

Transcribed - Published: 3 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), International Outreach Director of B’Tselem Sarit Michaeli, Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama Steven Reed, Professor of Law at University of California at Los Angeles Jonathan Zasloff

Transcribed - Published: 3 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, CNBC Senior Analyst Ron Insana, former Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erica Groshen, The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof, author of the novel “Like A Love Story” Abdi Nazemian

Transcribed - Published: 2 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by The Lincoln Project’s Stuart Stevens, Fmr. Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA), Executive Director of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee Marina Jenkins, Senior Fellow at FairVote David Daley

Transcribed - Published: 2 August 2025

Ali Velshi is joined by former U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen, New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, and former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Catherine Christian

Transcribed - Published: 2 August 2025

President Trump gives belligerent, rambling remarks in Scotland ahead of trade talks with the European Union; Mehdi Hasan talks about his viral debate with 20 far-right conservatives.

Transcribed - Published: 27 July 2025

How the scandal over the Epstein files leaves a major opening for a movement against Trump’s authoritarian creep, and what past political protest movements tell us about what can work now; plus. how Trump’s tariffs and trade wars are impacting American consumers.

Transcribed - Published: 27 July 2025

President Trump may be in Scotland, and Congress may be on vacation for the next month, but Democratic lawmakers, and some Republican ones too, are keeping up the pressure on this administration to release the Epstein files; plus the alarming pattern that’s emerging in Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s military firing spree; and why Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead believes the ousting of Stephen Colbert is a warning shot to others

Transcribed - Published: 27 July 2025

President Trump is in Scotland, but can’t escape the political firestorm of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal; what France’s recognition of Palestine means for the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza; And a special meeting of the Velshi Banned Book Club featuring lessons from the frontlines in the battle against a radical onslaught of censorship and legislation targeting librarians.

Transcribed - Published: 26 July 2025

President Trump did not release the Epstein files this week, but he did do a lot of other stuff that he would very much like you to pay attention to instead. Why his distractions are not working - and what Democrats are doing to try to get ahold of the infamous Epstein ‘birthday book;’ Plus why the U.S. ambassador who watched Hungary’s authoritarian slide is raising alarms about Donald Trump’s vision for America.

Transcribed - Published: 26 July 2025

What’s behind the Justice Department's interviews with Epstein conspirator Ghislane Maxwell, why she was offered limited immunity to speak freely, and why it matters that the DOJ official who conducted the interviews with her has also served as Donald Trump’s own criminal defense attorney.

Transcribed - Published: 26 July 2025

Why dozens of former judges warn that Emil Bove is a “deeply inappropriate” pick for the federal bench; why America is losing ground to China on the world stage; and the case for continuing the struggle for a better America, through big and small acts of courage

Transcribed - Published: 20 July 2025

Why President Trump still can’t control the Epstein files fallout; a renowned Israeli-American holocaust and genocide scholar weighs in on the war in Gaza; and how Trump’s deportation plan is eroding due process and targeting policies meant to protect children

Transcribed - Published: 20 July 2025

Why the president’s nomination of Emil Bove to the federal bench marks a dangerous inflection point in Trump’s tearing down and rebuilding of the American judiciary; why the GOP’s cuts to public broadcasting will hit rural communities especially hard; and how China is moving to fill the gap as American influence wanes on the world stage

Transcribed - Published: 20 July 2025

What we can gather about President Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal based on who’s named in the suit; how Trump’s trade wars are driving up healthcare costs; and what the self-declared democratic socialist running for NYC mayor said to a roomful of business executives to cause them to say he is ‘much less scary’ than they previously imagined

Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2025

Why President Trump’s move to get grand jury testimony unsealed is unlikely to quell the MAGA revolt over his administration’s handling of the Epstein files; how Trump’s trade wars are driving up drug prices, healthcare costs, and insurance premiums for Americans; and what Stephen Miller gets wrong in his imagining of a Los Angeles without undocumented immigrants.

Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2025

Why President Trump’s attacks on the Fed are about more than Fed Chair Jerome Powell; Rep. Pramila Jayapal discusses the fallout from the Epstein Files & the consequences of the GOP’s Rescission Bill now sitting on Trump’s desk; and how a new abortion criminalization push is playing right into America’s slide into authoritarianism

Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2025

Inside the rift forming in MAGA-world from the fallout over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case; as the Trump administration’s cuts hit the State Department, new reporting reveals how officials at the State Department really feel about Secretary Marco Rubio; why Trump’s Agriculture Secretary’s idea to bridge two of Trump’s cruel policies could create huge problems for Americans

Transcribed - Published: 13 July 2025

Why the second Trump administration is triggering a steep decline in the American dollar, and what it means for the wallets of American consumers; what causes flash floods and how to stay safe in one; how the anti-vaxx movement and the spread of misinformation led to the increasing number of measles cases in America

Transcribed - Published: 13 July 2025

With Trumpworld in damage control over the fallout from its handling of the Epstein files, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) discusses the rift that's forming in MAGA and why it might be the first scandal that Trump's base won't ignore; new reporting reveals what America’s diplomats really think of Secretary of State Marco Rubio; how political leaders home and abroad have learned that fealty and flattery are the key to accessing Trump, and what it means for American democracy

Transcribed - Published: 13 July 2025

Why experts worry about the way the Trump administration is deploying ICE; new MSNBC reporting on fallout from the Trump administration’s decision not to release additional Epstein files; and “This Is My America” by Kim Johnson is the subject of the week’s Velshi Banned Book Club

Transcribed - Published: 12 July 2025

Which countries are now being targeted by Trump’s latest tariff announcements and what it means for American consumers and businesses; Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza discusses why he believes Vladimir Putin will soon face justice; and how the fallout from the Trump administration’s decision not to release additional Epstein files threatens to tear apart MAGA and Trump’s government

Transcribed - Published: 12 July 2025

Why experts are worried about how President Trump will deploy a massively expanded ICE operation; Rep. Lloyd Doggett holds nothing back in describing the lasting effects of Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’; and the new crisis coming for women’s healthcare in America is not just hitting states with abortion bans

Transcribed - Published: 12 July 2025

How the GOP is hiding the true cost of the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ from the American people; the good, bad, and ugly of the American economy; and why the attacks on America’s inclusive democracy is not just a political or constitutional crisis, but a moral crisis

Transcribed - Published: 6 July 2025

Judge J. Michael Luttig describes some ‘self-evident truths of freedom’ realized when the U.S. declared independence from Great Britain, and the truths of tyranny we face today; Rep. Madeleine Dean discusses exactly who gains and who suffers from the GOP’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’; how and why the OBBB is the biggest anti-abortion victory since Dobbs

Transcribed - Published: 6 July 2025

Judge J. Michael Luttig describes some ‘self-evident truths of freedom’ realized when the U.S. declared independence from Great Britain, and the truths of tyranny we face today; Rep. Madeleine Dean discusses exactly who gains and who suffers from the GOP’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’; and how America's newest law is the biggest anti-abortion victory since the Dobbs decision.

Transcribed - Published: 6 July 2025

What’s behind the accounting gimmick the GOP is using to justify the expensive cost of their latest tax cuts in the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’, and how they’re paying for them with devastating cuts to healthcare; the latest on the search, rescue, and recovery efforts in central Texas following deadly flooding; the good, bad, and ugly of the current American economy; the vast consequences of the Trump administration diminishing America’s soft power

Transcribed - Published: 6 July 2025

Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now law and it’s set to devastate healthcare for millions of Americas. This country is moving backwards at a dangerously fast pace; what we can expect from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to the White House and what it means for a potential ceasefire deal in the Middle East; and the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility opened in Florida this week to much fanfare from Republicans. But when did we become a country that celebrates the incarceration and deportation of others?

Transcribed - Published: 5 July 2025

The Trump Administration now plans to prioritize revoking the citizenship of naturalized Americans who disagree with its policies, which could upend the lives of millions; Texas officials give an update on the deadly flash flooding; Rep. Adam Smith discusses the consequences of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” and the fallout from Trump’s recent call with Vladimir Putin

Transcribed - Published: 5 July 2025

Donald Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act" is now law and expected to leave nearly 12 million Americans uninsured. America’s notoriously inadequate healthcare system just got even worse; an update on the devastating flash floods in Texas that killed more than two dozen people; what to expect from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to the White House and what it means for a potential ceasefire deal

Transcribed - Published: 5 July 2025

Senators Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on working against the GOP’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’; a live report from NYC’s Pride parade; why unemployment among black women has been rising this year and what it tells us about the state of the American economy.

Transcribed - Published: 29 June 2025