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Velshi

MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi brings his sharp analysis and perspective to weekend mornings.

Politics News Commentary Government News
Update frequency
every day
Average duration
76 minutes
Episodes
497
Years Active
2021 - 2025
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Democrats Make Moves Against Trump’s Spending Bill

Democrats Make Moves Against Trump’s Spending Bill

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 thi…

00:40:40  |   Sun 29 Jun 2025
The Trump Court

The Trump Court

Why the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on nationwide injunctions by lower courts couldn’t come at a worse time; fmr. FEMA administration Deanne Criswell describes the danger of Trump’s cuts to the age…

00:40:38  |   Sun 29 Jun 2025
The Fight Over Funding Trump's Agenda

The Fight Over Funding Trump's Agenda

The future of Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ hangs in the balance; The New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones opines on how Trump upended 60 years of civil rights in just two months; and Mahmoud Khal…

00:40:07  |   Sun 29 Jun 2025
One Big Beautiful Mess

One Big Beautiful Mess

As Republicans scramble to pass Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’ Democrats are reportedly drumming up new tactics to slow down the process; NYC Comptroller Brad Lander discusses the importance of be…

00:41:26  |   Sat 28 Jun 2025
‘No Right Is Safe’: SCOTUS Limits Nationwide Injunctions Used to Stop Trump Cruel Policies

‘No Right Is Safe’: SCOTUS Limits Nationwide Injunctions Used to Stop Trump Cruel Policies

How the Supreme Court helped President Trump seize power away from the judiciary, giving him an opening to move forward with a host of consequential policies; in the week since Donald Trump ordered s…

00:40:19  |   Sat 28 Jun 2025
Trump’s One Big Ugly Bill

Trump’s One Big Ugly Bill

Comptroller Brad Lander, who was recently arrested by ICE while escorting an undocumented immigrant through court, explains what he’s learned first-hand about the impact of Trump’s immigration crackd…

00:40:24  |   Sat 28 Jun 2025
Stalling, Punting, and Reversing Course: A Week in Trumpworld

Stalling, Punting, and Reversing Course: A Week in Trumpworld

How Trump’s hot-and-cold approach to Iran, his back-and-forth on ICE raids, and GOP gridlock on his ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ is causing chaos everywhere; why Trump’s ICE raids, detentions, and deportati…

00:41:36  |   Sat 21 Jun 2025
The Undecider-in-Chief

The Undecider-in-Chief

How MAGA infighting is leaving President Trump looking like The Undecider; the politicization of policing in America; and Kevin Henkes’ “Olive’s Ocean” is the subject of this week’s Velshi Banned Boo…

00:41:08  |   Sat 21 Jun 2025
The Chaos President

The Chaos President

President Trump’s impulsiveness and growing infighting among MAGA delivers chaos to a delicate situation in the Middle East; how Trump’s ICE raids, detentions, and deportations are changing not just…

00:40:18  |   Sat 21 Jun 2025
Chain of Command

Chain of Command

The high stakes question of what could happen if Donald Trump were able to wear down some of the features of the American military that make it a natural bulwark to authoritarian slide, what we’ve le…

00:41:16  |   Sun 15 Jun 2025
The Danger of a New Normal

The Danger of a New Normal

Why it’s easy to become numb to authoritarian creep, the ways we’re seeing just such a creep in Donald Trump’s crackdown on Los Angeles protesters, and the massive impact of Trump administration cuts…

00:39:55  |   Sun 15 Jun 2025
America’s Streets in Splitscreen

America’s Streets in Splitscreen

What we learned from a day of pomp and circumstance and protest, the true story of President Trump’s record on the military, and how recent ICE raids are coming to embody the same kind of cruelty tha…

00:40:52  |   Sun 15 Jun 2025
The Travel Ban Is Back

The Travel Ban Is Back

What President Trump’s latest travel ban is really about; why a Tea Party Republican just joined the Democratic Party; and what it means that President Trump has deployed the National Guard to Los An…

00:40:51  |   Sun 08 Jun 2025
The Math isn’t Mathing for Donald Trump

The Math isn’t Mathing for Donald Trump

Rep. Lloyd Doggett and fmr. Rep. Charlie Dent discuss the bogus accounting Republicans are using to sell Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’; Fmr. Gov. Jay Inslee addresses President Trump’s decision to…

00:40:40  |   Sun 08 Jun 2025
Trump Deploys National Guard to Los Angeles

Trump Deploys National Guard to Los Angeles

The latest on the situation on the ground in Los Angeles after President Trump sent in the national guard following anti-ICE protests; Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones explains how to fight for demo…

00:41:01  |   Sun 08 Jun 2025
The Big, Beautiful Breakup

The Big, Beautiful Breakup

Why Elon Musk’s expectation of gratitude is the most telling part of the Trump-Musk falling out; an on-the-ground report from UNICEF in Gaza; and author Téa Obreht discusses the classic novel “Animal…

00:41:46  |   Sat 07 Jun 2025
Holding Court

Holding Court

How Donald Trump could build a more MAGA judiciary; what the math looks like when you add up Trump’s new steel tariffs; and Molly Jong-Fast discusses her new book ‘How To Lose Your Mother’

00:41:35  |   Sat 07 Jun 2025
It’s a DOGE Eat DOGE World

It’s a DOGE Eat DOGE World

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen weighs in on the explosive end to the Trump-Musk alliance; the story behind the USNS Harvey Milk and what it really means to be a warrior; fmr. U.S. Ambassador to U…

00:39:09  |   Sat 07 Jun 2025
Power, Profit, and Pardons in the Trump Era

Power, Profit, and Pardons in the Trump Era

President Trump is spending his second term remaking America’s system of politics and governance in his own image, where everything is a transaction; the latest on Ukraine’s major drone attack deep i…

00:41:21  |   Sun 01 Jun 2025
Trump’s Transactional America

Trump’s Transactional America

How Trump is remaking American governance in his image; how the president’s trade war is endangering a key piece of NATO’s air defense system; and what’s coming for a Supreme Court that empowered a p…

00:41:00  |   Sun 01 Jun 2025
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