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

May 11, 2025 • 40min
Trump’s Policy Chaos
Ali Velshi is joined by co-founder of The Lincoln Project Rick Wilson, Dean Obeidallah, fmr. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), fmr. Rep. Charles Dent (D-PA)

May 11, 2025 • 41min
A World Without Regulation
Ali Velshi is joined by fmr. FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, Immigration Attorney Allen Orr, and fmr. U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance

May 11, 2025 • 41min
Trumpism at Home and Abroad
Ali Velshi is joined by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), fmr. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), geopolitical analyst Bobby Ghosh, and CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Zeteo Mehdi Hasan

May 10, 2025 • 42min
Arrests & Escalations
Ali Velshi is joined by University of Michigan Economics Professor Justin Wolfers, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), author of ‘Tell Me How It Ends’ Valeria Luiselli

May 10, 2025 • 33min
The Real-World Danger of Trump 2.0
Ali Velshi is joined by The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols, former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, NC Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray

May 10, 2025 • 38min
Pointless Austerity
Ali Velshi is joined by former Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), Yale University professor of philosophy Jason Stanley, The Atlantic Staff Writer Rose Horowitch, President of Wesleyan University Michael Roth

May 4, 2025 • 2h
Courage & Dissent Could Save Democracy
Ali Velshi is joined by Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Contrarian Jennifer Rubin, Executive Director of Aspen Digital Vivian Schiller, Co-Founder of The Contrarian Norman Eisen, Investigative Reporter with The New York Times Eric Lipton, former Federal Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig, former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz, Law Professor and Historian at UC Davis Law School Mary Ziegler, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University Jason Stanley, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat

May 3, 2025 • 1h 51min
Trump's Economy
Ali Velshi is joined by Co-host of MSNBC’s “The Weekend: Primetime” Catherine Rampell, host of SiriusXM’s ‘The Dean Obeidallah Show’ Dean Obeidallah, Law Professor at Columbia University Kimberlé Crenshaw, Co-hosts of MSNBC’s “The Weekend: Primetime” Ayman Mohyeldin and Antonia Hylton, Professor of Law at University of California Berkeley Law Daniel Farber, Vice Chairman and Senior Advisor of Eurasia Group Gerald Butts, Staff Writer at The Atlantic David Graham, Senior Correspondent at Vox Zack Beauchamp, Co-host of MSNBC’s “The Weekend: Primetime” Elise Jordan, Professor of Economics & Public Policy at University of Michigan Justin Wolfers, author of ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ George M. Johnson

Apr 27, 2025 • 1h 23min
Trump’s Bad New Polling
Charles Coleman Jr. is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by The Contrarian co-founder Jennifer Rubin, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, President & CEO of Planned Parenthood of Michigan Paula Thornton Greear, The Rachel Maddow Show’s Steve Benen, Hayes Brown, The Atlantic’s David Graham, Rina Shah, Harvard’s Imani Perry, Tracie Therence Ferrell, and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS)

Apr 26, 2025 • 1h 22min
Escalations, Crackdowns, and Churn on Day 96
Charles Coleman, sitting in for Ali Velshi is joined by Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA), Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern, Georgetown’s Michele Goodwin, Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Molly Jong-Fast, the ACLU’s Alanah Odoms, the Nation’s Ray Suarez, and MacMillan Publishers CEO Jon Yaged.