

Velshi
MSNBC
MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi brings his sharp analysis and perspective to weekend mornings.
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May 16, 2021 • 1h 32min
Facing Hate in America
Ali Velshi is joined by a roundtable of citizens and leaders from the AAPI community for a powerful conversation about race and anti-Asian violence. Also joining the show: Congressman Bennie Thompson, Senator Bernie Sanders, Congressman Jason Crow, Congresswoman Judy Chu, Congressman Andrew Garbarino, Academy Award-winning producer of the new documentary “Crime of the Century” Alex Gibney, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Washington Post White House correspondent Anne Gearan, and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Katie Benner.

May 15, 2021 • 1h 38min
Florida Man's Legal Woes
Ali Velshi is joined by former governors Bill Weld and Christine Todd Whitman, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, former RNC Chair Michael Steele, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, Avner Gvaryahu of Breaking the Silence, the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Washington Week moderator Yamiche Alcindor, former senior Capitol HIll aide Rina Shah, Ryan Streeter of the American Enterprise Institute.

May 9, 2021 • 1h 29min
The Premonition
Ali Velshi is joined by author Michael Lewis, NIH Director Francis Collins, Congressman James Clyburn, Congresswoman Grace Meng, Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins, Washington Post reporter Eugene Scott, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Arizona Republic reporter Jen Fifield, MSNBC Daily writer and editor Hayes Brown, and Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin.

May 2, 2021 • 1h 25min
The Real Voter Fraud in Arizona
Ali Velshi is joined by Senator Bob Casey, Senator Debbie Stabenow, White House Economic adviser Heather Boushey, former federal prosecutor with the Southern District of New York Kan Nawaday, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Carol Leonnig, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, Commissioner with the Federal Election Commission Ellen Weintraub, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, The 19th Founder Errin Haines, and New Yorker staff writer and Columbia University professor Jelani Cobb.

May 1, 2021 • 1h 27min
Breaking Down the Rudy Raid With A Guy Who’s Been There
Ali Velshi is joined by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Congressman Mondaire Jones, Congresswoman Sharice Davids, former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Republican policy consultant Rina Shah, and The Washington Post’s Barkha Dutt.

Apr 25, 2021 • 1h 22min
The First 100 Days
Ali Velshi is joined by White House Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, NBC News Senior Reporter Brandy Zadrozny, Arizona Republic Reporter Jen Fifield, The 19th Founder Errin Haines, Rutgers Professor Brittney Cooper, Dr. Ala Stanford, and police officer Patrick Skinner.

Apr 24, 2021 • 1h 26min
The Fight Continues
Ali Velshi is joined by Rev. Al Sharpton, Samaria Rice, Deborah Watts, L. Chris Stewart, former Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee, St. Cloud, MN Police Chief Blair Anderson, Hayes Brown, and Fordham Professor Christina Greer.

Apr 18, 2021 • 1h 22min
Better Policing is Possible
Ali Velshi is joined by civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, former Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, Princeton professor Imani Perry, New York Times reporter Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, NBC’s Jake Ward and Anna Schecter, San Francisco Fire Department community para-medicine chief Simon Pang, Errin Haines of The 19th, New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb, Yale professor Joanne Freeman, and Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild.

Apr 17, 2021 • 40min
The First Flip
Ali Velshi is joined by retired police captain Sonia Pruitt, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, Bloomberg columnist Bobby Ghosh, Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, and Dr. Peter Hotez.

Apr 11, 2021 • 1h 26min
Crumbling of the Blue Wall
Ali Velshi is joined by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Mayor Brandon Scott of Baltimore, former homeland security adviser to VP Mike Pence - Olivia Troye, former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, the first trans person elected to office in Arkansas - Evelyn Rios Stafford, award-winning civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, Roland Martin, PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah and MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin live from Guatemala.