

Velshi
MSNBC
MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi brings his sharp analysis and perspective to weekend mornings.
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Apr 27, 2025 • 1h 23min
Trump’s Bad New Polling
Brand new polling has bad news for President Trump’s signature policies, the CEO of Michigan Planned Parenthood describes the consequences of closing three clinics due to Trump’s funding cuts, and Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) discusses his visit to the Louisiana ICE facility where two detained international students are being held and the vital importance of due process in America

Apr 26, 2025 • 1h 22min
Escalations, Crackdowns, and Churn on Day 96
The arrest of a Wisconsin judge marks a major escalation in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown as well as its posture toward the judiciary, and the churn within his cabinet continues

Apr 20, 2025 • 1h 21min
The Movement is Underway
Continued national protests with high turnout show there is an anti-Trump movement underway, but what can the Democratic Party do with it 19 months until the next federal election; Trump campaigned on a promise to make America affordable again, but he’s actually just making things worse; The Trump Administration is using surveillance technology from a private prison company to track immigrants, but this may only be just the beginning

Apr 19, 2025 • 1h 24min
How The Trump Admin. Is Avoiding The Courts
The Trump administration has proven time and time again that it is more interested — or perhaps more comfortable — in the court of public opinion rather than in the courts of law.

Apr 13, 2025 • 1h 22min
Trump’s Trade War & the United States’ Waning Influence
The impact President Trump’s tariffs are having on America’s global financial standing, and the consequences to Democracy after American law firms capitulate to Trump’s threats

Apr 12, 2025 • 1h 21min
Don’t Fall For Trump’s Tariff Trick
President Trump is packaging together a mixture of chaos and bunk and peddling it as 'the art of the deal', all while using the power of the presidency to order investigations into his perceived political enemies.

Apr 6, 2025 • 1h 21min
‘Hands Off’ Protests & The New Resistance
How the resistance is evolving as President Trump’s approach to seizing power has adapted, what the Trump administration’s attacks on birth control mean for the future of women’s healthcare, and how decades of politicians and the Supreme Court eroding personal freedoms could play directly into Donald Trump's hands

Apr 5, 2025 • 1h 22min
This is the Economy on Trump’s Tariffs
The economic chaos being caused from Trump’s sweeping tariffs, what former President Obama says about Trump’s attacks on democratic values and our role as citizens in the fight to keep American democracy alive, and an important conversation with the lawyer for detained Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil.

Mar 30, 2025 • 1h 21min
The Seriousness of the Signal Chat Scandal
Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Madeleine Dean discuss the seriousness of the Signal chat scandal which President Trump has taken to calling a ‘witch hunt’, a former senior Social Security official explains why the program is in more danger than ever, and the cultural damage that will be done by the president’s targeting of American history.

Mar 29, 2025 • 1h 21min
Signal Chat Scandal & Trump v Courts Continues
New revelations shed light on the Trump administration’s Signal chat scandal; two law firms are fighting back against President Trump’s campaign of retribution; and Rep. Ayanna Pressley reacts to a college student being snatched off the streets of her district on the orders of the Trump administration.