Ali Velshi, reporting live from the Nyugati rail station in Budapest, Hungary, is joined by NBC's Molly Hunter and Gabe Gutierrez in Lviv, Ukraine, the Kyiv Independent's Oleksiy Sorokin, Ukrainian members of parliament Lisa Yasko and Sviatoslav Yurash, retired U.S. Army Major and chair of Urban Warfare Studies for the Madison Policy Forum John Spencer, NYU history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Yale Law School's Oona Hathaway, founding director of Columbia's Center for Disaster Preparedness Dr. Irwi...
Mar 19, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 102
Ali Velshi is joined by Sudarsan Raghavan, Correspondent at Large for Washington Post, Lisa Yasko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, David Miliband, President & CEO and International Rescue Committee, Amb. William B. Taylor, Russia and Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace Vice-President, Heather Conley, German Marshall Fund President, Inna Sovsun, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Former Director for European Affairs at National Security Council, and Petro Po...
Mar 13, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 101
Ali Velshi is joined by Garry Kasparov, Chairman at The Human Rights Foundation, Helene Cooper, Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon Correspondent at The New York Times, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Founder and Host of the ‘Black Diplomats’ Podcast, Irwin Redlener, Founding Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University’s Earth Institute, Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukrainian Minister of Culture and Information Policy, Amb. Michael McFaul, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Vladimir Kara-M...
Mar 12, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 100
Ali Velshi is joined by Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Former Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, Sudarsan Raghavan, Correspondent at Large at the Washington Post, Inna Sovsun, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Malcolm Nance, MSNBC Terrorism Analyst, Bobby Ghosh, Editor & Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Founder and Host of The Black Diplomat’ Podcast, Dr. Brian Klaas, Associate Professor at University College London, David Miliband, President &...
Mar 06, 2022•2 hr 23 min•Ep. 99
Ali Velshi is live from the Hungary-Ukraine border, and is joined by Olena Sotnyk, Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine; the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder; Clint Watts; Lisa Yasko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Chris Melzer, Senior External Relations Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or the UNHCR; Jane Harman; Ian Bremmer; Kira Rudik, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; former Energy Secretary Ernsest Moniz; former U.S. Ambassador to Uk...
Mar 05, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 98
Ali Velshi is joined by Matt Zapotosky, National Security Reporter at The Washington Post, Symone Sanders, Former Senior Advisor & Chief Spokesperson to the Vice President, Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pennsylvania), Yoruba Richen, Director, Writer, and Producer of ‘American Reckoning’, Dawn Porter, Executive Producer of ‘American Reckoning’, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), Fatima Goss Graves, President & CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, and George M. Johnson, New York Times Bestselling Autho...
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 97
Ali Velshi is joined by Jeremy Peters, Author of“INSURGENCY: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted”, Rep. Hank Johnson, Democrat of Georgia, Sen. Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, State Rep. Michele Rayner, Democrat of Florida, Khloe Joiner, Founder of “A Book and A Smile”, Jacqueline Alemany, Congressional Correspondent at the Washington Post, Rep. Jim Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, Deuel Ross, Senior Counsel at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and E...
Feb 12, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 96
Ali Velshi is joined by Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Fmr. NSC Director for Eastern Europe, the Caucuses, and Russia, Geoff Bennett, MSNBC Political Contributor, Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, (D) Pennsylvania, Keiawnna Pitts, Founder and Chief Community Catalyst, Round Rock Black Parents Association, Nola Haynes, Director, Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) Adjunct Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Pepperdine University, Omarosa Manigault Newman, Former Se...
Feb 06, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 95
Ali Velshi is joined by Michael Cohen, Former Personal Attorney to Donald Trump, Eugene Scott, National Political Reporter at The Washington Post, Dr. Ala Stanford, Founder at Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, Nikole Hannah Jones, Pulitzer Prize Winning Staff Writer at the New York Times Magazine, Yamiche Alcindor, Anchor & Moderator at ‘Washington Week’ on PBS, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, Democrat of U.S. Virgin Islands, Helene Cooper, Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon Correspondent at The New Yor...
Feb 05, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 94
Ali Velshi is joined by Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor & Legal Correspondent at Slate Magazine, Nancy Northup, President & CEO at Center for Reproductive Rights, Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Rep. Madeleine Dean, (D) Pennsylvania, Jake Ward, NBC News Technology Correspondent, Matthew Seligman, Fellow at Center for Private Law at Yale Law School, Jim Obergefell, Lead Plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), that legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States, Le...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 93
Ali Velshi is joined by Olatunde C. Johnson, Professor of Law at Columbia University, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Garry Kasparov, Founder and Chairman at Renew Democracy Initiative, Eric Hirschberg, Founder of Will Work for Change, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Boston Globe Columnist, Katie Benner, Pulitzer Prize-winning Justice Department Reporter at the New York Times, Caleb Silver, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia, Ian Bremmer, President and Founder at Eurasia Group and GZER...
Jan 29, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 92
Ali Velshi is joined by Kyle Cheney, Legal affairs reporter for Politico, Olivia Troye, Former Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to VP Pence, Dr. David Skorton, President & CEO at Association of American Medical Colleges, Bonnie Schneider, Author of “Taking The Heat: How Climate Change is Affecting Your Mind, Body, & Spirit and What You Can Do About It”, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, Katie Benner, Pulitzer Prize-winning Department Reporte...
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 91
Ali Velshi is joined by Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Rep. Joaquin Castro, (D) Texas, Olivia Troye, Fmr. Homeland Security Advisor and Counterterror Advisor to VP Pence, Ari Berman, Senior Reporter at Mother Jones, Steve Benen, Editor at The Maddow Blog, Carol Leonnig, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter at The Washington Post, Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney, Adm. James Stavridis, Fmr. Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, Tammi Kromenaker, Director of Red River ...
Jan 22, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 90
Ali Velshi is joined U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, former OSHA chief David Michaels, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, Politico’s Betsy Woodruff Swan, and NBC’s Morgan Chesky. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts....
Jan 16, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 89
Ali Velshi is joined Rep. Jim Clyburn, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, former majority counsel for the House Impeachment Inquiry Daniel Goldman, Rev. Dr. William Barber, The New York Times Pentagon Correspondent Helene Cooper, SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah, former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh, former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance, and NBC’s Jake Ward. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Pod...
Jan 15, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 88
Ali Velshi is joined by Dana Nessel, Michigan Attorney General, Rep. Mondaire Jones, Democrat of New York, Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine & Director at Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery, Ian Bremmer, President and Founder of Eurasia Group & GZERO Media, Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University, Sen. Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, Trey Grayson, Former Kentucky Secretary of State, Alencia Johnson, Democrati...
Jan 09, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 87
Ali Velshi is joined by Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Joanne Freeman, Award-winning Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D) South Carolina, Roger McNamee, Author of ‘Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe’, Karl Racine, Washington, D.C. Attorney General, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Dr. Ala Stanford, Founder of Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, Olivia Troye, Fmr. Homeland Security, Counterterror & COVID...
Jan 08, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 86
Ali Velshi is joined by Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Kyle Cheney, Legal affairs reporter for Politico, Dr. Peter Hotez, Co-Director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, Joyce Vance, Former U.S. Attorney, Deborah Watts, Cousin of Emmett Till, Gov. Steve Bullock, Former Governor of Montana, Marina Jenkins Litigation and Policy Director at National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Writer at The Washington Post. To...
Dec 28, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 85
Ali Velshi is joined by Dr. Ebony Hilton, Critical Care Anesthesiologist at University of Virginia, Rep. Susan Wild, Democrat of Pennsylvania, Dr. Lipi Roy, Medical Director of COVID Isolation & Quarantine Sites for Housing Works in New York City, Andy Slavitt, Fmr. White House Senior Advisor for COVID Response, Andre Perry, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an ...
Dec 27, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 84
Ali Velshi is joined by Philip Bump, National Correspondent at The Washington Post, Rep. David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island, Dr. Rick Bright, Senior Vice President of Pandemic Prevention and Response at The Rockefeller Foundation, Nse Ufot, CEO at New Georgia Project, Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania Attorney General, Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Founding Director at Boston University Center for Emerging Inf...
Dec 19, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 83
Ali Velshi is joined by Mayfield City Council member Barry McDonald, Lt. Dean Patterson of the KY State Police, vaccine specialist Dr. Peter Hotez, WSMV reporter Ryan Breslin, tornado survivor Kyanna Parsons-Perez, Kentucky State Sen. Whitney Westerfield, Rep. Stacey Plasket, Misty Thomas from the Kentucky Red Cross, and Colorado’s Secretary of State Jena Griswold. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an Ads...
Dec 12, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 82
Ali Velshi is joined by Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Democrat of Illinois, Mark Simon, Author of ‘Attacked! A Memoir of Extreme Bullying’, Caitlin Dickerson, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Alex Gibney, ‘The Forever Prisoner’ Filmmaker, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Rep. Judy Chu, Democrat of California, Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning global health journalist, Dr. Willie Parker, OB/GYN, and Joyce Vance, Former U.S. A...
Dec 05, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 81
Ali Velshi is joined by Mary Ziegler, Author of ‘ Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present’, Alencia Johnson, Founder & Head of Impact at 1063 West Broad, Dr. Rick Bright, Senior Vice President of Pandemic Prevention and Response at The Rockefeller Foundation, Nancy Northup, President & CEO at Center for Reproductive Rights, Melissa Murray, Professor at NYU Law, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, and Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Founding Director at Boston Universi...
Dec 04, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 80
Ali Velshi is joined by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, The 19th's Errin Haines, West Alabama Women's Center Communications Director and author of "The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America" Robin Marty, NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray, Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick, early Facebook and Google investor and author of the book "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastophe" Roger McNamee, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, NBC's Jonathan Allen, Josh Lederman and Jacob Wa...
Dec 04, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 58
Ali Velshi is joined by Loyce Pace, HHS Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, Rep. Alma Adams , Democrat of North Carolina, Caleb Silver, Editor-in-Chief at Investopedia, Marc Levinson, “The Box” Author, Betsy Woodruff Swan, National Correspondent at Politico, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Democrat of Illinois, Dr. Peter Hotez, Co-Director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, Marina Jenkins, Litigation and Policy Director at National Democratic Redistricting Committe...
Nov 28, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 79
Ali Velshi is joined by Rep. Troy Carter, Democrat of Louisiana, CK Hoffler, CEO of The CK Hoffler Firm, Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, Dr. Rick Bright, Senior Vice President of Pandemic Prevention and Response at The Rockefeller Foundation, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Democrat of Missouri, Brittney Cooper, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, and Ben Jealous, Former President and CEO of the NAACP. To listen to this show and other MS ...
Nov 27, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 78
Ali Velshi is joined by Jena Griswold, Colorado’s Secretary of State, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate, Carlos Gutierrez, Former United States Secretary of Commerce, Heather Boushey, White House Economic Advisor, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, Paul Waldman, Senior writer at American Prospect, Former Rep. Max Rose, Democrat of New York, and Fomer Rep. Debbie Mucarsel Powell, Democrat of Florida. To listen to this show and other MS...
Nov 21, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 77
Ali Velshi is joined by defense attorney Danny Cevallos, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, retired Police Captain Sonia Pruitt, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, Congressman Don Bacon, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah Jones, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Republican strategist Rick Tyler, The Washington Post's Eugene Scott, and NBC's Antonia Hylton, Meagan Fitzgerald, and Liz McLaughlin. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Host...
Nov 20, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 76
Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, former Mike Pence aide Olivia Troye, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, attorney Kim Motley, American historian Joanne Freeman, activist Melissa Bumstead, The Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig, Errin Haines from The 19th* News, and executive director of the Advancement Project Judith Browne Dianis. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Ho...
Nov 14, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 75
Velshi guest host Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Senator Mazie Hirono, Politico’s Kyle Cheney, The New York Times’ Katie Benner, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, former trial attorney Kimberly Atkins Stohr, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, NPR’s Tim Mak, NBC’s Liz McLaughlin, Congressman Ritchie Torres, and architectural and urban designer Amy Stelly. To listen to this show and ot...
Nov 13, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 74
