Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali, Professor of History at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Opinion Columnist with The Washington Post Radley Balko, Co-Director of ‘The Janes’ Tia Lessin, Co-Director of ‘The Janes’ Emma Pildes, Reporter Heidi Przybyla, Politico National Correspondent and MSNBC Contributor Betsy Woodruff Swan, Fmr. Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Attorney for the Sandy Hook Families Joshua Ko...
Jun 04, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 122
Alicia Menendez is joined by NBC News’ Ken Dilanian, Liz McLaughlin, Erin McLaughlin, Deon Hampton, Sam Brock, Shaquille Brewster, NBC News/MSNBC Terrorism Analyst and Ret. ATF Special Agent in Charge Jim Cavanaugh, MSNBC Political Analyst and Fmr. United States Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Julian Castro, Brennan Center Fellow Eric Ruben, TX State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, Co-Founder & CEO of Sandy Hook Promise Nicole Hockley, Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for Nationa...
May 28, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 121
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC News Foreign Correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer, Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law Susan A. Thornton, Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research & Associate Director at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Political Strategist and Pollster Frank Luntz, Former Foreign Minister of Russia Andrei Kozyrev, Former Director for Europ...
May 22, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 120
Ali Velshi is joined by Larry Platt, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director at The Philadelphia Citizen, Ned Foley, Director of Election Law and Constitutional Law Chair at Ohio State Contributing Columnist at The Washington Post, Heather Long, Economic Columnist and Editorial Board member at The Washington Post, Spencer Glendon, Senior Fellow at Woodwell Climate Research Center, Ian Bremmer, President & Founder at Eurasia Group & GZERO Media, Steve Benen, Editor at The Maddow Blog, Michae...
May 21, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 119
Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by NBC News Correspondent Jesse Kirsch, NBC News & MSNBC National Security Analyst Clint Watts, Host and Managing Editor, #RolandMartinUnfiltered Roland Martin, Professor of Law, Sociology, Civil Rights and Africana Studies at University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, NBC News Foreign Correspondent Erin McLaughlin, U.S. Charge D'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine Kristina Kvien, President & Founder of Futuro Media, Anchor & Executive Producer of La...
May 15, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 118
Ali Velshi is joined by Co-Founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights and co-author of ‘Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom’ Kathryn Kolbert, Democratic Representative Barbara Lee of California, NBC News Foreign Correspondent Kelly Cobiella, NBC News’ Mike Memoli, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, Chair of Religious Studies at University of Pennsylvania and author of ‘White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America’ Anthea Butler, Democra...
May 08, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 117
Ali Velshi is joined by Robin Marty, Operations Director at West Alabama Women’s Center, Nancy Northup, Center for Reproductive RightsPresident & CEO, Maksym Borodin, Mariupol City Council member, Petro Poroshenko, Former President of Ukraine, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) Wisconsin, Fatima Goss Graves, National Women’s Law Center President & CEO, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D) Massachusetts, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Melissa Murray, Professor of Law at NYU, and Mary Ziegl...
May 07, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 116
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Raf Sanchez and Erin McLaughlin, Executive Editor of The New Voice of Ukraine Veronika Melkozerova, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Producer and Director of FRONTLINE’S ‘The Power of Big Oil’ Dan Edge, Fmr. House Impeachment Inquiry Majority Counsel and MSNBC Legal Analyst Daniel S. Goldman, Rep. David Cicilline- (D-RI), Political Editor and COO of the Kyiv Independent Oleksiy Sorokin, and Award-winning Author of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Margaret Atwood. To listen to this ...
May 01, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 115
Ali Velshi is joined by Jonathan D. Katz, Director of Democracy Initiatives, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico National Correspondent, Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law and Sociology at University of Pennsylvania, Kenneth S. Rogoff, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Harvard University, Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Joyce Vance, University of Alabama School of Law Professor, Lesia Vasylenko, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Roger McNamee, Co-founder at Elevation Partners,...
Apr 30, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 114
Ali Velshi is joined by Daniel S. Goldman, MSNBC Legal Analyst, Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Bill Browder, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Founder and Host of ‘Black Diplomats’ Podcast, Frank Luntz, Political Analyst, Communications Consultant & Pollster, Toomas Ilves, Former President of the Republic of Estonia, Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Washington), and Nic Stone, Author of “Dear Martin”. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads,...
Apr 24, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 113
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Raf Sanchez and Kelly Cobiella, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Politico National Correspondent Betsy Woodruff Swan, Ukrainian Parliament Member Inna Sovsun, MSNBC Political Analyst and Publisher of The.Ink Anand Giridharadas, Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett (D – U.S. Virgin Islands), Founding Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and NBC/MSNBC Public Health Analyst Dr. Irwin Redlener, Principal Policy Associate...
Apr 23, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 112
Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by Oleksandra Matviichuk, Chair at The Center for Civil Liberties, Lisa Yasko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, Dr. Ebony Hilton, MSNBC Medical Contributor, Toby Fricker, Chief of Communications and Partnerships at UNICEF, David Miliband, President & CEO of International Rescue Committee, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post Foreign Correspondent, Clint Watts, NBC News & MSNBC National Security Analyst, Joyce Vance, University of Alabama School of Law Pr...
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 111
Maria Teresa Kumar is joined by NBC Foreign Correspondent Raf Sanchiz in Lviv, Ukraine, President, German Marshall Fund Heather Conley, Political Editor and COO of the Kyiv Independent Oleksiy Sorokin, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine and Deputy Director of the Ukrainian World Congress Sviatoslav Yurash, Co-Executive Director of Trust Women Rebecca Tong, Actress Oliwia Dabrowska, Chairman of The Human Rights Foundation, Garry Kasparov, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine and Leader of Holos P...
Apr 16, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 110
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Molly Hunter in Kyiv, NBC’s Raf Sanchez from Lviv, Fmr. Director for European Affairs, National Security Council retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Editor, Geopolitical Intelligence Services and former Chief Editor & Executive Director of the Kyiv Post Brian Bonner, Member of Ukrainian Parliament Dmytro Gurin, Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, Emergency Coordinator,Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors without Borders Alex Wade, former UN High...
Apr 10, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 109
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Raf Sanchez from Lviv, NBC’s Molly Hunter in Kyiv, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center Jane Harman, Executive Editor, The New Voice of Ukraine Veronika Melkozerova, Senior Staff Writer with The War Zone Howard Altman, Vice-Chairman of IHS Markit Daniel Yergin, President & CEO of the International Rescue Committee and Fmr. Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom David Miliband, Washington Post Foreign CorrespondentIsabelle Khurshudyan, Profe...
Apr 09, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 108
Ali Velshi is joined by Andrei Kozyrev, Former Foreign Minister of Russia, Toomas Ilves, Former President of the Republic of Estonia, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post Foreign Correspondent, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D- Vermont, Inna Sovsun, Ukrainian Parliament Member, Lt. Col. (Ret) Alexander Vindman, Former Director for European Affairs at National Security Council, Kristina Kvien, U.S. Charge D'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian Journalist, and Major (Ret.) J...
Apr 03, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 107
Ali Velshi is joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Sudarsan Raghavan, Correspondent at Large at the Washington Post, Oleksiy Goncharenko, Member of Ukrainian Parliament, Hugo Lowell, Congressional Reporter at The Guardian, Angela Stent, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, Kira Rudik, Ukrainian Member of Parliament, Serhiy Kiral, Deputy Mayor of Lviv, and Nate Mook, CEO of World C...
Apr 03, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 106
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Jacob Soboroff from Lviv, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, founder and host of ‘Black Diplomats’ podcast Terrell Jermaine Starr in Ukraine, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine Lesia Vasylenko, UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Madison Policy Forum Major (ret.) John Spencer, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign William Browder, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, Eurasia Director at the Forei...
Mar 27, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 105
Ali Velshi is joined by NBC’s Ali Arouzi, Kelly O’Donnell, Jacob Soboroff, and Gabe Gutierrez. Also, former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, Washington Post Correspondent Sudarsan Raghavan, Ukrainian Member of Parliament Inna Sovsun, Professor of International Law at Yale Law School Oona Hathaway, President of the German Marshall Fund Heather Conley, Executive Editor of The New Voice of Ukraine Veronika Melkozerova, President & CEO of the International Rescue Committee David Miliband...
Mar 26, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 104
Ali Velshi is joined by Clint Watts, Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute & Alliance for Securing Democracy, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Founder and Host of the ‘Black Diplomats’ Podcast, Olena Sotnyk, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, David Miliband, President & CEO at International Rescue Committee, Angela Stent, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Isobel Yeung, VICE News Correspondent, Kira Rudik, Ukrainian Me...
Mar 20, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 103
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
