How the FBI’s search of John Bolton’s home fits into the context of a President who promised retribution; Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California discusses Democrats’ redistricting strategy in California; the myth of trickle down economics and how the American economy is working against working people To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and...
Aug 23, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25082312
Democratic Representatives Pete Aguilar of California and Lloyd Doggett of Texas discuss Democrats redistricting plans in the face of the GOP’s extreme partisan gerrymandering efforts; how President Trump is not a peacemaker, despite his insistence he has ended at least 7 wars; Aiden Thomas’ “Cemetery Boys” is the subject of this week’s Velshi Banned Book Club To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz ...
Aug 23, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25082311
How the FBI’s search of John Bolton’s home fits into the context of a President who promised retribution; member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Summer Lee discusses what we have learned, and what we didn’t, from the government’s release of the transcripts from Ghislane Maxwell’s interview with the DOJ; how Trump’s new review of the Smithsonian and comments about slavery are more than a whitewash of America’s original sin…it’s a hallmark of an authoritarian regime To listen to this show an...
Aug 23, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25082310
Former President of Estonia weighs in on how Monday’s meeting between President Trump and President Zelenskyy has grown in size and stakes; Bishop William Barber describes exactly why Trump’s criminalization of the homeless is so heartless, and so dangerous; Michael M. Grynbaum dishes on the changing landscape of modern media in America. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswiz...
Aug 17, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25081712
Bill Browder and Vladimir Kara-Murza weigh in on the risks of negotiating with Russian president Vladimir Putin; a deep dive into how Donald Trump and his family are personally profiting from the presidency; RFK Jr. has canceled $500M in grants that go toward mRNA vaccines research, despite its importance in developing a vaccine for COVID-19. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.a...
Aug 17, 2025•40 min•Ep. 25081711
Multiple European leaders now say they will take part in the important White House meeting between President Trump and President Zelenskyy; former Metro D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, who was attacked at the Capitol on January 6th, reacts to Trump’s attempt to take over local law enforcement in DC; Bishop William Barber describes exactly why Trump’s criminalization of the homeless is so heartless, and dangerous. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Pr...
Aug 17, 2025•40 min•Ep. 25081710
Just hours after the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirms he’s heading to White House for a meeting with Trump; how President Trump’s DC takeover has reignited the debate over DC statehood; and Velshi Banned Book club veteran, author Angie Thomas, discusses the importance of a rare legal win against the book banning epidemic in America. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simpl...
Aug 16, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25081612
President Trump’s take over of DC’s law enforcement is an experiment to see how far he can push American cities with federal intimidation; amid Trump’s trade war, newly released data shows wholesale inflation is on the rise, which means consumers could soon see higher prices in stores; some Democrats are resorting to fighting “fire with fire” as Republicans move ahead with their extreme gerrymandering plot ahead of next year’s midterm elections To listen to this show and other MS podcasts withou...
Aug 16, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25081611
Russian pro-democracy leader Garry Kasparov reacts to Trump and Putin’s summit in Alaska and news that Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now set to visit the White House on Monday; President Trump’s DC takeover has reignited the debate over Washington, DC statehood. Ali digs into the history of that debate and what it would mean if it came true; and renowned presidential historian Jon Meacham weighs in on the Trump Administration’s new war on the Smithsonian and its threat to remove any content t...
Aug 16, 2025•40 min•Ep. 25081610
Former Executive VP of the Trump Organization explains why it’s so dangerous to shrug off Trump’s recent peculiar behavior; State Rep. Rafael Anchia (D-TX) discusses the high stakes of the redistricting fight in Texas; and longtime activist and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream co-founder, Ben Cohen, digs into why the U.S. government should invest more in its citizens and less in weapons and war. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Ho...
Aug 10, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25081012
The erosion of the Justice Department’s independence from the White House is on full display, after VP Vance met with DOJ brass to strategize about the Epstein files. Not only is this not normal, it’s dangerous for America; Trump’s latest round of Tariffs took effect on August 1, but how exactly will they affect everyday consumers? Defense Attorney Abbe Lowell weighs in on the DOJ’s probe of his newest client, New York Attorney General Letitia James. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts ...
Aug 10, 2025•42 min•Ep. 25081011
Why Americans should be concerned with President Trump’s ongoing unusual behavior; Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) digs into the growing shift within the Democratic Party on selling weapons to Israel; Pulitzer-prize winners Anne Applebaum & Lynsey Addario discuss their new, important highlighting the evolving catastrophe in Sudan. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for i...
Aug 10, 2025•40 min•Ep. 25081010
As Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton vows to punish the state’s Democratic lawmakers for fleeing the state, Congressmen Lloyd Doggett, Jasmine Crockett, and State Rep. Ann Johnson discuss the threats to democracy posed by the Texas gerrymandering push; former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes discusses Trump’s upcoming in-person meeting with Vladimir Putin and the consequences of the war in Ukraine; and ‘The House on Mango Street’ by Sandra Cisneros is the subject of this week’s Velshi...
Aug 09, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25080912
On the campaign trail Trump promised his supporters he would be their retribution, and now he is following through; the president of a key Jewish-American lobbying group is now speaking out about Israel’s conduct in Gaza; and on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Ali has an important conversation about how America’s use of atom bombs changed the course of history, and why the world is now much closer to nuclear warfare than we’ve been in decades To listen to this show and ot...
Aug 09, 2025•42 min•Ep. 25080911
Texas State Representatives Gene Wu and Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos address the Texas Attorney General’s pledge to punish Democrats who fled the state in protest of Trump’s redistricting push; Ben Rhodes weighs in on Trump’s announcement that he will host Vladimir Putin in Alaska next week; the Trump Administration is building its own police state in America as it ramps up recruitment for ICE employees. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple P...
Aug 09, 2025•39 min•Ep. 25080910
Could a new resistance change the course of Trump’s battle with Harvard University and higher education? Plus: signs that Democrats are moving toward jumping into a political arms race with Republicans over Trump’s gerrymandering plan; and an official with a prominent Israeli rights group explains why they are now calling Israel’s conduct in Gaza a genocide. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz co...
Aug 03, 2025•43 min•Ep. 25080312
What’s behind a complicated but crucial piece of Trump’s strategy for reshaping the judiciary; Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains why Trump firing the BLS head is ‘like driving a car with no odometer'; and how Trump’s targeting of immigrants, science, health, and universities is causing a brain-drain that history tells us could have generational impacts on American progress. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Host...
Aug 03, 2025•39 min•Ep. 25080311
Donald Trump is turning his antipathy toward American cities into action - but his war on cities is bad for all of America; plus new moves by Democrats point to a political arms race over the president’s gerrymandering plan; and an official with a prominent Israeli rights group explains why they are now calling Israel’s conduct in Gaza a genocide. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See ...
Aug 03, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25080310
The former Commissioner of Bureau Statistics weighs in on the absurdity that is Trump’s decision to fire her successor following a weak jobs report; why a high-ranking U.S. official’s trip to Gaza may be a substitute for action and not a call to it; and Abdi Nazemian’s young-adult novel “Like A Love Story” is the subject of this week’s “Velshi Banned Book Club.” To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWiz...
Aug 02, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25080212
Donald Trump has a long history with conspiracies and those who consume them, but those same people are now turning on him. But Trump is trying to reel them back in with a new conspiracy theory; former Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) weighs in on the Trump administration’s push to revoke a landmark rule that has been critical in fighting climate change; Trump's Texas gerrymandering scheme is a dangerous escalation of an anti-democratic tactic that both major parties have used historically. But above all,...
Aug 02, 2025•42 min•Ep. 25080211
How Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner hours after a weak jobs report is a dangerous escalation in America’s slide into authoritarianism; why a high-ranking U.S. official’s trip to Gaza may be a substitute for action, and not a call to it; and the family of a Jeffrey Epstein victim speaks out against Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a minimum-security federal prison in Texas. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple P...
Aug 02, 2025•40 min•Ep. 25080210
President Trump gives belligerent, rambling remarks in Scotland ahead of trade talks with the European Union; Mehdi Hasan talks about his viral debate with 20 far-right conservatives. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising....
Jul 27, 2025•58 min•Ep. 25072712
How the scandal over the Epstein files leaves a major opening for a movement against Trump’s authoritarian creep, and what past political protest movements tell us about what can work now; plus. how Trump’s tariffs and trade wars are impacting American consumers. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for adve...
Jul 27, 2025•39 min•Ep. 25072711
President Trump may be in Scotland, and Congress may be on vacation for the next month, but Democratic lawmakers, and some Republican ones too, are keeping up the pressure on this administration to release the Epstein files; plus the alarming pattern that’s emerging in Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s military firing spree; and why Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead believes the ousting of Stephen Colbert is a warning shot to others To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without...
Jul 27, 2025•40 min•Ep. 25072710
President Trump is in Scotland, but can’t escape the political firestorm of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal; what France’s recognition of Palestine means for the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza; And a special meeting of the Velshi Banned Book Club featuring lessons from the frontlines in the battle against a radical onslaught of censorship and legislation targeting librarians. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simple...
Jul 26, 2025•41 min•Ep. 25072612
President Trump did not release the Epstein files this week, but he did do a lot of other stuff that he would very much like you to pay attention to instead. Why his distractions are not working - and what Democrats are doing to try to get ahold of the infamous Epstein ‘birthday book;’ Plus why the U.S. ambassador who watched Hungary’s authoritarian slide is raising alarms about Donald Trump’s vision for America. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premiu...
Jul 26, 2025•43 min•Ep. 25072611
What’s behind the Justice Department's interviews with Epstein conspirator Ghislane Maxwell, why she was offered limited immunity to speak freely, and why it matters that the DOJ official who conducted the interviews with her has also served as Donald Trump’s own criminal defense attorney. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and us...
Jul 26, 2025•39 min•Ep. 25072610
Why dozens of former judges warn that Emil Bove is a “deeply inappropriate” pick for the federal bench; why America is losing ground to China on the world stage; and the case for continuing the struggle for a better America, through big and small acts of courage To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for adver...
Jul 20, 2025•42 min•Ep. 25072012
Why President Trump still can’t control the Epstein files fallout; a renowned Israeli-American holocaust and genocide scholar weighs in on the war in Gaza; and how Trump’s deportation plan is eroding due process and targeting policies meant to protect children To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for adverti...
Jul 20, 2025•40 min•Ep. 25072011
Why the president’s nomination of Emil Bove to the federal bench marks a dangerous inflection point in Trump’s tearing down and rebuilding of the American judiciary; why the GOP’s cuts to public broadcasting will hit rural communities especially hard; and how China is moving to fill the gap as American influence wanes on the world stage To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz...
Jul 20, 2025•40 min•Ep. 25072010
