Mahmoud Khalil, a student activist at Columbia and legal green card holder, was detained by ICE with no criminal charges read to him and sent to an ICE processing facility in Louisiana. On April 4th Khalil penned an op-ed from ICE detainment. His attorney Baher Azmy joins Velshi to discuss his case. Aired April 5, 2025.
Breaking news segment from Sunday, March 30th as death toll from 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar kills thousands. NBC's Janice Mackey Frayer reported live from Bangkok, Thailand. Aired March 30, 2025.
On March 25, Tufts PhD student and visa holder Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested by plainclothes officers and moved into an unmarked van before being sent to a deportation processing facility in Louisiana. Ozturk's congressional representative, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a Democrat, joined 'Velshi' to demand her release. Aired March 29, 2025.
In early American history, government positions were available to the highest bidder, and often doled out as favors from elected officials. Corruption was rampant. The gutting of the civil service in 2024 has parallels to Andrew Jackson's own firing of thousands of federal workers, and his instituting of the "Spoils System." Aired March 8th, 2025.
NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel joins 'Velshi' from Ukraine on the eve of the third anniversary of the war. Includes interviews with Ukrainians following Donald Trump's distancing from Ukraine since entering office. Aired February 22, 2025.
Donald Trump's administration has targeted the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Education and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for big budget cuts and potential dissolvement. Barack Obama's Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joins to discuss the Dept. of Education's functions and what happens to schoolchildren if the Dept. were to shutter. Aired February 9th.
Since entering office, Donald Trump has insisted the U.S. should take ownership of the Gaza Strip and the Panama Canal, tried to Greenland from Denmark and pitched Canada to join the U.S. as the 51st state. Would it be so simple? Aired February 9th.
In the 80s and 90s, anti-abortion violence skyrocketed at clinics across the country. In response, President Bill Clinton signed the Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances (FACE Act) to prohibit people from using force and intimidation to attack abortion providers and patients. President Trump pardoned 23 people convicted on FACE Act violations and instructed his DOJ to stop prosecuting FACE Act violations. Aired January 26, 2025.
Just days before becoming president again, Donald Trump released $TRUMP coin, a "meme coin" on the cryptocurrency block chain Solana. It increased his wealth on paper despite the fact that he has not yet sold his shares. And Donald Trump is not the only one to launch a crypto scam around inauguration. Aired January 26th.
In his first week in office, Donald Trump removed protections that prohibit immigration authorities from conducting arrests or questioning in "sensitive locations" like schools and churches. President of the American Federation for Teachers joined Velshi to discuss how that could impact children's education and how teachers are preparing for bracing with ICE on campus. Aired February 2nd, 2025.
Introduction and interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates over his new book, The Message. Coates discusses his experiences visiting the Middle East, Africa and South Carolina. Each place reinforces in Coates the power of storytelling, and the responsibility of writers to plainly identify and contextualize systems of injustice wherever they appear.
In the lead-up to the Nov. 5 presidential election, Rachel Maddow joined Velshi to share a special report on the impacts of abortion bans in America on women’s healthcare at large.
An in-depth timeline of how hundreds of thousands of Palestinians made refuge in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, including explicit instructions from the IDF for Palestinians to head to Rafah, only for Benjamin Netanyahu to deem Rafah the IDF's next target.
Following the historic prisoner deal that released two American journalists, a former Marine and a Russian political leader from wrongful detainment in Russia, a look at the entire story and just how the deal was made.
An in-depth look at Haiti's history as an independent nation and America's role in exploiting the island and its people in light of the government's collapse this year. Aired March 17, 2024.
Breaking news update after a vehicle plowed into a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg. Aired Dec. 21, 2024.
Part of Velshi's franchise segment Believe Him the First Time in which we examined Trump's policies in his first term to understand what a second term was like. A timeline of the family separation policy including an interview with journalist Jacob Soboroff and filmmaker Errol Morris on their film on the topic, "Separated." Aired Oct. 13, 2024.
Part of Velshi's franchise segment Inside Project 2025, focusing on Chapter 18 of the document: Labor. The chapter suggests all sorts of laws that would make it harder for workers to unionize, for unions to negotiate, and for better conditions in the workplace to be established. It also suggests loosening child labor laws. Aired Aug. 24, 2024.
Part of Velshi's franchise segment Inside Project 2025, this segment is focused on the sweeping changes to the tax code that Project 2025 suggests, and what it would mean for Americans. Aired Aug. 10, 2024
An in-depth look at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's spending in American elections: who benefits, and who is targeted by, AIPAC's political war chest. Aired December 2023
NBC News Special report the day after Donald Trump survived an attempted assassination on his life at a campaign rally in Butler, PA. Reporter hit with Vaughn Hillyard on updated security at the RNC in Milwaukee, set to kick off that week. Aired Jul. 14, 2024.
Interview with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on tensions between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Aired Jan. 21, 2024.
Interview with Dr. Zaher Sahloul of MedGlobal, during MSNBC rolling coverage of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 28, 2023.
MSNBC rolling coverage of Israel-Hamas War. An explainer on the conditions of the West Bank, and an interview with Sari Bashi, a writer and Jewish West Bank resident who is married to a Muslim man. Sari spoke on the differing treatment between Jews & Muslims in the West Bank, including the different streets each are allowed to use and the checkpoints she is allowed through that her husband is not. Aired Oct. 15, 2023