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MS NOW, Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi brings his sharp analysis and perspective to weekend mornings.
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Apr 3, 2022 • 1h 36min
Bearing Witness in Ukraine
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.) John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, Madison Policy Forum
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Apr 3, 2022 • 1h 30min
Live from Lviv
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 Central Kitchen
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Mar 27, 2022 • 1h 21min
Live from Warsaw, PolandLive from Warsaw, Poland
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 Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of “Putinomics” Chris Miller, and Ukrainian Refugee Nastya Shpot.
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Mar 26, 2022 • 1h 51min
Live from Warsaw, Poland
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, Staff Writer for The Atlantic Caitlin Dickerson, Distinguished Fellow and president Emerita at the Wilson Center Jane Harman.
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Mar 20, 2022 • 1h 28min
Live from Budapest, Hungary
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 Member of Parliament, Rep. Tom Malinowski, (D) New Jersey, and José Andrés, Founder of World Center Kitchen.
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Mar 19, 2022 • 1h 30min
War Crimes
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. Irwin Redlener, and UNICEF's Joe English.
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Mar 13, 2022 • 1h 30min
Stories from the Border
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 Poroshenko, Former President of Ukraine.
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Mar 12, 2022 • 1h 34min
Updates from the Ukraine Border
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-Murza, Russian opposition politician, Oleksiy Goncharenko, Member of Ukrainian Parliament, Lynsey Addario, Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist at The New York Times, and Evelyn Farkas, Fmr. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia.
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Mar 6, 2022 • 2h 23min
Live from the Ukrainian Border
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 & CEO of International Rescue Committee, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, Rep. Gregory Meeks, Democrat of New York, Heather Conley, President of German Marshall Fund, Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies at NYU, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU.
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Mar 5, 2022 • 1h 30min
As Russia's War in Ukraine enters Day 10, Ali Velshi is live from the Hungary-Ukraine border
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 Ukraine William Taylor; Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA); Ambassador Adrejs Pildegovics, Permanent Representative of Latvia to the United Nations; Dr. Irwin Redlener.
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